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 | This sculpture by H.W. Bissen was made 1858 to honour the brave danish soldiers who won the battle of Fredericia against Prussia in 1848 to 1850.
It was financed by a countrywide collection of money that began the day after the end of the victory and Bissen was aware of it was the soldiers who were the heroes, not the generals.
The sculpture itself is 3.75 meters t... |  | 10/17/2007 | 150 | 
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 | A strange plane outline in the Saudi desert. |  | 10/09/2007 | 1,132 |
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 | A giant dwarf made of flowers at Mainau, Germany. |  | 09/11/2007 | 326 |
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 | This is an armillary sphere sundial. |  | 09/02/2007 | 156 |
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 | This dial was designed by architect Arata Isozaki as part of a large office building at Lake Buena Vista | | 09/02/2007 | 200 |
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 | This sundial is located at the Rosarium in the Westbroekpark, Denn Haag. | | 09/02/2007 | 130 |
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 | Photo:http://www.sundials.co.uk/PC090189.jpg | | 09/02/2007 | 103 |
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 | The New Mexico figures were constructed as targets on precision bombing ranges attached to Army Air Corps training fields located at Albuquerque, Clovis, Deming, Carlsbad, Hobbs, and Roswell. | | 08/23/2007 | 315 |
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 | At the southern entrance of Baalbeck, Lebanon there is a quarry where the stones used in the temples were cut. A huge block, considered the largest known stone in the world, still sits where it was cut almost 2,000 years ago. Called the "Stone of the Pregnant Woman", it is 21.5m x 4.8m x 4.2meters in size and has an estimated weigh between 1,000 and 2,000 tons.
www.worl... | | 08/23/2007 | 368 |
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 | The Wall Drug Dinosaur was created in the late 1960s. It is an 80' long Brontosaurus with red eyes that light up at night. | | 08/22/2007 | 442 |
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 | Completed in 1891, the Bennington Battle Monument is a stone obelisk structure that stands 306 feet tall. The monument was built to commemorate the Revolutionary War Battle of Bennington. It is the tallest structure in the state of Vermont. | | 08/21/2007 | 137 |
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 | This monument was erected by order of the Tyrant Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina in the city of Santiago (Dominican Republic) of the Horsemen. This monument was a form of Trujillo to give him to demonstrate to the city of Santiago that also have the control on her, since this city was one of which but demonstrated their rejection to. This located in the top of a hill in the part this of the ci... | | 08/08/2007 | 206 |
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 | The statue which was sculpted by Kobus Hattingh and Jacob Maponyane weighs 2.5 tons and measures 2.3 metres from elbow to elbow.The shoulders of the statue are 1.7 metres in width and the shoes are 1 metre in length. |  | 07/03/2007 | 491 |
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 | This sculpture at the north shore of Esbjerg is called "Mennesket ved havet - Man at the sea"
This monument, consisting of 4 very large 9m (30 feet) tall persons sitting on the beach, is completed in white concrete. The creator is the Danish artist, Svend Wiig Hansen.
The sculptures shows the pure and innocent man meeting the nature before it rises and b... |  | 07/02/2007 | 247 |
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 | Hans Egede (January 31, 1686, Harstad, Northern Norway–November 5, 1758, Falster, Denmark) was a Norwegian Lutheran missionary, called the Apostle of Greenland. Egede was an evangelist on the northern Norwegian islands of Lofoten when he heard stories of a green land settled by the Vikings but with which contact had been lost years before. In May 1721, he asked Frederick IV of Denmark for permi... | | 06/12/2007 | 202 |
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 | This mail box is also the biggest in the world.
When children from around the world write Santa in Greenland the letters lands in this box. They are then emptyed on december 24th. and Santa and his helpers write them back before he flews out aroound the world with presents.
The mail box was in 2006 moved to a new and more visible place for all. | | 06/04/2007 | 219 |
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 | The Guimar Pyramids were once thought to of been build by local farmers until in 1991 when the famous Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl visited the Island to study these. Thor came to the conclusion that the pyramids were almost identical to pyramids in Peru and Mexico.
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 | A massive bronze statue of the North Korean statesman Kim Il-sung overlooking Kaesong, North Korea. | | 05/14/2007 | 521 |
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 | In Kassel Wilhelmshöhe you find a gigantic waterpark, the Kasseler Kaskaden.
When the waterplay runs 350.000 liters of water flows down in a difference of high of 80 meters. The totally length of 400 meters.
It was constructed between 1792 and 1793 by Karl Steinhöfer and begin at the Herkules tower on top of the hill.
From the Herkules is a 250 mete... | | 05/10/2007 | 265 |
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 | Location of Caritasbronden and Storkespringvandet. Two famous fountains and meeting points on the shopping mile Stroget in Copenhagen. | | 05/04/2007 | 198 |
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 | Itmad-Ud-Daulah's Tomb Agra India
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itmad-Ud-Daulah's_Tomb | | 05/04/2007 | 189 |
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 | Elbe Crossing 2 is a group of pylons providing overhead lines for four 380kV three phase AC current circuits across the River Elbe. It was constructed between 1976 and 1978 to supplement Elbe Crossing 1, and consists of 4 masts:
* A 76 meter tall anchor pylon located in Lower Saxony, on the Elbe's southern banks.
* Two carrying pylons, each 227 meters tall. One i... | | 04/24/2007 | 233 |
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 | About 400 kilometers (250 miles) north of Lima, Peru, lies an enigmatic, 2,300-year-old ruin named Chankillo. Archaeologists have nicknamed the ruin’s central complex the “Norelco ruin” based on its resemblance to a modern electric shaver. The building’s true purpose long eluded them. Its thick walls and hilltop location suggested it was a fort, but why, researchers wondered, would anybody buil... | | 04/23/2007 | 440 |
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 | The biggest and perhaps most significant archaeological site in the UAE. You'll see the remains of stone walls, a souq, houses and what is thought to have been a governor's palace. Objects found on the site, such as pottery and coins, are on display at Dubai Museum and the Heritage Village. | | 04/19/2007 | 252 |
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 | "Der Bojenmann, 4 men to buoys"
4 male figures made of oakwood, colored calm, on shallow water tons installed, for a total high each 2.40 of meters, at different places in the water around Hamburg installed.
Upright it stands there, with hands held into the hips, raised head, the view into the distance arranged. A man like many, middle age, black trousers... | | 04/16/2007 | 221 |
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