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2186 CHINA (Yunnan) - Ganden Sumtseling Monastery in Shangri-La
Situated in the heart of the mountain range known as Hengduan Mountain Range, at an elevation of 3,380m, 5km from the Shangri-La City, the Ganden Sumtsenling Monastery (also known as Sungtseling and...
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2187, 2188 UNITED STATES (Washington / Oregon / California) - Pacific coast...
The Pacific Coast, stretching some 1,300 miles from Mexico’s border with California up to the Canadian border, was a dark and daunting line to mariners in the 1800s. The earth’s geology had given the...
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2189 FRANCE (Saint-Barthélemy) - The map of Saint Barthélemy
Saint-Barthélemy, officially the Territorial collectivity of Saint-Barthélemy, is an overseas collectivity of France, located about 35km southeast of Saint Martin and north of St. Kitts. Often...
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2190 UNITED STATES (Arkansas) - SLSF GP15-1 #100 at Hope (Arkansas), on May 1978
The EMD GP15-1 is a 4-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between June 1976 and March 1982, generally employed as a yard switcher or light road switcher....
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2191 FRANCE (Centre-Val de Loire) - Château de Chenonceau
Located on the River Cher, near the village of Chenonceaux, the Château de Chenonceau, an architectural mixture of late Gothic and early Renaissance, is one of the best-known châteaux of the Loire...
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2192 UNITED STATES (Georgia) - Savannah River Queen
The Savannah River is a major river in the southeastern United States, forming most of the border between the states of South Carolina and Georgia. The river is around 484 km long, and is formed by...
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2193 ROMANIA (Argeş) - Chalet Brustureţ in Piatra Craiului Mountains
2193 Chalet Brusturet in 1970sBuilt in 1969, Chalet Brustureţ is located on the eastern slope of Piatra Craiului (Prince's Stone) Mountains (a mountain range in the Southern Carpathians), at the...
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2194 UNITED STATES (Hawaii) - The Samoan Fire Knife Dance
2194 Polynesian Cultural Center in Oahu -The Samoan Fire Knife DanceThe fire knife is a traditional Samoan cultural implement that is used in ceremonial dances. It was originally composed of a machete...
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2195 FRANCE (Rhône-Alpes) - Grésivaudan Valley
Located in Isère, in the heart of the Rhône-Alpes region, and surrounded by the Chartreuse and Belledonne mountains, the Grésivaudan is a broad valley which comprises the alluvial plain of the Isère...
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2196 UNITED STATES (North Carolina) - Holden Beach
Located in southern Brunswick County, Holden Beach is a seaside town with 575 inhabitants, which occupies an 13-km-long barrier island on the Atlantic Ocean, bounded by Shallotte Inlet to the west,...
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2197 PHILIPPINES (National Capital Region) - Map of Manila
Located on the eastern shores of Manila bay, which rests on the western shores of Luzon, the largest island in the Philippines, Manila is the capital of the country. Even if it is only the second most...
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2198 BRAZIL (Paraná) - The railway Curitiba-Paranaguá
The railroad which link Curitiba, the capital of Paraná, and Paranaguá, across Serra do Mar (Brazil's coastal mountains range), has a length of 110 km and initially was the only way that products from...
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1383, 2199 UGANDA - Animals
1383 Lion, African elephants, African buffalo, Common hippopotamusPosted on 29.12.2014, 09.01.2016Located on the East African plateau, almost completely within the Nile basin, Uganda has an average...
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2200 GERMANY (Bremen) - Lunchtime rest in the shipyards (1962)
This postcard was issued probably in 2009 by the French Network No pasaran, and is a (bad) reproduction of a photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004), a French photographer considered the...
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2201 FRANCE (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) - Orpierre
Only eight km down the road from Eyguians, the little Céans river cuts through a high mountain spine, in a narrow S-bend gorge at the base of high cliffs. The village of Orpierre is built into this...
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2202, 2203 ROMANIA (Prahova) - Buşteni
Located in the Prahova Valley (which separates the Eastern Carpathians chain from the Southern Carpathians, and was the most important passageway between the principalities of Wallachia and...
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2204 UNITED STATES (Colorado) - United States Customhouse in Denver
The Federal Building and United States Custom House is a historic courthouse and federal office building, part of a complex of four federal buildings located in close proximity to each other in...
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2205 NETHERLANDS - Dutch Royal Family
2205 King Willem-Alexander with his wife, his mother, and his three daughters, in 2013, soon after coronation.The Kingdom of the Netherlands has been an independent monarchy since 16 March 1815, but...
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2205 UNITED STATES (Hawaii) - Akaka Falls State Park on Hawaii Island
Located about 18km north from Hilo, the park includes Akaka Falls, a 129m tall waterfall, surrounded by a lush green rainforest. Akaka means in the Hawaiian language "A rent, split, chink, separation;...
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2206 FRANCE (French Guiana) - Îles du Salut
The Îles du Salut (Islands of Salvation), so called because the missionaries went there to escape plague on the mainland, are a group of small islands about 11 km off the coast of French Guiana in the...
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