Category : Historical Places

Mount Taishan is the most famous sacred mountain of China, with exceptional historic, cultural, aesthetic and scientific value. Settled by humans as early as the Neolithic (a Dawenkou site is nearby), the mountain has been worshiped continuously throughout the last three millennia and is considered one of the most beautiful scenic spots in China and ..

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Mogao Caves or Mogao Grottoes, also known as the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas, form a system of 492 temples 25 km southeast of the center of Dunhuang, an oasis strategically located at a religious and cultural crossroads on the Silk Road, in Gansu province, China. The caves contain some of the finest examples of Buddhist ..

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Mirsky Castle Complex is a UNESCO World Heritage site in Belarus. In 1817, after the castle had been abandoned for nearly a century and had suffered severe damage in the Battle of Mir (1812), owner Dominik Hieronim Radziwiłł died of battle injuries and the castle passed to his daughter Stefania, who married Ludwig zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg. ..

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Dead, Glen William Bell, Jr. on January 16, 2010, at the age of 86 from a heart attack, was the founder of the Taco Bell chain of restaurants. Born in Lynwood, California on September 3, 1923, Glen Bell attended and graduated from San Bernardino High School in 1941. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps ..

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Baltit Fort or Balti Fort is an ancient fort in the Hunza valley in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Founded in the 1st CE, since 2004, it has been on the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative list. The foundations of the fort date back to 700 years ago, with rebuilds and alterations over the centuries.   In the 16th ..

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Axum, also known as the Aksumite Empire, was a trading nation in the area of Eritrea and northern Ethiopia , which existed from approximately 100–940 AD.   It grew from the proto-Aksumite Iron Age period in 4th century BC to achieve prominence by the 1st century AD, and was a major player in the commerce ..

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Boston Massacre was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. British troops had been stationed in Boston, capital of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, since 1768 in order to protect and support crown-appointed colonial officials attempting to enforce unpopular Parliamentary legislation.   Amid ..

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Belfries of Belgium and France are a group of 56 historical buildings designated by UNESCO as World Heritage Site, in recognition of an architectural manifestation of emerging civic independence from feudal and religious influences in historic Flanders and neighbouring regions , leading to a degree of local democracy of great significance in the history of ..

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Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on the 17th of April 1961. The Cuban Revolution of 1952 to 1959 had seen President Fulgencio Batista, an ally of the United States, forced out of the country into exile.   He was replaced by ..

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Nesebar is an ancient town and one of the major seaside resorts on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, located in Burgas Province. Nesebar has on several occasions found itself on the frontier of a threatened empire, and as such it is a town with a rich history.   The ancient part of the town is ..

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