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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 165. Chapters: Bastille, Beijing city fortifications, Library of Alexandria, Buddhas of Bamiyan, Kowloon Walled City, Persepolis, Queen's Pier, Royal Alcazar of Madrid, Royal Castle, Warsaw, Old Summer Palace, Interiors of Buda Castle, List of destroyed libraries, Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, Ram Janmabhoomi, Armenian Cemetery in Jugha, Colossus of Rhodes, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Tuileries Palace, Nelson's Pillar, CentralWorld, Stari Most, Warsaw radio mast, Lighthouse of Alexandria, Pearl Roundabout, Za uski Library, Chicherin House, Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Great Palace of Constantinople, Idora Park, Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania, Hong Kong Club Building, Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love, Chateau de Meudon, Placidia Palace, House of Wisdom, Coudenberg, Hwangnyongsa, Mandelbaum Gate, Ganden Monastery, Kopli cemetery, Bruhl Palace, Warsaw, Porcelain Tower of Nanjing, Artificio de Juanelo, Pella Palace, Beaconsfield House, Red Gate, Imperial Library of Constantinople, Saxon Palace, Guaira Falls, Kowloon Station (KCR), Buen Retiro Palace, Ipatiev House, Tre Kronor (castle), Ribeira Palace, Sanzhi UFO houses, Tachara, Haiyantang, Hong Kong Hotel, Kalamaja cemetery, Sukharev Tower, Stalin Monument (Prague), 26 Commissars Memorial, Moigu cemetery, Rossiya Hotel, List of libraries damaged during World War II, Gate of all nations palace, Neutrality Arch, Cerro de los Angeles, Georgi Dimitrov Mausoleum, Kotowski Palace, Dynamo Stadium (Moscow) (1928), Hotel Moskva (Moscow), Seoul City Hall, Copenhagen Castle, Gellert Hill Calvary, Maison du Peuple, Armorial Gate, Yosami Transmitting Station, El Dedo de Dios, Sukhbaatar's Mausoleum, Kiev City Duma building, NHK Kawaguchi Transmitter, Reza Shah's mausoleum, Mategriffon, House of the Blackheads, Namdaemun (Kaesong), Yongdingmen, Huizen transmitter, Lafayette transmitter, Qishla of Mecca. Excerpt: The Bastille (French pronunciation: ) was a fortress in Paris, known formally as the Bastille Saint-Antoine. It played an important role in the internal conflicts of France and for most of its history was used as a state prison by the kings of France. It was stormed by a crowd on 14 July 1789 in the French Revolution, becoming an important symbol for the French Republican movement, and was later demolished and replaced by the Place de la Bastille. The Bastille was built to defend the eastern approach to the city of Paris from the English threat in the Hundred Years War. Initial work began in 1357, but the main construction occurred from 1370 onwards, creating a strong fortress with eight towers that protected the strategic gateway of the Porte Saint-Antoine on the eastern edge of Paris. The innovative design proved influential in both France and England and was widely copied. The Bastille figured prominently in France's domestic conflicts, including the fighting between the rival factions of the Burgundians and the Armagnacs in the 15th century, and the Wars of Religion in the 16th. The fortress was declared a state prison in 1417; this role was expanded first under the English occupiers of the 1420s and 1430s, and then under Louis XI in the 1460s. The defences of the Bastille were fortified in response to the English and Imperial threat during the 1550s, with a bastion constructed to the east of the fortress. The Bastille played a key role in the rebellion of the Fronde and the battle of the faubourg Saint-Antoine, which was fought beneath its walls in 1652. Louis XIV used the Bastille as a prison for upper-class members of French society who had opposed or angered him including, after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, French Protestants. From 1659 onwards, the Bastille functioned primarily as a state penitentiary; by 1789, 5,279 prisoners had passed through its gates. Under Louis XV and...
