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Locations of famous places in history |
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 | Built approximately around 1583, now turned into a naval museum. |  | 09/21/2005 | 291 | 
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 | Fort Frederick was built from stone in 1799 by British troops to protect against a possible landing of French Troops. The fort is named after Frederick, Duke Of York. It was originally armed with two eight-pounder guns and has a guardhouse and powder magazine. | | 09/20/2005 | 229 |
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 | The General Lucius D. Clay Headquarters compound for the United States Army, Berlin, was located at the corner of Clayallee and Saargemuender Strasse in Dahlem, a sub-district of Zehlendorf.
This district, built up mainly between the turn of the century and the late 1930's, was the location of many villas built by wealthy industrialists and financiers.
The Clay Hea... |  | 09/20/2005 | 364 |
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 | Barracks of the US Berlin Brigade (BBDE).
First US troops in Berlin were from the 2nd "Hell on Wheels" Armored Division who were soon replaced by elements of the 82nd "All American" Airborne Division and 78th "Lightening" Infantry Division. Shortly, these two divisions were withdrawn; replaced by the 3rd "Old Guard" Infantry Regiment which was inactivated in 1946. 3rd Battalion, ... | | 09/20/2005 | 464 |
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 | This is the August Kranti Park (August Revolution) in Mumbai,India. This is the place where in August 1942, Gandhi asked the British to "quit" India. This revolution was hence forward known as the "Quit India Movement". A pillar commemmorating the event can be seen on the right. The empty ground on the left is still used by political parties for rallies and speeches. | | 09/19/2005 | 218 |
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 | The Horniman Circle Gardens is a large park in South Mumbai, India which encompasses an area of 12,081 square yards (10,101 m²). It is situated in the Fort district in Mumbai and is surrounded by the country's premiere banks. The area was initially called as Bombay Greens in the 18th century. It was originally meant to be a large open space with grand buildings in the middle of the walled city.... |  | 09/19/2005 | 213 |
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 | Place where political theorist and revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg's body was dropped into the river (after being "battered to death with rifle butts" by right-wing Freikorps militia troops) in 1919. | | 09/19/2005 | 199 |
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 | Golconda is a ruined city and fortress, built on a granite hill that is 120 meters high and is surrounded by massive crenellated ramparts. | | 09/18/2005 | 257 |
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 | The island of Mallorca is known as a holliday island but it also is a treasury full of »Talayotes«, megalithic
witnesses of one of the oldest cultures
of Europe. Who knows that nowhere else you'll find on such a small area of land such a lot of monuments, buildt in times, back to the oldest pyramids. |  | 09/18/2005 | 431 |
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 | sites of death, murder, and mayhem: John Denver's plane crash, Ted Kazcinski's office, Rodney King & more! | | 09/17/2005 | 527 |
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 | US-Radarstation Berlin-Teufelsberg | | 09/16/2005 | 281 |
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 | Charlottenburg Palace today is the largest residence of the Hohenzollern in Berlin. Originally built by Elector Frederick III as a summer residence for his wife Sophie Charlotte in 1699, the palace was later extended into a stately building with a cours d`honneur.
The magnificent palace is surrounded by a baroque garden, in which diverse architectures melt into a unique ensemble.... | | 09/16/2005 | 383 |
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 | The castle was built between 1233 and 1239 on the site of a former Norman fort. The bastions were added between 1535 and 1537. | | 09/16/2005 | 258 |
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 | Built in the 10th century AD the castle was meant to offer shelter to the population in case of invasions. | | 09/16/2005 | 159 |
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 | Union Station is a now defunct railroad station that has been converted to the medical field. | | 09/15/2005 | 172 |
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 | Millbrook Village, located in the NJ side of the Delaware Water Gap. Its a great little restored village, dating to the 1850's. | | 09/15/2005 | 160 |
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 | The Bethlehem, PA star, which is lit up everynight and can be seen for miles around. |  | 09/15/2005 | 212 |
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 | 202 foot tall column marking the source of the Great Fire of London, September 2nd 1666. A superb 360 degree panorama from the viewing platform is online at http://www.urban75.org/vista/monument.html. | | 09/15/2005 | 132 |
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 | Fort Lytton , Brisbane , Australia . In the 1870's Brisbane lived in fear of attack from the Russians , so Fort Lytton was built at the mouth of the Brisbane River . Why was Brisbane living in fear of Russian attack , who knows , but the Fort gave Lytton a bit of status which helped the township grow . | | 09/15/2005 | 274 |
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 | Captain Cook monument, Kurnell peninsula, Botany Bay, New South Wales, Australia. The place where Captain Cook first set foot on Australian soil. A place of great historic importance that has been allowed to be used as an industrial site, for landfill and sewage discharge. | | 09/15/2005 | 209 |
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 | On the hills above Paarl lies the Afrikaans Language Monument, erected in 1975. It is (apparently) the only monument in the world dedicated to a language. | | 09/14/2005 | 216 |
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 | Paris, France. Birthplace of French Revolution in 1789. On the left, the Opera Bastille was built on the site of the former jailhouse. | | 09/14/2005 | 335 |
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 | The Castelo de Sesimbra was a stronghold already in Saracen times. It was owned by the Santiago Order for much of the middle ages. | | 09/14/2005 | 187 |
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 | Ordered by the Duke of Wellington, Hamilton Fort was designed to repel any attack on the city of Hamilton and its environs. It was completed in the 1870's out of solid rock by the British Army's Royal Engineers.
Today the fort is a public park. |  | 09/14/2005 | 413 |
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 | Rap singer Tupac was shot in a car while stopped at a red light at the intersction of Flamingo Rd and Koval Lane . He lived for 6 days in a drug induced coma before dying on Friday 13th, September 1996 . | | 09/13/2005 | 377 |
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