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  2. Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery - Wikipedia

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    The pictures each measure approximately 3 metres (9.8 ft) by 2.5 metres (8 ft 2 in) to 2.7 metres (8 ft 10 in); as such together they run almost 250 metres (820 ft) and, at this scale, are sometimes described as "murals" (壁画). [6] [1] Tosa washi was selected as the official support for the paintings, although not all artists chose to use it ...

  3. Architecture of Germany - Wikipedia

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    Unlike the formal Baroque gardens, it celebrated the naturalistic manner of the English landscape garden and symbolised the promised freedom of the Enlightenment era. The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin , commissioned by King Frederick William II of Prussia as a sign of peace and completed by Carl Gotthard Langhans in 1791, is arguably one of the ...

  4. Wikipedia : Public domain image resources

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    Bing.com – Has an Advanced Image Search that offers images in different resolutions and also categorizes images. Allows free querying of the bing Image Search API up to a certain limit per day. Everystockphoto.com – Searching over 4.3 million public domain and creative commons photos including Wikipedia and NASA. Free user accounts with ...

  5. East Side Gallery - Wikipedia

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    The East Side Gallery (German: East-Side-Gallery) memorial in Berlin-Friedrichshain is a permanent open-air gallery on the longest surviving section of the Berlin Wall in Mühlenstraße between the Berlin Ostbahnhof and the Oberbaumbrücke along the Spree.

  6. Ulm - Wikipedia

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    Ulm (German pronunciation: ⓘ) is the sixth-largest city of the southwestern German state of Baden-Württemberg, and with around 129,000 inhabitants, it is Germany's 60th-largest city.

  7. German Empire - Wikipedia

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    The social, economic, and scientific successes of this Gründerzeit, or founding epoch, have sometimes led the Wilhelmine era to be regarded as a golden age. In the field of economics, the " Kaiserzeit " laid the foundation of Germany's status as one of the world's leading economic powers.

  8. Mercator 1569 world map - Wikipedia

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    [2] The projection heralded a new era in the evolution of navigation maps and charts and it is still their basis. The 1569 Mercator map of the world. (This is a low-resolution image. Links to higher-resolution images are given below.) The map is inscribed with a great deal of text.

  9. Nazi architecture - Wikipedia

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    The construction of new buildings served other purposes beyond reaffirming Nazi ideology. In Flossenbürg and elsewhere, the Schutzstaffel built forced-labor camps where prisoners of the Third Reich were forced to mine stone and make bricks, much of which went directly to Albert Speer for use in his rebuilding of Berlin and other projects in Germany.