A July 4th Tribute

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-- Rhett Butler, character in “Gone With the Wind”

From left to right: Colonial-era houses in Charleston (© Damir Frkovic/Masterfile); houses on East Battery, part of Charleston’s Historic District (© Jon Arnold Images/Superstock); traditional handicrafts in South Carolina (National Geographic/Superstock).

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Florida Everglades

There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known.

-- Marjory Stoneman Douglas, environmentalist

A great egret in the Florida Everglades (© Peter Johannes/Ravenwood Studios).

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Florida Everglades

Left, former tribal chairman Buffalo Tiger drives his airboat through the Florida Everglades near the Miccosukee Indian Reservation. Right, an alligator swims through an Everglades wildlife refuge (Both © AP Images/J. Pat Carter).

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Chicago, Illinois

Butcher, tool maker, stacker of wheat, player with railroads and freight handler to the nation.

-- Carl Sandburg, poet

Chicago, Illinois, at dusk (© Robert Frerck and Odyssey Productions, Inc.).

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Chicago, Illinois

Chicago is proud of its many ethnic heritages. From left, dancers at a Polish Heritage Festival; Chinese-Americans celebrate the Autumn Moon Festival (both, © 2007 Russell Gordon and Odyssey Productions, Inc.); butchers display German delicacies; everyone is Irish on Saint Patrick’s Day (both, © Robert Frerck and Odyssey Productions, Inc.).

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Itasca State Park, Minnesota

When I find a well-drawn character in fiction or biography I generally take a warm personal interest in him, for the reason that I have known him before -- met him on the river.

-- Mark Twain, writer and wit

Northern Minnesota’s Itasca State Park, where the Mississippi River begins its 4,107-kilometer journey to the Gulf of Mexico (Greg Ryan/Sally Beyer).

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St. Louis, Missouri

Left, the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri (© SuperStock); right, Hernando de Soto Bridge over the Mississippi River connects cities in Tennessee and Arkansas (ThinkStock/SuperStock).

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New Orleans, Louisiana