PHOTO OF THE DAY May 18, 2005  

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Where Faial Island, Azores
When Date Unknown
Photographer Robert F. Sisson

Built by Flemish colonists hundreds of years ago, these windmills strike a distinctly European pose on Faial. The island is located in the middle of the Atlantic at around the same latitudes as Portugal and Morocco.

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