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 | The Yantra Mandir (commonly known as the Jantar Mantar) is an equinoctial dial, consisting a gigantic triangular gnomon with the hypotenuse parallel to the Earth's axis. On either side of the gnomon is a quadrant of a circle, parallel to the plane of the equator. The instrument is intended to measure the time of day, correct to half a second, and declination of the Sun and the other heavenly bo... |  | 08/23/2007 | 257 | 
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 | This is the Man Singh Observatory in Varanasi. It's similar to the Jantar Mantar in Jaipur and New Delhi and the Yantra Mandir in Ujjain.
http://asi.nic.in/asi_monu_tktd_up_mansingh.asp | | 08/23/2007 | 239 |
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 | The Jantar Mantar is a collection of architectural astronomical instruments, built by Maharaja Jai Singh II at his then new capital of Jaipur between 1727 and 1733. It is modelled after the one that he had built for him at the then Mughal capital of Delhi. He had constructed a total of five such labs at different locations, including the ones at Delhi and Jaipur. The Jaipur observatory is the l... | | 08/23/2007 | 281 |
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 | In Smedegade, Aeroskobing, you can see the smallest house in Denmark. It's called Dukkehuset, the doll house. When you stand next to it you know why.
It's 26 m2 and housed years ago a family of 8. Today it's used as holiday apartment.
It's also one one the most photographed houses in Denmark. | | 08/14/2007 | 625 |
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 | This building was designed by the danish architect Vilhelm Lauritzen and was build between 1937-39 and was in use from 1939 to 1960 when the new terminal 2 was opened. It was the first terminal in Copenhagen Airport.
1999 it was moved to the new place because it was too small as terminal for the expanding airport.
The building is listed as historic building.
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 | This bell tower is the remains of the church of the village Alt Graun (Curon Antica).
The village was abandoned 1953 and demolished when the dam at Resia was completed and the new lake Rechensee (Lago di Resia was made.
But all began 1939 when the fascist government changed the water level by 17 meters without asking the citisens or having prooved it by law. They e... | | 08/14/2007 | 313 |
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 | San Juan National Historic Site in San Juan, Puerto Rico includes colonial-era forts, bastions, powder houses, and three fourths of the old city wall. |  | 08/08/2007 | 350 |
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 | Ochoa Fertilizer Corporation was based on December of 1926 in San Juan. It occupied the facilities that today have the Acuaexpreso.
It manufactured practically all the raw materials for his fertilizer mixture, expanding in 1948 in his plant in the bay of Guánica. Today a plant of physical mixture of installments.
Ochoa was acquired by W. R Grace in 1967 an... | | 07/20/2007 | 191 |
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 | La Fortaleza, (The Fortress) is the current official residence of the Governor of Puerto Rico. It was built between 1533 and 1540 to defend the harbor of San Juan. The structure is also known as Palacio de Santa Catalina (Santa Catalina Palace). It is the oldest executive mansion in the New World. It was listed by UNESCO in 1983 as a World Heritage Site.
During the 1640 reconstru... |  | 07/20/2007 | 4,516 |
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 | The Hiram Bithorn Stadium (Estadio Hiram Bithorn in Spanish) is a baseball stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico, operated by the municipal government of the city of San Juan. Its name honors the first Puerto Rican to play in the major leagues, Hiram Bithorn, who first entered played with the Chicago Cubs in 1942. Built in 1962 under the mayoral administration of Felisa Rincón de Gautier, replacing ... | | 07/19/2007 | 308 |
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 | Roosevelt Roads Naval Station is located in the eastern part of Puerto Rico in the town of Ceiba. It is approximately 35 miles east of the Luis Munoz Marin International Airport. It takes about an hour and 15 minutes to drive from the airport to Roosevelt Roads. Roosevelt Roads Naval Station is located about 50 miles (an hour and a half drive) from San Juan. The towns of Fajardo, Luquillo, and ... | | 07/18/2007 | 952 |
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 | One of the most beautiful monuments in Ponce, Puerto Rico |  | 07/17/2007 | 237 |
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 | The biggest Coliseum in Puerto Rico | | 07/17/2007 | 225 |
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 | Alsion is the new place of the university but also contains the science center, the railway station of Sonderborg. But also one of the most modern concert halls in Europe housing the South Jutland Symfonic Orchestra. | | 07/02/2007 | 197 |
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 | The castle was built from 1697. The garden was built 1752. The garden have french and english elements and is one of the biggest ones in Europe. A special feature is the turkish garden with a real mosque from the 18. century. In the gearden you find several roman style temples (minerva, merkur, apollo). | | 06/26/2007 | 391 |
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 | The planeterium was opened 1984. The building before, was built in 1927 was one of the first planetariums in the world. 280 People can take place and starts a journes to the history of the universe, the stars and the planets | | 06/25/2007 | 237 |
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 | The old observatory in Mannheim was built between 1772 ans 1774. It was in use until 1880. Today the observatory is in Heidelberg on a mountain called Königsstuhl (King's chair). Today the tower is used as studio. | | 06/24/2007 | 214 |
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 | St. Paul's Hospital. Milan, Italy | | 06/16/2007 | 229 |
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 | The city of Weinheim Germany has two castles. The first is castle Windeck on the left side. It was built in 1130 and today its a ruins. The castle was destroyed by french troops in 1674.
On the right side you can see castle Wachenburg. It was built between 1907 and 1928 by the "Weinheimer Seniorenconvent". This is a student organisation to combine several fraternities. Every year at Asce... | | 06/16/2007 | 202 |
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 | I listed, from the shortest to the tallest, the top 30 buildings in Latinamerica, interesting to see the race to the skies in this region. | | 06/10/2007 | 847 |
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 | The 70-metre high colossus cost the regional government more than €120m (about £82m) to build and, according to press reports, the operating budget could reach €60m a year. But like Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, it is an investment in prestige and a magnet for upmarket tourists, a regional government spokesman, Esteban Gonzalez Pons, said. "We hope it will become the symbol of... | | 06/03/2007 | 320 |
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 | Ulug Begs Observatory Samarkand Uzbekistan
Ulug Begs Observatorium | | 05/18/2007 | 460 |
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 | This white tower on Honmoku Pier with an observation lounge at a height of 36.5 meters offers a panoramic view of Yokohama Port. | | 05/10/2007 | 234 |
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 | In december 4th. 1971 during a concert by Frank Zappa a fire occured. Zappa shouted "FIRE" but the audience thaught it was a part of the gig. Someone had lit the ceiling with a flare-gun. The casino burned down.
At the concert were also the band Deep Purple who had in mind to make their 1972 released LP "Machine Head" at the casino. But they had to go to a clo... | | 05/04/2007 | 470 |
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 | Mannheim palace was built between 1720 and 1760. It was the residence between 1720 and 1777 of the princes from the "Kurpfalz". The palace is the second biggest one built in baroc style after Versailles in Europe. | | 04/20/2007 | 179 |
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