The Seven Foot Knoll Light is a screw pile lighthouse built in 1855 to sit atop a rocky knoll in Chesapeake bay near Baltimore. It is now on the edge of the harbour. Imagine living in it.
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Some of the Cannon at a snowy Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland which resisted the British invasion of 1812. That was after the British had captured the city of Washington, DC & burnt the Capitol...
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The House of the Blackheads in Riga, Latvia. originally built in 1334, this guild-house for merchants was bombed to a ruin on 29 June 1941 and finally rebuilt in the 1990's after the fall of the USSR,
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The changing of the guard at the Freedom Monument, Riga , Latvia. This amazing statue was unveiled in 1934, just 6 years before the Russian invasion & occupation of the country.
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St. Peters Church in Riga has a long and amazing history from when it was originated in 1209 right through to being destroyed by artillery fire in 1941 and a rebuild completed in the 1990's
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The "Roland Statue" in Riga Latvia. A Roland statue is a statue of a knight with a drawn sword, signifying the town privileges of a medieval city.
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A selection of some of the photos I took on our expedition up the active volcano, Mt. Etna in Sicily last week.
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