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 | Situated in the pretty village of Heckington is this unique eight-sailed working mill which produces stone ground flour by wind power. Orginally built in 1830 as a five-sailer, a violent thunderstorm blew off the cap and sails and it was repaired in 1892 with the cap and eight sails from a windmill in Boston, Lincolnshire. This outstanding example of Victorian engineering was again restored in ... |  | 02/28/2008 | 146 | 
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 | The moveable, wing-like sun screen resting above the Milwaukee Art Museum’s vaulted, glass-enclosed reception hall, the Burke Brise Soleil is the "...signature element of the Museum’s new 142,050-square-foot Quadracci Pavilion," according to its website. The name is derived from French, "sun breaker". Its fins range in length from 26 to 105 feet. The Soleil, designed by i... | | 02/15/2008 | 378 |
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 | Genbaku-Dome (Hiroshima Peace Memorial)
At 08:15, the Enola Gay dropped the nuclear bomb called "Little Boy" over the center of Hiroshima. It exploded about 2,000 feet above the city with a blast equivalent to 13 kilotons of TNT, killing an estimated 80,000 civilians. |  | 02/12/2008 | 477 |
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 | 2nd Largest Cross, the Groom Cross is located between Interstate 40 and old Route 66 going west out of Groom, Texas | | 01/26/2008 | 156 |
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 | Chillingham Castle, Northumberland. dates back to the 13th century and is widely said to be the most haunted place in england. you can actually stay overnight in haunted rooms within the castle. | | 01/18/2008 | 352 |
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 | Established in 1932.Non-human observation started in 30 Sep. 2004.
official site: http://www.tokyo-jma.go.jp/home/fujisan/
http://www.fujisan-net.jp/data/article/112.html | | 12/04/2007 | 234 |
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 | Rifle ranges at Wedgenock , north of Warwick. Origianlly built for Royal Warwickshire regiment who were based at nearby Budbroke Barracks. | | 11/01/2007 | 199 |
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 | Stunning working windmill built in 18th Century by Inigo Jones, owned by Warwickshire County Council | | 10/31/2007 | 162 |
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 | Loy Yang Power Station is a brown coal fired power station located on the outskirts of the city of Traralgon, in south eastern Victoria, Australia. Loy Yang is a base load supply station, and produces about one third of Victoria's electricity requirements.
Four giant bucket-wheel excavators operate 24 hours a day in the Loy Lang open cut mine, feeding coal directly to the boilers... |  | 10/04/2007 | 503 |
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 | The hovercraft was invented by Sir Christopher Cockerell whilst he owned and worked at Ripplecraft, the boatyard in Somerleyton. From 1953 to 1956 as well as designing and building hire craft for the Broads Sir Christopher “worked on the problem of making boats go faster”. He was attempting to make boat propulsion more energy efficient and one of his experiments was to inject air under the hull... |  | 09/21/2007 | 186 |
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 | The Dole Cannery known for its canned fruits, such as pineapple | | 08/31/2007 | 204 |
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 | The castle was originally a private residence commissioned and designed by William Gillette, an American actor who is most famous for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes on stage.
Today it's Gillette Castle State Park.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillette_Castle_State_Park
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gillette | | 08/28/2007 | 270 |
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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 | 255 |
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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 | 236 |
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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 | 278 |
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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 | 622 |
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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 | 311 |
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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 | 348 |
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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 | 186 |
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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 | 4,512 |
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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 | 307 |
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 | The Roberto Clemente Coliseum (or Coliseo Roberto Clemente in Spanish) is a sporting events and concert arena in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It was, for many years, Puerto Rico's largest event facility, and it continues being one of the largest.
The Coliseum is named after baseball hall of famer Roberto Clemente, who died in a plane crash off Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in ... | | 07/19/2007 | 264 |
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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 | 943 |
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 | One of the most beautiful monuments in Ponce, Puerto Rico | | 07/17/2007 | 235 |
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