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111Ahnenerbe — Emblem The Ahnenerbe was a Nazi German think tank that promoted itself as a study society for Intellectual Ancient History. Founded on July 1, 1935, by Heinrich Himmler, Herman Wirth, and Richard Walther Darré, the Ahnenerbe s goal was to… …
112Alaskan Way Viaduct — Infobox Bridge bridge name = Alaskan Way Viaduct caption = The Alaskan Way Viaduct, looking southeast official name = carries = Washington State Route 99 crosses = locale = Industrial District, Seattle, Washington maint = id = designer = design …
113Saint Peter's tomb — St. Peter s baldachin, by Bernini, in the modern St. Peter s Basilica. St. Peter s tomb lies directly below this structure. Saint Peter s tomb is a site under St. Peter s Basilica that includes several graves and a structure said by Vatican… …
114Excavations at Stonehenge — The first known excavations at Stonehenge were undertaken by Dr William Harvey and Gilbert North in the early 17th century. Both Inigo Jones and the Duke of Buckingham also dug there shortly afterwards. In 1666 the antiquarian John Aubrey could… …
115Snape boat grave — The Snape boat grave is a 6th century boat grave found at Snape Common, near Aldeburgh in Suffolk, East Anglia. This was the first boat grave of its kind discovered in England (since the ship found at Ashby Dell near Lowestoft, Suffolk in 1834 in …
116Gurren Lagann — Lagann redirects here. It is not to be confused with Lagaan. Gurren Lagann The logo of Gurren Lagann 天元突破グレンラガン (Tengen Toppa Guren Ragan) Genre …
117Chichen Itza — Pre Hispanic City of Chichen Itza * UNESCO World Heritage Site …
118cave — cavelike, adj. /kayv/, n., v., caved, caving. n. 1. a hollow in the earth, esp. one opening more or less horizontally into a hill, mountain, etc. 2. a storage cellar, esp. for wine. 3. Eng. Hist. a secession, or a group of seceders, from a… …
119tunnel — tunneler; esp. Brit., tunneller, n. tunnellike, adj. /tun l/, n., v., tunneled, tunneling or (esp. Brit.) tunnelled, tunnelling. n. 1. an underground passage. 2. a passageway, as for trains or automobiles, through or under an obstruction, as a… …
120Ur — /err, oor/, n. an ancient Sumerian city on the Euphrates, in S Iraq: extensive excavations, esp. of royal tombs. * * * Ancient city and district, Sumer, southern Babylonia. It was situated on a former channel of the Euphrates River. One of the… …
