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Peruvian prose writer, essayist, and novelist Mario Vargas Llosa received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010.

On the island of Dugi Otok, the furthest out to sea element of the triple island ring, west of Zadar, is the famous salt lake Mir.

Poland is the 9th largest country in Europe.

On the promenade of Zadar, there is a monument Pozdrav Suncu, a circle with a diameter of 22 meters, embedded between the promenade's stones with 300 special plates that absorb the Sun's rays.

These photos are evidence of the scale of destructive gold mining in the Madre de Dios region.

There are 15 national parks designated in the country.

On December 16, 1991, Kazakhstan was the last of the republics of the USSR to proclaim independence.

The government in Singapore controls all the media. Censorship is official.

A mountaineer from New Zealand, Sir Edmund Hillary, was the first man to reach the summit of Mount Everest on May 29th, 1953.

In colonial times, Baroque dominated in Peru, visible primarily in sacred art.