Recent Memorial Pages by peter

• Letter From Harold Porter to his Parents Describing Dachau Concentration Camp

  7 May 1945 letter written by Private First Class Harold Porter to his parents from the Dachau concentration camp. Porter describes in detail the horrors…

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  Updated 23 Mar 2013 - 12,983 views

  Contributions 8 images, 2 comments, 5 stories

• Zimmermann Telegram

  The Zimmermann Telegram was a coded message, sent between German statesmen in Germany, Washington DC and Mexico in January 1917. The telegram was…

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  Updated 16 Sep 2011 - 2,546 views

  Contributions 6 images

• The Whaleship "Essex"

  On November 20, 1820, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, an 85 foot sperm whale repeatedly rammed the Nantucket whaleship, "Essex." The ship quickly…

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  Updated 25 Jul 2011 - 3,236 views

  Contributions 3 images

• John Muir

  Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States.

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  Created 20 Apr 2011 - 2,120 views

  Contributions 4 images

• Doris Lucile Meigs Drinkwater

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  Created 26 May 2010 - 540 views

  Contributions 1 image

• Color Photos from World War II

  I created this page as a place to collect color photographs from the Arm Air Force Photos of World War 2. Please feel free to add any you find.

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  Updated 04 Dec 2009 - 2,300 views

  Contributions 257 images

• Johann Sebastian Bach

  German composer and organist of the Baroque period.

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  Updated 16 Nov 2009 - 766 views

  Contributions 1 image

• Buckminster Fuller

  American architect, inventor, designer, futurist, author and visionary.

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  Updated 14 Oct 2009 - 810 views

  Contributions 6 images, 1 story

• Mutiny of the Russian Battleship Potemkin

  In June of 1905, sailors aboard the Russian battleship, Kniaz Potemkin, mutinied killing 7 officers and imprisoning the other 11. Later, the ship went to…

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  Updated 08 Jan 2009 - 4,092 views

  Contributions 3 images

• Brooklyn Bridge

  Images and information associated with the Brooklyn Bridge.

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  Updated 24 Oct 2008 - 2,172 views

  Contributions 12 images, 4 stories

• Felice Benuzzi

  In 1938 Felice Benuzzi, a lawyer and an accomplished swimmer and mountaineer, went to Ethiopia as a Colonial Official in Italy's foreign service. By 1941…

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  Updated 07 Oct 2008 - 2,324 views