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 | It has been argued that the Battle of Messines was the most successful local operation of the war, certainly of the Western Front. Carried out by General Herbert Plumer's Second Army, it was launched on 7 June 1917 with the detonation of 19 underground mines underneath the German mines. |  | 11/16/2005 | 264 | 
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 | Here the adventures of the famous Gauls Asterix and Obelix took place, resisting the roman occupation. |  | 11/08/2005 | 657 |
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 | St. Irene, which is located on 1st courtyard of Topkapı Palace, was constructed by the Emperor Lustiniaus in VI. century. It consists of atrium, narthex, naos with three nephs and apse. It is a typical Byzantine structure with its material and architecture. |  | 11/07/2005 | 157 |
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 | This was the first Turkish mosque built after the conquest. The main building was completed in seven years (1463-1470).
The architect Atic Sinan built the largest kulliye in Ottoman Art History. The kulliye consisted of medreses, Kervansaray, hamam, a hospital, baths, a kitchen for the poor, a library, and a Koranic school. The Kulliye has been preserved in its original form. The origin... |  | 11/07/2005 | 205 |
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 | One of the oldest mosques in the city and the oldest surviving imperial mosque, Beyazit Camii was built between 1501 and 1506 using materials taken from Theodosius's Forum of Tauri, on which it was built. | | 11/07/2005 | 186 |
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 | The great fortress of Rumeli Hisar, built by the Sultan Mehmet II in the year of 1452,immediately opposite Anadolu Hirasi, the Anadolu Hissar built by Yildirim Beyazit I sixty years earlier. It was the first step in Mehmets plan to capture the Byzantine capital, for with a fortress on either side of the Bosphorus. | | 11/07/2005 | 229 |
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 | During the excavations, which were begun in 1750, a statue of the Egyptian god Serapis was found and therefore the edifice was mistakenly held to be a temple. It is, however, nothing else but the "macellum" or the city market annexed to the port area (I-II c. A.D.). the three columns of grey cipolin bear evident traces of the holes made by lithodomi (marine mollusc) and show the effec... | | 11/07/2005 | 124 |
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 | The tiny island off the tip of Cape Posillipo is named Nisida. The original Greek settlers of the area called this small island Nesis. The Romans called it Nisida. It is here that Brutus plotted the assassination of Julius Caesar, and it is here that Cicero says apud illum multas horas in Néside—that he had a long talk with Brutus after the assassination to discuss the future of Rome. In the 18... | | 11/07/2005 | 196 |
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 | The Comune di San Leo describes their town as 'a sharp pinnacle surrounded by overhanging cliffs in a countryside sloping from the Appennines to the sea, with houses clustered between a magnificent fortress and a prominent bell tower'.
It sounds better in Italian and looks even more spectacular in real life.
San Leo is a real hill top town. It came under control ... | | 11/07/2005 | 150 |
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 | This are placemarks of the birthplace and grave of Fra Juniper Serra. He was the founder of many californean cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, ... | | 11/06/2005 | 110 |
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 | Colonia Ulpia Traiana, Xanten was after Cologne the largest roman town in Germania Inferior. During the first three centuries about 10000 people lived within its walls. The town was situated on the river Rhine which was the eastern frontier of the roman empire. |  | 11/01/2005 | 630 |
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 | The impressive ruins of the largest colosseum in North Africa, a huge amphitheatre which could hold up to 35,000 spectators, are found in the small village of El Jem. This 3rd-century monument illustrates the grandeur and extent of Imperial Rome. |  | 11/01/2005 | 787 |
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 | The Berlin Blockade, one of the major crises of the Cold War, occurred from June 24, 1948 - May 11, 1949 when the Soviet Union blocked Western rail and road access to West Berlin. The crisis abated after the Soviet Union did not act to stop American, British and French airlifts of food and other provisions to the Western-held sectors of Berlin following the Soviet blockade. | | 11/01/2005 | 353 |
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 | This is Havana’s oldest fortress; the original, built on the site by Hernando de Soto to protect the port, was constructed in 1538. This is the New World’s second most ancient castle and now serves as the Museum of Arms, with many fine exhibits. It also houses the nerve centre of UNESCO’s building preservation force, currently restoring the glorious heritage of Old Havana. | | 11/01/2005 | 263 |
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 | Maximo Gomez born 1836 - died 1905. As commander in chief of the Cuban revolutionary forces, Maximo Gomez y Baez led his armies through the defeat of the Ten Years' War (1868 -1878) as well as their triumph in the Cuban revolution against Spain 20 years later. | | 11/01/2005 | 246 |
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 | In the first century the Romans raised a couple of military camps on the left side of the Rhine to protect the empire against the german tribes. One of them is Castrum Novaesium (Neuss) lying on the river Rhine opposite to Duesseldorf. |  | 10/31/2005 | 484 |
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 | Location of the mafia attack to Giovanni Falcone in May 23th 1992 | | 10/28/2005 | 158 |
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 | Red dots indicate cities where synagogues were destroyed.
Nearly 1,000 synagogues were set afire on November 9, 1938, in an officially orchestrated evening of widespread violence and vandalism of Jewish property. In addition to the burning of synagogues, Jewish businesses and shops were severely vandalized throughout Germany. Josef Goebbels, the propaganda minister under Adolf Hi... | | 10/25/2005 | 316 |
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 | On the 21 October 1966, 144 people, 116 of them children, were killed when a tip of coal waste slid onto the village of Aberfan in South Wales. | | 10/25/2005 | 251 |
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 | On the Tavole Palatin hill stands the ruins of a 6th century B.C. Greek Temple dedicated to the godess Hera. Only 15 Doric columns of the original 32 are still standing. | | 10/24/2005 | 200 |
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 | Founded in the 7th century B.C. by the Greeks, ancient Metapontum was once the centre of a wealthy city-state with a philosophical tradition expounded by pythagoras, who settled here after his expulsion from croton. | | 10/24/2005 | 141 |
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 | Two Roman theatres sit atop the Fourvière Hill in Lyon. The larger one is the most ancient such structure in France and was built by order of Augustus from 17 B.C. to 15 B.C. It was later expanded during the reign of Hadrian. Nearly 110 meters wide, the theatre could seat 10,000 people. It is still used for concerts during the summer. | | 10/24/2005 | 200 |
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 | The fourth-century A.D. Villa of Maxentius, located just outside the walls of Rome, was established during the brief span of Maxentius' reign (306-312). Apart from the remains of the imperial palace, the complex includes the ruins of a circus used for private performances for the emperor and his acquaintances, and a mausoleum dedicated to the memory of Romulus, the son of Maxentius who died pre... | | 10/24/2005 | 225 |
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 | The Villa of Hadrian was created at Tivoli as a retreat from Rome for the Emperor Hadrian early in the 2nd century. It was a complex of over 30 buildings, covering an area of at least 1 square kilometre. | | 10/24/2005 | 225 |
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 | The Archaeological Park of Neapolis includes a range of monuments, including a the semi-circular Greek Theatre, several caves, a Roman Amphitheatre, and a multitude of graves. | | 10/24/2005 | 157 |
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