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Locations of famous places in history |
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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 | 157 | 
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 | Union Station is a now defunct railroad station that has been converted to the medical field. |  | 09/15/2005 | 171 |
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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 | 158 |
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 | The Bethlehem, PA star, which is lit up everynight and can be seen for miles around. |  | 09/15/2005 | 210 |
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 | Barrows of this type were built in the late 1st and 2nd centuries AD, and would have belonged to the wealthiest families in society. | | 09/15/2005 | 183 |
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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 | 130 |
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 | This pub at the corner of Whitechapel Road and Cambridge Heath Road is best known for the murder of George Cornell by Ronnie Kray in 1966. Interestingly enough, it is also the site of the birth of the Salvation Army, as in 1865 Rev. William Booth gave an impromptu sermon on the pavement here which led directly to the formation of the SA. | | 09/15/2005 | 148 |
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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 | 272 |
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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 | 208 |
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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 | 215 |
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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 | 332 |
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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 | 184 |
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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 | 410 |
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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 | 371 |
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 | In 1968 Robert F Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel , he was taken to the Central Receiving Hospital and the later to the Good Samaritan Hospital where he died . | | 09/13/2005 | 252 |
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 | Granite walls, heavy metal-studded doors, bare courtyards - what more could you ask for in an ancient jail? Unfortunately, permission has just been given to turn part of it into housing. An attempt will be made to retain at least part of the original features though. | | 09/13/2005 | 151 |
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 | On January 25th, 1554, the city of Sao Paulo was founded at this site (Padre Anchieta "hands"). | | 09/12/2005 | 154 |
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 | Following their invasion in 1795, the British realized that the shoulder of mountain on Devil's Peak was a key point in their defenses, and built the King's Blockhouse. The Queens blockhouse fell into disrepair, but this one is still in good condition. | | 09/12/2005 | 144 |
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 | It was at No.22 Lansdowne Crescent that Jimi Hendrix suffered a drug overdose that, along with a Tuna sandwich, would kill him. He may have survived except that the ambulance drivers rushing him to St. Mary Abbots Hospital seemed to do everything wrong for an overdose victim and he choked on his vomit on the way. | | 09/12/2005 | 301 |
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 | On 14 October 1973, many pro-democracy demonstrators, mostly students, were killed in a bloody but successful effort to overthrow the dictatorial government at the time.
Note this violent sittuatation was not so different from the better-known Thian-Um-Mhen Red Square (Tianamen Square) of The People Republic of China. |  | 09/12/2005 | 252 |
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 | Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue L.A.. In 1997 rap singer Notorious B.I.G., Biggie Smalls or just Biggie was shot in his car while waiting at a red light at the corner of these streets. His two albums were titled "Ready to Die" and "Life After Death." | | 09/11/2005 | 183 |
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 | The Viper Room, 8852 Sunset Boulevard L.A. the place where River Phoenix died from a drug over dose in 1993 . He was 23 years old. The official cause of death was acute multiple drug ingestion. Australian band T.I.S.M. remembered River with a song " He'll Never Be An Old Man River". | | 09/11/2005 | 193 |
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 | James Dean was killed in 1955 in a car crash at the intersection of Highways 41 and 466 just before the city of Cholame . Highway 466, was changed to 46 a few years after he died . | | 09/11/2005 | 333 |
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 | Roman Theatre in Libya
If you look about half a mile to the east,
you will also find an Amphitheatre |  | 09/10/2005 | 301 |
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 | The founding site of the City of Los Angeles. It consists of the Plaza, Olvera Street, and the the Church of Our Lady of the Angels. | | 09/10/2005 | 195 |
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