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YouTube - I like this one. However, it can only be seen on YouTube. It is short and to the point.
Geography About
Canal Museum
PBS
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Panama Canal
YouTube - I like this one. However, it can only be seen on YouTube. It is short and to the point.
Geography About
Canal Museum
PBS
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Book of Marvels - Fort Jefferson
This was the coolest chapter!
Civil War just ended. Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth. Dr. Mudd sent to prison at Fort Jefferson because he 'set' Mr. Booths broken leg! What?
The U.S. Government felt that Dr. Mudd was a conspirator to the crime of killing our President Lincoln. He was sentenced to life in prison and sent to For Jefferson which at the time had the most evil reputation of any prison in the country. Dr. Mudd's wife worked for four years to get him pardoned - pardoned for a crime he did not commit.
Civil War just ended. Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth. Dr. Mudd sent to prison at Fort Jefferson because he 'set' Mr. Booths broken leg! What?
The U.S. Government felt that Dr. Mudd was a conspirator to the crime of killing our President Lincoln. He was sentenced to life in prison and sent to For Jefferson which at the time had the most evil reputation of any prison in the country. Dr. Mudd's wife worked for four years to get him pardoned - pardoned for a crime he did not commit.
Fort Jefferson
30 foot moat to the portal
Inside the walls is a ground as large as 20 football fields!
Over 50 million bricks used to build the structure.
Largest mass of unreinforced masonry ever raised by Americans. All brick and stone. Not held together by any steel or concrete.
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