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 | Le grand Rex is a giant screen cinema of Paris but it's also a theater where artists sing and act. |  | 08/03/2006 | 106 | 
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 | Malaga Bull Ring |  | 08/03/2006 | 116 |
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 | For some reason somebody has decided to paint 850 on the pavement 3 times. This is close to Kirkstall Abbey in Leeds, UK. Taken while the abbey was hosting an open air Shakespear event. If you look at the abbey ruins you can see the seating area and round beer tent |  | 08/03/2006 | 144 |
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 | The Royal Fort (Shahi Qila) is a masterpiece of Moghal Architecture built by Akbat The Great. |  | 08/03/2006 | 120 |
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 | The Weyerbuschturm is an observation tower in a little park on the top of a little mountain called muetzenberg on the northern bank of the Wupper in the Wuppertaler urban district Elberfeld west. The Elberfelder button manufacturer and town councillor Emil Weyerbusch (1846-1909) created 1897 a donation for the building of the tower. On 1 November 1898 it was inaugurated. It is on a height of 29... | | 08/03/2006 | 133 |
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 | The cite des sciences et de l'industrie is a place situated in the north of Paris close to the Porte de la Villette which is dedicated to new technologies and share of knowledge especially for children. It includes a park containing the Geode (cinema with a giant screen), a submarine, the cite de la musique... More info on http://www.cite-sciences.fr/english/indexFLASH.htm. | | 08/02/2006 | 106 |
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 | Situated at 28 Boulevard des Capucines, near to the Place Vendome, The Olympia is one of the greatest stages in the world. Thanks to all the great artists who play there, it's now a mythical place. | | 08/02/2006 | 95 |
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 | It's a very famous flea market in Paris. Les puces de saint ouen are a place which is more visited than the Eiffel tower. As the website explains it, "The image of Dauphine is one of a market with a huge diversity and profusion of genuine antiques, all approved as such by experts, where the visitor is sure to find something original"...
The place is situated at 140 rue des Rosi... |  | 08/02/2006 | 90 |
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 | This placemarker contains 80 german moated castles. | | 07/31/2006 | 487 |
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 | In 1802 this tower was the prison of Schinderhannes alias Johannes Bückler alias Robin Hood of Hunsrück. Schinderhannes was a famous german thief and he was the chief of a big gang of thieves. Bückler alias Schinderhannes was beheaded in 1803.
The tower was build in the 14th centurynear the wood marked, so he got the name woodtower | | 07/31/2006 | 126 |
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 | The mill was build in 1802 and was used until 1942. In the year 1945 the mill got badly damaged. Wings and roof were restored after the war, the bullet holes were bricked. Since 1954 the mill is in the possession of the city Krefeld. The grinding mill on the inside is still received. | | 07/30/2006 | 269 |
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 | In the 14th century it may have been a being awake tower for the Castle Linn for which the loopholes or arrow slit and the three fire-places speak on the inside. As mill the tower is mentioned for the first time in 1575. | | 07/30/2006 | 150 |
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 | The Elfrath windmill at the golf club Elfrath. It was build from 1823 to 1826 and was in use until 1941. Now it ist a restaurant and club house. | | 07/30/2006 | 166 |
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 | The castle Linn is a water castle in the Krefelder quarter Linn. First, there was only one tower in the 12. century. To in 14. Century the castle was continuously extended. In the year 1702 the castle was completely destroyed by Prussian troops. | | 07/29/2006 | 147 |
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 | Minar-e-Pakistan where Pakistan Resolution was passed on March 23, 1940. | | 07/29/2006 | 240 |
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 | The largest stadium in Lahore famed for Horse & Cattle Show | | 07/29/2006 | 180 |
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 | Baudouin IV, the Count of Hainaut, built a castle there in 1150 and encircled the town with a moat and walls.
This territory very quickly became the stakes for powerful gentry. With the passing years and battles, the town was burnt, then found itself ruled by the House of Bavière, thus no longer under French rule for 300 years.
The town was returned to French rule ... | | 07/27/2006 | 162 |
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 | Castle Heemstede is a castle in the municipality houten, at the gelijknamige place of residence Heemstede. The house was built in 1645 in Dutch Classistische style. There is a restaurant inside, wich has got on star in the Michelin restaurant guide. | | 07/27/2006 | 123 |
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 | The castle was build from 1793 to 1800. Heinrich Christoph Jussow designed it like the english knight castles. | | 07/27/2006 | 154 |
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 | In the early 12th century, Saint-Omer was an important port in western Flanders. However receding sea gradually cut it off from the English Channel, resulting in the construction of a canal to the new coast at what is now Gravelines. The name is derived from the Flemish grave linghe, meaning Count's Canal. The new town became heavily fortified as it guarded the western borders of Spanish territ... | | 07/26/2006 | 146 |
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 | This is a replacement file for already existing one.
The first fortifications of Rocroi were constructed by Henri II in the 16th century. The French King had a pentagonal, bastionned wall built around the town. The decision to fortify Rocroi was made when the Emperor Charles V began the construction of Fort Charlemont at Givet.
In 1643, the Spanish attempted to invade Fra... | | 07/24/2006 | 112 |
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 | Colbert, the naval minister of Louis XIV decided in 1666 to build a major naval shipyard and arsenal in Rochefort, leading to a complete overhaul of the coastal fortifications of the Aunis county.
Among these fortifications, it was decided to build a fort at the headland of the Chapus near the village of Bourcefranc. This fort had the task of preventing any naval circumvallation... |  | 07/24/2006 | 226 |
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 | Previously built by order of Richelieu against Protestants standing in La Rochelle, then modified by Vauban, this 17th-century fortress is the oldest fortification of the Île de Ré. | | 07/24/2006 | 157 |
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 | Originally the town consisted of two separate centres with no obvious link until the 15th century. A small western settlement, established in the 10th century by Count Baudouin II of Flanders, was protected against Viking raids by a circular enclosure comprising an earth bank and water-filled ditch. To the east a keep was probably erected in the 11th century on the 'Groenberg', the green hill, ... | | 07/24/2006 | 136 |
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 | The cooling tower of the REW Energy AG is to be seen 20 kilometers far from all directions.
From April to August 1994 the 130 meters high and nearly 100 meters broad cooling tower with a surface of 26,0000 square meters received a new painting.
The front is now no longer grey, but blue with an orange map of the world on it. The draft comes from the artist Christoph Rihs, which ha... |  | 07/23/2006 | 257 |
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