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 | FORT MARLBOROUGH is an old fortress Built in 1713 till 1719 by British East India. As a British colonial heritage, Marlborough is located in the main street of Bengkulu. Inside the building, there is a subway connected to the outside. It was as the second strongest fort built by British in the east after Fort George in Madras, India. Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles in 1817 was appointed by British ... |  | 01/30/2007 | 408 | 
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 | Fort Vredeburg is a fortress built by the Dutch in Yogyakarta during the colonial ages. It is located in front of Gedung Agung, one of 7 presidential palaces in Indonesia and the Sultan Palace called Kraton. It was bulit in 1765 to protect Dutch governor. It is surrounded by a trench that is still visible.
This square-shaped fortress has 4 watch towers at its 4 corners. In the p... |  | 01/30/2007 | 473 |
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 | Fort Cornwallis is an old star-shaped fort located on the northeastern coast of Penang, Malaysia. It is named after the late 18th century Governor-General of Bengal, India. Fort Cornwallis was built by Captain Sir Francis Light after taking possession of the island from the Sultan of Kedah in 1786. It was originally built with a nibong (Malay: palm trunk) stockade with no permanent structures, ... | | 01/30/2007 | 392 |
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 | Fortín de San Gerónimo del Boquerón (Fort Saint Jerome of the Large Entrance) is a small fort located in the entrance to what is known today as Condado, Puerto Rico lagoon in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It was built during the 17th century to replace a smaller battery (called El Boquerón) that stood at the easternmost end of the San Juan islet. The original Boquerón battery defended San Juan from at... | | 01/30/2007 | 178 |
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 | The Golubac fortress (Serbian: Голубачки град or Golubački grad) is located near the town of Golubac in north-eastern Serbia, on the right side of the Danube river, and marks the entrance to the Djerdap national park. It was most likely built during the 14th century, and it is a rather large and well-preserved fo... | | 01/30/2007 | 332 |
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 | The 'Fort Napoleon' in Oostende is the only still completely intact Napoleonic fortress left in Europe. The 'Fort' stands in the dunes north of the city center. In 1810 Napoleon Bonaparte, then Emperor of France, had it constructed during the French occupation of Belgium. Five hundred Spanish prisoners of war had to build it together with bricklayers from the Oostende area. The fort was finishe... | | 01/30/2007 | 246 |
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 | Fortress Josefov (Pevnost Josefov in Czech) is large defence complex built between 1780 - 1790 in eastern Bohemia (today Czech Republic). It was named after emperor Joseph II. Together with fortress Terezín it was intended as protection against attack from Prussia but it never actively participated in a war.
Today it is part of city Jaroměř. | | 01/29/2007 | 225 |
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 | The word originates from the French word "caponnire" - which strictly means capon-cote or house.
The fire coming from the feature (e.g. muskets, machine-guns, case-shot etc.) sweeps along the bottom of the attendant ditch and so prevents the enemy from establishing itself there. The term is found in current use as late as I7th century.
In some types of ... |  | 01/29/2007 | 183 |
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 | Panama Viejo, located on the Pacific Ocean coast and adjacent to tthe delta of the Abajo river, is the most important archaeological site in the Republic of Panama.
It is the oldest Spanish settlement on the Pacific coast of the Americas. Founded in 1519 by Pedrarias Dávila, it was abandoned after the attack of the city by the pirate Henry Morgan and never rebuilt. Its ruins we... |  | 01/14/2007 | 429 |
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 | Includes the scuttled German High seas fleet, WW1 British losses, and the Royal Oak. |  | 01/07/2007 | 405 |
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 | Leith Martello Tower is located within the secure area of the Port of Leith, facing out onto the Firth of Forth. Built in 1809, during the Napoleonic Wars, the 9-m (30-foot) high tower was part of a network designed to prevent a French invasion and see off American Privateers. | | 01/02/2007 | 429 |
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 | The Battle of Messines was launched on June 7, 1917 by British General Herbert Plumer's second army, which included the 16th (Irish) Division and the 36th (Ulster) Division, near the villages of Mesen (in French Messines, as it was on most maps at that time). The target of the offensive was the Messines Ridge (a ridge running north from Messines village past Wytschaete village, which the Irish ... | | 12/19/2006 | 550 |
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 | Sobibór
Nazi Death Camp
April, 1942 - October 14, 1943
site of the most successful prisoner revolt and escape from any Nazi camp during World War II
• As part of Operation Reinhard, Sobibór was a Nazi German extermination camp named after the village outside which the camp was built, now part of Lublin district in Poland. It was one of six extermination cam... | | 12/18/2006 | 4,597 |
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 | This file contains three overlays:
One shows the Appian Way and the Traian Appian Way;
Other shows the roman ways from Rome;
The last shows the downtown Rome at Roman Empire age, with the Roman Forum, where the Appian Way starts. | | 12/15/2006 | 381 |
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 | This collectionm marks all recipients of the "Medal Of Honor" fromn the China Incursion (1900) onwards. This is a large collection of over 1000 marks. All marks contain, where possible, images of the recipeints and other relevant web links. |  | 12/14/2006 | 1,599 |
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 | This file marks every holder of the VC (Victoria cross) throughout the world. Over 1300 marks are present in the file. All marks contain, where possible, pictures of the recipient and all relevant links. | | 12/14/2006 | 1,132 |
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 | This collection marks the place of birth of the world's most evil serial killers. All marks contain images, various weblinks & crime summation. | | 12/14/2006 | 1,156 |
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 | Castle Clinton or Fort Clinton is a circular sandstone fort and national monument in Battery Park at the southern tip of Manhattan, New York City.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Clinton | | 12/13/2006 | 160 |
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 | Map of 1893 Chicago World's Fair overlay. Shows location of original buildings relative to today's park, including the science museum (only original structure remaining). World's fair regaining attention because of best selling book, "Devil in the White City". | | 11/23/2006 | 263 |
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 | Petrovaradin fortress (Serbian: Петроварадинска тврђава or Petrovaradinska tvrđava) is a fortress on the Danube river, near Novi Sad in the Serbian province of Vojvodina. The cornerstone of the present-day southern part of the fortress was laid on October 18th... |  | 11/18/2006 | 413 |
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 | The Miliarium Aureum (golden milestone) in Rome was a gilded column of bronze. It was put on on instruction of Emperor Augustus 20 BC. at the eastern corner of the Rostra on the Forum Romanum in Rome. Originally the names of the capitals of the provinces of the Roman Empire and their respective distances of Rome stood on the column. This column should remind humans of the size of the empire and... | | 10/20/2006 | 292 |
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 | Some Clandestine centers of detention (CCD) in Argentina.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Reorganization_Process for more details.
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 | Constructed in Wellington’s inner harbour in 1885, Fort Buckley was the first fort capable of defending the capital city’s port from a naval attack.
In the 1870s and 1880s, prompted by growing fears of a Russian invasion, and the increasing realisation that New Zealand could no longer rely solely on either the British navy or the country’s isolation for protection, the New Zeala... | | 10/13/2006 | 161 |
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 | Mistra Battery is or was one of the most beautiful coastal batteries built in the Mellieha area. Nowadays it is being used as a fish-farm, where a number of alterations were made on it, destroying also parts of it.
Although the building of a battery was mentioned in the report prepared by the commissioners of fortifications Fontet and D’Arginy, it seems that this battery was not... | | 10/13/2006 | 200 |
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 | Fort Saint Elmo is a fortification on the island of Malta. It stands on the seaward shore of the Sceberras Peninsula that divides Marsamxett Harbour from Grand Harbour, and commands the entrances to both harbours. The majority of the Sceberras Peninsula is now occupied by Malta's capital city Valletta.
Prior to the arrival of the Knights of Malta, a watchtower existed on this po... | | 10/13/2006 | 325 |
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