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1 | ![]() | Baarle ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : 51.4433 / 4.9303 | Baarle is a town whose territory is divided into a patchwork of Belgian and Dutch territories. The Belgian parts of the town are called Baarle-Hertog and the Dutch elements are called Baarle-Nassau. The Belgian part includes 16 exclaves within Dutch territory (...) |
2 | ![]() | Cincinnati ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 242 Lat/Lng : 39.1361 / -84.5031 | Cincinnati is a major city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the government seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers. The city drives the Cincinnati–Middletown–Wilmington combined statistical area, which had a (...) |
3 | ![]() | Saarland University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 264 Lat/Lng : 49.2556 / 7.0417 | Saarland University is a modern research university located in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of Saarland. It was founded in 1948 in Homburg in co-operation with France and is organized in six faculties that cover all major fields of science (...) |
4 | Sub-Saharan Africa ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 812 Lat/Lng : -27.9136 / 31.6475 | The sub-Saharan Africa is, geographically, the area of the continent of Africa that lies south of the Sahara. According to the United Nations, it consists of all African countries that are fully or partially located south of the Sahara (...) | |
5 | Mesopotamia ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 83 Lat/Lng : 33.7 / 43.5 | Mesopotamia is a historical region in Western Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in modern days roughly corresponding to most of Iraq, Kuwait, parts of Northern Saudi Arabia, the eastern parts of Syria, Southeastern Turkey, and regions along the Turkish–Syrian and Iran–Iraq (...) | |
6 | 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 303 Lat/Lng : 37.04 / -121.877 | The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake occurred in Northern California on October 17 at local time (1989-10-18 00:04 UTC). The shock was centered in The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park approximately northeast of Santa Cruz on a section of the San Andreas Fault System and was named for the nearby Loma (...) | |
7 | University of Twente ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : 52.2428 / 6.8533 | The University of Twente (Dutch: Universiteit Twente; , abbr.) is a public research university located in Enschede, Netherlands. It offers degrees in the fields of social sciences, exact sciences and is highly specialized in engineering (...) | |
8 | Carlinville, Illinois ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 189 Lat/Lng : 39.2817 / -89.8819 | Carlinville is a city in Macoupin County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2010 Census, the population was 5,917, and 5,665 at a 2015 estimate. It is the county seat of Macoupin County, and is an outlying part of the Metro-East region of the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area (...) | |
9 | Hinduism ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 110 Lat/Lng : 26.8 / 82.2 | Hinduism is an Indian religion and dharma, or a way of life, widely practised in the Indian subcontinent and parts of Southeast Asia. Hinduism has been called the oldest religion in the world, and some practitioners and scholars refer to it as Sanātana Dharma, "the eternal tradition", or the (...) | |
10 | European Bioinformatics Institute ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 39 Lat/Lng : 52.0799 / 0.1867 | The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) is an IGO which as part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) family focuses on research and services in bioinformatics. (...) | |
11 | Shifnal ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 87 Lat/Lng : 52.6653 / -2.3731 | Shifnal is a market town and civil parish in Shropshire, England, about east of Telford. It has a railway station on the Shrewsbury-Wolverhampton Line and is near the M54 motorway. At the 2001 census, it had a population of 6,391, increasing to 6,776 at the 2011 census (...) | |
12 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 52.3339 / 4.865 | The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (abbreviated as VU, VU Amsterdam, "Free University Amsterdam") is a university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded in 1880. The VU is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being the University of Amsterdam (UvA) (...) | |
13 | Koutammakou ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 197 Lat/Lng : 10.1 / 1.0667 | Koutammakou, the Land of the Batammariba is a cultural landscape designated in 2004 as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in northern Togo.Dominique Sewane, ′Ceux qui malaxent la peau fine de la terre′. Les Batammariba (...) | |
14 | Obi ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 437 Lat/Lng : -1.7585 / 25.1563 | Obi may refer to: * Obi (sash), a sash worn with a kimono or with the uniforms used by practitioners of Japanese martial arts ** Obi (martial arts) * Obi (store), a European home improvement store chain based in Germany * Obi (ruler), a title among the Igbo people of Nigeria or the central building (...) | |
15 | Federal University of Rio de Janeiro ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : -22.9047 / -43.2208 | The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro or University of Brazil (UFRJ or ') is a public university in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. UFRJ is the largest federal university in the country and is one of the Brazilian centers of excellence in teaching and research (...) | |
16 | H. P. Lovecraft ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : -3 Lat/Lng : 41.854 / -71.3811 | Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American writer, who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. He was virtually unknown and published only in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, but he is now regarded as one of the most (...) | |
17 | Goa (disambiguation) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 58 Lat/Lng : 15.4093 / 73.7887 | Goa is a state in India, and a former Portuguese colonial possession, while the name was often used for the whole of Portuguese India. Goa or GOA may also refer to: (...) | |
18 | Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 53 Lat/Lng : 23.03 / 72.58 | Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Sanstha (BAPS) (IAST: '), is a Hindu religious and social organization within the Swaminarayan branch of Hinduism. BAPS was established on 5 June 1907 by Shastriji Maharaj after leaving the Vadtal Gadi of the Swaminarayan Sampraday (...) | |
19 | Quadripoint ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 923 Lat/Lng : -17.7922 / 25.2644 | A quadripoint is a point on the Earth that touches the border of four distinct territories. The term has never been in common use—it may not have been used before 1964 when it was possibly invented by the Office of the Geographer of the United States Department of State (...) | |
20 | Kaon (disambiguation) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 78 Lat/Lng : 48.288 / -2.1552 | Kaon may refer to: * Kaon, a subatomic particle * KAON, an ontology infrastructure * Kaon Interactive, a video game developer of Terra (computer game) * Kaon, a character in the Japanese manga Kyoshiro to Towa no Sora * Kaón, former name of a mountain from Denia, Spain, now called Montgo * Kōan, a (...) | |
21 | BIBO ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1894 Lat/Lng : 35.1742 / -107.3887 | BIBO may refer to: * An acronym for the Bibliographic Ontology * A shorthand reference to BIBO (Bounded-Input Bounded-Output) stability * The former Egyptian football player nicknamed Bibo, Mahmoud El-Khateeb * István Bibó, Hungarian lawyer, civil servant, politician and political theorist (...) | |
22 | Commission to preserve national monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 548 Lat/Lng : 43.8591 / 18.4129 | The Commission to Preserve National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ', is Bosnia and Herzegovina institution which declares and registers the national monuments, as sites, places, immovable and movable heritage of historical and cultural importance to Bosnia and Herzegovina (...) | |
23 | Kajran District ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1329 Lat/Lng : 33.21 / 65.62 | Kijran, also spelled as Kajran (Persian: کجران), is a district in Daykundi Province of Afghanistan. It has an area of about 1,886 square kilometres. The population of the district was reported in 2004 at about 26,259 people (...) | |
24 | Pom ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1552 Lat/Lng : 16.9644 / -92.5733 | POM, POM, POM or pom may refer to: (...) | |
25 | Guangdong University of Foreign Studies ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 24 Lat/Lng : 23.2003 / 113.2892 | Guangdong University of Foreign Studies is a public university with emphasis in foreign languages and cultures, overseas economy and trade, and international strategies in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. The university offers 61 bachelor-degree specialties and teaches 18 foreign languages (...) | |
26 | SUO ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 326 Lat/Lng : 11.2596 / -4.4899 | SUO may refer to: * Senior Under Officer, a military cadet rank in Commonwealth nations * Standard upper ontology, in computing * The IATA identifier for Sunriver Airport in Sunriver, Oregon, USA * "Solution User Options", in Visual Studio parlance * SUO, National Rail code for Sutton (Surrey) (...) | |
27 | Pittsburgh Quantum Institute ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 317 Lat/Lng : 40.4446 / -79.9533 | The Pittsburgh Quantum Institute (PQI) is a multidisciplinary research institute that focuses on quantum sciences and engineering in the Pittsburgh region. It is a research-intensive cluster. The Pittsburgh Quantum Institute (PQI) was founded in 2012 with the mission “to help unify and promote (...) | |
28 | University of Maryland School of Medicine ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 39.289 / -76.6257 | The University of Maryland School of Medicine (abbreviated UM SOM or UMB SOM), located in Baltimore City, Maryland, U.S., is the medical school of the University of Maryland, Baltimore and is affiliated with the University of Maryland Medical Center and Medical System (...) | |
29 | Dolce ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 115 Lat/Lng : 45.6007 / 10.8525 | Dolce, the Italian word for 'sweet', may refer to: (...) | |
30 | Mondo ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1086 Lat/Lng : -10.9864 / 20.3282 | Mondo (Italian, Ido, and Esperanto for "world"), may also refer to: (...) | |
31 | Go ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 117 Lat/Lng : 5.6325 / -7.3888 | Go, G.O., or Go! may refer to: (...) | |
32 | Information Sciences Institute ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 33.9802 / -118.44 | The USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI) is a component of the University of Southern California (USC) Viterbi School of Engineering, and specializes in research and development in information processing, computing, and communications technologies. It is located in Marina del Rey, California (...) | |
33 | GeoSPARQL ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 38.8863 / -77.03 | GeoSPARQL is a standard for representation and querying of geospatial linked data for the Semantic Web from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). The definition of a small ontology based on well-understood OGC standards is intended to provide a standardized exchange basis for geospatial RDF data (...) | |
34 | University of Maryland College of Information Studies ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 48 Lat/Lng : 38.9882 / -76.9415 | The College of Information Studies (Maryland's iSchool) is a graduate school located at the University of Maryland, College Park in Maryland, United States. The College offers graduate study leading to the Master of Library Science (MLS), the Master of Information Management (MIM), the Master of (...) | |
35 | Peace Theological Seminary & College of Philosophy ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 63 Lat/Lng : 34.0318 / -118.3224 | Peace Theological Seminary & College of Philosophy (PTS) is a theological seminary and the educational arm of the Church of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness. PTS was founded by the Reverend John-Roger Hinkins in 1977 with headquarters in Los Angeles, California in the United States (...) | |
36 | Green Economics Institute ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 49 Lat/Lng : 51.47 / -1.088 | The Green Economics Institute was founded in the United Kingdom in 2004 and has grown into one of the largest green research centres in the world. It is an international non-governmental, non-profit organisation which operates in 47 different countries, leading a global movement for change through (...) | |
37 | Bible Institute of South Africa ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : -34.1302 / 18.4473 | The Bible Institute of South Africa is an evangelical Bible college located in Kalk Bay, a suburb of Cape Town on the False Bay coast of the Cape Peninsula, South Africa. The college has students from all over Africa, as well as from Europe, Asia and North America (...) | |