This is what you get when you enable the ‘borders’ layer
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The Online Geography Game
Lake Urmia is the 3rd largest salt water lake in the world. It is situated in the NW of Iran, the Azarbaijan region.
It is drying up fast and becoming increasingly saline.
In the 1970s a causeway across the lake was constructed and left almost finished until 2008, when the remaining 1,5 km was completed with a bridge.
Despite anti-corrosion measurements, the bridge is already heavily rusting.
Those who watched the lake drying out
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And this ends again another series, with a clear winner with full marks: mccrumplair.
Congratulations, Axl!
steel bridge + salt water = rust
Bodie is the best preserved ghost town in California.
Originally it is a mining town which housed over 10,000 inhabitants at its glory days. (around 1880)
As from 1880 the decline set in and in 1920 Bodie counted not more than 110 inhabitants.
Hmm, it was not as easy as I thought it would be; only 10 right answers:
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This place had once more than 10,000 inhabitants
n 2002 the existence of a secret nuclear facility at Natanz was revealed.
It is believed to be a nuclear enrichment facility where enriched uranium is produced to be used in a nuclear weapon.
According to various satellite images, a large part of the Natanz facility is built under the surface and covered with earth and concrete to prevent the place being bombed.
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Those who released the Stuxnet worm:
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