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| 1 | Christmas Island ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 234 Lat/Lng : -10.5 / 105.6667 | The Territory of Christmas Island is an Australian external territory comprising the island of the same name. Christmas Island is located in the Indian Ocean, around south of Java and Sumatra and around north-west of the closest point on the Australian mainland. It has an area of (...) | |
| 2 | Tasmania ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 840 Lat/Lng : -42.1797 / 146.6455 | Tasmania (; abbreviated as Tas and known colloquially as Tassie) is an island state of Australia. It is located to the south of the Australian mainland, separated by the Bass Strait. The state encompasses the main island of Tasmania, the 26th-largest island in the world, and the surrounding 334 (...) | |
| 3 | Princeton, New Jersey ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 46 Lat/Lng : 40.3571 / -74.6702 | Princeton is a municipality with a borough form of government in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States, that was established in its current form on January 1, 2013, through the consolidation of the Borough of Princeton and Princeton Township (...) | |
| 4 | Hiddensee ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : -3 Lat/Lng : 54.575 / 13.108 | Hiddensee is a car-free island in the Baltic Sea, located west of Germany's largest island, Rügen, on the German coast. The island has about 1,300 inhabitants. It was a holiday destination for East German tourists during German Democratic Republic (GDR) times, and continues to attract tourists today (...) | |
| 5 | Royal Albert Hall ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : 51.5009 / -0.1774 | The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, which has held the Proms concerts annually each summer since 1941. It has a capacity of up to 5,272 seats. The Hall is a registered charity held in trust for the nation and receives no public or government (...) | |
| 6 | New York City ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 40.7127 / -74.0059 | The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York (NY), is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2017 population of 8,622,698 distributed over a land area of about ,, United States Census Bureau. Accessed February 9, 2017 (...) | |
| 7 | Redmond, Washington ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 47.674 / -122.1215 | Redmond is a city in King County, Washington, United States, located east of Seattle. The population was 64,291 in a 2017 census estimate. Redmond is commonly recognized as the home of Microsoft and Nintendo of America (...) | |
| 8 | Richland, Washington ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 109 Lat/Lng : 46.2797 / -119.2814 | Richland is a city in Benton County in the southeastern part of the State of Washington, at the confluence of the Yakima and the Columbia Rivers. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 48,058. July 1, 2017, estimates from the Census Bureau put the city's population at 56,243 (...) | |
| 9 | Petersburg, Virginia ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 31 Lat/Lng : 37.2128 / -77.4003 | Petersburg is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 32,420. The Bureau of Economic Analysis combines Petersburg (along with the city of Colonial Heights) with Dinwiddie County for statistical purposes (...) | |
| 10 | Berlin ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 52.5029 / 13.4042 | Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3,711,930 (2017) inhabitants make it the second most populous city proper of the European Union after London. The city is one of Germany's 16 federal states, and it is surrounded by the state of Brandenburg, the (...) | |
| 11 | Albert Einstein College of Medicine ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : 40.8509 / -73.8449 | The Albert Einstein College of Medicine ("Einstein" for short), a joint entity between Montefiore Medical Center and Yeshiva University (until 2018), is a private, not-for-profit, sectarian medical school located in the Morris Park neighborhood of the Bronx in New York City (...) | |
| 12 | United States ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 691 Lat/Lng : 40.0 / -100.0 | The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions. At 3.8 million square miles (9 (...) | |
| 13 | Tel Aviv University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 32.1118 / 34.8014 | Tel Aviv University (TAU) (Universitat Tel Aviv) is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, the University is the largest in the country. Located in northwest Tel Aviv, the University is the center of teaching and research of the city, comprising 9 faculties, 17 (...) | |
| 14 | Hackensack, New Jersey ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 40.8894 / -74.0457 | Hackensack is a city in Bergen County in New Jersey, United States, and serves as its county seat., New Jersey Department of State. Accessed July 10, 2017. The area was officially named New Barbadoes Township until 1921, but it was informally known as Hackensack since at least the 18th century (...) | |
| 15 | São Paulo ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 765 Lat/Lng : -23.5477 / -46.6364 | São Paulo is a municipality in the Southeast Region of Brazil. The metropolis is an alpha global city (as listed by the GaWC) and the most populous city in Brazil, the Western Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere, besides being the largest Portuguese-speaking city in the world (...) | |
| 16 | Cutchogue, New York ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 41.0167 / -72.4667 | Cutchogue is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population was 3,349 at the 2010 census. The Cutchogue CDP roughly represents the area of the Cutchogue hamlet in the town of Southold. (...) | |
| 17 | Bad Buchau ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 589 Lat/Lng : 48.0639 / 9.6118 | Bad Buchau (formerly Buchau) is a small town in the district of Biberach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany with about 4,000 inhabitants. It is situated near Lake Federsee, which is separated from the town by a wide reed belt (...) | |
| 18 | Príncipe ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 453 Lat/Lng : 1.61 / 7.3938 | Príncipe is the smaller, northern major island of the country of São Tomé and Príncipe lying off the west coast of Africa in the Gulf of Guinea. Nations Online. Retrieved 2014-9-26. It has an area of and a population of 7,324 (2012) (...) | |
| 19 | Brandeis University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 51 Lat/Lng : 42.3657 / -71.2597 | Brandeis University is an American private research university in Waltham, Massachusetts, 9 miles (14 km) west of Boston. Founded in 1948 as a non-sectarian, coeducational institution sponsored by the Jewish community, Brandeis was established on the site of the former Middlesex University (...) | |
| 20 | Roosevelt, New Jersey ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 62 Lat/Lng : 40.2207 / -74.4702 | Roosevelt is a borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 882, reflecting a decline of 51 (-5.5%) from the 933 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 49 (+5.5%) from the 884 counted in the 1990 Census (...) | |
| 21 | Lovell Telescope ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 93 Lat/Lng : 53.2365 / -2.3084 | The Lovell Telescope is a radio telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory, near Goostrey, Cheshire in the north-west of England. When construction was finished in 1957, the telescope was the largest steerable dish radio telescope in the world at 76 (...) | |
| 22 | Cathedral of Saint John the Divine ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 48 Lat/Lng : 40.8036 / -73.9617 | The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine is the cathedral of the Episcopal Diocese of New York. It is located in New York City on Amsterdam Avenue between West 110th Street and 113th Street in Manhattan's Morningside Heights neighborhood (...) | |
| 23 | Wilhelm Reich ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 474 Lat/Lng : 44.991 / -70.7139 | Wilhelm Reich (; ; 24 March 1897 – 3 November 1957) was an Austrian doctor of medicine and psychoanalyst, a member of the second generation of analysts after Sigmund Freud.Danto 2007, p. . The author of several influential books, most notably Character Analysis (1933), The Mass Psychology of Fascism (...) | |
| 24 | Sellin ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 54.3781 / 13.6925 | Sellin is a municipality on the Island of Rügen, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. For the German Protestant theologian Ernst Sellin (1867–1946) see here. (...) | |
| 25 | 1939 New York World's Fair ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 40.7428 / -73.8455 | The 1939–40 New York World's Fair, which covered the of Flushing Meadows–Corona Park (also the location of the 1964–1965 New York World's Fair), was the second most expensive American world's fair of all time, exceeded only by St. Louis's Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904 (...) | |
| 26 | 2013 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 200 Lat/Lng : 44.136 / 125.488 | 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa __TOC__ (...) | |
| 27 | Lake Forest, Illinois ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 205 Lat/Lng : 42.2347 / -87.8508 | Lake Forest is a city located in Lake County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 19,375. The city is along the shore of Lake Michigan, and is a part of the Chicago metropolitan area and the North Shore (...) | |
| 28 | Pythagoras ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 39.0808 / 17.1271 | Pythagoras of Samos was an Ionian Greek philosopher and the eponymous founder of the Pythagoreanism movement. His political and religious teachings were well known in Magna Graecia and influenced the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and, through them, Western philosophy (...) | |
| 29 | Fordham University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : 40.8608 / -73.8844 | Fordham University is a private research university in New York City. Founded by the Catholic Diocese of New York in 1841, it is the oldest Catholic university in the northeastern United States, the third-oldest university in New York, and the only Jesuit university in New York City (...) | |
| 30 | Christ Church, Oxford ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 67 Lat/Lng : 51.7502 / -1.2559 | Christ Church (the temple or house, ', of Christ, and thus sometimes known as "The House") is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Christ Church is a joint foundation of the college and the Cathedral of the Oxford diocese (Christ Church Cathedral and its Cathedral School), (...) | |
| 31 | University of South Florida ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 27 Lat/Lng : 28.0546 / -82.4131 | The University of South Florida, also known as USF, is an American metropolitan public research university in Tampa, Florida, United States. USF is also a member institution of the State University System of Florida (...) | |
| 32 | Salvador Dalí ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 42.2948 / 3.296 | Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquis of Dalí de Púbol (11 May 190423 January 1989), known professionally as Salvador Dalí (;. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.. Merriam-Webster Dictionary. ;), was a prominent Spanish surrealist born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain (...) | |
| 33 | University of Alberta ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 674 Lat/Lng : 53.5234 / -113.5268 | The University of Alberta (also known as U of A and UAlberta) is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford,"A Gentleman of Strathcona – Alexander Cameron Rutherford", Douglas R (...) | |
| 34 | Wernher von Braun ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1159 Lat/Lng : 47.5156 / 10.4008 | Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (March 23, 1912 – June 16, 1977) was a German (and, later, American) aerospace engineer and space architect. He was the leading figure in the development of rocket technology in Germany and the father of rocket technology and space science in the United (...) | |
| 35 | Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 34.3948 / 132.4548 | During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. The United States dropped the bombs after obtaining the consent of the United Kingdom, as required by the Quebec Agreement (...) | |
| 36 | J. Robert Oppenheimer ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : 18.3498 / -64.7772 | Julius Robert Oppenheimer (; April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Oppenheimer was the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory and is among those who are credited with being the "father of the (...) | |
| 37 | Petržalka ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 138 Lat/Lng : 48.1222 / 17.1167 | Petržalka is the largest borough of Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. Situated on the right bank of the river Danube, the area shares a land border with Austria, and is home to around 100,000 people. (...) | |
| 38 | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 212 Lat/Lng : 32.7775 / 35.0217 | The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Ha-Tekhniyon — Makhon Tekhnologi le-Yisrael) is a public research university in Haifa, Israel. Established in 1912 during the Ottoman Empire and more than 35 years before the State of Israel, the Technion is the oldest university in the country and is (...) | |
| 39 | Castle Douglas ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 58 Lat/Lng : 54.941 / -3.929 | Castle Douglas is a town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It lies in the lieutenancy area of Kirkcudbrightshire, in the eastern part of Galloway, between the towns of Dalbeattie and Gatehouse of Fleet. It is in the ecclesiastical parish of Kelton. (...) | |
| 40 | DeWitt Clinton High School ![]() FeatureType : edu}} Elevation : 43 Lat/Lng : 40.8811 / -73.8865 | DeWitt Clinton High School is a public high school located since 1929 in The Bronx, New York, United States. Opened in 1897 in Lower Manhattan and initially operated as an all-boys school, it maintained that status for nearly 100 years. In 1983 it became co-ed (...) | |
| 41 | University of Königsberg ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 54.7139 / 20.51 | The University of Königsberg was the university of Königsberg in East Prussia. It was founded in 1544 as the world's second Protestant academy (after the University of Marburg) by Duke Albert of Prussia, and was commonly known as the Albertina (...) | |
| 42 | Marshall Space Flight Center ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 178 Lat/Lng : 34.6469 / -86.6742 | The George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), located in Huntsville, Alabama, is the U.S. government's civilian rocketry and spacecraft propulsion research center. The largest NASA center, MSFC's first mission was developing the Saturn launch vehicles for the Apollo Moon program (...) | |
| 43 | Magnetism ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 81.3 / -110.8 | Magnetism is a class of physical phenomena that are mediated by magnetic fields. Electric currents and the magnetic moments of elementary particles give rise to a magnetic field, which acts on other currents and magnetic moments (...) | |
| 44 | Watch Hill, Rhode Island ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 41.3136 / -71.8497 | Watch Hill is an affluent coastal village and census-designated place in the town of Westerly, Rhode Island. It sits at the most-southwestern point in all of Rhode Island. It came to prominence in the late 19th and early 20th century as an exclusive summer resort, with wealthy families building (...) | |
| 45 | Old Lyme, Connecticut ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 41.3172 / -72.3031 | Old Lyme is a coastal town in New London County, Connecticut, United States. The Main Street of the town, Lyme Street, is a historic district. The town has long been a popular summer resort and artists' colony. The town is named after Lyme Regis, England (...) | |
| 46 | Coastal Carolina University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 33.7947 / -79.0117 | Coastal Carolina University, commonly referred to as CCU or Coastal, is a public liberal arts university in Conway, South Carolina, which is located in the Myrtle Beach metropolitan area. Founded in 1954, Coastal became an independent university in 1993 (...) | |
| 47 | King of Prussia, Pennsylvania ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 58 Lat/Lng : 40.0892 / -75.3961 | King of Prussia (also referred to as KOP) is a census-designated place in Upper Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 19,936. The community took its name in the 18th century from a local tavern named the King of Prussia Inn, which (...) | |
| 48 | University of Hartford ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 41.8009 / -72.714 | The University of Hartford (UHart) is a private, independent, nonsectarian, coeducational university located in West Hartford, Connecticut. Its main campus extends into neighboring Hartford and Bloomfield. The university attracts students from 48 states and 43 countries (...) | |
| 49 | Colts Neck Township, New Jersey ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 40.2939 / -74.1683 | Colts Neck Township is a township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 10,142, reflecting a decline of 2,189 (-17.8%) from the 12,331 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 3,772 (+44 (...) | |
| 50 | 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 (...) | |
| 51 | Washington Heights, Manhattan ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 59 Lat/Lng : 40.852 / -73.936 | Washington Heights is a neighborhood in the northern portion of the New York City borough of Manhattan. The area, with over 150,000 inhabitants , is named for Fort Washington, a fortification constructed at the highest point on the island of Manhattan by Continental Army troops during the American (...) | |
| 52 | Montclair State University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 140 Lat/Lng : 40.8591 / -74.1987 | Montclair State University (MSU) is a public research university located in the Upper Montclair section of Montclair, at the intersection of the Great Notch area of Little Falls, and the Montclair Heights section of Clifton, in the U.S. state of New Jersey (...) | |
| 53 | WABC (AM) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 40.8806 / -74.0694 | WABC (770 AM, 77 WABC), is a radio station licensed to New York City and is owned by the broadcasting division of Cumulus Media. The station shares studio facilities with sister stations WPLJ, WNSH and WNBM above Pennsylvania Station in midtown Manhattan (...) | |
| 54 | Tri-Cities, Washington ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 102 Lat/Lng : 46.2401 / -119.2118 | The Tri-Cities are three closely tied citiesKennewick, Pasco, and Richlandhttp://www.visittri-cities.com/located at the confluence of the Yakima, Snake, and Columbia Rivers in the Columbia Basin of Eastern Washington (...) | |
| 55 | Jewish history ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 258 Lat/Lng : 31.0 / 44.0 | Jewish history is the history of the Jews, and their religion and culture, as it developed and interacted with other peoples, religions and cultures. Although Judaism as a religion first appears in Greek records during the Hellenistic period (323 BCE – 31 BCE) and the earliest mention of Israel is (...) | |
| 56 | Surrender of Japan ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 35.3547 / 139.76 | The surrender of Imperial Japan was announced on August 15 and formally signed on September 2, 1945, bringing the hostilities of World War II to a close. By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was incapable of conducting major operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was (...) | |
| 57 | Manhattan Project ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 143 Lat/Lng : 46.6475 / -119.5986 | The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of (...) | |
| 58 | Sons of the Revolution ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 33 Lat/Lng : 37.2693 / -76.7067 | Sons of the Revolution is a hereditary society which was founded in 1876 and educates the public about the American Revolution. The General Society Sons of the Revolution headquarters is a Pennsylvania non-profit corporation located at Williamsburg, Virginia (...) | |
| 59 | Olney Transportation Center ![]() FeatureType : railwaystation Elevation : 67 Lat/Lng : 40.0389 / -75.1447 | The Olney Transportation Center, also called Olney Terminal, is a SEPTA bus and subway station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is located at the intersection of Broad Street and Olney Avenue in the Logan neighborhood of North Philadelphia (...) | |
| 60 | Co-op City, Bronx ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 40.8752 / -73.8283 | Co-op City (short for Cooperative City), located in the Baychester section of the borough of the Bronx in northeast New York City, is the largest cooperative housing development in the world., The Cooperator. Accessed December, 2006 (...) | |
| 61 | The Mary Louis Academy ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 40.7125 / -73.7875 | The Mary Louis Academy, also known as TMLA, is a private Catholic college preparatory academy, restricting admission solely to young women, located in Jamaica Estates, Queens, New York City. TMLA's campus encompasses 8 separate buildings situated on private grounds, crowning the top of one of the (...) | |
| 62 | Grace Cathedral, San Francisco ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 102 Lat/Lng : 37.7919 / -122.413 | Grace Cathedral is an Episcopal cathedral on Nob Hill, San Francisco, California. It is the cathedral church of the Episcopal Diocese of California. The cathedral is famed for its mosaics by Jan Henryk De Rosen, a replica of Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise, two labyrinths, varied stained glass windows, (...) | |
| 63 | National Observatory (Brazil) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : -22.8953 / -43.2246 | The National Observatory (Portuguese: Observatório Nacional or ON)) is an institution localized in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Founded by Pedro I on October 15, 1827, it is one of the oldest scientific institutions in the country (...) | |
| 64 | S-50 (Manhattan Project) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 225 Lat/Lng : 35.9161 / -84.4119 | The S-50 Project was the Manhattan Project's effort to produce enriched uranium by liquid thermal diffusion during World War II. It was one of three technologies for uranium enrichment pursued by the Manhattan Project (...) | |
| 65 | Solar eclipse of May 29, 1919 ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 4.3883 / -16.7083 | A total solar eclipse occurred on May 29, 1919. With the duration of totality at maximum eclipse of 6 minutes 51 seconds, it was the longest solar eclipse since May 27, 1416. A longer total solar eclipse would later occur on June 8, 1937 (...) | |
| 66 | Smalls Paradise ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 40.8152 / -73.9442 | Smalls Paradise (often called Small's Paradise and Smalls' Paradise, and not to be confused with Smalls Jazz Club), was a nightclub in Harlem, New York City. Located in the basement of 2294 Seventh Avenue, it opened in 1925 and was owned by Ed Smalls (...) | |
| 67 | College of the University of Chicago ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 191 Lat/Lng : 41.788 / -87.5996 | The College of the University of Chicago is the university's sole undergraduate institution and one of its oldest components, emerging contemporaneously with the university's Hyde Park campus in 1892. Instruction is provided by faculty from across all graduate divisions and schools for its 6,300 (...) | |
| 68 | Halesite, New York ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 43 Lat/Lng : 40.8861 / -73.4117 | Halesite is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Huntington on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population was 2,498 at the 2010 census. (...) | |
| 69 | Waldorf Astoria New York ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 46 Lat/Lng : 40.7564 / -73.9742 | The Waldorf Astoria New York is a luxury hotel in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The hotel has been housed in two historic landmark buildings in New York. The first, bearing the same name, was built in two stages, as the Waldorf Hotel and the Astoria Hotel, which accounts for its dual name (...) | |
| 70 | Benndorf (Frohburg) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 155 Lat/Lng : 51.0681 / 12.5361 | Benndorf is a district of the town Frohburg in the Landkreis Leipzig district of Saxony, Germany. The former independent municipality became a district of Frohburg on 1 January 1997. Since 1948, the former independent municipality Bubendorf became part of Benndorf. (...) | |
| 71 | 2015 in science ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 11.5265 / 90.4295 | A number of significant scientific events occurred in 2015. Gene editing based on CRISPR got significantly improved. A new human-like species, Homo naledi, was first described. Gravitational waves were observed for the first time (announced publicly in 2016), and dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres were (...) | |
| 72 | 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 (...) | |
| 73 | Maimonides Medical Center ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 46 Lat/Lng : 40.6394 / -73.9986 | Maimonides Medical Center is a non-profit, non-sectarian hospital located in Borough Park, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, in the U.S. state of New York.http://www.maimonidesmed.org/Main/Public/AboutUs (...) | |
| 74 | Young Judaea ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 23 Lat/Lng : 40.755 / -73.9918 | Young Judaea is a peer-led Zionist youth movement that runs programs throughout the United States for Jewish youth in grades 2–12. In Hebrew, Young Judaea is called Yehudah Hatzair or is sometimes referred to as Hashachar, which means "the dawn (...) | |
| 75 | Grand View University ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 263 Lat/Lng : 41.6205 / -93.6043 | Grand View University is a private liberal arts college in Des Moines, Iowa. Founded in 1896 and affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the university enrolls 2,000 students in forty undergraduate majors and four graduate programs. (...) | |
| 76 | Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 65 Lat/Lng : 51.7648 / -1.254 | Lady Margaret Hall (LMH) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, located on the banks of the River Cherwell at Norham Gardens in north Oxford and adjacent to the University Parks (...) | |
| 77 | January 1934 ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 64.8333 / 8.1667 | The following events occurred in January 1934: (...) | |
| 78 | Hudson Heights, Manhattan ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 75 Lat/Lng : 40.8508 / -73.9383 | Hudson Heights is a residential neighborhood of the Washington Heights area of Upper Manhattan, New York City. Most of the residences are in apartment buildings, many of which are cooperatives, and most were constructed in the 1920s through 1940s (...) | |
| 79 | Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 60 Lat/Lng : 46.66 / -122.9633 | The Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting occurred on June 24, 1947, when private pilot Kenneth Arnold claimed that he saw a string of nine, shiny unidentified flying objects flying past Mount Rainier at speeds that Arnold estimated at a minimum of 1,200 miles an hour (1,932 km/hr) (...) | |
| 80 | Morris Park, Bronx ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : 40.852 / -73.853 | Morris Park is a neighborhood in the borough of the Bronx in New York City. The neighborhood is part of Bronx Community District 11 in the East Bronx. Its approximate boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise, are Neill Avenue and Pelham Parkway to the north, Eastchester Road to the (...) | |
| 81 | Gillette Castle State Park ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 53 Lat/Lng : 41.4222 / -72.4284 | Gillette Castle State Park straddles the towns of East Haddam and Lyme, Connecticut in the United States, sitting high above the Connecticut River. The castle was originally a private residence commissioned and designed by William Gillette, an American actor who is most famous for his portrayal of (...) | |
| 82 | Ufa-Pavillon am Nollendorfplatz ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 41 Lat/Lng : 52.4994 / 13.3525 | The Ufa-Pavillon am Nollendorfplatz was a cinema located at 4 Nollendorfplatz, Charlottenburg, Berlin. Built in 1912-13 and designed and decorated by leading artistic practitioners of the day, it was the German capital's first purpose-built, free-standing cinema"Das erste freistehende Kinotheater (...) | |
| 83 | Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 192 Lat/Lng : 46.7969 / -92.0828 | The Karpeles Manuscript Library is the world’s largest private collection of original manuscripts and documents. The library was founded in 1983 by California real estate magnates David and Marsha Karpeles, with the goal of stimulating interest in learning, especially in children (...) | |
| 84 | Madame Tussauds Hong Kong ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 379 Lat/Lng : 22.2715 / 114.1498 | Madame Tussauds Hong Kong, is part of the renowned chain of wax museums founded by Marie Tussaud of France, is located at the Peak Tower on Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong. It is the first Madame Tussauds museums in Asia, the other being the Shanghai branch, which opened in 2006 and the third branch (...) | |
| 85 | Kijevo, Belgrade ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 115 Lat/Lng : 44.7156 / 20.4294 | Kijevo is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Rakovica. (...) | |
| 86 | Solar eclipse of September 21, 1922 ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -10.74 / 104.5217 | A total solar eclipse occurred on September 21, 1922. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, (...) | |
| 87 | Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 63 Lat/Lng : 48.8628 / 2.2886 | The Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro (Ethnographic Museum of the Trocadéro, also called simply the Musée du Trocadéro) was the first anthropological museum in Paris, founded in 1878. It closed in 1935 when the building that housed it, the Trocadéro Palace, was demolished; its descendant is the (...) | |
| 88 | Tucker's Town, Bermuda ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 32.3333 / -64.6833 | Tucker's Town is a small community in St. George's Parish, Bermuda at the mouth of Castle Harbour. It is the only part of the parish on the Main Island, and includes the Tucker's Town Peninsula that today is the site of many homes belonging to wealthy non-Bermudians. (...) | |
| 89 | Yale Glacier ![]() FeatureType : glacier Lat/Lng : 61.2673 / -147.5228 | Yale Glacier is a 20-mile-long (32 km) glacier in the U.S. state of Alaska. It begins between Mount Cardozo and Mount Einstein and trends southwest to Yale Arm of College Fjord, 47 miles (76 km) west of Valdez. It was named for Yale University by members of the 1899 Harriman Alaska Expedition. (...) | |
| 90 | St Barnabas Hospital (Bronx) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 40.8521 / -73.8915 | St Barnabas Hospital is a non-profit hospital founded in 1866. The hospital is located in the Belmont neighborhood of The Bronx in New York City. The hospital is a level 2 adult trauma center. (...) | |
| 91 | Long Island Jewish Medical Center ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 46 Lat/Lng : 40.7542 / -73.7089 | Long Island Jewish Medical Center (LIJMC or LIJ) is a clinical and academic hospital within the Northwell Health system. It is an 583-bed, non-profit tertiary care teaching hospital serving the greater New York metropolitan area (...) | |
| 92 | North Shore University Hospital ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : 40.7777 / -73.7015 | North Shore University Hospital (NSUH) is one of the cornerstones of Northwell Health, as well as an academic campus for Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine, the New York University School of Medicine and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. It is located in Manhasset, New York (...) | |
| 93 | Interfaith Medical Center ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : 40.6784 / -73.9378 | Interfaith Medical Center is a hospital located in Brooklyn, New York. With facilities in Crown Heights, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Prospect Heights, it is a full-service non-profit community hospital that has 287 beds and serves more than 11,000 inpatients each year (...) | |
| 94 | North West Cambridge development ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 52.2181 / 0.0875 | The North West Cambridge development is a University of Cambridge site to the north west of Cambridge city centre in England. The development is meant to alleviate overcrowding and rising land prices in Cambridge. The first phase resulted from a £350 million investment by the university (...) | |
| 95 | Harmonie Club ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 68 Lat/Lng : 40.7647 / -73.9721 | The Harmonie Club is a private social club in New York City. Founded in 1852, the club is the second oldest social club in New York. It is located at 4 East 60th Street, in a building designed by Stanford White. (...) | |
| 96 | Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 24 Lat/Lng : 40.8511 / -73.8503 | The Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology is a division of Yeshiva University. Along with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, it is located at the Louis E. and Doris Rousso Community Health Center on Yeshiva University’s Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus in the Bronx, New York. Lawrence J (...) | |