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In July 1949, 79 year old Bert Loper capsized his wooden boat immediately after suffering what appears to have been a fatal heart attack in the boat he built named "Grand Canyon". Loper rolled his boat in 24-1/2-Mile Rapid and was lost beneath the waves. His companions found the boat later that day and dragged it high on the bank of the Colorado.
His friends proceeded...
High on the Colorado’s bouldery shoreline in the heart of Grand Canyon lies an old metal rowboat. Bert Loper designed and built a boat from galvanized steel. It was named for local steamboat pilot Roswell “Ross” Wheeler.
Charles Russell joined with his old partner Bert Loper in 1914 to film their whitewater trip down the Colorado. But in Utah’s...
Rock House cabin at Rock Spring. "Mojave National Preserve. National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. Rock House. While fighting in Europe during World War I, Bert Smith was exposed to poison gasses used during that war. Returning to the U.S. with scarred lungs, Bert eventually moved to the Mojave Desert in the late 1920s. When Bert built his Rock House ...
Berwick Barracks, sometimes known as Ravensdowne Barracks, is a former military installation of the British Army in Berwick-upon-Tweed.
The barracks were built between 1717 and 1721 by Nicholas Hawksmoor for the Board of Ordnance to protect the town during the Jacobite risings. The work, which involved two parallel blocks of military accommodation, was supervised by C...
Besh-Ba-Gowah is a 200-room prehistoric Salado masonry pueblo located atop a broad ridge overlooking Pinal Creek. The site is situated one mile southwest from Globe, Arizona and surrounded by a small city park and adjacent museum with excavated items including prehistoric pottery, stone and woven artifacts. The site is operated by the city as Besh Ba Gowah Archaeologi...
Bessastaðir is today the official residence of the President of Iceland and is situated on Garðabær, not far from the capital city, Reykjavík.
Bessastaðir was first settled in 1000. It became one of Snorri Sturluson's farm in the 13th century. After the slaying of Sturluson in September 1241, Bessastaðir was claimed by the King of Norway. ...
The distinctive Red Buttes stand above Bessemer Bend, the last fording site of the North Platte River on the Oregon Trail. This river, which the emigrants had followed for hundreds of miles, now turned to the south and became impassable. Toll ferries and bridges downstream of the Bend were established after 1847, but emigrants, including the handcart companies of 1856...
Best Friends Animal Society, founded in its present form in 1984, is an American nonprofit 501(c)(3) animal welfare organization. Best Friends works nationwide in outreach programs with shelters, other rescue groups and members to promote pet adoption, spay-and-neuter services, and humane education programs.
The Foundation church relocated animals from an Arizona...
Betatakin (Bitátʼahkin) means "House Built on a Ledge" in Navajo. In Hopi, the name of the place is Talastima, or "Place of the Corn Tassel". Betatakin is smaller than nearby Keet Seel, with about 120 rooms at the time of abandonment. However, like Keet Seel, Betatakin was constructed of sandstone, mud mortar, and wood. Today only about 80 rooms remain, due to ...
Bethesda Terrace and Fountain overlook The Lake in New York City's Central Park. The fountain is located in the center of the terrace.
Bethesda Terrace is on two levels, united by two grand staircases and a lesser one that passes under Terrace Drive to provide passage southward to the Elkan Naumburgbandshell and The Mall, of which this is the architectural culmination...
Beth Sarim is a ten-bedroom mansion in San Diego, California, constructed in 1929 in anticipation of various resurrected Old Testament biblical patriarchs or prophets such as Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah and Samuel. It was maintained by the Watch Tower Society, the parent organization used by Jehovah's Witnesses, and was also used as a winter home and executive offic...
See the many shipwrecks of different size, rusty and half sunk. For several reasons, such as lack of adequate control and limited patrolling of national water, ships from different countries, but not from i-Kiribati people, are abandoned there to be sunk.
The island was the scene of the Battle of Tarawa during World War II. Relics of the Japanese invasion, and the subsequent American assault on the islet in 1943, remain there
Betoota is a ghost town within the locality of Birdsville, in the Shire of Diamantina, in the Channel Country of Central West Queensland, Australia. The last permanent resident, Sigmund Remienko, died in 2004. Betoota is situated on a gibber plain (a stony desert plain) 170 kilometres (110 mi) east of Birdsville and 227 kilometres (141 mi) west of Windorah.
The town h...
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