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 | This center was opened 1997 used as cinema, Greenlands first one. It also contains restaurants, cafes and a theater/concert hall.
Before it was opened the people of Nuuk had to wait until a movie was on market as video but today the movies are shown on the same day as they are in Denmark.
http://www.katuaq.gl/database.asp?lang=eng&num=2 |  | 06/04/2007 | 1,206 | 
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 | The 202 meter Daegu Tower is South Korea's highest, built in 1992. | | 05/10/2007 | 398 |
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 | The wind- and water mills in Denmark have a long history since the first water mills were build near monasteries around year 1100. Around 1234 the first wind mill was build in Skaane in Sweden.
Since then every city and village had their own mill.
Around 1900 there were around 5000 mills in Denmark but today there only around 500-600 mills. Around 275 in very good conditio... |  | 04/30/2007 | 669 |
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 | Building that has a shape of a swastika, just outside of Decatur, in Alabama | | 04/09/2007 | 786 |
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 | This is an old windmill in a small village near the german-nederlands border. It was build in approx. 1840. The normaly use as mill finished during the World War II. In 1971 it was reopened as an youth centre. 1979 a ring was buildt around the tower. A long time the mill was place of the "Astronomical Adventure Camp" of the hobby astromers from Moers. In 1990 the wings were crashed down to the ... | | 04/01/2007 | 229 |
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 | Texaco refinery, holland nieuwerdorp | | 03/26/2007 | 180 |
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 | This is a CA sales building that burnt down like a few days before this was taken, and only been built again like last year, | | 03/19/2007 | 442 |
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 | These Dutch houses are designed to float. If the rivers and canals flood they rise with the tidewater. |  | 03/03/2007 | 350 |
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 | Fire control tower in the Kirchheller Heide, Germany. |  | 02/26/2007 | 185 |
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 | 4 Windmills on the ridge of this mountain, with other windmills further up and down the road for a total of 13 windmills. | | 02/11/2007 | 213 |
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 | Some of the many thermae in Germany | | 02/05/2007 | 230 |
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 | These buildings are arranged in what looks like an aerial view of a monoplane. | | 02/01/2007 | 180 |
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 | I thought people might be interested in seeing this destroyed building. |  | 01/27/2007 | 665 |
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 | Edinburgh Royal Infirmary was built in 1998 at Little France, Edinburgh. It replaced the original ERI which was in the city centre | | 01/03/2007 | 263 |
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 | After the EXPO 2000 in Hannover the Nepal Himalaya building was moved to the Martinipark in Wiesent.
Link in german:
http://www.nepal-himalaya-pavillon.de/index.php | | 12/19/2006 | 236 |
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 | Nearly 40 years after Chinatown's only public park was demolished to make way for the Dan Ryan Expressway, the South Side neighborhood celebrated the dedication of a new five-acre jewel on the Chicago River in 1999 - Ping Tom Memorial Park. With a new pagoda-styled pavilion, this riverfront park has become a community center. | | 12/17/2006 | 305 |
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 | 40 Wall Street is a 70-story skyscraper in New York City completed in 1930 after only 11 months of construction. It is located on the north side of Wall Street between Broad Street and William Street. It was first known as Bank of Manhattan Trust Building when it was built. Its pinnacle reaches 927 feet (282.5m) and was very briefly the tallest building in the world, soon surpassed by the Chrys... | | 12/13/2006 | 367 |
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 | The Kiev TV Tower (Ukrainian: Телевезійна вежа, Televiziina vezha; Russian: Киевская телебашня, Kievskaya telebashnya) is a 385 meter high lattice steel tower built in 1973 in Kiev, Ukraine. It is the high... |  | 12/04/2006 | 598 |
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 | The Long Ta (also known as Dragon Tower) (Chinese: 龙塔, Pinyin: lóng tǎ) in Harbin, China is a tall tower of lattice steel used for communication. It was built in 2000 and rises to 336 m (1102 ft).
The Long Ta Tower, Heilongjiang Broadcast and TV Tower, 336 meters high, ranks the 2nd highest in the world and the highest in Asia. It is a comprehensive multifuncti... | | 12/04/2006 | 332 |
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 | The Fernmeldeturm Mannheim is a 204.8 metre high concrete telecommunication tower with an observation deck at Mannheim. It was designed from the architects Heinle, Wischer und Partner and constructed between 1973 and 1975. This modern monument of Mannheim contains besides transmission facilities for UHR radio services and omnidirectional radio services a glassed observation deck and a revolving... | | 12/04/2006 | 266 |
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 | Big estate owned by somebody important enough for GE to label a village after their estate. (turn on the villages layer under "populated Places" and Antony Estate appears.) | | 12/02/2006 | 226 |
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 | Casa Batlló is a building designed by Antoni Gaudi and built in years 1905–1907.The building looks very remarkable — like everything Gaudi designed, only identifiable as Modernisme or Art Nouveau in the broadest sense. The ground floor, in particular, is rather astonishing with tracery, irregular oval windows and flowing sculpted stone work.The building looks very remarkable — like everything G... | | 11/24/2006 | 137 |
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 | A yurt in the Gobie desert. | | 11/23/2006 | 328 |
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 | A major seaport and amazing fortress, this is a man-made island which looks incredibly well defensible. | | 11/21/2006 | 321 |
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 | The Westhafen Tower in Offenbach while being built. Both under construction and when finished is it impressive. A picture of the tower up close and a view from the oppositeshore are included.
Nice duel language (German/English) website here: http://www.westhafentower.com/ | | 11/21/2006 | 218 |
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