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The Jefferson Davis Monument State Historic Site is a Kentucky state park commemorating the birthplace of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of America, in Fairview, Kentucky. The site's focal point is a 351-foot (107.0 m) concrete obelisk. [2] In 1973, it was believed to be the fourth-tallest monument in the United States ...
The George Washington Birthplace National Monument is a national monument in Westmoreland County, Virginia, at the confluence of Popes Creek and the Potomac River. It commemorates the birthplace location of George Washington, a Founding Father and the first President of the United States, who was born here on February 22, 1732.
Years active. 1979–present. Website. jeffgreenwald .com. Jeff Greenwald (born March 6, 1954, in the Bronx, New York) is a best-selling author, photographer, and monologist. He now resides in Oakland, California. [1]
The monument within the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge includes the site of the 19-day battle to reclaim Attu, artifacts of the occupation at Kiska, and the crash site of a U.S. B-24D Liberator on Atka Island. Originally designated as part of World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument, which was divided and renamed March 12 ...
Nora Louise Kuzma (born May 7, 1968), known professionally as Traci Lords, is an American actress, singer, and former pornographic actress. She entered the adult film industry using a fake birth certificate to conceal that she was two years under the legal age of 18. [1] Lords starred in adult films and was one of the most sought-after ...
Matthias Grünewald ( c. 1470 – 31 August 1528; also known as Mathis Gothart Nithart [1]) was a German Renaissance painter of religious works who ignored Renaissance classicism to continue the style of late medieval Central European art into the 16th century. Only ten paintings—including several polyptychs —and thirty-five drawings ...
Jefferson Davis Memorial Historic Site. / 31.66455; -83.38668. Jefferson Davis Memorial Historic Site (also known as the Jefferson Davis Capture Site) is a 12.668-acre (5.127 ha) state historic site located in Irwin County, Georgia that marks the spot where Confederate States President Jefferson Davis was captured by United States Cavalry on ...
A statue of Jefferson Davis stood in Memphis Park (originally, "Confederate Park" [8]) in Memphis, Tennessee. Removed in 2017. A large 351-foot (107 m) tall concrete obelisk at the Jefferson Davis State Historic Site in Fairview, Kentucky marks the site of his birthplace. Construction of the monument began in 1917 and finished in 1924 at a cost ...