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 | With a 170 meter high this tower gives his visitors a great overview of Portsmouth habour. |  | 09/18/2005 | 233 | 
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 | There is more than one Statue of Liberty, I found the little sisters in Paris on an island in the Seine, one at the coast of Tokyo and the smalest one at Alki Beach Seattle! |  | 09/16/2005 | 502 |
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 | Over 140 standing stones are arranged in several lines along the top of a hill overlooking Camaret-sur-Mer. |  | 09/15/2005 | 275 |
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 | Marree Man , 4km long Aboriginal man cut into the earth , probably with a bulldozer or something similar near Marree , South Australia . |  | 09/05/2005 | 511 |
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 | Vercingetorix was the leader of the Gauls who led the revolt against the Romans in 53-52 BC. He was killed shortly after the revolt failed, but this statue was erected in the 19th century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vercingetorix
The image is fairly low-res, but hopefully it will be improved in the future. |  | 08/29/2005 | 257 |
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 | The Megaliths were erected during the neolithic period which lasted from 4500 BC until 2000 BC. The two main structures of the megalithic architecture are "Menhirs" and "Dolmens" and "Tumulus". Dolmens and Tumulus were burial structures, they were either collective or individual tumbs.
Menhirs: an army of stones
There are approximately 3000 menhirs in the Carnac area. The alignments ... | | 08/27/2005 | 449 |
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 | This is a monument to honour Peter the Great, Tsar of all Russians. | | 08/27/2005 | 255 |
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 | One large sculpture tagger, look around there are more. 96 acres of outdoor sculpture. | | 08/25/2005 | 177 |
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 | The largest gold mining open pits in Australia. For more information including a virtual tour go to http://www1.superpit.com.au/pages/about_kcgm.asp | | 08/24/2005 | 584 |
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 | Large sculpture at outdoor museum in New York |  | 08/22/2005 | 145 |
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 | This ring is huge (3.320m = 10.895ft.) in diameter but not very well kept and partly being taken over by the sprawling mega-city.
It once was probably in the countryside as the area east of it, but the city is approaching |  | 08/21/2005 | 315 |
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 | Mussafah Industrial City, occupying 20 square miles with over 100 roundabouts. | | 08/20/2005 | 272 |
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 | The biggest copper mine in the world | | 08/20/2005 | 458 |
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 | Grid-like arrangement of structures near Pul-i-Charki Prison outside of Kabul, Afghanistan. | | 08/19/2005 | 322 |
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 | Here are some dinosaurs. They were in the movie "Pee Wee's Big Adventure". Here' a link on the Roadside America website.
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/CACABdinny.html | | 08/18/2005 | 520 |
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 | A giant painted mountain at the entrance to Slab City, a hangout for snowbirds, and ~100 year round residents who live in the desert for free. The cost? No electricity, water or sewer. They park their RVs or tents on concrete slabs leftover from a 60 year old marine training camp! | | 08/17/2005 | 211 |
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 | Dating to 1277 a.d. this is an observatory.Two windows are aligned to provide light to an interior room on the spring equinox. Phot credit: space imaging 1/1/1 | | 08/17/2005 | 182 |
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 | Founded in 500 A.D. Uxmal was the most powerful site in western Yucatan. Many of the buildings rely on well cut stones, with no mortar.Orientat of the long palace of the governor points to the southernmost rising point of the planet Venus, occurring every eight years. Photo credit: Space Imaging 8/8/2002 | | 08/17/2005 | 609 |
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 | This is an update on the "Long Ausytralian fence". The placemark is incorrect showing it in the Northern Territory. It is most evident at the intersection of the South Australian border with the New South Wales-Queensland border (aka Cameron Corner) | | 08/16/2005 | 232 |
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 | Maybe someone can answer what that is. | | 08/16/2005 | 1,242 |
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 | Rig construction is performed by LeTourneau's Vicksburg Marine Construction (VMC) in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Since 1955, LeTourneau, Inc. has designed, manufactured, fabricated, and serviced offshore drilling platforms, including the world's largest self-elevating drilling rigs. Currently, more than 35% of all jack-up rigs bear the LeTourneau name.
It seems to be at the beginning of the... | | 08/15/2005 | 159 |
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 | here are some crazy rocks, in what looks like a quarry. | | 08/15/2005 | 354 |
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 | The Sphinx at Giza | | 08/15/2005 | 4,149 |
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 | Strange concentric roadside semicircles in Marfa, Texas. | | 08/14/2005 | 562 |
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 | Chichen Itza is the largest of the Pre-Columbian archaeological sites in Yucatán, Mexico. The city was built by the Maya civilization. | | 08/14/2005 | 1,526 |
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