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Old Airfield Hangar near to Willersley, Herefordshire

Old Airfield Hangar near to Willersley, Herefordshire

It's hard to believe now, but in the early days of aviation there were more than a dozen little airfields scattered along the banks of the River Wye, running through Herefordshire. The location and history of these airfields is listed in a book called "Wings Over The Wye". This early aircraft hangar is probably the only one remaining from those early times, now used for agricultural p...
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Punta Camorro Bajo Battery near Tarifa

Punta Camorro Bajo Battery near Tarifa

Spanish 6"/50 (15.2 cm) Vickers-Carraca

This battery had two 152.4/50mm Vickers 'V' in one turret, with gun performance the same as at Paloma Alta. These guns came from the Spanish cruiser Miguel de Cervantes and were installed in 1941. There is a fire control position directly behind the guns.
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Fortress of Torun

Fortress of Torun

Toruń Fortress (Festung Thorn), built from 1872–1894 by the Kingdom of Prussia and located in Toruń (now Poland), is one of the largest fortresses in Central and Eastern Europe. The fortress complex – a chain of forts surrounding the city, as well as numerous smaller fortifications supplementing it – was intended to defend the eastern border of Prussia (with the Russian Empire). Despi...
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Battle of the Plains of Abraham in Quebec 1759

Battle of the Plains of Abraham in Quebec 1759

The Battle of the Plains of Abraham, also known as the Battle of Quebec, was a pivotal battle in the Seven Years' War (referred to as the French and Indian War in the United States). The confrontation, which began on 12 September 1759, was fought between the British Army and Navy, and the French Army, on a plateau just outside the walls of Quebec City. The battle involved fewer than 10,000 troo...
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Fort Battleford

Fort Battleford

Fort Battleford was the sixth North-West Mounted Police fort to be established in the North-West Territories of Canada, and played a central role in the events of the North-West Rebellion / Resistance of 1885. It was there that Chief Poundmaker was arrested, and that six Cree and two Stoney men were hanged for their participation in the Frog Lake massacre and other killings.

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Newark Castle near to Broadmeadows

Newark Castle near to Broadmeadows

Following the battle of Philiphaugh on the 13th September 1645, when an army of Covenanters, commanded by General David Leslie, defeated the Royalists under Montrose, prisoners were kept captive here. They were largely from an Irish contingent and, despite having been promised quarter, they and their camp followers and children were taken to Slain Mens Lea nearby and slaughtered in cold blood a...
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Conrad Schumann leaping over barbed wire into West Berlin on 15 August 1961

Conrad Schumann leaping over barbed wire into West Berlin on 15 August 1961

On 15 August 1961 Conrad Schumann found himself, aged 19, guarding the Berlin Wall, then in its third day of construction, at the corner of Ruppiner Straße and Bernauer Straße. At that stage of construction, the Berlin Wall was only a low barbed wire fence. As the people on the Western side shouted Komm rüber! ("come over"), Schumann jumped the barbed wire and was driven away at high ...
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Former checkpoint DDR-FRG

Former checkpoint DDR-FRG

The Border checkpoint Helmstedt–Marienborn (German: Grenzübergang Helmstedt-Marienborn), called Grenzübergangsstelle Marienborn (GÜSt) (border crossing Marienborn) by the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was the largest and most important border crossing on the Inner German border during the division of Germany. Due to its geographical location, allowing for the shortest land route between Wes...
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Massacre of Glencoe

Massacre of Glencoe

The Massacre of Glencoe occurred in Glen Coe, Scotland, in the early morning of 13 February 1692, during the era of the "Glorious Revolution" and Jacobitism. In Gaelic, the event is named 'Mort Ghlinne Comhann' (murder of Glen Coe). The massacre began simultaneously in three settlements along the glen—Invercoe, Inverrigan, and Achnacon—although the killing took place all over the glen...
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The Rossio

The Rossio

The Rossio is the popular name of the Pedro IV Square (Portuguese: Praça de D. Pedro IV) in the city of Lisbon, in Portugal.
It is located in the Pombaline Downtown of Lisbon and has been one of its main squares since the Middle Ages.
It has been the setting of popular revolts and celebrations, bullfights and executions, and is now a preferred meeting place of Lisbon natives and...
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Boeseckendorf - Nearly the whole residents of the village fled in 1961

Boeseckendorf - Nearly the whole residents of the village fled in 1961

In the evening of October 2. 1961 14 families (53 citicens) of the village Böseckendorf fled over the newly erected border fence between West Germany and the GDR. It was the biggest common escape from the GDR ever known.

The escape was preceded by the systematic expansion of the border by the GDR leadership. After close to Böseckendorf been the first concrete post had been set up...
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Paderne Castle - Portugal

Paderne Castle - Portugal

(Castelo de Paderne) is in Algarve, Portugal.
This hill fort was built by the Moors in the second half of the 12th Century.
Its is eight kilometers (five miles) from the Algarve resort of Albufeira, on a River Quarteira bend close to the village and civil parish of Paderne. It is 7.5 km (4.7 miles) north from the coast.



The castle is one of seven ...
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The Ourem Castle - Portugal

The Ourem Castle - Portugal

is a Portuguese castle in Ourém, Santarém. It has been listed as a National monument since 1910.
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Montemor-o-Velho Castle - Portugal

Montemor-o-Velho Castle - Portugal

is a Portuguese castle in Montemor-o-Velho, Coimbra. It has been listed as a National monument since 1910, but it is older than Portugal's nationality (1139).
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The Elvas Castle - Portugal

The Elvas Castle - Portugal

is a Portuguese National monument built in the 13th century in Elvas, Portalegre.
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Castle of the Moors - Portugal

Castle of the Moors - Portugal

The Castle of the Moors (Portuguese: Castelo dos Mouros) is located in the town of Sintra, Portugal. The castle is located on a high hill overlooking the town, being one of its most important tourist attractions. It is part of the Cultural Landscape of Sintra, recognised as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

As implied by its name, the castle is of Moorish origin, but the current b...
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Castle of Penela  - Portugal

Castle of Penela - Portugal

Castle of Penela (Portuguese: Castelo de Penela) is located in a town of the same name in Coimbra region, Portugal. The castle was built on a hill dominating the area and used to be a stronghold protecting Coimbra in times of Reconquista. Castle of Penela and the neighboring castle Montemor-o-Velho are both fine examples of defensive structures of that period.

The origins of the ...
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Fotheringhay Castle

Fotheringhay Castle

Fotheringhay Castle was in the village of Fotheringhay 3½ miles (6 km) to the north of the market town of Oundle, Northamptonshire (grid reference TL061930).

King Richard III was born here in 1452 and it was also where Mary, Queen of Scots was tried and executed in 1587.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fotheringhay_Castle

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The flight of the monk Eilmer of Malmesbury in the 11th. century

The flight of the monk Eilmer of Malmesbury in the 11th. century

Eilmer of Malmesbury (also known as Oliver due to a scribe's miscopying, or Elmer) was an 11th-century English Benedictine monk at Malmesbury Abbey best known for his early attempt at a gliding flight using wings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eilmer_of_Malmesbury
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Braganca castle

Braganca castle

This defensive structure was improved during the reign of king D. Sancho I (1185 to 1211).
In 1409, during the reign of king D. João I, the defensive structures of the Castle are improved, and the big Donjon is built. The tower would suffer some alterations after 1640, during the Restoration War, with adaptation for the installation of artillery pieces.
The Castle defensive wall...
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Domus Municipalis - Braganca - Portugal

Domus Municipalis - Braganca - Portugal

<center><img width=500 src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Domus_Municipalis_1.jpg"></a></center>
<center>photo and thanks to <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page">Wikimedia Commons</a></center>
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Bragança - Domus municipalis is a building of Romanesque...
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Book Burning in Berlin at the Opernplatz 1933

Book Burning in Berlin at the Opernplatz 1933

In Berlin the Bebelplatz (formerly known as the Opernplatz) is mainly knowm for the burning of book on 10 May 1933 by members of the S.A. and the Hitlerjugend. About 20,000 books were burned, amongst others books of Thomas Mann, Erich Maria Remarque, Heinrich Heine, Karl Marx and many other well-known authors.

In the deep many bookcases were seen, with space for about 20,000 book...
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Fortaleza de Sagres

Fortaleza de Sagres

The Fortress of Sagres, also referred to as Castle or Fort of Sagres.
Sagres is located in a dominant position crowning the Ponta de Sagres, in the southwest of the Algarve in Portugal.

From its rugged cliffs, constantly beaten by wind, the visitor enjoys a breathtaking panoramic views along the coast, especially in the coves Sagres, Cape São. Vincente (extreme southwest ...
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Fort Sao Juliao da Barra

Fort Sao Juliao da Barra

Fort São Julião da Barra is located on the corner of São Gião, the right bank of the Tagus River in the town of Oeiras, Lisbon District, Portugal

Considered in the past as the “Shield of the Kingdom”, the largest sea fortress in the country is the largest and most complete military defence complex in Vauban style remaining in Portugal.
He was originally in conjunction wit...
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Gallia Narbonensis

Gallia Narbonensis

Borders of Gallia Narbonensis, the portion of ancient Gaul which later became Provence, southern France. Circa 58 BC.
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