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    Windmill Hill is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure in the English county of Wiltshire, part of the Avebury World Heritage Site, about 1 mile (2 km) northwest...
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    vertical windmill first appeared in northwestern Europe in the 12th century. Regarded as an icon of Dutch culture, there are approximately 1,000 windmills in...
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    Rössen culture may be ancestral to the Neolithic cultures of Britain and Ireland (a group of cultures previously known as Windmill Hill culture), but there...
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    Moulin Rouge (redirect from Red Windmill)
    Paris district of Pigalle on Boulevard de Clichy in the 18th arrondissement, and has a landmark red windmill on its roof. The closest métro station is...
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    near Garner State Park Windmill in the Hill Country House atop hill in Texas Hill Country north of Bandera A view of the Texas Hill Country from a rural...
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    Silbury Hill and its associated sites (West Kennet Long Barrow, the Avebury henge, The Sanctuary and Windmill Hill), from which the summit of Silbury Hill is...
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    Golden Gate Park, San Francisco (category Culture of San Francisco)
    inspection of the vast area west of Strawberry Hill revealed a large flow of water toward the ocean. The North windmill was constructed to reclaim the drainage...
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    The Old Windmill is a heritage-listed tower mill in Observatory Park adjacent to Wickham Park at 226 Wickham Terrace, Spring Hill, City of Brisbane, Queensland...
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    The Hamangia culture is a Late Neolithic archaeological culture of Dobruja (Romania and Bulgaria) between the Danube and the Black Sea and Muntenia in...
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    The Karanovo culture (Bulgarian: Карановска култура, romanized: Karanovska kultura) is a Neolithic culture (Karanovo I-III ca. 62nd to 55th centuries...
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    Newport Tower (Rhode Island) (category Windmills in Rhode Island)
    tower located in Touro Park in Newport, Rhode Island, the remains of a windmill built in the mid-17th century. It has received attention due to speculation...
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    The Vinča culture [ʋîːnt͜ʃa], also known as Turdaș culture, Turdaș–Vinča culture or Vinča-Turdaș culture, is a Neolithic archaeological culture of Southeast...
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    The Baden culture or Baden-Pécel culture is a Chalcolithic archaeological culture dating to c. 3520–2690 BC. It is found in Central and Southeast Europe...
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    The Funnel(-neck-)beaker culture, in short TRB or TBK (German: Trichter(-rand-)becherkultur, Dutch: Trechterbekercultuur; Danish: Tragtbægerkultur; c...
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    older monuments nearby, including West Kennet Long Barrow, Windmill Hill and Silbury Hill. By the Iron Age, the site had been effectively abandoned, with...
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    Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue in 1671. The property was part of a fief ceded to Dugué de Boisbriant in 1672 by the Sulpicians. A large stone windmill, which doubled...
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    sexual culture of S.F. -- and, perhaps, the country. Archived 2009-04-06 at the Wayback Machine SF Weekly, 8 September 2004 Vivien Goldsmith, "Windmill: always...
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  • The culture of Iran (Persian: فرهنگ ایران) or culture of Persia is among the most influential in the world. Iran (Persia) is widely considered to be one...
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    Jacob van Ruisdael (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Huygens. Slive finds it appropriate that a windmill is the subject of one of Ruisdael's most famous works. Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede, dated 1670, shows...
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    into an integrated system. By the 13th century windmills had come into use to pump water. The windmills were later used to drain lakes, creating the famous...
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    The Montefiore Windmill is a landmark windmill in Jerusalem. Designed as a flour mill, it was built in 1857 on a slope opposite the western city walls...
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    Tibberup Windmill (Danish. Tibberup Mølle) is a smock mill perched on a small hill in Tibberup in the southern part of Helsingør, Denmark. Built in 1870...
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    drawings and paintings of the area show no mound other than a 17th-century windmill. The Hampstead Ponds are three ponds in the heath's south-west corner,...
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    Hollum (section Culture)
    history museum. The smock mill De Verwachting is in working order. lighthouse Bornrif museum Sorgdrager maritime museum windmill De Verwachting "Kerncijfers...
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    The Linear Pottery culture (LBK) is a major archaeological horizon of the European Neolithic period, flourishing c. 5500–4500 BC. Derived from the German...
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    La Mancha (section Culture)
    born in La Mancha. Miguel de Cervantes described La Mancha and its windmills in his two-part 1605/1615 novel Don Quixote de La Mancha. Cervantes was making...
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  • Academy Awards, winning Best Original Song for Michel Legrand's "The Windmills of Your Mind". A remake was released in 1999. Millionaire businessman-sportsman...
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  • Historical Commission". September 22, 2018. "The Story of the Farris Windmill-Oldest Windmill No Longer on Cape Cod". Retrieved November 12, 2020. Guide to New...
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    and an estate of the Brothers of Charity (frères de la Charité). During this time monks built a windmill that later became a Guinguette and the home of...
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  • Seine–Oise–Marne or SOM culture is the name given by archaeologists to the final culture of the Neolithic and first culture of the Chalcolithic in northern...
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