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Big_Apple
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# Posted: 22 Feb 07 16:11
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I got this idea when I came across a photo I made in my neighbourhood. I recently saw the movie "Girl with the pearl earring" and for this movie scenes were recorded at the spot where I took my picture:
I didn't know about this until I saw the movie. This is supposed to be a very broad topic: do you have pictures of things and places that are "special" in one way or another? Pictures on which the reactions of other users could be "oh really?". e.g. a tree where Julius Caesar once attached his horse to, the market square of the town where Fidel Castro was born, places where movies have been recorded (of course not the famous places), a picture of the geographical centre of the USA, etc.
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devish
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# Posted: 22 Feb 07 17:51
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Nice topic, Ill try to post some images that respond to your cryteria:
This is the CERN cafeteria near geneve, switzerland, where the people who invented internet eat!
This is in guadalupe, california, where next year the third episode of the series of movies !pirates of the carrabean! will be shot.
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pansa
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# Posted: 22 Feb 07 17:54 - Edited by: pansa
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Nice topic Big_Apple
Skálholt (Old Icelandic: Skálaholt) is an historical site situated in the south of Iceland at the river Hvítá.
The village Skálholt consists only of a relatively big church and a few houses. Nevertheless, it has been of great importance for the history of the country. Since the Middle Ages and until 1785, it was along with Hólar, one of Iceland's two episcopal sees, making it a cultural and political center as well. The first school in the country was founded at Skálholt. And in the year 1550 the last catholic bishop, Jón Arason of Hólar, was executed there along with his two sons.
The size of the church seems exceptional by Icelandic standards. In fact, the length of the church constructed from 1956 to 1963 is 30 m. But some of its predecessors were even longer (up to 50 m). Some other Scandinavian countries contributed to the present interior of the church.
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geert geenen
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# Posted: 22 Feb 07 20:40
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at this place (Grotestraat, Nijmegen, Netherlands) once stood the house, where Henriette Presburg (1818-1883) was born. she was the mother of Karl Marx, the founding father of communism
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de stilte
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# Posted: 22 Feb 07 20:56
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good idea big apple........
I've lived for several years in Enschede, from my 6th until I was 16 years. This old part of a factory is still standing. At the time I lived in that neighbourhood I've played a lot in that old factory with friends. The textile industry in Enschede ( the whole of twente ) was over, and most of the old buildings stood empty. Most of the factories they broke down to make place for houses and so on. This particulary building was also nominated to go down..........but they didn't brake it down........its now a memory to 13th of may 2000 when the fireworkexplosion took place.
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Akbar
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# Posted: 23 Feb 07 08:32
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This is the basement of an antiques shop in the Maliestraat in The Hague. Nothing special you may think. But in this house once lived a world famous man.
In the beginning of the 30th century the house owner let a room to a young man that worked at the British legation. His name: Winston Churchill
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Graaf
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# Posted: 23 Feb 07 21:38 - Edited by: Graaf
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A picture without a history story. Still, the moment I took this picture reminds me that I was pretty emotional of the fact that I had the privilige making a shot like this in the middle of one of the left-over jungles in Sumatra. Secondly, beeing so close to a emotional look-a-like human beeing .......for which history is near close by
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de stilte
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# Posted: 24 Feb 07 16:36
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@graaf........it is a wonder, I agree.....
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Big_Apple
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# Posted: 24 Feb 07 17:24
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This is the CERN cafeteria near geneve, switzerland, where the people who invented internet eat!
Recently I learned that among those internet-inventors there was a Belgian. Is that so? I bet everyone thinks the Americans are behind the internet.
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Big_Apple
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# Posted: 24 Feb 07 17:26
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@pansa: I like your picture a lot because of the white against the blue sky. I really should go to Iceland one day.
@graaf: wonderful picture. But I'm optimistic and I keep on hoping and keep on donating to WWF.
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devish
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# Posted: 24 Feb 07 20:38
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@ Big_Apple: Basically something close, but yest very far from internet was created by the defense department in america, but the real thing, internet as we know it, was invented at CERN and yes, I am pretty shure that even a belgian was behind it because CERN has scientist from all Europe.
BTW: In these years at CERN they are inventig what will come after the internet, it is called the grid, and it will be able to share all the computer power of all the pc's connected to it, creating a much more faster net and many more possibilities to interact.
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Big_Apple
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# Posted: 24 Feb 07 21:43
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looks like a totally new woophy site will be needed again then to support a lot of new users ;)
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