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 | Next to the main ringroad of Bucharest, about to be swallowed by Progress, lies what seems a lot like the fortifications you also find in Holland (for example Naarden |  | 07/08/2008 | 167 | 
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 | This collection show where Polish rulers (kings, princes, presidents, prime ministers)are buried. |  | 07/05/2008 | 285 |
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 | Fort Pannerden is a disused military fort situated near to the village of Pannerden in the east of the Netherlands. In November 2006, it became the focus of national news stories because a group of squatters were evicted in a large-scale operation by police, helped by the army. Later on in the same month, it was resquatted.
The fort was constructed between 1869 and 1871 to serve ... | | 06/28/2008 | 255 |
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 | HMVS Cerberus is a breastwork monitor, a type of turreted warship designed in the 1860s by Edward Reed. Launched in 1868 to defend the Australian colony of Victoria, Cerberus was named after the three-headed mythical dog which guarded the entrance to Hades.
Cerberus is one the few surviving examples of a monitor warship in the world, but is currently rapidly deteriorating in Mel... | | 06/20/2008 | 178 |
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 | The WW1 Battle of Fromelles in July 1916 has been called "the worst 24 hours in Australia's entire history." 5,533 Australian soldiers were killed, wounded or taken prisoner. British casualties were 1,500 dead or wounded. German casualties were also 1,500 dead and wounded.
A mass grave believed to contain the bodies of several hundred British and Australian soldiers has now been... | | 06/02/2008 | 816 |
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 | Battle of Olustee map overlay | | 05/27/2008 | 185 |
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 | Viroconium Cornoviorum, or simply Viroconium, was a Roman town, one corner of which is now occupied by the small village of Wroxeter in the English county of Shropshire, about 8 km (5 miles) east-south-east of Shrewsbury.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viroconium_Cornoviorum | | 04/05/2008 | 95 |
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 | Calleva Atrebatum (or Silchester Roman Town) was an Iron Age oppidum and subsequently a town in the Roman province of Britannia and the civitas capital of the Atrebates tribe. Its ruins are located beneath and to the west of the Church of St Mary the Virgin, which lies just within the town wall and about 0.5 miles (1 km) to the east of the modern village of Silchester in the English county of H... | | 04/05/2008 | 112 |
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 | Isca Augusta (or, simply, Isca) was a legionary fortress in the Roman province of Britannia. Today it is known as Caerleon, a large village on the northern outskirts of the city of Newport in south-east Wales.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isca_Augusta | | 04/05/2008 | 79 |
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 | Venta Silurum was a town in the Roman province of Britannia. Today it consists of remains in the village of Caerwent in Monmouthshire. Much of it has been excavated and is on display to the public.
Venta was founded by the Romans in AD 75 as a market town for the defeated Silures tribe. Unusually, it remained occupied until at least the mid-5th century. By the 6th century, there ... | | 04/05/2008 | 71 |
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 | Segontium is a Roman auxiliary fort, located on the outskirts of Caernarfon in Gwynedd, north Wales.
It probably takes its name from the nearby River Seiont, and may be related to the Segontiaci, a British tribe mentioned by Julius Caesar. The fort was founded by Agricola in 77 or 78 AD after he had conquered the Ordovices. It was the main Roman fort in North Wales and was design... | | 04/05/2008 | 73 |
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 | After the defeat of Germany in World War I Germany was forced to accept a plebiscite whose unilateral conditions then were defined by Denmark.
The first plebiscite was held in later Northern Schleswig on February 14, 1920. The zone was defined by Denmark as far towards the South as possible. So called Northern Schleswig (Zone I) had to vote en bloc (i.e. as a unit with the majori... | | 03/22/2008 | 60 |
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 | Most of the alignment of the Death Strip along the inner German border still can be seen today. It was an extensive system of fortifications that ran the entire 1381 km (858 miles) length of the border between East Germany (the German Democratic Republic, GDR) and West Germany (the Federal Republic of Germany, FRG). During the Cold War (1952-1990) the border system was used by the East German g... |  | 02/24/2008 | 1,976 |
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 | Chillingham Castle, Northumberland. dates back to the 13th century and is widely said to be the most haunted place in england. you can actually stay overnight in haunted rooms within the castle. | | 01/18/2008 | 182 |
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 | AN unexpected historical discovery has been made at Scottish Water's site at Glencorse, near Penicuik — a Roman marching camp nearly 2000 years old.
The revelation has provided another clue as to how the Romans organised their occupation of the Lothians. | | 01/05/2008 | 125 |
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 | The railway came to the hamlet of Ravenscar in 1885, with the opening of the Whitby & Scarborough Railway. With it came the ambitions of a group of Yorkshire businessmen; to build at Ravenscar a seaside resort for 5000 inhabitants, to rival Scarborough. The Peak Estate Company paid £10,000 for the land, plans were drawn up, and 300 men built the roads and drains and laid in mains water. But... | | 12/21/2007 | 340 |
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 | On the corner of Commercial Street and Fournier Street in Spitalfields stands perhaps the most famous pub in Ripper history. The Ten Bells Pub has been standing since at least 1752. The pub has undergone one name change. From 1976 to 1988, it was known as "The Jack the Ripper". Since 1988 it was given its original name of "The Ten Bells". | | 12/15/2007 | 345 |
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 | This is the horn antenna of the Bell Laboratories. In 1964 Robert Woodrow Wilson and Arno Penzias accidentally discovered with this antenna the Cosmic microwave background radiation, considered as the best evidence for the Big Bang theory.
In 1978, Wilson and Penzias received the Nobel Price for their discovery. | | 12/02/2007 | 876 |
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 | Iron Age hillfort in Nottinghamshire | | 12/01/2007 | 96 |
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 | Contains approximately 80,000 placemarks showing locations of registered historic places in the US and US Territories. | | 11/20/2007 | 229 |
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 | Remains of Iron Age hillfort in spectacular setting overlooking Monsal Dale. (Tilt view to see what I mean!). |  | 11/16/2007 | 365 |
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 | Iron Age hillfort in Derbyshire. Naturally protected by cliffs on 2 sides, the double ramparts on the other side are clearly visible. | | 11/16/2007 | 364 |
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 | At Barup east of the road between Hellested and Karise there is a Bronze Age mound with a fantastic view over the valley at the river of Tryggevælde. The mound is known all over the contry as the Hill of the Elves, Elverhøj - the dwelling of the King of the Elves. The white haw-thorn on the hillis, according to an old legend a gift of the chief of Stevns. The Elver People obviously protected th... |  | 11/11/2007 | 408 |
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 | Iron Age hillfort in Cheshire. The northern ramparts are well preserved. | | 11/08/2007 | 369 |
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 | Neolithic henge monument situated in the village of Dove Holes, Derbyshire. | | 11/07/2007 | 184 |
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