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 | Fort Stanwix was a colonial fort erected in 1758 by British General John Stanwix, at the location of present-day Rome, New York. The fort guarded a portage known as the Oneida Carrying Place during the French and Indian War. A reconstructed fort has been built at the site by the National Park Service, and the Fort Stanwix National Monument lies in the center of the modern city. |  | 12/11/2005 | 262 | 



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 | Originally a farmhouse built in the 13th century, Hever Castle in Kent was the seat of the Boleyn family. It was converted into a manor in 1462 by Geoffrey Boleyn, who served as Lord Mayor of London. King Henry VIII's wife Anne Boleyn, although probably not born here, did grow up here for a time. After Anne was executed and her father died the castle came into the possession of Henry VIII wh... |  | 02/04/2006 | 410 | 
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 | This is the house that Henry Ford and his wife Clara Bryant- Ford had built in 1914 in the city of Dearborn, MI. They wanted a place away from the big city because by then Henry was very successful with his business and wanted more privacy and a place to be closer to nature, which both he and his wife loved. This is also the house where Henry died in 1947. |  | 08/17/2005 | 991 | 
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 | Actually the replica of the HMS Bounty stands in the harbour of Sydney.
Built for the film, "Mutiny on the Bounty" starring Mel Gibson, Bounty is a faithful replica of Captain Bligh's 18th Century Vessel.
The original Bounty was burned by Fletcher Christian at Pitcairn Island in 1789, but the legend lives on. |  | 01/11/2007 | 128 | 



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 | West Norwood Cemetery is a cemetery in West Norwood, Lambeth, London. Originally called the "South Metropolitan Cemetery", it was opened in 1837 as the cemeteries of Southwark and Lambeth began to fill up. Architect William Tite was a director of the cemetery company and designed the site's landscaping.
The cemetery contains 65 Grade II and Grade II* listed monuments.
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 | The current Fort Moltrie is the third fort at this location. It is a brick fort built in 1809. It was modernized in the 1870s, with rifled cannon and concrete bunkers. Additional modernization in the 1880s turned all of Sullivan's Island into a military complex, of which the old fort was just a part. |  | 03/16/2006 | 378 | 



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 | Originally built for Tennessee's 1897 Centennial Exposition, this is the only replica of the original Parthenon in Athens. The Parthenon serves as the city of Nashville's art museum. |  | 12/19/2006 | 282 | 



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 | A Norman castle was built here in 1093 on the ruins of a Roman fortification. A motte was raised, topped by a wooden fort.
In the 12th century a twelve sided stone keep was built and a band of red stone separates the Roman and Norman stonework. The eldest son of William the Conqueror, Robert, was held captive at the castle by his youngest brother Henry I, and died here in 1134. In 1... |  | 03/04/2006 | 190 | 



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 | On this spot the house of the Wrights lived in Dayton OH. It was also Orville's birthplace.
The house has been removed to the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village in Dearborn MI along with ther bicycle shop which was located next to their home.
Instead of the house you see the foundations and the veranda replica of the house. On the opposite side of the house i... |  | 07/07/2009 | 80 | 



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 | In 1777 the British forces moving south from Canada drove the Americans back into the fort, then hauled cannon to the top of undefended Mt. Defiance, which overlooked the fort.
"Where a goat can go, a man can go, where a man can go, he can drag a gun" - Maj. Gen. William Phillips quote as his men brought cannon to the top of Mt. Defiance in 1777
Faced with bombardm... |  | 10/10/2005 | 601 | 
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 | Here's a replica of the "Fat Man" bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. At Eglin AFB. |  | 06/10/2007 | 538 | 



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 | Fort Barrancas (1839) or Fort San Carlos de Barrancas (from 1787) is the name of a historic United States military fort in the Warrington area of Pensacola, Florida.
The hill-top fort, connected to a sea-level water battery, overlooks Pensacola Bay, from what is now Naval Air Station Pensacola. Because the hill-top fort was rebuilt of brick, becoming Fort Barrancas, the older, w... |  | 04/06/2007 | 221 | 



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