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 | i found this house being built in adelaide, you can see the plan because there is no roof |  | 08/26/2006 | 184 | 
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 | this building looks like a big 1 | | 08/26/2006 | 116 |
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 | A Broken Hill artist who trained as a mining engineer has created the world's largest art work, a 4.3 million-square-metre figure of a smiling stockman furrowed into the Mundi Mundi Plains, about 30 kilometres outside Silverton, north of Broken Hill. Australian Artist Ando took a year to create the portrait of a smiling stockman, using a tractor to chisel out the image and expose the red earth,... |  | 08/25/2006 | 1,042 |
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 | This eagle ist near the city San Luis Obispo and was made by italian POW's. | | 08/25/2006 | 547 |
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 | I've found a nice red arch in roundabout in Chang chung. | | 08/23/2006 | 130 |
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 | This horse is on the east side of Naval Hill in Bloemfontein, and is constructed from rocks painted white. It was built by British troops stationed in the area during the Anglo-Boer war, perhaps as a direction marker for troops taking horses to a remount camp that was established there after Lord Roberts captured Bloemfontein on March 15th 1900. Though a number of people have claimed to have be... |  | 08/16/2006 | 290 |
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 | The Ushiku Daibutsu is the world's tallest Buddha statue. Completed in 1995, it stands a total of 120m above the ground, including the 10m high base and 10m high lotus platform. An elevator takes visitors up to 85m off the ground, where an observation floor is located. (source: Wikipedia) | | 08/11/2006 | 473 |
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 | Largest oil platform in the world
The Hibernia platform is an oil and gas platform in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Newfoundland. The gravity base structure sits on the ocean floor in 200 m (660 ft) of water with its topsides extending 50 m (160 ft) above the surface. The platform acts as a small concrete island with serrated outer edges designed to withstand the impact of... |  | 08/04/2006 | 1,018 |
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 | In 1795 Donald McInnis discovered an artificial circular depression on the south eastern end of the island with an adjacent tree which had a tackle block on one of its overhanging branches. McInnis and 2 friends excavated the depression and discovered a layer of flagstones. As they continued digging, they found a layer of flagstones every 3 m (10 ft). They stopped digging at 10 m (30 ft).
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 | Bayer Cross Leverkusen is the name of the largest light advertisement in the world. The advertisement is for the Bayer company of Leverkusen. This light advertisement, installed in 1958, shows the emblem of the company Bayer. It hangs on two 118-meter steel towers and possesses a diameter of 51 meters and a weight of 300 tons. It takes 1,712 40-Watt bulbs to light the display. In the year 2003 ... | | 07/31/2006 | 171 |
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 | Reconstruction of a celtic cairn in Hochdorf, Germany. It ist 40 meter wide and was build about 500 B.C. | | 07/25/2006 | 172 |
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 | These two inscriptions stand for Head Constable Durga Datt (28 Bn BSF) and Carpenter Pritam (23 Bn BSF), they work for Border Security Force and both received a police medal in January 2005 for deserving employment. |  | 07/24/2006 | 171 |
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 | Mesa Verde One of the most famous cliff dwellings of the Anasazi (ancient ones) |  | 07/24/2006 | 311 |
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 | The new horse is on Pewsey Hill about a mile south of Pewsey, to the east of the minor road that leads from the A345 on the edge of Pewsey to the village of Everleigh. It is a little above and a little to the left of the site of the old horse.
In 1937, George Marples, an authority on hill carvings, happened to be in the area researching the old white horse at just the time that a committ... | | 07/18/2006 | 215 |
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 | The Hackpen or Broad Hinton or Winterbourne Bassett white horse
The Hackpen white horse is near The Ridgeway on the edge of the Marlborough Downs, two miles south east of Broad Hinton village, on Hackpen Hill where the Wootton Bassett to Marlborough road zigzags up the hill.
Its origin is uncertain. It may have been cut in 1838 by a Henry Eatwell, Broad Hinton parish cler... | | 07/18/2006 | 194 |
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 | This is the newest of the Wiltshire white horses. Designed by Peter Greed, it was cut by around two hundred local people in 1999 to mark the millennium. It is on Roundway Hill to the north of Devizes, overlooking the village of Roundway. This horse is the only one in Wiltshire, and one of only four in Britain, to face to the right.
In 1954, pupils at Devizes Grammar school researched the... | | 07/18/2006 | 167 |
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 | The Cherhill white horse is the second oldest of the Wiltshire horses. It is situated on the edge of Cherhill Down, off the A4 Calne to Marlborough road just east of the village of Cherhill, and is just below the earthwork known as Oldbury Castle. Nearby is the obelisk known as the Lansdowne Monument. Very well placed high on a steep slope, the horse is easily visible from below and from a dist... | | 07/18/2006 | 158 |
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 | Broad Town is three miles south of Wootton Bassett on the Marlborough road, and the white horse is in a depression on a steep slope half a mile north east of the village.
It is on land which once belonged to Little Town Farm. According to Rev. Plenderleath, writing in 1885, it was cut in 1864 by a William Simmonds, who held the farm then. Simmonds claimed later that it had been his inte... | | 07/18/2006 | 157 |
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 | This horse is a little under a mile north of the village of Alton Barnes, on a moderate slope on Milk Hill on the ridge that extends to Walker's Hill, to the east of the Alton Barnes to Lockeridge road.
The originator was a Mr Robert Pile, of Manor Farm, Alton Barnes. He may have been the same man who was responsible for the first Pewsey horse, or possibly his son. In 1812 Mr Pile paid t... | | 07/18/2006 | 322 |
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 | Kiev's statue of the Motherland, also a memorial of the Great Patriotic War (World War II) in Kiev, Ukraine. The statue itself is 62 meters tall, the overall height is 102 meters. |  | 07/17/2006 | 345 |
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 | The very low frequency transmitter in the middle of nowhere in the Saterland is operated by the German Navy and also used by the NATO for broadcasting messages for submarines. Each antenna is about 350 m high (ca. 400m at its highest point). For maintenance proposes they can be climbed with an elevator. They are the highest buildings in Europe!
They are transmitting at 23.4 kHz with ca. ... | | 07/15/2006 | 281 |
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 | Artist Blue Sky's "Busted Plug Plaza," with its enormous leaning fire hydrant fountain, was officially unveiled to the city of Columbia on February 18, 2001. The fire hydrant is 39 ft. tall, a nearly five ton steel sculpture set in a concrete base.
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 | The horse is in the shadow, but if you know its there, it can be seen.
http://wiltshirewhitehorses.org.uk/marlborough.html | | 07/12/2006 | 117 |
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 | There is a horse constructed from concrete and painted white on The Mound in Heeley Millennium Park in Sheffield. Designed by Mandy Burton, it was created in April 2000 by park staff and volunteers to commemorate Barney, a horse which died as a result of an arson attack at neighbouring Heeley City Farm in 1995. Like most white horses, this one faces to the left. In May every year there is a rep... | | 07/12/2006 | 137 |
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 | I like this big snake. In the placemarker you will see a photo of a girl in the mouth of the snake. | | 07/11/2006 | 261 |
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