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| 1 | Puʻu ʻŌʻō ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 850 Lat/Lng : 19.3885 / -155.1085 | Puu Ōō (often written Puu Oo, , poo-oo oh-oh) is a volcanic cone in the eastern rift zone of the Kīlauea volcano of the Hawaiian Islands. Until the end of April 2018, Puu Ōō had been erupting nearly continuously since January 3, 1983, making it the longest-lived rift-zone eruption of the last two (...) | |
| 2 | Kīlauea ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 1231 Lat/Lng : 19.421 / -155.287 | Kīlauea is a currently active shield volcano in the Hawaiian Islands, and the most active of the five volcanoes that together form the island of Hawaii. Located along the southern shore of the island, the volcano is between 300,000 and 600,000 years old and emerged above sea level about 100,000 (...) | |
| 3 | Heathrow Airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 51.4784 / -0.4613 | Heathrow Airport (also known as London Heathrow) is a major international airport in London, United Kingdom. Heathrow is the second busiest airport in the world by international passenger traffic, as well as the busiest airport in Europe by passenger traffic, and the seventh busiest airport in the (...) | |
| 4 | Myanmar ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 121 Lat/Lng : 19.75 / 96.1 | Myanmar , officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma, is a country in Southeast Asia. Myanmar is bordered by India and Bangladesh to its west, Thailand and Laos to its east and China to its north and northeast (...) | |
| 5 | Broadstairs ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 51.3564 / 1.4392 | Broadstairs is a coastal town on the Isle of Thanet in the Thanet district of east Kent, England, about east of London. It is part of the civil parish of Broadstairs and St Peter's, which includes St Peter's, and had a population in 2011 of about 25,000 (...) | |
| 6 | Battle of Mogadishu (1993) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 67 Lat/Lng : 2.0525 / 45.3247 | The Battle of Mogadishu, or Day of the Rangers , was part of Operation Gothic Serpent. It was fought on 3–4 October 1993, in Mogadishu, Somalia, between forces of the United States—supported by UNOSOM II—and Somali militiamen loyal to the self-proclaimed president-to-be Mohamed Farrah Aidid, who had (...) | |
| 7 | NKVD ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 171 Lat/Lng : 55.7606 / 37.6281 | The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del), abbreviated NKVD (listen), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union. Established in 1917 as NKVD of Russian SFSR, the agency was originally tasked with conducting regular police work and overseeing the (...) | |
| 8 | Puntland ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 2.0333 / 45.35 | Puntland , officially the Puntland State of Somalia , is a region in northeastern Somalia. Centered on the town of Garoowe in the Nugal province, its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998 but is internationally recognized as an autonomous region of Somalia (...) | |
| 9 | LibreOffice ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 62 Lat/Lng : 48.8333 / 2.3333 | LibreOffice is a free and open-source office suite, a project of The Document Foundation. It was forked from OpenOffice.org in 2010, which was an open-sourced version of the earlier StarOffice. The LibreOffice suite comprises programs for word processing, the creation and editing of spreadsheets, (...) | |
| 10 | Batangas ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 147 Lat/Lng : 13.8333 / 121.0 | Batangas, officially known as the Province of Batangas is a province in the Philippines located in the Calabarzon region in Luzon. Its capital is the city of Batangas and is bordered by the provinces of Cavite and Laguna to the north and Quezon to the east (...) | |
| 11 | Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1222 Lat/Lng : 19.4322 / -155.26 | Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, established on August 1, 1916, is an American national park located in the U.S. state of Hawaii on the island of Hawaii. The park encompasses two active volcanoes: Kīlauea, one of the world's most active volcanoes, and Mauna Loa, the world's most massive shield (...) | |
| 12 | Inn Din massacre ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 20.5128 / 92.58 | The Inn Din massacre was a mass execution of Rohingyas by the Myanmar Army and armed Rakhine locals in the village of Inn Din, in Rakhine State, Myanmar on 2 September 2017. The victims were accused of being members of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) by authorities (...) | |
| 13 | Robins Air Force Base ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 76 Lat/Lng : 32.64 / -83.5917 | Robins Air Force Base is a major United States Air Force installation located in Houston County, Georgia, United States. The base is located just east of and adjacent to the city of Warner Robins, south-southeast of Macon and approximately south-southeast of Atlanta, Georgia (...) | |
| 14 | 1968 in aviation ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 32.9667 / 32.8 | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1968: (...) | |
| 15 | Big Bend, California ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 529 Lat/Lng : 41.0197 / -121.9078 | Big Bend of the Madhesi Valley is a census-designated place (CDP) and the indigenous homeland of Madhesi tribe, located in Shasta County, northeastern California. The population was 102 at the 2010 census, down from 149 at the 2000 census. (...) | |
| 16 | State Peace and Development Council ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 16.85 / 96.1833 | The State Peace and Development Council (; abbreviated to SPDC or) was the official name of the military government of Burma, which seized power under the rule of Saw Maung in 1988. On 30 March 2011, Senior General and Council Chairman Than Shwe signed a decree that officially dissolved the Council (...) | |
| 17 | Pyay Technological University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 18.8382 / 95.3327 | Pyay Technological University (PTU) , in Pyay, is one of three senior engineering universities in Myanmar. It offers bachelor's and master's degree programs in architecture and engineering disciplines. The university draws most of its student body from Lower Myanmar, outside Yangon Division (...) | |
| 18 | Trago Mills ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 33 Lat/Lng : 50.557 / -3.666 | Trago Mills (often known simply as Trago) is a chain of four department stores in south Cornwall and south Devon in England, and Merthyr Tydfil in Wales. It owns a site with an amusement park and some independent businesses, adjoining the store near Newton Abbot (...) | |