| 231 records found in wikipedia | |||
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| Bangladesh  FeatureType : country Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 24.0167 / 89.8667 | Bangladesh (; , lit. "The country of Bengal"), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh , is a country in South Asia. It shares land borders with India and Myanmar (Burma).The country's maritime territory in the Bay of Bengal is roughly equal to the size of its land area (...) |
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| Sylhet FeatureType : null Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 24.8978 / 91.8714 | Sylhet (Sylheti: ꠍꠤꠟꠐ), is a metropolitan city in northeastern Bangladesh. It is the administrative seat of Sylhet Division. The city is located on the right bank of the Surma River in northeastern Bengal. It has a subtropical climate and lush highland terrain (...) |
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| Dhaka FeatureType : null Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 23.7 / 90.375 | Dhaka (or ;), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh. It is one of the world's largest cities, with a population of 18.89 million people in the Greater Dhaka Area. It is also the most densely populated city in the world (...) |
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| Madison Square Garden FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 40.7503 / -73.9931 | Madison Square Garden, colloquially known as The Garden or in initials as MSG, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Located in Midtown Manhattan between 7th and 8th Avenues from 31st to 33rd Streets, it is situated atop Pennsylvania Station (...) |
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| New Jersey FeatureType : null Elevation : 33 Lat/Lng : 40.0 / -74.5 | New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States. It is a peninsula, bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware River and Pennsylvania; and on the southwest by the (...) |
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| Sundarbans FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 21.9497 / 89.1833 | The Sundarbans (lit. "The beautiful forest") is a vast forest in the coastal region of the Bay of Bengal. Located in the delta region of Padma, Meghna and Brahmaputra river basins, this unique forest extends across Khulna, Satkhira, Bagerhat districts of Bangladesh and South 24 Parganas, (...) |
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| Lower East Side FeatureType : city Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 40.7152 / -73.9843 | The Lower East Side, sometimes abbreviated as LES, is a neighborhood in the southeastern part of the New York City borough of Manhattan, roughly located between the Bowery and the East River, and Canal Street and Houston Street (...) |
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| Wall Street FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 40.7063 / -74.0092 | Wall Street is an eight-block-long street running roughly northwest to southeast from Broadway to South Street, at the East River, in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City., retrieved July 17, 2007 (...) |
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| Paterson, New Jersey FeatureType : city Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 40.9147 / -74.1628 | Paterson is the largest city in and the county seat of Passaic County, New Jersey, United States., New Jersey Department of State. Accessed July 10, 2017. As of the 2010 United States Census, its population was 146,199, rendering it New Jersey's third-most-populous city (...) |
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| Scranton, Pennsylvania FeatureType : city Elevation : 229 Lat/Lng : 41.4106 / -75.6675 | Scranton is the sixth-largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is the county seat of Lackawanna County in Northeastern Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley and hosts a federal court building. With a population of 77,291, it is the largest city in the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre–Hazleton, PA (...) |
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| Bhutan FeatureType : country Elevation : 2778 Lat/Lng : 27.417 / 90.435 | Bhutan , officially the Kingdom of Bhutan , is a landlocked country in South Asia. Located in the Eastern Himalayas, it is bordered by Tibet Autonomous Region of China in the north, the Sikkim state of India and the Chumbi Valley of Tibet in the west, the Arunachal Pradesh state of India in the (...) |
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| Los Angeles FeatureType : null Elevation : 96 Lat/Lng : 34.0522 / -118.2436 | Los Angeles , officially the City of Los Angeles and known colloquially by its initials LA, is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City, and the largest and most populous city in the Western United States (...) |
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| Dubai International Airport FeatureType : airport Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 25.2536 / 55.3644 | Dubai International Airport is the primary international airport serving Dubai, United Arab Emirates and is the world's busiest airport by international passenger traffic. It is also the third-busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic, the sixth-busiest cargo airport in world, the busiest (...) |
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| Havana FeatureType : null Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 23.1388 / -82.3573 | Havana (; Spanish: La Habana) is the capital city, largest city, province, major port, and leading commercial center of Cuba. The city has a population of 2.1 million inhabitants, and it spans a total of – making it the largest city by area, the most populous city, and the fourth largest (...) |
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| Agartala FeatureType : null Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 23.8308 / 91.2825 | Agartala (Bengali: আগরতলা, ') is the capital of the Indian state of Tripura and second largest city in North-east India after Guwahati, both in municipal area and population. The city is the seat of the Government of Tripura. Agartala is one of the fastest developing cities of India (...) |
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| Emirate of Abu Dhabi FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 24.4591 / 54.3694 | The Emirate of Abu Dhabi (or ;), is one of seven emirates that constitute the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It is the largest emirate by area , accounting for approximately 87 percent of the total land area of the federation. Abu Dhabi also has the largest population of the seven emirates (...) |
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| Coeur d'Alene, Idaho FeatureType : city Elevation : 679 Lat/Lng : 47.6928 / -116.78 | Coeur d'Alene is the largest city and county seat of Kootenai County, Idaho, United States. It is the principal city of the Coeur d'Alene Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the population of Coeur d'Alene was 44,137 (...) |
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| Abu Dhabi FeatureType : city Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 24.465 / 54.3659 | Abu Dhabi is the capital and the second most populous city of the United Arab Emirates (the most populous being Dubai), and also capital of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, the largest of the UAE's seven emirates. Abu Dhabi lies on a T-shaped island jutting into the Persian Gulf from the central western (...) |
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| Louis Kahn FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 39.9451 / -75.1602 | Louis Isadore Kahn (born Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky) (– March 17, 1974) was an American architect, based in Philadelphia. After working in various capacities for several firms in Philadelphia, he founded his own atelier in 1935 (...) |
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| The Coca-Cola Company FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 317 Lat/Lng : 33.771 / -84.3966 | The Coca-Cola Company is an American corporation, and manufacturer, retailer, and marketer of nonalcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups. The company is best known for its flagship product Coca-Cola, invented in 1886 by pharmacist John Stith Pemberton in Atlanta, Georgia (...) |
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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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| Huddersfield FeatureType : null Elevation : 84 Lat/Lng : 53.645 / -1.7798 | Huddersfield is a large market town in West Yorkshire, England. It is the 11th largest town in the United Kingdom, with a population of 162,949 at the 2011 census. It lies southwest of Leeds and northeast of Manchester. Huddersfield is near the confluence of the River Colne and the River Holme (...) |
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| Dubai FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 25.205 / 55.2698 | Dubai is the largest and most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). On the southeast coast of the Persian Gulf, it is the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, one of the seven emirates that make up the country.The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa. D Long, B Reich. p (...) |
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| Egypt FeatureType : country Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 24.1333 / 35.4833 | Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia by a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. Egypt is a Mediterranean country bordered by the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Gulf of Aqaba to the east, the (...) |
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| Dublin FeatureType : null Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 53.3434 / -6.2676 | Dublin is the capital and largest city in Ireland. Dublin is in the province of Leinster on the east coast of Ireland, at the mouth of the River Liffey and bordered on the south by the Wicklow Mountains. The city has an urban area population of 1,173,179 (...) |
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| Chad FeatureType : country Elevation : 297 Lat/Lng : 12.1 / 15.0333 | Chad , officially the Republic of Chad ('; "Republic of the Chad"), is a landlocked country in north-central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest, and Niger to the west (...) |
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| Oldham FeatureType : null Elevation : 215 Lat/Lng : 53.5444 / -2.1169 | Oldham is a town in Greater Manchester, England, amid the Pennines and between the rivers Irk and Medlock, southeast of Rochdale and northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, which had a population of 230,800 in 2015 (...) |
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| Bradford FeatureType : null Elevation : 121 Lat/Lng : 53.7887 / -1.7487 | Bradford is a city in the Metropolitan Borough of the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. Bradford lies in the foothills of the Pennines, west of Leeds, and northwest of Wakefield. Bradford became a municipal borough in 1847, and received its charter as a city in 1897 (...) |
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| Northern Cyprus FeatureType : null Elevation : 243 Lat/Lng : 35.2667 / 33.55 | Northern Cyprus , officially the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC;), is a de facto state that comprises the northeastern portion of the island of Cyprus. Recognised only by Turkey, Northern Cyprus is considered by the international community to be part of the Republic of Cyprus (...) |
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| Saipan FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 151 Lat/Lng : 15.2093 / 145.7632 | Saipan (formerly in Spanish: Saipán) is the largest island of the Northern Mariana Islands, a commonwealth of the United States in the western Pacific Ocean. According to 2017 estimates by the United States Census Bureau, Saipan's population was 52,263 (...) |
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| Dortmund FeatureType : null Elevation : 98 Lat/Lng : 51.5139 / 7.4653 | Dortmund is, with a population of 601,402 (2017), the third largest city of Germany's most populous federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and Germany's eighth largest city. It is the largest city (by area and population) of the Ruhr, Germany's largest urban area with (...) |
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| United Kingdom FeatureType : country Elevation : 131 Lat/Lng : 53.55 / -2.4333 | The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed. Some organisations, including the and , prefer to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country lying off the north-western coast of the European (...) |
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| Kazakhstan FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 934 Lat/Lng : 43.3503 / 79.0804 | Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan ,Encyclopædia Britannica, . Retrieved: 7 June 2016. is the world's largest landlocked country, and the ninth largest in the world, with an area of . It is a transcontinental country largely located in Asia; the most western parts are located in (...) |
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| South Korea FeatureType : country Elevation : 943 Lat/Lng : 35.8891 / 127.793 | South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and lying to the east of the Asian mainland. The name Korea is derived from Goguryeo which was one of the great powers in East Asia during its time, ruling most of (...) |
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| England FeatureType : city Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 51.5 / -0.1167 | England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west. The Irish Sea lies northwest of England and the Celtic Sea lies to the southwest (...) |
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| Sri Lanka FeatureType : country Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 6.9 / 79.9 | Sri Lanka (; '; Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea (...) |
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| Afghanistan FeatureType : country Elevation : 1817 Lat/Lng : 34.5167 / 69.1333 | Afghanistan (; Pashto/Dari: , Pashto: Afġānistān ,The phoneme ف occurs only in loanwords in Pashto, it tends to be replaced with پ. is also an allophone of before voiced consonants; is an allophone of before voiced consonants in loanwords (...) |
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| Taizé Community FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 249 Lat/Lng : 46.5131 / 4.6777 | The Taizé Community is an ecumenical Christian monastic fraternity in Taizé, Saône-et-Loire, Burgundy, France. It is composed of more than one hundred brothers, from Catholic and Protestant traditions, who originate from about thirty countries across the world (...) |
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| Al Anbar Governorate FeatureType : null Elevation : 442 Lat/Lng : 32.9 / 41.6 | Al Anbar Governorate (; muḥāfaẓat al-’Anbār), or Anbar Province, is the largest governorate in Iraq by area. Encompassing much of the country's western territory, it shares borders with Syria, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia (...) |
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| Keighley FeatureType : city Elevation : 116 Lat/Lng : 53.867 / -1.911 | Keighley is a town and civil parish within the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, northwest of Bradford at the confluence of the rivers Aire and Worth. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Keighley lies between Airedale and Keighley Moors (...) |
| 41 | Harlem FeatureType : city Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 40.809 / -73.9484 | Harlem is a large neighborhood in the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan. Since the 1920s, Harlem has been known as a major African American residential, cultural and business center. Originally a Dutch village, formally organized in 1658,Pierce, Carl Horton, et al (...) | |
| 42 | East New York, Brooklyn FeatureType : city Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 40.67 / -73.89 | East New York is a residential neighborhood in the eastern section of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City, United States. The neighborhood is part of Brooklyn Community District 5, covered by Brooklyn Community Board 5., New York City. Accessed April 2, 2008 (...) | |
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| London Stock Exchange FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : 51.5153 / -0.1 | London Stock Exchange is a stock exchange located in the City of London, England. , London Stock Exchange had a market capitalisation of US$4.59 trillion. It was founded in 1571, making it one of the oldest exchanges in the world (...) |
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| Biosphere 2 FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1180 Lat/Lng : 32.5788 / -110.8506 | Biosphere 2 is an American Earth system science research facility located in Oracle, Arizona. It has been owned by the University of Arizona since 2011. Its mission is to serve as a center for research, outreach, teaching, and lifelong learning about Earth, its living systems, and its place in the (...) |
| 45 | Indian subcontinent FeatureType : null Elevation : 325 Lat/Lng : 20.0 / 78.0 | The Indian subcontinent is a southern region and peninsula of Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate and projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas. Geologically, the Indian subcontinent is related to the land mass that rifted from Gondwana and merged with the Eurasian plate (...) | |
| 46 | South Asia FeatureType : country Elevation : 249 Lat/Lng : 26.9 / 72.2 | South Asia or Southern Asia, is a term used to represent the southern region of the Asian continent, which comprises the sub-Himalayan SAARC countries and, for some authorities, adjoining countries to the west and east (...) | |
| 47 | Silk Road FeatureType : null Elevation : 391 Lat/Lng : 34.3044 / 108.8572 | The Silk Road was an ancient network of trade routes that connected the East and West. It was central to cultural interaction between the regions for many centuries. The Silk Road refers to both the terrestrial and the maritime routes connecting East Asia and Southeast Asia with East Africa, West (...) | |
| 48 | Comilla District FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 23.4583 / 91.1833 | Comilla District , officially known as Cumilla District, is a district of Bangladesh located about 100 kilometres south east of Dhaka. Comilla is bordered by Brahmanbaria and Narayanganj districts to the north, Noakhali and Feni districts to the south, Tripura of India to the east, and Munshiganj (...) | |
| 49 | Hamtramck, Michigan FeatureType : null Elevation : 193 Lat/Lng : 42.3978 / -83.0572 | Hamtramck is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 22,423. Hamtramck is surrounded by the city of Detroit except for a small portion of the western border that touches the similarly surrounded city of Highland Park (...) | |
| 50 | Rock and Roll Hall of Fame FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 180 Lat/Lng : 41.5075 / -81.6952 | The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, recognizes and archives the history of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, engineers, and other notable figures who have had some major influence on the development of rock and roll (...) | |
| 51 | Asia FeatureType : null Elevation : 517 Lat/Lng : 46.2833 / 86.6667 | Asia is Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres. It shares the continental landmass of Eurasia with the continent of Europe and the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with both Europe and Africa (...) | |
| 52 | US Open (tennis) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 40.7499 / -73.847 | The United States Open Tennis Championships is a hard court tennis tournament. The tournament is the modern version of one of the oldest tennis championships in the world, the U.S. National Championship, for which men's singles was first played in 1881 (...) | |
| 53 | Goethe-Institut FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 516 Lat/Lng : 48.1622 / 11.5449 | The Goethe-Institut (GI, "") is a non-profit German cultural association operational worldwide with 159 institutes, promoting the study of the German language abroad and encouraging international cultural exchange and relations. Around 246.000 people take part in these German courses per year (...) | |
| 54 | Dhahran FeatureType : null Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 26.2897 / 50.1608 | Dhahran (Arabic aẓ-Ẓahrān) is a city located in Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. It is a major administrative center for the Saudi oil industry. Together with the nearby cities of Dammam and Khobar, Dhahran forms part of the Dammam Metropolitan Area, which is commonly known as greater Dammam and has (...) | |
| 55 | Naypyidaw FeatureType : null Elevation : 164 Lat/Lng : 19.7285 / 96.0879 | Naypyidaw, officially spelled Nay Pyi Taw (; , formerly known as Kyetpyay, Pyinmana or Kyatpyay, Pyinmana), is the capital city of Myanmar and seat of the government of Myanmar. It is administered as the Naypyidaw Union Territory, as per the Constitution (...) | |
| 56 | 2013 Savar building collapse FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 23.8462 / 90.2576 | The 2013 Savar building collapse or Rana Plaza collapse was a structural failure that occurred on 24 April 2013 in the Savar Upazila of Dhaka District, Bangladesh, where an eight-story commercial building named Rana Plaza collapsed (...) | |
| 57 | 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__ (...) | |
| 58 | 2008 Mumbai attacks FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 18.9221 / 72.8326 | --> The 2008 Mumbai attacks (also referred to as 26/11) were a group of terrorist attacks that took place in November 2008, when 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Islamic terrorist organisation based in Pakistan, carried out a series of 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four (...) | |
| 59 | Mary Harris Jones FeatureType : null Elevation : 205 Lat/Lng : 39.0807 / -89.7333 | Mary G. Harris Jones (baptized 1837; died 1930), known as Mother Jones, was an Irish-born American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent organized labor representative and community organizer. She helped coordinate major strikes and cofounded the Industrial Workers of the World (...) | |
| 60 | Expo 2010 FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 31.1941 / 121.4864 | Expo 2010, officially the Expo 2010 Shanghai China, was held on both banks of the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China, from 1 May to 31 October 2010. It was a major World Expo registered by the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), in the tradition of international fairs and expositions, the (...) | |
| 61 | Hurricane Katrina FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 29.9667 / -90.05 | Hurricane Katrina was an extremely destructive and deadly Category 5 hurricane that struck the Gulf Coast of the United States in August 2005, causing catastrophic damage from central Florida to eastern Texas. Subsequent flooding, caused largely as a result of fatal engineering flaws in the flood (...) | |
| 62 | Cyclone Nargis FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 16.0503 / 94.8089 | Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Nargis caused the worst natural disaster in the recorded history of Myanmar during early May 2008., The Australian, 9 May 2008 The cyclone made landfall in Myanmar on Friday, 2 May 2008, sending a storm surge 40 kilometres up the densely populated Irrawaddy delta, (...) | |
| 63 | Sony FeatureType : null Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : 35.6312 / 139.7437 | is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan, Minato, Tokyo."." Sony Global. Retrieved 6 December 2011. "1–7–1 Konan Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0075, Japan" – – : "〒108-0075 東京都港区港南1–7–1" Its diversified business includes consumer and professional electronics, gaming, (...) | |
| 64 | United Nations FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 40.75 / -73.9675 | The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote and secure international co-operation and to create and maintain international order. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on 24 October 1945 after World War II with the (...) | |
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| Bethesda, Maryland FeatureType : null Elevation : 106 Lat/Lng : 38.9806 / -77.1006 | Bethesda is an unincorporated, census-designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, located just northwest of the U.S. capital of Washington, D.C. It takes its name from a local church, the Bethesda Meeting House (1820, rebuilt 1849), which in turn took its name from (...) |
| 66 | 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 (...) | |
| 67 | Fayette County, Pennsylvania FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 390 Lat/Lng : 39.92 / -79.65 | Fayette County is a county of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Fayette County is located in southwestern Pennsylvania, adjacent to Maryland and West Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 136,606. Its county seat is Uniontown (...) | |
| 68 | 2015 FeatureType : null Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : 29.7565 / 112.9243 | 2015 was designated as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soils __TOC__ (...) | |
| 69 | Ozone Park, Queens FeatureType : city Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 40.68 / -73.845 | Ozone Park is a neighborhood located in the southwestern section of the borough of Queens, in New York City, New York, United States. It is located next to the Aqueduct Racetrack in South Ozone Park, a popular spot for Thoroughbred racing (...) | |
| 70 | Flatbush, Brooklyn FeatureType : city Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 40.6404 / -73.9621 | Flatbush is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Founded in 1651 by Dutch colonists, the neighborhood, which consists of several subsections, had a population of 110,875 as of the 2010 United States Census (...) | |
| 71 | Ramakrishna Mission FeatureType : null Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 22.37 / 88.21 | Ramakrishna Mission (RKM) is a Hindu religious and spiritual organisation which forms the core of a worldwide spiritual movement known as the Ramakrishna Movement or the Vedanta Movement. The mission is named after and inspired by the Indian saint Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and founded by Ramakrishna's (...) | |
| 72 | Jackson Heights, Queens FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 32 Lat/Lng : 40.7514 / -73.8869 | Jackson Heights is a neighborhood in the northwestern portion of the borough of Queens in New York City. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 3. Jackson Heights is neighbored by North Corona to the east, Elmhurst to the south, Woodside to the west, northern Astoria (Ditmars-Steinway) (...) | |
| 73 | Himalayas FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 8806 Lat/Lng : 27.9881 / 86.9253 | The Himalayas, or Himalaya , form a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The Himalayan range has many of the Earth's highest peaks, including the highest, Mount Everest (...) | |
| 74 | YouTube FeatureType : null Elevation : 46 Lat/Lng : 37.6281 / -122.4264 | YouTube, LLC is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1 (...) | |
| 75 | East End of London FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 51.5167 / -0.05 | The East End of London, usually called the East End, is the historic core of wider East London, east of the Roman and medieval walls of the City of London, and north of the River Thames. It does not have universally accepted boundaries, though the various channels of the River Lea are often (...) | |
| 76 | April 17 FeatureType : null Elevation : 1824 Lat/Lng : 34.9 / 104.7 | ==Events== *1080 – Harald III of Denmark dies and is succeeded by Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized. *1349 – The rule of the Bavand dynasty in Mazandaran is brought to an end by the murder of Hasan II (...) | |
| 77 | KGB FeatureType : null Elevation : 155 Lat/Lng : 55.7587 / 37.6256 | The KGB, an initialism for Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti , translated in English as Committee for State Security, was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its break-up in 1991. As a direct successor of such preceding agencies as Cheka, NKGB, NKVD and MGB, the (...) | |
| 78 | Libyan Civil War (2011) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 31.1956 / 16.5214 | The First Libyan Civil War, also referred to as the Libyan Revolution or 17 February Revolution, was an armed conflict in 2011 in the North African country of Libya fought between forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and those seeking to oust his government (...) | |
| 79 | South Sudan FeatureType : city Elevation : 500 Lat/Lng : 4.85 / 31.6 | South Sudan , officially known as the Republic of South Sudan, is a landlocked country in East-Central Africa. The country gained its independence from the Republic of the Sudan in 2011, making it the newest country with widespread recognition. Its capital and largest city is Juba (...) | |
| 80 | Southeast Asia FeatureType : country Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 12.0 / 105.1 | Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of Japan and China, east of India, west of Papua New Guinea, and north of Australia. Southeast Asia is bordered to the north by East Asia, to the west by South Asia and the Bay of (...) | |
| 81 | Vaishnavism FeatureType : null Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 20.888 / 70.4013 | Vaishnavism (Vaishnava dharma) is one of the major traditions within Hinduism along with Shaivism, Shaktism, and Smartism. It is also called Vishnuism, its followers are called Vaishnavas, and it considers Vishnu as the Supreme Lord (...) | |
| 82 | London Borough of Tower Hamlets FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 51.5203 / -0.0293 | The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is a London Borough in East London which covers much of the traditional East End. The Borough was formed in 1965 from the merger of the former Metropolitan Boroughs of Stepney, Poplar and Bethnal Green (...) | |
| 83 | Faxian FeatureType : null Elevation : 159 Lat/Lng : 27.334 / 79.271 | Faxian (; 337 – c. 422) was a Chinese Buddhist monk and translator who traveled by foot from China to India, visiting many sacred Buddhist sites in what are now Xinjiang, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka between 399-412 to acquire Buddhist texts (...) | |
| 84 | Polish Corridor FeatureType : null Elevation : 165 Lat/Lng : 54.35 / 18.3333 | The Polish Corridor , also known as Danzig Corridor, Corridor to the Sea or Gdańsk Corridor, was a territory located in the region of Pomerelia (Pomeranian Voivodeship, eastern Pomerania, formerly part of West Prussia), which provided the Second Republic of Poland (1920–1939) with access to the (...) | |
| 85 | River delta FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -34.1822 / 58.3469 | A river delta is a landform that forms from deposition of sediment carried by a river as the flow leaves its mouth and enters slower-moving or stagnant water.Miall, A. D. 1979. Deltas. in R. G. Walker (ed) Facies Models. Geological Association of Canada, Hamilton, Ontario.Elliot, T. 1986. Deltas (...) | |
| 86 | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire FeatureType : event Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 40.7301 / -73.9954 | The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911 was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in US history. The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers – 123 women and 23 men on the American Postal Workers Union (...) | |
| 87 | Aung San Suu Kyi FeatureType : null Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 16.8256 / 96.1503 | Aung San Suu Kyi (; ; born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1991). She is the leader of the National League for Democracy and the first and incumbent State Counsellor, a position akin to a prime minister (...) | |
| 88 | 2017 FeatureType : null Elevation : 102 Lat/Lng : 29.311 / 119.9695 | 2017 was designated as International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. __TOC__ (...) | |
| 89 | Guantanamo Bay detention camp FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 19.9026 / -75.0987 | The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a United States military prison located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, , The Independent, 29 April 2006 also referred to as Guantánamo, G-Bay, GTMO, Gitmo , and America's Gulag, which is on the coast of Guantánamo Bay in Cuba (...) | |
| 90 | Tibet FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 5226 Lat/Lng : 32.27 / 87.09 | Tibet is a historical region covering much of the Tibetan Plateau in Inner Asia. It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people as well as some other ethnic groups such as Monpa, Tamang, Qiang, sherpa, and Lhoba peoples and is now also inhabited by considerable numbers of Han Chinese and Hui (...) | |
| 91 | Elmhurst, Queens FeatureType : null Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 40.7429 / -73.88 | Elmhurst (formerly Newtown) is a working/middle class neighborhood in the borough of Queens in New York City. It is bounded by Roosevelt Avenue on the north; the Long Island Expressway on the south; Junction Boulevard on the east; and the New York Connecting Railroad on the west (...) | |
| 92 | University of Notre Dame FeatureType : edu Elevation : 229 Lat/Lng : 41.703 / -86.239 | The University of Notre Dame du Lac (or simply Notre Dame or ND) is a private, non-profit Catholic research university in the community of Notre Dame, Indiana, near the city of South Bend, in the United States. The main campus covers in a suburban setting and it contains a number of recognizable (...) | |
| 93 | Kew Gardens, Queens FeatureType : null Elevation : 27 Lat/Lng : 40.705 / -73.825 | Kew Gardens is a neighborhood in the central area of the New York City borough of Queens. Kew Gardens, shaped roughly like a triangle, is bounded to the north by Union Turnpike and the Jackie Robinson Parkway (formerly the Interboro Parkway), to the east by Van Wyck Expressway and 131st Street, to (...) | |
| 94 | Ibn Battuta FeatureType : null Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 22.3308 / 36.4903 | Ibn Battuta (; ; fully ; Arabic:) (February 25, 13041368 or 1369) was a Berber Muslim Moroccan scholar and explorer who widely travelled the medieval world. After outlining the extensive route of Ibn Battuta's Journey, Nehru notes: "This is a record of travel which is rare enough today with our many (...) | |
| 95 | Northern England FeatureType : null Elevation : 112 Lat/Lng : 53.0 / -2.1833 | Northern England, also known simply as the North, is the northern part of England, considered as a single cultural area. It extends from the Scottish border in the north to near the River Trent in the south, although precise definitions of its southern extent vary (...) | |
| 96 | Shannan, Tibet FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 5039 Lat/Lng : 28.5561 / 92.5567 | ShannanThe official spelling according to ' (Beijing, SinoMaps Press 1997); , also transliterated from Tibetan as Lhoka , is a prefecture-level city in the southeastern Tibet Autonomous Region, China.Booz, Elisabeth B. (1986). Tibet, pp. 127-135. Passport Books, Chicago. (...) | |
| 97 | Central Asia FeatureType : country Elevation : 98 Lat/Lng : 45.3 / 63.9 | Central Asia stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to China in the east and from Afghanistan in the south to Russia in the north. The region consists of the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.https://www.britannica (...) | |
| 98 | World Bank FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 45 Lat/Lng : 38.8989 / -77.0425 | The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to countries of the world for capital projects. It comprises two institutions: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), and the International Development Association (IDA) (...) | |
| 99 | Nevada FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 1767 Lat/Lng : 39.0 / -117.0 | Nevada is a state in the Western United States.Also sometimes placed in the Mountain West and Southwestern United States. It borders Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast and Utah to the east (...) | |
| 100 | 1970 Bhola cyclone FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 14.8333 / 87.0 | The 1970 Bhola cyclone was a devastating tropical cyclone that struck East Pakistan and India's West Bengal on November 12, 1970. It remains the deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded and one of the deadliest natural disasters. At least 500,000 people lost their lives in the storm, CBC News' (...) | |
| 101 | July 2016 Dhaka attack FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 23.8025 / 90.4167 | On the night of 1 July 2016, at 21:20 local time, five militants took hostages and opened fire on the Holey Artisan Bakery in Gulshan Thana The assailants entered the bakery with crude bombs, machetes, pistols, and took several dozen hostages (foreigners and locals) (...) | |
| 102 | 2008 Sichuan earthquake FeatureType : null Elevation : 2338 Lat/Lng : 31.015 / 103.365 | The 2008 Sichuan earthquakeSome early Western reports used the term Chengdu quake; e.g., , , etc. This term never picked up widely in media reports, but was reportedly used by BBC America in a follow-up report on preparations for winter and housing rebuilding efforts aired November 12, 2008, in (...) | |
| 103 | Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh FeatureType : null Elevation : 304 Lat/Lng : 21.146 / 79.111 | Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, abbreviated as RSS (Rāṣṭrīya Svayamsēvaka Saṅgha, IPA: , lit. "National Volunteer Organisation" or "National Patriotic Organisation"), is an Indian right-wing, Hindu nationalist, paramilitary volunteer organisation that is widely regarded as the parent organisation of (...) | |
| 104 | Zinedine Zidane FeatureType : null Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 43.2844 / 5.3495 | Zinedine Zidane (; born 23 June 1972), nicknamed "Zizou", is a French professional football coach and former player. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time,. BBC. Retrieved 20 April 2013. . ESPN. Retrieved 20 April 2013 The Independent. Retrieved 17 November 2013. New York Times (...) | |
| 105 | Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 FeatureType : null Elevation : 130 Lat/Lng : 49.8517 / 36.661 | The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 (; NATO reporting name: Fishbed) is a supersonic jet fighter and interceptor aircraft, designed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau in the Soviet Union. It was popularly nicknamed "balalaika", from the aircraft's planform-view resemblance to the Russian stringed musical (...) | |
| 106 | Henipavirus FeatureType : null Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : -27.418 / 153.071 | Henipavirus is a genus of RNA viruses in the family Paramyxoviridae, order Mononegavirales containing five established species. Henipaviruses are naturally harboured by pteropid fruit bats (flying foxes) and microbats of several species (...) | |
| 107 | East Bengal FeatureType : null Elevation : 275 Lat/Lng : 25.2192 / 90.9889 | East Bengal (Purbô Bangla) was a geographically noncontiguous province of the Dominion of Pakistan covering Bangladesh. With its coastline on the Bay of Bengal, it bordered India and Burma. It was located very near to, but did not share a border with, the Nepal, China, the Kingdom of Sikkim and the (...) | |
| 108 | North West England FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 508 Lat/Lng : 54.0167 / -2.6333 | North West England, one of nine official regions of England, consists of the five counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside. The North West had a population of 7,052,000 in 2011 (...) | |
| 109 | Norwood, Bronx FeatureType : city Elevation : 63 Lat/Lng : 40.878 / -73.878 | Norwood, also known as Bainbridge, is a working-class residential neighborhood in the northwest Bronx, New York City. As of the census of 2000, the seven census tracts that make up the neighborhood have a population of 40,748 (...) | |
| 110 | Enclave and exclave FeatureType : null Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 45.0134 / -73.1933 | An enclave is a territory, or a part of a territory, that is entirely surrounded by the territory of one other state. Territorial waters have the same sovereign attributes as land, and enclaves may therefore exist within territorial waters (...) | |
| 111 | Bangladesh Agricultural University FeatureType : edu Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 24.722 / 90.4267 | Bangladesh Agricultural University (Bangladesh Krishi Bishshobiddalôe) or BAU was established as the only university of its kind in Bangladesh in 1961. The scheme for BAU was finalised on 8 June 1961 and its ordinance was promulgated on 18 August 1961 (...) | |
| 112 | Record Plant FeatureType : null Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 37.8635 / -122.4964 | The Record Plant was a series of three famous recording studios which were founded by Gary Kellgren and Chris Stone, beginning in New York City in 1968. The next year, Kellgren and Stone opened a second studio in Los Angeles (...) | |
| 113 | Lafayette College FeatureType : edu Elevation : 113 Lat/Lng : 40.698 / -75.208 | Lafayette College is a private liberal arts college based in Easton, Pennsylvania, with a campus in New York City, New York. Founded in 1826 by James Madison Porter (son of General Andrew Porter of Norristown, Pennsylvania) and the citizens of Easton, the school first held classes in 1832 (...) | |
| 114 | 2017 New York City attempted bombing FeatureType : event Elevation : 27 Lat/Lng : 40.7563 / -73.9898 | On December 11, 2017, a pipe bomb partially detonated in the subway station adjoining the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, injuring four people including the suspect. Mayor Bill de Blasio described the incident as "an attempted terrorist attack" (...) | |
| 115 | Disney Store FeatureType : null Elevation : 209 Lat/Lng : 34.8542 / -81.7396 | The Disney Store is an international chain of specialty stores selling only Disney related items, many of them exclusive, under its own name and Disney Outlet. Disney Store is a business unit of Walt Disney Parks, Experiences and Consumer Products (...) | |
| 116 | Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 88 Lat/Lng : 50.7343 / 4.4785 | The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) provides a network that enables financial institutions worldwide to send and receive information about financial transactions in a secure, standardized and reliable environment (...) | |
| 117 | Tabuk, Saudi Arabia FeatureType : city Elevation : 769 Lat/Lng : 28.3973 / 36.5789 | Tabuk , also spelled Tabouk, is the capital city of the Tabuk Region in northwestern Saudi Arabia. It has a population of 534,893 (2010 census). It is close to the Jordan–Saudi Arabia border, and houses the largest air force base in Saudi Arabia.Mackey, Sandra. The Saudis: Inside the Desert Kingdom (...) | |
| 118 | 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 (...) | |
| 119 | Ramna Thana FeatureType : null Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 23.7417 / 90.4083 | Ramna is a historic colonial neighborhood in central Dhaka. Once the site of Mughal gardens, it developed into an institutional area during British rule in the late 19th century. It became a focal point for Dhaka's modernization in the 1960s (...) | |
| 120 | Virginia Museum of Fine Arts FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 71 Lat/Lng : 37.557 / -77.474 | The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, or VMFA, is an art museum in Richmond, Virginia, in the United States, which opened in 1936. The museum is owned and operated by the Commonwealth of Virginia, while private donations, endowments, and funds are used for the support of specific programs and all (...) | |
| 121 | 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 (...) | |
| 122 | Turtle Bay, Manhattan FeatureType : city Elevation : 32 Lat/Lng : 40.7532 / -73.9687 | Turtle Bay is a neighborhood in New York City, on the east side of Midtown Manhattan. It extends from roughly 43rd Street to 53rd Street, and eastward from Lexington Avenue to the East River's western branch, facing Roosevelt Island.Giner, Val. "Turtle Bay" in , p (...) | |
| 123 | BlackBerry Limited FeatureType : null Elevation : 328 Lat/Lng : 43.5172 / -80.5159 | BlackBerry Limited is a Canadian multinational company specialising in enterprise software and the Internet of things. Originally known as Research In Motion (RIM), it is best known to the general public as the former developer of the BlackBerry brand of smartphones, and tablets (...) | |
| 124 | Train ferry FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 2 Lat/Lng : 55.3696 / 13.1589 | A train ferry is a ship (ferry) designed to carry railway vehicles. Typically, one level of the ship is fitted with railway tracks, and the vessel has a door at the front and/or rear to give access to the wharves (...) | |
| 125 | Virginia Military Institute FeatureType : edu Elevation : 317 Lat/Lng : 37.7903 / -79.4386 | The Virginia Military Institute (VMI) is a state-supported military college in Lexington, Virginia, the oldest such institution in the United States. Unlike any other United States Senior Military College, and in keeping with its founding principles, VMI enrolls cadets (uniformed members of the (...) | |
| 126 | Midwood, Brooklyn FeatureType : city Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 40.623 / -73.962 | Midwood is a neighborhood in the south-central part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is within Community District 14. Its State Senate district, per the reapportionment based the 2010 U.S. Census, is the 17th (...) | |
| 127 | Glasgow Caledonian University FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 41 Lat/Lng : 55.8672 / -4.2502 | Glasgow Caledonian University (informally GCU or Caledonian) is a public university in Glasgow, Scotland. It was formed in 1993 by the merger of The Queen's College, Glasgow (founded in 1875) and Glasgow Polytechnic (founded in 1971) (...) | |
| 128 | Mossad FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 39 Lat/Lng : 32.1424 / 34.804 | Mossad (; , ; , ', ; literally meaning "the Institute"), short for ' (meaning "Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations"), is the national intelligence agency of Israel. It is one of the main entities in the Israeli Intelligence Community, along with Aman (military intelligence) and Shin (...) | |
| 129 | Alliance Française FeatureType : null Elevation : 51 Lat/Lng : 48.8464 / 2.3286 | L'Alliance Française (French Alliance), or AF, is an international organization that aims to promote French language and culture around the world. Created in Paris on 21 July 1883 under the name Alliance française pour la propagation de la langue nationale dans les colonies et à l'étranger (French (...) | |
| 130 | Simcoe, Ontario FeatureType : null Elevation : 210 Lat/Lng : 42.8334 / -80.2997 | Simcoe is an unincorporated community and former town in Southwestern Ontario, Canada near Lake Erie. It is the county seat and largest community of Norfolk County.See Norfolk County, Ontario Simcoe is at the junction of Highway 3, at Highway 24, due south of Brantford, and accessible to Hamilton by (...) | |
| 131 | New York City ethnic enclaves FeatureType : null Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 40.809 / -73.9484 | Since its founding in 1625 by Dutch traders as New Amsterdam, New York City has been a major destination for immigrants of many nationalities who have formed ethnic enclaves, neighborhoods dominated by one ethnicity (...) | |
| 132 | 2016 Uri attack FeatureType : null Elevation : 1312 Lat/Lng : 34.0861 / 74.0333 | The 2016 Uri attack was an attack by four heavily armed militants on 18 September 2016, near the town of Uri in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. It was reported as "the deadliest attack on security forces in Kashmir in two decades" (...) | |
| 133 | Darul Uloom Deoband FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 267 Lat/Lng : 29.6922 / 77.6775 | The Darul Uloom Deoband is the Darul uloom Islamic school in India where the Deobandi Islamic movement began. It is located at Deoband, a town in Saharanpur district, Uttar Pradesh. The school was founded in 1866 by the ulema (Islamic scholars) Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi, Rasheed Ahmed Gangohi and 'Abid (...) | |
| 134 | Beanibazar Upazila FeatureType : adm3rd Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 24.825 / 92.1625 | Beanibazar is an Upazila of Sylhet District in the Division of Sylhet, Bangladesh. Beanibazar is located at 24.8250°N 92.1625°E. (...) | |
| 135 | Bethnal Green FeatureType : city Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : 51.5275 / -0.066 | Bethnal Green is a district in the East End of London, England,https://www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/Documents/Planning-and-building-control/Development-control/Conservation-areas/Bethnal-Green-GardensV1.pdfhttps://www.towerhamlets.gov (...) | |
| 136 | Geneva (disambiguation) FeatureType : null Elevation : 34 Lat/Lng : 31.033 / -85.8638 | Geneva is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland. Geneva may also refer to: (...) | |
| 137 | Huawei FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 75 Lat/Lng : 22.6533 / 114.0546 | Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. is a Chinese telecommunications-equipment and consumer-electronics company based in Shenzhen, Guangdong, South China. Huawei has deployed its products and services in more than 170 countries, and it served 45 of the 50 largest telecoms operators (...) | |
| 138 | Millwall F.C. FeatureType : null Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 51.486 / -0.0509 | Millwall Football Club (or local /–ˈ–/) is a professional football club in Bermondsey, South East London, England. The team competes in The Championship, the second tier of English football. Founded as Millwall Rovers in 1885, the club has retained its name despite having last played in the Millwall (...) | |
| 139 | The Doon School FeatureType : null Elevation : 676 Lat/Lng : 30.3334 / 78.0305 | The Doon School (informally Doon) is a boys-only independent boarding school in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. It was founded in 1935 by Satish Ranjan Das, a Kolkata lawyer, who prevised a school modelled on the British public school, but conscious of Indian ambitions and desires (...) | |
| 140 | Bob Jones University FeatureType : edu Elevation : 312 Lat/Lng : 34.873 / -82.364 | Bob Jones University (BJU) is a private, non-denominational Evangelical university in Greenville, South Carolina, United States, known for its conservative cultural and religious positions.In its 2018 rankings, Niche (...) | |
| 141 | Food and Agriculture Organization FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 41.8823 / 12.4883 | The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO;) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate arguments and (...) | |
| 142 | Inter-Services Intelligence FeatureType : null Elevation : 555 Lat/Lng : 33.704 / 73.0797 | The Inter-Services Intelligence (abbreviated as ISI) is the premier intelligence agency of Pakistan, operationally responsible for gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world (...) | |
| 143 | 2013 Shahbag protests FeatureType : event Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 23.7383 / 90.3958 | On February 5, 2013, protests began in Shahbag, Bangladesh following demands for capital punishment for Abdul Quader Mollah, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment, and for others convicted of war crimes by the International Crimes Tribunal of Bangladesh (...) | |
| 144 | The Elders (organization) FeatureType : null Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 51.51 / -0.13 | The Elders is an international non-governmental organisation of public figures noted as elder statesmen, peace activists, and human rights advocates, who were brought together by Nelson Mandela in 2007. They describe themselves as "independent global leaders working together for peace and human (...) | |
| 145 | USS Enterprise (CVN-65) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 2 Lat/Lng : 36.9575 / -76.3297 | USS Enterprise (CVN-65), formerly CVA(N)-65, is a decommissioned United States Navy aircraft carrier. She was the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and the eighth United States naval vessel to bear the name. Like her predecessor of World War II fame, she is nicknamed "Big E" (...) | |
| 146 | Union FeatureType : null Elevation : 1092 Lat/Lng : -37.3374 / 147.156 | Union may refer to: (...) | |
| 147 | Coral reef FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 32.4 / -64.8 | A coral reef is an underwater ecosystem characterized by reef-building corals. Reefs are formed of colonies of coral polyps held together by calcium carbonate. Most coral reefs are built from stony corals, whose polyps cluster in groups (...) | |
| 148 | History of India FeatureType : null Elevation : 1357 Lat/Lng : 36.7833 / 70.0 | The history of India includes the prehistoric settlements and societies in the Indian subcontinent; the advancement of civilisation from the Indus Valley Civilisation to the eventual blending of the Indo-Aryan culture to form the Vedic Civilisation; the rise of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism;AL (...) | |
| 149 | Ted Kennedy FeatureType : null Elevation : 34 Lat/Lng : 38.8791 / -77.069 | Edward Moore Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was an American politician who served in the United States Senate from Massachusetts for almost 47 years, from 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the second most senior member of the Senate when he died (...) | |
| 150 | Japanese Brazilians FeatureType : null Elevation : 775 Lat/Lng : -23.645 / -46.7658 | are Brazilian citizens who are nationals or naturals of Japanese ancestry or Japanese immigrants living in Brazil. The first Japanese immigrants arrived in Brazil in 1908. Brazil is home to the largest Japanese population outside Japan. According to the IBGE, as of 2009 there were approximately 1 (...) | |
| 151 | Embassy of Bangladesh in Washington, D.C. FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 102 Lat/Lng : 38.9417 / -77.0678 | The Embassy of Bangladesh in Washington, D.C. is the diplomatic mission of The People's Republic of Bangladesh to the United States. It is located at 3510 International Drive, Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the Cleveland Park neighborhood (...) | |
| 152 | Amer Fort FeatureType : null Elevation : 476 Lat/Lng : 26.9859 / 75.8507 | Amer Fort is a fort located in Amer, Rajasthan, India. Amer is a town with an area of located from Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan. Located high on a hill, it is the principal tourist attraction in Jaipur. The town of Amer was originally built by Meenas, and later it was ruled by Raja Man Singh I (...) | |
| 153 | Norton Simon Museum FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 277 Lat/Lng : 34.1462 / -118.1591 | The Norton Simon Museum is an art museum located in Pasadena, California, United States. It was previously known as the Pasadena Art Institute and the Pasadena Art Museum. (...) | |
| 154 | Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping FeatureType : null Elevation : 473 Lat/Lng : 10.8658 / 12.8469 | On the night of 14–15 April 2014, 276 female students were kidnapped from the Government Secondary School in the town of Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria.The Chibok Kidnappings in North-East Nigeria: A Military Analysis of Before and After. Small Wars Journal. Volume 13, No (...) | |
| 155 | Assassination of Benazir Bhutto FeatureType : null Elevation : 496 Lat/Lng : 33.6073 / 73.0633 | The assassination of Benazir Bhutto took place on 27 December 2007 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Benazir Bhutto, twice Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988–1990; 1993–1996) and then-leader of the opposition Pakistan Peoples Party, had been campaigning ahead of elections scheduled for January 2008 (...) | |
| 156 | Aga Khan III FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 134 Lat/Lng : 24.0883 / 32.8787 | Sir Sultan Muhammed Shah, Aga Khan III (2 November 187711 July 1957) was the 48th Imam of the Nizari Ismaili religion. He was one of the founders and the first president of the All-India Muslim League (AIML). His goal was the advancement of Muslim agendas and protection of Muslim rights in India (...) | |
| 157 | Demolition of the Babri Masjid FeatureType : null Elevation : 110 Lat/Lng : 26.8 / 82.2 | On 6 December 1992, a large crowd of Hindu Kar Sevaks demolished the 16th-century Babri Mosque in the city of Ayodhya, in Uttar Pradesh. The demolition occurred after a political rally at the site turned violent. In Hindu tradition, the city of Ayodhya is the birthplace of Rama (...) | |
| 158 | International University of Business Agriculture and Technology FeatureType : edu Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 23.8883 / 90.3909 | IUBAT—International University of Business Agriculture and Technology is also known as (IUBAT) is the first non-government university in Bangladesh. It was established in 1991 under the Private University Act 1992 (...) | |
| 159 | Sino-Indian War FeatureType : null Elevation : 4357 Lat/Lng : 27.9924 / 91.9566 | The Sino-Indian War , also known as the Sino-Indian Border Conflict , was a war between China and India that occurred in 1962. A disputed Himalayan border was the main pretext for war, but other issues played a role (...) | |
| 160 | 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 (...) | |
| 161 | Ford Foundation FeatureType : null Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : 47.6236 / -122.3456 | The Ford Foundation is a New York-headquartered, globally oriented private foundation with the mission of advancing human welfare. Created in 1936 by Edsel Ford and Henry Ford, it was originally funded by a US$25,000 gift from Edsel Ford (...) | |
| 162 | Duke of York's Royal Military School FeatureType : edu Elevation : 125 Lat/Lng : 51.1438 / 1.325 | The Duke of York’s Royal Military School, more commonly called the Duke of York’s, is a co-educational Academy (for students aged 11 to 18) with military traditions in Dover, Kent. Since becoming an Academy in 2010, the school is now sponsored by the MOD, and accepts applications from any student (...) | |
| 163 | St. Xavier's College, Kolkata FeatureType : edu Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 22.5484 / 88.356 | St. Xavier's College is a private, co-educational college located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Founded in 1860 by Fr. Henri Depelchin S.J., it is the second oldest of Jesuit Institutions in India (after St. Joseph's College, Tiruchirapalli) and is named after St (...) | |
| 164 | Kimbell Art Museum FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 180 Lat/Lng : 32.7484 / -97.3652 | The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, hosts an art collection as well as traveling art exhibitions, educational programs and an extensive research library. Its initial artwork came from the private collection of Kay and Velma Kimbell, who also provided funds for a new building to house it (...) | |
| 165 | Madras Crocodile Bank Trust FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 12.7439 / 80.2401 | The Madras Crocodile Bank Trust and Centre for Herpetology (MCBT) is a reptile zoo and herpetology research station, located south of the city of Chennai, in state of Tamil Nadu, India. The centre is both a registered trust and a recognized zoo under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 and is (...) | |
| 166 | Lalon FeatureType : null Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 23.8956 / 89.1519 | Lalon also known as Lalon Sain, Lalon Shah, Lalon Fakir or Mahatma Lalon (; c. 1772 – 17 October 1890; Bengali: 1 Kartik 1179) was a prominent Bengali philosopher, Baul saint, mystic, songwriter, social reformer and thinker from the Indian subcontinent (...) | |
| 167 | CRRC Tangshan FeatureType : null Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 39.5943 / 118.1882 | CRRC Tangshan Co., Ltd., is a manufacturer of rolling stock located in Tangshan, Hebei province, People's Republic of China. While Datong built mainline steam locomotives until 1988, Tangshan built steam for industrial use until 1999, becoming the last works in the world to build steam for (...) | |
| 168 | Oxford (disambiguation) FeatureType : null Elevation : 201 Lat/Lng : 33.6143 / -85.835 | Oxford is a city in Oxfordshire, England, famous for the University of Oxford. Oxford may also refer to: (...) | |
| 169 | 2010s Haiti cholera outbreak FeatureType : event Elevation : 323 Lat/Lng : 19.1 / -72.3333 | The 2010 Haitian cholera outbreak was the first modern large-scale outbreak of cholera – a disease once considered beaten back largely due to the invention of modern sanitation. Since its reintroduction to Haiti in October 2010, cholera has spread across the country and has become endemic, causing (...) | |
| 170 | Azusa Pacific University FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 196 Lat/Lng : 34.1297 / -117.8889 | Azusa Pacific University (APU) is a private, evangelical Christian university in Azusa, California. The university was founded in 1899, with classes opening on March 3, 1900, in Whittier, California, and began offering degrees in 1939 (...) | |
| 171 | Pakistan Army FeatureType : null Elevation : 263 Lat/Lng : 33.1167 / 73.65 | Pakistan Army (Pak Fauj; Reporting name: PA) is the land-based force of the Pakistan Armed Forces. It came into the existence from the British Indian Army that ceased to exist following the partition of India that resulted in the independence of Pakistan on 14 August 1947 (...) | |
| 172 | Oxfam FeatureType : null Elevation : 71 Lat/Lng : 51.727 / -1.2085 | Oxfam is a confederation of 20 independent charitable organizations focusing on the alleviation of global poverty, founded in 1942 and led by Oxfam International. It is a major nonprofit group with an extensive collection of operations (...) | |
| 173 | Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur FeatureType : edu Elevation : 423 Lat/Lng : 26.8622 / 75.8156 | The Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT) is a Public University located in Jaipur, India with emphasis on science, engineering and management. Formerly known as Malaviya Regional Engineering College (MREC) Jaipur, it assumed its present name in 2002 and was recognised as an Institute of (...) | |
| 174 | PNS Ghazi FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 17.6833 / 83.3333 | PNS Ghazi (previously USS Diablo (SS-479); reporting name: Ghazi), , was a diesel-electric and the first fast-attack submarine of the Pakistan Navy, leased from the United States in 1963. She served in the United States Navy from 1945 to 1963 and was loaned to Pakistan under the Security Assistance (...) | |
| 175 | Walter M. Williams High School FeatureType : null Elevation : 192 Lat/Lng : 36.0887 / -79.4538 | Walter M. Williams High School, the flagship school of the Alamance-Burlington School System, is a high school (grades 9–12) in Burlington, North Carolina, United States. It was named in honor of philanthropist, industrialist, and former Burlington City Schools chairman Walter M. Williams (...) | |
| 176 | Doklam FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 4125 Lat/Lng : 27.3 / 88.9333 | Doklam or Zhoglam (in Standard Tibetan),Ramakrushna Pradhan, , Mainstream Weekly, 29 July 2017. known as Donglang in the Chinese language,Liu Lin, , The Diplomat, 27 July 2017. is an area with a plateau and a valley, lying between Tibet's Chumbi Valley to the north, Bhutan's Ha Valley to the east (...) | |
| 177 | General Tom Thumb FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 41.1719 / -73.2246 | Charles Sherwood Stratton (January 4, 1838 – July 15, 1883), better known by his stage name "General Tom Thumb", was a dwarf who achieved great fame as a performer under circus pioneer P.T. Barnum. (...) | |
| 178 | Anuta FeatureType : isle Elevation : 43 Lat/Lng : -11.6108 / 169.8503 | Anuta is a small high island in the southeastern part of the Solomon Islands province of Temotu, one of the smallest permanently inhabited Polynesian islands.Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel (Norton) 1997, p. 59. It is one of the Polynesian Outlier communities in Melanesia. (...) | |
| 179 | Gujarat National Law University FeatureType : null Elevation : 62 Lat/Lng : 23.1528 / 72.6608 | Gujarat National Law University (GNLU) is a National Law University established under the Gujarat National Law University Act, 2003 in the state of Gujarat. The university is located at Gandhinagar, which is the capital of Gujarat and is located 23 kilometers north of the city of Ahmedabad (...) | |
| 180 | 1979 Grand Mosque seizure FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 307 Lat/Lng : 21.4219 / 39.8258 | The Grand Mosque seizure occurred during November and December 1979 when insurgents calling for the overthrow of the House of Saud took over Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The insurgents declared that the Mahdi (the "redeemer of Islam") had arrived in the form of one of their (...) | |
| 181 | 1926 FeatureType : null Elevation : 213 Lat/Lng : 42.2207 / -71.8146 | ==Events== ===January=== * January 1 ** The Rhine River floods; 50,000 are forced to evacuate their homes in Cologne. ** Ireland's first regular radio service, 2RN (later Radio Éireann), begins broadcasting. * January 3 – Theodoros Pangalos declares himself dictator in Greece (...) | |
| 182 | Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies FeatureType : null Elevation : 388 Lat/Lng : 46.2218 / 6.1511 | The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, or the Graduate Institute (in French: Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (previously known as Institut (universitaire) de hautes études internationales), abbreviated IHEID (previously HEI, IHEI, or IUHEI) is (...) | |
| 183 | Yeungnam University FeatureType : edu Elevation : 67 Lat/Lng : 35.8323 / 128.7576 | Yeungnam University is a private research university, located in Gyeongsan, North Gyeongsang, South Korea. The university's predecessors, Taegu College and Chunggu College, were founded in Daegu in 1947 and 1950 respectively (...) | |
| 184 | First Unitarian Church of Rochester FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 157 Lat/Lng : 43.141 / -77.5571 | The First Unitarian Church of Rochester is located at 220 Winton Road South in Rochester, New York, U.S. The congregation is one of the largest in its denomination, the Unitarian Universalist Association. The non-creedal church conducts programs in the areas of spirituality, social concerns, music, (...) | |
| 185 | Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 23.7625 / 90.3785 | Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban or National Parliament House, (Jatiyô Sôngsôd Bhôbôn) is the house of the Parliament of Bangladesh, located at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka. Designed by architect Louis Kahn, the complex is the largest legislative complexes in the world, comprising (...) | |
| 186 | Elliott School of International Affairs FeatureType : null Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 38.8961 / -77.0447 | The Elliott School of International Affairs (known as the Elliott School or ESIA) is the professional school of international relations, foreign policy, and international development of the George Washington University, in Washington, D.C (...) | |
| 187 | International Rice Research Institute FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : 14.17 / 121.257 | The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is an international agricultural research and training organization with headquarters in Los Baños, Laguna in the Philippines and offices in seventeen countries with ~1,300 staff (...) | |
| 188 | University of London (Worldwide) FeatureType : edu Elevation : 34 Lat/Lng : 51.5211 / -0.1275 | The University of London is a central academic body that manages external study programmes within the University of London collegiate university system. It formerly had the subtitles External Programmes, External System or International Programmes, and the current internal name for the department is (...) | |
| 189 | Le Collège-Lycée Cévenol International FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1017 Lat/Lng : 45.0667 / 4.3119 | The Collège Cévenol—later known as Le Collège-Lycée Cévenol International—was a unique and historic international secondary school located in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, in the département of Haute-Loire, France. It enrolled day students from the local area, along with a substantial body of regional, (...) | |
| 190 | 341st Missile Wing FeatureType : null Elevation : 1060 Lat/Lng : 47.5047 / -111.1872 | The United States Air Force's 341st Missile Wing is an intercontinental ballistic missile unit headquartered at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana. Up until 1 July 2008, it was designated as the 341st Space Wing (...) | |
| 191 | India Square FeatureType : null Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 40.7356 / -74.0646 | India Square, also known as "Little India," is a commercial and restaurant district in the Marion Section of Jersey City, New Jersey. The area is home to the highest concentration of Asian Indians in the Western Hemisphere, and is a rapidly growing Indian American ethnic enclave for the New York (...) | |
| 192 | South–North Water Transfer Project FeatureType : null Elevation : 4160 Lat/Lng : 30.0417 / 90.6 | The South–North Water Transfer Project, also translated as the South-to-North Water Diversion ProjectThis is the English translation preferred by the official web site, http://www.nsbd.gov.cn/zx/english/ (; literal meaning: Project of diverting the south water to the north) is a multi-decade (...) | |
| 193 | Geography of Asia FeatureType : null Elevation : 517 Lat/Lng : 46.2833 / 86.6667 | Geography of Asia reviews geographical concepts of classifying Asia, the central and eastern part of Eurasia, comprising approximately fifty countries. (...) | |
| 194 | International University of Japan FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 167 Lat/Lng : 37.1483 / 138.9474 | The is a private university located in Minamiuonuma city in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. IUJ is the first graduate school in Japan, and one of the few Japanese universities which offers all courses in English. It was founded in 1982, primarily to train global leaders effective in the globalized world, (...) | |
| 195 | Mawlynnong FeatureType : null Elevation : 426 Lat/Lng : 25.1997 / 91.9317 | Mawlynnong is a village in the East Khasi Hills district of the Meghalaya state in North East India. It is famous for its cleanliness and natural attraction. It comes under the Pynursla community development block and Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) constituency (...) | |
| 196 | Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 431 Lat/Lng : 47.188 / 8.5148 | Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts is a hotel management company headquartered in Baar, Switzerland. It is owned by Mövenpick Holding (66.7%) and the Saudi-based Kingdom Group (33.3%). It operates over 80 properties, including hotels, resorts and Nile cruisers, with another 30 resorts planned or under (...) | |
| 197 | Comilla Victoria Government College FeatureType : edu Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : 23.4598 / 91.1823 | Comilla Victoria Government College is a college in Comilla, Bangladesh. It is one of the oldest and renowned colleges in Comilla as well as in Chittagong division. The college is located on 29 acres of land including its intermediate and honors section. (...) | |
| 198 | St Joseph Higher Secondary School, Dhaka FeatureType : edu Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 23.7598 / 90.3701 | St. Joseph Higher Secondary School is a Catholic higher secondary school in Mohammadpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is a mono-ed (boys') school offering education from third grade to twelfth grade, averaging 8–18 years of age. The school is a single shift school with over 2500 students (...) | |
| 199 | Powis Castle FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 118 Lat/Lng : 52.6506 / -3.1583 | Powis Castle is a medieval castle, fortress and grand country mansion near Welshpool, in Powys, Wales. It is known for housing the treasures that were brought home by Robert Clive and his son, Edward Clive from India. The Clives obtained them during their service with the British East India Company (...) | |
| 200 | 13 September 2008 Delhi bombings FeatureType : null Elevation : 221 Lat/Lng : 28.6 / 77.2 | The 13 September 2008 Delhi bombings were a series of five synchronised bomb blasts that took place within a span of few minutes on Saturday, 13 September 2008 at various locations in Delhi, India. The first bomb exploded at 18:07 IST, and four other blasts followed in succession, with at least 20 (...) | |
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