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Locations of famous places in history |
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 | Site of signing of Declaration of Independence and Constitutional Congress |  | 08/23/2005 | 250 | 
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 | Al Kuds in Palestine near Israel |  | 08/23/2005 | 666 |
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 | This is the Murrah Federal Building Bombing Memorial in downtown Oklahoma City. |  | 08/23/2005 | 182 |
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 | Monument erected in 1825 to Comte de Jean Francois de Galaup de Laperouse. No news was heard of Laperouse after he left here on 10 March 1788. He had set up a camp on the beach just to the north of this monument (now called Frenchmans Bay). The grave of Father Le Receveur, who was wounded in Samoa, is at the other end of the path. The area is now the suburb of La Perouse, Sydney. | | 08/23/2005 | 171 |
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 | The Arch of Ctesiphon, just outside Baghdad, part of a palace built by Sasanian kings in the sixth century AD. | | 08/22/2005 | 320 |
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 | You can see Dawson City on the bank of the Yukon River, where gold-rushers rushed in 1898.
The river joining the Yukon from the east is the famous Klondyke River. Along the river you can spot huge "scars" made by big, floating gold dredges. |  | 08/22/2005 | 417 |
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 | The Grand Palace (Thai พระบรมมหาราชวัง, Phra Borom Maha Ratcha Wang) is a complex of buildings in Bangkok, Thailand. It served as the official residence of the king of Thailand from the 18th century to early in the 20th century. Construction on the palace complex began in 1782 during the reign of Rama I. | 08/22/2005 | 450 |
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 | This is the place where the wall fall! | | 08/22/2005 | 610 |
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 | Phra Pathom Chedi (Thai พระปฐมเจดีย์ ) is the highest stupa of the world with a height of 127 m. It is located in the town Nakhon Pathom, Thailand. Unfortunately, very low-res image.
The name Phra Pathom Chedi means Holy chedi (stupa) of the beginning. The stupa at the location is first mentioned in scripture... |  | 08/21/2005 | 215 |
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 | The "stepstone" for all potential prospectors during the 1898 Klondyke Gold Rush. People arrived by ship in Skagway, AK, than had to schlepp around 100s of kg of supplies up the valley and up the pass. On top of the pass (the border between Alaska and B.C.) there was a weigh scale where Canadian official checked if goldrushers had enough supplies to last one winter in the Yukon. They ... |  | 08/21/2005 | 262 |
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 | Locations of infamous murder and mayhem. | | 08/21/2005 | 501 |
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 | The (in)famous pass on the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan, linking Peshawar, Pakistan (where Rambo demonstrated his famous "blue light" ) and Jalalabad, Afghanistan. This is the "main" gate into Afghanistan. |  | 08/21/2005 | 535 |
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 | Cape and Lighthouse - Spain. Admiral Nelson gained the victory over the Spanish fleet at Trafalgar in 1805 | | 08/21/2005 | 243 |
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 | This file summarizes the main locations of the adventure Shackleton and his crew passed with the Endurance from 1914 to 1916. | | 08/20/2005 | 364 |
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 | A column on an island on a pond on an island in the middle of the sea. | | 08/20/2005 | 175 |
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 | Camp Toccoa - Easy Company
The history of the 506th began at Camp Toccoa, Georgia on July 20, 1942, as a newly formed parachute unit assumed the name CURRAHEES - an American Indian name meaning “STAND ALONE” - which would become synonymous with their combat history. Shortly thereafter, the 101st Airborne Division was activated on August 16, 1942; and the Currahees of the 506th we... | | 08/20/2005 | 211 |
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 | Currahee Mountain - Easy Company
The regiment was initially formed at Camp Toccoa, Georgia in 1942 where it earned its nickname, "the Currahees", after the Currahee Mountain they trained on inside the camp. The 506th would participate in three major battles during the war: D-Day, Operation Market Garden, and the Battle of the Bulge. During World War II, the only command... |  | 08/20/2005 | 194 |
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 | Upgraded in response to planned deployment of Pershing-2 missiles in Europe by the Reagan regime, the Dunai 3-U radars broadened the surveillance area so as to cover West German territory. Approx. 70 km southwest of Moscow. | | 08/19/2005 | 393 |
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 | locations of important places in the assassination of JFK | | 08/19/2005 | 550 |
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 | Site of Leubrie's Theatre, Memphis TN. Oscar Wilde spoke here on June 12, 1882, during his lecture tour of the United States. | | 08/19/2005 | 155 |
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 | The Monument was built in the reign of the present King to commemorate the soldiers, policemen and civilians who have lost their lives during the border conflict of Thailand and Indochina. | | 08/18/2005 | 244 |
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 | Old Warehouse District (Speicherstadt), Hamburg | | 08/18/2005 | 254 |
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 | The famous China Beach near Danang, Vietnam, where G.I.s where taken for a break during the Vietnam war. | | 08/17/2005 | 575 |
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 | Sydney's Alcatraz - Fort Denison is a defensive facility occupying a small island located north of the Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney Harbour. Originally named Pinchgut (possibly owing to the poor quality and quantity of food given to imprisoned convicts), the island was used as a place of confinement for recalcitrant convicts during the early period of British settlement. The fortress, whic... | | 08/17/2005 | 504 |
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 | This is the place of J.F. Kennedy's death | | 08/17/2005 | 1,097 |
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