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 | On December 26, 1860, six days after South Carolina seceded, U.S. Army Major Robert Anderson abandoned the indefensible Fort Moultrie and secretly relocated his two companies (85 men) of the 1st U.S. Artillery to Fort Sumter. Over the next few months, repeated calls for Union surrender from Confederate Brigadier General P.G.T. Beauregard were ignored, and Union attempts to resupply and reinforc... |  | 08/03/2005 | 1,136 | 
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 | Pact of eternal mutual defence, thereby laying the foundation of the Swiss Confederation as it stands today. |  | 08/03/2005 | 166 |
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 | This site in Moscow, Maine was used to watch for Soviet missile attack during the Cold War. Abandoned almost as quickly as the Cold War. During its operational lifetime it provided cover to many marijuana farmers as surveillance helicopter flights were not allowed in the vicinity. |  | 08/03/2005 | 292 |
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 | The fort of Bala Hissar, destroyed by the British in 1879 to avenge the death of their envoy in Kabul, is now a military college. The royal palace and an ancient citadel stand outside the present city.
Does anyone know what is written on the hill just North of it? |  | 08/03/2005 | 236 |
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 | The Battle of Verdun was a major battle of the Western Front in World War I. The battle was fought between the German and French armies between February 21 and 19 December 1916 around Verdun-sur-Meuse in northeast France. It resulted in more than a quarter of a million deaths and about half a million wounded. It was the longest battle of World War I, and the second bloodiest after the battle of... | | 08/03/2005 | 499 |
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 | This is the place where the "Enola Gay" took off for its 6-hour-flight to Hiroshima.
During WW II Tinian was the largest airfield, with 4 runways and 500 B-29 bombers stationed.
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 | Amphitheatre Neroniano - Flavio, Pozzuoli | | 08/03/2005 | 346 |
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 | ruins of babylon |  | 08/03/2005 | 1,090 |
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 | Castello (castle) Sforzesco, build in 1300 | | 08/03/2005 | 281 |
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 | Today, if Spaniards speak of something very expensive, they say 'vale un porosi'. In the 16th century, the area around Potosi, Bolivia, was regarded as the world's largest industrial complex. The processed silver from the ore out of the Cerro Rico would have been sufficient to build a silver bridge with a silver road across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe, with enough more to haul the same amount ... | | 08/02/2005 | 249 |
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 | The Ponte Vecchio, literally "Old Bridge," is a famous medieval bridge over the Arno River, in Florence, Italy, noted for having numerous shops (mainly jewelers) built along it. It is Europe's oldest segmental arch bridge.
Believed to have been first built in Roman times, it was originally made of wood. After being destroyed by a flood in 1333 it was rebuilt in 1345, this time in... |  | 08/02/2005 | 442 |
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 | Between 1921 and 1923, an "Einstein Tower" was erected on Telegrafenberg (the Telegraph Hill). This was the result of a cooperation between the world-famous physicist and astronomer Erwin Finlay Freundlich and the architect Erich Mendelsohn. | | 08/02/2005 | 227 |
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 | Location of Philo Farnsworth's Green Street workshop in San Francisco, California, the spot where electronic television was invented. Original lab is gone but a nice memorial and plaque still remain.
From the Wikipedia: Farnsworth developed the vacuum tube television display, an idea he conceived at age 14 and developed at age 21. During a patent lawsuit against RCA his high school... | | 08/02/2005 | 125 |
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 | Former al-qaeda training camp outside of Jalalabad, Afghanistan | | 08/02/2005 | 451 |
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 | This is the school taken over by Chechen freedom fighters(terrorists) in early 2005. Hundreds lost their lives. | | 08/02/2005 | 764 |
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 | The Bergen-Belsen Memorial
is situated sixty kilometres north-east of Hannover, in the Lüneburg Heath. Located on the grounds of the former P.O.W. (Prisoner of War) and concentration camps, marked graves and monuments hold reminders of the suffering and deaths of its prisoners. A documentation centre illustrates the history of the camp and its victims
http://www.bergenbels... | | 08/02/2005 | 936 |
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 | The 67-foot Peace Arch is jointly maintained by the United States and Canada. The concrete structure was the inspiration of Sam Hill, railroad builder and industrialist. Construction (begun in 1920) was completed Sept. 6, 1921.
The Arch commemorates the signing of the Treaty of Ghent in 1814 and the Rush-Bagot Agreement in 1817. Entered into by the King of England and U.S. President ... | | 08/02/2005 | 209 |
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 | Historic Fort Wayne
Still standing at the old fort are the original 1848 limestone barracks building, the 1845 Star Fort which was renovated in 1861, the restored Commanding Officers House and Spanish American War Guardhouse, two large parade grounds, several Officers houses and support buildings built between the 1880s and 1940s, and a mound constructed by Native Americans that is nearl... | | 08/02/2005 | 333 |
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 | This is the workshop (or art studio) where Rembrandt van Rijn painted before he went to Amsterdam. | | 08/01/2005 | 128 |
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 | Crater left after the explosion of a large tank of ammonium nitrate. The explosion took place on September 21, 2001 (10 days after the World Trade Center terror attack) and left 31 victims. | | 08/01/2005 | 549 |
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 | The place where Napoleon finally lost his last battle |  | 08/01/2005 | 454 |
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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 | 401 |
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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 | 894 |
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 | Festung Ehrenbreitstein is a fortress on the same-named mountain on the right side of the Rhine opposite to the town of Koblenz. It was built as the backbone of the regional fortification system, Festung Koblenz, by Prussia between 1817 and 1832 and guarded the middle Rhine region, an area that had been invaded by French troops repeatedly before. The fortress was never attacked. | | 07/31/2005 | 245 |
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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 | 472 |
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