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| 1 | Oregon City, Oregon ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 45.3572 / -122.6072 | Oregon City is the county seat of Clackamas County, Oregon, United States, located on the Willamette River near the southern limits of the Portland metropolitan area. Established in 1829 by the Hudson's Bay Company, in 1844 it became the first U.S. city west of the Rocky Mountains to be incorporated (...) | |
| 2 | Manchester ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 57 Lat/Lng : 53.4808 / -2.235 | Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 545,500 as of 2017. It lies within the United Kingdom's third-most populous metropolitan area, with a population of 3.2 million (...) | |
| 3 | Urbana, Illinois ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 222 Lat/Lng : 40.1097 / -88.2042 | Urbana is a city in and the county seat of Champaign County, Illinois, United States. The population is estimated at 41,989 as of July 1, 2017. Urbana is the tenth-most populous city in Illinois outside of the Chicago metropolitan area. It is included in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area (...) | |
| 4 | University of Virginia ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 177 Lat/Lng : 38.0355 / -78.5035 | The University of Virginia (U.Va. or UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. The flagship university of Virginia, it is also a World Heritage site of the United States. It was founded in 1819 by Declaration of Independence author and former President Thomas Jefferson (...) | |
| 5 | Liverpool ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : 53.4091 / -2.9857 | Liverpool is a city in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500 in 2017. Its metropolitan area is the fifth-largest in the UK, with a population of 2.24 million in 2011. The local authority is Liverpool City Council, the most populous local government district in the metropolitan (...) | |
| 6 | Tintagel Castle ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 48 Lat/Lng : 50.6687 / -4.7619 | Tintagel Castle (meaning "fort of the constriction") is a medieval fortification located on the peninsula of Tintagel Island adjacent to the village of Tintagel, North Cornwall in the United Kingdom. The site was possibly occupied in the Romano-British period, as an array of artefacts dating to this (...) | |
| 7 | George Bush Intercontinental Airport ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 32 Lat/Lng : 29.9848 / -95.3414 | George Bush Intercontinental Airport is an international airport in Houston, Texas, United States, under class B airspace, serving the Greater Houston metropolitan area. Located about north of Downtown Houston, between Interstate 45 and Interstate 69/U.S (...) | |
| 8 | Glastonbury Abbey ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 51.1461 / -2.7156 | Glastonbury Abbey was a monastery in Glastonbury, Somerset, England. Its ruins, a grade I listed building and scheduled ancient monument, are open as a visitor attraction. The abbey was founded in the 7th century and enlarged in the 10th (...) | |
| 9 | University of East Anglia ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 27 Lat/Lng : 52.6217 / 1.2417 | The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and 26 schools of study. The annual income of the institution for 2016–17 was £273.7 million of which £35 (...) | |
| 10 | Newcastle-under-Lyme ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 132 Lat/Lng : 53.0109 / -2.2278 | Newcastle-under-Lyme (locally ; or Underlem , cf. Burslem, Audlem), is a market town in Staffordshire, England, and is the principal settlement in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme. In the 2011 census the town had a population of 128,264.Newcastle is made up of 14 wards http://www.ukcensusdata (...) | |
| 11 | Mississippi Delta ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 33.8 / -90.4 | The Mississippi Delta, also known as the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, is the distinctive northwest section of the U.S. state of Mississippi (and portions of Arkansas and Louisiana) which lies between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers. The region has been called "The Most Southern Place on Earth"James C (...) | |
| 12 | Golden Gate Park ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 68 Lat/Lng : 37.768 / -122.482 | Golden Gate Park, located in San Francisco, California, United States, is a large urban park consisting of of public grounds. It is administered by the San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department, which began in 1871 to oversee the development of Golden Gate Park (...) | |
| 13 | Major League Baseball ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 179 Lat/Lng : 32.7514 / -97.0826 | Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization, the oldest of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. A total of 30 teams play in the National League (NL) and American League (AL), with 15 teams in each league (...) | |
| 14 | National Museum of African American History and Culture ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 2 Lat/Lng : 38.8911 / -77.0326 | The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) is a Smithsonian Institution museum established in December 2003. The museum's building, collaboratively designed by Freelon Group, Adjaye Associates and Davis Brody Bond, is on the National Mall in Washington, D.C (...) | |
| 15 | Rochester Cathedral ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 51.3889 / 0.5031 | Rochester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, is an English church of Norman architecture in Rochester, Kent. The church is the cathedral of the Diocese of Rochester in the Church of England and the seat (cathedra) of the Bishop of Rochester, the second (...) | |
| 16 | Reculver ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 51.3786 / 1.1979 | Reculver is a village and coastal resort about east of Herne Bay in south-east England, in a ward of the same name, in the City of Canterbury district of Kent. It once occupied a strategic location at the north-western end of the Wantsum Channel, a sea lane that separated the Isle of Thanet and the (...) | |
| 17 | Bettie Page ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 106 Lat/Lng : 34.0583 / -118.4408 | Bettie Mae Page (April 22, 1923 – December 11, 2008) was an American model who gained a significant profile in the 1950s for her pin-up photos., BBC News, December 12, 2008; accessed 12, December 2008 Often referred to as the "Queen of Pinups", her jet-black hair, blue eyes, and trademark fringe (...) | |
| 18 | Harvard Divinity School ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 42.3801 / -71.113 | Harvard Divinity School is one of the constituent schools of Harvard University, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. , the school's mission is to train and educate its students either in the academic study of religion, or for the practice of a religious ministry or other public (...) | |
| 19 | Camp Atterbury ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 219 Lat/Lng : 39.2903 / -86.0406 | Camp Atterbury, located in south-central Indiana, about west of Edinburgh, Indiana, serves as a military and civilian training base under the auspices of the Indiana National Guard. The camp is named in memory of William Wallace Atterbury, a New Albany, Indiana, native who received a Distinguished (...) | |
| 20 | St Mary's Church, Reculver ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 51.3796 / 1.1999 | St Mary's Church, Reculver, was founded in the 7th century as either a minster or a monastery on the site of a Roman fort at Reculver, which was then at the north-eastern extremity of Kent in south-eastern England (...) | |
| 21 | Henry Ford ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 191 Lat/Lng : 42.3579 / -83.2012 | Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American captain of industry and a business magnate, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production (...) | |
| 22 | Stanford Memorial Church ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 31 Lat/Lng : 37.4268 / -122.1705 | Stanford Memorial Church (also referred to informally as MemChu) is located on the Main Quad at the center of the Stanford University campus in Stanford, California, United States. It was built during the American RenaissanceGregg, p. 34 by Jane Stanford as a memorial to her husband Leland (...) | |
| 23 | Emirate of Trarza ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 85 Lat/Lng : 13.4167 / 45.6667 | The Emirate of Trarza was a precolonial state in what is today southwest Mauritania. It has survived as a traditional confederation of semi-nomadic peoples to the present day. Its name is shared with the modern Region of Trarza (...) | |
| 24 | Howard University School of Law ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 95 Lat/Lng : 38.9437 / -77.0584 | Howard University School of Law (also known as Howard Law or HUSL) is one of the professional graduate schools of Howard University. Located in Washington, D.C., it is one of the oldest law schools in the country and the oldest historically black college or university law school in the United States (...) | |