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2639 ROMANIA (Cluj) - Saint Michael's Church in Cluj-Napoca
Located in the heart of Cluj-Napoca, the Saint Michael's Church is a Gothic-styleRoman Catholic church, the second largest church (after the Black Church of Braşov) in Transylvania. The construction...
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2640 CUBA - The Cuban tobacco
Since tobacco and sugarcane were brought to the Caribbean by conquistadores, the two plants - which thrive in the Cuba's tropical climate - have been profitable cash crops in Cuba. In fact, of all...
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2641 FRANCE - The sheep as symbol
Sheep were among the first animals to be domesticated by mankind (although the domestication of dogs may be over 20,000 years earlier); the domestication date is estimated to fall between 11,000 and...
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2642 CANADA (Quebec) - The Cardinals Palace in Quebec City in 1930's
In 1843, Joseph Signay (1778-1850), the third archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec, acquired two properties in order to build a new episcopal palace. The plans are prepared by the...
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2643 SPAIN (Catalonia) - Works of Antoni Gaudí - Casa Vicens (UNESCO WHS)
Casa Vicens is a modernist building in Barcelona, located in the neighborhood of Grácia on Calle de las Carolinas, 24. It was the first house designed by Antoni Gaudí, and is considered one of the...
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2644 CROATIA (Istria) - Episcopal Complex of the Euphrasian Basilica in the...
The Euphrasian Basilica is a basilica in Poreč, on the western coast of the Istrian peninsula, which, together with a sacristy, a baptistery and the bell tower of the nearby archbishop's palace, forms...
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2645 UNITED STATES (Wyoming) - Cows grazing at the foot of Elk Mountain
Elk Mountain is a northernmost of the Medicine Bow Mountains, a mountain range in the Rocky Mountains that extend for 160km from northern Colorado into southern Wyoming. Lying in the shadow of its...
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2646 FRANCE (Île-de-France) - The Comics & Science-Fiction Convention In Paris
Between 15 and 17 April 2016, occurred in Parc Floral de Paris, located within the Bois de Vincennes in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, The Comics & Science-Fiction Convention. Among the 11...
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2232, 2647 TANZANIA (Arusha) - Maasai people
2232 Maasai dancersPosted on 22.01.2016, 03.07.2016The Maasai are a Nilotic ethnic group of semi-nomadic people, pastoralists, inhabiting southern Kenya (840,000) and northern Tanzania (800,000), i.e....
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2648 UNITED STATES (Pennsylvania) - Philadelphia skyline
2648 The Philadelphia skyline viewed from the Ben Franklin BridgePhiladelphia's history of tall buildings is generally thought to have begun with the 1754 addition of the steeple to Christ Church,...
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2649, 2650 ROMANIA (Brasov) - Junii Braşoveni (The Brasovian Lads)
2649 Braşov - Junii Braşoveni (The Brasovian Lads)When the heavy snows of the harsh Brașovian winters are gone and spring sun shines again, it is the time for people from Şcheii Brasovului, the old...
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2651 UNITED STATES (Arizona) - The Hopi Snake Dance
The Snake Dance is held for 16 days in August or the early part of September, every two years, and is a ceremony to worship ancestors and to help bring rain, very important for the peaceful and humble...
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2652 CROATIA (Primorje-Gorski Kotar) - An old tram in Opatija
The Opatija tram line was planned in 1892 as a steam driven tramway line from Matulji to Volosko, but this concept was not accepted due to complaints by the hotel industry fearing the smoke and noise...
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2653 UNITED STATES (California) - The Leap Frogs navy parachute team over...
2653 The Leap Frogs navy parachute team freefalls from 12.000 feet and forms a star formation over the Coronado Bay Bridge and the Naval Amphibious Base Coronado. The SEAL parachuting demonstration...
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2654 SOVEREIGN MILITARY ORDER OF MALTA - The coat of arms of the Order
2654 Coat of arms of the SMOMThe Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta (Latin: Supremus Ordo Militaris Hospitalis Sancti Ioannis Hierosolymitani Rhodius...
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0008, 1433, 2655 THAILAND (Bangkok) - The Grand Palace in Bangkok
0008 The Grand Palace in BangkokPosted on 12.10.2011, 01.02.2015, 19.07.2016Undoubtedly, Bangkok's history is intimately linked to the Chakri dynasty, which leads Siam (named from 1939, with a brief...
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2656 RUSSIA (Republic of Karelia / Arkhangelsk Oblast) - Vodlozersky National...
Created in 1991 to protect coniferous forests (taiga) of the Northern Russia,Vodlozersky National Park has, since 2001, the status of a UNESCOBiosphere Reserve. The park area includes Lake Vodlozero,...
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2657 NORWAY (Oslo) - The Oseberg ship
Located at Bygdøy in Oslo, the Viking Ship Museum is part of the Museum of Cultural History of the University of Oslo, and houses archaeological finds from Tune, Gokstad (Sandefjord), Oseberg...
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2658 DENMARK (Faroe Islands) - The Toftir Lighthouse
Eysturoy (Danish: Østerø) meaning "East Island" is the second-largest of the Faroe Islands, both in size and population, separated by a narrow sound from the main island of Streymoy. It is extremely...
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2659 DENMARK (Faroe Islands) - The Tórshavn Fire Brigade testing a new fire...
The inhabitants of Tórshavn, the capital city of Faroe Islands, numbered 984 in 1880. Most of them were living in the "Reyn" quarter of the town where the houses were huddled together, prompting...
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