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The Sharpeville massacre occurred on 21 March 1960, when police opened fire on a crowd of people who had assembled outside the police station in the township of Sharpeville in the then Transvaal Province of the then Union of South Africa (today part of Gauteng) to protest against the pass laws. A crowd of approximately 5,000 people gathered in Sharpeville that day in ...
Sherman Indian High School was founded in 1903, under the name of The Sherman Institute. The school operated a 110-acre farm in the Home Gardens area of Riverside County, California from 1901 to 1946. The property bordered Magnolia and Indiana Avenues, between McKinley Street and Lincoln Avenue. Students lived in two dormitory houses on the farm, studying farm skills ...
Shiloh National Cemeteryis in the northeast corner of the parkadjacent to the visitor center and bookstore. Buried within its 20.09 acres (81,300 m2) are 3584 Union dead (of whom 2357 are unknown), who were re-interred in the cemetery created after the war, in 1866. There are two Confederate dead interred in the cemetery. The cemetery operations were transferred from ...
The reconstructed schooner Tambo commemorates the 42 ships wrecked crossing the bar. The Tambo, grounded in a storm in 1866, was dragged along the beach in a flood. The memorial is a concrete replica of the salvaged vessel plus the actual anchor. Picnic tables adorn the deck.
The Shoes on the Danube Bank is a Memorial erected on April 16 2005, in Budapest, Hungary. Conceived by film director Can Togay, he created it on the east bank of the Danube River with sculptor Gyula Pauer to honour the Jews who were killed by fascist Arrow Cross militiamen in Budapest during World War II. They were ordered to take off their shoes, and were shot at th...
Shorty Harris was a legendary prospector in the Mojave Desert and Death Valley, best known for sparking the 1904 Bullfrog gold rush near Rhyolite, Nevada. Though he had a talent for finding gold, he rarely profited, often selling claims too soon or spending the money on drink.
Small in size but big in personality, he was beloved for his humor, generosity, and rugged...
Tribute to Shorty Harris by Fred Bervoets at the Goldwell Open Air Museum near Rhyolite Nevada.
Shorty Harris was a legendary prospector in the Mojave Desert and Death Valley, best known for sparking the 1904 Bullfrog gold rush near Rhyolite, Nevada. Though he had a talent for finding gold, he rarely profited, often selling claims too soon or spending the money on d...
Showmen's Rest in Forest Park, Illinois, is a 750 plot section of Woodlawn Cemetery mostly for circus performers owned by the Showmen's League of America The first performers and show workers that were buried there are in a mass grave from when between 56 and 61 employees of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus were interred. They were killed in the Hammond circus train ...
The Shrine of Remembrance (commonly known among locals as The Shrine) is a war memorial in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, located in Kings Domain on St Kilda Road. It was built to honour the men and women of Victoria who served in World War I, but is now a memorial to all Australians who have served in war. It is a site of annual observances of ANZAC Day (25 April) a...
Sigmundur Brestisson (961–1005) was a Faroese Viking chieftain, and was responsible for introducing Christianity to the Faroe Islands in 999. He is one of the main characters of the Færeyinga saga.
According to the Færeyinga saga, emigrants who left Norway to escape the tyranny of Harald I of Norway, settled in the islands about the beginning of the ...
The Silent Heroes of the Cold War National Memorial honors thousands of individuals who worked covertly for the United States government to ensure America’s ongoing freedom during the Cold War. Many of these paid the ultimate price with their very lives, including 14 people on a fatal United States Air Force (USAF) flight that crashed on Charleston Peak in 1955....
Silver Lake is a town that existed near the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad, six miles north of Baker, in the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California.
When the railroad ceased to operate in 1940, the town was abandoned. Couldn't make it to the townsite because of the road being washed out by flash flooding.
It is now mostly collapsed buildings and the ceme...
The Montgomery Memorial is a monument dedicated on May 21, 1950, to the pioneering aviation achievement of John J. Montgomery and his early glider flights in the 1880s at Otay, California. It is situated adjacent to the Montgomery-Waller Recreation Center. The monument features a 93-foot high stainless steel static test wing panel for the Consolidated B-32 Dominator m...
The Sinnott Memorial Observation Station is a sheltered viewpoint built into the caldera cliff 900 feet above Crater Lake in southern Oregon, United States. It is located near the Rim Village Visitor Center in Crater Lake National Park. The structure includes a small natural history museum with exhibits that highlight the geologic history of Mount Mazama and the forma...
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