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JohnWesleyDowney Registered: Jan '04	Date Posted: 9/5 10:28pm Subject: 1001 Historic Sites You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. Dealey Plaza - Date Edited: 9/5 10:30pm (1 edits total) Edited By: JohnWesleyDowney
	I drove through the area once a few years ago. There's not much to see, it's anti-climactic. There's no sense of a history changing event having taken place there. If you drive through the plaza, it takes just a few seconds to come around that corner and then go past the infamous "grassy knoll." Blink and you miss it. I did hear awhile back they were going to put a museum exhibit on the sixth floor of the schoolbook depository building. -----signature----- Namaste.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 9/6 10:10pm Subject: 1001 Historic Sites You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. Dealey Plaza
	Next: Alamo Mission Location: San Antonio, Texas Reason: Site of the Battle of the Alamo in 1836
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 9/7 8:27pm Subject: 1001 Historic Sites You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. The Alamo
	Next: Fort Sill Military Reservation Location: Fort Sill, OK, USA Reason: Site of the infamous Red River Campaign Originally called Fort Washita. Used to overcome the southern Cheyenne, Comanche and Kiowa in the Red River Campaign. Now used as an artillery base. [image=http://sill-www.army.mil/FAMAG/images/photos_aug05/images/C-1-321%20FA,%20Fort%20Sill,%20OK.jpg]
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 9/21 7:55pm Subject: 1001 Historic Sites You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. Fort Sill, OK
	Next: Shiloh Battlefield Location: Near Savannah, TN Reason: Site of a famous Civil War Battle Over 4,000 acres, with 150 different monuments to various regiments. Battlefield is extremely well-preserved because there are no transecting roads. The battle was between A. S. Johnston and U. S. Grant. Grant won, but just barely. Terrible loss of life.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 9/23 9:32pm Subject: 1001 Historic Sites You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. Shiloh Battlefield
	Next: Graceland Location: Memphis, TN, USA Reason: Home of Elvis Presley The second most visited private home in the USA (after the White House), it was purchased by Elvis in 1957, and he died there in 1977. Named after the wife of a previous owner.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 9/27 9:17pm Subject: 1001 Historic Sites You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. Graceland
	Next: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthplace Location: Atlanta, Georgia Reason: Home of one of the most important civil rights activists King was born here, his grandfather's home, in 1929. The Ebenezer Baptist Church, where his father was a preacher, is a short way away.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 10/11 11:18pm Subject: 1001 Historic Sites You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthplace
	Next: Wright Brothers National Memorial Location: Kill Devil Hills, NC, USA Reason: Site of the world's first airplane flight The Wright Bros. made the first flights here on December 17th, 1903. A granite moment was built in 1932.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 10/14 8:54pm Subject: 1001 Historic Sites You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. Site of the First Manned Flight
	Next: Fort Sumter Location: Charleston Harbour, N. C. USA Reason: The start of the Civil War Designed in 1827 to defend Charleston Harbour, the fort was built on a man-made island, and was still unfinished in 1860, when Major Armstrong of the US Army moved into the fortress with two companies. In March, 1861, just after Lincoln's election, Armstrong sent word to Washington that his supplies were running out. The Confederates bombarded the fortress for 36 hours, and it surrendered. It was held by the Confederates for the next four years. Reduced to rubble by the end of the century, it was restored and rebuilt thereafter.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 11/10 8:32pm Subject: 1001 Historic Sites You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. Fort Sumter
	Next: Ernest Hemingway Home Location: Key West, Florida, USA Reason: Home to the famous author Bought in 1931, and lived in until 1961. Infested by 60 or so many-toed cats descended from Hemingway's own pet tomcat.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 11/11 9:23pm Subject: 1001 Historic Sites You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. Ernest Hemingway Home
	Next: Pearl Harbour Location: Oahu, Hawaii, USA Reason: Where WWII began for the USA The shipyard and naval base was established in 1908. The site of the Japanese attack on December 7th, 1941, in which 21 ships were damaged or destroyed plus 188 planes. Half the 2403 American fatalities were on the Battleship Arizona, the remains of which can be seen through the water.
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Darth McClain Registered: Feb '00	Date Posted: 11/12 10:38am Subject: 1001 Historic Sites You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. Pearl Harbor
	I'd like to visit Pearl Harbor sometime. -----signature----- Once a Talon, always a Talon http://www.TalonIntelligenceSquadron.com
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 11/12 11:07am Subject: 1001 Historic Sites You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. Pearl Harbor
	Moi aussi.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 11/14 6:46pm Subject: 1001 Historic Sites You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. Pearl Harbor - Date Edited: 11/14 6:53pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Zaz
	Next: Kalaupapa Historical Park Location: Molokai, Hawaii, USA Reason: Site of a Leprosy reserve [image=http://www.hawaiilifeofluxury.com/images/kalaupapa_national_historical_park] This isolated portion of Molokai--surrounded on three sides by the Pacific Ocean and on the other by a sheer cliff, was selected for isolation of leprosy patients. They were taken there by boats in 1866 and dumped, without supplies or caretakers. In 1873, a Catholic missionary, Father Damien, heard of their plight, and with two non-sufferers travelled to the peninsula to build homes and a church and to care for the sufferers. Eventually, he contracted the disease and died in 1889. The development of sulfone drugs in the 1940's ended the disease and the isolation laws were reversed in the 1960's.
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