Lakes Gallery

New York State - Fort Ticonderoga

New York State - Fort Ticonderoga. The fort (formerly Fort Carillon) is a large 18th-century fort built by the French at a narrows near the south end of Lake Champlain in upstate New York. Constructed by Michel Chartier de Lotbiniere, Marquis de Lotbiniere in the mid 18th century during the Seven Years War. Became strategically important during the 18th-century colonial conflicts between Great Britain and France, and also during the American Revolutionary War. Date: circa 1905

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Old Map of The World 1858

THE WORLD THAT WAS 1858 - Indian Mutiny (1857-1858) crushed; British East India Company dissolved. Taiping Rebellion in China (1851-1864). Second Opium War (1856-1860): Treaty of Tientsin (Tianjin) opens Chinese ports to Europeans. Trade treaties between Japan and the USA and Britain. Attempted assassination of Emperor Napoleon III in France. Lake Tanganyika reached by Speke and Burton. First Atlantic cable. DarwinAEs aeOrigin of SpeciesAE

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Us-Tourism-Nature-Dragonfly-Flowers

A dragonfly lands atop an unopened Lotus flower beside an opened one as Lotus flowers near full bloom at Echo Park lake amid an ongoing southern California heatwave in Los Angeles, California, on June 26, 2017.Lotus flowers at Echo Park lake were believed to have been imported in the 1920's from China, possibly by Aimee McPherson, founder of the Angelus temple near the park, and have returned following a two-year rehabiliatation project where the lake was drained and restored, with lotus beds replaced. / AFP PHOTO / FREDERIC J. BROWN

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