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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 | 181 | 
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 | Archeological Site Pompeii, Roman City // Der Untergang von Pompeji, Archäologischie Ausgrabungen |  | 07/31/2005 | 755 |
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 | This is the epicenter of the quake that destroyed the centuries old nearby mud fortress of Bam. More than 1500 people killed as unreinforced structures collapse. |  | 07/31/2005 | 293 |
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 | Archeological Site Roman Herculaneum // Römische Stadt Herculaneum, Archäologischie Ausgrabungen |  | 07/31/2005 | 414 |
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 | Costal defenses of Rio de Janeiro |  | 07/31/2005 | 359 |
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 | Verdun, a WWI battle site | | 07/31/2005 | 502 |
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 | Historic and modern coastal defense emplacements in and around San Francisco, CA. | | 07/31/2005 | 232 |
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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 | 900 |
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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 | 249 |
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 | Marks the point where the river Mosel flows in the Rhine.
On top stands a statue of emperor Wilhelm I. From 1953 to 1990 Deutsches Eck was memorial for the German reunification.
Das Deutsche Eck ist eine Landzunge in Koblenz an der Mündung der Mosel in den Rhein, auf der 1897 ein monumentales Reiterstandbild Kaiser Wilhelms I. errichtet wurde. Der Denkmalssockel diente v... | | 07/31/2005 | 420 |
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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 | 270 |
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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 | 306 |
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 | Site in Egypt where German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (the "Desert Fox") fought and finally lost.
Editor's Note (from the Wikipedia):
Rommel spent most of 1941 building his organization and re-forming the shattered Italian units, who had suffered a string of defeats at the hands of British Commonwealth forces under Major General Richard O'Connor. An offensive pushe... | | 07/31/2005 | 805 |
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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 | 352 |
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 | Memorialsite of Buchenwald-Concentrationcamp near Weimar.
http://www.buchenwald.de/ | | 07/31/2005 | 341 |
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 | War memorial built in 1936 in honour of the navy soldiers of all nations who were killed in action. At the feet of the large tower the submarine U 995 is placed to be on view. Inside the submarine Wolfgang Petersen shoot the interior scenes of the movie Das Boot. http://www.juergenthuro.de/html/u-995.html
In Laboe steht das Marineehrenmal für die gefallenen Seeleute beider Weltk... | | 07/31/2005 | 408 |
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 | The famous Glockenspiele in downtown Munich Germany | | 07/31/2005 | 320 |
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 | Timbuktu, Mali (Africa), center of salt and gold trade in the Sahara. Up to 1350 A.D. it controlled about 3/4 of the world's gold supply. | | 07/30/2005 | 362 |
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 | ...as it says: biggest indian structure, as far as I know. | | 07/30/2005 | 311 |
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 | In the 1830's, the 200ha (495 acres) large Tiergarten, a Royal hunting estate, was turned into a park. Centrally located between Mitte and Charlottenburg it is a favorite picnic and bbq place. At the center of a large roundabout in the Tiergarten, known as the Grossers Stern or great star stands the tall Siegessaule.
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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 | 369 |
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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 | 575 |
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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 | 547 |
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 | The final resting places of the boiler, bow & stern of the Titanic | | 07/25/2005 | 2,357 |
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 | Burg Frankenstein above Darmstadt (Hessen/Germany) was the very place Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley got from her inspiration for her famous novel "Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus". | | 07/23/2005 | 818 |
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