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2441 RUSSIA (Perm Krai) - The Stone Town
Located in Northern Urals, at 5-6km from Usva village, on the main peak of Rudyansky hills (526m), the Stone Town (local name - Devil Town or Cherepakhi"the tortoises") is a big rock massif composed by...
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2442 UNITED KINGDOM (Bermuda) - A ducking stool in St. George's
Cucking and ducking stools were chairs used for punishment of disorderly women, scolds, and dishonest tradesmen in England, Scotland, and in the English colonies of North America. They were...
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2443, 2444 ROMANIA (Constanţa) - The Natural Sciences Museum Complex in...
2443 Natural Sciences Museum Complex in Constanţa - Ni Ni & Chen Chen (Tursiops truncatus) at DolphinariumThe Natural Sciences Museum Complex opened in 1958 when the Constanţa Aquarium emerged,...
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2445 KOSOVO - Images of Pristina
2445 Pristina: 1. The tower clock; 2. Skanderbeg Square; 3. National Library of Kosovo; 4. Rugova Square.Located close to the Goljak mountains, Pristina is the capital and largest city of Kosovo, a...
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2446, 2447 FRANCE (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) - Life in Faverger at early 20th...
2446 Faverger - Peasants plowing at early 20th century Faverges is a commune (since 2016 Faverges-Seythenex) located in south-east of France, in the glacial valley which gave birth to the Lake Annecy....
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2448 FRANCE (Saint Barthélemy) - Savaku
Located at Saint-Jean, not far from the Gustaf III Airport, the bronze statue Savaku, the work of the freelance graphic designer aged 27 years Guillaume Blanchard, was inaugurated on August 24, 2007....
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0787, 2449 NEW ZEALAND (South Island) - Te Wahipounamu - South West New...
0787 Aoraki/Mt CookPosted on 09.08.2013, 09.04.2016Located in the south-west corner of South Island, Te Wähipounamu (Māori for "the place of greenstone") covers 10% of New Zeland's landmass, and...
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2450 UNITED STATES (Utah) - Zion National Park
The prominent feature of the Zion National Park is Zion Canyon, which is 24km long and up to 800m deep, cut through the reddish and tan-colored Navajo Sandstone by the North Fork of the Virgin River....
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2451 AUSTRIA (Upper Austria) - The Town Square of Steyr in interwar period
Situated in the Traunviertel region, with the two rivers Steyr and Enns flowing through it and meeting near the town centre beneath Lamberg Castle and St Michael's Church, Steyr is an ancient town...
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2452 ROMANIA (Botoşani) - Images of Botoşani
2452 Botoşani: 1. Mihai Eminescu Park; 2. The historic center; 3. Uspenia Church; 4. The City Hall.Located in northern Moldavia, at the junction of several commercial roads, Botoşani was between the...
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2453 PHILIPPINES (Cordillera Administrative Region) - Hanging coffins in Sagada
Sagada is nestled in a valley at the upper end of the Malitep tributary of the Chico River, in the Central Cordillera Mountains, enveloped between the main Cordillera Ranges and the Ilocos Range....
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2454, 2455 ROMANIA (Prahova) - Ion Luca Caragiale (1852-1912)
2454 Portrait of Ion Luca CaragialeIon Luca Caragiale was short story writer, poet, theater manager, political commentator and journalist but before all this, and primarily, playwright, the greatest in...
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1036, 2456 MONGOLIA - The Traditional Naadam festival (UNESCO ICH)
1036 Camp of Naadam in MongoliaPosted on 17.03.2014, 12.04.2016Naadam (literally "games") is a traditional festival in Mongolia (but also in China, in areas in which live Mongols), termed locally Eriin...
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2390, 2457 UNITED STATES (New York) - Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York...
2390 Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City (1)Posted on 19.03.2016, 13.04.2016The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the largest art museum in the United States, and among the most visited art museums...
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2458 UNITED STATES (Georgia) - The Decapod No 208
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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2459 FRANCE (Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine) - The Route of the...
Located at the crossroads of Germanic world and the Latin world, the Ardennes, named after the Celtic word for deep forest, is dotted with the witnesses of a tumultuous and fascinating history. It is...
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2460 POLAND (Lower Silesia) - Wrocław
Located on the Oder in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Europe, at roughly 40km north from the Sudeten Mountains, Wrocław is the historical capital of Silesia. In the 10th century, the Bohemian duke...
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2461 UNITED STATES (Illinois) - Soldier Field in Chicago
Soldier Field is an American football stadium on the Near South Side of Chicago, opened in 1924 as Municipal Grant Park Stadium, and renamed in 1925, as a memorial to U.S. soldiers who had died in...
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2462 MALAYSIA (Penang) - The Malayan Railway Building in George Town
Wisma Kastam, originally known as the Federated Malay States Railway Station, and later the Malayan Railway Building, is one of the most prominent heritage buildings along the Weld Quay waterfront of...
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2463 UNITED STATES (Michigan) - The lighthouses in Michigan
Michigan is the only state to consist of two peninsulas, separated from the Straits of Mackinac, a 8km channel that joins Lake Huron to Lake Michigan. The state has the longest freshwater coastline of...
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