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Chiribiquete National Park – "The Maloca of the Jaguar" was added to the list in 2018 as Colombia's most recent inscription. [3] Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System, is a transnational site and is shared with five other countries. Colombia has a further 13 sites on its tentative list. The country has served on the World Heritage Committee three ...
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the United States of America that are national memorials, National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places or other heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
In 2009, in preparation for a Harris County Flood Control District erosion control project, archaeologists from Moore Archeological Consulting conducting an excavation of Cypress Creek unearthed thousands of Akokisa artifacts including stone tools, arrow points and pottery shards.
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A number of Houston's earliest homes are now located in Sam Houston Park, including the Kellum-Noble House, which was built in 1847 and is Houston's oldest brick dwelling. [77] During the late 1930s and early 1940s, the Kellum-Noble House served as a public office for the City of Houston's Park Department, and is listed in the National Register ...
Now, so many of the community’s stores, restaurants and homes are lost. As for other families here, the Dedeauxs’ scorched house — bought for $23,000 and worth an estimated $1.1 million ...
In the 1980s and ’90s, gentrification priced Black residents out of the area, and many moved farther inland. Many of those who could afford to remain lived in large family homes passed down ...
Postcard showing ruins of the Great Mosque of Djenne in Mali, ca. 1900. The Great Mosque of Djenne fell into disrepair after the conquest of Djenne by Seku Amadu in 1818. It was rebuilt in 1907. Parts of the World Heritage Site of Timbuktu were destroyed after the Battle of Gao in 2012, despite condemnation by UNESCO, the OIC, Mali, and France.