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Palazzina di caccia Stupinigi - Turin - Italy
Built as a royal hunting lodge in the early 18th century Today, the Palace of Stupinigi houses the Museo di Arte e Ammobiliamento, a museum of the arts and furnishings, some original to the palazzina, others brought from the former Savoy family residences of Moncalieri and Venaria Reale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazzina_di_caccia_of_Stupinigi
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Rimini - Italy
I only noticed today, due to the Tour de France finishing there, but Rimini has some huge beaches! Also they seem to have constructed some sort of wave breaker, to give calmer waters for visitors (?). It does look amazin from a distance
Slightly furhter north, still in Rimini, but on the other side of "Porto di Rimini" the beaches get even larger!
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Shipwrecks of ORP Wicher II & Grom II Polish Destroyers Hel Poland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ndR0t_QIpY
ORP Wicher ORP Wicher (English: Whirlwind) was a Project 30bis destroyer, transferred to the People's Republic of Poland from the Soviet Union in 1958.[2] She was built by the Zhdanov shipyard in Leningrad and originally commissioned into the Soviet Baltic Fleet as the Skoryy ("Rapid") in 1951, and transferred to Poland in 1958 together with a second ship, ORP Grom.
ORP Grom was the lead ship of her class of destroyers serving in the Polish Navy during World War II. She was named after the Polish word for Thunderbolt, while her sister ship ORP Błyskawica translates to lightning
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Experimental solar plant in Germany
Testsing and development of components and systems for commercial solar thermal power plants. The aim is to make solar thermal power plants more efficient. They also test processes for solar water splitting, the production of solar fuels and the use of solar heat in industrial processes.
More than 2,000 movable mirrors (heliostats) cover an area of around ten hectares in front of Jülich's two solar towers. They catch the sunlight, concentrate it and direct it onto the two solar towers.
In the solar tower power plant, a volumetric receiver at the top of the tower absorbs the concentrated sunlight and uses it to heat the surrounding air to up to 700 degrees Celsius. A steam generator inside the tower uses this to heat water into steam, which drives a turbine that produces electricity via a generator.
https://www.dlr.de/en/research-and-transfer/research-infrastructure/solar-towers-juelich
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Auschwitz concentration camp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp
https://www.auschwitz.org/en/
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Murasaki Golf Course, Japan
If there is one thing that I keep noticing, when I look for cool places from above, it is golf courses! There are so many, and they are everywhere! This one is Murasaki Golf Club, with 27 holes, and 108 par.
The largest golf course I could find, is Mission Hill Resort in Shenzhen China. It has 12 courses, with 18 holes. 216 holes in total. Id does, IMO not look quite as good as the one from Murasaki
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GARDI SUGDUB, Panama
(Photo by AP Photo/Matias Dlacroix)
I saw this picture in an article about Panama preparing to evacuate first island in face of rising sea levels.
The article has many great pictures from the location, as well as some depressing one, like the homes ready to take in the inhabitants:
The island is GARDI SUGDUB, Panama
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The OG Olympic stadium
Check out the size, compared to the traffic on the road in front of it! 250 meters long! (aprox 270 yards)
Originally built in 400BC, and expanded in 144 AD to have a capacity of 50.000 seats! It hosted the first modern Olympics, in 1896 as well as a venue at the 2004 Olympics in Athens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panathenaic_Stadium
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The Corinth canal
an artificial canal in Greece that connects the Gulf of Corinth in the Ionian Sea with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea
It is 6.4 kilometres (4 miles) in length and only 24.6 metres (80.7 feet) wide at sea level, making it impassable for many modern ships
The Corinth canal concept originated with Periander of Corinth in the 7th century BC. Daunted by its enormity, he chose to implement the Diolkos, a land trackway for transporting ships, instead
Construction of a canal finally began under Roman Emperor Nero in 67 AD
Read more here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinth_Canal
