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A double turntabled fire engine  
   

A double turntabled fire engine

Finally I got to see one. It steers from the front and the back. As a 6 year old in Montreal I watched for a year a fire station being built, only to see one of these emerge from the newly finished building. Fifty three years later I got to see one again. (At the instruction of our shop owner friend the firefighters posed. They were having their lunch but stopped to pose for us)
B&B at Park Avenue Manor - Savannah GA

August 12th 2009
12th and 13th August. At last we reach civilisation again. Savannah, Georgia I had read somewhere was supposedly saved or rather not destroyed by Union General Sherman during the Civil War partly because of its architectural beauty and uniformity. Although, it may be more likely the case that as the Confederate army had withdrawn and the mayor had surrendered the city, it was spa ... read more
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American Flag Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more
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