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1851, 3174 SINGAPORE - Fort Canning
3174 The Gate of Fort Canning Posted on 25.08.2015, 22.10.2017Between 1859 and 1861, a fort was build on a small hill located in the southeast portion of Singapore, to defend the harbour. It was named...
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3045, 3175 VIETNAM - Hmong people
3045 A Hmong little girl with her birdPosted on 10.05.2017, 23.10.2017The Hmong is an ethnic group from the mountainous regions of China (where is considered a sub-groups of the Miao ethnicity),...
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3176 ROMANIA (Braşov) - Bran Castle
Located not far from Brașov,on the former border between Transylvania and Wallachia, Bran Castle is often erroneously referred to as the home of the title character in Bram Stoker's Dracula, although...
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3177 BULGARIA (Ruse) - Basarbovo Monastery
Basarbovo Monastery (the Monastery of Saint Dimitar Basarbowski) - is a Bulgarian-orthodox cave monastery situated in the picturesque valley of the Roussenski Lom River, at 10km from Ruse, in...
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3178 POLAND (Mazovia) - Warsaw
3178 Warsaw: 1. View of the Castle Square; 2. Łazienki Park - Palace on the Isle (south façade); 3. Wilanów Palace; 4. Dmowski RoundaboutThe legend attributes the Warsaw name to a fisherman Wars and...
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3179 POLAND (West Pomerania) - Kołobrzeg Lighthouse
Located on the Polish coast of the Baltic Sea, on the right bank of the river Parsęta, at the entrance to the port of Kołobrzeg, Kołobrzeg Lighthouseis 26m tall, with a range of its light glare of 29.6...
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2538, 2571, 3180 UNITED STATES - Plains Indian Feathered War Bonnets
2538Posted on 10.05.2016, 23.05.2016, 27.10.2017When the average person think of an American Indian man, he usually pictures him as wearing a large eagle feather war bonnet. This stereotype has become...
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1824, 3181 THAILAND (Bangkok) - Wat Arun in Bangkok
1824 Wat Arun (1)Posted on 15.08.2015, 28.10.2017Wat Arun (Wat Arun Ratchawararam Ratchawaramahawihan, "Temple of Dawn") is a Buddhist temple in Bangkok Yai district of Bangkok, on the Thonburi west...
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3182 FRANCE (Saint Barthélemy) - Colombier Beach
Located in the northwestern part of the island, Colombier Beach is a secluded beach - an entire bay area only accessible by boat or foot. It is a lovely white sand beach lined with vegetation, and the...
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2599, 3183 SLOVENIA (Slovene Littoral) - Piran and its inhabitants
Posted on 07.06.2016, 29.10.2017Located in southwestern Slovenia on the Gulf of Piran on the Adriatic Sea, Piran is one of the three major towns of Slovenian Istria. The town has much medieval...
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3184 NORWAY - Greetings from Norway
Norway is an unitary monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard. The Antarctic Peter I...
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3185 SINGAPORE - Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and Museum
Located in the Chinatown district of Singapore, the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and Museumis based on the Tang dynasty architectural style and built to house the tooth relic of the historical Buddha. The...
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3187 ROMANIA - Vlad the Impaler (1431-1476/77)
Ambras Castle portrait of Vlad III (c. 1560), reputedly a copy of an original made during his lifetimeVlad III, known as Vlad the Impaler (Romanian: Vlad Țepeș), was voivode of Wallachia three times...
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3120, 3187 MALAYSIA (Malacca / Penang) - Melaka and George Town, Historic...
3120 Saint Paul's Church in Melaka Posted on 12.08.2017, 02.11.2017Melaka and George Town have developed over 500 years of trading and cultural exchanges between East and West in the Straits of...
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3188 VIETNAM (Red River Delta) - St. Joseph's Cathedral in Hanoi
Located west of Hoàn Kiếm Lake, in a small square within the Old Quarter of Hanoi, St. Joseph's Cathedralis a late 19th-century Gothic Revival church (resembling Notre Dame de Paris), that serves as...
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3188 POLAND (West Pomerania) - Gąski Lighthouse
Located on the Polish coast of the Baltic Sea, next to the road between Ustronie Morskie and Mielno, Gąski Lighthouse was built between 1876 and 1878 from red bricks. The height of the lighthouse is...
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3191 CHINA (Hong Kong) - Pottinger Street
Known also as the Stone Slabs Street (since it is paved unevenly by granite stone steps),Pottinger Street is located in Central District, and was named in 1858 after Henry Pottinger, the first Governor...
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3192 UNITED KINGDOM (England) - Mary Rose
Launched in 1511, during the reign of King Henry VIII, the Mary Rose was named after the King's younger sister, Mary Tudor (1496-1533), who was later briefly Queen of France. The rose was the emblem of...
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3193 INDIA (Assam) - Kaziranga National Park (UNESCO WHS)
Located in the heart of the state of Assam, Kaziranga National Park is one of the last areas in north-eastern India undisturbed by a human presence. The fluctuations of the Brahmaputra River result in...
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3194 VIETNAM - The map of the country
Vietnam is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula, bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, Thailand across the Gulf of Thailand to the southwest,...
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