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 | Junkers & Co was a major German aircraft manufacturer. It produced some of the world's most innovative and best-known airplanes over the course of its fifty-plus year history in Dessau, Germany. It was founded there in 1895 by Hugo Junkers, initially manufacturing boilers and radiators. After World War I the company switched to manufacturing airplanes. During World War II the company produc... |  | 07/04/2009 | 50 | 
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 | The Fort at Number 4 was the northernmost British settlement along the Connecticut River in New Hampshire until after the French and Indian War. Now known as Charlestown, it was more than 30 miles (50 km) from the nearest other British settlement at Fort Dummer. Construction began in 1740 by brothers Stephen, Samuel and David Farnsworth. By 1743, there were 10 families settled in a square of in... | | 07/01/2009 | 143 |
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 | Fort St. Frédéric was a French fort built on Lake Champlain (on the border between modern New York State and Vermont in the United States) to secure the region against British colonization and to allow the French to control the use of Lake Champlain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_St._Frederic
His Majesty's Fort of Crown Point or more simply Crown Point was a Br... | | 07/01/2009 | 107 |
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 | The Citadel of Salah Ed-Din (Arabic: قلعة صلاح الدين) (Arabic: Qalaat Salah ed-Din; once known as Saone, also known as Saladdin Castle) is a castle in Syria. It is located ca. 30 km east of Latakia, in high mountainous terrain, on a ridge between two deep ravines and surrounded by forest. |  | 06/19/2009 | 56 |
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 | The Battle of Cable Street or Cable Street Riot took place on Sunday 4 October 1936 in Cable Street in the East End of London. It was a clash between the Metropolitan Police Service, overseeing a legal march by the British Union of Fascists, led by Oswald Mosley, and anti-fascists, including local Jewish, socialist, anarchist, Irish and communist groups. The majority of both marchers and counte... |  | 06/19/2009 | 41 |
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 | It's an immersion into the dark side of Modern America.
So, I've found exact (or sometimes nearby) locations of notorious or horrible crimes which took place in USA during the last two centuries. Serial killers related places are included.
Also I found all the death rows across USA.
This file contains 3 parts :
- Crime Scenes ... |  | 06/05/2009 | 731 |
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 | Mactan Island: Magellan tried to convert the natives to christians. Chief Lapu Lapu was opposed to that so a fight ensued (The Battle of Mactan). Magellan lost the battle and his life. Juan Sebastián Elcano took over as Commander and sailed back to Spain with only one ship. |  | 06/03/2009 | 58 |
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 | Thought some of you might find this interesting. In google earth, there are 3 giant Runways that make a big letter K at CIA controlled Area 51. DRAW A LINE thru bottom leg of letter K all the way to the painted X on the road where JFK was killed... 1,117 miles apart! you can draw your own line in the program. Runway is 2 miles long the line runs right down the middle all the way to Dallas to th... |  | 05/06/2009 | 1,848 |
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 | Numerous holes from impact of projectiles in historical artillery polygon.
The origins of the polygon lie in the middle of the eighteenth century, when king Carlo Alberto, believing the area suitable for action simulated war, decided to concentrate a large number of troops, then became a polygon for the artillery.
In 1877 was installed a battery of 280L howitzer; in 1911 a battery... | | 04/29/2009 | 871 |
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 | Brattahlíð (anglicised as Brattahlid) was Erik the Red's estate in the Eastern Settlement Viking colony he established in south-western Greenland toward the end of the 10th century. The present settlement of Qassiarsuk, about 5 km (3 mi) from the community of Narsarsuaq, is now located in its place. It is about 96 km (60 mi) from the ocean, at the head of a fjord, and hence sheltered from ocean... | | 04/22/2009 | 764 |
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 | At the end of th 1980th. archeologists found remains of a viking fort. It was measured to 125 meters in diameter and was constructed in the year around 980.
It's similar to the forts allready found in Denmark: Trelleborg at Slagelse, Aggersborg at the Limfjorden, Fyrkat at Hobro and Nonnebakken in Odense.
1/4 of it today is visible and was rebuild the way experts ... | | 04/12/2009 | 90 |
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 | RAF Beaulieu (pronounced Bew-lee) was a World War II airfield in England located near the small village of Beaulieu in Hampshire. During the war it was used by the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force Ninth Air Force as USAAF station 408.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Beaulieu |  | 04/02/2009 | 464 |
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 | A Vauban style fortification located in Portugal near the border with Spain. | | 03/09/2009 | 183 |
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 | Austin Dam was a dam in the Freeman Run Valley, Potter County, Pennsylvania, which serviced the Bayless Pulp & Paper Mill. A failure of the dam in 1911 caused 78 deaths and approximately $10 million damage.
In 1900 the Bayless Paper company chose to construct a paper mill in the Freeman Run Valley and by 1909 the company realized that occasional dry seasons required the rese... | | 01/16/2009 | 240 |
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 | Listed are 688 placemarks found so far with Roman amphitheatres, theatres, odeons (music theatres),circus and stadiums all over the Roman Empire.
The placemarks are placed in each cateory with name of the city in Roman and today. Some only have the name from totay, other the Roman name only. | | 12/18/2008 | 448 |
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 | Hangar Y, located in Meudon, was built in 1880 on request of the military engineer Captain Charles Renard (1847-1905), for the construction of balloons and airships. The building is 70 meters long, 24 meters wide and around 26 meters high.
The airship 'La France', designed by Charles Renard and Arthur Krebs, was built in Hangar Y in 1884 and was the first airship which was controllable d... | | 11/21/2008 | 254 |
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 | The Hangar was built in order to provide South Italy with an air defence by airships against the continuous attacks from German u-boats during the First world war.Its costruction began in 1917.They intended to finish it in very short time,but it was not possible and when it was really finished,the war had already ended and all the strategic efforts seemed to be useless. However it became operat... | | 11/21/2008 | 165 |
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 | A settlement of Vinogradovo situated in the place of the modern town was known at least since the 17th century. Then a railway was built in 1900s and a railway platform was built in 1914. The settlement started to develop as an airship manufacturing plant was built there in 1931. The aeronautic engineer Umberto Nobile worked there for five years during the 1930s. For a few years during the 1930... | | 11/21/2008 | 342 |
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 | In France few big hangars had been built, because with the “Spies” there was only one attempt to built a rigid airship. Nevertheless at the end of the First World War an airship station for rigid airships was built in Cuers-Pierrefeu by adding the parts of smaller hangars to two big ones.
At the airport at Paris-Orly two concrete hangars (demolished in 1942) were built between 1... | | 11/21/2008 | 78 |
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 | This hangar was partial moved in 1923 from the airship station Baden-Baden-Oos to Auggen. It was rebuild for the Karl Richtberg AG as a lumber mill hall.
The hangar was build for the Deutsche Luftschiff AG from MAN (Werk Gustavsburg) in 1910. | | 11/21/2008 | 104 |
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 | Before the necessity to defend the city of Cartagena, port and military shipyard, of attacks by sea, were constructed between centuries XVIII and principles of the XX a series of coastal artillery batteries, the majority fortified with bastions (of the Spanish school), and other casemated ones. Some of them conserve tubes of century XVIII and other enormous tubes of principles of century XX. Th... | | 11/13/2008 | 138 |
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 | This battery used to have four 120mm Vickers guns in a four position monobloc, with concrete covered magazines and storage an intrinsic part of the battery; it is rapidly becoming overgrown. | | 11/13/2008 | 121 |
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 | Two gun positions of the El Canteruelas battery, empty concrete 'D's which used to have two 260mm /35 (10-in) calibre Krupp model 1880s. | | 11/13/2008 | 131 |
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 | Dunstanburgh Castle is a 14th century castle situated on a coastal headland in Northumberland. The castle was built for Thomas, second Earl of Lancaster, with the first phase of construction taking place between 1313-1325. The gatehouse was remodelled as the castle's keep in the early 1380s, with a new gatehouse built. This remodelling was undertaken by Henry of Holme for John of Gaunt. The sit... | | 11/04/2008 | 726 |
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 | A Twentieth Century coastal battery and associated pillbox, tank trap and military building are visible as a series of structures on air photographs. Some of the features are visible on the latest 1988-1993 Ordnance Survey vertical photography. These features represent the northernmost area of Blyth Battery, a coastal artillery battery situated on South Beach, Blyth. The battery was constructed... | | 09/30/2008 | 553 |
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