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The Messel Pit is a disused quarry near the village of Messel about 35 km southeast of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Bituminous shale was mined there. Because of its plethora of fossils, it has significant geological and scientific importance. After almost becoming a landfill, strong local resistance eventually stopped these plans, and the Messel Pit was declared a UNES...
Messene, officially Ancient Messene, is a local community within the regional unit (perifereiaki enotita) of Messenia in the region (perifereia) of Peloponnese.
It is best known for the ruins of the large classical city-state of Ancient Messene. The site was founded in the Bronze Age as Ithome, an ancient city originally of Achaean Greeks which eventually came under t...
Messina Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in Messina, Sicily. The tower houses the Messina astronomical clock, the largest astronomical clock in the world.
The astronomical clock of Messina is an astronomical clock constructed by the Ungerer Company of Strasbourg in 1933. It is built into the campanile of Messina Cathedral.
The mechanism was designed by ...
Metaphor: The Tree of Utah, sometimes called the Tree of Life, is an 87-foot-tall (27 m) sculpture that was created by the Swedish artist Karl Momen in the 1980s and dedicated in 1986. It is located in the desolate Great Salt Lake Desert of Utah on the north side of Interstate 80, about 25 miles (40 km) east of Wendover and midway between the former railroad communiti...
The Metekhi church is a cross-cupola church. While this style was the most common throughout the Middle Ages, the Metekhi church is somewhat anachronistic with its three projecting apses in the east facade and the four freestanding pillars supporting the cupola within. The church is made of brick and dressed stone. The restoration of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries...
The Metéora is one of the largest and most important complexes of Eastern Orthodox monasteries in Greece, second only to Mount Athos. The six monasteries are built on natural sandstone rock pillars, at the northwestern edge of the Plain of Thessaly near the Pineios river and Pindus Mountains, in central Greece. The nearest town is Kalambaka. The Metéora ...
Meteor City was a historic trading post located on historic Route 66 west of the town of Unincorporated Winslow situated in Coconino County, Arizona. Accessing it from interstate 40 (I-40), you would exit at Mile-marker / Exit 239 (Meteor City Road) coming from the east or west.
It has an estimated elevation of 5,033 feet (1,534 m) above sea level.
Despite the na...
Meteor Crater is a meteorite impact crater located approximately 43 miles (69 km) east of Flagstaff, near Winslow in the northern Arizona desert of the United States. Because the US Department of the Interior Division of Names commonly recognizes names of natural features derived from the nearest post office, the feature acquired the name of "Meteor Crater" from the n...
On August 8, 1964, two commercial pilots in a Cessna 150 flew low over Meteor Crater in Arizona. After crossing the rim, they could not maintain level flight. The pilot attempted to circle in the crater to climb over the rim. During the attempted climb out, the aircraft stalled, crashed, and caught fire. The plane is commonly reported to have run out of fuel, but this...
A meteor shower is a celestial event in which a number of meteors are observed to radiate, or originate, from one point in the night sky. These meteors are caused by streams of cosmic debris called meteoroids entering Earth's atmosphere at extremely high speeds on parallel trajectories. Most meteors are smaller than a grain of sand, so almost all of them disintegrate ...
The Castle of Methoni is a medieval fortification in the port town of Methoni, Messenia, in southwestern Greece. The castle of Methoni occupies the whole area of the cape and the southwestern coast to the small islet that has also been fortified with an octagonal tower and is protected by the sea on its three sides. Its north part, the one that looks to land, is cover...
At 36 rue de Vaugirard is one of the last remaining 'mètre étalons' (standard metre bars) that were placed all over Paris more than 200 years ago in an attempt to introduce a new, universal system of measurement.
Meter installed by the Convention in 1796. It is one of the two meters (among the 16 originally) still in place in Paris.
On the facade of the Ministry of Justice at Place Vendôme is one of the last remaining ‘mètre étalons’ (standard metre bars) that were placed all over Paris more than 200 years ago in an attempt to introduce a new, universal system of measurement.
Meter installed by the Convention in 1796. It is one of the two meters (among the 16 orig...
The Metro 1 (Officially: Millennium Underground Railway or M1) is the oldest line of the Budapest Metro system.
Known in Budapest simply as "the underground" ("a földalatti"), as the M2, M3 and the now being built M4 are called "metró". It is the second oldest underground railway in the world (the first being the London Underground's Metropolitan Line), an...
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