Quotes About Landmark

The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand.

Six miles upstream of Pierre (pronounced "pee-AIR" by the French but "peer" by South Dakotans), they began piling up a ridge of earth nearly 250 feet high and almost two miles long. The Oahe Dam, named for a Sioux council lodge, was the largest earth-fill dam in the United States when it was begun in 1948. It still is. The

rond-point, the traffic circle that wraps around the very busy place de la Bastille.

If you want to make history, you have to do historic things

If St. Andrews is the home of golf, I think Pebble Beach feels like the home of American golf, like the home of championship golf. It has a real sense of history here.

'America 24/7' will be a landmark series in documentary photography and the watershed event of the new digital photography age.

I grew up in the north of England, in New Castle, which is where Hadrian's Wall starts on the east coast of England and then goes across to the west.

My commitment is that Crown Sydney won't be just another hotel: it will be a landmark building for Sydney with a design and quality that the city deserves.

But severed from yourself in the press of a crowd, you head back instinctively to the most recent landmark, hoping the lost other will hit on the same idea.

The Hoel Chestnut becomes a landmark, what farmers call a sentinel tree . Families navigate by it on Sunday outings. Locals use it to direct travelers, the lone lighthouse in a grain-filled sea.

I'd been to Chelsea Piers a few times over the years. It's a series of buildings constructed on four adjoining piers where the West 20s meet the Hudson River. Back in the early part of the twentieth century, it had been a thriving part of the riverfront, where some of the great ships docked in between their transatlantic crossings. In fact, according to a sign posted there, the Titanic had been destined to dock at

Here is my journey's end, here is my butt,And very sea-mark of my utmost sail.

You should visit the Palatine. It's at the top of that hill . . ." "I know where the Palatine is, Dexter, I was visiting Rome before you were born." "Yes, who was emperor back then?

the most famous obelisk in the world—

Whatever happened, January would mark the point of no return.

And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.

Looking back, [R.E.M.]videos, by in large, have always been art films. I'm thinking of "Losing My Religion." That's a landmark piece.

That was one thing you could count on in small southern towns: everyone knew where the Walmart was located.

Chase National Bank in New York

La tour eiffel, une des manifestations les plus étonnantes du génie humain, peut être décrit comme numériquement 984; 85; 3; 63; 1,000,000; 1889 - parce que ce est 984 pieds de haut, offre la visibilité jusqu'à quatre-vingts-cinq miles de haut sur une journée claire. La tour a trois ascenseurs, et chaque ascenseur peut transporter soixante-trois personnes. quand la tour eiffel a été construit, il a coûté environ un million de dollars en 1889.

The Eiffel Tower, one of the most astounding manifestations of human genius, can be digitally described as 984; 85; 3; 63; 1,000,000; 1889 - because it is nine hundred eighty-four feet high, offers the visibility as far as eighty-five miles from the top, on a clear day. The Tower has three elevators, and each elevator can carry sixty-three people. When the Eiffel Tower was built, it costed about one million dollars in 1889.

In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.

London Bridge, which is just outside the door.

Since her landmark 'Tapestry,' Carole King has both oversimplified and over elaborated that masterful album's style until her music has become something more overtly but less effectively personal.