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Struve Geodetic Arc (Read more about it here http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1187 )
The Struve Arc is a chain of survey triangulations stretching from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black Sea, through ten countries and over 2,820km. These are points of a survey, carried out between 1816 and 1855 by the astronomer Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve, which represented the first accurate measuring of a long segment of a meridian.
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Last edited by Eternal Becky; 10-03-2006, 20:35:37.Cℓĭck Here to pℓαγ "Tђє First Door"
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Originally posted by dazedncrazedwow...that looks futuristic becky, kinda like a rocket!Cℓĭck Here to pℓαγ "Tђє First Door"
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Western Wall or Wailing Wall.
The Western Wall or simply The Kotel, is a retaining wall in Jerusalem that dates from the time of the Jewish Second Temple (515 BCE - 70 CE). It is sometimes referred to as the Wailing Wall, or as the al-Buraq Wall, in a mix of English and Arabic. The term "Wailing Wall" can be considered derogatory, as implicit in the phrase is the image of Jews wailing and moaning over the hardships they have endured. The Temple was the most sacred building in Judaism. Herod the Great built vast retaining walls around Mount Moriah, expanding the small, quasi-natural plateau on which the First and Second Temples stood into the wide open spaces of the Temple Mount seen today.
And this one was taken by me when I visited the wall in December
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