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The Monster Building is a cluster of five interconnected buildings located on King's Road in Quarry Bay, Hong Kong. Known for its striking appearance, it has become a popular photography spot and has inspired several filming locations. The complex consists of 2,243 units across five blocks, each with 18 floors, and is home to around 10,000 residents.Originally built in the 1960s as the Parker Estate (named after Mount Parker to the south), the housing estate was later sold and divided into five separate blocks in 1972: the Fook Cheong Building, Montane Mansion, Oceanic Mansion, Yick Cheong Building, and Yick Fat Building. Shops line the street-facing sides of the buildings, with the Oceanic Mansion being the tallest at 18 floors. The dense, composite nature of the structure contributes to its unique character.The private estate gained widespread attention in 2013 when a photograph of it by Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze went viral. The image was featured on the cover of his photo book 'Vertical Horizon' and further fueled the building’s popularity among both tourists and locals. Due to its newfound fame, residents have posted signs asking visitors to be respectful. The Monster Building has served as the backdrop for films like 'Transformers: Age of Extinction' and 'Ghost in the Shell', as well as music videos such as 'Labyrinth' by Mondo Grosso and Hikari Mitsushima, and 'Cave Me In' by Gallant and Eric Nam.

On August 10, 1909, the Government of Saskatchewan issued incorporation papers for the Village of Harris, though its roots trace back a few years earlier. Richard Elford Harris, born in 1847 in Ontario, married Anne Cantellon in 1872. Initially working as a carriage maker and carpenter in Goderich, Huron County, he moved his family westward in 1891 to farm in Morden, Manitoba. In 1904, the Harris family, with two sons and a daughter, journeyed further west from Saskatoon on the Old Bone Trail, settling two miles north of the village's present location, halfway between Goose Lake and Devils Lake (later known as Crystal Beach).As settlers arrived and passed through, the Harris family’s sod house became a welcoming stop known as the 'Harris Stopping Place,' where travelers could rest, enjoy a meal, and shelter their animals. Richard Harris and his sons often assisted settlers in locating homesteads. As the community grew, the need for a post office emerged, and Harris became the area’s first postmaster. Soon after, a store and Methodist church were built, with Harris occasionally serving as a lay minister.The hamlet expanded, eagerly awaiting the railway. When surveyors missed the settlement by two miles, the resilient pioneers purchased land from homesteader Jack Sinfield and relocated businesses, homes, and an elevator near the railway tracks that ran southwest. The first train arrived in the fall of 1908, and another prairie town took shape on mile 52 of the Goose Lake Line.Naming discussions followed, with 'Sinfield' and 'Miscampbellville' as options, but when Harris received permission from the Post Office Department to move his office to the new site, the community adopted his name. The Methodist Church also relocated to the new townsite.In its progressive spirit, Harris established its first telephone company in 1916, added cement sidewalks in the 1920s, and brought in electricity by 1930. In 1955, Harris was among the few villages to adopt a natural gas utility through Sask Power, 25 years ahead of some neighboring communities. A gravity sewer system was installed in 1960, remaining low-maintenance to this day, with land for the lagoon donated by a resident. Street paving began in the early 1970s, completed by 1980, and in 1976, a municipal water treatment and distribution system became operational.

The Mistaseni Cairn, located at the edge of the Harbor Golf Course and Marina, honors the Mistaseni, a 400-ton glacial boulder significant in traditional Native religion. Known as 'Big Rock' in Cree, this massive rock was blasted in a failed attempt to relocate it before the Qu'Appelle Valley was flooded in the 1960s. The cairn includes small pieces of the original rock, while other fragments were used to create a memorial for Chief Poundmaker at the Poundmaker First Nation near North Battleford.Henry Youle Hind is among the first to document the Mistaseni rock, noting his observations during his 1858 journey through the Qu'Appelle Valley. He described a 'gigantic erratic of unfossiliferous rock' located fourteen miles from the south branch of the Saskatchewan River, measuring seventy-nine feet in circumference and forty-six feet at its highest point. Hind observed that Indigenous people offered items such as beads, tobacco, and cloth to Manito at this sacred site.

Melville is a city located in east-central Saskatchewan, Canada, about 145 km (90 mi) northeast of Regina and 45 km (28 mi) southwest of Yorkton. It is bordered by the rural municipalities of Cana No. 214 and Stanley No. 215. As of the 2016 census, Melville had a population of 4,562, making it Saskatchewan's smallest city. The city is known for its hockey team, the Melville Millionaires, who play in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League, and its former baseball team of the same name, which competed in the Western Canadian Baseball League until 2019.Melville was named after Charles Melville Hays, the president of the Grand Trunk Railway and Grand Trunk Pacific Railway at the time of its founding. Hays perished on the RMS Titanic. The area's first post office, Pearl Park, was established in 1905 near Pearl Creek, a tributary of the Qu'Appelle River. Melville gained city status in 1960. According to the 2021 Census, Melville's population was 4,493, a slight decrease from 2016, with a population density of 304.0/km² (787.3/sq mi) over a land area of 14.78 km² (5.71 sq mi).

Birch Hills is a town in Saskatchewan, Canada, situated southeast of Prince Albert and near the Muskoday First Nation reserve. To the west lies the village of St. Louis, while Kinistino is to the east. Although surrounded by Birch Hills Rural Municipality No. 460, the town is not part of it. The town derives its name from the surrounding hills, once densely forested with birch trees. These trees were historically significant for crafting birch bark canoes during the 18th-century fur trade era. The landscape around Birch Hills belongs to the aspen parkland biome. Birch Hills was settled predominantly by Norwegian, British, and Anglo-Metis communities. It became a village in 1907 and was designated a town in 1960. Unlike many agriculturally based towns, Birch Hills continues to grow, partly due to its role as a satellite community of Prince Albert. According to the 2021 Census by Statistics Canada, Birch Hills had a population of 1,066, an increase of 3.2% from its 2016 population of 1,033. The town covers a land area of 2.39 km² (0.92 sq mi), resulting in a population density of 446.0/km² (1,155.2/sq mi).Notable individuals from Birch Hills include Earl Thomson, who won a gold medal for Canada in the 110 meters hurdles at the 1920 Olympics; Marshall Johnston, an NHL player, scout, coach, and general manager, who currently serves as the Director of Professional Scouting for the Carolina Hurricanes; and John Richard Parish Taylor, a politician.

The Labin National Museum, founded in 1960 within the Labin Public Open University, showcases the history of Labin, including the proclamation of the Labin Republic in 1921 and the Giuseppina Martinuzzi memorial collection. Housed in the Baroque palace of the Battiala-Lazzarini family, the museum offers a chronological overview of the town's history and significant events, with interactive elements. It features a lapidarium with Roman artifacts, highlights the miner's strike of 1921, and includes an ethnographic exhibition. Of particular interest is the exhibition on Labin's mining history, established with support from the Istrian coal mines of Raša.

The Korean Central History Museum, situated in Pyongyang, North Korea, stands as a repository of Korean history, spanning from primitive society to the modern era. Originally established by Kim Il Sung on December 1, 1945, atop Moran Hill, the museum faced adversity during the Korean War, with many collections hidden and its original building destroyed by US troops. However, resilience prevailed, and the museum was rebuilt on Kim Il-sung Square in either 1960 or 1977. In 1998, it was honored with a series of commemorative postage stamps. In a 2014 speech, Kim Jong Un expressed his vision of elevating the museum to a global standard for history museums. Today, the Korean Central History Museum boasts 10,500 square meters of exhibition space across 19 rooms, housing approximately 100,000 relics and artifacts. Despite its historical significance, photography inside the museum is prohibited. Among its notable collections are one-million-year-old bones excavated from Komun Moru in 1966 and a replica of the world's first rocket battery. Open to foreigners and tourists, the museum stands as a testament to North Korea's rich cultural heritage and historical narrative.

Staffelter Hof, nestled in the small town of Kröv within the Bernkastel-Wittlich district of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, operates as a family-owned establishment encompassing a winery, distillery, and guest house. It boasts the distinction of being the oldest running winery globally and stands as the sixth oldest continuously operating company worldwide. The origins of Staffelter Hof trace back to 862, associated initially with a wine-producing abbey. This historical legacy places it among the oldest companies globally. Records of the abbey's existence are documented in an original artifact housed in the city archives of Liège, Belgium. Lands stretching from the Carolingian dynasty to Kröv, among other regions, were donated to the abbey, serving as a source of revenue until the advent of the Napoleonic Code in 1804. In 1805, Peter Schneiders acquired the Kröv land for 1773 Taler, initiating a lineage that spans seven generations, currently led by Jan Matthias Klein, who succeeded his father, Gerd Klein, in 2005. The present-day operations encompass various facets: 1. Guest House: Established in 1960, the guest house, overseen by Hildegunde (Gundi) Klein, wife of Gerd Klein and mother of Jan Klein, offers accommodation comprising four double rooms and six apartments. 2. Distillery: Originating post-1890 under Kilian Klein, Gerd's grandfather, the distillery produces schnaps annually using ingredients like trester or marc, hefe (yeast lees), mirabell, cherries, apples, pears, plums, and homemade liqueurs. 3. Wine Production: Staffelter Hof manages 12 hectares of vineyards spread across Paradies, Kirchlay, Letterlay, Steffensberg, and Dhron Hofberger in Neumagen-Dhron. The estate transitioned to organic viticulture between 2011 and 2014, earning organic certification in 2014. 4. Grape Varieties: The winery predominantly focuses on white grape varieties, constituting 90% of the total production, including Riesling (75%), Rivaner (formerly Müller Thurgau) (11%), Sauvignon Blanc (3%), and Gelber Muskateller (1%). Red grape varieties, accounting for the remaining 10%, encompass Pinot Noir (45%), Regent (30%), and Frühburgunder (15%). 5. Wine Tiers: Staffelter Hof offers three tiers of wines—Wappenwein (Heraldic Wines), Signatureweine (Signature Wines), and Motivweine (Wolf Wines), catering to various tastes from dry to sweet, sparkling (inclusive of hand-remuaged traditional method Sekt), rose, white, and red wines.

The Sigulda Medieval Castle ruins, situated at the Gauja valley's edge in Latvia, trace back to its initial construction in 1207 as a castellum-type fortress. Over time, it transformed into a convent-style structure and served as the residence for the Land Marshal of the Livonian Order starting in 1432. Recognized as a significant tourist attraction, the old castle walls underwent multiple fortifications during the 20th century. Reopened to visitors in 2012, the castle invites everyone to immerse themselves in its historical ambiance, showcasing the backdrop of numerous past events. Visitors can ascend the North Tower and the Main Gate Tower, experiencing the medieval atmosphere firsthand.Sigulda Medieval Castle has a rich history tied to the Livonian Brothers of the Sword, a German 'warrior monk' order later known as the Livonian Brothers of the Sword. Initially built in 1207 as a fortress, it transformed into a convent-type structure, serving as the Land Marshal's residence from 1432 onwards. The castle's strategic placement along the Gauja River, in competition with the nearby Turaida Bishop's Castle, was crucial. Under various dominions like the Livonian Order and the Teutonic Order, the castle underwent significant changes. Damaged during wars, it was restored multiple times, passing through different owners, including the Polish governor and later becoming a private estate. In the 19th century, the castle was redesigned, a new structure was built by Prince Kropotkin’s family, and post-World War I, it fell under Monument Board protection. Extensive renovation work and research were undertaken from the 1960s onward, supported by the European Union for renovations that concluded in 2012.

The preeminent ethnomuseum institution in Romania, the ASTRA Museum stands as the largest open-air museum in Europe. Nestled within the captivating landscape of the protected forest area of 'Dumbrava Sibiului,' this outdoor museum captivates visitors at every turn. Nature and culture seamlessly merge in this authentic Romanian village setting. Meandering through 10 kilometers of charming alleys, visitors encounter peasant households, handicraft workshops, wooden churches, wayside shrines, sheepfolds, and water and windmills. The well-preserved original interiors provide glimpses into simple country life, offering insights into age-old skills and demonstrating their relevance for the future.The ASTRA Museum, an extension of the Transylvanian Association for Romanian Literature and the Culture of the Romanian People (ASTRA), meticulously upholds the cultural heritage left by its visionary founders. Commencing over a century ago, the museum's inception was rooted in the aspiration to establish an ethnographic collection in Sibiu. Founded in 1861, ASTRA initially focused on promoting national industry through public exhibitions. The thematic design for the ethnographic exhibition emerged in 1905, and a Folk Art Section was established in 1956 to revive the concept of creating an expansive open-air ethnographic museum. In 1960, land in Dumbrava Sibiului was allocated, leading to the creation of the Museum of Folk Technology, which officially opened its doors in 1967 and gained acclaim nationally and internationally. Evolving over time, the museum has transformed into a comprehensive representation of traditional folk civilization, encompassing various facets of daily life. In 1990, it was bestowed with the name ASTRA, solidifying its direct connection to the original association. By 2001, the museum expanded its scope, becoming the ASTRA National Museum Complex, managing a rich array of tangible and intangible heritage, including the Open Air Museum and other collections, establishing itself as a prominent cultural institution.

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