Fort Donelson was a fortress built by the Confederacy during the American Civil War to control the Cumberland River leading to the heart of Tennessee and the heart of the […]
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Basingstoke Canal
The Basingstoke Canal is a British canal completed in 1794 built to connect Basingstoke with the River Thames at Weybridge via the Wey Navigation.From Basingstoke the canal passes through or […]
Heavenly Mountain Resort
Heavenly Mountain Resort is a ski resort located on the California-Nevada border in South Lake Tahoe. It has 97 runs and 30 lifts that are spread between California and Nevada […]
Dunadd
Dunadd (Scottish Gaelic Dún Add ‘fort on the [River] Add’) is an Iron Age and later hillfort near Kilmartin in Argyll and Bute Scotland and believed to be the capital […]
Torness Nuclear Power Station
Torness nuclear power station was the last of the United Kingdom’s second generation nuclear power plants to be commissioned. Construction of this facility began in 1980 for the then South […]
Julian Alps
The Julian Alps (Slovene: Julijske Alpe Italian: Alpi Giulie) are a mountain range of the Southern Limestone Alps that stretches from northeastern Italy to Slovenia where they rise to 2864 […]
Basin and Range Province
The Basin and Range Province is a vast physiographic region defined by a unique topographic expression. Basin and range topography is characterized by abrupt changes in elevation alternating between narrow […]
St. Patrick’s Cathedral (Manhattan)
The Cathedral of St. Patrick (commonly called St. Patrick’s Cathedral) is a decorated Neo-Gothic-style Roman Catholic cathedral church in the United States and a prominent landmark of New York City.
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York covers Bronx New York and Richmond counties in New York City (coterminous with the boroughs of the Bronx Manhattan and Staten Island respectively) […]
Beardmore Glacier
The Beardmore Glacier in Antarctica is one of the largest valley glaciers in the world being 125 mi (201 km) long and having a width of 25 mi (40 km).