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The West Coast Main Line (WCML) is a major inter-city railway route in the United Kingdom. It is Britain’s most important rail backbone in terms of population served. The route […]

The Bull Ring is a major commercial area of Birmingham. It has been an important feature of Birmingham since the Middle Ages when its market was first held. Two shopping […]

Baekdu Paektu or Changbai Mountain is an active volcano on the border between North Korea and China. At 2744 m (9003 ft) it is the highest mountain of the Changbai […]

Vézelay Abbey (now known as Basilique Sainte-Marie-Madeleine) was a Benedictine and Cluniac monastery in Vézelay in the Yonne department in northern Burgundy France. The Benedictine abbey church of Ste-Marie-Madeleine (or […]

For purposes of description the physical geography of the United States is split into several major physiographic divisions three of which being the Laurentian Highlands Interior Highlands and the Interior […]

This is an article about a men’s penitentiary in Illinois in the United States. For the women’s prison in Quebec Canada see Joliette Institution.Joliet Correctional Center (colloquially known as Joliet […]

The Diocese of Møre (Norwegian: Møre bispedømme) is a diocese in the Church of Norway which geographically consists of Møre og Romsdal county Norway. Its bishop is seated at the […]

Plesetsk Cosmodrome (Russian: Космодром «Плесецк») is a Russian spaceport located in Mirny Arkhangelsk Oblast about 800 km north of Moscow and approximately 200 km south of Arkhangelsk. It was originally […]

The RijnGouweLijn (English: The Rhine-Gouwe Line) or RGL is a proposed light rail project in South Holland Netherlands that uses some new tracks and some existing tracks from the Gouda–Alphen […]

Himeji Castle (姫路城 Himeji-jō) is a hilltop Japanese castle complex located in Himeji in Hyōgo Prefecture Japan. The castle is regarded as the finest surviving example of prototypical Japanese castle […]