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The Battle of Rorke's Drift, also known as the Defence of Rorke's Drift, was an engagement in the Anglo-Zulu War. The successful British defence of the mission station of Rorke's Drift, under the command of Lieutenants John Chard of the Royal Engineers and Gonville Bromhead, of the 24th Regiment of Foot, began once a large contingent of Zulu warriors broke off from th...
Visit "The Bus Stop" at Dexter Ave. and Montgomery St.—the place Rosa Parks boarded the bus—pays tribute to her and the success of the Montgomery bus boycott.
Rosehill Cemetery (founded 1864) is an American Victorian-era cemetery on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois, and at 350 acres (1.4 km2), is the largest cemetery in the City of Chicago. The name "Rosehill" resulted from a City Clerk's error – the area was previously called "Roe's Hill", named for nearby farmer Hiram Roe. He refused to sell his land to the city ...
The Rough Riders monument, located in Section 22 of Arlington National Cemetery, is one of the best-known cavalry units in American history. Their official title is the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry and the monument was erected to their memory by the members and friend of the regiment in 1906.
The Royal Air Force Memorial is a military memorial on the Victoria Embankment in central London, dedicated to the memory of the casualties of the Royal Air Force in World War I (and, by extension, all subsequent conflicts). Unveiled in 1923, it became a Grade II listed structure in 1958, and was upgraded to Grade II* in 2018. It is considered to be the official memor...
The Royal Air Force (RAF) memorial is dedicated to the airmen of 30 and 33 Squadrons who died during the Batlle of Crete. The memorial is located behind the roadside hedge between Maleme and Tavronitis overlooking the Iron Bridge across the Tavronitis River and the end of Maleme aerodrome.
The Royal Mausoleum in Oslo, Norway, is located within the Castle of Akershus, where it was established in 1948.
The Royal Mausoleum contains two sarcophagi: in a white sarcophagus of marble rest King Haakon VII of Norway (1872–1957) and Queen Maud of Norway (1869–1938), née Princess Maud of Wales, and in a green sarcophagus rest King Olav V of Norw...
Abū 'Abd Allāh Ja'far ibn Muḥammad al-Rūdhakī (died 940/941), better known as Rudaki, and also known as "Adam of Poets", was a Persian poet regarded as the first great literary genius of the Modern Persian language.
The Rugby Players Memoria was added on the west side of the Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery. It was dedicated to the 133 rugby players who lost their lives in the Great War. Notably Herbert Bolt is buried in the cemetery.
The Rumbula massacre is a collective term for incidents on November 30 and December 8, 1941, in which about 25,000 Jews were killed in or on the way to Rumbula forest near Riga, Latvia, during the Holocaust. Except for the Babi Yar massacre in Ukraine, this was the biggest two-day Holocaust atrocity until the operation of the death camps. About 24,000 of the victims w...
The poet Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) died on a French hospital ship off the island of Skyros and is buried on the island. The tomb that visitors see today when they visit the grave, which is located in the Tris Boukes Bay, is one that was commissioned by Brooke’s mother and was placed after the 1st World War. On the tomb is an inscription of Brooke's famous poem T...
The Saadian Tombs, which were left untouched for hundreds of years until they were rediscovered in the 20th century are beautifully decorated with Moroccan tiles and worthy of inspection.
Sachsenhausen or Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg was a German Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, used from 1936 until April 1945, shortly before the defeat of Nazi Germany in May later that year. It mainly held political prisoners throughout World War II. Prominent prisoners included Joseph Stalin's oldest son, Yakov Dzhugashvili; assassin Herschel Grynszpan; ...
Sailors Grave Memorial is part of the historic reserve maintained by the Royal New Zealand Navy. It's the grave site of a sailor from the HMS Tortoise who drowned in 1842.
The St. Francis Dam was a 700 ft (210 m)-wide dam that supported a reservoir for Los Angeles's water supply. It catastrophically failed in 1928 and the flood killed at least 431 people. The site now has ruins of the dam's concrete base in a forested valley. Part of Angeles National Forest.
The John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act, signed M...
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