Kladruby nad Labem is a village and municipality in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic, located about 6 km northwest of Přelouč or 22 km west of Pardubice. It has around 600 inhabitants. Villages of Bílé Vchynice, Kolesa and Komárov are administrative parts of Kladruby nad Labem. Up to 1918, the town was part of the Austro-Hungarian monarc...

Krzemionki, also Krzemionki Opatowskie, is a Neolithic and early Bronze Age complex of flint mines for the extraction of Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian) banded flints located about eight kilometers north-east of the Polish city of Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski. It is one of the largest known complex of prehistoric flint mines in Europe together with Grimes Graves in England and ...

The Liangzhu culture (3400–2250 BC) was the last Neolithic jade culture in the Yangtze River Delta of China. The culture was highly stratified, as jade, silk, ivory and lacquer artifacts were found exclusively in elite burials, while pottery was more commonly found in the burial plots of poorer individuals. This division of class indicates that the Liangzhu peri...

The small Lin Peninsula and the strip of land along the shoreline that connects the peninsula to the Macedonian border on Lake Ohrid. The peninsula is the site of the remains of an Early Christian church founded in the middle of the 6th century.

Jiangsu Dafeng National Nature Reserve and sections of the Jiangsu Yancheng National Nature Reserve were designated UNESCO World Heritage Site under Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the Coast of Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf of China in July 2019. The site features an intertidal mudflat system considered to be the largest in the world. These mudflats, as well as marshes and s...

The Ombilin Coal Mine (formerly PT Tambang Batubara Ombilin (TBO)) is a coal mine near Sawahlunto, West Sumatra, Indonesia. It is located located in a narrow valley along the Bukit Barisan mountains, among the Polan, Pari and Mato hills, approximately 70 kilometres (43 mi) northeast of Padang. Coal was discovered in the mid-19th century by Ir. de Greve, and mining was...

The Palace of Shaki Khans in Shaki, Azerbaijan was a summer residence of Shaki Khans. It was built in 1797 by Muhammed Hasan Khan. The Palace of Shaki Khans was nominated for List of World Heritage Sites, UNESCO in 1998 by Gulnara Mehmandarova — president of Azerbaijan Committee of ICOMOS—International Council on Monuments and Sites . Along with its pool a...

Paraty is a coastal historic town in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It was first settled by the Portuguese in 1667. Its old churches, cobbled streets and nearby forests, waterfalls, islands and emerald-green sea attract lots of tourists interested in mixing cultural tourism and more natural settings. Paraty is known for the cobblestone-paved streets throughout t...

The Plain of Jars (Lao: ທົ່ງໄຫຫິນ [tʰōŋ hǎj hǐn]) is a megalithic archaeological landscape in Laos. It consists of thousands of stone jars scattered around the upland valleys and the lower foothills of the central plain of the Xiangkhoang Plateau. The jars are mostly arranged in clusters ranging in number from one to several hundred. The Xieng Khouang Plateau is locat...

Prosecco is an Italian wine controlled by DOC or DOCG. Under these wine laws, Prosecco can bespumante("sparkling wine"),frizzante("semi-sparkling wine"), ortranquillo("still wine"). It is made from Glera grapes, (formerly known also as Prosecco), but other authorised grape varieties may be included up to a maximum of 15%. Those varieties that can be included with Gler...

Risco Caído comprises cliffs, ravines and volcanic formations on Gran Canaria. There are two sacred temples, or almogarenes — Risco Caído and Roque Bentayga — where seasonal ceremonies were held.

The Frederick C. Robie House is a U.S. National Historic Landmark on the campus of the University of Chicago in the neighborhood of Hyde Park in Chicago, Illinois, at 5757 S. Woodlawn Avenue on the South Side. It was designed and built between 1908 and 1910 by architect Frank Lloyd Wright and is renowned as the greatest example of the Prairie School style, the first a...

Seowon were the most common educational institutions of Korea during the mid- to late Joseon Dynasty. They were private institutions, and combined the functions of a Confucian shrine and a preparatory school. In educational terms, the seowon were primarily occupied with preparing students for the national civil service examinations. In most cases, seowon served only p...

Shaki is a city in northwestern Azerbaijan, in the rayon of the same name. Shaki is in northern Azerbaijan on the southern part of the Greater Caucasus mountain range, 325 km (202 mi) from Baku. The population is 63,000. According to the Azerbaijani historians, the name of the town goes back to the ethnonym of the Sakas, who reached the territory of modern-day Azerbai...

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (often referred to as "The Guggenheim") is a well-known art museum located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It is the permanent home of a renowned and continuously expanding collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern and contemporary art and also features special exhibitions throughout the year. ...