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The Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, just beyond the outskirts of early medieval Paris, was the burial place of Merovingian kings of Neustria. At that time, the Left Bank of Paris was prone to flooding from the Seine, so much of the land could not be built upon and the Abbey stood in the middle of meadows, orprésin French, thereby explaining ...
Abbey of the Dormition is an abbey and the name of a Benedictine community in Jerusalem on Mt. Zion just outside the walls of the Old City near the Zion Gate.
Between 1998 and 2006 the community was known as the Abbey of Hagia Maria Sion, in reference to the Basilica ofHagia Sionthat stood on this spot during the Byzantine period, but it resumed the original name duri...
Aberdour Castle is located in the village of Easter Aberdour, Fife, Scotland. Parts of the castle date from around 1200, making Aberdour one of the two oldest datable standing castles in Scotland, along with Castle Sween in Argyll, which was built at around the same time.
The earliest part of the castle comprised a modest hall house, on a site overlooking the Dour Bur...
Abernathy House was designed by William F. Cody in 1962 for millionaire James Logan Abernathy. The 4,680-square foot pavilion-style house was notably featured in both the Dec/Jan 2011/2012 issue of Australia’s Belle magazine and the May 2012 issue of French Architectural Digest.
The house is composed of a central pavilion with L-shaped wings at the northeast an...
Abiel Smith School, founded in 1835, is a school located at 46 Joy Street in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, adjacent to the African Meeting House. Abiel Smith School, houses the Museum of African American History. There interactive exhibits tell the story of the American Civil Rights Movement, and Boston's black history.
It is named for Abiel Smith, a white phi...
Abney Park cemetery is one of the Magnificent Seven London cemeteries. Abney Park in Stoke Newington, in the London Borough of Hackney, is a historic parkland originally laid out in the early 18th century by Lady Mary Abney and Dr. Isaac Watts, and the neighbouring Hartopp family.
In 1840 it became a non-denominational garden cemetery, a semi-public park arboretum, an...
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park preserves two farm sites where Abraham Lincoln lived as a child. In the fall of 1808, Thomas and Nancy Lincoln settled on Sinking Spring Farm. Two months later on February 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln was born there in a one-room log cabin. Today this site bears the address of 2995 Lincoln Farm Road, Hodgenville, Kentuc...
Abu Mena was a town, monastery complex and Christian pilgrimage center in Late Antique Egypt, about 45 km southwest of Alexandria. Its remains were designated a World Heritage Site in 1979. There are very few standing remains, but the foundations of most major buildings, such as the great basilica, are easily discernible.
Recent agricultural efforts in the area have l...
The Acadian Landing Site, also known as the Acadian Cross Historic Shrine, is a site historically significant to the French-American Acadian population of far northern Maine. Located on the southern bank of the Saint John River east of Madawaska and marked by a large marble cross, it is the site traditionally recorded as the landing point of the first Acadians to...
Achzivland is a one man "country" in northern Israel. Since 1971 Eli Avivi ("president") has created this tiny self declared hippy "state" with a flag (of a mermaid), a national "anthem" (the sound of the sea) and a constitution declaring the president democratically elected by his own vote (never actually cast).
Az-Zeeb or al-Zib was a Palestinian Arab village locate...
The Aqueduct of the Miracles is a Roman aqueduct in the Roman colonia of Emerita Augusta –present-day Mérida, Spain–, capital of the Roman province of Lusitania. It was built during the first century AD to supply water from the Proserpina Dam into the city. After the fall of the Roman Empire, the aqueduct fell into decay and today it is in ruins wit...
Adam Mickiewicz Monument in Kraków is one of the best known bronze monuments in Poland, and a favourite meeting place at the Main Market Square in the Old Town (Stare Miasto) district of Kraków.
The statue of Adam Mickiewicz, the greatest Polish Romantic poet of the 19th century, was unveiled on June 16, 1898, on the 100th anniversary of his birth, in th...
Adam Mickiewicz Monument (Pomnik Adama Mickiewicza) is a monument dedicated to Adam Mickiewicz at the Krakowskie Przedmieście in the Śródmieście district of Warsaw, Poland. The Neo-Classicist monument was constructed in 1897–1898 by sculptor Cyprian Godebski.
On 13 February 1897 theGłosmagazine published an article promoting the idea of building the monum...
The Adams County Courthouse is located in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States. It was built in 1858, first occupied in 1859, and added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 1, 1974.
The architect was Stephen Decatur Button of Philadelphia, with John R. Turner of Carlisle implementing its construction. The courthouse is two stories high, three bays...
Adams National Historical Park, formerly Adams National Historic Site, in Quincy, Massachusetts, preserves the home of Presidents of the United States John Adams and John Quincy Adams, of U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, Charles Francis Adams, and of the writers and historians Henry Adams and Brooks Adams.
The national historical park's eleven buildings tell the stor...
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