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1559 ETHIOPIA (Dire Dawa) - A market in Dire Dawa
Dire Dawa is one of two chartered cities in Ethiopia (the other being the capital, Addis Ababa), and also the second city in population (more then 340,000 inhabitants). It lies in the eastern part of...
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1560 AZERBAIJAN (Absheron) - Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape (UNESCO WHS)
Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape is a hill and mountain site occupying the southeast end of the Greater Caucasus mountain ridge, mainly in the basin of Jeyrankechmaz River, between the rivers...
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1561 BELGIUM (Luxembourg) - Abbaye Notre-Dame d'Orval
Orval Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame d'Orval), a Cistercianmonastery located in the Gaume region, in Villers-devant-Orval, is well known for its history and spiritual life but also for its local production...
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1562 SRI LANKA - Yapahuwa
Yapahuwa was one of the ephemeral capitals of medieval Sri Lanka, in the latter part of the 13th century. Built around a huge granite rock rising abruptly almost 100m above the surrounding lowlands, at...
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1377, 1563 RWANDA - Mountain gorillas in Volcanoes National Park
1377 - A mountain gorilla in Volcanoes National ParkPosted on 26.12.2014, and 03.05.2015Volcanoes National Park lies in northwestern Rwanda and borders Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic...
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1564 UNITED STATES (Florida) - Saint Augustine Lighthouse
Off the northeast Atlantic coast of Florida, East of Saint Augustine, the oldest continuously occupied European-established settlement in the continental United States, is located Anastasia Island, a...
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1565 KIRIBATI - Tarawa
Tarawa - Kids carrying kindleTarawa Atoll, the capital of the Republic of Kiribati, comprises North Tarawa, which has much in common with other islands of the Gilberts group, and South Tarawa, which is...
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1566 GEORGIA (Mtskheta-Mtianeti) - Historical Monuments of Mtskheta - Jvari...
Located at the confluence of the Aragvi and Mtkvari Rivers, Mtskheta was the ancient capital of Iberia, the East Georgian Kingdom from the 3rd century BC to the 5th century AD, and was also the...
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1567 PAPUA NEW GUINEA (East New Britain) - The Warwagira & Mask Festival
The Warwagira & Mask Festival was introduced in 1995 and is staged in Kokopo as an annual national event to promote the Mask Cultures of East New Britain, New Ireland and other areas in PNG where...
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1568 CROATIA (Istria) - City of Motovun (UNESCO WHS - Tentative List)
Located in central Istria, on an elevation that dominates over the valley of the Mirna River, Motovun is in nowadays only a village with 531 inhabitants, but it was a medieval town that grew up on the...
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1569 UNITED STATES (California) - Balboa Park in San Diego
San Diego - Casa de Balboa beyond the Reflection PoolNamed for the Spanish maritime explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Balboa Park is a 490 ha urban cultural park in San Diego, not far for the border with...
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1570 UNITED KINGDOM (Turks and Caicos Islands) - The map of the Turks and...
The Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) are a British Overseas Territory consisting of the larger Caicos Islands and smaller Turks Islands, two groups of tropical islands in the Lucayan Archipelago, part of...
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1571 POLAND (Masovia) - Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw
With its 231m height (which includes a 43m high spire), the Palace of Culture and Science is the tallest building in Poland and the eighth tallest building in the European Union. Built in three years...
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1572 MALTA - Women playing Tombla
In Malta, Tombla (open-air Bingo or Housey-Housey) is a very popular game, in particular for women. After Sunday lunch, or in the cool of the evening, village women used to gather in street corners to...
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1573 UNITED STATES (Hawaii) - USS Arizona Memorial
USS Arizona was a Pennsylvania-class battleship built for and by the United States Navy in the mid-1910s. Although commissioned in 1916, the ship remained stateside during WWI, and practically didn't...
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1574 ITALY (Sicily) - Archaeological Area of Agrigento - Temple of Concordia...
According to tradition, Akragas (now Agrigento) was founded by colonists from Rhodes and Crete coming from the founder colony in Sicily, Gela, around 580 BC. It grew rapidly, becoming one of the...
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1575 NAGORNO-KARABAKH - Tsitsernavank Monastery
Tzitzernavank is a 5th- to 6th-century Armenian church and former monastery in the Qashatagh Province of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (formerly Lachin Rayon of Azerbaijan), at 5km of the border of...
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1576 TUVALU - Crested Tern
Located in the Pacific Ocean, midway between Hawaii and Australia, Tuvalu, the fourth smallest country in the world, consists of three reef islands and six true atolls, with poor soil and limited...
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1516, 1577 SAINT LUCIA - Pitons Management Area (UNESCO WHS)
1516 Saint Lucia - The Pitons and Soufriere Bay Posted on 07.04.2015, 13.05.2015The Pitons are two mountainous volcanic spires rising side by side from the sea (770 m and 743 m high respectively),...
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1578 CONGO-KINSHASA - An oil painting postcard depicting huts
It seems that the handmade postcards are very common in Congo, be it of Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa) or Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville). I say this because I received...
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