Manila Metropolitan Theater

In Tagalog:

Nagsimula bilang isang pambansang tanghalan ayon sa disenyo ni arkitekto Juan Arellano. Pinasinayaan noong 1931. Naging tanghalan ng mga artistanf Pilipino at banyaga. Nagpalabas ng mga opera, pageant, at dulang Kastila at Ingles na isinalin sa Tagalog para ...

In Memory if the Victims of Military Sexual Slavery during the S

This historical marker is being offered in memory of the Filipina victims of Japanese Military sexual slavery during the Second World War.

During the Japanese occupation of the Philippines approximately 1,000 women became victims of military sexual slavery by the Japanese ...

Battery 5 of the Dimmock Line

In 1862 – two years before the first Federals appeared at the city’s gates – Confederate Captain Charles Dimmock oversaw the construction of a ten-mile line of defensive works ringing Petersburg. In front of you is Battery 5 one of ...

The Last Mission

At this site, on July 4, 1823 Father Altimra set up a Camp Alter and planted the Holy Cross. The troops fired a volley, and the Padre sang in adoration of the cross. A Mass was celebrated in gratitude, and ...

Martin Luther King Jr.

1929 ~ 1968

In his speech, Nov. 27, 1962, in gym 200 yards S.E., civil rights leader delivered refrain "I have a dream," used in Lincoln Memorial address, 1963.

Marker is on Atlantic Avenue (North Carolina Route 97) near Spruce Street, on ...

First Man Over the Works

The Breakthrough Trail

In the hours, days, and years after the Breakthrough, many Union soldiers boasted that they or their regiment were the first troops to capture the Confederate works on the morning of April 2. Darkness, the chaos of the ...

The Napoleon 12-Pounder Field Gun Model 1857

(Left panel)

The twelve-pound Napoleon smoothbore cannon

was developed in France in 1853 and was named

for the Emperor Napoleon III. It was adopted and

manufactured in the United States in 1857.

It was the mainstay of artillery for both the Union

and Confederate ...

Underground Mining in the Hibbing Area

In 1895 underground mining began in the Hibbing area following the discovery of iron ore. The Burt-Poole and Sellers mines were the first to ship that summer. Mining Captains, of Cornish decent, utilized their experience from the Vermillion Iron Range ...

The Diamond Mine Disaster

The Diamond Mine of the Wilmington Coal Mining and Manufacturing Company, located near Braidwood on the Grundy-Will County line, was the site of a major mine disaster in Illinois.

The mine was on a marshy tract of land that had ...

“Homage to the Burro”

by Charles Southard

Wood peddlers, farmers and merchants went through Burro Alley. Burros economically served the many cultures of New Mexico. For many years the people of Santa Fe relied on the burro for their welfare.

Marker is on West San Francisco ...