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| 1 | United Arab Emirates national cricket team ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 25.0467 / 55.2189 | The United Arab Emirates national cricket team is the team that represents the United Arab Emirates in international Cricket. They are governed by the Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) which became an affiliate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 1989 and an associate member the (...) | |
| 2 | Somalia ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 273 Lat/Lng : 6.1833 / 47.0 | Somalia , officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe Federal Republic of Somalia is the country's name per Article 1 of the . , is a sovereign state with its territory located in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, Djibouti to the northwest, the Gulf of Aden to the north, (...) | |
| 3 | Scotland national cricket team ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 23 Lat/Lng : 55.4307 / -4.6348 | The Scotland national cricket team represents the country of Scotland. They play their home matches at The Grange, Edinburgh. Scotland became associate members of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 1994 at CricketArchive after severing links with the England cricket team two years earlier (...) | |
| 4 | UNESCO ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 48.8501 / 2.3062 | The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO;) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris. Its declared purpose is to contribute to peace and security by promoting international collaboration through educational, scientific, and cultural reforms (...) | |
| 5 | Osama bin Laden ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1191 Lat/Lng : 34.1693 / 73.2425 | Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin LadenThe common transliteration is based on Afghan Persian; according to standard Arabic pronunciation, his name would be rendered in English Usamah bin Muhammad bin Awad bin Ladin (...) | |
| 6 | September 11 attacks ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 40.7117 / -74.0125 | The September 11 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-QaedaWright, Looming Tower, 2006, p. 79 against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001 (...) | |
| 7 | Canada national cricket team ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 301 Lat/Lng : 43.9544 / -79.5086 | The Canada national cricket team is the team that represents the country of Canada in international cricket. The team is organised by Cricket Canada, which became an associate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 1968 (...) | |
| 8 | 2011 East Africa drought ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 836 Lat/Lng : 9.8333 / 49.1667 | Between July 2011 and mid-2012, a severe drought affected the entire East Africa region. Said to be "the worst in 60 years", the drought caused a severe food crisis across Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya that threatened the livelihood of 9.5 million people (...) | |
| 9 | Ireland cricket team ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 31 Lat/Lng : 54.9376 / -7.3818 | The Ireland cricket team represents all of Ireland. They participate in Test, ODI and Twenty20 matches at international level. They are the 11th Full Member of the International Cricket Council (ICC), having been awarded Test status, along with Afghanistan, on 22 June 2017 (...) | |
| 10 | Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 53 Lat/Lng : 23.03 / 72.58 | Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Sanstha (BAPS) (IAST: '), is a Hindu religious and social organization within the Swaminarayan branch of Hinduism. BAPS was established on 5 June 1907 by Shastriji Maharaj after leaving the Vadtal Gadi of the Swaminarayan Sampraday (...) | |
| 11 | Nihonjin gakkō ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 216 Lat/Lng : 42.1214 / -87.9814 | , also called Japanese school, is a full-day school outside Japan for native speakers of Japanese. It is an expatriate school designed for children whose parents are working on diplomatic, business, or education missions overseas and have plans to repatriate to Japan (...) | |
| 12 | Institut Français ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 48.8544 / 2.2937 | The Institut Français (French capitalization, Institut français; "French institute") is a French public industrial and commercial organization (EPIC). Started in 1907 by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for promoting French, francophone as well as local cultures around the world, in 2011 it replaced (...) | |
| 13 | Cooper Motor Corporation ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1654 Lat/Lng : -1.2992 / 36.8275 | The Cooper Motor Corporation, also known as CMC Motors Group Limited, is the fifth-largest importer of vehicles and fifth-largest car-assembly company in Kenya, the largest economy in the East African Community. (...) | |
| 14 | Operation Eastern Exit ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 56 Lat/Lng : 2.0358 / 45.2947 | Operation Eastern Exit was the codename given to the military evacuation of the United States embassy in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, in January 1991. In late December 1990, violence quickly enveloped the city as armed militants began clashing with government soldiers (...) | |