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In late 1882, the last of several major fires swept through the lower half of
Kingston, Jamaica. In this engraving from the
Illustrated London News, we see some of the destruction caused. Top row: Left, the view from the
Royal Mail Steam-Ship Company's Wharf. Centre, Peter-lane, from Barry-street, looking south. Right, In Harbour Street. Second Row: Left, German Synagogue, Orange-street. Right, Harbour-street from King-street. Third row: Left, Ruins from McDonald's Wharf, King-street. Centre, Portuguese
Synagogue, from Princess-street. Right, Water-lane, from King-street. Bottom Row: Left, Princess-street, from Port Royal-street, looking north. Right, Peter-lane, from Town-street.
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Two
Catrina figurines, approximately 38 cm (15 in) tall in the City Museum of
León, Guanajuato,
Mexico. Popularized by
José Guadalupe Posada, the Catrina is the
skeleton of an
upper class woman and one of the most popular figures of the
Day of the Dead celebrations, which occur across two days, on November 1–2, corresponding with the
Catholic holy days of
All Saints' Day and
All Souls' Day. It has its origins in an
Aztec festival dedicated to the goddess
Mictecacihuatl, which is represented by the Catrina.
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Livestock comprises
domesticated
animals, that may be kept or raised in pens, houses, pastures, or on farms as part of an agricultural or farming operation, whether for commerce or private use. The picture shows the maze of livestock pens and walkways at
Chicago's
stockyards, ca. 1947.
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Indigenous languages of the Americas (or Amerindian Languages) are spoken by
indigenous peoples from the southern tip of
South America to
Alaska and
Greenland, encompassing the land masses which constitute
the Americas. These indigenous languages consist of dozens of distinct language families as well as many
language isolates and
unclassified languages.
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The
US Federal Government controls a 6,000 sq mi (16,000 km2) tract of southern
Nevada, including the
Nellis Air Force Range and the
Nevada Test Site. These contain the
Yucca Mountain repository, the
Tonopah Test Range, and the secret
Area 51 facility.
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This map shows the complex interplay of the
Multilevel streets in Chicago. Several major cities around the world have attempted to overcome problems with traffic density by building elevated or underground roadways.
Chicago, Illinois goes one better with some triple-decker streets in an area of downtown beside the
Chicago River and
Lake Michigan.
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A
wickiup is a domed hut-like dwelling used by the semi-nomadic
Native American tribes of southwestern
North America. A wigwam is a similar structure but the term is used for those found in the northeastern part of America. Shown here is an
Apache wickiup from 1903.
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The
Olmec heartland. The yellow dots represent ancient habitation sites, while the red dots represent isolated
artifact finds unassociated with any ancient town or village.
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An
animated image showing the
territorial evolution of Mexico, showing each change to the internal and external borders of
the country. The animation begins with the
1824 Constitution of Mexico and continues to the present-day configuration. Note that many of the borders of states and territories in northern Mexico remain unclear and minor border adjustments with the
United States, including the several
Rio Grande border disputes, are not shown.
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An
animated image showing the
U.S. states by date of statehood, that is, the date when each
U.S. state joined the
Union. Although the first 13 states can be considered to be members of the United States from the date of the
Declaration of Independence, they are presented here as being "admitted" on the date each ratified the present
Constitution. The secession of states to form the
Confederacy is not addressed here.
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Tufa towers in
Mono Lake,
California. Tufa are spires and knobs made of
calcium carbonate formed by interaction of freshwater springs and
alkaline lake water. Tufa can reach heights of 30 ft (9.1 m).
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Wind Point Lighthouse, Wind Point, Wisconsin. Constructed on the shore of
Lake Michigan in 1880.
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An 1891 photograph of
Cliff Palace, the largest cliff dwelling—a structure built within
caves and under outcroppings in
cliffs—in
North America, located in what is now
Mesa Verde National Park,
Colorado, USA. There are about 150 rooms in the 288 ft (88 m) long structure, although only 25 to 30 of those were used as living space by
Ancient Pueblo Peoples. it is estimated that the population of Cliff Palace was roughly 100–150 people.
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Map of
Yellowstone National Park, 1871. Created one year before the park was formed.
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A 1628
Spanish
relief map of
Acapulco and Acapulco Bay,
Mexico. During
Spanish colonial times, Acapulco was a major port for ships carrying silks and spices gathered from the
Asia-Pacific area. For more than 256 years, a yearly trading voyage known as the
Manila galleon set sail from Acapulco to the
Philippines, ending due to the
Mexican War of Independence.
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The
Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806) was the first
United States overland expedition to the Pacific coast and back, led by
Captain Meriwether Lewis and
Second Lieutenant William Clark, of the US Army.
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Relief map showing the varying age of
bedrock underlying
North America. This cartographic tapestry is woven from a
geologic map and a shaded relief image. This combination reveals the
geologic history of North America through the interrelation of
rock type,
topography and time. Regional surface processes as well as
continent-scale
tectonic events are exposed in the three dimensions of space and the fourth dimension,
geologic time.
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Cleveland Volcano in the
Aleutian Islands of
Alaska photographed from the
International Space Station, June 7, 2006.
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Satellite image of circular crop fields, characteristic of
center pivot irrigation, in
Haskell County, Kansas in late June 2001. Healthy, growing crops are green.
Corn would be growing into leafy stalks by then.
Sorghum, which resembles corn, grows more slowly and would be much smaller and therefore, possibly paler.
Wheat is a brilliant gold as harvest occurs in June. Fields of brown have been recently harvested and plowed under or lie
fallow for the year.
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In English usage, a
fjord is a narrow
inlet of the sea between
cliffs or steep slopes, which results from marine
inundation of a
glaciated valley. Fjords are found in locations where current or past glaciation extended below current
sea level. The
fractal coastline of eastern
Greenland, seen here, has many fjords. At the bottom is the longest fjord in the world,
Scoresby Sund.
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The
airship
USS Akron flying over the southern tip of
Manhattan circa 1931–1933. The Akron was a commissioned 'ship' of the United States Navy, built for them by the
Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation in
Akron, Ohio. She cast off for her maiden voyage on 2 November 1931, but crashed less than two years later.
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The planes that serve as
Air Force One can be operated as a military command center in the event of an incident such as a
nuclear attack. Operational modifications include
aerial refueling capability,
electronic countermeasures (ECMs) which jam enemy
radar, and flares to avoid heat-seeking missiles. The heavily shielded electronics onboard include around twice the amount of wiring found in a regular
747.
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A
petrified log in
Petrified Forest National Park, located in northeastern
Arizona, USA. The pieces of wood found in the park are mostly of the extinct species
Araucarioxylon arizonicum. The logs were buried under
volcanic ash, which was the source of the
silica that helped to permineralize the buried logs, replacing wood with silica, colored with
oxides of
iron and
manganese.
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The world's largest
compass rose, drawn on the desert floor at
Edwards Air Force Base in
California,
United States. Painted on the
playa near
Dryden Flight Research Center, it is inclined to
magnetic north and is used by pilots for calibrating
heading indicators.
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The
Bald Eagle is a
raptor that is indigenous to
North America, and is the national symbol of the
United States of America. The species was on the brink of
extinction late in the
20th century but has largely recovered and now has a stable population. Its diet is varied, including
fish, smaller
birds,
rodents, and sometimes food scavenged or stolen from campsites and
picnics.
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An old timer iron worker bolts beams during construction of the
Empire State Building; the
Chrysler Building can be seen in the background.
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The
Manhattan Bridge, under construction in 1909, nine months before its opening on December 31, 1909. This
suspension bridge crosses the
East River, connecting
Lower Manhattan with
Brooklyn, just upriver of the
Brooklyn Bridge. All of the buildings in foreground of this photograph, with the exception of the Empire Warehouse on the left, are no longer standing.
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A map of
Antelope Island State Park, which covers the entirety of Antelope Island, an island in the southeastern portion of the
Great Salt Lake in the
U.S. state of
Utah. The park was established in 1981 as part of the
Utah State Parks system. The island is accessible from either
Syracuse via a 7-mile (11 km)
causeway (to the northeast) or from
Salt Lake City at the southern end.
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A map of
Arches National Park near
Moab, Utah,
United States, detailing the location of many of the more well known
natural arches, as well as many other physical features. The park is known for preserving over 2,000 arches, including the world-famous
Delicate Arch. It is 119 square miles (310 km2) in size. Its highest elevation is 5,653 feet (1,723 m) at Elephant Butte, and its lowest elevation is 4,085 feet (1,245 m) at the
visitor center. Since 1970, forty-three arches have toppled because of
erosion. The park receives 10 inches (250 mm) of rain a year on average.
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At the
U.S. Naval Academy in
Annapolis, Maryland, newly
commissioned officers celebrate their new positions by throwing their
midshipmen
covers into the air as part of the
graduation and commissioning ceremony. The "hat toss" has been a traditional ending to the ceremony at the Academy since
1912.
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Captive test flight of
Armadillo Aerospace's Pixel rocket before the 2006
X PRIZE Cup
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Attempting to block
integration at the
University of Alabama, Governor
George Wallace stands defiantly at the door while being confronted by Deputy U.S. Attorney General
Nicholas Katzenbach.
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The
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in the
Dorchester neighborhood of
Boston, Massachusetts, at dusk. This is the official repository for original papers and correspondence of the
John F. Kennedy administration, as well as special bodies of other materials, such as books and papers by and about
Ernest Hemingway.
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An advertisement circa 1876 showing the
Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge touting the railway as the only route between the towns of
Niagara Falls, Ontario, and Suspension Bridge,
New York.
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Opened in 1990, the
Oregon Convention Center in Portland's Rose Quarter is
Oregon's largest convention center. In the background lies
Downtown Portland's skyline.
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Universalis Cosmographia, the Waldseemüller wall map dated 1507, is the first map to include the name "America" and the first to depict the
Americas as separate from
Asia. There is only one surviving copy of the map, which was purchased by the
Library of Congress in 2001 for $10 million.
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Bird's eye view of a town listed in the
U.S. National Register of Historic Places,
Cedar Key, Florida, created before an 1896s hurricane and fire destroyed many of the original structures.
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Panorama of the view south into
Coachella Valley from Keys View in the
Little San Bernardino Mountains,
Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA. In the valley floor, the
San Andreas Fault is clearly visible.
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Saloon, bank, bath house and livery stable fronts on Mane Street in
Pioneertown, California, an unincorporated and inhabited town built in 1946 as a
movie/tv set by, amongst others,
Roy Rogers.
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View of the
Midtown Manhattan skyline from the
Empire State Building.
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This manuscript map by
Union Army
cartographer
Robert Knox Sneden shows the area surrounding
Harper's Ferry,
West Virginia, at the intersection of the
Potomac and
Shenandoah Rivers as the
Confederate forces under
Stonewall Jackson began their September 1862 assault.
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Settlement of
Nebraska and
Iowa: a land offer from the
Burlington and Missouri River Railroad, 1872.
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Apollo 13
Command module being successfully recovered after its crew survived a critical malfunction en route to the
Moon.
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A
lithograph from 1876, showing the
seals of the then-47 U.S. states and territories as well as the District of Columbia. Some of these
seals have changed since this image was created.
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John Trumbull's
Declaration of Independence, showing the five-man committee in charge of drafting the Declaration in 1776 as it presents its work to the
Second Continental Congress in
Philadelphia.
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A
panorama of
Upernavik,
Greenland, a small town in the
Arctic Circle. The series of photos was taken at 23:50 (11:50 PM) local time, showing the
midnight sun. Upernavik (pop. 1140) is a town in the Upernavik district, which covers an area comparable to the
United Kingdom but has only 3,000 inhabitants. With a
population density of only 0.015 persons/km², the district is one of the least populated areas of the world.
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A
poster for the United States
National Park Service, showing a deer drinking from a stream in the forest. This was one of more than 200,000 works created as part of the
Federal Art Project, which was the
visual arts arm of the
Great Depression-era
New Deal
WPA
Federal One program. FAP artists created posters, murals and paintings; some of which stand among the most significant pieces of
public art in the country.
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The tomb of
Brother André, found in
Saint Joseph's Oratory, a
Roman Catholic
basilica on the northern slope of
Mount Royal in
Montreal,
Quebec,
Canada. In 1904, Brother André began the construction of a small chapel on the side of the mountain near
College Notre-Dame, which was replaced by a larger church in 1917 and the current basilica in 1967, which is dedicated to
Saint Joseph, to whom Brother André credited all his reported miracles.
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The
Trinity nuclear test explosion, .016 seconds after detonation. The fireball is about 200 metres (700 ft) wide. Conducted by the United States on July 16, 1945, at a location 35 miles (56 km) southeast of
Socorro, New Mexico, on what is now
White Sands Missile Range, Trinity was the first
test of technology for a
nuclear weapon.
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This cartoon print by Joseph E. Baker shows
Vice President
Andrew Johnson sitting atop a
globe, trying to sew together the map of the
United States with needle and thread.
Abraham Lincoln stands, right, using a split rail to position the globe while commending him, "A few more stitches Andy and the good old Union will be mended."
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Bryce Canyon located in southwestern
Utah in the
United States. Despite its name, this is not actually a canyon, but rather a giant natural
amphitheater created by
erosion along the eastern side of the
Paunsaugunt Plateau.
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Dead trees in the terraces of
Mammoth Hot Springs,
Yellowstone National Park,
Wyoming, US. These trees grew during inactivity of the mineral-rich springs, and were killed when
calcium carbonate carried by
spring water clogged the
vascular systems of the trees. The same process also effectively preserves the trees by preventing decay.
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Bingham Canyon Mine in
Utah has been in operation since 1906 and its cumulative production of
copper ranks second in the world. It also produces large quantities of gold, silver, and
molybdenum.
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Aerial view of
Phoenix, Arizona in 1885.
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The
eye of
Hurricane Isabel,
2003. Hurricane Isabel was the costliest, deadliest, and most intense
hurricane in the season. At the time of the image, Isabel had weakened to a Category 4 and was located about 450 miles northeast of
Puerto Rico.
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A period map of
Boston, Massachusetts from the beginning of the
American Revolution depicting the most rebellious city from the standpoint of
British tactical interests.
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A view of
Hurricane Felix from the
International Space Station. At the time of the photo, Felix was south of
Kingston, Jamaica with winds of 165 mph (266 km/h) with higher gusts making it a category 5 on the
Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. One hundred and thirty fatalities were directly associated with this storm.
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El Caracol at the
Mayan
archaeological site
Chichen Itza in
Yucatán,
Mexico, is believed to have been an
observatory with doors and windows aligned to view astronomical events sacred to the feathered-serpent god
Kukulkan, specifically around the path of
Venus as it traverses the sky.
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The
Olympic Stadium in
Montreal,
Quebec,
Canada, at night. The stadium was originally built for the
1976 Summer Olympics and its inclined tower, called la tour de Montréal, is the tallest inclined tower in the world at 175 m (574 ft) and is a member of the
World Federation of Great Towers.
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A portion of
Glen Canyon, just downstream of
Glen Canyon Dam on the
Colorado River in
Arizona, United States.
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Maya Lin's original competition submission for the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial in
Washington, D.C.. Originally designed as a student project at
Yale University's School of Architecture in 1981, the memorial is a black
granite wall, in the shape of a V, on which the names of American servicemen killed or missing in action from the
Vietnam War are inscribed. The architect hoped that "these names, seemingly infinite in number, [would] convey the sense of overwhelming numbers, while unifying these individuals into a whole."
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A 1917
recruitment poster for women to join the
United States Navy. In March 1917,
Secretary of the Navy
Josephus Daniels realized that the Naval Reserve Act of 1916 used the word "
yeoman" instead of "man" or "male", and allowed for the induction of "all persons who may be capable of performing special useful service for coastal defense." He began enlisting females as
Yeoman (F), and in less than a month the Navy officially swore in
Loretta Perfectus Walsh, the first female sailor in U.S. history. At the time they were popularly referred to as "yeomanettes" or even "yeowomen".
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The "Double O Arch", a natural
sandstone
arch in
Arches National Park in
Utah, United States. This is one of over 2,000 natural arches found in the park and is so named because there are two arches that form circular holes: the easily visible large one, and the smaller hole underneath it.
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A
Navajo family with a
loom, required for making
Navajo rugs near Old Fort Defiance,
New Mexico, 1873. Navajo
textiles are highly regarded and have been sought after as trade items for over 150 years. Traditional Navajo weaving used upright looms with no moving parts and support poles made from
wood, as shown here.
Steel pipe is more common today.
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United States President
Lyndon B. Johnson (seated) signs the
Civil Rights Act of 1964, a landmark piece of
legislation that outlawed
racial segregation in schools, public places, and employment. Among the guests behind him is
Martin Luther King Jr. (directly behind and to the right of Johnson).
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The
eye of
Hurricane Isabel making
landfall at
North Carolina's
Outer Banks on September 18, 2003. This
Category 5 hurricane was the costliest and deadliest in the
2003 Atlantic hurricane season. It quickly weakened over land and became
extratropical over western
Pennsylvania the next day. Moderate to severe damage extended up the Atlantic coastline and as far inland as
West Virginia. Throughout the path of Isabel, damage totaled about $3.6 billion (2003 USD, $4.1 billion 2008 USD). Sixteen deaths in seven U.S. states were directly related to the hurricane, with 35 deaths in six states and one Canadian province indirectly related to the hurricane.
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The
Mission District of
San Francisco, California, burning in the aftermath of the
1906 San Francisco earthquake. As damaging as the
earthquake and its
aftershocks were, the fires that burned out of control afterward were much more destructive.
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A
daguerreotype of the
United States Capitol in 1846, with the original green
copper
dome as designed by
Charles Bulfinch. Over time, extensions to both the north and south wings, made to accommodate the addition of new
states to the Union, made the dome aesthetically displeasing, and as a result, it was replaced by a white
cast iron dome which was completed in 1866.
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An 1851
daguerreotype of
Portsmouth Square,
San Francisco, California. Now a one-
block square in
Chinatown, it is located on the site of the first
public square established in
Yerba Buena, the Mexican community that became San Francisco. It is named after the
USS Portsmouth, which raised the
American flag here at the onset of the
Mexican–American War.
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Buffalo Soldiers of the United States Army's
25th Infantry, some wearing
buffalo robes, Fort Keogh, Montana, 1890. Although the origin of the name is uncertain, the term Buffalo Soldiers became a generic term for all
African American soldiers. It is now used for U.S. Army units that trace their direct lineage back to the
9th and
10th Cavalry.
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Lower Consolation Lake, adjacent to
Moraine Lake in
Banff National Park,
Alberta,
Canada. Located in the
Canadian Rockies, Banff National Park is the oldest
national park in Canada and one of the most visited national parks in the world.
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Peyto Lake, located in
Banff National Park in the
Canadian province of
Alberta, as seen from a viewpoint at
Icefields Parkway. The turquoise colour is caused by
rock flour found in
glacier
meltwater.
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