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Burj Khalifa. Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Visit the observation deck at the world's tallest skyscraper for outstanding views of the human-made splendor of Dubai, as well as the desert beyond.
View from the Window at Le Gras 1826 or 1827, believed to be the earliest surviving camera photograph. [ 1] Original (left) and colorized reoriented enhancement (right). The history of photography began with the discovery of two critical principles: The first is camera obscura image projection, the second is the discovery that some substances ...
Gallery. Some of the photos are depicted below. Bloody Saturday – Battle of Shanghai. Cavalry camp near Balaklava – Crimean War. The Valley of the Shadow of Death – Siege of Sevastopol, Crimean War. X-ray by Wilhelm Röntgen. View from the Window at Le Gras. The Horse in Motion. Migrant Mother.
The first known list of seven wonders dates back to the 2nd–1st century BC. While the entries have varied over the centuries, the seven traditional wonders are the Great Pyramid of Giza, the Colossus of Rhodes, the Lighthouse of Alexandria, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Temple of Artemis, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, and the Hanging ...
Almost all mountains in the list are located in the Himalaya and Karakoram ranges to the south and west of the Tibetan plateau. All peaks 7,000 m (23,000 ft) or higher are located in East, Central or South Asia in a rectangle edged by Noshaq (7,492 m or 24,580 ft) on the Afghanistan–Pakistan border in the west, Jengish Chokusu (Tuōmù'ěr Fēng, 7,439 m or 24,406 ft) on the Kyrgyzstan ...
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is the oldest known list of this type, documenting the most remarkable human-made creations of classical antiquity; it was based on guidebooks popular among Hellenic sightseers and as such only includes works located around the Mediterranean rim and in the ancient Near East. The number seven was chosen ...
List of tallest buildings. For other tall constructions, see List of tallest structures and List of tallest buildings and structures. The 828-metre (2,717 ft) tall Burj Khalifa in Dubai has been the tallest building since 2010. [ 1] The Burj Khalifa has been classified as megatall. [ 2] This is a list of the tallest buildings.
CIDOB Foundation (in Spanish) —contextualised biographies of world political leaders; EmilePhaneuf—an archived, partial list of official websites for heads of state; Portale Storia (in Italian) —a list of current rulers by country; Rulers—a list of rulers throughout time and places