Bruyeres is a commune in the Vosges department in Lorraine in northeastern France. The town built up around a castle built on a hill in the locality in the 6th century. It was the birthplace of Jean Lurcat, in 1892. In the Second World War, Bruyeres was liberated from German occupation by Japanese American soldiers […]
Rochefort is a commune in southwestern France, a port on the Charente estuary. It is a sub-prefecture of the Charente-Maritime department. In December 1665, Rochefort was chosen by Jean-Baptiste Colbert as a place of “refuge, defense and supply” for the French navy. Its military harbour was fortified by Louis XIV’s commissary of fortifications Vauban. Between […]
Rodez is a town and commune in southern France, in the Aveyron department, of which it is the capital. Its inhabitants are called Ruthenois. Existing from at least the 5th century BC, Rodez was founded by the Celts. After the Roman occupation, the oppidum was renamed Segodunum, while in late Imperial times it was known […]
Detail InformationEdit Suomenlinna, until 1918 Viapori (Finnish), or Sveaborg (Swedish), is an inhabited sea fortress built on six islands (Kustaanmiekka, Susisaari, Iso-Mustasaari, Pikku-Mustasaari, Länsi-Mustasaari and Långören), and which now forms part of the city of Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Suomenlinna is a UNESCO World Heritage site and popular with both tourists and locals, who […]
Asosa is a town in western Ethiopia and the capital of the Benishangul-Gumuz Region (or kilil) of Ethiopia. A Belgian force from the Congo captured Asosa 11 March 1941, destroying the Italian 10th Brigade and capturing 1,500 men. During the Ethiopian Civil War, with help from the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front the Oromo Liberation Front […]
Beica (also called Beigi, Begi, Germus, Bega) is a town in southwestern Ethiopia. Beica is the administrative center of Begi woreda. Beica has enjoyed telephone service since the 1930s. The school in Beica started in 1953 as an elementary school (grades one through six), and in 1975 was upgraded to a junior secondary school, also […]
Detail InformationEdit The National Palace is a building in Santo Domingo, that houses the offices of the Executive Branch of the Dominican Republic. Designed in an eclectic neoclassical style by Italian architect Guido D’Alessandro at the behest of Rafael Trujillo, construction started on February 27, 1944 —Dominican independence centenary-and was inaugurated on August 16, 1944. […]
India /Tamil Nadu /Thoothukudi /Tuticorin Tuticorin, also locally (and popularly) known as Thoothukudi, is a city in southern India, in the state of Tamil Nadu. The town Thoothukudi derives its name from the Tamil words ‘Thoothu’ and ‘Kudi’ which respectively mean ‘Dig’ and ‘Drink’. The city of Tuticorin does not have any rivers, and the […]
India /Tamil Nadu /Tiruvallur /Thiruthani Thiruthani, a holy village where Lord Muruga rules, is one of the six abodes of Lord Muruga and is located in the District of Tiruvallur in Tamil Nadu State. The famous Subramanya Swami Kovil (temple) in Thiruthani attracts thousands of Hindu devotees to this abode. The temple is perched on […]
Detail InformationEdit The Defence- and Garrison Museum in Aalborg, Denmark, covers all components of the Danish Total Defence organization. All the exhibitions tell the story on development within the Army, the Air Force, the Home Guard, the Police, and the Rescue Services with emphasis on the period since the Second World War. Furthermore you will […]