Amleto Cardinal Cicognani

National Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes

In Memoriam

Amleto Cardinal Cicognani

Apostolic delegate to the United States 1933-1958

Cardinal Secretary of State 1958-1973

Under Pope John XXIII - Paul VI

While serving as apostolic delegate to the United States ...

4th Air Depot Group

Dedicated

to the honor and memory of

the men who served in the

4th Air Depot Group

Southwest Pacific Theater

1941-1945

Courtesy hmdb.org

Greenville Woman's College

Established in 1854 by the S.C. Baptist Convention, this institution opened as Greenville Baptist Female College in February 1856, on this site originally donated by Vardry McBee to the Greenville Academies. Its name was changed to Greenville Woman's College ...

Alabama Veterans Memorial

Liberty Park

            Pearl Harbor

              May 31, 1941

Dear Friend,

I hope all is well with you. I am doing well but due to the present state of ...

Casa Avero

St. Photios

Built 1749 - Restored 1979This shrine is dedicated to the memory of the 400 Greeks who arrived in St. Augustine in 1768, took on fresh supplies, then journeyed south to help settle the colony of New Smyrna, Florida. ...

Piper’s Opera House

This building, the most magnificent vintage theater in the West, was erected by John Piper in 1885. Third in a succession of theatres, which he operated on the Comstock, Piper’s Opera House, with its original scenery, raked stage, and elegant ...

LeConte Botanical Gardens

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Five miles west of here on the old Post Road, the southern most postal route in America, is the site of the home and botanical garden of Louis LeConte, naturalist, mathematician, and scholar, for whom the famous ...

Seymour Narrows

Treacherous currents, swirling eddies, and turbulent tide-rips still harass vessels, despite the blasting away in 1958 of the twin peaks of Ripple Rock. Charted in 1792 by Captain George Vancouver, the Narrows has claimed numerous ships and lives and is ...

Inverness Cannery

The developing provincial salmon industry spread northward when the Inverness Cannery opened here in 1876. The first cannery in northern British Columbia, it took advantage of the abundant sockeye runs up the Skeena River to challenge the dominance of the ...

The Minorcan Heritage

The Minorcans, some 1,300 people of Mediterranean origins, were brought to Florida in 1768 as contract employees to farm a large indigo plantation at New Smyrna, 70 miles south of St. Augustine. Though most came from the island of Minorca ...