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Erdbeben in Marokko / Séisme au Maroc
Erdbeben in Marokko Am 8. September 2023 erschütterte ein Erdbeben der Stärke 6,8 Marokko. Das Epizentrum lag 73 km südwestlich von Marrakesch, in der Nähe der Stadt Ighli. Marokko liegt an der Azoren-Gibraltar-Transformstörung, der Grenze zwischen der Afrikanischen und der Eurasischen Platte. Das Beben beschädigte oder zerstörte Gebäude in Marrakesch…
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Earthquake Near Marrakesh In Morocco
An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 has struck Morocco on 8 September 2023, the epicentre was located 73 km southwest of Marrakesh, near the town of Ighli. Morocco is located at the Azores-Gibraltar Transform Fault which is the boundary between the African Plate and the Eurasian Plate. The earthquake…
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Stadium 974
On the centre left the Stadium 974 can be seen, the stadium for the Qatar Football World Cup 2022 which was built from shipping containers and can be disassembled later. The number 974 stands for the amount of containers used for the stadium.
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See The Marketplace Of Old Fes
The marketplace in the old Medina of Fes, also called Fes el Bali. In 789 CE a town was founded on the right bank of the Fes River (واد فاس) by Idris ibn Abdallah as capital for his newly acquired empire. However, his son decided to found a capital of…
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Terra Pavilion
Terra, the Sustainability Pavilion on the Expo 2020 Dubai. It delivered an idea of the beauty of the world and the issues to solve for protecting it.
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Protecting The Emperor
Protecting the emperor for other two thousand years can cause headaches, if you have a head. Some soldiers appear a bit headless… In fact the bodies and heads of the terracotta warriors were created separately and put together. Every face is unique and an exact copy of a real soldier.
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Clovis Not First
There are new findings in Brazil which show that there were humans much earlier than according to the established theory. According to the Clovis First theory people migrated from Asia via the Bering Straight to North America and from there to South America. That was when the ice sheets melted…
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Chinese Wall Construction
Why is the Chinese Wall still there? It seems to be an unusual question but normally brick constructions should only last one hundred years, and the Chinese Wall in its current state was built during the early Ming dynasty in the 15th century. The reason is not the bricks, they…
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On The Island Sylt
On the way to and from the Morsum Kliff at the eastern side of the island of Sylt. It has been described as one of the most important geological monuments in Germany and stretches for almost two kilometres along the northeastern coast. It is important to stay on the paths…
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Palace Of The Republic
The Palace of the Republic (Palast der Republik) in Berlin was the seat of the parliament of the GDR or DDR, the German Democratic Republic, the communistic country of East Germany which existed from 1949 till 1990. The Palace was constructed in 1976 and was demolished between 2006 and 2008.…
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The Traveller Karl May
Karl May wrote traveling stories in which he was a westman in America called Old Shatterhand as well as a traveller in Northern Africa and the Middle East called Kara Ben Nemsi, although he has never really been to those places at the time he wrote the stories. Some people…
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Simplicity And Progress
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication, and in the past life was closer to that than nowadays. People still had style and were aiming for advances in many areas, and while the first is diminishing the latter is reaching levels of complexity which can be too much. In the past people…
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