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Properties on the World Heritage List. A series of prehistoric pile-dwelling (or stilt house) settlements in and around the Alps. transboundary property, shared with Austria, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Switzerland, 11 of the total 111 sites are in France. An outstanding cultural landscape of great beauty, containing historic towns and villages ...
La Coupole (English: The Dome), also known as the Coupole d'Helfaut-Wizernes and originally codenamed Bauvorhaben 21 ('Building Project 21') or Schotterwerk Nordwest (Northwest Gravel Works), is a Second World War bunker complex in the Pas-de-Calais department of northern France, about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from Saint-Omer, and some 14.4 kilometers (8.9 miles) south-southeast from the less ...
1936 (unveiled) 1996. Vimy. 50°22′46″N 02°46′25″E. / 50.37944°N 2.77361°E / 50.37944; 2.77361 ( Vimy Ridge) A memorial site dedicated to the memory of Canadian Expeditionary Force members killed during the First World War; it also serves as the place of commemoration for First World War Canadian soldiers killed or ...
Scale model of Jerusalem, with the Herod's Temple in foreground, during the Second Temple period (c. first century CE), now in Israel Museum.. The Holyland Model of Jerusalem, also known as Model of Jerusalem at the end of the Second Temple period (Hebrew: דגם ירושלים בסוף ימי בית שני) is a 1:50 scale model of the city of Jerusalem in the late Second Temple period.
The Northrop B-2 Spirit, also known as the Stealth Bomber, is an American heavy strategic bomber, featuring low-observable stealth technology designed to penetrate dense anti-aircraft defenses. A subsonic flying wing with a crew of two, the plane was designed by Northrop (later Northrop Grumman) as the prime contractor, with Boeing, Hughes, and ...
1. Yellow. Vague threat / raise vigilance. Raise security levels to face real yet still uncertain dangers, through measures that are local and minimally disruptive of normal activity, while preparing to switch to "orange" or "red" within a few days. 2.
Coupe de France (until 2022) Olympic Games; Stade 2 (1975-2019) Tour de France; Roland-Garros; Entertainment. La Chance aux chansons (1991-2000) Le plus grand cabaret du monde (1998-2019) Les années bonheur (2006-2019) Prodiges (since 2014) Taratata (since 1993) Vivement dimanche (1998-2022) Drag Race France (since 2022) MasterChef France ...
Plans were made in January or February 2011 for the aquarium to receive two killer whales, a male, Bingo, and a female, Stella, on a five-year loan from Kamogawa Sea World in Chiba Prefecture. The two adult killer whales arrived on December 16, 2011, by ship. Their daughter, Ran 2, arrived by truck the day before, on December 15, 2011.