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It was a settlement of black people from Colonial America, who served the British during the American Revolutionary War in exchange for their freedom. Birchtown was the largest community of free black people in British North America during the late 18th century. [1] [16] Africville – Halifax. [1] Black people settled in Africville beginning ...
Poe Returning to Boston is a statue of American author Edgar Allan Poe in Boston, Massachusetts. It was created by the American sculptor Stefanie Rocknak. [1] The statue is located at the corner of Boylston and Charles streets at Edgar Allan Poe Square. [2] The statue depicts Poe walking, facing away from the Boston Common.
A block of nephrite, a dark green mineral form of jade which is common in the region, and dressed into the form of a cube, about 27 inches (69 cm) per side and weighing about 2,200 pounds (1000 kg), [5] the Green Stone is supposed to have had some religious use or purpose, but what it may have been is unknown. [1]
This rock was carved with a unique form of Hebrew, which gave the appearance of ancient post-Exilic square Hebrew letters that later was shown to be derived from the modern Hebrew alphabet. [7] Additional photos of the front and back can be found in an article published in the Epigraphic Society of Occasional Papers [ 8 ]
Route 58 officially begins at U.S. Route 1 in Fairfield, traveling for about 1.0-mile (1.6 km) on Tunxis Hill Road up to the Black Rock Turnpike. Route 58 continues northward along the Black Rock Turnpike, passing through the towns of Easton and Redding. There is an interchange with the Merritt Parkway in Fairfield.
Poe Toaster is the media sobriquet used to refer to an unidentified person (or probably more than one person in succession) who, for several decades, paid an annual tribute to the American author Edgar Allan Poe by visiting the cenotaph marking his original grave in Baltimore, Maryland, in the early hours of January 19, Poe's birthday.
[1] [3] The site includes Black Rock and foundation ruins of the former Black Rock Resort. [2] The site was the location, in 1847, of "the first recreational bathing in the Great Salt Lake in recorded history." [4] The ill-fated Donner Party, taking the Hastings Cutoff alternative route to California, came by in 1846. Journal entries and ...
The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III is a black limestone Neo-Assyrian sculpture with many scenes in bas-relief and inscriptions. It comes from Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), in northern Iraq , and commemorates the deeds of King Shalmaneser III (reigned 858–824 BC).