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 | Špilberk Castle (derived from the German: Spielberg) is an old castle on the hilltop in Brno, Southern Moravia.
From a major royal castle - established around the mid-13th century - and the seat of the Moravian margraves in the mid-14th century, it gradually turned into a huge baroque fortress, the heaviest prison in the Austro-Hungarian empire and then the barracks. |  | 03/26/2007 | 300 | 



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 | An aerial reconnaissance picture made during WWI.
The big green rectangle ~1 mile to the south is an American cemetery. |  | 08/13/2005 | 251 | 
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 | The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria on 28 June 1914 in Bosnia-Herzegovina - then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire - brought the tensions between Austria-Hungary and Serbia to a head. This triggered a chain of international events that embroiled Russia and the major European powers. Thirty-seven days later the world was at war.
The heir to the Austro-Hungar... |  | 10/28/2009 | 22 | 



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 | The largest German military cemetery (Kriegsgräberstätte) in Europe is situated in Lommel. Since 1946 39.099 soldiers who died in WWI but mainly in WWII are buried here. During the fighting in Belgium and Germany (mainly at Aachen and Düren) the Americans buried the German dead provisionally on 4 temporary cemeteries from which the dead were later brought over to Lommel. Thousands of German sol... |  | 08/18/2009 | 96 | 



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 | Tombstone's famous "Boothill Graveyard" was originally plotted in 1878 and was first named "The Tombstone Cemetery". It was used as the city's main cemetery until the current cemetery, "Tombstone Cemetery" at the end of Allen Street was opened up in 1884. Afterwards, additional burials would be added from time to time. |  | 02/26/2007 | 351 | 



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 | The site of Becklingen War Cemetery was chosen for the position on a hillside overlooking Luneburg Heath, where Field-Marshall Montgomery accepted the German surrender from Admiral Doenitz on 4 May 1945. Burials were brought into the cemetery from isolated sites in the countryside, small German cemeteries and prisoner of war camps cemeteries, including the Fallingbostel cemetery, within a radiu... |  | 08/12/2007 | 707 | 



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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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 | Sofia War Cemetery contains the graves of Commonwealth servicemen who died as prisoners of war or with the occupying forces following the Bulgarian capitulation in September 1918.
The original cemetery contained 62 war burials, most of which were brought in from Dubnitza Cemetery, Radomir Cemetery and Military Cemetery, and Sofia Town Cemetery. Further graves were brought in fro... |  | 08/16/2009 | 150 | 



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 | On Copenhagen West Cemetery (Vestre Kirkegaard), the largest cemetery in Copenhagen are 4,643 soldiers and 5,344 German refugees from German occupied european areas buried.
The German cemetery is found in the southwestern part in two places. |  | 08/29/2009 | 30 | 



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 | German War Cemetery (Kriegsgräberstätte) with 21,160 graves.
The hill in the middle of the cemetery is a mass grave witch 296 casualties. When new German casualties worden found in Normandy, they will be buried in this hill. So the number of casualties on this cemetery is still rising.
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/84 |  | 08/19/2009 | 27 | 



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 | Amazing! The bridge the Stephen Colbert should of have had named after him is finally being built! Technically the "Megyeri Bridge," the Hungarian goverment had an online contest to decide this bridge's name. Stephen Colbert won both the primary and secondary rounds, but he's not Hungarian, so he was kicked out. Fans rejoice! For more info: http://www.nofactzone.net/?p=132. |  | 01/04/2007 | 363 | 



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 | Fairview Cemetery - Mount Olivet (Halifax)
This is the cemetery where victims of the sink of Titanic were burried. |  | 12/07/2005 | 553 | 



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