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  1. In late August 2010, my brother, nephew and a friend climbed to the top of Mt. Katahdin in Baxter State Park, Maine, via the celebrated Knife Edge Trail, leaving from Chimney Pond Campground. We actually experienced a brief sleet squall on the way to the top --- in late August! There is a large cairn of small stones ...

  2. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, is famous for the annual street party known as Mardi Gras (french for "Fat Tuesday"). This takes place on the day before Ash Wednesday which is the beginning of the religious period of Lent, a traditional time of repentance and contrition among Roman Catholics. Since New Orleans was found...

  3. The Louisiana State Capitol is the tallest such building in the USA and has an observation deck on its 34th floor. The building itself is constructed, like most skyscrapers, using a steel frame. In this case, Alabama limestone clads the building and the stone has bas-relief sculptures in the Art-Deco style to depict ...

  4. The capitol building in Baton Rouge, Louisiana is the tallest in the USA and is one of only a handful of state capitol buildings which do not imitate the Federal capitol in Washington DC. It is a steel frame skyscraper with Alabama limestone cladding and was finished in 1932 --- a brain-child and pet project of then Se...

  5. The capitol building in Baton Rouge, Louisiana is the tallest in the USA and is one of only a handful of state capitol buildings which does not imitate the Federal capitol in Washington DC. It is a steel frame skyscraper with Alabama limestone cladding and was finished in 1932 --- a brain-child and major project of th...

  6. When state legislators decided to move the Louisiana capitol from New Orleans (it was thought to hold too many distractions for the politicians), the city of Baton Rouge offered land on the bluff above the Mississippi where the French explorers found "Le Baton Rouge" (the red stick) which marked a ceremonial boundary b...

  7. The Louisiana State Capitol is the tallest in the USA at over 34 storeys high. It was built with the strong encouragement of Governor Huey P. Long, who was a US Senator and past-governor at the time ---- an amazing feat considering the Great Depression was at its height and the building was not inexpensive. Alabama lim...

  8. The Louisiana State Capitol is the tallest in the USA at over 34 storeys high. It was built with the strong encouragement of Governor Huey P. Long, who was a US Senator and past-governor at the time ---- an amazing feat considering the Great Depression was at its height and the building was not inexpensive. Alabama ...

  9. This "other" Notre Dame Cathedral somehow survived a catastrophic fire in 1194 while it was under construction (the Cathedral was begun in 1134 and finished almost 130 years later in 1260 --- think about that: likely five generations lived during the construction period!). The Cathedral's windows are famous as they are...

  10. This is a 180-degree hand-held panormama of the "moon crossing" bridge over the Hozu-gawa ("gawa"=river). It was re-built in 1936 of steel, but faithfully reproduced the form of the original wooden structure. It is located in the village of Arashiyama to the northwest of urban Kyoto. The river is famous for a s...

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