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Locations of famous places in history |
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 | Six-sided fort originally housing 110 men and up to 6 big guns. Disarmed 1907 it is now a business premises. |  | 02/15/2006 | 143 | 
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 | Locations of Pompei and Herculaneum at the volcano Vesuvio near Naples. Both towns were destroyed at the famous eruption the year 79.
Link to excavations:
http://www.mediator.qub.ac.uk/ms/onlinepracticals/ad79/Slides/herculaneum.htm | | 02/13/2006 | 233 |
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 | In 2006, 100 years after his death, Paul Cezanne is considered the father of modern art, a vital bridge between the impressionist and cubist movements of the early 20th century, with his paintings selling for millions of dollars. But when he died on October 23, 1906, he was largely shunned and discredited by the public and critics alike, and had increasingly become a recluse in his beloved Prov... | | 02/13/2006 | 92 |
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 | The famous shipyard in Gdansk where Lech Walesa 1980 started his Solidarnosch revolution against the polish regime and the eastblock. It all ended 1989 when the Berlin wall fell. |  | 02/12/2006 | 161 |
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 | A collection of ports and locations in pre-colonial and early colonial Southeast Asia. Some modern locations also included for reference.
Some place marks and overlays have been adapted from other Google Earth community online sources. Credits to original posters.
Compiled by Loren Ryter, Cornell University, Feb 2006. |  | 02/12/2006 | 140 |
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 | Locations of all 1692 witch trials in Salem.
See furter details:
http://www.salemwitchmuseum.com/
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 | The Beslan school hostage crisis (also referred to by the media as the Beslan school siege) began when armed terrorists took hundreds of school children and adults hostage on September 1, 2004, at School Number One in the Russian town of Beslan in North Ossetia. On September 3, 2004, the third day of the standoff, shooting broke out between the hostage-takers and Russian security forces. Accord... | | 02/07/2006 | 653 |
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 | Gravesites and future gravesites of all Presidents.
See also: http://www.presidentialavenue.com/index.cfm | | 02/07/2006 | 240 |
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 | On 27th July 1880, 328 men of the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment were killed in Maiwand, a village in Afghanistan, during the Second Afghan Campaign. The 31 ft long lion was erected in their memory. It's the largest sculpted lion and one of the largest bronze sculptures in the world. | | 02/05/2006 | 128 |
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 | This is The Lunt Roman Fort in Coventry. You can see the shadow of the ramparts. |  | 02/04/2006 | 141 |
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 | West Norwood Cemetery is a cemetery in West Norwood, Lambeth, London. Originally called the "South Metropolitan Cemetery", it was opened in 1837 as the cemeteries of Southwark and Lambeth began to fill up. Architect William Tite was a director of the cemetery company and designed the site's landscaping.
The cemetery contains 65 Grade II and Grade II* listed monuments. | 01/31/2006 | 129 |
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 | An important historical site, easily identified from above.
The harbor of ancient Carthage: the semi-circular area had circular ship shed on the island. The longer area to the south was the working harbor.
Thank your for considering this post,
Mark | | 01/30/2006 | 394 |
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 | Nuclear and Bomber Command relics in UK | | 01/30/2006 | 304 |
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 | Some Nike Missile Site
The United States Army built a ring of Nike missile launchers around Seattle in the 1950s... | | 01/29/2006 | 364 |
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 | There are few buildings in Ireland with such well chronicled and fascinating long history as Carrickfergus Castle. It appears first in the official English records in 1210 when the notorious King John laid siege to it and took control of what was then Ulster’s premier strategic garrison. For more info:
http://www.irelandseye.com/aarticles/travel/attractions/castles/carrick.shtm | | 01/24/2006 | 195 |
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 | Side scan sonar image of a french submarine lost in WW1 | | 01/20/2006 | 510 |
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 | Fort Macon State Park, located in Atlantic Beach, NC.
Historic Civil War fort.
http://ils.unc.edu/parkproject/visit/foma/home.html | | 01/17/2006 | 108 |
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 | To The Immortal Memory of Sir William Wallace Scottish Patriot Born at Elderslie Renfrewshire circa 1270 A.D.
Who from the year 1296 fought dauntlessly in defence of his country's Liberty and Independence in the face of fearful odds and great hardship being eventually betrayed and captured brought to London
and put to death near this spot on the 23rd August 1305.
His exam... |  | 01/13/2006 | 211 |
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 | The interesting thing about this place is, that the surrounding area is in high-res and the arsenal itself is low-res. Looks like censoring at GE. | | 01/11/2006 | 162 |
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 | The atomic cannon was a huge piece of ordnance built by the United States in the mid-1950s to hurl nuclear shells far enough that they wouldn't kill the people who fired them. While far more sensible WWIII technology than, say, the atomic hand grenade, the atomic cannon did have its detractors and tactical limitations. | | 01/11/2006 | 312 |
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 | Griffith Stadium was a sports stadium that stood in Washington, D.C. from 1911 to 1965, at the corner of Georgia Avenue and W Street, NW. Current site of Howard University Hospital. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffith_Stadium | | 01/11/2006 | 98 |
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 | Home of the St. Louis Cardinals of the National League from 1893 until mid-season 1920.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robison_Field | | 01/11/2006 | 115 |
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 | Sites related to one of the greatest American writers of the 19th century. Theses sites are in and around Hannibal, MO. | | 01/11/2006 | 154 |
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 | Ebbets Field was a Major League Baseball park located at in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York. It was the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers of the National League. Ebbets Field was on the block bound by Bedford Avenue, Sullivan Place, McKeever Place and Montgomery Street. Now site of Jackie Robinson Apartments.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebbets_Field | | 01/11/2006 | 140 |
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 | Places in Canada and the United States associated with Louis Riel, the Red River Rebellion and the Northwest Rebellion. Where appropriate arranged chronologically, park links, links to ground level photographs and links to associated information added to placemarks. | | 01/07/2006 | 106 |
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