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• NYC Landmarks Commission Rejects Half of a Building

  
  New York History — Authority: 133
  The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission voted 6-3 on Tuesday to designate the B. F. Goodrich Company Building (1780 Broadway) as a landmark and at the same time reject the B. F. Goodrich Company Building at 225 West 57th Street. Although the buildings face adjacent streets, they are on the same lot and ...
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• THE HISTORY AND HERITAGE RESOURCES OF THE SOUTH EAST PENINSULA – RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THEIR CONSERVATION

  
  Kittivisian Life — Authority: 130
  By Jacqueline Armony and Lindon WilliamsThe Southeast Peninsula is perhaps the last major economic frontier on St. Kitts. The heritage resources of this area are both natural and cultural. The natural environment is particularly significant because the special geography of the area allowed for a different development ...
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• Global Positioning Systems – What Are They?

  
  GPSReviewsBlog.com — Authority: 141
  Global Positioning Systems (GPS) is a satellite navigation system to determine the location, time, and direction. Set in place by the United States Department of Defense. In its early days, GPS technology was implemented to track military planes and ships. On the water or in the air without landmarks it can be easy to ...
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• Landmarks Commission Backs Down on 57th Street Fight

  
  Curbed NY — Authority: 674
  What was shaping up to be a nasty little preservation scrap ended with a whimper. This morning the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted 6-3 to designate 1780 Broadway , one of two old BF Goodrich buildings on "Automobile Row," a protected landmark. Its sister building, 225 West 57th Street , which ...
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• Divided Landmarks Panel Splits Decision on Midtown Buildings

  
  City Room — Authority: 803
  The Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to give landmark protection to the B. F. Goodrich Building in Midtown Manhattan, while shelving a proposal to give the same protection to an adjacent eight-story building.
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• Five Development Projects to Receive Stimulus Money

  
  City Room — Authority: 803
  One project in each borough will receive tax-free financing through the federal stimulus program.
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• Extell Buildings Veiled As They Await Landmarks Judgment

  
  Curbed NY — Authority: 674
  Extell Developments 225 West 57th Street and connected 1780 Broadway will make their first appearance in front of the Landmarks Preservation Commission tomorrow. The LPC started the landmark designation process without agreement from the developer -- ruhroh! -- in July. Extell and a number of City Council ...
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• Seven Wonders Of The Russian World

  
  Popular Fidelity — Authority: 558
  The Berlin Wall fell 20 years ago, yet the land of Russia remains a mysterious and strange place to most Americans.  I mean, we all hear about the funny stereotypical drunk Russian stories, and we’ve seen a couple of weird statues from there, but there’s a whole other world to Russia that remains ...
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• 20 years ago, the Berlin Wall fell – reverse domino effect

  
  Millard Fillmore's Bathtub — Authority: 499
  High school sophomores in Texas study world history, and juniors study U.S. history. At 16 and 17 years old, they have difficulty figuring out the fuss over the Berlin Wall. It’s just pictures in their textbook. The Wall was already three or four years gone when they were born. They don’t remember living with ...
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• ‘Landmarks’ at 50 has become landmark in it own right

  
  The Platform — Authority: 575
  Paint being from the brick facade of a house in the 1800 block of Pestalozzi Street in Benton Park in 2003. (Andrew Cutraro/Post-Dispatch Landmarks Association of St. Louis — one of the premier historic preservation and advocacy groups in the nation — will…
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• Modern Metal Sculpture

  
  JEDDAH DAILY PHOTO JOURNAL — Authority: 127
  This sculpture looks like it could be an Arabic or oriental alphabet letter, but I’m not sure. It could be made of bronze, but again I’m not sure what kind of metal it is. At any rate, it is interesting looking – especially how it seems to balance at an off-kilter angle, reminding me of an acrobatic act. ...
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• Bring your Brolly!

  
  Abu Dhabi Daily Photograph - Get the BIGGER picture — Authority: 127
  A picturesque view of Marina Mall taken across from the marina. Apart from being architecturally interesting it does some serious business with an estimated 1.2 million visitors passing through its doors each month. It has some neat features like a musical fountain and ceilings that thunder and rain.
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• Graceful Tall White Sculpture

  
  JEDDAH DAILY PHOTO JOURNAL — Authority: 127
  I think this sculpture is one of Jeddah’s more beautiful ones. It is quite tall and extremely graceful, as you can see. I don’t have any information I can tell you about it, but I hope you enjoy looking at it! Posted in Art, Landmarks, Photo, Saudi Arabia, Sculptures Tagged: Jeddah, Sculptures
  4 days ago

• Fort Knox, Maine

  
  Vacations Blog — Authority: 500
  Fort Knox, in Maine Did you know that Maine has its very own Fort Knox ? It does! They don’t keep any money in it, though. More’s the pity. Maine’s Fort Knox is located in the town of Prospect , on the banks of the Penobscot River. The fort was established in 1844 to combat possible border disputes with ...
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• Harlem’s Mount Morris Park fire watchtower

  
  Ephemeral New York — Authority: 528
  One was at Ninth Avenue and 33rd Street. Another stood on Spring Street. In all, fire-prone 19th-century New York City was dotted with 11 fire watchtowers. Made of cast iron, each tower contained a huge bell that a guard, positioned there at all hours, would ring whenever flames were spotted nearby. The only fire ...
  5 days ago

• Flag Bookend Sculpture

  
  JEDDAH DAILY PHOTO JOURNAL — Authority: 127
  This sculpture might be known by some other name, but since I don’t know what it is officially called, I have dubbed it the “Flag Bookend Sculpture.” I wouldn’t mind having a set of bookends like this. Some of the sculptures of Jeddah were actually inspired by smaller objects and were recreated into larger ...
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• In Five Boroughs, Seeing Pariss Famed Avenue

  
  City Room — Authority: 803
  O.K., the Bronx has its own Champs-Élysées. But what about the other boroughs?
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• Buildings of the The National Mall

  
  Kathika Travel Website — Authority: 138
  The National Mall is especially these days as the location where the massive crowd formed to see the inauguration of President Barrack Obama.  Over forty years ago, it was famous for a similar occasion when people gathered there to hear Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech.  The mall is also home to a ...
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• Jutland’s End

  
  Google Sightseeing — Authority: 122
  Where the North Sea meets the Baltic Sea 1 , there’s Grenen 2 ; a spectacularly unspectacularsandbank at the northern end of Jutland , the continental part of Denmark. The form and position of the sandbank’s tip can vary considerably over short periods of time, when waves 3 and currents remove or ...
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• A landmark in our ward

  
  The Sixth Ward — Authority: 136
  Michael Reese Hospital wasnt the only site that those would want to declare historical landmarks : The two-story Wright House, at 4831 S. Vincennes Ave., and the Brooks House, a modest cottage at 7458 S. Evans Ave. , were recommended for landmark status to provide a historic link to what the commission calls the " ...
  6 days ago

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