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The United Nations wall is the granite curb on the north side of the statues. This wall lists the 22 countries that gave combat or medical support to the UN forces.
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Aloha Fish Tug
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The seventy year-old fishing tug, Aloha, is a style of fishing boat used for gill net fishing. Fish tugs had closed decks and pilothouses amidships or near the stern were common.
Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site
The Little Rock Nine
- Type: Person
In 1957, nine ordinary teenagers walked out of their homes and stepped up to the front lines in the battle for civil rights for all Americans. The media coined the name “Little Rock Nine" to identify the first African American students to desegregate Little Rock Central High School.
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John Laurens, born to a wealthy planter family in South Carolina, received a republican education in Switzerland and England. Upon his return to South Carolina to fight in the American Revolution, he radically proposed to recruit slaves as soldiers in return for their freedom. An aide-de-camp to General Washington and later a lieutenant colonel of the Continental Army with a field command, he served bravely in many key battles, only to die in a meaningless skirmish in 1782.
Homestead National Historical Park
Ephram Smith
- Type: Person
Ephram Smith, Jr.'s Homestead application # 25026 was recorded on December 11, 1890, in the Register of Land Office by J.H. Bingham. According to his land entry papers, his homestead was located in the SE¼ of NE ¼ of Section 14, S ½ of NW ¼, NE ¼ of SW ¼ of Section 13, Township 3N of Range 20E in Coffee County, AL. His homestead consisted of 138.57 acres. The required filing fee of $13.50 was also recorded on December 11, 1890, at the Receiver’s Office.
Geologic Resources Division
Fossil Cnidarians - Corals, Jellyfish, and Sea Anemones
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Fossils of bryozoans (“moss animals”) that are typically found as part of marine assemblages in many national parks. These filter-feeding colonial animals were individually microscopic so even their colonies, usually shaped like branching twigs or net-like and lacy forms, themselves are quite small.
Geologic Resources Division
Fossil Bryozoans
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Fossils of bryozoans (“moss animals”) that are typically found as part of marine assemblages in many national parks. These filter-feeding colonial animals were individually microscopic so even their colonies, usually shaped like branching twigs or net-like and lacy forms, themselves are quite small.
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Few people had a larger role in shaping the Twentieth Century than Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. Churchill served as Prime Minister of Great Britain twice, the first time guiding the British people through the trials of the Second World War. Churchill formed a close bond with General Dwight Eisenhower, and even visited Eisenhower's Gettysburg farm in 1959. Explore his life here.
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Until recently, little information has existed about bat populations in Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. But recent research is determining presence, hibernation locations, and types of species that make their home here. Using acoustical surveys and mist nets to capture bats, three new species of bats have been identified, making a total of nine bat species now known in Glacier National Park.
Chaco Culture National Historical Park
Una Vida
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Una Vida is one of Chaco's earliest great houses built around 850 CE (Common Era). Una Vida exists today in a near-natural state of preservation, free from major vandalism, and with only minor excavations and preservation repairs. A one-mile roundtrip (including petroglyphs) trail begins at the NE corner of the Visitor Center parking lot. Portions are rocky, steep, and slippery when wet. Take water and travel in small groups to lessen our impacts to this fragile site.
The White House and President's Park
Second Division Memorial
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Originally built to honor the 2nd Infantry Division's dead from WWI, the memorial was expanded in 1962 to include World War II and the Korean War.
Prince William Forest Park
Williams Ball Field
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Williams Ball Field is an open field with a baseball diamond and a volleyball net.
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Honoring the service members who served in the Korean War from 1950-1953, this memorial opened in 1995. The stainless steel soldiers represent different branches of service including Army, Marines, Navy, and Air Force. Faces on the black stone wall are those of real war veterans. Walking through the memorial, one gets the sense of walking with the soldiers, an evocative experience unique among the war memorials in DC.
Commercial Services Program
Water Reuse: Rain Water Harvesting
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The National Park Service’s Green Parks Plan calls for parks and partners to achieve net-zero water use for facilities and operations. Concessioners of all sizes can learn from their practice. A simple polyurethane drum placed outside to collect rainwater provides the majority of the concessioner’s non-potable water needs for operations like rinsing sand off gear and guests.
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This finding aid describes the Harry T. Thompson Collection, part of the National Capital Regional Office Museum Collection.
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Women of the Manhattan Project: Lise Meitner
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Physicist Lise Meitner, alongside Otto Hahn, Fritz Strassmann, and Otto Frisch, discovered nuclear fission in 1938. Meitner was an outspoken opponent of her research being used to develop an atomic bomb, stating that she would have nothing to do with the Manhattan Project. Read more about her life and work at the link.
Pony Express National Historic Trail
Pony Express National Historic Trail
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It is hard to believe that young men once rode horses to carry mail from Missouri to California in the unprecedented time of only 10 days. This relay system along the Pony Express National Historic Trail in eight states was the most direct and practical means of east-west communications before the telegraph. The trail traverses 8 states: CA, UT, CO, NV, WY, NE, KS, & MO. It is administered by the National Trails Office Regions 6|7|8 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail
Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail
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Explore the Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail across five states to see the 1,300-mile route traveled by Mormons who fled Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Great Salt Lake Valley in 1846-1847.The traverses five states: UT, IL, WY, NE, & IA and is administered by the National Trails Office Regions 6|7|8 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Field Marshall Bernard Law Montgomery is one of the most celebrated generals of World War II and one of the greatest British Army generals of all time. He was a weekend guest at Eisenhower’s Gettysburg home on May 11-13, 1957, where he and Eisenhower reminisced about their association during WWII and toured the farm, the battlefield, and nearby Camp David.
George Washington Memorial Parkway
Mount Vernon Trail Mile 0
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In 1973, the National Park Service constructed the Mount Vernon Trail along the Potomac River, paralleling the George Washington Memorial Parkway. With the river as your companion, you can run, ride, or walk along this 18-mile multi-use trail stretching from the Mount Vernon Estate to Theodore Roosevelt Island.