In the Ummayad Mosque, also known as the Grand Mosque of Damascus holds a shrine which is said to contain the head of John the Baptist. The site was later temple of Jupiter in the Roman era, then a Christian church dedicated to John the Baptist in the Byzantine era. Under the Umayyad caliph Al-Walid I, however, the church was purchased from the Christians before being demolished. Between 706 and 715 the current mosque was built in its place.

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Since a few years, in the streets of Brussels, organised under the auspices of the Brussels city authorities with the help of the Belgian Comic Strip Centre, huge cartoon murals can be admired in the town center. Belgian cartoon artists painted original murals on the walls of some buildings, figuring famous characters of the belgian bandes dessinées: Tintin, The Smurfs (Les Schtroumpfs), Spirou, Lucky Luke, Gaston Lagaffe, Blake and Mortimer, Lucky Luke, Asterix. A nice way to stroll around the streets of Brussels, the de facto capital city of the European Union (EU).

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Thomas Jefferson was chosen to write the first draft which was presented to the Congress on June 28, 1776. After various changes, a vote was taken late in the afternoon of July 4th. Of the 13 colonies, 9 voted in favor of the Declaration. Pennsylvania and South Carolina voted against, Delaware was undecided and New York abstained. John Hancock, President of the Continental Congress, signed the Declaration of Independence. On July 8, 1776, the Liberty Bell rang out from the tower of Independence Hall summoning citizens to hear the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence by Colonel John Nixon.

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In legends, Legong is the heavenly dance of divine nymphs. Formerly, the dance was patronized by local rajas. Dancers were recruited from the aptest and prettiest children, today, the trained dancers are still very young. In Balinese dance the movement is closely associated with the rhythms produced by the gamelan (musical ensemble from Indonesia, typically from the islands of Bali or Java, featuring a variety of instruments such as metallophones, xylophones, drums and gongs)

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The Pyramid of Cheops (also called Pyramid of Khufu and Great Pyramid of Giza) is the only remaining member of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis at the edge of the desert near Cairo, Egypt.

The others were:
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Statue of Zeus at Olympia
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus
Colossus of Rhodes
Lighthouse of Alexandria

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