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Dibyendu Banerjee
12/04/2021
In the middle of gritty downtown Philadelphia stands a fortress, The Eastern State Penitentiary, which was once the most famous and expensive prison in the ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
10/04/2021
Considered one of the finest squares in the world and certainly the prime attraction of Venice, the 500 feet (180 m) long and 230 feet (70 m) wide Piazza Sa ...
2515
Dibyendu Banerjee
08/04/2021
Located on a small island off the southeast coast of Jamaica, Port Royal was founded by the Spanish in 1494. But for centuries before that, the Native Ame ...
2339
Dibyendu Banerjee
05/04/2021
The United States Capitol, popularly known as the Capitol, located on Capitol Hill at the eastern end of the National Mall in Washington, DC, is one of the ...
2556
Dibyendu Banerjee
02/04/2021
Museo Nacional del Prado, which commemorated its 200th anniversary in 2019, is the crowning glory of the City of Madrid, housing one of the richest and comp ...
3382
Dibyendu Banerjee & Sudipta Banerjee
31/03/2021
A cyclone is a small portion of the atmosphere in which the pressure is lowest in the centre. It is a small low pressure system with winds blowing anticlock ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
30/03/2021
The Emu, the second tallest bird in the world, followed by the Ostrich, can reach up to 5 feet to 5feet 6 inches in height and is the fourth or fifth.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
27/03/2021
Known for her natural beauty, and widely acclaimed for her intelligent performance, Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann was born on 16 December 1938 in Tokyo.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
24/03/2021
Here is the graceful and fiery Cleopatra, the wonderful and flaming Egyptian queen, created by the Italian sculptor Antonio Balzico in the 1870s,
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Dibyendu Banerjee
21/03/2021
The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque was named after Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the first president and the ruler of Abu Dhabi.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
19/03/2021
Often referred to as the Russian Versailles, Peterhof Palace is a series of palaces and gardens, commissioned by Peter the Great, located in a town named Pe ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
10/03/2021
La Circassienne au Bain, a painting by Merry-Joseph Blondel, is closely associated with the sinking of the Titanic on 15 April 1912.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
09/03/2021
Adorned with beautiful works of art, filled with light and music, and rich with history and lore, the Washington National Cathedral, the third-largest churc ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
08/03/2021
The non-descriptive three-storey building housing the Burmese (Myanmar) Buddhist temple is located at 10 A, Eden Hospital Road.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
07/03/2021
It may seem macabre, but the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo in Sicily hosts one of the most bizarre and weird tourist attractions of the world.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
06/03/2021
Tiananmen Square, locally known as Tiananmen Guangchang, an open city square in the city centre of Beijing, is named after the massive Tiananmen, the Gate o ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
05/03/2021
By the 8th century, part of the abundant city of Baia was gradually swallowed by the sea due to local volcanic activity.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
04/03/2021
Rabindranath Tagore’s play Dak Ghar, or the Post Office was performed by the children of an orphanage run by Janusz Korczak, in Warsaw Ghetto.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
03/03/2021
The marble-clad Lotus Temple, the Baha’i House of Worship, resembling the shape of a lotus, is a symbol of excellence in modern Indian architecture.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
02/03/2021
The Kakapo is a large, flightless, forest-dwelling, nocturnal parrot, with a pale owl-like face, a large grey beak, along with finely blotched yellow-green ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
01/03/2021
The Hermitage Museum, the second-largest art museum in the world, located at the center of the Saint Petersburg near Neva River, was founded by Empress Cath ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
27/02/2021
Once upon a time, the medieval residents of Coventry in England suffering immensely beneath the yoke of oppressive taxes pleaded in vain to their powerful l ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee & Sudipta Banerjee
26/02/2021
The Monsoon is a type of Periodic wind that blows in a particular season of the year. The word monsoon is derived from the Arabic word mousim, meaning season.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
25/02/2021
Built on the site of an ancient mosque destroyed by the troops of Ivan the Terrible in 1552, Kul Sharif Mosque is located in the historic citadel of the Kaz ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
24/02/2021
The gorgeous Mysore Palace, also known as the Amba Vilas Palace, located in the heart of the city of Mysore within the Old Fort facing the Chamunda Hills ea ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
23/02/2021
Housed in the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the United States, Les Grandes Baigneuses or The Large Bathers was painted by the Dutch artist Pierre-Auguste Re ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
22/02/2021
Standing tall over the city of Florence in Italy with its magnificent Renaissance dome, the Cathedral di Santa Maria del Fiore is the crowning glory of Flor ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
21/02/2021
According to the traditional Hindu texts, Kansa, the tyrant ruler of Mathura, was the cousin brother of Devaki. Guided by a divine prophecy.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
20/02/2021
The Tipu Sultan Shahi Mosque, popularly known as Tipu Sultan Masjid, located in the heart of the city of Calcutta at 187 Lenin Sarni, is regarded as a relic ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
19/02/2021
The Sedlec Ossuary, an unimpressive and small Roman Catholic chapel located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutna Hora in t ...