| The Thaddeus Kosciuszko Memorial is a
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| | What Texas Monthly has every five years
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| hidden treasure. It's the smallest U.S.
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| | is a search for the state's best
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| National Park - .02 acres. Thaddeus
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| | barbeque. After traveling over 15,000
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| Kosciuszko was a Polish-born, American
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| | miles and trying 341 barbeques, they
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| Revolutionary War hero, whom Jefferson
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| | found Snow's Barbeque in the small town
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| described as the purest son of liberty
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| | of Lexington. What they found at Snow's
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| he'd ever known. The memorial is one room
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| | was Miss Tootsie. Miss Tootsie, who's a
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| in a narrow, Philadelphia road house,
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| | school custodian during the week, has
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| where Thaddeus lived for seven months in
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| | been cooking barbeque for forty-two of
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| 1797 when he petitioned Congress for back
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| | her seventy-three years. She says the
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| pay. If he'd known he was going to have
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| | secret to her barbeque is the combination
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| his own national park, I doubt he'd have
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| | of heat, smoke, salt, pepper and time.
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| asked his secretary to find a place "as
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| | Now that Snow's is #1, Miss Tootsie has
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| small, as remote and as cheap" as
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| | gone from cooking 300 pounds of meat to
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| possible. His memorial teaches us history
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| | 1,000 pounds - and Snow's is only open
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| and to be careful what we ask for.
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| | Saturdays. Because they often sell out in
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| The Eiffel Tower, one of the seven
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| | two hours, the locals think Snow's has
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| wonders of the modern world, isn't hidden
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| | gotten too big for its ... brisket.
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| and it wasn't meant to be a treasure.
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| | Before 1972 Gunnison Beach in Sandy Hook,
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| Gustave Eiffel originally planned to
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| | NJ was a military base, where soldiers
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| build the tower in Barcelona, as part of
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| | occasionally skinny dipped. When the base
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| Barcelona's Exposition Universal. After
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| | was decommissioned, it officially became
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| Barcelona turned him down, Eiffel
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| | a clothing-optional beach. On summer
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| submitted his plans to those in charge of
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| | weekends as many as 5,000 people go
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| Paris' Exposition Universal, who were
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| | there. Bathers are all races and ages,
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| having a design contest for the
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| | but most are over 50. Most bathe nude,
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| exposition's entrance arch. Although
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| | many are topless and a few are in
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| Eiffel won the contest, the contest terms
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| | swimsuits. Even at a hidden treasure not
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| stipulated "the arch" would be torn down
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| | everyone wants to reveal their hidden
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| in twenty years. When the time came,
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| | treasures.
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| however, France didn't have "de Gaulle".
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