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Railway line 47, the section of the Vennbahn between Sankt Vith and Troisvierges, was commissioned in late 1889 and crossed the Our River via a brick viaduct near the German village of Hemmeres.
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Thanks to the use of 18th-century cutting-edge technology - coal and steam - Blaenavon Ironworks in south Wales became the second largest iron producer in the world.
Grand Est
Monday morning, February 21, 1916. A quarter after 7 in the morning, the German army opened fire on the forts north and east of Verdun, France.
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Grand Est
A 58-meter-high headframe tower dominates an otherwise anonymous industrial site in the French Moselle. As early as 1931, two deep shafts were dug here to mine coal.
Ghent
In the early twentieth century, Ghent, Belgium, made a massive switch to electric power for trams, street lighting, and harbour cranes. To meet the growing demand, the city commissioned the construction of coal-fired power stations.
Zeeland
The Eede-Aardenburg air watchtower is one of the 276 lookout posts built in the Netherlands during the Cold War.
Berlin
In the summer of 1945, only a few months after the Third Reich was removed from power, the Soviet government erected the Panzerdenkmal (German for 'Tank memorial') near the AVUS highway.
Saarland
The Reden coal mine's coal preparation plant has partly made way for water basins that regulate the water management of the mining area.
Brussels
In the shadow of the royal domain of Laeken, King Leopold II had the greenhouses of Stuyvenberg built at the end of the nineteenth century, from where he could have flowers and plants brought in at will to brighten up the royal residences.
Hainaut
Pont de l'Origine is one of the drawbridges along the old canal between Brussels and Charleroi.
South Holland
In 1815, after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, Dutch King William I gave the go-ahead for constructing the New Dutch Waterline. This defence line extended over a distance of 85 kilometres between the Zuiderzee and the Biesbosch.
Italy
When Vesuvius erupted on 24 October 79, the Roman provincial capital of Pompeii disappeared under a thick layer of ash.
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Once a year, the Arenberg coal mine and two abandoned railway bridges play a starring role during the passage of the spring cycle classic: Paris-Roubaix.
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