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2416 MALAYSIA (Penang) - The statue of Captain Francis Light
In 1771, the british Francis Light, the then a private country trader, aged 31 years, proposed the idea of a British settlement in the neighbourhood of the Malay Peninsular to Warren Hastings, the East...
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0427, 2417 GERMANY (Berlin) - Reichstag building
2417 Reichstag building (1)Posted on 24.12.2012, 28.03.2016The Reichstag building (German: Reichstagsgebäude) is probably the most famous landmark in Berlin. Even though it was evident still since...
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2418 SENEGAL - Bassari (Aliyan) people
2418 Youg Bassari girls, granaries of millet and Flamboyant treeThe Bassari (A-liyan, Boin, Tenda Boeni) people are agro-pastoral Senegambian Tenda-speaking people of larger Niger-Congo language family...
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2419 GUYANA - The Toco Toucan
More than 80% of Guyana is still covered by forests, ranging from dry evergreen and seasonal forests to montane and lowland evergreen rain forests. As a result, it has one of the highest levels of...
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2420 ANTARCTICA - The map of the continent
Located almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, Antarctica is covered almost entirely by ice that averages 1.9km in thickness. Having nearly twice the size...
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2421 CONGO-KINSHASA - The Pende people
The Pende or Phende (ethnonym: Bapende or Baphende; singular Mupende or Muphende) are an ethnic group found in the south-western Democratic Republic of the Congo also in the Kasai Occidental province...
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2422 ROMANIA (Prahova) - The "Nicolae Grigorescu" Memorial Museum in Câmpina
2422 - 1. The "Nicolae Grigorescu" Memorial Museum in Câmpina;2. "Peasant woman inside"; 3. "At the well"; 4. "Shepherdess sitting down".Nicolae Grigorescu (1838-1907) is the first of the founders of...
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2423 PANAMA - Archaeological Site of Panamá Viejo and Historic District of...
2423 Casco Viejo in Panama City - The Metropolitan CathedralFounded in 1519 by the conquistador Pedrarías Dávila, Panamá Viejo is the oldest European settlement on the Pacific coast of the Americas. It...
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2424 FRANCE (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) - The circuit of Gorges de Daluis...
The Gorges de Daluis is a 6km-long canyon in the southeastern France, cut in red sandstone by the river Var, which starts off at the commune of Guillaumes and ends at the small commune of Daluis,...
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2425 NETHERLANDS (Sint Maarten) - An Air France Airbus over Maho Beach
The island of Saint Martin is served by many major airlines that daily bring in large jet aircraft, including Boeing 747s and Airbus A340s carrying tourists from across the world. The short main runway...
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2426 MALAYSIA (Malacca) - Saint Peter's Church in Malacca City
The Portuguese occupation of Malacca ended after 130 years, when Malacca felt into the Dutch in 1641. This combined Dutch-Johor effort effectively destroyed the last bastion of Portuguese power,...
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2427 UNITED KINGDOM (England) - Birmingham
Located in West Midlands, Birmingham is the largest and most populous British city outside London. A medium-sized market town in the medieval period, it grew to international prominence in the 18th...
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2428 MOLDOVA - Rudi Geodetic Point (UNESCO WHS)
The Struve Geodetic Arc is a chain of survey triangulations stretching from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black Sea, designed an UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005, about which I wrote here. In Oblast of...
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2429 SENEGAL - Pirogue men
Senegal, a country with 500km of coastline, has more than 21,000 handmade pirogues in their ports, from Saint Louis to Ziguinchor, principally engaged in the transport of people and goods between...
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0019, 0071, 0759, 0867, 2364, 2430 SINGAPORE - The Downtown Core
2364 The Downtown Core of Singapore - Marina Bay seen from the South, with Marina Bay Sands on the rightPosted on 26.11.2011, 14.12.2011, 22.07.2013, 19.11.2013, 09.03.2016, 02.04.2016The Downtown Core...
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2431-2435 UNITED KINGDOM (Turks and Caicos Islands) - The former life in...
2431 Grand Turk - Barrelling salt for exportThe Turks Islands were not fully colonised until 1681, when salt collectors from Bermuda built the first permanent settlement on Grand Turk Island. They were...
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2436 GERMANY (Berlin) - Brandenburg Gate
2436 Berlin - Brandenburg Gate in 1930The Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor) is an 18th-century neoclassical triumphal arch, one of the best-known landmarks of Germany. It is built on the site of a...
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2437 GERMANY (Schleswig-Holstein) - The lighthouse in Ellenbogen, on Sylt Island
Sylt, the largest North Frisian island and as well the northernmost island of Germany, nicknamed the "Queen of the North Sea", is well known for the distinctive shape of its shoreline. Its northernmost...
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0598, 2438, 2439 BRAZIL (São Paulo) - Central Zone of São Paulo
2439 Central Zone of São Paulo Posted on 13.04.2013, 06.04.2016On January 25, 1554 Manuel da Nóbrega and José de Anchieta together with a group of priests founded the Jesuits' School on a flat surface...
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2440 BELGIUM (Brussels) - Manneken Pis
Manneken Pis ("Little man Pee" in Dutch) is a landmark small bronze sculpture (61cm) in Brussels, depicting a naked little boy urinating into a fountain's basin, designed by Hiëronymus Duquesnoy the...
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