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Frank Lloyd Wright Allen House, Wichita, Kansas
Inspired in part by the prairie landscape of the region and in part by Japanese architecture (he was also working on the Imperial Hotel in Japan at the time), Frank Lloyd Wright’s Prairie Style Allen House was designed in 1915 and built in 1917 for Henry J. and Elsie Allen. The house is located in the historic College Hill neighborhood in Wichita Kansas at 255 N. Roosevelt, Wichita, KS. Get tickets and tour dates and times at the FLW Allen House site here.
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Onyx Cave, Eureka Springs, Arkansas
Just six miles east of Eureka Springs is Onyx Cave, a flowstone cave which opened in 1893 as Arkansas’s first show cave. Flowstone is also known as “cave onyx,” which is not the same as onyx. Two of its most notable cave formations are the Dragon and the Elephant.
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Eureka Springs, Arkansas
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Crescent Hotel, Eureka Springs
Opened in 1886, the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, is often referred to as the “Most Haunted Hotel in America” for its numerous ghost sightings.
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Ecuador Culture, Cuisine, & Natural Features of the Mainland
Recently, I returned from Ecuador and have spent much of my time since sifting through the hundreds of photos I took. I went with two of my good friends with a group of ten photographers in total, and I was one of only two people who used their phones as the main camera. If there’s one thing I learned about photography while I was there, it’s to take tons of pictures and select the best ones later. Take pictures of everything of interest, everything that might be of interest, and from different areas of focus and from different viewpoints. I ended up with hundreds of pics, most which I love.…
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Florsani Flowers
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Ingapirca Ruins
During the 1400s, the Inca were expanding their kingdom when they encountered the Cañari indigenous people of southern Ecuador. The Inca attempted to conquer them by waging a war against the Cañari people, but the Cañari were fierce warriors and held a determined resistance to the Incas. The two groups eventually grew tired of fighting and decided to seek a peaceful solution through marriage and coexistence instead. The Cañari and the Inca people lived peacefully together in this Ingapirca (“Inca wall”) archaeological site in the Cañar Province of Ecuador, which is the largest known site of Inca ruins in Ecuador. The Cañari people that lived there had originally built a site…
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Cuenca, Ecuador
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Close to the Sun
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Más fotos de la Nueva Catedral de Cuenca
More pictures of the Cathedral by architect Juan Bautista Stiehle from a cathedral tour the next day:
