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The Amarillo Globe Dream House is a historic house in Amarillo, Texas. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 8, 1997. [ 2 ] The house also became a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 2008.
Panhandle–Plains Historical Museum is a history museum located on the campus of West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas, United States, a small city south of Amarillo. The museum's contents are owned and controlled by the Panhandle-Plains Historical Society, while West Texas A&M University and the Texas A&M University Board of Regents ...
Texas Air & Space Museum, 10001 American Drive 35°12′48″N 101°42′53″W / 35.2133°N 101.7148°W / 35.2133; -101.7148 ( Douglas DC-3 Airplane Amarillo
The Helium Monument & Time Capsule is located in front of the Don Harrington Discovery Center. The Helium Centennial Time Columns Monument was designed in 1967 by Peter Muller Munk Associates (located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) and built in 1968 with the assistance of U.S. Steel to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the discovery of helium.
This article was split from List of museums in Texas. The Helium Monument & Time Capsule is located in front of the Don Harrington Discovery Center. The list of museums in the Texas Panhandle encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic ...
A military museum or war museum is an institution dedicated to the preservation and education of the significance of wars, conflicts, and military actions. These museums serve as repositories of artifacts (not least weapons), documents, photographs, and other memorabilia related to the military and war.
The Gothic War culminated in the Battle of Adrianople in 378, in which the Romans were badly defeated and Valens was killed. [175] [176] Following the decisive Gothic victory at Adrianople, Julius, the magister militum of the Eastern Roman Empire, organized a wholesale massacre of Goths in Asia Minor, Syria and other parts of the Roman East ...
The destruction of one Gothic army would leave its tribe vulnerable to Roman attacks; the destruction of one Roman army could be countered by other Roman armies moving into the war zone (as happened after Adrianople). Therefore, 3rd- and 4th-century Gothic armies could not take as many risks as Roman armies could.