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1854 BELIZE - The Garifuna village of Hopkins
To distinguish the descendants of Caribs Indians and Black African slaves from the Caribs who had not intermarried with Africans, the British colonial administration of then British Honduras named on...
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1855 ROMANIA (Braşov) - A street in Criţ
Mentioned for the first time in 1270 and named for hundreds of years Cruce (German: Kreuz), both names meaning The Cross, because it appears that the settlement formed around a large cross thrust into...
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1856 RUSSIA (Republic of Mordovia) - The Railway Station in Saransk
Located in the Volga basin at the confluence of the Saranka and Insar Rivers, about 630km east of Moscow, Saransk is the capital city of the Republic of Mordovia. Founded in 1641 as the Russian...
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1857 MONGOLIA - The Nine Base White Banners
The state banner flown by the Mongols, the "Yöson Khölt tsagaan tug" or the "Nine Base White Banners", is composed of nine flag poles decorated with the tail hair of 1000 white stallions from all over...
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1431, 1858 UNITED KINGDOM (Bermuda) - Somerset Bridge
1431 Somerset BridgePosted on31.01.2015, 30.08.2015Somerset Island is one of the main islands of the chain that makes up Bermuda, and lies in the far west of the territory. The village of Somerset lies...
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1859 RUSSIA (Stavropol Krai) - Caucasians Dancing Lezginka in Pyatigorsk in 1936
The North Caucasus region is the part of Russia that slopes up towards the main ridge of the Caucasus Mountains, often considered the border between Europe and Asia. It is home to dozens of...
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1860 TAIWAN - Alishan Forest Railway
The Alishan Forest Railway is an 86km network of 762mm narrow gauge railways running up to and throughout the popular mountain resort of Alishan in Chiayi County. Originally constructed by the Japanese...
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1177-1179, 1253-1254, 1861-1864 UNITED NATIONS - The Headquarters in New York...
1861 Headquarters of the United Nations in New York seen from Roosevelt IslandPosted on 12.08.2014, 28.09.2014, 31.08.2015The UN Headquarters is situated in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Manhattan,...
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1865 ROMANIA (Tulcea) - The Danube Delta Traditions
As might be expected, the main occupation of the inhabitants of the Danube Delta, be they Romanians, Lipovans or Hahols (Ukrainians - descendents of Zaporozhian Cossacks), is fishing, which provides...
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1866 GERMANY (North Rhine-Westphalia) - A facade of an old building from...
Gelsenkirchen was first documented in 1150, but it remained a tiny village until the 19th century, when the Industrial Revolution led to the growth of the entire area. In 1840, when the mining of coal...
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1867 RUSSIA (Republic of Tatarstan) - TatNeft Arena in Kazan
Located at the confluence of the Volga and Kazanka Rivers, Kazan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, and also one of the largest industrial and financial centers of Russia....
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1868 UNITED STATES (Florida) - Lightner Museum in St. Augustine
Founded in 1565 by Spanish admiral and Florida's first governor, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, St. Augustine is the oldest continuously occupied European-established settlement in the continental United...
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0310, 0472, 0473, 1869 ROMANIA (Vâlcea) - Monastery of Horezu (UNESCO WHS)
0310 Monastery of Horezu - The Church of Saints Constantine and His mother Helena (1)Posted on 15.08.2012, 16.01.2013, 02.09.2015 On 15/26 August 1714, when Romanians, as Orthodox Christians,...
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1870 CANADA (Alberta / Northwest Territories) - Stars and Aurora Borealis in...
Located in northeastern Alberta and southern Northwest Territories, Wood Buffalo National Park is the second-largest national park in the world (after Northeast Greenland National Park), an UNESCO...
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1871 GUERNSEY (Herm) - The coastline of the island
Located between the islands of Guernsey and Sark, Herm is 2.4km long and under 0.80km wide; orientated north-south. The first settlers arrived in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages. Many tombs from that...
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1872 UNITED KINGDOM (British Virgin Islands) - Marina Cay
The British Virgin Islands consist of four main islands, along with over fifty other smaller islands and cays. One of this cay is Marina Cay, an 8-acre island which is home to Pusser's Restaurant and...
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1873 SUDAN - Souq Omdurman
In Omdurman, the largest city in Sudan, lying on the western banks of the River Nile, opposite the capital, Khartoum, are several multicultural tourist targets and facilities that attract local and...
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1874 UNITED KINGDOM (Turks and Caicos Islands) - Salt Raking at Salt Cay
Salt Cay is a tiny, flat, triangular island, with an area of only 6.7 sq km and a population of less than 100. Around 1673, British Colonials from Bermuda saw the potential of the shallow and...
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1875 ROMANIA (Braşov) - Roadeş in wintertime
Located in the Târnavelor Plateau, at a few km from Viscri, the village of Roadeş (Radeln) was first mentioned in a complaint made by count Jakobus to the voivode of Wallachia, where he protests...
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1876 ITALY (Sicily) - Syracuse & the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica (UNESCO WHS)
1876 Syracuse - 1. Fountain of Diana; 2. The Cathedral;3. Palazzo Beneventano del Bosco. This site, designated an UNESCO WHS in 2005, consists of two separate elements: the Necropolis of Pantalica...
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