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Whether it's the remnants of a defunct hospital, a forgotten mansion, or a desolate race track, they are all left for nature to take over after being discarded by humanity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is even one stately mansion that is not entirely vacant since the former owner is buried in the backyard. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ebandoned Georgia: Exploring the Peach Stat\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003ee, photographer Leland Kent showcases eleven abandoned places from across the state. 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Gardens should surprise and comfort you. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnatole France (1844-1924), the French poet, journalist, and novelist, could have been addressing countryman and father of the Norfolk Botanical Garden Fred Heutte when he sagely observed: \"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan but also believe.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFred Heutte was a dreamer with a plan who believed that the garden he shepherded for nearly three decades would ultimately fulfill its destiny and take an honored place among the United States' premier botanical gardens-and it has.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e[authors] Author(s): \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/amy-waters-yarsinske\"\u003eAmy Waters Yarsinske\u003c\/a\u003e[\/authors]","brand":"Nature, Parks \u0026 Gardens","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":21197122240594,"sku":"9781634990035","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/9171\/2594\/products\/9781634990035.jpg?v=1545405958"},{"product_id":"norfolk-through-time","title":"Norfolk Through Time","description":"\u003cspan\u003ePhotographs chosen for this volume are testament to the power of \"a picture is worth a thousand words.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach photograph tells a story of Norfolk through time, starting with the city center—the downtown—before going down to the river, revisiting the significance of the streetcar and the horseless carriage on the city's development, moving into the wards, and, finally, a journey to the Chesapeake Bay on the city's north shore. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this fascinating selection of photographs Amy Waters Yarsinske traces some of the many ways in which Norfolk has changed and developed over the last century. 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It's hard to think of a military airplane flying today that Langley wasn't involved with in one way or another.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLangley research established many of the basic building blocks of aeronautics, changed the shape of aircraft and paved the way for jet aircraft that could fly at supersonic speed. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhether it is testing airbags for space capsule landings, developing technologies to allow aircraft to fly at supersonic and hypersonic speeds, or studying Earth's atmosphere, NASA Langley remains on the leading edge as it has since 1917.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e[authors] Author(s): \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/amy-waters-yarsinske\"\u003eAmy Waters Yarsinske\u003c\/a\u003e[\/authors]","brand":"America Through Time","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":21197150224466,"sku":"9781634990745","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/9171\/2594\/products\/9781634990745.jpg?v=1545407609"},{"product_id":"richmond-through-the-twentieth-century","title":"Richmond Through the Twentieth Century","description":"\u003cspan\u003eRichmond is a city with a pedigree, a past that can be traced back to the first English settlers who landed at Jamestown in 1607. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet the focus of this volume is the twentieth century, which was, by all rights, America's century and Richmond's rebirth as a modern, changed city. \"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe closer Richmond moved toward the twentieth century, the more it seemed to be a city of archives and icons, the ‘holy city' of the Confederacy, and an American industrial city, reflecting the prosperity and problems of mass production,\" wrote historian Marie Tyler-McGraw, of the city that had held on so tightly to its status as capital of the Confederacy and bastion of the South's cause in the war. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Lost Cause as a form of civil religion for the South was especially evocative in Richmond,\" McGraw continued, \"Yet the political influence of the Lost Cause zealots was probably not as great as its acolytes imagined. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoth politicians and businessmen found the Lost Cause to be a malleable concept, adaptable to new circumstances.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichmond was ready for a makeover – and it got it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e[authors] Author(s): \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/amy-waters-yarsinske\"\u003eAmy Waters Yarsinske\u003c\/a\u003e[\/authors]","brand":"America Through Time","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":21197152223314,"sku":"9781634990004","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/9171\/2594\/products\/9781634990004.jpg?v=1545407906"},{"product_id":"uss-wisconsin","title":"USS Wisconsin","description":"\u003cspan\u003eBerthed today at NAUTICUS, the National Maritime Center, the USS Wisconsin (BB-64) was the last authorized of the four Iowa-class battleships, the largest American dreadnoughts ever built. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWisconsin saw action in World War II and the Korean Conflict for which the Big Wisky earned a collective six battle stars. 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Modern Midtown encompasses everything between 14th Street and 59th Street, and includes three of the city's major transportation hubs – Pennsylvania Station, Grand Central Station, and the Port Authority Bus Terminal. It features the city's finest shopping and entertainment, and most well-known skyscrapers―the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMidtown also includes such landmarks as the United Nations, Rockefeller Center, St. Patrick's Cathedral, and the New York Public Library. The heart of midtown, between Lexington Avenue and Eighth Avenue, has changed the most over the last century, while to the east of Lexington and the west of Eighth, you can still find many original nineteenth century buildings. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe writer O. 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The beauty and potential power of the Genesee River's Upper and Lower Falls drew co-founders Nathaniel Rochester, William Fitzhugh and Charles Carroll to this Seneca-inhabited region in the early 1800s. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe two falls spurred local industrial development, while the addition of the Erie Canal in 1825 connected the nascent village to cities across the country and expanded its market, making Rochester one of America's first boom towns. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEstablished as a city in 1834, Rochester has since reinvented itself on a number of occasions, earning a series of reputations ranging from the \"Flour City\" to the \"World Image Center.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[authors] Author(s): \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mary-hasek-grenier\"\u003eMary Hasek Grenier\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mary-hasek-grenier\"\u003eEmily C. 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