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| 1 | Hong Kong International Airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 22.3089 / 113.9144 | Hong Kong International Airport is the commercial airport serving Hong Kong, built on reclaimed land on the island of Chek Lap Kok. The airport is also colloquially known as Chek Lap Kok Airport . The airport has been in commercial operation since 1998, replacing Kai Tak Airport (...) | |
| 2 | Columbine High School massacre ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 1687 Lat/Lng : 39.6043 / -105.0753 | The Columbine High School massacre was a school shooting that occurred on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, an unincorporated area of Jefferson County (Jeffco), Colorado, United States, near Littleton in the Denver metropolitan area (...) | |
| 3 | Washington Dulles International Airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 78 Lat/Lng : 38.947 / -77.4553 | Washington Dulles International Airport is an international airport in the eastern United States, located in Loudoun and Fairfax counties in Virginia, west of downtown Opened in 1962, it is named after John Foster Dulles the 52nd Secretary of State who served under President Dwight D. Eisenhower (...) | |
| 4 | Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 41.0292 / 28.9517 | The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (Oikoumenikón Patriarkhíon Konstantinoupóleos, ; ; Vatican City State, 1978, p. 3 ,Ortaylı, İlber (2003). "Osmanlı Barışı", p. 14. .In Turkey it is also referred to unofficially as Fener Rum Patrikhanesi, "Roman Patriarchate of the Phanar" "Roman (...) | |
| 5 | National Security Agency ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 39.0983 / -76.766 | The National Security Agency (NSA) is a national-level intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence. The NSA is responsible for global monitoring, collection, and processing of information and data for foreign (...) | |
| 6 | Daniel K. Inouye International Airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 21.3187 / -157.9224 | Daniel K. Inouye International Airport , also known as Honolulu International Airport, is the principal aviation gateway of the City and County of Honolulu on Oahu in the State of Hawaii. It is identified as one of the busiest airports in the United States, with traffic now exceeding 21 million (...) | |
| 7 | International Olympic Committee ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 380 Lat/Lng : 46.5181 / 6.5969 | The International Olympic Committee (IOC; French: Comité International Olympique, CIO) is a Swiss private non-governmental organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Created by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas in 1894, it is the authority responsible for organising the modern Olympic (...) | |
| 8 | Panasonic ![]() FeatureType : landamrk Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 34.7438 / 135.5701 | , formerly known as , is a Japanese multinational electronics corporation headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka, Japan." ." Panasonic Corporation. Retrieved February 15, 2011. "Head Office Location 1006, Oaza Kadoma, Kadoma-shi, Osaka 571-8501, Japan" The company was founded in 1918 as a producer of (...) | |
| 9 | Boeing 777 ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 6.9208 / 103.5786 | The Boeing 777 is a long-range wide-body twin-engine jet airliner developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. It is the world's largest twinjet and has a typical seating capacity of 314 to 396 passengers, with a range of (...) | |
| 10 | Global city ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 40.39 / -73.56 | A global city, also called world city or sometimes alpha city or world center, is a city which is a primary node in the global economic network. The concept comes from geography and urban studies, and the idea that globalization is created, facilitated, and enacted in strategic geographic locales (...) | |
| 11 | Traffic light ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1905 Lat/Lng : 43.4795 / -110.7627 | Traffic lights, also known as traffic signals, traffic lamps, traffic semaphore, signal lights, stop lights, robots (in South Africa and most of Africa), and traffic control signals (in technical parlance), The Origins and Globalization of Traffic Control Signals — Retrieved 8 December 2013 are (...) | |
| 12 | International Ice Hockey Federation ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 426 Lat/Lng : 47.3684 / 8.5299 | The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF; ;) is a worldwide governing body for ice hockey and in-line hockey. It is based in Zurich, Switzerland, and has 76 members. It manages international ice hockey tournaments and maintains the IIHF World Ranking (...) | |
| 13 | Expo 86 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 49.2886 / -123.1111 | The 1986 World Exposition on Transportation and Communication, or simply Expo 86, was a World's Fair held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from Friday, May 2 until Monday, October 13, 1986. The fair, the theme of which was "Transportation and Communication: World in Motion - World in Touch", (...) | |
| 14 | Dow Chemical Company ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 26.9304 / 49.4708 | The Dow Chemical Company, commonly referred to as Dow, is an American multinational chemical corporation headquartered in Midland, Michigan, United States, and the predecessor of the merged company DowDuPont. In 2017, it was the second-largest chemical manufacturer in the world by revenue (after (...) | |
| 15 | Walt Disney Imagineering ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 148 Lat/Lng : 34.1617 / -118.2891 | Walt Disney Imagineering is the research and development arm of The Walt Disney Company, responsible for the creation, design, and construction of Disney theme parks and attractions worldwide. Founded by Walt Disney to oversee the production of Disneyland, it was originally known as Walt Disney, (...) | |
| 16 | San Diego–Tijuana ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 32.5422 / -117.0296 | San Diego–Tijuana is an international metropolitan conurbation, straddling the border of the adjacent North American coastal cities of San Diego, California, United States and Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. The 2012 population of the region was 4,922,723, making it the largest bi-national (...) | |
| 17 | Renewable energy ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 37.3131 / 126.6128 | Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources, which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat. Renewable energy often provides energy in four important areas: electricity generation, air and water (...) | |
| 18 | Kamloops Airport ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 343 Lat/Lng : 50.7022 / -120.4444 | Kamloops Airport , also known as Fulton Field or Davie Fulton Airport, is a regional airport located west northwest of Kamloops, British Columbia, a city in the Thompson region of Canada. It is owned by the Kamloops Airport Authority Society, while operated by Kamloops Airport Limited, serving the (...) | |
| 19 | World Expo 88 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : -27.4764 / 153.0217 | World Expo 88, also known as Expo 88, was a specialised Expo held in Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia, during a six-month period between Saturday, 30 April 1988 and Sunday, 30 October 1988, inclusive (...) | |
| 20 | Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 129 Lat/Lng : 14.3833 / 120.5667 | The Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays ("Coast Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays" until 1925) (a.k.a. CD/HD Manila Bay) were a United States Army Coast Artillery Corps harbor defense command, part of the Philippine Department of the United States Army from circa 1910 through early World War II (...) | |
| 21 | Astor House Hotel (Shanghai) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 31.246 / 121.4866 | The Astor House Hotel , known as the Pujiang Hotel in Chinese since 1959, has been described as once "one of the famous hotels of the world". Established in 1846 as Richards' Hotel and Restaurant on The Bund in Shanghai, it has been at 15 Huangpu Lu, Shanghai, near the confluence of the Huangpu (...) | |
| 22 | Ali Mazrui ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : -4.0618 / 39.6789 | Ali Al'amin Mazrui (24 February 1933 – 12 October 2014), was an academic professor, and political writer on African and Islamic studies and North-South relations. He was born in Mombasa, Kenya. His positions included Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at Binghamton University in (...) | |
| 23 | Halliburton ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : 29.9364 / -95.3404 | Halliburton Company is an American multinational corporation. One of the world's largest oil field service companies, it has operations in more than 70 countries. It owns hundreds of subsidiaries, affiliates, branches, brands, and divisions worldwide and employs approximately 50,000 people (...) | |
| 24 | Transportation in New York City ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 40.7349 / -74.0278 | The transportation system of New York City is a network of complex infrastructural systems. New York City, being the most populous city in the United States, has a transportation system which includes one of the largest subway systems in the world; the world's first mechanically ventilated vehicular (...) | |
| 25 | Fort Mills ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 129 Lat/Lng : 14.3833 / 120.5667 | Fort Mills (Corregidor, the Philippines) was the location of US Major General George F. Moore's headquarters for the Philippine Department's Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays in early World War II, and was the largest seacoast fort in the Philippines (...) | |
| 26 | Phoenix City Square ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 347 Lat/Lng : 33.4915 / -112.0757 | Phoenix City Square, formerly Kent Plaza and the Rosenzweig Center, is a mixed use high rise complex covering 15 acres at 3800-4000 N. Central Ave. in Phoenix, Arizona. The project was developed by the Del Webb Corporation in 1962 (...) | |
| 27 | Metro ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 275 Lat/Lng : -8.1831 / 112.5342 | Metro, short for metropolitan, may refer to: (...) | |
| 28 | Jerauld Wright ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -74.0333 / -116.8333 | Admiral Jerauld Wright, USN, (June 4, 1898 – April 27, 1995) served as the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Atlantic Command (CINCLANT) and the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet (CINCLANTFLT), and became the second Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic (SACLANT) for the North Atlantic Treaty (...) | |
| 29 | AmfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 111 Lat/Lng : 40.7048 / -74.0062 | The Foundation for AIDS Research (AmfAR) is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to the support of AIDS research, HIV prevention, treatment education, and the advocacy of AIDS-related public policy (...) | |
| 30 | The Millennium Dance Complex ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 192 Lat/Lng : 34.1634 / -118.374 | The Millennium Dance Complex is a dance studio founded in 1992 located in the NOHO Arts District of Los Angeles. Dance Teacher magazine called it "...one of the top schools in the country" Millennium offers classes daily in jazz dance, hip-hop, tap, and contemporary (...) | |