Benedict Arnold won the Battle of Saratoga, which convinced the French that it was possible for the Americans to win the Revolutionary War, so that they sent help. Arnold lost his leg at the battle and this is a monument to the honorable member. Arnold went on to betray George Washington and West Point, and fled to England in ignominy.
This was the early settlement of the French in Acadia.
This is the oldest hall at the third oldest university in the United States (after Harvard, 1632, and William and Mary of Virginia, 1693; Yale was founded in 1701).
This is a reconstruction of the original fort built by the French on the Bay of Fundy in the early 1600s. My ancestors were there then.
Upstate New York in October is one of the most beautiful places on earth. At this battlefield, Benedict Arnold defeated the British forces that were trying to divide the American revolutionaries, and this battle persuaded the French that the Americans had a chance to win the war. The French sent aid, and we won our independence. At Saratoga Battlefield Park you can still see the monument to Benedict Arnold's leg, which he lost in the battle-- the only part of him that wasn't a traitor.
The Spaniards who arrived in New Mexico in the late 1500s thought that the Acoma Pueblo, on top of one of these mesas, was one of the Seven Cities of Cíbola, El Dorado.
When I first came to Europe, I tried and tried to find a place to get my shoes shined. They don't exist. The Europeans think it's degrading to shine other people's shoes (they don't have the Horatio Alger shoeshine-boy-makes-good tradition). But in Europe there are people who sit in public toilets all day with a tip table in front of them.
It used to be grand, now it's kind of funky. Full of backpackers, long-haired old guys and Japanese tourists, on a block with boarded-up storefronts and alcoholics. How are the mighty fallen!
In Arizona, it's illegal to hurt a cactus. One guy was taking shots at a saguaro when it fell over and killed him. They're huge.
A far-seeing environmentalist, Horace Albright, brought John D. Rockefeller to this very viewpoint in 1924 to persuade him that it needed protection. Rockefeller bought up most of the land in the valley under an assumed name and presented to the United States. It is now Grand Teton National Park.
There are always a lot of moose to be seen in these willow flats near Jackson Lake, Wyoming
"Cat." I don't know what all the signs meant, but rescuers in boats had marked every single house with them.
"Hold the Corps accountable"