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Hawaii Shingon Mission (also known as Shingon Shu Hawaii) is a historic Buddhist temple in Honolulu, Hawaii. It features distinctive Japanese architectural elements, including a steep roof with elaborate decorative carvings. During World War II, prejudice against Hawaiians of Japanese descent—especially Buddhists—turned many temples and shrines into targets.
Blue Ridge Parkway
Cold Mountain Overlook
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This overlook is a short drive from Mount Pisgah, the Pisgah Inn, and Hwy 276. It provides views of the 6,000 foot Cold Mountain as well as the Shinning Rock Wilderness.
Honouliuli National Historic Site
Haruko Takahashi
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Haruko Takahashi was a Shintō priestess who spent part of World War II imprisoned at Honouliuli Internment Camp on O’ahu, Hawai’i. She died on December 24, 1972, and her life is still celebrated every year in a memorial service at the Konko Mission.
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On the World War II home front, Americans turned to their diverse religious beliefs to make sense of the world. Explore this page to learn more about Japanese American religion, Christian conscientious objectors, the Jewish experience in wartime America, and more stories of religion and World War II.
Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site
Hopewell Furnace Cast House
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The Cast House encloses the charcoal blast furnace. All of Hopewell's products were produced in this building. To the left of the furnace, moulders worked at their benches producing sand molds for stove plates and other cast products. Guttermen dug trenches and runners for iron and slag in the clay floor in front of the furnace. The furnace founder monitored the furnace and water wheel, shouting instructions up to the fillers. All of this work was done over two twelve hour sh
Marsh - Billings - Rockefeller National Historical Park
The Bungalow at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park
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The Bungalow, located on the hill adjacent to the Mansion, is a Craftsman-style building constructed in 1916-17. It was designed as a secluded retreat by Harold Van Buren Magonigle for Mary Montague Billings French, daughter of Frederick Billings. The Bungalow remained unchanged until 1959 when the daughter of Mrs. French, Mary French Rockefeller, commissioned architect Theodor Muller of New York to renovate the building. The bungalow interior is closed to the public.
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The segment of Route 66 between State Highway 207 and Interstate 40 is the longest and best preserved section of Route 66 in Texas. Turn off your cell phone, and you won’t need the GPS. Put on your Ray Bans. Open a Coca Cola, the kind that comes in a sweating green glass bottle. Put some Sinatra on the player, and roll down the windows. It’s time to drive the 7.2 miles of Route 66 west of Conway, Texas.
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About the size of a Blue-Jay, Sharp-shinned Hawks are aerial acrobats and are the smallest of three North American agile hawks known as the accipiters (ah-sip-it-ers). Learn more about this amazing and oft misunderstood hawk.
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In August 2010, the trees were removed from the earthen mounds at Poverty Point State Historic Site in northeast Louisiana. It provided a unique opportunity to investigate the stability of the earthworks under different vegetation regimes.
Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Scientists Analyze Feathers to Understand the Origins of Sharp-shinned Hawks Migrating Over the Bay Area and Beyond
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Sharp-shinned hawks, or “sharpies” in birder-speak, breed in dense northern or high-elevation forests where they are difficult to find and track. Some overwinter in the US, while others migrate all the way to southern Central America. When they’re heading south along popular raptor migration routes, or flyways, is when they’re easiest to spot. But their large-scale movement patterns are also poorly understood.