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Color stereo photographs of San Francisco after '06 quake found

http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/03/09/6231373-color-stereo-photographs-of-san-francisco-after-06-quake-found

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Added by Gay Mathis on March 10, 2011 at 11:53am — 10 Comments

Disorder in the Court: 9/11/1842

Strange but true – General Lopez de Santa Anna’s invasion of Texas in 1836 was not to be the last time that a Mexican Army crossed the border into Texas in full battle array – artillery, infantry, military band and all. Santa Anna may have been defeated at San Jacinto – but for…

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Added by Celia Hayes on December 21, 2010 at 11:41am — No Comments

Experts: Ansel Adams photos found at garage sale worth $200 million

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/07/27/ansel.adams.discovery/index.html?hpt=C2

Experts: Ansel Adams photos found at garage sale worth $200 million

By Alan Duke, CNN--STORY…

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Added by Gay Mathis on July 27, 2010 at 12:34pm — 60 Comments

An Old Mission Church, Half Tumbled Down (Part One)

That is just what it was, when the building which is the premier landmark in San Antonio - and perhaps all of the rest of Texas - first achieved fame immortal, in the short and bloody space of an hour and a half, just before sunrise on a chill spring morning in 1836. People who come to visit today, with an image in their mind from the movies about it - from John Wayne's version, and the more recent 2004 movie, or from sketch-maps in books about the desperate, fourteen-day siege are usually… Continue

Added by Celia Hayes on February 15, 2009 at 7:37am — No Comments