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McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II by David Franks Photography

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Lighted pathway at St Charles and North Blvd, Baton Rouge, LA.

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The Lafon Fountain sits in Coliseum Square directly across from the International School of Louisiana, and is named after Creole architect and engineer Bartélemy Lafon, who designed plans for the Lower Garden District. The fountain was built in 1976 but the city ceased operating it to save money in the 1980s. 

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Mueller, Erwin Erwin "Erv" F. Mueller, 89, Humboldt Twp, passed away Monday, March 18, 2013, Ishpeming, MI. Born January 4, 1924, Miranda, SD son of Max and Margaret D. (Kuehner) Mueller, spent high school years in Omaha, NB. Served United States Navy aboard Battleship USS California and on December 7, 1941 was in Pearl Harbor, later in the Asiatic - Pacific Theater. On 7 December 1941, California was moored at the southernmost berth of Battleship Row and was with other dreadnoughts of the Battle Force when the Japanese launched their attack. Two torpedoes struck the port side. One detonated below the armor belt at frame 52 (between number 2 turret and the bridge), creating a hole 10 feet (3.0 m) high and 24 feet (7.3 m) long, destructively deforming the first antitorpedo bulkhead and transverse stiffeners between frames 47 and 60, and holing the second bulkhead with fragments. Watertight integrity had been impaired by preparations for a material inspection; and the ship suffered extensive flooding damage when hit.

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Old Capitol Building, Jackson, MS. When William Nichols came to Mississippi in the fall of 1835 as the new state architect, his first job was to tear down previous architect John Lawrence's false start on the building. Nichols overcame many obstacles in the construction of the Old Capitol; the shortage of skilled workers was so great that some owners hired out their skilled slaves. Nichols used local limestone, although it was of inferior quality. Blocks of stone were carried by wagon from the quarry to Jackson. Construction was repeatedly slowed by problems with the brick suppliers. Nevertheless, Nichols carried on.Except for small interior details, work was finished by February 1840. A chandelier arrived in June 1840, and the final expenditure for building the state house was made October 13, 1840, for flagging the rotunda. The cost of building the Old Capitol was about $400,000, a huge amount for that time.While Nichols was working on the state house, he also designed two other major projects: the Mississippi Governor's Mansion, completed in 1842, and the state's first penitentiary. The latter building was a large, castle-like structure in Gothic Revival style at the site of the current state capitol.In 1848, Nichols designed the first building at the University of Mississippi, the Lyceum. Nichols died December 12, 1853, at the age of seventy-three and is buried in Lexington, Mississippi, in the Odd Fellows Cemetery.

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The Strand Historic District, Galveston, Tx.  The district was a thriving, energetic, and prosperous business area close to the shipping channel particularly active during the seventies and eighties of the last century. The blocks between Mechanic and Strand and 20th and 26th streets contain at least forty-five buildings of architectural interest as representative illustrations of the types of commercial structures used and preferred in their era. It is their preservation en masse that is of real architectural significance as a still extant visual segment of the business life of the latter third of the nineteenth century. The buildings show^ the span of popular architectural styles from the Greek Revival to the Beaux Arts with the bulk representative of the Gothic, High Victorian, French and Italianate styles in their vernacular and usually modest expressions. The frequent arcades at the first floor level are still generally apparent and relatively unaltered. The common materials are stuccoed brick or red brick with cast iron or stone details. The buildings are often handsome with nice proportions.

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Second Ward School, Edgard, LA. The school was closed in 1988, but has been is use as recent as 2015 for a filming location for the AMC show, Into the Badlands.

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USS Kidd, Baton Rouge, LA. USS Kidd (DD-661), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named after Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, who died on the bridge of his flagship USS Arizona during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Admiral Kidd was the first US flag officer to die during World War II, and the first American admiral ever to be killed in action. A National Historic Landmark, she is now a museum ship, berthed on the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.