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 | Iron Age hillfort in Cornwall. |  | 09/15/2007 | 203 | 
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 | Enclosed Bronze Age settlement on Dartmoor. |  | 09/06/2007 | 305 |
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 | Neolithic chambered tomb close to Silbury Hill and Avebury. | | 09/06/2007 | 302 |
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 | Fort on Hadrian's Wall. | | 09/06/2007 | 341 |
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 | Ancient village in Cornwall. | | 09/06/2007 | 185 |
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 | The most impressive of Britain's Iron Age hillforts. | | 09/06/2007 | 220 |
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 | Roman fort behind Hardian's Wall close to Housesteads. | | 09/06/2007 | 210 |
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 | Fort on Hadrian's Wall. The structure near the river is a bathhouse. | | 09/06/2007 | 181 |
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 | The most famous fort on Hadrian's Wall. | | 09/06/2007 | 192 |
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 | Location of the big train robbery on 08.08.1963. | | 08/08/2007 | 403 |
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 | U.S. troops first landed on Puerto Rican soil at the southern port of Guánica. They were originally supposed to disembark at Cape Fajardo in the east or Doraco to the north, but General Miles changed the landing site because of Guánica's proximity to Ponce (15 mi. west) and the improved road and harbor there.
General Miles left Guantánamo Bay, Cuba with 3,314 men, including a convoy, at... | | 07/17/2007 | 614 |
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 | This is not a histoy book, just visual help for planning a trip to the battlefields of Verdun. There are tons of books and millions of internet sites.
Some localizations of cemeteries are estimated due to the lack of innocence. Please feel free to help when you get knowledge of the exact place. | | 07/07/2007 | 1,674 |
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 | The "Thingstaette" is a place was built between 1934 and 1935 by the Nazis. It was one of more than 40 all over Germany. It was opened the Joseph Goebbels at June 22, 1935. The plan was to create places to celebrate old germanic customs. Today its used for theatre and concerts. Every year over the night from April 30th and May 1st more than 10.000 people celebrate together with torches and fire... |  | 06/16/2007 | 338 |
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 | Ardotalia (also known as Melandra, or Melandra Castle) is a Roman fort in Gamesley, near Glossop in Derbyshire, England.
Ardotalia was constructed by Cohors Primae Frisiavonum—The First Cohort of Frisiavones. Evidence for the existence of this unit exists not only from the building stone found at the site but also from various diplomas and other Roman writings. This unit would ha... | | 06/10/2007 | 317 |
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 | Arbeia is the remains of a large Roman fort in South Shields, Tyne & Wear, which has been partially reconstructed. It was first excavated in the 1870s and all modern building on the site were cleared in the 1970s. It is now managed by Tyne & Wear Museums.
Original fort
The fort stands on the Lawe Top, overlooking the River Tyne. Founded around 120, it later became ... | | 06/10/2007 | 294 |
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 | Galava (or Ambleside Roman Fort) was a 1st/2nd century fort in the Roman province of Britannia. Its ruins are located on the northern edge of Lake Windermere at Waterhead, near Ambleside, in the English county of Cumbria (formerly in Westmorland). It guarded the Roman road from Brocavum (Brougham) to Glannoventa (Ravenglass).
The fort was described in Roman Britain in 1914, by F.... | | 06/10/2007 | 295 |
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 | During the Viking Age, Birka on the island of Björkö (literally: "Birch Island") in Sweden, was an important trading center which handled goods from Scandinavia as well as Central and Eastern Europe and the Orient. Björkö is located in the Lake Mälaren, 30 kilometers West of Stockholm, in the municipality of Ekerö. The archaeological sites of Birka and Hovgården, on the neighbouring island of A... | | 06/08/2007 | 653 |
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 | These are the remains of the Viking sttlement with the famous church ruin from the year 1300.
The Vikings came here around 950 and the village was abandonned around 1408. | | 06/04/2007 | 249 |
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 | The place in N.W. Italy where was signed the treaty between Italy and Yugoslavia in 1920
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 | Western end of the Island, first built up in 1898-99 as a defensive position protecting Long Island Sound and armed with two 12 inch and two 10 inch "rifles" on disappearing carriages.
Operational during WW2 with a small airfield. Linked with Fort Terry, Fort Michie which were sub-posts, and Camp Hero. Closed in the late 1950s and sold to private interests. | | 04/26/2007 | 366 |
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 | Begun in 1640 and named in honor of the founder of Basse-Terre, Charles Houël, this large colonial fortress was the first building of the town to be erected. The visitor will find it well preserved, standing on a prominent hill in the town's southern end. The fort contains a historical museum and the graves of two famous French officers, General Richpance and Admiral Gourbeyre.
A... | | 04/25/2007 | 333 |
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 | Fort Charles is an old British fort on the island of St. Kitts. It's capture by the French was the reason for the construction of the more famous Brimstone Hill Fortress, which overlooks it.
The fort today is not in good shape. It was abandoned by the British in 1854, and used from 1890 to 1996 as a Leper colony. Since then, it has been completely abandoned and is overgrown with... | | 04/25/2007 | 326 |
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 | Construction of Fort Charles was begun in 1671, with the aim of protecting Charleston and its harbour. Mounting 26 cannon, Fort Charles was the main fort on the island, although there were numerous other, smaller, gun emplacements. The reason for all of these fortifications was the protection of Nevis' lucrative sugar trade, which at one time was more profitable for Britain than all of the Nort... | | 04/25/2007 | 285 |
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 | Remains of an 18th-century British fort and Fort Rodney, where the Admiral for which it is named spied on the French ships from its strategic viewpoint . | | 04/25/2007 | 293 |
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 | This fortress is the symbol of the city, it was built in 1659 and was raised on a hill from which you can have a beautiful panoramic view of Cumaná and the surrounding.
Subsequent replacements were destroyed by earthquakes. The present fort was restored after a 1929 earthquake. | | 04/25/2007 | 302 |
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