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 | Zvolen is situated in the southwestern part of the basin of Zvolen by the confluence of rivers Slatina and Hron under the promontory of Javorina mountain range. The first written notice about the settlement comes from 1135 and is related to the locality of Pustý hrad ( a castle) where used to be the center of power administration. From the 14th century it served as a residence of county adminis... |  | 10/17/2005 | 165 | 
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 | The Zvolen castle ( a national cultural monument) is a gothic building masterpiece. It was ordered to be built by the Hungarian king Ľudovít Veľký z Anjou (Ľudovít the Great from Anjou) as a gothic hunting residence in the 2nd half of the 14th century. The building was renewed by the later owner – Hungarian aristocrat Ján Thurzo at the turn of the 15th and 16th century. Being inf... |  | 10/17/2005 | 171 |
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 | Big Pit is a real coal mine and one of Britain's leading mining museums.
The mine opened for visitors in 1983.
Big Pit stands on the edge of Blaenafon | | 01/27/2007 | 173 |
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 | The village of Hontianske Nemce is situated in the picturesque valley of river Štiavnica. It is located in the District of Banská Bystrica, only about 10 km from the town of Krupina. |  | 10/17/2005 | 289 |
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 | A large stone circle in the Grampian region of Scotland. The recumbent stone circle has a large stone slab aligned to the SSW, in line with the major southern moonset, flanked by two tall stones (known as flankers) with the rest of the stones in the circle being graded in size around to the smallest opposite the recumbent. There is a ring cairn within the circle.
The stone circle is thou... | | 11/22/2005 | 199 |
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 | There is a huge open pit mine that looks like a crater, which is roughly 270tf deep. |  | 08/19/2005 | 1,027 |
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 | Boscawen-Un is a Bronze age stone circle close to St Buryan in Cornwall, UK. It consists of 19 upright stones in an ellipse with diameters 24.9m and 21.9m, with another, leaning, stone just south of the centre. There is a west-facing gap in the circle, which may have formed an entrance.
The leaning stone aligns exactly with the centre stone at the Męn-an-Tol and the church at nea... | | 11/01/2009 | 14 |
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 | Two symmetrical pit craters side-by-side, one of the few examples of this type of crater in the U.S. The pit craters, which were lava conduits, were formed by explosions and then a collapse. | | 11/11/2008 | 452 |
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 | This stone was transported by a glacier and ended here at Hesselager about 15000 years ago.
It weighs approximately 1000 tons with a circumference of 46 meters. It has a volume of approximately 370m3.
The size of the stone you can see by the man on the photo. | | 03/03/2007 | 253 |
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 | Oak Island is noted as the location of the so-called Money Pit, a site of numerous excavations to recover treasure believed by many to be buried there. |  | 09/11/2005 | 326 |
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 | An about 2 m high Menhir/stone build up 2500 BC. Formerly it was an occult place of the Chatten tribe. In the middle age it was a place trials were hold.
A menhir is a large, single upright standing stone (monolith or megalith), of prehistoric European origin.
The word menhir was adopted, via French, by 19th century archaeologists on the basis of words in the Breto... |  | 07/31/2005 | 226 |
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 | The three huge open pit coal mining sites of Inden, Heimbach and Garzweiler in western Germany, including the power plants of Weisweiler, Neurath and Frimmersdorf and placemarks for all mammut bucket chain excavators. | | 03/31/2006 | 621 |
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