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The Apollo Theater in New York is an icon of the American jazz explosion and the Harlem Renaissance of the early 20th century, a cultural movement, which greatly influenced American arts and literature and has significant ties to various LGB communities. The Apollo became one of the most influential centers of black culture, showcasing some of the country's most popular artists and introducing new talent to the world through their infamous amateur nights.
Camp Nelson National Monument
Valmore Lambert
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Valmore Lambert,100th Ohio Infantry, served in the East Tennessee Campaign, was captured during Atlanta Campaign, was sent to Andersonville Prison Camp, survived the horrors of Andersonville only to die aboard the Sultana explosion.
Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park
Migration, Housing and Relocation - Audio Program
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As thousands of workers streamed into Richmond, both public and private entities struggled to keep the city’s burgeoning population housed, healthy, and highly productive. The huge explosion of workers coming to live in Richmond caused intense strain on city infrastructure.
Yellowstone National Park
Wall Pool
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Wall Pool is a hydrothermal feature at Biscuit Basin.
Yellowstone National Park
Grand Geyser
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A classic fountain geyser in the Upper Geyser Basin and the tallest predictable geyser in the world
National Mall and Memorial Parks
Cuban American Friendship Urn
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This urn was carved from a piece of a memorial honoring the victims of the USS Maine explosion in Havana Harbor. The original memorial was destroyed in a hurricane. The refashioned urn was given to President Calvin Coolidge when he visited Cuba in 1928. The urn depicts two figures representing the United States and Cuba joining hands over a depiction of the USS Maine sinking.
Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve
Kingsley Plantation
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The Kingsley Plantation was the home of Zephaniah Kingsley, a wealthy slave trader and plantation owner of Spanish Florida who held an entirely different view of slavery than his American peers. After Florida was annexed by the United States in 1821, Zephaniah was forced to take actions that would protect his property, ex-slave wife and his children from American law.
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Franklin Johnson (1823-1864), listed as a servant in the 1860s census at Hampton. In spring 1864 during the Civil War, he enlisted as a Union soldier in the U.S. Colored Troops (39th US Colored Infantry). Tragically, Franklin Johnson died while serving the Union, during this regiment’s very active role during the Overland Campaign. During the Siege of Petersburg, he survived the horrific mine explosion only to die of disease on September 24 at a hospital in Philadelphia.
Death Valley National Park
Ubehebe Crater
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Discover Death Valley’s explosive past at this volcanic crater.
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He entered the Army as an illiterate ex-slave, but Moses Williams took advantage of the opportunities presented to him to become educated and also became a Buffalo Soldier who achieved one of the Army's highest honors during his military service career.
Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial
Boxcar at Port Chicago Memorial
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The boxcar and memorial are on an active military base and are only accessible with advance reservations through the park. Please see our website for instructions on making a reservation.
Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial
Nancy Gilliland Firsthand Account and Eugene Coffee Jr. Gravesite
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The explosion at Port Chicago Naval Magazine claimed the lives of hundreds of young African American sailors who worked under segregated and unsafe conditions. It had a deep impact on the local civilian community, the sailors’ families, and U.S. military alike. For Nancy Gilliland, it was a frightening night she never forgot. For Robert Harris, whose uncle Eugene Coffee, Jr. died in the explosion, finding out the truth about his uncle’s death has been a homecoming long in the
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Quebec-born Santa Fe Trail trader Francois Aubry, whose enduring fame came in 1848, after racing on horseback across the Santa Fe Trail from here to Independence, Missouri in record time (five days, 16 hours) to win a $1,000 bet, died here in 1854 after a bar room argument with ex-newspaperman Richard Weightman.
Ninety Six National Historic Site
Ann Delancy Cruger
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Ann Crugar followed her husband into the battlefield, not knowing the tribulations to be undergone. Serving as the anonymity of women during the American Revolution and other trying times. She was a woman of triumph, resistance, and loyalty, whichever side she landed on she was indeed a woman of the revolution.
Yellowstone National Park
Black Opal Pool
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Black Opal Pool is a hydrothermal feature at Biscuit Basin.
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Manhattan Project Scientists: Hans Bethe
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As part of the war effort Hans Bethe worked on a theory of armor penetration, with Edward Teller clarified shock-wave theory, and worked on radar at the Radiation Laboratory. When he was invited to Los Alamos as part of the Manhattan Project, he became head of the Theoretical Division. There he worked on aspects of implosion and radiation propagation, and, with Richard Feynman, calculated explosive yields.
Independence National Historical Park
August 21, 1787: The Slave Trade
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After nasty arguments over direct taxation and taxation of exports, the day ended with an explosive exchange over whether Congress should be permitted to ban the importation of enslaved Africans.
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Trinity Test Downwinders
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On July 16, 1945, a loud, blinding explosion surprised New Mexicans around the Tularosa Basin. Trinity, the world’s first nuclear test, was top secret. Manhattan Project leaders did not inform people living nearby or downwind about the test or potential exposure to fallout.
Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial
California: Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial
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On the evening of July 17, 1944, residents in the San Francisco east bay area were jolted awake by a massive explosion that cracked windows and lit up the night sky. At Port Chicago Naval Magazine, 320 men were instantly killed when two ships being loaded with ammunition for the Pacific theatre troops blew up.
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Manhattan Project Scientists: Kenneth Bainbridge
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In 1940, Kenneth Bainbridge was recruited to MIT’s Rad Lab for work on high-powered radars for warships. As did others from the Rad Lab, he traveled west in 1943 to the new secret laboratory at Los Alamos. There he initially developed x-ray instrumentation to analyze explosions, but then he was made director of the project preparing the trial of the first nuclear bomb – the Trinity Test.