Auschwitz Birkenau
"Auschwitz Birkenau - German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945)" was the principal and largest of the concentration camps that were erected by Nazi Germany for the Final Solution.
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Australian Convict Sites
The Australian Convict Sites consists of a series of 11 sites that, in combination, express the key aspects of the Australian convict experience that are of outstanding universal value from the point of view of global history.
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Belem
The Monastery of the Hieronymites and Tower of Belem are two early 16th century historical buildings in the port of Lisbon.
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Bikini Atoll
Bikini Atoll is a group of 23 islands in the Pacific that is forever linked with the nuclear age. Between 1946 and 1958, twenty-three nuclear devices were detonated at Bikini Atoll by the USA.
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Genbaku Dome
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome) is a symbol of world peace after the destruction created by the first atom bomb.
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Independence Hall
Independence Hall is a 18th century government building where both the United States Declaration of Independence and United States Constitution were signed.
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Robben Island
Robben Island has been used to isolate certain people since the end of the 17th century. It is an island in Table Bay, 12 km off the coast from Cape Town.
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Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty is a gigantic neoclassical sculpture that welcomed immigrants to the New York harbour, and is symbolic for the populating of the United States in the second half of the 19th century.
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