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| Conwy Castle |
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| Caernarfon Castle |
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| Conwy Castle |
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| Conwy Castle |
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| Conwy Castle. |
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| Caernarfon Castle |
The name The Ugly House is thought to be a corruption of the name of the local river, Lugwy. It is in Capel Curig which has the dubious honour of being the wettest place in the UK with an average annual rainfall of 2612.18mm which is slightly under 103 inches.
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The Library of Celsus, Ephesus, Turkey.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Celsus
It seems incredible that what looks like a group of trees is in fact all one!
Enormous is no understatement here: Spanning 1.94 acres—over the length of a city block—and rising more than 60 feet in the air, Lahaina’s famed banyan tree is a quarter of a mile in circumference and possesses 16 trunks, making it the largest banyan tree not only in Hawaii but also in the United States (and one of the most massive in the world).
While remnants of the town’s conflicted past remains—Lahaina is at once raucous and refined, booming with the gutsy spirit of its past residents—its early 19th century soul is best represented in the banyan tree itself, which matured with the help of a local Japanese gardening society and other Maui residents, who hung jars of waters on its roots. A member of the fig tree family—of which there are 60 types in Hawaii—Lahaina’s banyan tree’s root system is, in every sense of the word, a marvel: Descending from its branches, aerial roots drape towards the ground, where they take root, thicken, and form new trunks that allow the tree to grow vertically and horizontally, giving it a skulking look that brings to mind Southern Gothic. (To the outside observer, larger banyan trees—including Lahaina’s—appear to comprise several separate trees.)
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