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 | Most of the alignment of the Death Strip along the inner German border still can be seen today. It was an extensive system of fortifications that ran the entire 1381 km (858 miles) length of the border between East Germany (the German Democratic Republic, GDR) and West Germany (the Federal Republic of Germany, FRG). During the Cold War (1952-1990) the border system was used by the East German g... |  | 02/24/2008 | 2,652 | 
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 | AN unexpected historical discovery has been made at Scottish Water's site at Glencorse, near Penicuik — a Roman marching camp nearly 2000 years old.
The revelation has provided another clue as to how the Romans organised their occupation of the Lothians. |  | 01/05/2008 | 242 |
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 | The railway came to the hamlet of Ravenscar in 1885, with the opening of the Whitby & Scarborough Railway. With it came the ambitions of a group of Yorkshire businessmen; to build at Ravenscar a seaside resort for 5000 inhabitants, to rival Scarborough. The Peak Estate Company paid £10,000 for the land, plans were drawn up, and 300 men built the roads and drains and laid in mains water. But... | | 12/21/2007 | 472 |
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 | On the corner of Commercial Street and Fournier Street in Spitalfields stands perhaps the most famous pub in Ripper history. The Ten Bells Pub has been standing since at least 1752. The pub has undergone one name change. From 1976 to 1988, it was known as "The Jack the Ripper". Since 1988 it was given its original name of "The Ten Bells". | | 12/15/2007 | 422 |
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 | This is the horn antenna of the Bell Laboratories. In 1964 Robert Woodrow Wilson and Arno Penzias accidentally discovered with this antenna the Cosmic microwave background radiation, considered as the best evidence for the Big Bang theory.
In 1978, Wilson and Penzias received the Nobel Price for their discovery. | | 12/02/2007 | 1,110 |
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 | Contains approximately 80,000 placemarks showing locations of registered historic places in the US and US Territories. | | 11/20/2007 | 377 |
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 | Iron Age hillfort in Derbyshire. Naturally protected by cliffs on 2 sides, the double ramparts on the other side are clearly visible. | | 11/16/2007 | 456 |
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 | At Barup east of the road between Hellested and Karise there is a Bronze Age mound with a fantastic view over the valley at the river of Tryggevælde. The mound is known all over the contry as the Hill of the Elves, Elverhøj - the dwelling of the King of the Elves. The white haw-thorn on the hillis, according to an old legend a gift of the chief of Stevns. The Elver People obviously protected th... |  | 11/11/2007 | 502 |
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 | Around Berlin 6 of 302 guard towers from the Berlin Wall are stll there.
1 was placed on top of another building on Mühlenstrasse to have a better view over the area.
In this file they are located with a photo of them.
http://www.berlin.de/mauer/index.de.html
| | 11/04/2007 | 635 |
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 | From around 1100 to 1523 this was the possible place for the King of Denmark and the leading men of this region to meet and dicuss the State of the Union. Nobody knows if it's the right spot or if it was somewhere nearby.
Every region in Denmark had a thingstead. Many places around Denmark they can still be seen. At the village Gulde in Schleswig (Germany) a thingstead as they mi... | | 11/04/2007 | 192 |
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 | Sutton Hoo is the site of two Anglo-Saxon cemeteries of the 6th and early 7th centuries, one of which contained an undisturbed ship burial including a wealth of artifacts of outstanding art-historical and archaeological significance.
Sutton Hoo is of a primary importance to early medieval historians because it sheds light on a period of English history which is on the margin betw... | | 11/03/2007 | 282 |
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 | A cave system near Beijing in China. It has yielded many archaeological discoveries, including one of the first specimens of Homo erectus, dubbed Peking Man, and a fine assemblage of bones of the gigantic hyena Pachycrocuta brevirostris.
Link added by admin: http://www.unesco.org/ext/field/beijing/whc/pkm-site.htm
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 | On April 18, 1947 British engineers attempted to destroy the entire island in what became known as the "British Bang" (or "Big Bang"). 4,061 (another source claims 6,800) tons of surplus World War II ammunition were placed in various locations around the island and set off. The island survived, although the extensive fortifications were destroyed. The blast was listed in the... | | 10/24/2007 | 481 |
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 | Cahaba, Alabama (sometimes spelled Cahawba), now a ghost town and state historic site, was the first permanent state capital of Alabama from 1820 to 1825, following Huntsville being designated as the Constitutional Convention Capital on July 5, 1819, upon the formation of the state legislature. It was located near the confluence of the Alabama and Cahaba Rivers, not far from the city of Selma. ... | | 10/23/2007 | 344 |
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 | Misthusum was a small village build in the 12th centurz on 8 hills and contained 12 marchfarms. The village was destroyed by the big flood on october 11th. 1634. The worst ever at the danish west coast. It was called "the giant mandrowing".
44 people drowned including all animals.
Later some of the farms were reconstructed but 1814 the last family left. The only ... | | 10/21/2007 | 240 |
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 | From mid 1660th this was the main entry to the city of Fredericia, left of the gate is the old gate house.
Originally it was made by wood but 1747 it was falling apart and 1748 a new one was build by bricks. On the top you see the monogram of King Frederik V.
To the left of the Gate House is the bigger Danmarks Port and to the north is another gate into Fredericia,... | | 10/17/2007 | 315 |
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 | 1893, when the southern part of Denmark was german territory from 1864 until 1920, the german residents of the area bought this hill near Aabenraa. It was at that time 93 meters high and one of the highest points in the area.
1895 a huge memorial for the german Chancellor Bismark was errected. It stood here until the 16th august 1945 when it was blown away. 1955 the remains where... | | 10/17/2007 | 212 |
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 | The Golden Horns of Gallehus were two golden horns, one shorter than the other, discovered in North Slesvig, or Schleswig, in Denmark. The horns were believed to date to the fifth century (Germanic Iron Age).
The longer horn was discovered on July 20, 1639 by a peasant girl named Kirsten Svendsdatter in the village of Gallehus, near Møgeltønder when she saw it protrude above the ... | | 10/02/2007 | 230 |
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 | Here are three examples of the Roman occupation of Britain, north of Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland. | | 10/01/2007 | 1,581 |
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 | Husvik Whaling Station of South Georgia Island.
Used from abt 1907 to 1961
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 | This is the burial mound of the Egtved girl. The girl lived in the bronze age.
She was burried in an oak coffin in 1370 BC and a hill of 22 meters in diameter and is 4 meters high was created. 1921 it was escavated and the coffin is shown in the National Museum of Copenhagen. Copies of the finds are shown at the museum to the south of the hill. The area around the hill shows how ... | | 09/27/2007 | 254 |
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 | Cliffe Fort is a Royal Commission fort built in the 1860s on the edge of the Cliffe marshes to protect against invasion via the Thames. It is opposite Coalhouse Fort in Essex. They are 2km apart. Construction was difficult due to the marshy ground and the malaria carrying mosquitos. It was armed with 12.5” and 11” RML’s, weighing around 35 tons. Protection of these guns was provided by granite ... | | 09/24/2007 | 448 |
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 | This gun is from the spanish battleship ESPANA.
Laid down on February 5, 1909, launched on February 5, 1912 and commissioned on October 23, 1913, Espana carried a main armament of eight 12 inch main guns mounted two per turret; one centerline forward, one centerline aft and one wing turret on each side that could fire to both sides and forward and aft. Espana was the name ship o... | | 09/20/2007 | 845 |
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 | Reggie Kray, one of the most notorious gangsters of the 1960s, has died peacefully in his sleep after a battle against bladder cancer. Kray, 66, died in the honeymoon suite at the Beefeater Town House Hotel in Norwich, Norfolk. | | 09/18/2007 | 220 |
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 | Location of the big train robbery on 08.08.1963. | | 08/08/2007 | 566 |
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