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Pictures of My Favorite Forts: 11/22/08
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Pictures of My Favorite Forts. Okay so there is some text too i'm not gonna lie.). Saturday, November 22, 2008. I have been saving this fort for a special occasion*, so here it is. Today's fort is a WW2 British sea fort. It was constructed in the Thames, christened H.M. Sea Fort Roughs, and deployed (sank) on a sandbar in the English Channel in 1943. Karen Casgrain's 26th birthday. Happy birthday Karen! Ers, stores, generators, and at the very bottom, the magazines. Since it was a. Seen below, started sq...
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Pictures of My Favorite Forts: 01/09/09
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Pictures of My Favorite Forts. Okay so there is some text too i'm not gonna lie.). Friday, January 9, 2009. Recently, I had occasion to visit a fort that was new to me. Over the holidays, I spent some time in Key West, which is a fancy place frequented by lots of rich people who like to shop and be fabulous. Whatever. I had resigned myself to a long weekend of poring over the footnotes for. Must have built a fort here at some point! Sure enough, check out Fort Zachary Taylor's sweet fuckin' business:.
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Pictures of My Favorite Forts: 02/23/08
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Pictures of My Favorite Forts. Okay so there is some text too i'm not gonna lie.). Saturday, February 23, 2008. At Miami International, the line to the security checkpoints is a very fungible thing, with tendrils snaking off everywhere. The guy behind me and I trivially commented on how we couldn’t tell where the line was. This was an international airport, after all. You’d think they could put up some ropes? Anyhow, this is Fort Pulaski. Located in the middle of Savannah harbor: it is a mid-1800s U....
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Pictures of My Favorite Forts: 09/11/08
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Pictures of My Favorite Forts. Okay so there is some text too i'm not gonna lie.). Thursday, September 11, 2008. This is not technically a fort. Northern France has crappy Google resolution, but here's another image from Wikipedia that gives you a sense of the scale of this thing. Those little things clustered around the cross on the far rim are people getting their tourisme. On You can also see the trails where the local kids ride their bikes - wheeeee! Boarding school (mine is named Henry), but it seem...
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Pictures of My Favorite Forts: 04/18/09
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Pictures of My Favorite Forts. Okay so there is some text too i'm not gonna lie.). Saturday, April 18, 2009. All of the Netherlands is one big fort. Let's look at why. Not only was the whole country fortified in this manner, most cities were as well, usually with a modern system of defenses behind a big deep canal. Check out Naarden, for example:. And here's Zwolle, another cute one:. And lastly, the incomparably adorable Heusden:. This is Vabaun a l'aqua. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Other People Doing W...
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Pictures of My Favorite Forts: 06/18/08
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Pictures of My Favorite Forts. Okay so there is some text too i'm not gonna lie.). Wednesday, June 18, 2008. The Krak features a commanding view of the surrounding territory, curtain walls, an. TRAVEL ADVISORY WARNING* It is not recommended to bring a Jew to Syria; they may be confiscated at the border. Bring a Hindoo instead. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I like forts. They are my favorite structures to visit and think about. Every so often, I feel an unbearable pressure to write about them.
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Pictures of My Favorite Forts: 12/15/08
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Pictures of My Favorite Forts. Okay so there is some text too i'm not gonna lie.). Monday, December 15, 2008. Today's fort is in Maine. As you know, no one lives in or cares about Maine (Ha ha! Since you're in a boat. What else about Fort Gorges? You wish to explore the powder magazines on the first floor! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I like forts. They are my favorite structures to visit and think about. Every so often, I feel an unbearable pressure to write about them. View my complete profile.
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Pictures of My Favorite Forts: La Citadelle Laferrière
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Pictures of My Favorite Forts. Okay so there is some text too i'm not gonna lie.). Wednesday, May 9, 2012. Okay, so let's talk about Haiti. Haiti has some old colonial coastal fort remnants from the French, but it also has something extremely unusual in the Carribbean; namely, an authentically autochthonic fort! This is NOT a fort built by Europeans, although it is perhaps not exactly a Native American fort either. Most importantly, it is totally badass. As HRM. Dei Gratia Rex Haitius. Henri established ...
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Pictures of My Favorite Forts: 02/27/08
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Pictures of My Favorite Forts. Okay so there is some text too i'm not gonna lie.). Wednesday, February 27, 2008. El Castillo San Felipe Del Morro. This fort is also known as 'El Morro', and it is a pretty sweet fort in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Spanish-built in the 1600s and actively garrisoned up until the mid-1900s, it saw plenty of service and even fired the first U.S. shot of WW1 (at an unarmed freighter, but still). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Lydia Dempsy's Monthly Writings.
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Pictures of My Favorite Forts: 10/13/08
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Pictures of My Favorite Forts. Okay so there is some text too i'm not gonna lie.). Monday, October 13, 2008. Apparently Caerlof wasn't really providing a top quality product to his Swedish masters, because Carolusborg was captured by the Danes in 1657. The Danes too! The castle did snag a UN World Heritage Site listing out of the deal, though. The castle looks pretty good and there are also two little auxiliary look-out forts on either flank that are as cute as buttons. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
