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Locations of famous places in history |
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 | The island fort is built on a rocky islet at the mouth of River Minho. |  | 08/28/2005 | 204 | 
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 | Fortress on river Guadiana near the town of Elvas in Portugal. |  | 08/28/2005 | 251 |
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 | Oasis near archeologic site Keriya River |  | 08/28/2005 | 251 |
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 | Higher resolution overlay of Utah Beach, Normandy | | 08/28/2005 | 535 |
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 | Sagunt, anciet Saguntum, is an ancient city on a hilly site, twenty miles north of Valencia. |  | 08/27/2005 | 189 |
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 | The Aragonese Castle was built by King Ferdinand of Aragon between 1481 and 1492. | | 08/27/2005 | 207 |
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 | A fortress in Sicily. | | 08/27/2005 | 192 |
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 | Chinon Castle is a typical example of a very powerful castle. | | 08/27/2005 | 284 |
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 | The Château of Marly was located in what has become Marly-le-Roi, the commune that existed at the edge of the royal park. The town that originally grew up to service the château is now a dormitory community for Paris.
At the Château of Marly, Louis XIV of France escaped from the formal rigors he had constructed at Versailles. The chateau is no more, the hydraulic "machine" that... |  | 08/27/2005 | 194 |
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 | The Château de Vincennes is a 14th and 17th century French royal castle in the town of Vincennes, to the east of Paris, now a suburb of the metropolis. Like other more famous châteaux it had its origins in a hunting lodge, set up for Louis VII about 1150 in the forest of Vincennes. In the 13th century, Philip Augustus and Louis IX erected a more substantial manor: Louis IX is reputed to have de... | | 08/27/2005 | 261 |
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 | Here is a overlay of the Maya Pyramids at Tikal, Guatemala. | | 08/27/2005 | 2,472 |
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 | Here is Machu Picchu, the old Inca City never discovered by the Conquistadores. With a large overlay for the Machu Picchu Area, and a small overlay for a close-up of the City | | 08/27/2005 | 3,039 |
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 | This is the area near Kitty Hawk (it was the closest Post Office at the time) where Oliver and Wilbur Wright flew their planes. The straight line north has markers showing the length of their flights, the hill south is a memorial to the flight and right next door is appropriately an airport. | | 08/27/2005 | 309 |
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 | The castle was established in 1204 on the site of a former Viking fortress from the 930s. | | 08/27/2005 | 265 |
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 | A pentagonal stone-walled fort, built in 1773. | | 08/27/2005 | 427 |
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 | The Huaca Huallamarca is an adobe scaled pyramid with an impressive access ramp. | | 08/27/2005 | 601 |
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 | The castle is located on a hill overlooking the river Danube, the southern-most hill of the Small Carpathian Mountains, 150 meters above sea level. | | 08/27/2005 | 210 |
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 | Turkish castle in Greece. | | 08/27/2005 | 276 |
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 | Seat of the Teutonic Order and Europe's largest Gothic fortress. | | 08/27/2005 | 404 |
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 | The Tower of London was built by William the Conqueror, following his successful invasion in 1066. His initial structure was added to over the years by the various monarchs until it stood majestic and nearly square with two lines of walls defending the White Tower. The Tower has been host to many famous events - most of them murderous. Perhaps the most infamous of these was the murder of the Pr... | | 08/26/2005 | 508 |
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 | Often called the case of the moving coffins, the Chase family crypt in Barbados was the location of an unusual haunting. During the years of 1812 to 1820, the six solid lead coffins were found thrown around the sealed solid rock crypt after people reported hearing strange sounds coming from the crypt. Each time the crypt was opened, the coffins put back to their original locations and sealed ag... |  | 08/26/2005 | 194 |
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 | The murder spree began either late on the night of April 27 or early in the morning of April 28, 1996 at the Seascape guesthouse outside Port Arthur, where Bryant murdered the elderly couple who owned the business. It is believed that Bryant had made several offers to purchase this guesthouse in the previous months (using funds from a large inheritance), and was angry at the refusals.
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 | This is a (small) Overlay of the ancient Maya town of Chichen Itza, with a great view of the Kukulcan Pyramid.
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 | The Royal Palace of Amsterdam was build in the 17th century as the new city hall of Amsterdam. | | 08/26/2005 | 261 |
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 | The Citadel is an archeological sit in central Amman. | | 08/26/2005 | 348 |
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