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2335 FRANCE - Trust can save the future
In 1866, the French priest Abbé Roussel took in care several orphans, who wandered on the streets of Paris. He wanted each child to be welcomed, cared for, taught to read and write, receive a Christian...
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2336 FRANCE (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) - Laragne Montéglin
Located at southeastern France, halfway between Grenoble and Marseille, in the perimeter of the Parc Naturel Régional des Baronnies, the commune Laragne Montéglin was born in 1949 from the merger of...
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2337 ROMANIA (Harghita) - Lake Sfânta Ana
Lake Sfânta Ana (Hungarian: Szent Anna-tó, meaning "Saint Anne Lake" in both languages) is the only crater lake in Romania, located in the crater of an extinct volcano, named Ciomatu Mare, in Eastern...
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2338 LAOS (Louangphrabang) - Town of Luang Prabang (UNESCO WHS)
2338 Royal Palace in Luang Prabang - The King's office during Sisavang Vong's reign (1905-1959, Reception Hallduring Sisavang Vatthana's reign (1960-1975), a hall of National Museum since 1995.Luang...
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2339 ROMANIA (Vâlcea) - Cozia Monastery
2339 Cozia Monastery - The votive portrait and the tomb of the founder Mircea the Elder.Erected between 1386 and 1388 by Mircea the Elder (one of the most important princes of Wallachia, known for its...
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2340, 2341 UNITED KINGDOM (Anguilla) - The sandy island
2340 Anguilla (1)Anguilla, a flat, low-lying island of coral and limestone in the Caribbean Sea, east of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, is a British overseas territory. It is directly north of...
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2342 ANTARCTICA - King Penguin
The king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) is the second largest species of penguin (after emperor penguin), with 70 to 100cm tall and 11 to 16 kg weight. It is similar in appearance to emperor...
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1875, 2343 ROMANIA (Braşov) - Roadeş in wintertime
Posted on 05.09.2015, 02.03.2016Located 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...
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2344 ROMANIA - The locomotive CFR 230.516
Because the Prussian P 6 steam locomotive, manufactured since 1902, was regarded as unsatisfactory, the railway engineer Robert Garbe designed another one, the Prussian Class P 8, a 4-6-0 locomotive,...
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2345 ESTONIA - The map of the country
Estonia is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe, bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Russia. With a...
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2346 UNITED STATES (Ohio) - Toledo Harbor Lighthouse
Located in Lake Erie, at 13.5km from the mouth of the Maumee River, and marking the entrance to the Toledo harbor, the Toledo Harbor Lighthouse stands on a 6m-deep stone crib, and is still an active...
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2347 FRANCE (Bourgogne-Franche-Comté) - Yonne department
Located in central France, in the northwest of the region Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, bordering Île-de-France, Yonne department was created in 1790 during the French Revolution. It was named after the...
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2348 TAIWAN - Locomotive CK124
The first Taiwanese railway was buit during the Qing Era, between 1887 and 1893, but only after two years, Taiwan was ceded to the Empire of Japan. Completely rebuilt and substantially expanded under...
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0174, 0352, 2349 LITHUANIA (Vilnius) - Vilnius Historic Center (UNESCO WHS)
0174 Vilnius Historic Center - St. Anne's ChurchPosted on 17.04.2012, 05.10.2012, 05.03.2016Raised in the late 13th century around a castle, Vilnius, situated at the confluence of the rivers Neris and...
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2350 RUSSIA (Kamchatka Krai) - Volcanoes of Kamchatka (UNESCO WHS)
2350 Koryaksky volcano in Kamchatka The Kamchatka River and the surrounding central side valley are flanked by large volcanic belts containing around 160 volcanoes, 29 of them still active. This is one...
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2351 ROMANIA (Prahova) - St. John the Baptist Cathedral in Ploieşti
First church dedicated to St. John the Baptist was built on the site (at that time located on the town's outskirts, now in city's center) in the years 1810-1811. Being small and apparently of wood,...
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2352 INDIA - A sādhu
In Hinduism, a sādhu (Sanskrit: good man, holy man) is a religious ascetic or holy person, solely dedicated to achieving moksha (liberation), the fourth and final aśrama (stage of life), through...
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0064, 2353 ITALY (Umbria) - Lake Trasimeno
0064 Lake Trasimeno - Passignano sul TrasimenoPosted on 09.12.2011, and 06.03.2016Located in the south of the Po River and to the north of the nearby Tiber River, Lago Trasimeno (Lake Trasimeno) is the...
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2354 UNITED STATES (Florida) - Bayside Marketplace in Miami
To revitalize the downtown areas in major American cities during the 1970s and 1980s, were organized the festival marketplaces, based on European-style shopping markets. The guiding principles were a...
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2355 RUSSIA (Kemerovo Oblast) - Locomotive L-112 in Prokopyevsk
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 2-10-0 represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, ten powered and coupled driving wheels on five axles,...
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