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1276 IVORY COAST - Le Plateau in Abidjan
Located on the Gulf of Guinea, between Liberia, and Guinea, Ivory Coast, known also as Côte d'Ivoire was a French colony until 1960, when became independent. Former political capital and primary...
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1277 MALAYSIA (Penang) - Kapitan Keling Mosque in George Town
Founded in 1786 on the north-east corner of Penang Island, by Captain Francis Light, a trader for the British East India Company,, as base for the company in the Malay States. George Town is a living...
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1278 MALDIVES - Boduberu Music
The most widely known form of indigenous music in Maldives, and also the most popular, especially in the Northern Atolls, is called boduberu. It is likely that the music was introduced to The Maldives...
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1279-1294 UNITED STATES (New York) - Trinity Church in Manhattan
Trinity Church from Wall Street in nowadaysLocated in lower Manhattan, near the intersection of Wall Street and Broadway, this Anglican church has served as an urban landmark since the 19th century,...
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1295 MOZAMBIQUE - Inhambane, Land of Good People
Located 470 km northeast of Maputo, Inhambane, Terra de Boa Gente (Land of Good People), one of the oldest settlements on Mozambique's eastern coast, is now a sleepy historic town with only about...
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1296 NEW ZEALAND (North Island) - Waihi, the Heart of Gold
Located in the Coromandel Peninsula, one of the great gold mining districts of the world, Waihi is a little settlement (4,503 inhabitants at the 2006 census) notable even for its history as a gold mine...
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1297 SOUTH KOREA (North Gyeongsang) - Gyeongju Historic Areas (UNESCO WHS)
Formerly the capital of the ancient kingdom of Silla (57 BC-935 AD), which ruled about two-thirds of the Korean Peninsula between the 7th and 9th centuries, Gyeongju, located at the coast of the Sea of...
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0954, 0955, 1298 UNITED STATES (Arizona) - Grand Canyon Railway
Posted on 08.01.2014 and completed on 14.10.2014The Grand Canyon Railway (GCR) is a 103km-long passenger railroad, which operates between Williams (Arizona) and Grand Canyon National Park South Rim....
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1299 FRANCE (Aquitaine) - Pont Jacques Chaban-Delmas in Bordeaux
Lying along the Garonne River, 24km above its junction with the Dordogne and 96 km from its spilling into the Atlantic, in a plain east of the wine-growing district of Médoc, Bordeaux became a prosper...
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1300 PANAMA - Pollera de gala (Festive polleras)
There are many traditions that have been adopted as characteristic of Panama's nationality, but among all of these probably no single expression stands higher than the pollera, the women's national...
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1301-1305 UNITED STATES (Hawaii) - Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (UNESCO WHS)
Fountaining and lava flow from the Puʻu ʻŌʻō on January 31, 1984The Hawaiian islands were (and continue to be) continuously formed from volcanic activity initiated at an undersea magma source called a...
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1306 TOGO - Women from the north of the country
Togo, one of the smallest countries in all of Africa, a strip of land between Ghana and Benin, with exit to the Gulf of Guinea, is a tropical, sub-Saharan nation, highly dependent on agriculture. The...
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1307 RUSSIA (Murmansk Oblast) - Kirovsk, in the Arctic Circle
Founded in 1929 as Khibinogorsk, the name that it wore until 1934, Kirovsk is a town located at the spurs of the Khibiny Mountains on the shores of the Lake Bolshoy Vudyavr, 175km south of Murmansk, on...
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1308 UNITED STATES (Massachusetts) - Russel House Tavern in Cambridge
Located at the first convenient Charles River crossing west of Boston, Newe Towne (later named Cambridge) was one of a number of towns (including Boston, Dorchester, Watertown, and Weymouth), founded...
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1309 SUDAN - Archaeological Sites of the Island of Meroe (UNESCO WHS)
The Archaeological Sites of the Island of Meroe, a semi-desert landscape between the Nile and Atbarah rivers (the modern region of Butana), was the heartland of the Kingdom of Kush, a major power from...
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1310 ARUBA - The Casibari Boulders
Near Ayo village, about 3.2 km from the natural bridge towards Casibari (now defunct) are located the monolithic rock boulders named Ayo Rock Formations. The Arawak people, the earliest settlers on...
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1311 ITALY (Sicily) - The castles of Erice
On Sicily’s westernmost coast, dominating the city of Trapani below it, the Egadi Islands to the southwest, and Monte Cofano to the east, stands the city of Erice, perched high atop the mountain of...
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1312 MONGOLIA - Women in traditional clothes
Mongolian dress has changed little since the days of the empire, because it is supremely well-adapted to the conditions of life on the steppe. The deel, or kaftan, is the Mongolian traditional garment...
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1313 PORTUGAL (Coimbra) - University of Coimbra - Alta and Sofia (UNESCO WHS)
In Coimbra are many archaeological structures which date back to the Roman era (the well-preserved aqueduct and cryptoporticus for example), and also buildings from the period when it was the capital...
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1314 UNITED STATES (Vermont) - The Arlington Green Covered Bridge
Arlington is a little town in Vermont, with only 2,317 inhabitants, known only by history lovers, because was the capital of the Vermont Republic (1777-1791). Near the town, off Vermont Route 313, is...
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