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Wow Madurodam – Miniature City

Madurodam is a park and tourist attraction in Scheveningen, The Hague, Netherlands, home to a range of perfect 1:25 scale model replicas of famous Dutch castles, public buildings, and large industrial projects as found at various locations in the country. The park was opened in 1952 and has been visited by tens of millions of visitors since that date.

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14 Mar 2013 10:11:00,post received 0 comments

Educative Multi-Level Underground City, Cappadocia, Turkey

Cappadocia is a historical region in Central Anatolia, largely in Nevşehir Province, in Turkey.
In the time of Herodotus, the Cappadocians were reported as occupying the whole region from Mount Taurus to the vicinity of the Euxine (Black Sea). Cappadocia, in this sense, was bounded in the south by the chain of the Taurus Mountains that separate it from Cilicia, to the east by the upper Euphrates and the Armenian Highland, to the north by Pontus, and to the west by Lycaonia and eastern Galatia.

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05 Apr 2013 09:50:00,post received 0 comments

Sad Crime Tattoo Part 2

Tattoos are commonly used among criminals to show gang membership and record the wearer's personal history—such as his or her skills, specialties, accomplishments and convictions. They are also used as a means of personal expression. Certain designs have developed recognized coded meanings. The code systems can be quite complex and because of the nature of what they encode, the tattoo designs are not widely recognized.

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24 Apr 2013 09:49:00,post received 0 comments

Educative Korean War. Part II

Battle-weary American troops withdraw from Yong San in Korea, 1950

Battle-weary American troops withdraw from Yong San in Korea. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 1950

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10 May 2011 10:09:00,post received 0 comments

Touching The Art of Sleep. Part II

Sleeping Baby Bunny. A 6 day old baby bunny with mouth open while sleeping =D. Photo by Crezalyn Nerona Uratsuji

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28 Jun 2012 12:01:00,post received 0 comments

Educative Korean War. Part III

American soldiers leaping from an armoured personnel carrier during exercises in Korea, 17th March 1954. (Photo by Three Lions)

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03 Aug 2012 06:42:00,post received 0 comments

Touching Policemen. Part II

“The Siege of Sidney Street, popularly known as the “Battle of Stepney”, was a notorious gunfight in London's East End on the 2nd of January 1911. Preceded by the Houndsditch Murders, it ended with the deaths of two members of a supposedly politically-motivated gang of burglars supposedly led by Peter Piatkow, a.k.a. “Peter the Painter”, and sparked a major political row over the involvement of the then Home Secretary, Winston Churchill”. – Wikipedia

Photo: Scots Guards and police on duty during the “Siege of Sidney Street” in east London. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images). 3rd January 1911

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03 Apr 2011 09:47:00,post received 0 comments

Touching Tattoo. Part II

Paul Doherty of Australia with tatoo against Timothy Mareke of Solomon Island during the men's 75kg class at the Sydney International Invitation Boxing held at the Sydney Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia.

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13 Apr 2011 21:23:00,post received 0 comments