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1202 CHRISTMAS ISLAND - Flying Fish Cove
Christmas Island is a territory of Australia (since 1957) in the Indian Ocean, which has an area of 135 square kilometres, and a population of 2,072 (70% Australian Chinese, 20% European, and 10%...
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1203 CANADA (Ontario) - Toronto's Old City Hall reflected in Cadillac...
Toronto's Old City Hall, one of the largest buildings in Toronto and the largest civic building in North America upon completion in 1899, housed the city council until 1966. Designed by prominent...
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1204 SWEDEN - The world's largest struck coin
In 1646 a ship, loaded with iron bars, was wrecked in the archipelago of Gryt in Östergötland. In the cabin there was a chest containing nearly two thousand Swedish copper coins. Furthermore, five...
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1205 NEW CALEDONIA (Maré Island) - A traditional hut
Maré Island is the second-largest of the Loyalty Islands, in the archipelago of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. The population of Maré is about 6900, of mainly...
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1206 JAPAN (Kyūshū) - Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival
Hakata Gion Yamakasa is a Japanese festival celebrated from 1 to 15 July in Hakata, Fukuoka. Its rites centre is on Kushida Jinja, a Shintoshrine dedicated to Amaterasu and Susanoo, founded in 757. It...
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1207 PITCAIRN ISLANDS - The map of the Pitcairn Island
The Pitcairn Islands, officially named the Pitcairn Group of Islands, are a group of four volcanic islands (Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie, and Oeno) that form the last British Overseas Territory in the...
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1208 BELGIUM (West Flanders) - Lacemakers in Bruges
The origin of lace is difficult to locate in both time and place. Some authors assume that the manufacturing of lace started ever since the Ancient Rome, but firm evidence there are only since the 15th...
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1209 SPAIN (Andalusia) - A bullfight in Plaza de Toros in Ronda
Bullfighting (Spanish: corrida de toros), also known as tauromachia or tauromachy, is a traditional spectacle of Spain, Portugal, southern France and some Hispanic American countries (Mexico, Colombia,...
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1210 MONGOLIA - Terkhiin Tsagaan Lake
Known also as White Lake and located in the Khangai Mountains in central Mongolia, in Khorgo-Terkhiin Tsagaan Nuur National Park, Terkhiin Tsagaan Lake is an astonishingly beautiful lake with crystal...
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1211-1214 UNITED STATES (New York) - US Open Tennis Championships
For those who aren't familiar with tennis, US Open is one of the world's most important tennis championships, chronologically the fourth and final tennis major comprising the Grand Slam each year, the...
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0040, 1215 AUSTRALIA (New South Wales) - Sydney Opera House (UNESCO WHS)
Posted on 15.11.2011 and 02.09.2014"There is no doubt that the Sydney Opera House is his masterpiece. It is one of the great iconic buildings of the 20th century, an image of great beauty that has...
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1216 FRANCE - La vie est belle
Obviously, the idea of this art photography is based on the contrast between the poster stuck on the wall and the man caught in a moment not so happy, idea illustrated also by the ironic, if not even...
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0349, 1217 INDIA (Uttar Pradesh) - Agra Fort (UNESCO WHS)
Posted on 01.10.2012 and 06.09.2014Located about 2.5 km northwest of Taj Mahal, near its gardens, the Agra Fort, also known as the Lal Qila, Fort Rouge or Qila-i-Akbari, was built by Akbar the Great...
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0060, 0077, 0251, 0290, 0570-0571, 1218 RUSSIA (Saint Petersburg) - Historic...
0060 - Posted on 04.12.2011According to European criteria, Saint Petersburg, the most western city of Russia, is a young city, in 2003 celebrating "only" 300 years since Peter the Great built it from...
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1219 CHINA (Hong Kong) - The old market
In nowadays one of the most densely populated areas in the world, Hong Kong was before the First Opium War (1839-1842) little more than a backwater of about 20 villages and hamlets, inhabited by...
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0103, 0377, 1220 PORTUGAL (Lisbon) - Monastery of the Hieronymites and Tower...
0377 - posted on 06.11.2012In the 15th and 16th centuries, as the result of pioneering the Age of Discovery, Portugal established a global empire (the first in history), becoming the world's major...
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1221 FRENCH POLYNESIA (Windward Islands) - Sunset on Moorea Island
Moorea is an island of volcanic origin in French Polynesia (an overseas collectivity of France, located in the South Pacific Ocean), one of the Windward Islands, part of the Society Islands, 17km...
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1222-1224 BERMUDA - Historic Town of St George and Related Fortifications...
The Town of St George, located on the island of the same name, is considered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee "an outstanding example of the earliest English urban settlement in the New World....
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1225 SUDAN (Khartoum) - Masjid Al-Nilin in Omdurman
Built in the 1970s, during the Nimeiry era, in Omdurman, the largest city in Sudan, on the western banks of the Nile river, just opposite to the confluence of the two Niles and the capital, Khartoum,...
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1226 UNITED STATES (Pennsylvania) - Gettysburg National Military Park
The Gettysburg National Military Park protects and interprets the landscape of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, which involved the largest number of casualties of the entire Civil War, and is often...
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