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 | Construction of the Saint Elmo Castle was begun in 1329 by order of Charles of Anjou and was completed in 1343. The castle houses art and history exhibitions and hosts the Molaioli Library of Art and a videotheque |  | 10/15/2005 | 150 | 
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 | Southsea Castle was built by Henry VIII between 1544 and 1545 to protect Portsmouth against possible French invasion. Its revolutionary design provided for the most efficient use of guns in attack or defence now that artillery dominated warfare. | | 10/15/2005 | 186 |
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 | Sandgate Castle was one of Henry VIII's Device Forts. Built in 1539 near Sandgate, Kent, its exposed location has led to much damage by storm tides. Converted to a Martello Tower in the early 1800s, it is now in private ownership. |  | 10/15/2005 | 146 |
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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 | 223 |
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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 | 114 |
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 | The Etowah Indian Mounds is an archeological site in Bartow County, Georgia. | | 10/13/2005 | 157 |
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 | The Ziggurat of Agargouf was built in the 15th century B.C., by king Kurigalzu. | | 10/13/2005 | 252 |
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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 | 267 |
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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 | 244 |
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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 | 204 |
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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 | 123 |
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 | On July 15, 1779 General Anthony Wayne and his men attacked a British fortification located on the peninsula at Stony Point. The peninsula, situated on the west bank of the Hudson River about 10 miles (16 k.) south of West Point and 35 miles (56 k.) north of New York City was the western terminus of the King's ferry. Wayne, marching south from the West Point area, split his forces into three se... | | 10/10/2005 | 176 |
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 | On October 6, 1777, a combined force of roughly 2,100 Loyalists, Hessians and British regulars led by Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton attacked Forts Montgomery and Clinton from the landward side (which was only partially completed) with support from cannon fire from British ships on the Hudson River. By the end of the day, both forts had fallen to the British who burned the forts and tore ... | | 10/10/2005 | 184 |
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 | In 1777 the British forces moving south from Canada drove the Americans back into the fort, then hauled cannon to the top of undefended Mt. Defiance, which overlooked the fort.
"Where a goat can go, a man can go, where a man can go, he can drag a gun" - Maj. Gen. William Phillips quote as his men brought cannon to the top of Mt. Defiance in 1777
Faced with bombardm... | | 10/10/2005 | 292 |
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 | The Battle of Tannenberg of 1914 was a decisive conflict between Russia and Germany in the first days of World War I, fought by the Russian 1st and 2nd Armies and the German Eighth Army between August 17 and September 2, 1914.
The Russian army used radio to transmit their attack plan, but they did not encrypt the messages, believing that the Germans would not have access to Russi... | | 10/10/2005 | 333 |
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 | On 14 July (Bastille Day) the Fourth Army was finally ready to resume the offensive in the southern sector. The attack, known as the battle of Bazentin Ridge, was aimed at capturing the German second defensive position which ran along the crest of the ridge from Pozières, on the Albert–Bapaume road, southeast towards the villages of Guillemont and Ginchy. The objectives were the villages of Baz... | | 10/10/2005 | 226 |
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 | The 1916 Battle of the Somme was one of the largest battles of the First World War, with more than one million casualties. The British and French forces attempted to break through the German lines along a 25 mile (40 km) front north and south of the River Somme in northern France. One purpose of the battle was to draw German forces away from the battle of Verdun; however, by its end the losses ... | | 10/10/2005 | 1,106 |
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 | Verdun was the site of the Battle of Verdun in 1916 during World War I. One of the costliest battles of the War, Verdun exemplified the 'war of attrition' pursued by both sides and which cost so many lives.
By the winter of 1915-1916, German General Erich von Falkenhayn was convinced that the war could only be won in the west. He decided on a massive attack on a French position '... | | 10/10/2005 | 840 |
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 | This database contains comprehensive information on every known nuclear test and explosion. The data is taken from various governmental and non-governmental sources.
The database is live and searchable on a wide range of criteria, and you can add your own comments. | | 10/09/2005 | 796 |
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 | Ottoman equivelant of The Tower of London. | | 10/08/2005 | 265 |
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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 | 331 |
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 | It was built in 1664 as a part of the Yeni Cami complex which is located next to it. One of the oldest bazaars in Turkey. | | 10/04/2005 | 248 |
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 | The Covered Bazaar (Kapalı Carsı, the largest covered market place in the world which consists of approximately sixty lanes and more than three thousand shops, is situated in the centre of the city. This unique and interesting market place is one of those places in the city which one must see to really appreciate. | | 10/04/2005 | 262 |
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 | One of the biggest tombs of Andhra Pradesh | | 10/01/2005 | 176 |
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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 | 234 |
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