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"A strandkorb (from German, meaning: beach basket; Danish: strandkurv; English: hooded beach chair) is a special hooded windbreak seating furniture used at vacation and seaside resorts, constructed from wicker, wood panels and canvas, usually seating up to two persons, with reclining backrests. It was designed to provide comfort seating and shelter from wind, rain, sand gusts and sunburn on beach seafront resorts frequented by tourists. Other built-in details, like extendable footrests, sun awning, side folding tables and storage space, provide the user with several comforts.
Strandkorbs are found at nearly all beach seafront resorts of the North Sea and Baltic Sea in Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, as well as other beach seafronts where sudden fluctuations in adverse weather conditions and wind gusts can prevail. The "strandkorb" beach-chair is considered a cult object of German Gemütlichkeit, which has survived two world wars, social and industrial revolutions and the East-West divide of Germany. From spring to autumn, they can usually be rented from beach-chair wardens (German Strandkorbwärtern). Two different shapes can be distinguished, the straight angular North Sea variety and the round rolling Baltic Sea variety."
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Media Harbor / Medienhafen
"The Rheinturm /Rhine Tower) is a 240.5 meter high concrete telecommunications tower in Düsseldorf, capital of the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Construction commenced in 1979 and finished in 1981."
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Panarbora is the name of a nature discovery park opened in September 2015 on the outskirts of Waldbröl.
The park includes a 1635 meter treetop path up to 23 meters high and an observation tower. This 40 meter high observation tower has a 34 meter high viewing platform. A total of 700 cubic meters of wood were used.
Five tree houses, three villages with four huts each and a family and seminar house are available to guests as overnight accommodations. The discovery site offers a variety of environmental and adventure activities and also offers a nature experience academy with further education and seminars. Furthermore a forest path, a play tunnel, a hedge labyrinth and an adventure playground attracts children.
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The Sequoia Farm Kaldenkirchen is a 35,635 m² (≈ 3.6 hectares) arboretum near the town of Nettetal. Here, in the middle of the 20th century, the first systematic cultivation of all three redwood species in Europe took place. The site was used for several years by universities and as a biological station and since 2013 it has been owned by the non-profit "Sequoiafarm" association.
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"The skull is a bony structure that forms the head of the skeleton in most vertebrates. It supports the structures of the face and provides a protective cavity for the brain. The skull is composed of two parts: the cranium and the mandible. In the human these two parts are the neurocranium and the viscerocranium or facial skeleton that includes the mandible as its largest bone. The skull forms the anterior most portion of the skeleton and is a product of cephalisation—housing the brain, and several sensory structures such as the eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. In the human these sensory structures are part of the facial skeleton.
Functions of the skull include protection of the brain, fixing the distance between the eyes to allow stereoscopic vision, and fixing the position of the ears to enable sound localisation of the direction and distance of sounds. In some animals such as horned ungulates, the skull also has a defensive function by providing the mount (on the frontal bone) for the horns.
The English word "skull" is probably derived from Old Norse "skalli" meaning bald, while the Latin word cranium comes from the Greek root κρανίον (kranion)."
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Safaripark Beekse Bergen is the largest wildlife zoo of the Benelux region and provides a home to approximately 1,250 animals from over 150 species, varying from small mammals to large birds. It is located between the cities of Tilburg and Hilvarenbeek in the south of the Netherlands.
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"The National War and Resistance Museum of the Netherlands (Dutch: Nationaal Oorlogs- en Verzetsmuseum) is located at Overloon, municipality Boxmeer.
The museum is located on the site of the Battle of Overloon, a World War II tank and infantry battle between Allied and German forces that occurred in September and October 1944, in the aftermath of Operation Market Garden.
Set in 14 hectares of woodland, it is one of two museums in an area now designated as Liberty Park. A feature of the museum is the large number of military vehicles and equipment on display, both German and Allied. For years these have been kept in the open air, but have recently been moved indoors in order to help preserve them. Many of the exhibited vehicles took part in the Battle of Overloon. In 2006 the collection was expanded with a large number of vehicles from a private collection."
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The robust appearance reveals the purpose for which the 'Morgana' was built in 1924: to conquer the rough waters of Northern Europe.
In 1998 the ship was converted into a very spacious and comfortable three-master.
'Corneliusplatz' is located between the 'Tritonenbrunnen' at the northern end of the 'Königsallee' canal and the southern edge of the 'Hofgarten' in the middle of Düsseldorf's city center. As a Wilhelminian 'jewelry' square, its green area was considered one of the most beautiful and popular in Düsseldorf. In 1882 a neo-baroque bowl fountain designed by the sculptor Leo Müsch was erected in its center. The square is named after Peter von Cornelius, the first director of the 'Kunstakademie Düsseldorf', whose monument stands in the 'Hofgarten' and which forms the axis of view to the north.
The Kaufhof department store (Hudson's Bay Company) was built between 1907 and 1909 according to plans by Joseph Maria Olbrich in the historical and monumental style of reform architecture.
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