Hue arrives on tourist map by Kim Megson |[pic] | |Steeped in history: Visitors enjoy a trip to Hue’s ancient citadel. The city offers a perfect blend of| |history‚ culture‚ food and relaxation. — VNA/VNS Photo | When eager travellers arrive in Viet Nam they usually have a familiar list of places that they are determined to see – HCM City‚ Ha Noi
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Alcatraz Island and Prison Alcatraz Island‚ also infamously known as “The Rock”‚ is located in the San Francisco Bay 1.5 miles offshore from San Francisco‚ Ca. It stands 121 feet above sea level and spans approximately 22 acres. The Spanish Lieutenant Juan Manuel de Ayala named Alcatraz Island for sea birds; he was reported to be the first known European to sail through the Golden Gate in 1775. It was named “La Isla de los Alcatraces” meaning the Island of the Pelicans. It later became home
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limestone and alabaster‚ I had set in its gates. I made the palace fittingly imposing” (Benzel 90). The text continues‚ describing King Ashurnasirpal’s deeds which proves how he would express politics through art. The winged lion from the scene of the citadel‚ symbolizes “cosmic powers” in the ancient Near East. Assyrians typically had massive stone statues guarding the entrances and doorways to their palaces making the depictions of these winged creatures customary. These beasts‚ commonly found in ancient
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The City of Bam Bam is an ancient Iranian city which is located in the Kerman province south-eastern Iran‚ the Bam citadel is thought to be over 200o years old but unfortunately the massive earthquake that hit on 26th December 2003 at 05:26 local time destroyed the entire city. An estimation from the United States Geological Survey reports that the earthquake measured 6.6 on the Richter scale‚ they also say that the epicentre was 185km southeast of Kerman. Before
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Our updated Terms of Use will become effective on May 25‚ 2012. Find out more. ------------------------------------------------- Indus Valley Civilization From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Extent of the Indus Valley Civilization imposed over modern borders Bronze AgeThis box: * view * talk * edit | ↑ Chalcolithic | Near East (3300-1200 BCE)Caucasus‚ Anatolia‚ Levant‚ Egypt‚ Mesopotamia‚ Elam‚ JiroftBronze Age collapseEurope (3200-600 BCE)Aegean (Minoan)CaucasusBasarabi cultureCoțofeni
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Summary The Safety Management System (SMS) at PNSC is very comprehensive and concise‚ which follows ISM-International Safety Management. ISM is more important than ISO 9001.ISM is also a basic requirement for establishing a shipping company. A shipping company can be severely penalized if it does not follow ISM. For safety of workers at PNSC‚ it has published manuals for everything concerned with shipping; even the schedule of specific duties on shores‚ on office or on the ship is mentioned in
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The Trojan War Fact or Fiction? The Trojan War. Confined totally to the pages of Homer’s The Illiad‚ the indulgent fantasy of a Greek poet who lived over two and a half thousand years ago- or a historic fact at the centre of the most famous quarrel ever? The Illiad is the ancient tale of a mighty city called Troy that lay at the edge of Asia Minor whose prince abducted Helen‚ the most beautiful woman of all time‚ from the king of Greek Sparta‚ causing the Greeks to send an army in a thousand
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[pic] San Fermín Introduction San Fermín means the running of bull. [pic] 1. History of San Fermín 1.2. Medieval Period in the 19th century 1.3. Modern Times 2. Single Day Events 2.1. Chupinazo 2.2. The Riau-Riau 2.3. San Fermín Procession 2.4. Pobre de mí 3. Daily events 3.1. Running of the bulls 3.2. Giants and big-heads parade 3.3. Traditional sports 3.4. Bullfight 3.5. Fireworks History Of San Fermín [pic] The origin of the fiesta of San Fermín
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bound to fall to the descendants of the Trojans‚ that Carthage will never become the great city that Juno wants it to be (lines 24-35 pp. 3-4). When Aeneas first enters Carthage‚ he sees people “layering courses for walls‚ rolling stones to build the citadel” (lines 579-580 p. 19). However‚ once the queen falls in love‚ work stops and the “towers‚ half-built‚ [rise] no farther (lines 121-122 p. 98). Carthage‚ in all aspects is temporary‚ only remaining in Aeneas’ life until he is called to his destiny
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1870 at the site where the city of troy was. This excavation unearthed a small citadel mound and layers of debris up to 25 meters deep in the ground. Later more advanced studies have document of more than 46 building phases grouped in nine different bands stating the sites inhabitation from 3‚000 B.C. until abandonment in A.D. 1350. More recent excavations and studies show an inhabited area 10 times the size of citadel‚ making Troy an important Bronze Age city. Bronze Age cities are cities that either
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