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1361 RUSSIA (Primorsky Krai) - Steam Locomotive YeL 629 in Ussuriysk
When Russian Empire entered WWI in 1914, it was dependent mainly on 0-8-0 and 2-8-0 locomotives. What was needed were locomotives with high adhesive weight (and thus tractive effort), which could only...
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1362, 1363 TAIWAN - Taipei 101
Icon of modern Taiwan, Taipei 101, formerly known as the Taipei World Financial Center, was officially classified as the world's tallest building in 2004 (509m), and remained such until the opening of...
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1364 UNITED KINGDOM (Pitcairn Islands) - Oeno Island
Oeno Island or Holiday Island is a coral atoll in the South Pacific Ocean, part of the Pitcairn Islands overseas territory. Located at 143km northwest of Pitcairn Island, it serves as a private holiday...
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1172, 1365 SWEDEN - Swedish Royal Family
Posted on 31.07.2014, and completed on 20.12.2014The current royal house of Sweden is the House of Bernadotte, which has reigned since 1818, and between 1818 and 1905 was also the royal house of...
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1366 UKRAINE (City of Kiev) - A farmstead in Museum of Folk Architecture and...
One of the most interesting landmarks of Kiev is the Museum of Folk Architecture and Life, located in Pyrohiv (Pirogov), originally a village, now a neighborhood in the southern outskirts of the...
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1367 PAPUA NEW GUINEA (East New Britain) - Tavurvur volcano
Tavurvur is an active stratovolcano that lies near Rabaul, on the island of New Britain, the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago. It is a sub-vent of the Rabaul caldera and lies on the eastern...
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0410-0413, 1368 GERMANY (Hesse) - Skyline of Frankfurt am Main
Posted on 12.12.2012, and completed on 21.12.2014Grown around a fort built by the Franks in the 8th century on the site of a Roman settlement, where the River Main was shallow enough to be crossed by...
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1370 CROATIA (Primorje-Gorski Kotar) - Krk
Krk is an island in the northern Adriatic Sea, located near Rijeka in the Bay of Kvarner, inhabited without interruption since the Neolithic age. According to Greek and Latin sources, it is one of the...
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1371 UNITED STATES (South Carolina) - The map and the flag of State of South...
Located across the Savannah River, roughly triangular in shape and bordered to the north by North Carolina, to the south and west by Georgia, and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, originally part of...
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1372 FINLAND (Åland Islands) - Hammarudda, in Jomala
Located on Fasta Åland, the main island from the archipelago Åland, lying at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia in the Baltic Sea, Jomala is a municipality which offers a variety of nature...
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0353, 1373 SRI LANKA - Ancient City of Sigiriya (UNESCO WHS)
Posted on 06.10.2012, and completed on 23.12.2014In the heart of the island Sri Lanka, dominating the surrounding jungle, rises approximately 370m Sigiriya (Lion's rock), sheer on all sides, in many...
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1374 TANZANIA - Stone Town of Zanzibar (UNESCO WHS)
Zanzibar (name originated from the Perso-Arabic word meaning "the coast of the blacks") is the semi-autonomous part of Tanzania, composed of the Zanzibar Archipelago, 25-50 km off the coast of the...
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1375 ROMANIA - Pluguşorul
In Romania, Christmas and mid-winter celebrations last from 20th December (Saint Ignatius's Day, when is sacrificed the pig, its meat being used in the Christmas meal) to 7th January (Saint John's...
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1376 AUSTRALIA (Victoria) - Virgin and Child in St. Patrick's Cathedral in...
On October 31, 2014 Australia Post has issued, as in every year, a series of stamps and also a set of maxicards to celebrate Christmas. The set contains five stamps, divided into two distinct...
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1377 RWANDA - A mountain gorilla in Volcanoes National Park
Volcanoes National Park lies in northwestern Rwanda and borders Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Mgahinga Gorilla National Park in Uganda. It is home to five of the eight...
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1378 GUERNSEY (Lihou) - Lihou Island
Lihou is a small tidal island located just off the west coast of the island of Guernsey, at low tide being linked to the nearby L'Erée headland, on Guernsey, by a 400m stone causeway. Part of the...
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1379 MONGOLIA - Tsaatan people
The Tsaatan (named also Dukha, Dukhans or Duhalar) are a small Tuvan (Tozhu Tuvans) Turkic community of reindeer herders living in northern Mongolia. The North Taiga band was organized under the Qing...
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1380 SOLOMON ISLANDS - A bride with shell money from Malaita Province
Named after its largest island, Malaita is one of the largest provinces of the Solomon Islands, the island nation located in Oceania, to the east of Papua New Guinea and northwest of Vanuatu. Malaitans...
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1381 NETHERLANDS (North Brabant) - Eindhoven in 21th century
Although the written history of Eindhoven, the largest city of North Brabant, started in 1232, many people only know it for the events and achievements from the 20th century. For example, those...
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1382 UNITED STATES (Maine) - Marshall Point Light in Port Clyde
Port Clyde is the southernmost settlement on the Saint George peninsula in central/coastal Maine, and part of the town of Saint George. In the 19th century, it became a busy port featuring granite...
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