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Massive items that were created by or carved out by humans |
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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 | 228 | 
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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 | 341 |
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 | Mesa Verde One of the most famous cliff dwellings of the Anasazi (ancient ones) |  | 07/24/2006 | 412 |
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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 | 283 |
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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 | 266 |
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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 | 234 |
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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 | 228 |
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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 | 227 |
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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 | 407 |
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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 | 503 |
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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 | 383 |
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 | This is the large monument to Admiral Lord Collingwood (1750 - 1810) who was Admiral Nelson’s second in command at the Battle of Trafalgar, Oct 21st. 1805.
Cuthbert, Admiral Lord Collingwood (1750-1810) was born in Newcastle and educated there.
He entered into the Royal Navy at the age of 11 and rose to become 2nd in command of the British fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar. His fa... | | 07/15/2006 | 151 |
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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 | 178 |
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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 | 220 |
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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 | 329 |
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 | Alpha, New Jersey, USA. | | 07/11/2006 | 381 |
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 | Dinosaurs - Dallas, USA | | 07/11/2006 | 185 |
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 | Dinosaur Valley State Park,Texas,USA | | 07/11/2006 | 192 |
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 | There's a unique water tower on the park-like property of Bell Labs, resembling an H.G. Wells Martian tripod more than anything. The white, three-legged saucer looms over the entrance drive to Lucent's Research and Development facility, itself a scary mirrored sarcophagus of deep think and E-novation.
More Info:http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/NJHOLtransistor.html | | 07/07/2006 | 220 |
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 | The banderas monumentales (Spanish for "monumental flags") are a set of monuments located throughout Mexico. The main feature of these monuments is a giant Mexican flag flying off a 50 meter-high flagpole. They are part of a program started in 1999 under President Ernesto Zedillo that is currently administered by the Secretariat of National Defense (Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional).... | | 07/07/2006 | 279 |
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 | Mamayev Kurgan (Russian: Мама́ев Курга́н is a dominant height overlooking the city of Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) in southern Russia. The name in Russian means "tumulus of Mamai". (Mamai commanded the Tatar Golden Horde in the 1370s - no historical evidence exists of his burial on the site.) Today Mamayev Kurga... | | 07/05/2006 | 340 |
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 | this is the worlds longest strait of road on the nullabor plain in western australia. it is nicknamed the 90 mile straight because it is ninety miles long. (obviously) | | 07/02/2006 | 652 |
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 | The Great Wall of China, one of the greatest wonders of the world, was enlisted in the World Heritage by UNESCO in 1987. Just like a gigantic dragon, the Great Wall winds up and down across deserts, grasslands, mountains and plateaus stretching approximately 6,700 kilometers (4,163 miles ) from east to west of China. With a history of more than 2000 years, some of the section of the great wall ... | | 07/01/2006 | 4,760 |
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 | An 8-sided star in the middle of nowhere, Iraq. | | 06/28/2006 | 386 |
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