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  • Thumbnail for Passage Jouffroy
    The Passage Jouffroy is a covered passages of Paris, France, located in the 9th arrondissement. It runs between the Boulevard Montmartre to the south and...
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    Richard Ungewitter (December 18, 1869 in Artern, Province of Saxony – December 17, 1958 in Stuttgart) was a German naturist and pioneer of the Freikörperkultur...
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    Salland (Low Saxon: Sallaand) is a historical dominion in the west and north of the present Dutch province of Overijssel. Nowadays Salland is usually used...
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  • Thumbnail for Johann Froben
    Johann Froben, in Latin: Johannes Frobenius (and combinations), (c. 1460 – 27 October 1527) was a famous printer, publisher and learned Renaissance humanist...
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  • Thumbnail for Galerie des machines
    The Galerie des machines (officially: Palais des machines) was a pavilion built for the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris. Located in the Grenelle district...
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  • Thumbnail for Joseph-Louis Lambot
    Joseph-Louis Lambot (born 22 May 1814 in Montfort sur Argens; died 2 August 1887 in Brignoles), is the inventor of ferro-cement, which led to the development...
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  • Thumbnail for Low Light of the Hook of Holland
    The Low Light of the Hook of Holland (Lage licht van Hoek van Holland) is a lighthouse that once stood at the Hook of Holland, but has since been dismantled...
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  • Edmond Jean-Baptiste Paulin (10 September 1848 - 27 November 1915) was a French architect. As a young man, he became known for his reconstruction of the...
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    Jean Rustin (3 March 1928 – 24 December 2013) was a French painter and prominent figurative artist. Rustin was born at Montigny-lès-Metz on 3 March 1928...
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    The Glarner Sprinter was a named passenger train of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB). It ran from Zurich into the canton of Glarus, and was operated as...
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  • Albert Heilmann (6 June 1886 Munich – 20 December 1949 Berlin-Wilmersdorf) was an architect and contractor who worked in Munich and Berlin. From 1909 to...
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  • The Filles-Dieu ("daughters of God") were a French religious congregation founded before 1270, which was devoted to the service of the sick. Briefly known...
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