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 | The World Peace Bell is located in Newport, and with a weight of 33,285 kg (73,381 lb) and width of 12 feet (3.7 m), is the largest swinging bell in the world. The bell was dedicated on December 31, 1999, and rang for the first time as the year 2000 dawned
Initial plans in the summer of 1997 were to cast the bell at a foundry local to Newport, Kentucky. Consideration was given to... |  | 08/21/2006 | 307 | 



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 | 'Knowlton Rings' consists of 4 earthworks: the North Circle, Church Circle, Southern Circle, and the 'Old Churchyard'. In addition to these sites, to the east of the Church Circle is the Great Barrow, the largest round barrow in Dorset, and almost certainly directly related to the henges. The most prominent site in the complex is the 'Church Circle', now commonly called Knowlton Henge.
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 | The Guinness Book of Records lists the Whitechapel Bell Foundry as Britain's oldest manufacturing company, having been established in 1570 (during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I) and being in continuous business since that date, but now a link has been established through research back to one Master Founder Robert Chamberlain, thus tracing an unbroken line of founders in Aldgate and Whitechapel... |  | 04/30/2006 | 167 | 



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 | Hutton Moor is a prehistoric henge in North Yorkshire.
It could heve held 2000 people crowd together in a narrow rectangle 11km long and no more than 1.5km across.
http://megalithix.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/hutton-moor-dishforth-north-yorkshire/ |  | 09/30/2009 | 38 | 



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 | Timber Circle in Wiltshire, England.
Durrington Walls is a prehistoric henge enclosure monument situated close to Woodhenge and Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain. It is a Class II henge and measures around 500m in diameter. It was first discovered by ariel photography in 1925.
The location was first occupied during the middle Neolithic(around 3100-2400BC). Two rings of concentric ti... |  | 11/28/2005 | 405 | 
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 | This is Bell Mountain, north of Victorville, California. |  | 06/20/2008 | 205 | 



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 | In 1859 a wooden cathedral was built and then replaced in 1882 by the five cupola cathedral on that site today. In 1895 a bell tower was constructed but consequently destroyed by the soviets in 1930 at the same time the cathedral was closed. In 1992 the cathedral resumed operations and began restoration projects including the rebuilding of the bell tower.
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 | Avebury is the site of a large henge and several stone circles surrounding the village of Avebury in the English county of Wiltshire. It is one of the finest and largest Neolithic monuments in Europe, about 5,000 years old. Although older than the megalithic stages of Stonehenge 32 kilometres (20 mi) to the south, the two monuments are broadly contemporary overall. Avebury is roughly midway bet... |  | 05/02/2006 | 289 | 



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 | The Bull Ring is a Class II henge that was built in the late Neolithic period near Dove Holes in Derbyshire, England, and is National Monument number 23282. There are also two barrows about 20m away from the henge; one oval, one bowl.
The henge consists of a large, circular earthwork,[3] which is currently about 1m high and 9-11m wide; however it was originally 2m high and 5.5-7m wide. Th... |  | 11/07/2007 | 276 | 



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 | This bell tower is the remains of the church of the village Alt Graun (Curon Antica).
The village was abandoned 1953 and demolished when the dam at Resia was completed and the new lake Rechensee (Lago di Resia was made.
But all began 1939 when the fascist government changed the water level by 17 meters without asking the citisens or having prooved it by law. They e... |  | 08/14/2007 | 313 | 



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 | Following Hitler's declaration in 1933 that Nuremberg should be the "City of the Nazi Party Rallies", it was decided that monumental buildings be built for the NS mass events on a suitable open area of ground. In 1934 Albert Speer, Hitler's favourite architect, was commissioned to draft an overall plan for the Nazi Party Rally Grounds. The area utilized by Speer was 11 square kilometres in size... |  | 08/01/2005 | 1,143 | 



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 | A large artwork in Santa Fe created by Adam Horowitz with more than 100 discarded refridgerators layed out simlar stonehenge in England but was partially damage in a storm |  | 12/14/2007 | 254 | 



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