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Ruins of Gamleborg

  • ... that Gamleborg (fortress ruins pictured) represents Bornholm's oldest defence works?
  • ... that Chao Mae Tuptim in Bangkok is a site crammed full of wooden circumcised penis statues which are said to endow good fortune and fertility on anybody coming into contact with them?
  • ... that the Bab al-Nairab neighborhood in Aleppo, Syria, was originally a 13th-century gate planned by the Ayyubid ruler az-Zahir Ghazi, but built by his successor al-Aziz Muhammad?

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  1. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2012/October, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
  2. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2012/October, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
  3. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2012/October, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.