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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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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British racer, speed record breaker Donald Campbell poses aboard the jet engined hydroplane "Bluebird" during a training session at the Dumbleyung lake near Perth in Australia.
Campbell was born in 1885 in Chislehurst, Kent, England. He developed a passion for speed early in life, racing bicycles in Germany and achieving 3 gold medals in motorcycle trials in England in 1906, 1907 and 1908. In 1910 Campbell began automobile racing at Brooklands. He established six new land speed records between 1928 and 1935. / AFP PHOTO / -

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