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Windows Spotlight is a feature included with Windows 10 and Windows 11 which downloads images and advertisements from Bing and displays them as background wallpapers on the lock screen. In 2017, Microsoft began adding location information for many of the photographs.
The islands came to international prominence in mid-2015 when Microsoft released the Windows 10 operating system, which included a photo of the islands as one of the lock screen images. When Tasman District Council rolled out Windows 10, council staff thought that their IT department had installed a photo of the Archway Islands as a lock screen ...
This historic view of Dunnottar Castle by the Dutch engineer John Slezer is now recognised as an incorrect labelling by his engraver. It is actually Wemyss Castle in Fife. A chapel at Dunnottar is said to have been founded by St Ninian in the 5th century, [4] although it is not clear when the site was first fortified, but in any case the legend is late and highly implausible.
The fortified city of Carcassonne - The official website: castle of the Counts of Carcassonne and the ramparts (in English). French Ministry of Culture site on the Cité of Carcassonne, with history and virtual tour (English version available) Mescladis, a site about Carcassonne, the Cité and the Bastide Saint-Louis – history and architecture
The castle is known for being one of the places where King Richard I of England, returning from the Third Crusade, was imprisoned after being captured near Vienna by Duke Leopold V of Austria, from December 1192 until his extradition to Emperor Henry VI in March 1193. In 1428 and 1432, Hussite forces plundered the city and castle of Dürnstein.
Braunfels Castle in the morning mist Braunfels Castle (2013) - The octogonal tower on the left is the new keep, while the one on the right is the old keep.. Situated atop a basalt hill, Braunfels Castle (German: Schloss Braunfels) overlooks the spa town of Braunfels in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Hesse, Germany.
Kilchurn Castle (/ k əl ˈ x ʊər n /) [1] is a ruined structure on a rocky peninsula at the northeastern end of Loch Awe, in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It was first constructed in the mid-15th century as the base of the Campbells of Glenorchy , who extended both the castle and their territory in the area over the next 150 years.
Hohenzollern Castle (German: Burg Hohenzollern [bʊʁk hoːənˈtsɔlɐn] ⓘ) is the ancestral seat of the imperial House of Hohenzollern. [a] The third of three hilltop castles built on the site, it is located atop Mount Hohenzollern, above and south of Hechingen, on the edge of the Swabian Jura of central Baden-Württemberg, Germany.