photo: European Community / Uwe Küchler
At low tide surrounded by mud flats - seen from the air on 16 June 2006, the French prime minister and regional authorities announced a €164 million project (Projet Mont-Saint-Michel[1]) to build a hydraulic dam that will help remove the accumulated silt and make Mont-Saint-Michel an island again.
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Mactaquac Dam
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A procession in St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Memphis, Tennessee, in 2002
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Mont-Saint-Michel from the south was previously connected to the mainland via a thin natural land bridge, which before modernization was covered at high tide and revealed at low tide. This has been compromised by several developments. Over the centuries, the coastal flats have been polderised to create pasture.
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"Portrait of Augustus Saint-Gaudens" by Kenyon Cox
photo: AP / Dominique Chomereau-Lamotte
A protester manning a barricade allows a car to pass during ongoing protests over high prices and low wages, in Sainte-Rose, on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009. The French government offered to boost salaries to end the monthlong strike.
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Brittany , France
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The Gardon or Gard (Occitan and French: Gardon, Gard) is a river in southern France. It is the namesake of the Gard département.
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Sainte-Chapelle
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Saint Nicholas Saves Three Innocents from Death (oil painting by Ilya Repin, 1888, State Russian Museum).
photo: Creative Commons / Claude Villetaneuse
Gare de Lyon Saint-Exupéry
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Marco da Fundação, Salvador (3)
photo: WN / Janice Sabnal
Cemetery - Cemeteries - All Saint's Day - All Soul's Day - Tombs - Filipinos
photo: WN / Janice Sabnal
Cemetery - Cemeteries - All Saint's Day - All Soul's Day - Tombs - Filipinos
photo: WN / Janice Sabnal
Cemetery - Cemeteries - All Saint's Day - All Soul's Day - Tombs - Filipinos
photo: Creative Commons / Fernando Dall'Acqua
Praia de Ondina
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Skyline Towers is located just across Interstate 94.
photo: Creative Commons / Louis VI
The ambulatory at the Abbey of Saint-Denis.
photo: NASA / Michael Carlowicz.
Hurricane Earl as seen from the International Space Station on August 30. Throughout the Leeward Islands, heavy rains produced by the storm flooded low-lying areas
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Satellite image: Quebec City on the north bank of the St. Lawrence river, Lévis on the south bank, and the western point of the Île d'Orléans
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View of the "Petit Nice" on the Corniche with Frioul and Château d'If in the background
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Hajiali. india
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A large monocrystal of potassium dihydrogen phosphate grown from solution by Saint-Gobain for the megajoule laser of CEA.
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St Michael's Mount, Cornwall at high tide in 1900. A tidal island is a piece of land that is connected to the mainland by a natural or man-made causeway that is exposed at low tide and submerged at high tide.
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Entrance gates to Montreal's Chinatown on Saint Laurent Boulevard.
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Part Dieu platforms during a period of low traffic.
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The Haji Ali Dargah in India / wam2
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Main Street, Local history contends that the town of Wick low was founded by the Vikings, probably around 795 AD. However, given the area's natural harbor and fertile hinterland, it is likely that a small settlement existed before the Vikings landed
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Waterfall in the eastern Vosges (French pronunciation: [voʒ]) (German: Vogesen) are a range of low mountains in eastern France, near its border with Germany
photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Joshua Scott
Religious Programs Specialist 3rd Class Jamal Lowe, from Columbia, Miss., cleans and prepares the chapel aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) to prepare for the Roman Catholic Mass.