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Locations of famous places in history |
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 | This collection show where Polish rulers (kings, princes, presidents, prime ministers)are buried. |  | 07/05/2008 | 405 | 
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 | Fort Pannerden is a disused military fort situated near to the village of Pannerden in the east of the Netherlands. In November 2006, it became the focus of national news stories because a group of squatters were evicted in a large-scale operation by police, helped by the army. Later on in the same month, it was resquatted.
The fort was constructed between 1869 and 1871 to serve ... | | 06/28/2008 | 435 |
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 | HMVS Cerberus is a breastwork monitor, a type of turreted warship designed in the 1860s by Edward Reed. Launched in 1868 to defend the Australian colony of Victoria, Cerberus was named after the three-headed mythical dog which guarded the entrance to Hades.
Cerberus is one the few surviving examples of a monitor warship in the world, but is currently rapidly deteriorating in Mel... | | 06/20/2008 | 370 |
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 | Battle of Olustee map overlay | | 05/27/2008 | 288 |
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 | After the defeat of Germany in World War I Germany was forced to accept a plebiscite whose unilateral conditions then were defined by Denmark.
The first plebiscite was held in later Northern Schleswig on February 14, 1920. The zone was defined by Denmark as far towards the South as possible. So called Northern Schleswig (Zone I) had to vote en bloc (i.e. as a unit with the majori... | | 03/22/2008 | 161 |
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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 | 2,722 |
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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 | 243 |
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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 sal... | | 12/21/2007 | 476 |
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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 | 1,115 |
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 | Contains approximately 80,000 placemarks showing locations of registered historic places in the US and US Territories. | | 11/20/2007 | 381 |
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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
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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 | 485 |
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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 | 346 |
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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 | 317 |
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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 | 216 |
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 | Husvik Whaling Station of South Georgia Island.
Used from abt 1907 to 1961
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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 | 449 |
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 | The hovercraft was invented by Sir Christopher Cockerell whilst he owned and worked at Ripplecraft, the boatyard in Somerleyton. From 1953 to 1956 as well as designing and building hire craft for the Broads Sir Christopher “worked on the problem of making boats go faster”. He was attempting to make boat propulsion more energy efficient and one of his experiments was to inject air under the hull... | | 09/21/2007 | 189 |
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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 | 847 |
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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 | 221 |
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 | Location of the big train robbery on 08.08.1963. | | 08/08/2007 | 568 |
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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 | 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 | 413 |
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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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