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Locations of famous places in history |
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 | The ancient Hippodrome; the scene of chariot races and the center of Byzantine civic life and political activities, stood in the area that is now in front of the Blue Mosque. The area is now named for the mosque, Sultanahmet. |  | 10/14/2005 | 281 | 
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 | The São Francisco Xavier Castle, is a 17th-century garrison erected to protect the coast from the pirates of North Africa. |  | 10/13/2005 | 150 |
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 | The Etowah Indian Mounds is an archeological site in Bartow County, Georgia. |  | 10/13/2005 | 228 |
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 | The Ziggurat of Agargouf was built in the 15th century B.C., by king Kurigalzu. | | 10/13/2005 | 337 |
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 | The 30-foot-high Marathon Tomb is built over the graves of the 192 Athenians who died in the 490 BC battle against Persian forces. | | 10/12/2005 | 338 |
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 | The "famous" Hotel Palestine at the river Tigris in the center of Bagdad. During the second Gulf War home of many foreign reporters. Shot by an american tank on April 8, 2003. Two european journalists were killed.
More information at:
http://prairieweather.typepad.com/big_blue_stem/2005/03/regarding_48200.html
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/... |  | 10/12/2005 | 302 |
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 | Drake's Island is a 2.6 ha island lying in Plymouth Sound. It was from here that Drake sailed in 1577 to return in 1580 having circumnavigated the world. In 1583 Drake was made governor of the island. | | 10/11/2005 | 276 |
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 | Plymouth's Royal Citadel was built in the late 1660s as King Charles II decided it was necessary after the Dutch Wars of 1664-67 to realise the importance of Plymouth as a channel port. |  | 10/11/2005 | 179 |
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 | Ottoman equivelant of The Tower of London. | | 10/08/2005 | 309 |
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 | The Camino de Santiago through Northern Spain is the longest footpath in the world. Cap Finisterre is the end of the Camino, "the road under the stars." Pilgrims in the medieval world followed the pale arm of Milky Way. It pointed to the edge of the known world: Cap Finisterre, Galicia. Galicia has a very Celtic landscape.
On Nov. 11, 2002 there occurred a huge oil-tanker disaster (the ... | | 10/07/2005 | 483 |
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 | One of the biggest tombs of Andhra Pradesh | | 10/01/2005 | 228 |
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 | Originally built in that 12th Century by the Hindu Kakatiyas, the fort was reinforced by masonry by the Bahamanis who occupied in 1363. The existing structure was later expanded by Qutub Shahi Kings into a massive fort. In 1687, the fortress was besieged by the mighty moguls emperor Aurangazeb, after it was treacherously betrayed. The main citadel is built on a granite hill 120 m high and is... | | 10/01/2005 | 292 |
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 | A little away from Golconda fort are a cluster of tombs, the most authentic evidence of the Qutub Shahi architectural traditions. Ensconced amidst picturesque and landscaped gardens, known as Ibrahim bagh, is the grandeur of these tombs dedicated to the memory of the seven Qutub Shahi kings who ruled Golconda for nearly 170 years. | | 10/01/2005 | 231 |
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 | Proposed Cold War nuclear site
O'Neill, Dan. The Firecracker Boys. St Martin's Press, 1994.
http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/VirtualClassroom/Chariot/chariotresources.html
see also http://rekel.nl/Alaska/alaska97/point_hope.htm
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 | A 15th century harbour, well known in France: La Rocehlle. | | 10/01/2005 | 246 |
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 | Previous posting of McNair Barracks may have been mislabeled. Here is the correct location. | | 09/29/2005 | 185 |
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 | Khilwath Palace, Hyderabad, India. | | 09/29/2005 | 218 |
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 | The Battle of White Mountain, November 8, 1620 ("Bílá hora" is White Mountain in Czech) was an early battle in the Thirty Years' War in which an army of 20,000 Bohemians and mercenaries under Christian of Anhalt were routed by 25,000 men of the combined armies of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor under Karel Bonaventura Buquoy and of the Catholic League under Johan Tzerclaes, Count of Tilly at C... |  | 09/26/2005 | 307 |
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 | The San Jacinto Monument is a 171 meter high column topped with a 220 ton star that commemorates the site of the Battle of San Jacinto, the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. | | 09/26/2005 | 404 |
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 | From this point going west, you find the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard. Embedded with more than 2,000 celebrity-names as a tribute to performers and others within show business. Created in 1958 to give Hollywood a face-lift. In 1978, the City of Los Angeles designated the Walk of Fame as a Cultural/Historic Landmark. | | 09/26/2005 | 1,147 |
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 | Ancient legends situate the original seat of the Czech princes - the legendary Princess Libuse and the first Przemyslides - on the hill. In fact, however, this fort had not been founded until the Prague Castle was already in existence, since it dates back to the mid-10th century. In the latter half of the 11th and in the 12th century Vysehrad used to be the Przemyslides princes' main residence ... | | 09/24/2005 | 306 |
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 | The castle was built by Pier Maria Rosii between 1448 and 1460. It was constructed on the ruins of a building from the 14th century and must be one of the best preserved castles of the 1400s in Italy. | | 09/23/2005 | 211 |
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 | A roman bath under a Glas Cube in the oldest city of Germany. | | 09/23/2005 | 225 |
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 | Wat Phra Sri Mahathat is a temple of considerable historical and archaeological significance. It was probably founded in the 12th century when the Khmers still governed Lopburi. | | 09/21/2005 | 260 |
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 | Links to photos and descriptions of a select few of the thousands of shipwrecks that litter the coastline of New England. | | 09/21/2005 | 586 |
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