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Locations of famous places in history |
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 | The island of Mallorca is known as a holliday island but it also is a treasury full of »Talayotes«, megalithic
witnesses of one of the oldest cultures
of Europe. Who knows that nowhere else you'll find on such a small area of land such a lot of monuments, buildt in times, back to the oldest pyramids. |  | 09/18/2005 | 419 | 
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 | sites of death, murder, and mayhem: John Denver's plane crash, Ted Kazcinski's office, Rodney King & more! |  | 09/17/2005 | 511 |
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 | US-Radarstation Berlin-Teufelsberg | | 09/16/2005 | 266 |
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 | Charlottenburg Palace today is the largest residence of the Hohenzollern in Berlin. Originally built by Elector Frederick III as a summer residence for his wife Sophie Charlotte in 1699, the palace was later extended into a stately building with a cours d`honneur.
The magnificent palace is surrounded by a baroque garden, in which diverse architectures melt into a unique ensemble.... | | 09/16/2005 | 368 |
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 | The castle was built between 1233 and 1239 on the site of a former Norman fort. The bastions were added between 1535 and 1537. | | 09/16/2005 | 251 |
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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 | 151 |
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 | Union Station is a now defunct railroad station that has been converted to the medical field. | | 09/15/2005 | 165 |
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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 | 145 |
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 | The Bethlehem, PA star, which is lit up everynight and can be seen for miles around. |  | 09/15/2005 | 199 |
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 | The centre of the canal village of Shardlow, which has, so far, 52 buildings listed as being of historic interest. | | 09/15/2005 | 108 |
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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 | 174 |
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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 | 124 |
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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 | 144 |
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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 | 262 |
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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 | 192 |
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 | The Battle of Chancellorsville was a major battle of the American Civil War in 1863. Called "Lee's perfect battle" due to his risky but successful division of his army in the presence of a much larger enemy force, the battle pitted U.S. Major General Joseph Hooker's Army of the Potomac against an army half its size, Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Lee's audacity a... | | 09/14/2005 | 298 |
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 | Major General George B. McClellan affected a smile as he read the fateful orders from Washington. Turning toward his late night visitor, McClellan spoke without revealing his bitter disappointment. "Well Burnside, I turn the command over to you." With these words, the charismatic, overcautious leader of the Union's most famous fighting force exited the military stage, yielding to a new man with... |  | 09/14/2005 | 397 |
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 | The Battle of Antietam (known as the Battle of Sharpsburg in the South), fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, part of the Maryland Campaign, was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with over 23,000 casualties, but also has unique significance as the [partial] victory that... | | 09/14/2005 | 278 |
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 | The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee.
After the loss of Forts Henry and Donelson in February, 1862, Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston withdrew his forces into west Tennessee, northern Mississippi, and Alabama to reorganize. In early ... | | 09/14/2005 | 345 |
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 | The Battle of Fort Donelson was fought February 12–16, 1862 in the American Civil War. The capture of the fort by Union forces opened the Cumberland River as an avenue of invasion of the South and elevated Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant from an obscure and largely unproven leader to the rank of major general and the nickname "Unconditional Surrender" Grant.
The battle of Fort Donel... | | 09/14/2005 | 268 |
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 | An 11th century Norman wooden castle rebuilt in stone in the early 13th century. | | 09/14/2005 | 152 |
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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 | 208 |
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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 | 327 |
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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 | 177 |
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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 | 395 |
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