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| 1 | San Luis Obispo County, California ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 625 Lat/Lng : 35.38 / -120.45 | San Luis Obispo County, officially the County of San Luis Obispo, is a county located in the southern region of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 269,637. The county seat is San Luis Obispo (...) | |
| 2 | California ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 96 Lat/Lng : 37.0 / -120.0 | California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States. With 39.5 million residents, California is the most populous U.S. state and the third-largest by area. The state capital is Sacramento. The Greater Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation's second- and (...) | |
| 3 | William Randolph Hearst ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 898 Lat/Lng : 41.1892 / -122.0661 | William Randolph Hearst Sr. (;. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American businessman, politician, and newspaper publisher who built the nation's largest newspaper chain and media company, Hearst Communications, and whose flamboyant methods of (...) | |
| 4 | Dead Sea Scrolls ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : -338 Lat/Lng : 31.7408 / 35.4586 | Dead Sea Scrolls (also Qumran Caves Scrolls) are ancient Jewish religious, mostly Hebrew, manuscripts found in the Qumran Caves in the West Bank near the Dead Sea. (...) | |
| 5 | Dasmariñas ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 92 Lat/Lng : 14.3264 / 120.9361 | , officially the , , or simply known as City, is a settlement_text of the Philippines in the province of , . According to the , it has a population of people. Nicknamed Dasma, it has a land area of and is located south of Manila (...) | |
| 6 | History of Antarctica ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -67.25 / 39.5833 | The history of Antarctica emerges from early Western theories of a vast continent, known as Terra Australis, believed to exist in the far south of the globe. The term Antarctic, referring to the opposite of the Arctic Circle, was coined by Marinus of Tyre in the 2nd century AD (...) | |
| 7 | Pine Ridge Indian Reservation ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 976 Lat/Lng : 43.3533 / -102.0892 | The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation , also called Pine Ridge Agency, is an Oglala Lakota Native American reservation located in the U.S. state of South Dakota. Originally included within the territory of the Great Sioux Reservation, Pine Ridge was created by the Act of March 2, 1889, 25 Stat. 888 (...) | |
| 8 | 2008 Chatsworth train collision ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 314 Lat/Lng : 34.2719 / -118.6014 | The Chatsworth train collision occurred at 4:22 p.m. PDT (23:22 UTC) on Friday, September 12, 2008, when a Union Pacific freight train and a Metrolink commuter train collided head-on in the Chatsworth district of Los Angeles, California (...) | |