| 63 records found in wikipedia | |||
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| Macau  FeatureType : city Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : 22.1986 / 113.5447 | Macau or Macao , officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory on the western side of the Pearl River estuary in East Asia. Along with Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, and several other major cities in Guangdong, the territory (...) |
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| Barcelona–El Prat Airport FeatureType : airport Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 41.2969 / 2.0783 | Barcelona–El Prat Airport. BOE. (Catalan: Aeroport de Barcelona – el Prat, Spanish: Aeropuerto de Barcelona-El Prat), also known as El Prat Airport, is an international airport located southwest. Eurocontrol.int. Retrieved on 4 October 2011 (...) |
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| Malacca FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 2.2 / 102.25 | Malacca dubbed "The Historic State", is a state in Malaysia located in the southern region of the Malay Peninsula, next to the Strait of Malacca. The state is bordered by Negeri Sembilan to the north and west and Johor to the south (...) |
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| Helsinki Airport FeatureType : airport Lat/Lng : 60.3172 / 24.9633 | Helsinki Airport is the main international airport of the city of Helsinki, its surrounding metropolitan area, and the Uusimaa region. The airport is located in the city of Vantaa, about west of Tikkurila, the administrative center of Vantaa and north of Helsinki city center (...) |
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| Panama City FeatureType : city Elevation : 24 Lat/Lng : 8.9709 / -79.5348 | Panama City is the capital and largest city of Panama.Real Academia Española y Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, «Lista de países y capitales, con sus gentilicios», Ortografía de la lengua española, Madrid, Espasa It has an urban population of 880,691, with over 1 (...) |
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| Philippines FeatureType : country Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 14.5889 / 120.9715 | The Philippines (; or '), officially the Republic of the Philippines , is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Situated in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of about 7,641 islands that are categorized broadly under three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and (...) |
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| John F. Kennedy International Airport FeatureType : airport Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 40.6405 / -73.7789 | John F. Kennedy International Airport (colloquially referred to as Kennedy Airport, JFK Airport, New York-JFK, or simply JFK or Kennedy) is the primary international airport serving New York City. It is the busiest international air passenger gateway into North America, the 22nd-busiest airport in (...) |
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| 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 (...) |
| 9 | St Stephen's College (Hong Kong) FeatureType : edu Elevation : 41 Lat/Lng : 22.2158 / 114.2158 | St Stephen's College is a Christian Direct Subsidy Scheme co-educational secondary school located in Stanley, Hong Kong. With an area of about 150,000 m² (15 hectares), the college is the largest secondary school in Hong Kong, and is one of the very few boarding schools in the territory (...) | |
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| London FeatureType : city Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 51.5094 / -0.1183 | London is the capital and largest city of both the United Kingdom and England. Standing on the River Thames in southeastern England, upstream from its estuary with the North Sea, London has been a major settlement for two millennia. Londinium was founded by the Romans (...) |
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| Hungary FeatureType : country Elevation : 111 Lat/Lng : 47.4981 / 19.04 | Hungary is a country in Central Europe. Spanning in the Carpathian Basin, it borders Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Austria to the northwest, Romania to the east, Serbia to the south, Croatia to the southwest, and Slovenia to the west (...) |
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| USS Wisconsin (BB-64) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 36.8483 / -76.2953 | USS Wisconsin (BB-64) is an , the second ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. She was built at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and launched on 7 December 1943 (the second anniversary of the Pearl Harbor raid), sponsored by (...) |
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| USS New Jersey (BB-62) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 39.9392 / -75.1328 | USS New Jersey (BB-62) ("Big J" or "Black Dragon") is an , and was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named after the US state of New Jersey. New Jersey earned more battle stars for combat actions than the other three completed Iowa-class battleships, and was the only US battleship (...) |
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| Rickmer Rickmers FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 53.5446 / 9.9729 | Rickmer Rickmers is a sailing ship (three masted barque) permanently moored as a museum ship in Hamburg, near the Cap San Diego. Rickmer Clasen Rickmers, (1807–1886) was a Bremerhaven shipbuilder and Willi Rickmer Rickmers, (1873–1965) led a Soviet-German expedition to the Pamirs in 1928 (...) |
| 15 | Zhoushan FeatureType : isle Elevation : 60 Lat/Lng : 30.0408 / 122.1614 | Zhoushan, formerly romanized as Chusan, is a prefecture-level "city" in northeastern Zhejiang Province in eastern China. It consists of an archipelago of islands at the southern mouth of Hangzhou Bay, off Ningbo (...) | |
| 16 | October 1 FeatureType : null Elevation : -3 Lat/Lng : 45.2 / 36.6 | It is the first day of the fourth quarter of the year. (...) | |
| 17 | Cable-stayed bridge FeatureType : null Elevation : 58 Lat/Lng : 44.3824 / 4.7284 | A cable-stayed bridge has one or more towers (or pylons), from which cables support the bridge deck. A distinctive feature are the cables or , which run directly from the tower to the deck, normally forming a fan-like pattern or a series of parallel lines (...) | |
| 18 | European Broadcasting Union FeatureType : null Elevation : 460 Lat/Lng : 46.2317 / 6.1263 | The European Broadcasting Union (EBU;) is an alliance of public service media organisations, established on 12 February 1950. The organisation is made up of 72 members in 56 countries, and 34 associate members from a further 20 countries. It is best known for producing the Eurovision Song Contest (...) | |
| 19 | Ningbo FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 29.869 / 121.554 | Ningbo , formerly written Ningpo, is a sub-provincial city in northeast Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. It comprises the urban districts of Ningbo proper, three satellite cities, and a number of rural counties including islands in Hangzhou Bay and the East China Sea (...) | |
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| USS Barry (DD-933) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 38.871 / -76.996 | USS Barry (DD-933) was one of eighteen Forrest Sherman–class destroyers of the United States Navy, and was the third US destroyer to be named for Commodore John Barry. Commissioned in 1954, she spent most of her career in the Caribbean, Atlantic, and Mediterranean, but also served in the Vietnam (...) |
| 21 | Tram FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 530 Lat/Lng : 48.1484 / 11.4616 | A tram (in North America streetcar or trolley) is a rail vehicle which runs on tramway tracks along public urban streets; some include segments of segregated right-of-way. The lines or networks operated by tramcars are called tramways (...) | |
| 22 | Portuguese Macau FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 22.1667 / 113.55 | Portuguese Macau refers to Macau's history from the establishment of Portuguese settlement in mid-16th century to the end of Portuguese colonial rule in 1999. Macau was both the first and last European holding in China.Dillon, Michael (2017). Encyclopedia of Chinese History. New York: Routledge. p (...) | |
| 23 | Perak FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 117 Lat/Lng : 4.75 / 101.0 | Perak (; Jawi: ڤيراق; Chinese: 霹雳 Tamil: பேராக்), also known by its honorific Darul Ridzuan or "Abode of Grace" (Dār al-Riḍwān), is one of the thirteen states of Malaysia, and the fourth-largest one. It borders Kedah at the north; Thai Yala Province to the northeast; Penang to the northwest; (...) | |
| 24 | Lufthansa FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 50 Lat/Lng : 50.9415 / 6.9809 | Deutsche Lufthansa AG (or JSC) , commonly known as Lufthansa (sometimes also as Lufthansa German Airlines), is the largest German airline and, when combined with its subsidiaries, also the largest airline in Europe both in terms of fleet size, largest airlines in Europe (...) | |
| 25 | AH1 FeatureType : null Elevation : 44 Lat/Lng : 41.7181 / 26.3521 | Asian Highway 1 (AH1) is the longest route of the Asian Highway Network, running from Tokyo, Japan via Korea, China, Southeast Asia, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran to the border between Turkey and Bulgaria west of Istanbul where it joins end-on with European route E80. (...) | |
| 26 | Bahia FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : -12.9711 / -38.5108 | Bahia (; locally) is one of the 26 states of Brazil and is located in the northeastern part of the country on the Atlantic coast. It is the 4th-largest Brazilian state by population (after São Paulo, Minas Gerais, and Rio de Janeiro) and the 5th-largest by area (...) | |
| 27 | Norwich City F.C. FeatureType : null Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 52.622 / 1.309 | Norwich City Football Club (also known as The Canaries or City) is a professional football club based in Norwich, Norfolk, England. The club currently participate in the Championship, the second tier of English football, having been relegated from the Premier League in 2016 (...) | |
| 28 | 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 (...) | |
| 29 | Agency for French Education Abroad FeatureType : null Elevation : 71 Lat/Lng : 48.8374 / 2.3179 | The Agency for French Education Abroad, or Agency for French Teaching Abroad," ." Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved on November 1, 2011. (; abbreviation: AEFE), is a national public agency under the administration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France that assures the quality of schools (...) | |
| 30 | Budapest FeatureType : null Elevation : 104 Lat/Lng : 47.4983 / 19.0408 | Budapest is the capital and the most populous city of Hungary, and the tenth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits. The city had an estimated population of 1,752,704 in 2016 distributed over a land area of about (...) | |
| 31 | Order of Saint Augustine FeatureType : null Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 41.9007 / 12.457 | The Order of Saint Augustine (abbreviated as OSA; historically Ordo eremitarum sancti Augustini, OESA, the Order of Hermits of Saint Augustine), generally called Augustinians or Austin Friars (not to be confused with the Augustinian Canons Regular), is a Catholic religious order (...) | |
| 32 | Portuguese Air Force FeatureType : null Elevation : 170 Lat/Lng : 38.7833 / -9.3333 | The Portuguese Air Force is the aerial warfare force of Portugal. Locally, it is referred to by the acronym FAP, but internationally is often referred to by the acronym PoAF. It is the youngest of the three branches of the Portuguese Armed Forces (...) | |
| 33 | Special member state territories and the European Union FeatureType : null Elevation : 54 Lat/Lng : 57.9058 / 27.7132 | The special territories of the European Union are 31 territories of EU member states which, for historical, geographical, or political reasons, enjoy special status within or outside the European Union. The special territories divided themselves in two categories: 9 Outermost Regions (OMR) that form (...) | |
| 34 | Audencia Business School FeatureType : null Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 47.2468 / -1.5527 | Audencia Business School is a top business school in France and in Europe, and is one of the only 1% business schools in the world accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA), European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS), and the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) (...) | |
| 35 | 1967 FeatureType : null Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 51.6523 / -0.082 | ==Events== ===January=== * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 2 – Ronald Reagan, past movie actor and future President of the United States, is inaugurated the (...) | |
| 36 | Macau Science Center FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 22.1863 / 113.5571 | The Macao Science Center also known as Macau Science Center (MSC; ;) is a science center in Sé, Macau, China. The project to build the science center was conceived in 2001 and completed in 2009. , Macao Science Center. The building was designed by Pei Partnership Architects in association with I. M (...) | |
| 37 | 1980 FeatureType : null Elevation : 787 Lat/Lng : 40.85 / 15.28 | ==Events== ===January=== * January 1 – Changes to the Swedish Act of Succession make Princess Victoria of Sweden first in line to the throne ("heir apparent") and therefore Crown Princess, ahead of her younger brother. * January 4 – U.S (...) | |
| 38 | Victoria Drummond FeatureType : null Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : 56.4075 / -3.2301 | Victoria Alexandrina Drummond MBE (1894–1978), was the first woman marine engineer in Britain and first woman member of Institute of Marine Engineers. In World War II she served at sea as an engineering officer in the British Merchant Navy and received awards for bravery under enemy fire. (...) | |
| 39 | Oslo Airport, Fornebu FeatureType : airport Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 59.8958 / 10.6172 | Oslo Airport, Fornebu was the main airport serving Oslo and Eastern Norway from 1 June 1939 to 7 October 1998. It was then replaced by Oslo Airport, Gardermoen and the area has since been redeveloped. The airport was located at Fornebu in Bærum, from the city center (...) | |
| 40 | Lisbon Maru FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 30.23 / 122.7653 | Lisbon Maru was a Japanese Cargo liner built at Yokohama in 1920 for a Japanese shipping line. During World War 2 the ship became an armed troopship. On her final voyage Lisbon Maru was also transporting prisoners-of-war between Hong Kong and Japan when torpedoed on 1 October 1942, sinking with a (...) | |
| 41 | History of the Philippines FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 20.35 / 121.54 | The history of the Philippines is believed to have begun with the arrival of the first humans using rafts or boats at least 67,000 years ago as the 2007 discovery of Callao Man suggested. Negrito groups first inhabited the isles. Groups of Austronesians later migrated to the islands (...) | |
| 42 | Douglas C-54 Skymaster FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 29.33 / -135.0 | The Douglas C-54 Skymaster is a four-engined transport aircraft used by the United States Army Air Forces in World War II and the Korean War. Like the Douglas C-47 Skytrain, the C-54 Skymaster was derived from a civilian airliner, the Douglas DC-4 (...) | |
| 43 | HMS Hydra (A144) FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -35.0 / -35.0 | HMS Hydra (Pennant Number A144) was a Royal Navy deep ocean hydrographic survey vessel, the third of the original three of the Hecla class. The ship was laid down as yard number 2258 on 14 May 1964 at Yarrow Shipbuilders, at Scotstoun on the River Clyde and launched on 14 July 1965 by Mary Lythall, (...) | |
| 44 | Japanese cruiser Takasago FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 38.1667 / 121.25 | was a protected cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy, designed and built by the Armstrong Whitworth shipyards in Elswick, in the United Kingdom. The name Takasago derives from a location in Hyōgo Prefecture, near Kobe. (...) | |
| 45 | Casino FeatureType : null Elevation : 279 Lat/Lng : 45.9694 / 8.9707 | A casino is a facility which houses and accommodates certain types of gambling activities. The industry that deals in casinos is called the gaming industry. Casinos are most commonly built near or combined with hotels, restaurants, retail shopping, cruise ships or other tourist attractions (...) | |
| 46 | Wirral Transport Museum FeatureType : null Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 53.3961 / -3.0192 | Wirral Transport Museum is a museum situated approximately from the Mersey Ferry service at Woodside, Birkenhead, England. A vintage tram service links the museum and the ferry at certain times. Admission into the museum is free with a broad selection of vintage and classic vehicles, including (...) | |
| 47 | TS Pretoria FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 53.4833 / 4.8167 | TS Pretoria was a ship that had a long and varied career as first a German cargo liner, then a U-boat depot ship, hospital ship, British troop ship, Muslim pilgrim ship and finally an Indonesian naval accommodation ship. (...) | |
| 48 | January 1915 FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -76.5667 / -31.5 | The following events occurred in January 1915: (...) | |
| 49 | Web Summit FeatureType : null Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 38.7717 / -9.0926 | Web Summit, originally Dublin Web Summit, is a technology conference held annually since 2009. The company was founded by Paddy Cosgrave, David Kelly and Daire Hickey. The topic of the conference is centered on internet technology and attendees range from Fortune 500 companies to smaller tech (...) | |
| 50 | Grobogan Regency FeatureType : null Elevation : 31 Lat/Lng : -7.1167 / 110.9167 | Grobogan is a regency located in northeastern part of the Central Java province in Indonesia. Its capital is Purwodadi. (...) | |
| 51 | Roman Catholic Diocese of Cochin FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 9.9648 / 76.2427 | The Roman Catholic Diocese of Cochin is a diocese located in the city of Cochin in the Ecclesiastical province of Verapoly in India. The territory of the diocese of Cochin covers 235 square kilometers in the state of Kerala (...) | |
| 52 | 2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves FeatureType : null Elevation : 60 Lat/Lng : 56.3333 / 44.0 | The 2010 Northern Hemisphere summer heat waves included severe heat waves that impacted most of the United States, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China, Hong Kong, North Africa and the European continent as a whole, along with parts of Canada, Russia, Indochina, South Korea and Japan during May, June, July, (...) | |
| 53 | The Dickson Poon School of Law FeatureType : null Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 51.5112 / -0.1166 | The Dickson Poon School of Law is the law school of King's College London, and one of the nine Schools of Study of the College. It is situated on the Strand in the East Wing of Somerset House, in close proximity to the Royal Courts of Justice and the four Inns of Court in the heart of London's legal (...) | |
| 54 | USS The Sullivans (DD-537) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 175 Lat/Lng : 42.8777 / -78.8806 | USS The Sullivans (DD-537) is a . She is a United States Navy ship named in honor of the five Sullivan brothers (George, Francis, Joseph, Madison, and Albert) aged 20 to 27 who lost their lives when their ship, , was sunk by a Japanese submarine during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on 13 November (...) | |
| 55 | Paris School of Economics FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 78 Lat/Lng : 48.8224 / 2.3312 | The Paris School of Economics (PSE; French: École d'économie de Paris) is a French research institute in the field of economics. It proposes M.Phil., M.Sc., and Ph.D level programmes in various fields of theoretical and applied economics, including macroeconomics, econometrics, and international (...) | |
| 56 | History of the Port of Southampton FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 50.8965 / -1.3968 | The Port of Southampton is a major passenger and cargo port located in the central part of the south coast of England. It has been an important port since the Roman occupation of Britain nearly two thousand years ago, and has a multifaceted history (...) | |
| 57 | Spanish cruiser Rapido FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 20.0333 / 134.0167 | Rapido was an auxiliary cruiser that served in the Spanish Navy during the Spanish–American War in 1898. Before her Spanish Navy service, she served as the commercial passenger ship SS Columbia for the Hamburg America Line from 1889 to 1898 (...) | |
| 58 | Wirral Tramway FeatureType : null Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 53.3951 / -3.01 | Wirral Tramway is a heritage tramway opened in 1995 by the Wirral Borough Council and Hamilton Quarter partnership and was operated by Blackpool Transport Services until 2005 when the council took over the licence to run the tramway.http://www.visitwirral (...) | |
| 59 | Macau Liaison Office FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 22.1942 / 113.5496 | The Macau Liaison Office, officially known as the Central People's Government Liaison Office of the Macao Special Administrative Region ((abbreviated:); Portuguese: Gabinete de Ligação do Governo Central na RAEM) is the representative office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China (...) | |
| 60 | International Organization of Securities Commissions FeatureType : null Elevation : 699 Lat/Lng : 40.4405 / -3.684 | The International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) is an association of organisations that regulate the world’s securities and futures markets. Members are typically primary securities and/or futures regulators in a national jurisdiction or the main financial regulator from each (...) | |
| 61 | Royal Academy of Dance FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 51.4747 / -0.1757 | The Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) is a UK-based examination board specialising in dance education and training, with an emphasis on classical ballet. The RAD was founded in London, England in 1920 as the Association of Teachers of Operatic Dancing, and was granted a Royal Charter in 1935 (...) | |
| 62 | Cenotaph FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 49 Lat/Lng : 22.2815 / 114.1606 | A cenotaph is an empty tomb or a monument erected in honour of a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere. It can also be the initial tomb for a person who has since been reinterred elsewhere. Although the vast majority of cenotaphs honour individuals, many noted cenotaphs are instead (...) | |
| 63 | USS Knapp (DD-653) FeatureType : null Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 46.1899 / -123.8233 | USS Knapp (DD-653), a , was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Harry Shepard Knapp. Her keel was laid down on 8 March 1943 by Bath Iron Works, in Bath, Maine. She was launched on 10 July 1943, sponsored by Margaret L. and Mary C (...) | |
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