#landmarks — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #landmarks, aggregated by home.social.
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #524: The Tree of Ténéré.
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#sahara #landmarks #northafrica #saharadesert #famoustrees #trees #facts #strangebuttrue #solonely #soalone #comics #webcomic #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn -
London makes a thousand years of history feel brilliantly alive today.
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"Ursula K. Le Guin’s longtime residence at 3321 NW Thurman St. in Portland, Oregon has been added to the National Register of Historic Places in recognition of its “significance to American literature and women’s history.”"
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"First Light on Broken Hill" for #SaturdayScenery
First morning sunlight of a clear December morning begins to illuminate the eroded Broken Hill formation, a landmark at Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve in San Diego, California.
#BlackAndWhite #LandscapePhotography #SanDiego #SouthernCalifornia #Landscape #Monochrome #Photography #Morning #Landmarks
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UC Santa Barbara: Thousands of America’s historic landmarks face significant wildfire risk. “Researchers at UC Santa Barbara’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) have completed the first national-scale assessment of wildfire risk to American cultural heritage. Of the 100,117 sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places, more than half face measurable […]
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NJ.com: You can now watch Lucy the Elephant 24/7 — just in time for her 145th birthday. “Lucy the Elephant has watched over the Jersey Shore for 145 years. Now you can watch her right back. The six-story wooden pachyderm, a National Historic Landmark and the oldest roadside attraction in America, is now the star of a round-the-clock live stream. The feed lets fans watch the Margate icon from […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/27/nj-com-you-can-now-watch-lucy-the-elephant-24-7-just-in-time-for-her-145th-birthday/ -
The interior of the Great Synagogue in Tykocin, with its ornately painted bimah, Hebrew inscriptions, and gilded Torah ark chandelier illuminating the historic prayer hall.
#Tykocin #Synagoga #GreatSynagogueTykocin #Polska #Poland #ŻydowskieDziedzictwo #JewishHeritage #JewishHistory #Judaica #Architektura #Architecture #Historia #History #Podlasie #Landmarks #Sztuka #ArtHistory #Polichromia #HebrewInscriptions #Bimah #TorahArk #SynagogueArt #TravelPoland #HiddenGems #JewishCulture #EasternEurope -
Swisstopo app updates: The swisstopo app, downloaded more than four million times since 2020, gets three notable updates: 300 curated #landmarks now appear on the basemap with in-app photos and background info, #search works cross-lingually and even tolerates dialect and...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/07/17-swisstopo-app-updates/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS -
The Colosseum
The Colosseum was actual a giant statue in front of the Arena in Rome. Arena means "Sand". Are you not entertained? -
Judge orders #Trump admin to restore #NationalPark changes at sites that 'disparaged' #US
A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump admin to restore sites changed under an executive order calling for the nation’s #museums, #parks & #landmarks to not display elements that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.”
#law #censorship #RevisionistHistory #whitewashing #UShistory
https://apnews.com/article/trump-national-parks-lawsuit-c39eee6f77c2e782fc494e2167bf5a39 -
Paddling under #SelkirkTrestle bridge, on the #GorgeWaterway.
The Selkirk Trestle is a #historic wooden railway bridge in Victoria, British Columbia. Spanning 302 meters (approximately 991 feet) over the Gorge Waterway, it connects the neighborhoods of Burnside-Gorge & Victoria West. Built in 1917 for the Canadian Northern Railway (later part of Canadian National Railway), it originally carried freight, including forest products, to industrial areas in Victoria. The bridge features a rare Scherzer rolling lift (bascule) span, approximately 37 meters long. It was traditionally hand-operated to allow tall vessels to pass through the Selkirk Arm of the Gorge Waterway.
Today, it is part of the Galloping Goose Regional Trail, which runs for 55 km from Victoria to Sooke on the west coast of Vancouver Island.
#Songhees #Bridge #UnderTheBridge #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #infrastructure #railway #GallopingGoose #landmarks #photography #historical #CNR #YYJ
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…Compared with the giant banners of Trump’s glowering image hanging on federal office buildings, including the once-independent #DOJ, & the renaming for #Trump of public #landmarks & #memorials such as the #KennedyCenter for the Performing Arts, these banners are a relatively small #authoritarian incursion into the public realm.
#narcissism #megalomania #vanity #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #MadKing
