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Locations of famous places in history |
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 | Locations of infamous murder and mayhem. |  | 08/21/2005 | 413 | 
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 | This placemark shows the full extent of the fortifications surrounding the city of Copenhagen. |  | 08/21/2005 | 169 |
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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 | 388 |
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 | Cape and Lighthouse - Spain. Admiral Nelson gained the victory over the Spanish fleet at Trafalgar in 1805 | | 08/21/2005 | 205 |
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 | Chateau d'If. Used from 1634 as a detention center for political prisoners. Its most famous and romantic prisoner is the fictional inmate Edmond Dantès, the hero of Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Montecristo.
See http://images.google.ch/images?svnum=10&hl=fr&q=chateau+d%27IF&spell=1 |  | 08/20/2005 | 326 |
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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 | 303 |
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 | A column on an island on a pond on an island in the middle of the sea. | | 08/20/2005 | 133 |
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 | Aerial picture of Innsbruck made during WWII. | | 08/20/2005 | 276 |
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 | An old Alcatrazz like penitenciary around Marseilles.
( Real name Chateau D' If ) | | 08/20/2005 | 385 |
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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 | 138 |
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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 | 153 |
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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 | 329 |
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 | locations of important places in the assassination of JFK | | 08/19/2005 | 454 |
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 | Haithabu was the biggest Nordic city during the Viking Age. It is located at the head of a narrow, navigable inlet, the Schlei in the province of Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany. Find more at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedeby | | 08/19/2005 | 175 |
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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 | 112 |
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 | Memorial to Soviet soldiers, Schoenholzer Heide, Berlin, Germany | | 08/18/2005 | 210 |
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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 | 221 |
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 | Old Warehouse District (Speicherstadt), Hamburg | | 08/18/2005 | 221 |
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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 | 455 |
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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 | 446 |
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 | This is the place of J.F. Kennedy's death | | 08/17/2005 | 1,044 |
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 | The intact World Trade Center | | 08/17/2005 | 6,652 |
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 | Our famous ruin in Koenigstein, Germany. | | 08/17/2005 | 924 |
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 | The Potsdam Conference was a conference held in Potsdam, Germany (near Berlin), from July 17 to August 2, 1945. The participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the largest and most powerful of the victorious Allies that defeated the Axis Powers in World War II. The heads of government of these three nations—Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, Prim... | | 08/16/2005 | 189 |
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 | THE TAKEOVER OF MONTE CASTELLO
On February 21, 1945 the Brazilian Expeditionary Force achieved one of its most remarkable feats during the Campaign of Italy—the conquest of Monte Castello, until then considered an inexpugnable fortress.
That conquest became legendary not only for its expressive tactical meaning but also for the extremely adverse conditions that inv... | | 08/16/2005 | 231 |
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