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    Shot Towers

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    Is it some sort of munitions testing facility? Why build it in downtown Baltimore? There’s a reason for everything, and then I found out there were lots of them, and some are still around, almost 200 years and several technological revolutions later.

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There may be no other place in the U.S.A. where the “soft side” of American politics is on exhibit than at the Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia. It was there, nearly 80 years ago that FDR died, but he is still relevant.

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