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Tuesday, 24 April 2012

Famous Places in The World

 Famous Places in The World

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Eiffel Tower

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The Eiffel Tower is a wrought iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris.

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The Eiffel Tower is built in 1889 as the entrance arch to the 1889 World's Fair.



The Eiffel Tower is the tallest building in Paris and the most-visited paid monument in the world.


The Eiffel Tower is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel.


The Eiffel tower is 320 metres (1,050 ft) tall and is the tallest man-made structure in the world until 1930.

Taj Mahal

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The Taj Mahal is a white marble mausoleum located in Agra, India.


The Taj Mahal was built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal.


In 1983, the Taj Mahal became a UNESCO World Heritage Site.


The construction began around 1632 and was completed around 1653, employing thousands of artisans and craftsmen.


The Taj Mahal is widely recognized as "the jewel of Muslim art" in India and one of the universally admired masterpieces of the world's heritage.


Great Wall of China


The Great Wall of China is a series of fortifications made of stone, brick, tamped earth, wood, and other materials.


The Great Wall stretches from Shanhaiguan in the east, to Lop Lake in the west, along an arc that roughly delineates the southern edge of Inner Mongolia.


Egyptian Pyramids


The Egyptian pyramids are ancient pyramid-shaped masonry structures located in Egypt.


The Pyramids are built as tombs for the country's Pharaohs and their consorts during the Old and Middle Kingdom periods.


The Sphinx, is a limestone statue of a mythical creature with a lion's body and a human head, that stands on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile in Giza, Egypt.


Colosseum


The Colosseum, or the Coliseum, is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of Rome, Italy, in the Roman Empire.


Statue of Liberty


The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, designed by Frédéric Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886.


The statue is gifted to the United States from the people of France, as a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom.

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