San Lazzaro degli Armeni

San Lazzaro degli Armeni (Italian: [san ˈladdzaro deʎʎ arˈmɛːni], lit. "Saint Lazarus of the Armenians"; sometimes called Saint Lazarus Island in English; Armenian: Սուրբ Ղազար, romanized: Surb Ghazar) is a small island in the Venetian Lagoon which has been home to the monastery of the Mekhitarists, an Armenian Catholic congregation, since 1717. It is one of the two primary centers of the congregation, along with the monastery in Vienna.

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Haus zum Ritter St. Georg

On the main street, opposite the tower of the Church of the Holy Spirit, stands the House of the Knight St. George. Built in 1592 by the Huguenot cloth merchant Charles Bélier, it resembles the gabled house that was common in Heidelberg before the city was destroyed. 

Jerez de la Frontera

Jerez de la Frontera (Spanish pronunciation: [xeˈɾeθ ðe la fɾonˈteɾa]) or simply Jerez, also cited in old English-language sources as Xeres, is a city and municipality in the province of Cádiz in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Located in southwestern Iberia, it lies on the Campiña de Jerez, an inland low-land plain crossed by the Guadalete river, midway between the Atlantic Ocean, the Guadalquivir river and the western reaches of the Subbaetic System. 

Isthmus of Nicaragua

Description: A map from 1901 of the Isthmus of Nicaragua, showing the proposed route of the Atlantic–Pacific canal from San Juan del Norte (Greytown) on the Caribbean coast to Lake Nicaragua, then to Brito near San Juan del Sur on the Pacific coast. Plans for the Nicaragua Canal were abandoned in 1902 when the U.S. Congress approved funds to purchase the French interests in the Panama Canal.

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