Giant Forest

Once established on the ground, Dorst turned to exploring the rugged reaches of the new reservation. Almost before he could start, however, he ran into the problem that would dominate his first summer in the park—the Kaweah Colony's attempt to ...

Giant Sequoia Cutting

This slab of a Giant Sequoia was cut from a 2,000 yr old Sequoia toppled by a winter storm in 1979 in Eastern Tulare County. 200 feet in length and 50 feet in circumference, the tree weighed 900,000 lbs. In ...

Giant Kelp Beyond the Breakers

Historic Cannery Row

Off the coast and beyond the breaking waves, giant kelp provides a lush home for marine life. Holding fast to the rocky bottom, these huge plants grow upward then spread their green-gold fronds across the water, creating a ...

“On the Shoulders of Giants”

This memorial garden was commissioned the 14th of April, 1998

and is dedicated to our African American ancestors who

have constructed, educated, served and contributed to

the University of Maryland. African Americans – both enslaved

and free – were a critical ...

Giant Springs

On June 1805, William Clark, while on a reconnaissance mission to mark a route for the portage around the Great Falls of the Missouri, came across “the largest fountain or Spring I ever Saw, and doubt if it is not ...

A Giant Among Forts

Imagine this twenty acre fort filled to capacity: 2,400 soldiers here to defend Newport with 468 cannon sited along the most probable attack routes.

Though designed to house an imposing force, Fort Adams was normally garrisoned with several hundred troops during ...

Giant Ground Sloth

On this site in 1975 was found the best preserved and most complete giant ground sloth ever found in North America.

The sloth weighed three to five tons, stood thirteen feet tall and was a vegetarian.

An estimated fifty species of animals ...

San Francisco Giants

Troy, N.Y.

Birthplace of the

San Francisco

Giants

When Troy resigned from the National League in 1882, most of its players went to the N.Y. Gothams, renamed The Giants in 1883 (because of the "very tall Troy players") and eventually moved to San Francisco ...

Harrisburg Giants

Harrisburg-based Negro League baseball team founded around 1900 and operated by Colonel William Strothers until his death in 1933. One of 27 major Negro League teams across the nation, the Giants finished in second place in the Eastern Colored League ...

Collision of Giants

Wilderness Exhibit Shelter

Collision of Giants

By 1864 the war had become not just a clash of armies, but of ideas. To be resolved on the fields of Virginia and Georgia that year was not only the fate of the Union, but ...