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  • Downtown Chicago is seen at dusk as the last rays of sun fill the horizon. As seen from a parking lot at the top of Navy Pier.
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  • Santa Monica Pier. Santa Monica, CA
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  • Coastal fog enshrouds the fishing pier at Port Hueneme Beach. Seen in a long exposure panoramic image taken from the sand.
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  • The lights of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge shimmer on the bay; as seen from pier 14 along the embarcadero.
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  • The San Francisco Bay Bridge, Ferry Building an the embarcadero are seen from the tip of pier 14 in San Francisco, California.
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  • The lights of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge shimmer on the bay; as seen from pier 14 along the embarcadero.
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  • The San Francisco Ferry building and the embarcadero are seen at night from pier 14. San Francisco, CA
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  • The John Hancock Center and Navy Pier are seen along Lakeshore Drive at dusk.
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  • Sunset over Port Hueneme State Beach and Pier. California.
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  • The John Hancock Center and Navy Pier are seen along Lakeshore Drive at dusk.
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  • Coastal fog enshrouds the fishing pier at Port Hueneme Beach. Seen in a long exposure panoramic image taken from the sand.
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  • The lights of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge shimmer on the bay as pier 14 is seen in the foreground from along the embarcadero.
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  • A long exposure elongates the waves that touch the shore beneath the pier at sunset on Port Hueneme Beach. The Channel Island of Anacapa can be seen in the distance.
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  • A crescent moon hangs in the night sky over Port Hueneme Beach as a river cuts across the sand.
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  • Lighting flashes off the coast of Pacifica, CA in San Mateo County. The storm had just moved out over the Pacific, and a nearly full moon shined through the receding clouds over the city.
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  • The stone piers on the left are what remains of the original B&O Railroad bridge which was burned in 1861 by Confederates before marching South to converge with other rebel units to defend an important railroad junction from Union capture. The battle of Bull Run (as it was called by the Union, Manassas by the Confederacy; Union battles were typically named after rivers and tributaries, whereas Confederates named them after nearby towns and railroads) would be the first major battle of the Civil War.
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  • Aquatic Park is seen at blue hour, just after sundown from one of the pedestrian piers. The Transamerica pyramid is adorned with its winter light, and Coit tower glows orange for the San Francisco Giants. San Francisco, CA.
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  • The San Francisco skyline and Bay Bridge are seen from Yerba Buena Island. San Francisco, CA.
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  • The San Francisco skyline is seen silhouetted by the setting sun. As seen from Treasure Island. San Francisco, California.
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  • The San Francisco skyline and Bay Bridge are seen from Yerba Buena Island. San Francisco, CA.
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  • San Francisco from Yerba Buena Island. San Francisco, CA.
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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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  • Piers are seen along the Kentucky side of the Ohio River at dusk just across from Cincinnati, OH.
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  • Among the thousands of commuters who pass daily over D.C.’s Chain Bridge, some may wonder; just where are the chains? <br />
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The chains haven’t been around since the actual chain-suspension bridge from which the name originated was overcome by storms and flooding in 1840, yet the name has stuck to every new bridge built to replace it since. But that is just one piece of Chain Bridge’s rich history. The span over which Chain Bridge is built is one of the oldest crossing routes in the vicinity of the capital. In fact, the wood covered bridge that was built here in 1797 was the very first bridge to span the Potomac River. This cycle of bridges being created and destroyed by the elements continued up to the Civil War, when the sixth chain bridge (a crossbeam truss design with no chains) played a vital role in the supply and movement of Union army encampments throughout fairfax county. Because of its close proximity to the capital, the bridge was heavily guarded by sentries and artillery throughout the war. While today’s (eighth and final, so far) chain bridge was built in 1939, it stands on the stone piers of the seventh chain bridge built shortly after the civil war in the early 1870’s.
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  • Piers are seen along the Kentucky side of the Ohio River at dusk just across from Cincinnati, OH.
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