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Using the Greek word agape, meaning brotherly love, Nash coined the term agapic energy describe this comprehensive phenomenon. This unconditional love for humanity was the driving force behind the movement in the 1960s and can be a driving force among today’s movements, according to Nash. We honor Diane Judith Nash for reminding us of the power of love.
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Reformer and writer Julia Ward Howe is most famous for writing the words to the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" during the American Civil War and the "Mother's Day Proclamation" (1870). She advocated for the abolition of slavery, women's suffrage, and peace.
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
The Logger's Transport Wayside
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Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Dayton, OH
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Dayton, Ohio is known for cash registers, Cheez-It crackers, pop top cans, and being the Birthplace of Aviation. However, the city has another important but widely unknown accolade on its long list of innovations and inventions: the scientific work done during the top-secret Dayton Project. The work done throughout the city in the 1940s culminated in the polonium initiators used in the atomic bombs developed by the Manhattan Project during WWII.
Eisenhower National Historic Site
Eisenhower Bank Barn
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The oldest standing structure on the Eisenhower property, the bank barn is an example of a classic staple of farms in Adams County, Pennsylvania. Built into the bank of the hillside, this 1887 barn offered a place for livestock, hay, and farm equipment for decades, long before the Eisenhowers purchased the property.
Homestead National Historical Park
Is All Barbed Wire the Same? - wayside exhibit
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Informational panel shows a range of early barbed wire designs. The nearby fencing reinforces this diversity of form, showing examples of different types of barbed wire.
Homestead National Historical Park
Shelling Corn, wayside exhibit
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Shelling Corn, wayside exhibit
Lowell National Historical Park
Kirk Street Agents House
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Natchez Trace Parkway
Mount Locust Historic House, Milepost 15.5
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Mount Locust is a location that has been settled on by many different people and under many different flags during its long history of human occupation that dates back as far back as 600 C.E., long before Europeans first step foot in the area Centuries later in the 1780's the historic house, one of the oldest structures still standing in an area, was built by the Fergusons who made it into a growing farm and occupied the site for five generations.
National Mall and Memorial Parks
John Ericsson Monument
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Swiss-born John Ericsson (1803-1889) was an innovator who developed the first ironclad warships and the screw propeller for propulsion. Both inventions revolutionized naval warfare.
Sculptor: James Earle Fraser
Inscriptions
John Ericsson
AD 1803
AD 1883
Inventor and Builder of the Monitor
He Revolutionized Navigation by His Invention of the Screw Propeller
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In 1887, Alexander Graham Bell, inventor and vocal teacher, founded the Volta Bureau to serve as a research center and library for deaf people. The work of the Bureau increased to such a volume that Bell constructed the neoclassical yellow brick and sandstone building that still stands at 3417 Volta Place, NW, Washington, DC. The building serves as a reminder of Bell's dedicated work to advance the education of the deaf and sound technology in general.
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Reginald Fessenden, considered the “Father of Voice Radio”, was a Canadian-born inventor who performed pioneering radio experiments and applied them in ways that are still in use today. In pursuit of a successful system to transmit and receive the human voice using continuous radio waves, Fessenden experimented on Roanoke Island and the surrounding area for eighteen months from 1901-1902.
Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail
The Church History Museum, Salt Lake City
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View exhibits and many important artifacts associated with the Mormon exodus to Utah, including objects related to the assassination of church founder Joseph Smith at Carthage, Illinois; Joseph Smith’s death mask; a wagon with a “roadometer” (odometer) invented by Mormon pioneers during the 1847 trek west; a cannon hauled west from Nauvoo by the advance company; and many personal belongings carried to Utah by the emigrants.
Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park
Wright-Dunbar Interpretive Center
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The Wright-Dunbar Interpretive Center is one of two visitor centers operated by the park in Dayton, Ohio. This center is located just west of downtown Dayton and tells the story of Orville and Wilbur Wright and the African American poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar.
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The Volta Laboratory and Bureau building, a National Historic Landmark, was constructed in 1893 under the direction of Alexander Graham Bell to serve as a center of information for deaf and hard of hearing persons. Bell, best known for receiving the first telephone patent in 1876, was also an outstanding figure of his generation in the education of the deaf.
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Born on May 2, 1844, Elijah was the son of George and Mildred, two formerly enslaved people who escaped slavery and fled to Colchester, Ontario, Canada. Since birth, Elijah had an affinity for things of a mechanical nature. In his lifetime, Elijah McCoy held over 57 patents including the “Improvement in Lubricators for Steam-Engines” patented in 1872.
Fort Larned National Historic Site
The Army Laundress
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Before the invention of the washing machine, laundry was a time-consuming, labor-intensive job. From 1802 to 1876 the US Army paid women to wash soldiers' clothing. These women lived on Army posts and endured the same living conditions and hardships as the soldiers themselves.
Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site
John Tittle
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John Tittle worked in the shops on the Allegheny Portage Railroad and invented the safety car.
Boston National Historical Park
"Building 10" Sign
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Sign titled "Building 10" in the Charlestown Navy Yard. This sign describes the history of Building 10 at the yard.
