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Lake Bracciano, Italy
St. Joseph's Oratory, Montreal
Saint Joseph's Oratory of Mount Royal, (French: Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal), is a Roman Catholic basilica on the northern slope of Mount Royal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
In 1904, André Besette (Alfred
Bessette) began the construction of a small chapel on the side of the mountain
near Notre Dame College. Soon, it became much too small. Even though it
was enlarged, in 1917, a church was built, called the crypt, with a seating
capacity of 1,000. In 1924, the construction of the basilica was inaugurated;
it was finally completed in 1967. The Oratory's dome is the second-largest
of its kind in the world after Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome, and the
church is the largest in Canada.
—Wikipedia
Pennsylvania University
Hazy Morning, Chicago 
Country music is three chords
and the truth
— Harlan Howard
Brooklyn Bridge Walk
Red Flowers in a California Mission
Grant Park, Chicago 
Grant Park's beginnings date to 1835,
when foresighted citizens, fearing commercial
lakefront development, lobbied to protect the open space. As
a result, the park's
original area east of Michigan Avenue was designated "public ground
forever to remain
vacant of buildings." Officially named Lake Park in 1847, the site soon
suffered
from lakefront erosion.
The Illinois Central Railroad agreed to build a breakwater to
protect the area in exchange for permission for an offshore train
trestle.
After the Great Fire of 1871, the area between the shore and
trestle became a
dump site for piles of charred rubble, the first of many landfill
additions.
In 1901, the city transferred the park
to the South Park Commission, which named
it for Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885), 18th President of the United
States. Renowned
architect Daniel H. Burnham envisioned Grant Park as a formal
landscape with
museums and civic buildings. However, construction was stalled
by lawsuits
launched by mail-order magnate Aaron Montgomery Ward, who sought
to protect the
park's open character.
Finally, in 1911, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled in Ward's
favor. New landfill at the park's southern border allowed construction
of the Field
Museum to begin, and the park evolved slowly. In 1934, the South
Park Commission
was consolidated into the Chicago Park District, which completed
improvements
using federal relief funds. — Chicago
Park District
Griffin, Symbol of London
How often we fail to realize
our good fortune in living
in a country where happiness
is more than a lack of tragedy
— Paul Sweeney
Water Blooming 
Baltimore
Charleston Cemetery — Haunted?
To do injustice is more disgraceful
than to suffer it.
— Plato
Left for Dead 
Fall seven times,
stand up eight.
— Japanese Proverb
Self Portrait, Bath, England
The City
of Bath is a World
Heritage City visited by thousands of
history loving people each year. The thermal water rises up from
about
10,000 feet below the earth at a daily rate of a quarter-million
gallons.
It retains a constant temperature of 116 degrees Farenheit.
I was "lucky" enough to drink
the
warm water at the restaurant that is now at the site of the former
Roman Baths.
(They drill down to get the water before it reaches the surface
and turns green).
It wasn't very good, but at least I didn't get sick.
It is believed that the water rising up
in Bath was originally rain
that fell on the Mendip Hills between 20,000 and 80,000 years
ago.
Chateau Ramezay Garden, Montreal, Canada
In marriage,
being the right person
is as important as
finding the right person.
— Wilbert Donald Gough
San Juan, Puerto Rico
You can't put democracy and freedom
back into a box.
— George W. Bush
Jellyfish Dance, Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas
Boardwalk,
Atlantic City
Located in the heart of the northeast and within easy
driving distance of
a third of the population of the United States, Atlantic City,
NJ is
convenient to get to and convenient to get around in. The resort
is readily
accessible by air through two nearby International Airports or
by car and
bus along three major highways. Travel to Atlantic City for your
next
weekend getaway or vacation!
Modern rail service provided by New Jersey Transit arrives
and departs
through the rail terminal immediately adjacent to the Atlantic
City
Convention Center. Within the city everything is readily accessible
to
public transportation on New Jersey Transit buses. Our ever popular
13 passenger jitneys move the entire length of Pacific Avenue,
parallel
to Atlantic City's world famous Boardwalk, to the Marina District
and to the Convention Center.
—Atlantic City Tourism
Blackbird, Barbedwire
Millipedes (Some Eating Broccoli)
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