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| x British Museum |
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The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture situated in London. Its collections, which number more than seven million objects, are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents,...
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| x Burwash Hall |
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Burwash Hall is the second oldest of the residence buildings at Toronto's Victoria College. Construction began in 1911 and was completed in 1913. It was named after Nathanael Burwash, a former president of Victoria. The building is an extravagant...
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| x CN Tower |
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The CN Tower, located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is a communications and observation tower standing 553.33 metres (1,815.4 ft) tall. It surpassed the height of the Ostankino Tower while still under construction in 1975, becoming the...
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| x Hopewell Centre, Hong Kong |
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Hopewell Centre (Chinese: 合和中心) is a skyscraper in Hong Kong. It is located at 183 Queen's Road East, in Wan Chai on Hong Kong Island. It is the first circular skyscraper in Hong Kong. It is named after Hong Kong-listed property firm Hopewell...
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| x Pembroke College, Cambridge |
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Pembroke College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.
The college has over six hundred students and fellows, and is the third-oldest college of the university. Physically, it is one of the university's larger colleges,...
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| x Sears Tower |
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Willis Tower, formerly named Sears Tower, is a 108-story 1,450 feet (442 m) skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. At the time of its completion in 1973 it was the tallest building in the world, surpassing the World Trade Center towers in New York....
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| x UMIST |
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The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) was a university based in the centre of the city of Manchester in England. It specialised in technical and scientific subjects and was a major centre for research. On October 1...
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| x White House |
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The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., it was built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the late...
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| x Peckforton Castle |
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Peckforton Castle is a country house built in the style of a medieval castle. It stands in woodland at the north end of Peckforton Hills 1 mile (2 km) northwest of the village of Peckforton, Cheshire, England. It is a Grade I listed building.
The...
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| x John Hancock Center |
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John Hancock Center at 875 North Michigan Avenue in the Gold Coast area of Chicago, Illinois, is a 100-story, 1,127-foot (344 m) tall skyscraper, constructed under the supervision of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, with chief designer Bruce Graham and...
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| x Annesley Hall |
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Annesley Hall is the all-female residence at Victoria College, University of Toronto campus. The residence is a National Historic Site located across from the Royal Ontario Museum.
Built in 1903 and renovated in 1988, Annesley Hall is the first...
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| x Centre Georges Pompidou |
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Centre Georges Pompidou (constructed 1971–1977 and known as the Pompidou Centre in English) is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil and the Marais. It was designed in the style of high...
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| x Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a museum located on the shores of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States, dedicated to recording the history of some of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, and other...
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| x Palau Güell |
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The Palau Güell is a town mansion (translated literally a "palace") in Barcelona, Catalonia, designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí for the Catalan industrial tycoon Eusebi Güell.
It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Works of Antoni...
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| x Transamerica Pyramid |
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The Transamerica Pyramid is the tallest and most recognizable skyscraper in the San Francisco skyline.
Although the building no longer houses the headquarters of the Transamerica Corporation, it is still strongly associated with the company and is...
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| x National Gallery of Victoria |
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The National Gallery of Victoria is an art gallery and museum in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is the oldest and the largest public art gallery in Australia. The main gallery is located in St Kilda Road, in the heart of the Melbourne...
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| x Boston Public Library |
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The Boston Public Library is a municipal public library system in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It was the first publicly supported municipal library in the United States, the first large library open to the public in the United States, and...
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| x Clarendon Building |
The Clarendon Building is a landmark Grade I listed building in Oxford, England, owned by the University of Oxford. It was built between 1711 and 1713 to house the Oxford University Press. It stands in the centre of the city in Broad Street, near...
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| x Parliament Hill |
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Parliament Hill (colloquially The Hill, in French: Colline du Parlement) is an area of Crown land on the southern banks of the Ottawa River in downtown Ottawa, Ontario. Its Gothic revival suite of buildings – the parliament buildings – serves as the...
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| x Bristol Temple Meads railway station |
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Bristol Temple Meads railway station is the oldest and largest railway station in Bristol, England. It is an important interchange hub for public transport in Bristol, with bus services to various parts of the city and surrounding districts, and a...
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| x St Paul's Cathedral |
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St Paul's Cathedral is the Anglican cathedral on Ludgate Hill in the City of London and the seat of the Bishop of London. The present building dates from the 17th century and is generally reckoned to be London's fifth St Paul's Cathedral, not...
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| x Experience Music Project |
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The Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame (abbreviation rendered with a pipe as EMP|SFM) is a museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction located in Seattle, Washington....
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| x Petronas Twin Towers |
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The Petronas Twin Towers (Malay: Menara Berkembar Petronas) (also known as the Petronas Towers or just Twin Towers), in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia are twin towers and were the world's tallest buildings before being surpassed by Taipei 101. However, the...
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| x Kimbolton Castle |
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Kimbolton Castle in Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire, is best known as the final home of King Henry VIII's first queen, Catherine of Aragon. Originally a medieval castle but converted into a stately palace, it was the family seat of the Dukes of Manchester...
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| x All Souls College, Oxford |
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All Souls College (in full: The Warden and College of the Souls of all Faithful People deceased in the University of Oxford) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.
Unique to All Souls, all of its members...
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| x St Catherine's College, Oxford |
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St Catherine's College, often called St Catz or simply Catz, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. It is one of the largest colleges of the University and its motto is Nova et Vetera ("the new and the old"). As...
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| x Cornell Theory Center |
The Cornell Theory Center (CTC), housed at Franklin H.T. Rhodes Hall on the campus of Cornell University, is one of five original centers in the National Science Foundation's Supercomputer Centers Program.
In the mid 1990s, in addition to support...
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| x Historic houses in Northern Ireland |
Historic houses in Northern Ireland is a link page for any stately home or historic house in Northern Ireland.
Dungiven Castle
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| x Woburn Abbey |
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Woburn Abbey, near Woburn, Bedfordshire, England, is the seat of the Duke of Bedford and the location of the Woburn Safari Park.
Woburn Abbey, comprising Woburn Park and its buildings, was originally founded as a Cistercian abbey in 1145 . Taken...
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| x Wentworth Woodhouse |
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Wentworth Woodhouse is a Grade I listed country house near the village of Wentworth, in the vicinity of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. "One of the great Whig political palaces", its East Front, 606 ft (185 m) long, is the longest country house...
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| x Stata Center |
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The Ray and Maria Stata Center or Building 32 is a 720,000-square-foot (67,000 m) academic complex designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The building opened for initial occupancy on...
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| x Conisbrough Castle |
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Conisbrough Castle is a 12th-century castle in Conisbrough, South Yorkshire, England, whose remains are dominated by the 97-foot-high circular keep, which is supported by six buttresses. In the mid-1990s, the keep was restored, with a wooden roof...
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| x Drenagh |
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Drenagh is a 19th century house and garden in Limavady, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
The present house was designed by Charles Lanyon and was the architect's first major commission. It was completed in 1835 and has been the home of the...
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| x Leinster House |
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Leinster House (Irish: Teach Laighean) is the name of the building housing the national parliament of the Republic of Ireland (Irish: Oireachtas Éireann).
The term Leinster House can refer to
The most recognisable part of the complex, and the ...
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| x Skidby Working Windmill |
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Skidby Working Windmill is a Grade II listed windmill at Skidby near Beverley, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
Originally built in 1821, the mill was further extended to its current 5 stories in 1870. It is a popular tourist attraction,...
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| x Corfe Castle |
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Corfe Castle is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. It is the site of a ruined castle of the same name. The village and castle stand over a gap in the Purbeck Hills on the route between Wareham and Swanage.The village lies in...
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| x Caerleon |
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Caerleon (Welsh: Caerllion) is a suburban village and community, situated on the River Usk in the northern outskirts of the city of Newport, South Wales.
It is a site of archaeological importance, being the site of a notable Roman legionary...
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| x Queensway Tunnel |
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The Queensway Tunnel is a road tunnel under the River Mersey, in the north west of England, between Liverpool and Birkenhead. It is often called the Birkenhead Tunnel to specify that it serves Birkenhead as opposed to the Kingsway Tunnel, an...
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| x Kensal Green Cemetery |
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Kensal Green Cemetery is a burial ground located in Kensal Green, London, England. It was immortalised in the lines of G. K. Chesterton "For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen; Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green"....
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| x J Sainsbury |
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J Sainsbury plc (LSE: SBRY) is the parent company of Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd, commonly known as Sainsbury's (also Sainsbury and JS), the third largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom with a share of the UK supermarket sector of 16.3...
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| x Monona Terrace |
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Monona Terrace (officially the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center), is a convention center on the shores of Lake Monona in Madison, Wisconsin.
Originally designed by Wisconsin native Frank Lloyd Wright, it was first proposed by Wright in...
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| x Traquair House |
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Traquair House, approximately 5 miles south of Peebles (55°36′37″N 3°04′06″W / 55.61028°N 3.06833°W / 55.61028; -3.06833), is claimed to be the oldest continually inhabited house in Scotland. It is built in the style of a fortified mansion, and...
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| x Shugborough Hall |
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Shugborough is a country estate in Great Haywood, Staffordshire, England, 4 miles from Stafford on the edge of Cannock Chase. It comprises a country house, kitchen garden, and model farm. Owned by the National Trust and maintained by the leaseholder...
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| x One Canada Square |
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One Canada Square (also known as the Canary Wharf Tower) is a skyscraper in Canary Wharf, London. It is the tallest building in the United Kingdom at 235 metres (770 ft) above ground level. At 50 storeys, it is a London landmark with a distinctive...
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| x Bahá'í House of Worship |
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A Bahá'í House of Worship, sometimes referred to by its Arabic name of Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (Arabic: مشرق اﻻذكار, "Dawning-place of the remembrances of God"), is the designation of a place of worship, or temple, of the Bahá'í Faith. The teachings of...
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| x United Nations Headquarters |
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The United Nations Headquarters is a distinctive complex in New York City that has served as the official headquarters of the United Nations since its completion in 1950. It is located in the Turtle Bay neighborhood, on the east side of Midtown...
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| x St Mary Redcliffe |
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St Mary Redcliffe (grid reference ST591723) is an Anglican parish church located in the Redcliffe district of the English port city of Bristol, close to the city centre.
The church is Grade I listed,
The church was described by Queen Elizabeth I as ...
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| x Citadelle of Quebec |
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The Citadelle—the French name is used both in English and French—is a military installation and official residence located atop Cap Diamant, adjoining the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. This citadel is part of the fortifications...
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| x Reichstag |
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The Reichstag building in Berlin was constructed to house the Reichstag, parliament of the German Empire. It was opened in 1894 and housed the Reichstag until 1933, when it was severely damaged in a fire supposedly set by Dutch communist Marinus van...
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| x Irish Houses of Parliament |
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The Irish Houses of Parliament (Irish: Tithe na Parlaiminte, also known as the Irish Parliament House, today called the Bank of Ireland, College Green due to its modern day use as a branch of the bank) is the world's first purpose-built two-chamber...
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| x Old Bailey |
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The Central Criminal Court in the United Kingdom, commonly known as the Old Bailey, is a court building in central London, one of a number of buildings housing the Crown Court. The Crown Court sitting at the Central Criminal Court deals with major...
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| x New York Public Library |
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The New York Public Library (NYPL) is one of the leading public libraries of the world and is one of the United States's most significant research libraries. It is composed of a very large circulating public library system combined with a very large...
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| x National Assembly for Wales |
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The National Assembly for Wales (Welsh: Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru) is a devolved assembly with power to make legislation in Wales. The Assembly comprises 60 members, who are known as Assembly Members, or AMs (Welsh: Aelod y Cynulliad / Aelod...
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| x Emmanuel College, Cambridge |
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Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.
The college was founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay on the site of a Dominican friary. Mildmay, a Puritan, originally intended Emmanuel to be a college of training for...
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| x Inns of Court |
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The Inns of Court in London are the professional associations to one of which every barrister in England and Wales (and those judges who were formerly barristers) must belong. They have supervisory and disciplinary functions over their members. The...
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| x Castle Drogo |
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Castle Drogo is a country house near Drewsteignton, Devon, England. It was built in the 1910s and 1920s for Julius Drewe (businessman and founder of the Home and Colonial Stores) to designs by architect Edwin Lutyens, and is a Grade I listed...
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| x Sky Tower |
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The Sky Tower is an observation and telecommunications tower located on the corner of Victoria and Federal Streets in the Auckland CBD, Auckland City, New Zealand. It is 328 metres (1,076 ft) tall, as measured from ground level to the top of the...
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| x Harrods |
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Harrods is a department store located on Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, London, England. The Harrods brand also applies to other enterprises undertaken by the Harrods group of companies including Harrods Bank, Harrods Estates, Harrods Aviation and...
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| x Winchester Mystery House |
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The Winchester Mystery House is a well-known California mansion that was under construction continuously for 38 years, and is reported to be haunted. It once was the personal residence of Sarah Winchester, the widow of gun magnate William Wirt...
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| x Rushton Triangular Lodge |
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The Triangular Lodge is a folly, designed and constructed between 1593 and 1597 by Sir Thomas Tresham near Rushton, Northamptonshire, England. It is now in the care of English Heritage. The stone used for the construction was alternating bands of...
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