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Lidice (German: Liditz) is a village in the Czech Republic just northwest of Prague. It is built near the site of the previous village of the same name which, as part of the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, on orders from Adolf Hitler and Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, was completely destroyed by German forces in reprisal for the assassination, in Operation Anthropoid, of Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich in the late spring of 1942...

Vatnajökull /ˈvaʰdnaˌjœːkʏtl̥/ (meaning Glacier of Lakes), also known as the Vatna Glacier, is the largest and most voluminous Icelandic ice cap, and one of the largest in area in Europe. It is located in the south-east of the island, covering more than 8 percent of the country. Name The name Vatnajökull is derived from "vatna", the genitive plural form of "vatn" which means "water" in Icelandic but is also used to refer to a lake, and "jökull", the Icelandic for glacier...

Langjökull (Icelandic for "long glacier") is the second largest ice cap in Iceland (953 km2), after Vatnajökull. It is situated in the west of the Icelandic interior or Highlands of Iceland and can be seen clearly from Haukadalur. The glacier is located at 64°45′N 19°59′W. Its volume is 195 km³ and the ice is up to 580 m (1,900 ft) thick. The highest point of the ice cap (at Baldjökull at the northern end of Langjökull) is about 1,450 m (4,760 ft) above sea level...

The former Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau (Catalan pronunciation: /uspiˈtaɫ də ɫə ˈsantə ˈkɾɛw i ˈsam ˈpaw/, English: Hospital of the Holy Cross and Saint Paul) in the neighborhood of El Guinardó, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, is a complex built between 1901 and 1930, designed by the Catalan modernist architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner. Together with Palau de la Música Catalana, it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site...

Monemvasia (Greek: Μονεμβασία) is a town and a municipality in Laconia, Greece. The town is located on a small island off the east coast of the Peloponnese. The island is linked to the mainland by a short causeway 200m in length. Its area consists mostly of a large plateau some 100 metres above sea level, up to 300 m wide and 1 km long, the site of a powerful medieval fortress. The town walls and many Byzantine churches remain from the medieval period...

Lavenham is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England. It is noted for its 15th-century church, half-timbered medieval cottages and circular walk. In the medieval period it was among the 20 wealthiest settlements in England. Today, it is a popular day-trip destination for people from across the country along with another historic wool town in the area, Long Melford. History Before the Norman Conquest of England, the manor of Lavenham had been held by the thegn Ulwin or Wulwine...

Marko Korošec was born and raised in a small village Žirje in Slovenia. He graduated high school there and continued with my studies at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics. Since his early age, he was interested in meteorology and photography. Through several years of measurements and daily observations he managed to collect many interesting data about southwestern Slovenia and Karst region climatology...

The Aletsch Glacier (German: Aletschgletscher) or Great Aletsch Glacier (German: Grosser Aletschgletscher) is the largest glacier in the Alps. It has a length of about 23 km (14 mi) and covers more than 120 square kilometres (46 sq mi) in the eastern Bernese Alps in the Swiss canton of Valais. The Aletsch Glacier is composed of three smaller glaciers converging at Concordia, where its thickness is estimated to be near 1 km (3,300 ft)...

When the Eiffel Tower opened in 1889 to universal wonder and acclaim, designer Gustave Eiffel soaked up the praise, but as if that wasn't enough, it was soon revealed that he had built himself a small apartment near the top of the world wonder garnering him the envy of the Parisian elite in addition to his new fame. Located on the third level of the tower, Eiffel's private apartment was not large, but it was cozy...

Zeugma Mosaic Museum, in the town of Commagene, Gaziantep Province, Turkey, is the biggest mosaic museum on the world, containing 1700m2 of mosaics. It opened to the public on 9 September 2011. The museum's mosaics are focused on Zeugma, thought to have been founded by a general in Alexander the Great’s army...