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  • The historic town of Harpers Ferry is illuminated from a full moon above; as seen from the edge of Maryland Heights.<br />
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On the night of October 16th, 1859 a party of 17 armed men led by the militant abolitionist John Brown crossed the Potomac River over the B&O railroad bridge (the piers of which can be seen below at left) to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry and its stockpile of 100,000 rifles and muskets. With these weapons, Brown intended to facilitate an armed slave uprising that would spread throughout the entire South. <br />
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While his raid failed, the news of John Brown's attempt was an earthquake that reverberated throughout the entire Union and split the fault line between North and South. denounced as a psychotic terrorist by Southerners, Brown was embraced by many Northern abolitionists as a martyr. This outpouring of support for Brown exasperated Southern suspicions of a yankee-abolitionist plot to subjugate the South under Northern control through emancipation; by force if necessary. Southern states, long fearful of slave revolts, revived the militia system to combat all future "John Browns" laying the foundation for what would become the Confederate Army. <br />
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On the morning of his execution, John Brown handed a note to one of his guards that would become prophetic: "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood..." 16 months later, Confederate batteries in Charleston would open fire on Fort Sumter, and the bloody purge would begin.
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  • Moonlit Night over Hinton from across the New River. Greenbrier County, West Virginia.
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  • Moonlit Night and Fall foliage in West Virginia.
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  • Moonlit Night and Fall foliage in West Virginia.
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  • The John E. Amos power plant is seen from a field outside of Winfield, W,Va., on Thursday night, August 23, 2018. Built in the 1970's, the plant is the largest in the American Electric Power system. Many of AEP's smaller coal-fired power plants in Appalachia closed in response to environmental regulations such as the Clean Power Plan in 2015.
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  • A full moon shines over Crystal Springs reservoir as cars zip along the road connecting Highway 92 to Interstate 280 and coastal fog moves in over the peninsula. San Mateo County, CA
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  • Moonlit night over Skyline Drive. Shenandoah National Park. Virginia
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  • The John E. Amos power plant is seen from a field outside of Winfield, W,Va., on Thursday night, August 23, 2018. Built in the 1970's, the plant is the largest in the American Electric Power system. Many of AEP's smaller coal-fired power plants in Appalachia closed in response to environmental regulations such as the Clean Power Plan in 2015.
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  • The moon rises over the Kanawha River at Glen Ferris, W,Va., on Monday, August 28, 2018.
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  • Coastal fog moving in over the San Francisco Bay Area is illuminated by a full moon overhead as the lights of Sausalito shimmer on the shoreline.
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