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World's first Arby's
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Arby's was founded in Boardman, Ohio, in 1964 by Forrest and Leroy Raffel, owners of a restaurant equipment business who believed there was a market opportunity for a fast food franchise based on a food other than hamburgers. The brothers wanted to call their restaurants "Big Tex", but that name was already used by an Akron business. Instead, they chose the name "Arby's", based on R. B., the initials of Raffel Brothers.
The first ever Arby’s Restaurant is now the Wild Birds Unlimited store in Boardman.

Ognenny Ostrov (prison)
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Ognenny Ostrov (Russian: Огненный остров, literally: Fire Island) is a small lake island in the central Russian Vologda region which hosts a monastery, converted into a high-security prison for the death-penalty inmates called Vologodskiy Pyatak or simply Pyatak (Russian: Вологодский пятак, literally: Vologda's nickel coin). The Ognenny Ostrov island is located about 400 kilometers north of Moscow on Lake Novozero.
The Russian Orthodox monastery was founded on this island in 1517 by St. Cyril of Novozero after having witnessed "a column of fire" hitting the island. The monastery buildings were used as the backdrop in the 1973 Vasily Shukshin movie “Red Roses” and in some of the stories by Russian writer Alexandr Yashin.
Following the October Revolution in 1917 it was converted into a prison to hold “enemies of the revolution”. During the 1930s and 1940s it functioned as a penal colony for the victims of the purges of Joseph Stalin. After Stalin's death in 1953 it was turned into a regular prison for non-political dangerous criminals.
Finally in 1997 it became a prison dedicated solely to the prisoners serving life-time and death-penalty sentences. Following the 1996 moratorium on the execution of death sentences, the sentences are automatically converted into the life in prison. There are around 193 inmates incarcerated in the prison, which is formally known as prison No. OE 256/5 – and “Pyatak” amongst the inmates (named after the last digit of the formal name).
Prison No. OE 256/5 (ФКУ ИК-5), of the Federal Penitentiary Service, is in the Belozersky District, Vologda Oblast, about 400 kilometres (250 mi) north of Moscow.

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy's hôtel particulier
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The Parisian residence of the French-Italian supermodel, singer-songwriter and actress Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the wife of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy.

Rock Hudson's House (Former)
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Rock Hudson was an American actor.
In 1959, Rock moved from his house in Malibu to Newport Beach. He decided to take up sailing and bought a sailboat which he named the Khairuzan, after his role in the Golden Blade. From his biography: "I have had the best summer of my life at Newport Beach with my boat and my house. I enjoy being alone. Boats and the sea are the greatest things in the world for relaxation and peace of mind, when the only thing that really matters is: Are the sails right? I am going to live at Newport all the year round. I can get to the studio in an hour."

Rock Hudson's House (Former)
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Rock Hudson was an American actor. After Bob Preble moved out of his Avenida del Sol home, Rock decided to move in with his boyfriend Jack Navaar. But Jack wanted his own place with Rock, so they moved to the Grand View house in May 1953.

Tony Goldwyn's House (Former)
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Tony Goldwyn is an American actor and director. He portrayed the villain Carl Bruner in Ghost, Colonel Bagley in The Last Samurai, and the voice of the title character of the Disney animated Tarzan. He stars in the ABC drama Scandal, as Fitzgerald Grant III, President of the United States.

Bernard Lewinsky's House
Bernard Lewinsky is a Salvadoran-born American radiation oncologistand medical researcher. He is the father of Monica Lewinsky.

Quarry
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By: Touringfmhome.
On both sides of interstate 75 near Lima, Ohio, is an old quarry. During my travels through Ohio, it has been a significant landmark.

Rock Hudson's House (Former)
Rock Hudson was an American actor. He bought the small home on Warbler Way in November 1954. According to his biography, Rock "furnished the living room with redwood lawn chairs because he put all his cash into the house." Upon marrying wife Phyllis, the two settled in the home. Two years later, Phyllis took the home from Rock in their divorce

Columbus Short's House (Former)
Columbus Short is an American choreographer, actor, and singer. He choreographed Britney Spears's Onyx Hotel Tour and worked with Brian Friedman (of So You Think You Can Dance fame). He is best known for his roles in the films Stomp the Yard, Cadillac Records, Armored, and The Losers. He stars as a series regular in the ABC drama Scandal, as Harrison Wright.

Rock Hudson was an American actor.

Rock Hudson was an American actor. Hudson lived in this home with straight roommate Bob Preble during the early 50's (although there was only one bedroom, and Bob admits to some experimentation). According to his bio, Rock and Bob lived together for three years in four different homes, with the Avenida del Sol house being the last before Bob married a woman and departed.

Entry to Rikers Island, "Home of New York's Boldest"
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Rikers Island is New York City's main jail complex.

Matrosskaya Tishina detention center
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By: Mike1989.
Matrosskaya Tishina (Russian: Матросская тишина, literally "Seaman's Silence") (formal name: Federal Budget Institution IZ-77/1 of the Office of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the City of Moscow) is a detention facility located in northern Moscow, known by the name of the street on which it is located. It has operated as a prison since 1945, famously holding Mikhail Khodorkovsky and some plotters of the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt.
Since its opening in 1945 only four prisoners were able to escape from Matrosskaya Tishina. Oleg Topalov, 33, recently became the fourth man in 20 years to escape from Moscow's famous Matrosskaya Tishina prison, after pulling himself through a hole in the ceiling of his cell onto the roof and over the perimeter fence. Topalov was able to dig the hole solely with a metal spoon. Authorities are blaming the nonobservant security guards for Topalovs escape.

Katie Lowes' House (Former)
Katie Lowes is an American actress, best-known for her role as Quinn Perkins on the hit TV show "Scandal". She purchased this Beachwood Canyon house from her "Scandal" co-star Darby Stanchfield in September 2013 for $1.01M.

Lukyanivska Prison
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Lukyanivska Prison (Ukrainian: Лук'янівська в'язниця, transliterated: "Luk'yanivs'ka v'yaznitsya"), officially SIZO#13, is a famous historical prison in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, located in the central Lukyanivka neighborhood of the city. Though the facility is now functioning as a pre-conviction detention center (Ukrainian: слідчий ізолятор, transliterated slidchyi izolyator, literally: "investigation isolation facility") it is still colloquially called a "prison". The compound now includes minor examples of the historical architecture.
Ukrainian Ombudsman Nina Karpachova stated in September 2011 that while the facility was designed for 2,850 inmates, 3,800 were held there at the time; she also pointed out that 47 inmates with active tuberculosis threatened the health of other inmates and personnel. It is reported that there is no hot water in the facility. According to TVi constitutional rights of prisoners has been violated in the institute. In April 2012 Kiev Prosecutor Anatoliy Melnyk stated the facility was and had been regularly overcrowded.
Notable inmates; Felix Dzerzhinsky, Maxim Litvinov, Archduke Wilhelm of Austria, Yulia Tymoshenko, Josyf Slipyj, Maksym Rylsky, Oleg Orlov, Sergei Parajanov, Anatoly Lunacharsky, Nikolai Kibalchich, Irina Kakhovskaya, Jarosław Dąbrowski, Vyacheslav Chornovil, Moisei Uritsky, Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Nikolay Bauman, Pavel Bermondt-Avalov, Yuriy Lutsenko.

Temple of Hera II
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The Temple of Hera II (sometimes called the Temple of Neptune), is a Greek temple in Paestum, Campania, Italy. The name Temple of Neptune is a misnomer from the 18th century, even though, it was actually dedicated to the goddess Hera. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage site.
The second temple to Hera, the nearby Temple of Hera (also called of Neptune), was built around 460–450 BC. It has been variously thought of as a temple dedicated to Poseidon. The Temple of Hera II has nothing in common with the first temple, reason being for its symmetrical style for its columns. Also every column does not have a normal 20 flutes on each column but it has 24 flutes. The Temple of Hera II also has a wider column and a smaller spacing for the placing of the columns. The temple was also found to be used to worship more than just Hera but also Zeus and another unknown god. There are visible on the east side the remains of two altars, one large and one smaller. The smaller one is a Roman addition, built when they cut through the larger one to build a road to the forum. It is also possible that the temple was originally dedicated to both Hera and Poseidon; some offertory statues found around the larger altar are thought to demonstrate this identification.

Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo
The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo (also Catacombe dei Cappuccini or Catacombs of the Capuchins) are burial catacombs in Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy. Today they provide a somewhat macabre tourist attraction as well as an extraordinary historical record.
Palermo's Capuchin monastery outgrew its original cemetery in the 16th century and monks began to excavate crypts below it. In 1599 they mummified one of their number, recently dead brother Silvestro of Gubbio, and placed him into the catacombs.
The bodies were dehydrated on the racks of ceramic pipes in the catacombs and sometimes later washed with vinegar. Some of the bodies were embalmed and others enclosed in sealed glass cabinets. Monks were preserved with their everyday clothing and sometimes with ropes they had worn as a penance.
Originally the catacombs were intended only for the dead friars. However, in the following centuries it became a status symbol to be entombed into the Capuchin catacombs. In their wills, local luminaries would ask to be preserved in certain clothes, or even to have their clothes changed at regular intervals. Priests wore their clerical vestments, others were clothed according to the contemporary fashion. Relatives would visit to pray for the deceased and also to maintain the body in presentable condition.
The catacombs were maintained through the donations of the relatives of the deceased. Each new body was placed in a temporary niche and later placed into a more permanent place. As long as the contributions continued, the body remained in its proper place but when the relatives did not send money any more, the body was put aside on a shelf until they resumed payment.

George Zimmermann arrested (2013-11-18)
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George Zimmerman has been arrested in a domestic dispute involving his girlfriend and booked in the Seminole County Jail, law enforcement said.
He was arrested at about 1 p.m. Monday at his girlfriend's home on Topfield Court in Apopka following a 911 call.

Larry Flynt Publications
Larry Flynt Publications, or LFP, Inc., runs the adult entertainment empire founded by Larry Flynt. Founded in 1976, two years after Flynt began publishing Hustler magazine, LFP was originally to serve as the parent company of this magazine.

Chernokozovo detention center
Chernokozovo detention center ("the Chernokozovo SIZO") is a notorious prison in the village of Chernokozovo, Chechnya, where it served as the main part of the "filtration camp" system during the Second Chechen War.
The Soviet-era maximum-security penitentiary facility at Chernokozovo was closed down during the First Chechen War in December 1994. It was re-opened by the Russian federal forces during the Second Chechen War at the end of 1999, officially as a "temporary reception center for the persons detained on the grounds of vagrancy and begging". In fact, it served as an unofficial prison camp for captured separatist fighters, as well as one of at least four main "filtration camps" (or "filtration points") for male and female civilians (including children) who were either arbitrarily detained as "suspicious persons" at hundreds of checkpoints or just non-selectively rounded-up in their own homes during the mass and indiscriminate "mopping-up" (zachistka) operations and then kept there without any charges. According to official figures, about 10,000 people passed through the "reception center" at Chernokozovo. Among the prisoners was also the RFE/RL journalist Andrei Babitsky, kidnapped by Russian federal forces in Chechnya, who in a statement for the United States House of Representatives said: "Everything that we read about concentration camps of the Stalin period, all that we know about the German camps, all this is present there."
In February 2000, the prison gained worldwide notoriety for prisoner abuse when the reports emerged of prisoners being routinely subjected to human gauntlet beatings, various forms of torture, rape and other abuse, and their families to extortion at the hands of guards (a widespread practice of releasing prisoners, or even handing over their corpses, in exchange for ransom). A number of prisoners died from abuse or have "disappeared" without trace. Afterwards, Russian government engaged in what Amnesty International called a cover-up, before opening the prison for visits by foreign journalists and international observers. Prior to the high-profile visit by the Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture, the prison was turned from a "reception center" into a SIZO (investigative isolator) and freshly painted, a new prison staff from the Ministry of Justice were sent to replace the previous guards (who were reportedly contract soldiers), and conditions there improved notably, while torture victims have been relocated to other "filtration points". In October 2000, Human Rights Watch released its 99-page investigative report about Chernokozovo, titled "Welcome to Hell".
Since 2005, Chernokozovo detention center's status is of a "penal colony" for convicts, run by Interior Ministry forces of the local government led by Ramzan Kadyrov, who is personally taking part in its management. Living conditions there reportedly have improved vastly since 2000, however still remained bad (for example, healthy persons are kept together with tuberculosis patients) and reports of continued beatings, torture and other abuse have persisted.

Santa Maria sopra Minerva
Santa Maria sopra Minerva, like the church of the same name in Rome, is a church dedicated to Mary built over a Roman temple to Minerva, the goddess of wisdom. Parts of the Roman temple, which dates from the time of Augustus (63 BC-AD 14), still remain.
The Temple of Minerva was built in the 1st century BC by the quatorvirates Gneus Cesius and Titus Cesius Priscus at their own expense. In Roman times, the piazza in front of the temple was the main city center, and some early Christian martyrs were likely executed here.
By the late 4th and 5th centuries, paganism was basically outlawed and the Temple of Minerva was abandoned. Fortunately, however, it was not destroyed.
Sometime in the late sixth century, Benedictine monks restored the temple and made use of it. The divided the interior into two floors, creating living rooms in the upper part and the church of San Donato in the lower part.
In the 13th century, the monks leased the temple to the newly-formed Comune of Assisi, which made the temple its headquarters from 1215 to 1270. The Temple of Minerva/San Donato was used as the municipal jail until the 15th century.
In 1456, the temple returned to sacred use and the church of San Donato was reopened. In the meantime, the Italian Renaissance inspired a newfound appreciation for classical art and architecture. In the years 1527-1530, the magistrates of Assisi ordered restoration projects to be undertaken.
Then, in 1539, Pope Paolo III, making a visit to Assisi, ordered the Temple of Minerva to be completely restored and dedicated to the Virgin Mary, queen of true wisdom. The temple then took the name of Santa Maria sopra Minerva (St. Mary over Minerva).
In 1613, the bishop of Assisi donated Santa Maria sopra Minerva to the friars of the Third Regular Order of St. Francis, who conducted regular services and undertook several restorations with the help of local architect Giacomo Giorgetti.

NKVD Special Camp No. 1
The NKVD Special Camp No. 1 (German: Speziallager Nr. 1 Mühlberg) was a special camp operated by the NKVD from 1945-1948, during the Soviet occupation of parts of Germany. It was located 4 km to the east of Mühlberg, Brandenburg using the shacks of the former German run prisoners-of-war camp Stalag IV-B. The prisoners mainly consisted of members of the lower and medium ranks of the Nazi party, German military personnel, youth wrongly accused of belonging to the Werwolf and other persons who were regarded by the Soviets as being potentially dangerous like journalists, teachers, policemen, farmers, factory owners and politicians in addition to a number of arbitrarily accused people. Conditions in the camp were characterized by bad sanitary conditions, malnutrition and lack of basic medical service. The camp had over 21,800 prisoners during its existence, including 1,490 women and over 1,300 teenager. At most, it held 12,000 prisoners at a time. In 1946, around 3,000 prisoners were deported to the Gulag in the Soviet Union. On 8 February 1947, further 1,000 prisoners, mostly youth, were also deported to an NKVD Gulag camp in Siberia, the NKVD Camp No. 7503/11 in Anschero-Sudschensk. In summer 1948, two thirds of the prisoners were released. On 17 September 1948, the remaining 3,000 prisoners were transferred to another NKVD camp, Special Camp No. 2 in Buchenwald. From there, a part was released in 1950, the remaining prisoners were handed over from the Soviets to the East German Communist government and brought to Waldheim on 9 and 13 February 1950, only to be "convicted" in the infamous Waldheim Processes. The camp in Mühlberg ceased operations in 1948.
More than 6,700 of the prisoners (among them 111 teenager) died due to the bad conditions in the camp. They were all buried in mass graves. Their relatives were not notified. The East German communist government forbade any commemoration. Only following the Fall of Communism in 1989, memorials were erected. In 1992, a central memorial was erected, which is rebuilt with the assistance of the German War Graves Commission. On 6 September 2008, a name plaque with the names of all the victims was officially unveiled.

Unity Temple
The Unity Temple in Chicago is a Unitarian Universalist church designed by celebrated architect Frank Lloyd Wright, a member of the congregation who lived nearby. Dedicated in 1909, the Unity Temple is one of several structures that earned special recognition from the American Institute of Architects as representative of Wright's contribution to American culture.
At the turn of the 20th century, Oak Park was a community of about 12,500 residents situated along the streetcar lines west of Chicago. The up-and-coming community had recently won political independence from its neighbors and was open to innovative, daring architecture.
Wright had established his home and studio in Oak Park (just a few blocks from Unity Temple) and many of his early works were created here. He had lived in Oak Park for over 15 years by the time he designed Unity Temple.
After Wright's Unitarian Universalist church burned down following a lightning strike in 1905, the congregation asked Wright to design a replacement. The project was not without its challenges: Wright had a small budget of just $40,000 and a noisy corner lot. But the gifted architect rose to the occasion, and the unique new church was dedicated in 1909.

Revenue-Virginius Mine Disaster (17 Nov, 2013)
Two workers have died and 20 others have been injured after a mining accident in southwestern Colorado early Sunday. Authorities confirmed Sunday night that the two miners died of carbon monoxide poisoning and the source of the gas was under investigation.
Personal account from a first responder here:

Fleming's Steak House
Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar (or simply Fleming's) is an American steakhouse restaurant chain owned and operated by Bloomin' Brands, headquartered in Tampa, Florida. Founded in 1998 by Paul Fleming and Bill Allen, Fleming's first location was in Newport Beach, California. By the end of 2012, the company had grown to 65 locations throughout 28 states, with the newest location being in the heart of Beverly Hills, California.

Touro Synagogue
Among the many historic colonial buildings in Rhode Island is Touro Synagogue, the oldest synagogue in America. It still serves an active congregation. Founded in 1763, this little synagogue's history is representative of the religious tolerance that has always characterized Rhode Island. It is also an architectural gem, designed by America's greatest 18th-century architect.
Newport's Jewish congregation was formed in the spring of 1658, when a party of 15 Jewish families arrived from the Caribbean, possibly Barbados or Curacao. They were fleeing religious persecution, just as their ancestors had done from Spain and Portugal.
They received a warm welcome in religiously tolerant Newport. And a few years later (1663), the royal charter of Rhode Island formalized the established local practice that everyone has "full liberty in religious concernments." Newport's Jews thrived in the trade business and for over a century held services and ceremonies in each other's homes.
Finally, in 1759, the growing community built a synagogue. They named it after Isaac Touro, a prominent member of the congregation. The building was designed by Peter Harrison (1716-75), who is regarded by many as the finest architect in 18th-century America - he also designed King's Chapel in Boston and Christ Church in Cambridge, Mass.
Harrison was an Anglican and had never seen a synagogue in his life, so the congregation showed him sketches of the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam. The new synagogue was dedicated on the first night of Hanukkah in December 1763.

Embassy of Bulgaria in Kiev
The Embassy of Bulgaria in Kiev is the diplomatic mission of Bulgaria in Ukraine.

Abandoned Town of Roscigno
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It has been completely abandoned since the early 20th century, when the population moved to Roscigno Nuovo due to a landslide.

Embassy of France in Kiev
The France recognised the independence of Ukraine on December 27, 1991. Diplomatic relations were established on January 24, 1992.

2 Dogs
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Brooklyn Paramount Theatre
Built in 1928, by the studio that bore its name, the Brooklyn Paramount was a magnificent 4,124 seat movie palace that closed in 1962, one year after the horrific razing of the Roxy Theatre in Manhattan.
Now serving as a gymnasium for Long Island University, the transformation is one of the strangest in movie theater history. Although the old Paramount has lost some of its original look, the building still contains the original Wurlitzer organ.
The Wurlitzer, in fact, is still maintained and used for the college’s basketball games. Many argue that the gymnasium’s organ is the finest in the country, if not the world.

vintage Police car
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Odessa Hotel
Hotel Odessa is a 4-star hotel in Odessa, Ukraine. It is situated near the seaport. It was built in 2001 and has 19 floors. It formerly belonged to the Kempinski hotel chain (2001–2002) and had 5 stars. It was voted the best hotel in Ukraine in 2001. All rooms have a sea view.

Ciechanow Water Tower
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Kachanivska penal colony
Kachanivska penal colony (Ukrainian: Качанівська жіноча колонія №54, translated: "Kachanivska female colony number 54"), is a prison of minimal level security with general conditions for detention of women located in the East-Ukrainian city of Kharkiv for the detention of women who were sentenced for the first time because of a negligence or crimes of low or moderate severity. The inmates live in barracks designed for 8 to 12 women.
Notable inmates; Yulia Tymoshenko, former Prime Minister of Ukraine.

Temple of Athena
Paestum is the classical Roman name of a major Graeco-Roman city in the Campania region of Italy. It is located in the north of Cilento, near the coast about 85 km SE of Naples in the province of Salerno, and belongs to the commune of Capaccio, officially also named Capaccio-Paestum.
On the highest point of the town, some way from the other temples, is the Temple of Athena. It was built around 500 BC, and was for some time incorrectly thought to have been dedicated to Ceres. The architecture is transitional, being partly in the Ionic style and partly early Doric. Three medieval Christian tombs in the floor show that the temple was at one time used as a Christian church.

Londonskaya Hotel
The Londonskaya Hotel is a historic four star 19th century hotel in the center of Odessa, Ukraine, belonging to the same company as the nearby Bristol Hotel, Odessa.
Famours guests of the hotel have included: Brazilian emperor Dom Pedro II, Anton Chekhov, Alexander Kuprin, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ivan Ayvazovsky, Henri Barbusse, Theodore Dreiser, Louis Aragon, Elsa Triolet, Isadora Duncan, Marcello Mastroianni, Nikita Mikhalkov, Oleg Yankovsky, Vladimir Putin, Victor Yuschenko, Leonid Kuchma, Jean Claude van Damme, Paolo Coelho.

Temple of Janus
This temple has traditionally been believed to be dedicated to Janus, but this is not certain. Regardless, the Roman temple probably replaced a wooden temple to a Gallic deity that already stood on the site.
The Roman god Janus presided over war, gates, doors, doorways, beginnings, and endings. The month of January and the caretaker of doors and halls, a janitor, are both named for him.
Janus is usually depicted with two faces looking in opposite directions - one bearded and one clean-shaven - and holding a key. The two faces are believe to represent the sun and moon.
For the ancient Romans, Janus symbolized change and transitions such as the progression of future to past, of one condition to another, of one vision to another, the growing up of young people, and of one universe to another. He also represented time because he could see into the past with one face and into the future with the other.
Thus Janus was worshipped at the beginnings of the harvest and planting times, as well as marriages, births and other beginnings. He was representative of the middle ground between barbarity and civilization, rural country and urban cities, and youth and adulthood.

Embassy of Poland in Kiev
Following independence, Ukraine August 24, 1991 Poland recognized Ukraine December 2, 1991. January 4, 1992 between Ukraine and Poland was established diplomatic relations.

Embassy of Algeria in Kiev
The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria recognized independence of Ukraine on December 27, 1991. On August 29, 1992 diplomatic relations between the two countries were established. In November 1992 the first Ambassador of Algeria Belramul Kamerzerman presented his credentials to the President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk. Algeria has an embassy in Kyiv. Ukraine has an embassy in Algiers (opened in 1999).

Embassy of North Macedonia in Kiev
Relations between Ukraine and Macedonia were established on 23 July 1993, when Ukraine recognized the independence of the Republic of Macedonia. Diplomatic relations were established 20 April 1995 by exchange of notes between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Macedonia. In December 1997 in Kiev was opened Embassy of the Republic of Macedonia. Diplomatic mission of Ukraine in the Republic of Macedonia opened June 2000. Ukraine opened an embassy in the Republic of Macedonia during November 2001.

Embassy of China in Kiev
Following independence, Ukraine August 24, 1991 People's Republic of China recognized Ukraine December 27, 1991. January 4, 1992 between Ukraine and China was established diplomatic relations.

Odda's Chapel
The Gloucestershire village of Deerhurst, just 9 miles from Gloucester and 2.5 miles from Tewkesbury, boasts two historic religious sites: a Saxon parish church that is still in use and Odda's Chapel, a Saxon chapel managed by English Heritage.
Odda's Chapel was built in 1056 by Odda, a relative of King Edward the Confessor, in honor of his brother Aelfric. It lay neglected until the 20th century, when the plaster that had long covered the Saxon masonry was removed.

Vacuum Cleaner

Zielona Gora-Przylep Airport (EPZP)
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B-737 Crash: Tatarstan Airlines
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A Boeing 737-500 crashed here 17 November 2013.
All 50 on board perished. More info at links below

Jingo-ji Temple
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Nizhnekamsk Petrochemical Complex
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Large industrial complex with numerous rail loading facilities, LNG (Liquified Natural Gas) storage tanks and surface pipelines visible.
More info at link below

Old railway bridge
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