305. Rotštejn

 Rotštejn the ruins of the castle rock. It is located approximately 9 km east of Turnov, on the edge of nature reserve Klokocske rocks. The ruins are partly walled and partly vtesaná into blocks of sandstone rocks.

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304. The Great Wall of China

 The Great Wall of China is a series of fortifications made of stone, brick, tamped earth, wood, and other materials, generally built along an east-to-west line across the historical northern borders of China in part to protect the Chinese Empire or its prototypical states against intrusions by various nomadic groups or military incursions by various warlike peoples or forces. Several walls were being built as early as the 7th century BC; these, later joined together and made bigger, stronger, and unified are now collectively referred to as the Great Wall. Especially famous is the wall built between 220–206 BC by the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang. Little of that wall remains. Since then, the Great Wall has on and off been rebuilt, maintained, enhanced; the majority of the existing wall was reconstructed during the Ming Dynasty.

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303. Outback

 Outback,  in Australia, any inland area remote from large centres of population. Generally, the term is applied to semiarid inland areas of eastern Australia and to the arid centre of the Western Plateau and its semiarid northern plains (in Western Australia) where bodies of water are scattered and frequently dry. The MacDonnell, Musgrave, and Petermann mountain ranges and four major deserts (the Gibson, the Great Sandy, the Great Victoria, and the Tanami) are situated in this latter region, as is Uluru/Ayers Rock. The term Outback has been in use since the 19th century and has many compounds and derivatives, such as “back of Bourke,” “back of beyond,” “back country,” and “backblocks.” Terms with similar meaning include “the bush” and “never-never.”

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302. Bear Mountain

 Bear Mountain from Red Mountain Pass, along The Million Dollar Highway between Silverton and Ouray in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado.

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301. The Pearl River - Guangzhou

The Pearl River  is an extensive river system in southern China. The name Pearl River is usually used as a catchment term to refer to the watersheds of the Xi Jiang ("West River"), the Bei Jiang ("North River"), and the Dong Jiang ("East River"). These rivers are all considered tributaries of the Pearl River because they share a common delta, the Pearl River Delta. Measured from the farthest reaches of the Xi Jiang, the Pearl River system is China's third longest river (2,400 km, after the Yangtze River and the Yellow River), and second largest by volume (after the Yangtze). The 409,480 km² Pearl River Basin (珠江流域) drains the majority of South Central (Guangdong and Guangxi provinces), as well as parts of Southwest (Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan and Jiangxi provinces) in China, and Northeast of Vietnam (Cao Bằng and Lạng Sơn).

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300. Evening in Minsk, Guberniya

 Evening in Minsk, Guberniya. 1870-s /Apalinary Harauski

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