Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, located on the European side of Bosphorus, was the main administrative center of the Ottoman Empire. The construction, cost five million Mecidiye, Ottoman gold coin, the equivalent of 35 tons of gold. Fourteen of those tons of gold were used to gild the ceilings of the 45,000 square foot palace.
The Sherlock Holmes Museum is a popular privately-run museum in London, dedicated to the celebrated 19th century detective created by Sir Conan Doyle. The museum opened in 1990 and is situated in Baker Street, bearing the number 221b.
At a height of 4,003 meters on a rocky ridge of the Matterhorn, Switzerland’s iconic, triangular peak, is the Solvay hut, managed by the Swiss Alpine Club.
Since 1983, the Rifugio Nuvolau has been a refuge for exhausted trekkers in Italy’s Dolomite Mountains.
The Carnival of Venice is an annual festival, held in Venice, Italy. The Carnival starts around two weeks before Ash Wednesday (dependent on the date of Easter) and ends on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday.
Company Inventist presented a compact self-balancing electric unicycle. The new transportation device was named Solowheel. It weighs only 20 pounds and very portable, it consists of one wheel with a fold-up foot platform on either side. The unicycle reaches a top speed of 12mph.
Mount Nyiragongo is located inside Virunga National Park, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, about 20 km north of the town of Goma and Lake Kivu and just west of the border with Rwanda. The main crater is about two km wide and usually contains a lava lake.
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