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From days of anguish and anger to days of conflict and calamity.
1. Mutiny on the Bounty & Pitcairn Island
"His mind was his own place and therein he fought his fight, underwent his sufferings and won his triumph."
2. Alexander Selkirk - The Real Robinson Crusoe
History is an account of remarkable facts which have happened in the world.
3. Man in the Iron Mask
History brings us tidings of antiquity.
4. Easter Island
History recounts the memories of momentous events.
5. Napoleon Returns
A half-world between liberty and limbo
6. St. Helena
"Napoleon's image took on a new living form in memory and imagination."
7.The 'Little Corporal' Comes Home
A Memorial Like No Other
8.Vimy
"An Unmitigated Tactical Debacle"
9. Dieppe
"I love the place."
10. Churchill's Chartwell
"This is the finest view in England."
11. Blenheim
A man above the merely great
11. Churchill's Funeral
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Burial at Bladon
The Man Behind The Mariners
12. Portugal
&
Henry the Navigator At Sagres
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Madeira
A river nourished by the Alpine snows - but for how long!
13. Cruising Down The Rhine River
Lived And Died In The Service of Others
14. Malta
&
The Knights of St.John of Jerusalem
"An Ancient amphitheatre as imposing as the pyramids"
15. Tunisia
Carthaginian
&
Roman Ruins
"A god to his friends; a devil to his foes"
16. William the Conqueror
"A bubbling broth of molten rock oozed up, up and out."
17. Haleakala
Mountain of Legend
Once considered one of the three most beautiful cities in the world
18. Brugge
The final resting place of Canadian casualties from continental conflicts.
19. Tombs of War
Tourists Will Always Have
20. Paris
City of Light
"He that outlives this day and comes safely home,
Will stand a tiptoe when this day is named."
21. Assault on the Atlantic Wall
Preparation of his tomb was the living pharaoh's primary preoccupation.
22. Ramses I
"An after-life based on legend and romance"
23. Cyprus
Richard Coeur de Lion
From heretic to heroine
24. Jeanne d'Arc
&
Rouen
"Their's not to reason why."
25. Crimea
&
The Charge of the Light Brigade
"Etruscans are among the irritating obscurities of history."
26. Etruscans
The pillars marked the end of voyaging.
26. Pillar of Hercules
"The duty had, in fact, fallen on me."
27. Winston's War Rooms
"A melancholic man with enormous creative and intellectual powers."
28. Samuel Johnson
Mummies, their times and tombs make Egypt a never-failing attraction to tourists.
29. King Tut
Et al
Complete with cutlass, eye-patch and hook for a hand.
30. Pirates
Snowbirds In Clearwater
31. Florida
Its breathtaking beauty renews you.
32. Hawaii
We were amused.
33. The Queen Marys
The Big Apple.
34. New York City
Open up that Golden Gate
35. California
Sun and Fun in the Desert
36. Arizona
Create in Onlookers Awe, Wonder, Inspiration and Humility.
37. Gothic Cathedrals
Scene of such savagery
38. The Colosseum
Land of the Clans
39. Scotland
Straits Restrict Access
40. Black Sea Sojourn
"We Alta Go to Malta then Yalta."
41. Yalta
Citizens: Courteous, Clean and Clever
42. Japan
BC's Coastal Islands Are a Long, Long Way from Anywhere
43. Tofino
Scattered Cities All Marching to a Different Drummer
44. Greece
Russia's Second Captital
45. St. Petersburg
Munich in the Main
46. Germany
Kiwi Country
47. New Zealand
"Tassie," Aussies' Notorious Island State
48. Tasmania
Ola Spain
49. Spain
Lively Land Down Under
50. Australia
Tired of Life? Try London.
51. London
To the Tip
52. South America
Go Forth North from Tierra del Fuego
53. South America
Part 2
13th Century Seat of the Royal Hohenzollerns
54. Berlin
History & Mystery
55. Egypt Jordan Israel
Egypt's Most Famed Pharaoh
56. Ramses II
Vistas of a virtual paradise
57. The Caribbean
Numerous city states nicely knitted together to form a country called Italy.
58. Italy
The elusive lauded literary lion
59. Shakespeare
The sleeping giant has awakened.
60. China
Vera Cruz, Vera Cruz, Vera Cruz
61. Mexico
"Bannaba" means "distant" or "far away."
62. Panama
Historical Happenstances
Bowmen brought England a momentous victory.
1. Crecy
Travel Broadens.
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"With the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sails shaking."
Copyright © 2010 W. R. Wilson
