Old Scituate Light also known simply as Scituate Light is an historic lighthouse located on Cedar Point in Scituate Massachusetts.1810 May: The Federal Government appropriated $4000 for a lighthouse to […]
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Brant Point Light
Brant Point Light is a lighthouse located on Nantucket Island. The station was established in 1746 automated in 1965 and is still in operation. The current tower was added to […]
Duxbury Pier Light
Duxbury Pier lighthouse also called Duxbury Light (nicknamed the Bug Light) is a lighthouse located in Plymouth Harbor Massachusetts. Duxbury Pier Light was built in 1871 on the north side […]
Boston Light
Boston Light is a lighthouse located on Little Brewster Island in outer Boston Harbor Massachusetts. The first lighthouse to be built on the site dates back to 1716 and was […]
Minot’s Ledge Light
Minot’s Ledge Light officially Minots Ledge Light is a lighthouse on Minots Ledge one mile offshore of the towns of Cohasset and Scituate Massachusetts to the southeast of Boston Harbor. […]
San Cristóbal Volcano
Volcán San Cristóbal is the highest volcano in Nicaragua at 1745 m (5725 ft). Located near to the northwest corner of the country it forms a majestic backdrop to the […]
Whitewater Ski Resort
Whitewater Ski Resort is a ski resort located a 15 minute drive from Nelson in southern British Columbia Canada. The resort is situated in Ymir bowl beneath the 2400 m […]
Maria Celeste (crater)
Maria Celeste is an impact crater on Venus named in honor of Maria Celeste the daughter of Galileo Galilei.
Royalty Theatre
The Royalty Theatre was a small London theatre situated at 73 Dean Street Soho and opened on 25 May 1840 as Miss Kelly’s Theatre and Dramatic School and finally closed […]
United States Penitentiary Allenwood
The United States Penitentiary Allenwood (USP Allenwood) is a high-security United States federal prison in Pennsylvania. It is part of the Allenwood Federal Correctional Complex (FCC Allenwood) and is operated […]