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Locations of famous places in history |
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 | The present Citadel, completed in 1856, is the fourth in a series of forts since 1749 to occupy the hill overlooking the harbour. |  | 09/09/2005 | 184 | 
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 | This is the house of the famous silversmith and where he started his midnight ride on April 18, 1775. It is also Boston's oldest building and one of a few remaining from the early colonial America. |  | 09/09/2005 | 186 |
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 | The Old North Church was built in 1723, and was inspired by the works of Christopher Wren. |  | 09/09/2005 | 162 |
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 | A Moorish castle, the Castelo de Mouros occupies around 12.000 square meters. Archaeological excavations have shown that the oldest buildings go back to the 8th century. |  | 09/09/2005 | 149 |
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 | One of the most important Prussian fortresses, the Zitadelle was constructed in the 16th century as part of a bigger city fortification. |  | 09/09/2005 | 245 |
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 | De Burcht is a 12th-century castle in the form of a circular tower built on an earth mound. It has never been used for its military function. In the 18th century it became a formal garden with fountain. | | 09/09/2005 | 199 |
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 | British fort built in 1793 to defend York (Toronto) from American attack. It contains the largest group of War of 1812 buildings in Canada. | | 09/09/2005 | 228 |
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 | The Mausoleum of Augustus is a large tomb built by the Roman emperor Augustus in 28 B.C. on the Campus Martius in Rome. The Mausoleum measures 90 meters in diameter by 42 meters in height. |  | 09/09/2005 | 387 |
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 | It is estimated that the Hippodrome of Constantine was about 150 metres long and 130 metres wide. Its stands were capable of holding 100,000 spectators. | | 09/09/2005 | 207 |
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 | The remains of Barnenez Chambered Cairn was only really rediscovered in 1955 when quarrying for stone to build a local road cut down into one of the major internal structures. This quarrying has left part of the cairn removed, allowing a good view of the construction of the cairn. | | 09/09/2005 | 160 |
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 | Philip II built the Sant Felip fort at the entrance of the port of Maó after sustained Muslim pirate attacks. | | 09/09/2005 | 186 |
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 | Wandlebury Ring was an iron age hill-fort and much of the defensive earthworks remain. | | 09/09/2005 | 195 |
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 | Burgh Mill was recorded in the Domesday Book in 1085. A brick built mill was erected in the 1500s and further enlarged around 1790, possibly making it the oldest mill in the England. | | 09/09/2005 | 169 |
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 | This is the historic site where, on September 6, 1781, British Forces, commanded by the infamous Benedict Arnold, captured the Fort and massacred 88 of the 165 defenders stationed there. | | 09/09/2005 | 189 |
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 | This Iron Age settlement is a very representative example of a "coastal castro". | | 09/09/2005 | 142 |
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 | Dumbarton was the center of the ancient kingdom of Strathclyde from the 5th century until 1018. | | 09/09/2005 | 167 |
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 | The castle of Arad in romania, built in the 17th century. | | 09/09/2005 | 336 |
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 | Site of an early English settlement wiped out by Miles Standish and the Pilgrims of Plymouth. The placemark actually denotes the location of the May Pole that the settlers erected, much to the dismay of their Puritan neighbors.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Drbr/williams.html | | 09/08/2005 | 191 |
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 | The now defunct Bethlehem Steel Works in Bethlehem, PA. The steel produced in this plant was used across the country for bridges and buildings and what-not. | | 09/08/2005 | 221 |
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 | Year of 68 at Tlaltelolco, several university students were killed by the Mexican Army at this plaza. The students at the Plaza were in a massive manifestation when the army started a shooting against them. Several were killed. | | 09/07/2005 | 197 |
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 | The La Brea Tar Pits are a famous cluster of tar pits located in the Miracle Mile district of Los Angeles, California; here buried asphalt seeps to the surface from the extensive petroleum deposits below the surface of the Los Angeles Basin. It is best known for the large number of mammal fossils from the last ice age which have been found there, but fossilized insects and plants, even pollen g... | | 09/06/2005 | 437 |
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 | n 1832, Sydney opened Australia’s first quarantine station at North Head, just south of Manly. Ships carrying immigrants from all over the world were made to anchor in Spring Cove and inspected for diseases such as Smallpox, Spanish Influenza, Tuberculosis, Bubonic Plague and Cholera.
If anyone was found to be infected the entire ship was quarantined for a minimum of 30 days, at the cost... | | 09/06/2005 | 213 |
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 | This is a small tour of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. It contains 13 placemark relating to the ancestral Puebloan People. | | 09/05/2005 | 238 |
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 | This map shows the plan of Angkor Thom and includes Angkor Wat to the south and part of Preah Khan to the north. | | 09/05/2005 | 662 |
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 | This is an overlay in pretty good resolution of Angkor Wat on its own. | | 09/05/2005 | 748 |
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