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Locations of famous places in history |
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 | The place where Napoleon finally lost his last battle |  | 08/01/2005 | 516 | 
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 | During the late 2nd millennium B.C. in the Bronze Age, a special type of defensive structure known as Nuraghi (for which no parallel exists anywhere else in the world) developed on the island of Sardinia, Italy. |  | 08/01/2005 | 445 |
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 | Fort Michilimackinac was built by the French on the south shore of the Straits of Mackinac in 1715 as a stretegically located fortified trading post. The fort was not built primarily as a military facility but as a link in the French trade system, which extended from Montreal through the Great Lakes region and northwest to Lake Winnipeg and beyond.
In 1761 the French relinquish... |  | 08/01/2005 | 954 |
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 | The Hermannsdenkmal (German for Hermann monument) is located in North Rhine Westphalia in Germany in the Southern part of the Teutoburg Forest, which is southwest of Detmold in the district of Lippe. It stands on the densely forested and 386 m tall Teutberg in the ring fortification located there, which is called Grotenburg. The sword has the following inscription:
Deutschlan... |  | 07/31/2005 | 509 |
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 | Archeological Sites in Rome, Italy // Historische Stätten des antiken Roms | | 07/31/2005 | 842 |
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 | An about 2 m high Menhir/stone build up 2500 BC. Formerly it was an occult place of the Chatten tribe. In the middle age it was a place trials were hold.
A menhir is a large, single upright standing stone (monolith or megalith), of prehistoric European origin.
The word menhir was adopted, via French, by 19th century archaeologists on the basis of words in the Breto... | | 07/31/2005 | 224 |
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 | Costal defenses of Rio de Janeiro |  | 07/31/2005 | 528 |
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 | Historic and modern coastal defense emplacements in and around San Francisco, CA. |  | 07/31/2005 | 291 |
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 | Sodom was the chief town of a group of five towns on the plain of the Jordan River in an area that constituted the southern limit of the lands of the Canaanites (Genesis 10:19). Lot, a nephew of Abram (Abraham) chose to live in the city. According to the Bible, both Sodom and Gomorrah —called as a group The Cities on the Plain—were destroyed by God for their sins. Opinions differ as to what the... | | 07/31/2005 | 1,094 |
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 | This is an old Nike missile site on an island in the Long Island Sound near New York City. The base is actually on what was once a potter's field, the largest in the NYC area. Over 1 million people were buried here by prisoners. The radar base for the missiles is located just to the north on Davids Island. |  | 07/31/2005 | 333 |
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 | This is the Nike Missile radar base located in Livingston, NJ. The base sits high atop a hill and is now an art park.
The radar base was set here to control Nike missiles which would have been launched from the base in East Hanover, NJ, just a few miles away. (Have a look at the file I uploaded previously for the East Hanover Nike missile base.) | | 07/31/2005 | 394 |
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 | This is the site of the old East Hanover, NJ Nike Missile Base. It is now gone, covered by condominiums. The streets in the center of the map are where there used to be a bunch of missile silos. If you look off Nike Drive, toward Hornung Road, these now-abandoned homes were once soldier's homes.
The Nike Missiles at this base had small nuclear warheads and were intended to prevent... | | 07/31/2005 | 473 |
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 | The place where 1066 Willem the concerer defeated and killed Harold Godwinson, the last Saxon King of England, and destroyed his army, opening England to the Norman conquest. | | 07/31/2005 | 415 |
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 | ...as it says: biggest indian structure, as far as I know. | | 07/30/2005 | 373 |
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 | Hot Spot in the cold war.
Point Alpha is located on the border between Hessen and Thuringia between Rasdorf and Geisa in the Rhoen Mountains. Located in the middle of nature-preserve Rhoen and other nature sanctuaries, this historic facility with its authentic buildings and grounds is a reminder of the partition of Germany and the horrors of the Cold War. The entire complex is a ... |  | 07/30/2005 | 439 |
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 | The East West road is the route 9 from Thailand to Vietnam. From this viewpoint to the east it is just 40 km to the Vietnamese border, where the De-Militarized-Zone (17th paralell) was. The Ho-Chi-Minh trail started from North Vietnam into Laos, crossed the road #9 at Xepone and moved south on a network of paths through Laos and Cambodia into South Vietnam. This smalltown received more tons of ... | | 07/30/2005 | 679 |
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 | The City of Trier was founded by the Roman Emperor Augustus about 2000 Years ago. Trier is known as the oldest City in Germany and an UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1986. / Die Stadt Trier wurde vor 2000 Jahren von Kaiser Augustus gegründet. Sie gilt als Deutschlands älteste Stadt und ist seit 1986 Weltkulturerbe der UNESCO. | | 07/25/2005 | 611 |
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 | Former Wall checkpoint between separated West and East Berlin | | 07/22/2005 | 2,079 |
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 | This is the site of the toppling of Saddam Hussein's statue on 9 April 2003. The statue stood on the south end of the oval and is still visible in this image. The mosque with the blue dome on the southeast side is the 14th of Ramadan Mosque. The large building on the northwest corner of the square is the Palestine Hotel.
I updated the description of the placemark to include a ... | | 07/21/2005 | 2,031 |
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 | Ancient pyramical complex of Xochicalco; outside Mexico City.
After the fall of the Teotihuacan hegemony and before the rise of the Toltec military state local powers rose in Mexico in the epiclassical period, AD 650-900. For easy defense they were typically build on hill-tops, like this one.
Impressively, the amount of details on Google Earth is far in advance of the textbook aer... | | 07/21/2005 | 1,207 |
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 | 46m high and built in 5th Century before Jesus was born. |  | 07/20/2005 | 2,801 |
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 | One of the best ports I ever visited and quite an interesting place peopled since Neolithic times.
St. Paul was ship wrecked on Malta. Later it became home to the Knights Hospitalers.
It has a history that dreams are made of...
(Just google Bogart and Malta)
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 | Some of locations involved in the Charlie Manson mass-murder case of 1969. | | 07/19/2005 | 1,569 |
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 | Location of Thomas Alva Edison's Laboratory and Factory in West Orange, NJ | | 07/18/2005 | 300 |
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 | This is the famous plaza where the assasination of JFK took place. The Texas School Book Depository and the grasy knoll are clearly visible. | | 07/18/2005 | 606 |
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