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Abandoned water power station in italy. Photo by Sven Fennema

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Abandoned bowling alley, Japan. Photo by Thomas Jorion

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Abandoned Phosphate Plant.

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The old retro bar in the abandoned Pines Hotel. Photo by Niki Feijen

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Red Sands Sea Forts. Photo By slimmer_jimmer

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Bennett School for Girls. Photo By milfodd

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Gary Palace Theater Seats, Indiana. Photo By TunnelBug (Jonathan Haeber)

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Awesome pics LB :thumbup:
thx man... I try to do my bit when I get the chance ( when my wife is busy;) )
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A retired army major who built his own nation on a former anti-aircraft tower in the North Sea has died at the age of 91.

Roy Bates moved his family to the Roughs Tower island fort after he was prosecuted under Marine Broadcasting Offences Act for his part in the pirate radio movement - which inspired the Richard Curtis movie The Boat That Rocked.

Major Bates declared the fort independent from the UK and renamed it Sealand on his wife Joan's birthday, September 2, 1967, and bestowed her the title of 'princess'.

Sealand has its own stamps, passports and currency.

The Sealand Dollar has a fixed exchange rate of one U.S. dollar - and an image of Princess Joan on the coin.

The English-speaking country has its own red, white and black flag, and a national motto of E Mare Libertas, or 'From the Sea, Freedom'.

 

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They even have a national team

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Former Cement Factory converted to a house in Spain

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When they attempted to take the platform, Mr Bates and his crew fought them off using Molotov cocktails and warning shots.

A year later, when Royal Maritime auxiliary vessel Golden Eye passed close by, he fired three warning shots across her bow, prompting the ship to turn back. Bates was summonsed to appear before a judge in Essex but was ruled to have acted outside of British jurisdiction.

In 1978, a German businessman who had been dealing with Mr Bates flew to Sealand and staged a coup while the retired Army major and his family were ashore following an argument over money.

Within days Mr Bates retook Sealand in a dawn raid, having rappelled from a helicopter with his son Michael, armed with a rifle and wearing combat fatigues.

An obituary to Mr Bates on the Sealand website reads: 'Roy was born to be an adventurer' and tributes said he was a 'pioneer'.

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