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By jon & miki adopted by Team Bamageek on 22-Jul-02. Waypoint GC748C

This is the childhood home of Chen Shui-bian who was the president of R.O.C (Taiwan) .

Stuyvenberg
Bruxelles Brussel Brüssel Brussels
Belgique België Belgien Belgium

Le Roi Albert II, sixième Roi des Belges, est né à Bruxelles, au Château du Stuyvenberg, le 6 juin 1934. http://monarchie.be/fr/family/albert/cv.html

Koning Albert II, zesde Koning der Belgen, werd geboren te Brussel, in het kasteel van Stuyvenberg, op 6 juni 1934. http://monarchie.be/nl/family/albert/cv.html

König Albert II., sechster König der Belgier, wurde am 6. Juni 1934 in Brüssel in Schloss Stuyvenberg geboren. http://monarchie.be/de/family/albert/cv.html

King Albert II, sixth King of the Belgians, was born on 6 june 1934 in Brussels in the Stuyvenberg castle.
The Blue Gator Team is proud to log this place



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This is the house on North Coulter St. in Staunton, VA, where Woodrow Wilson was born in 1856. I've included a picture of the placque to the right of the door of the house. The house is in the middle of a very nice residential section. Woodrow Wilson and I are members of the same national fraternity, tho about 90 years apart! As a result of that tenuous connection, I've always had an interest in his life and accomplishments.

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Hello D, here's hoping you logged at least one of our caches today!!

We found no less than 3 markers outside of Lancaster, SC commemorating the birthplace of Andrew Jackson. In addition to the confusion between NC and SC, there also seems to be a little bit of confusion in SC! We think the marker that we're posting has not been previously listed?? We can give you two other sets of coords!

Andrew Jackson was the 7th president of the United States and, according to the South Carolinians, is said to have been born on the plantation of James Crawford near Lancaster, SC.

Hope of Jefferson Davis Monument and his birthplace. Jefferson Davis was the only President of the Confederate States during the Civil War.

We found the Harry S. Truman Farm Home for this cache. Here's Truman's comments concerning his move to the farm:

"We moved to the old home farm in 1906 and I became a real farmer. Plowed, sowed, reaped, milked cows, fed hogs, doctored horses, baled hay and did everything there was to do on a six hundred acre farm with my father and brother."

Steve & Mary Brown
http://mysteve.com
Kansas City, MO
MOKan Geocaching Forum
http://mogeo.ipbhost.com/index.php

WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE
FOUR TIMES (LIBERAL) BRITISH PRIME MINISTER (1868, 1880, 1886 & 1893)
BORN AT 62 RODNEY STREET, LIVERPOOL, UK ON 29TH DECEMBER 1809

William Ewart Gladstone was born on the 29 December 1809, at 62, Rodney Street, Liverpool.
He was educated at Eton and Oxford, where he excelled.
Though good at Maths and finance, his favourite subject was Religion.
A Liberal he was appointed to Parliament in 1833 aged only 23!
He married in1839, moving to his wife’s estate at Hawarden (North Wales).
In 1834 he was appointed Lord of the Treasury.
In 1841 with the return of the Liberal party to office he was appointed Vice-President of the Board of Trade.
By 1868 he had become leader of the party, and in the same year became Prime Minister. He became the champion of the poor giving many people the vote for the first time; he cut taxes, opened up the universities to all, appointed people to government posts on merit and not influence.
Voted out by the people despite the great changes he had brought about he retired to his estates in Hawarden, however the policies of Disraeli’s government so angered him, that he roused the country against the Tories and was back as Prime Minister, aged 70.
During this term of office he was to pass the Reform bill giving the vote to even more people.
In 1886 at the age of 76 he was back for a third term as Prime Minister, this time for a period of one year.
He was to be Prime Minister one last time in 1893, given the nickname of “The Grand Old Manâ€, he tried once more to push through a bill giving the Irish home rule, but it was defeated in the Lords.
Queen Victoria is said not to have liked Gladstone’s Stony and officious approach, preferring the charm of Disraeli.
He retired to his beloved Hawarden, where he died on the 19 May 1898.
William Ewart Gladstone is buried in Westminster Abbey.

Giovanni Gronchi was President of Italian Republic from 1955 to 1962, this is the home where he was born, and here follow a page of his history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Gronchi

This is a 2-for-1, as this marker has one side for Benjamin Harrison, and the other for William Henry Harrison. Both were born on the family farm in North Bend, OH. Both eventually became President of the US. Original home no longer exists. Note the marker number in lower right hand corner is the same for both.

James Buchanan, 15th President of the Unite States, was born and grew up in Pennsylvania. He spent the last several years of his childhood living in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and attending Dickinson College. He graduated from Dickinson in 1809 at the age of 18. During his time at Dickinson, he had several run-ins with school authorities, and was actually expelled for a time. He graduated as the top student in his class. The pictures below show the John Dickinson campus of the college, along with Old West and East College. The former was already part of the college when Buchanan attended.

For more on the college, and quite a bit of material on Buchanan's career there, see "Dickinson College: A History" by Charles COleman Sellers, published 1973 by Wesleyan University Press.

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I have been wanting to log this one for a long time. Thanks to hurricane katrina I finally got up this way. this is the boyhood home of jefferson davis president of the confedercy. Also thanks to hurricane katrina it was closed but I did get the proof by my pictures.

My entry is for King Alfred the Great who was born in Wantage, Oxfordshire, England in 849 AD, youngest of five sons and one daughter of King Aethelwulf.

He has a statue, commissioned by Lord Wantage, and designed and carved in 1877 by Count Gleichen, (a cousin of Queen Victoria) it stands the town centre. On the base of the statue the following words are found:

Alfred found learning dead and he restored it
Education neglected and he revived it
The laws powerless and he gave them force
The church debased and he raised it
The land ravaged by a fearful enemy from which he delivered it
Alfred’s name will live as long as mankind shall respect the past.

Known as King Alfred (Aelfred) the Great, or King of Wessex, he became ruler of the West Saxons after he and his brother defeated the Danes in the Battle of Ashdown in Berkshire - the later death of his brother Ethelred left Alfred as successor in 871 at the age of 22. He reigned for 28 years, died on the 26 October 899 and was buried in the Old Minster at Winchester He has the reputation of being a great warrior as well as a social reformer who built towns and promoted education by starting schools and translating texts from Latin. He is considered the first King of England.


Purple Penguin


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The earlest days have been loged by others. I thought i would add the next step of Franklin Pierces life. After leaving the US Senate to be a practicing lawyer, he lived at:
14 Penacook Street, at the very end of North Main Street in Concord, N.H. prior to becoming president.

http://www.newww.com/free/pierce/pierce.html

His final resting spot is in a cemetary not far away at
43.12.899
071.32.699

This is the family farm where President Truman was born. His family later moved to Lamar, Mo where he grew up. This home was finally made into an historical landmark in 1994. It is located in Grandview, Mo

Finally got the pictures out of the memory....
This is Benjamin Harrison's house in Indiana.
http://www.presidentbenjaminharrison.org/