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1409 GERMANY (Rhineland-Palatinate) - Mainz Cathedral
Located on the west bank of the river Rhine, opposite the confluence of the Main with the Rhine, Mainz was an important military town throughout Roman times, and later an important center of the...
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0378, 1410 GERMANY (Lower Saxony) - Fagus Factory in Alfeld (UNESCO WHS)
Posted on 07.11.2012, and 17.01.2015Only few structures erected in the 20th century managed to be included on UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and among these is Fagus Factory in Alfeld(Germany),...
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1411 ROMANIA - Mihai Eminescu (1850-1889)
On 15 January 1850 was being born in the village of Ipoteşti, near of Botoşani (then located in the Principality of Moldavia), Mihail Eminovici, the seventh of eleven children of George and Raluca...
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1412 UNITED KINGDOM (Pitcairn Islands) - Daily life of the locals
The Pitcairn Islands, the last British Overseas Territory in the Pacific, are a group of four islands spread over several hundred miles of ocean, but only one of these, Pitcairn, the second largest,...
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1316, 1413 UNITED NATIONS - Ban Ki-moon, the eighth Secretary-General of the UN
Posted on 25.10.2014, and 19.01.2015The Secretary-General of the United Nations (UNSG) is the head of the UN Secretariat, and acts as the de facto spokesperson and leader of the organization. He is...
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1414 GERMANY (Baden-Württemberg) - "Baroque in Bloom" at Ludwigsburg Palace
Located in Ludwigsburg, at about 12km north of Stuttgart city centre, near the river Neckar, Ludwigsburg Palace (Schloss Ludwigsburg) is one of the country's largest Baroque palaces and features an...
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1415 MONGOLIA (Bulgan) - Uvgun Khiid on Khugnou Khan Mountain
Located at 280km southwest of Ulaanbaatar, Khugnou Khan Mountain (1967m) was considered by locals since immemorial times a sacred place. The mountain and its surrounding is special because it...
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1416 UNITED STATES (California) - Panning for Gold
Gold is usually found in two forms: in veins or lodes and in river beds or near them, where the metal is called alluvial gold. Gold is also found with other elements such as copper or iron, but usually...
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1417 CZECH REPUBLIC (Zlin) - Gardens and Castle at Kroměříž (UNESCO WHS)
Inhabited by slavs from the 7th century, Kroměříž was founded in 1260 by Bruno von Schauenburg, bishop of Olomouc, six years later being already called a town. Bruno chose it to become his see, he made...
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1418 UNITED STATES (Iowa) - A farm after sunset
Even if Iowa is generally not flat, the predominant landform being the rolling hills, much of the state surface is used for agriculture. In nowadays crops cover 60% of the state, grasslands (mostly...
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1419 RUSSIA (Saint Petersburg) - The Chapel in Alexander's Park (Tsarskoye...
Tsarskoye Selo (Tsar's Village) was the town containing a former Russian residence of the imperial family, located 24km south from the center of Saint Petersburg. It is now part of the town of Pushkin...
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1420 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (Dubai) - Got milk?
Dromedary was first domesticated in central or southern Arabia, thought to be around 4000 years ago, and became popular in the Near East in the 9th or 10th century BCE. The Persian invasion of Egypt in...
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0990-0995, 1009, 1422-1423 UNITED STATES (New York) - The bridges in New York...
0990 - Brooklyn Bridge & Downtown ManhattanPosted on 26.01.2014, 21.02.2014, and 28.01.2015New York City is home to over 2,000 bridges and tunnels, some of which were premieres or set records. For...
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1424 NICARAGUA (León) - Church of La Recolección in León
Located along the Río Chiquito, at about 90km northwest of Managua, and at 18km east of the Pacific Ocean coast, León was founded by the Spaniards as León Santiago de los Caballeros, and has long been...
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1425 UNITED KINGDOM (England) - The Old Light on Lundy Island
Lundy is the largest island in the Bristol Channel, lying 19km off the coast of Devon, approximately one third of the distance across the channel between England and Wales. It is 5 km long from north...
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1426 JAPAN (Chūgoku) - The Hirose Family, Hiroshima, 1987
"Families Struth discovered parallels with his street scenes in the classic family portrait, moved here too by the desire to invoke the unfamiliar and the unconscious from behind a clichéd and generic...
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1427 SRI LANKA - Mihintale, the cradle of Buddhism in Sri Lanka
The peak Mihintale (the plateau of Mihindu), located near the city of Anuradhapura, is the site of several religious monuments and abandoned structures, but also a pilgrimage site, because it is...
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1428 RUSSIA (Republic of Karelia) - Cape Besov Nos petroglyphs
In addition to the Pogost Kizhi, Lake Onega has another well known and very interesting site, placed on Cape Besov Nos (Devil's nose), on the eastern coast of the lake: about 1200 petroglyphs scattered...
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1429 BURKINA FASO - At the market
In Burkina Faso, agriculture represents 32% of its gross domestic product and occupies 80% of the working population, although only 13% of the total land area is under annual or perennial crops. It...
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1430 UNITED STATES (Idaho) - The map of the State of Idaho
Bordered by the Canadian province of British Columbia to the north, Montana to the northeast, Wyoming to the east, Nevada and Utah to the south, and Washington and Oregon to the west, Idaho is a...
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