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An account of the ruined city of Isaura, in the Isauria district, destroyed several times as an occupied settlement, whose people were known as unruly but hardy. Helped Leo I, Roman Emperor (457-74), to repel Germanic military positions of influence.…

Magritte's floating city

Scale 1:100,000. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Projection: Universal transverse Mercator. Compiled in 1974 from USGS quadrangles dated 1956-1974. Limited revision from aerial photographs taken 1968, 1972, and 1973, and from available…

Encyclopedia article about the city of Atlanta, Georgia. Atlanta is the capital of Georgia and the state's largest city. It is also one of the most important commercial, financial, and transportation centers of the southeastern United States. Located…

Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Title in lower right margin: Georgia. Compiled in 1963. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Members of the construction corps are hanging a telegraph wire possibly in Virginia.

Seen here is a photograph of one of the first permanent school buildings that Boys' High School had during its height in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Sadly, this building eventually burned down in 1924.

This map provides a visual representation and mapping of the path General Sherman and his Union forces took across Georgia from Atlanta to Savannah during 1864 as part of the Civil War.

Scale 1:285,120. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 132.7 Map of Bartow, Cherokee, Paulding, Cobb, and Fulton counties, Georgia, showing location and date of battles, towns, roads, railroads, entrenchments, drainage, and relief by hachures. Description…