| 89 records found in wikipedia | |||
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| Cocos (Keeling) Islands  FeatureType : isle Lat/Lng : -12.1603 / 96.8586 | The Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands is an Australian external territory in the Indian Ocean, comprising a small archipelago approximately midway between Australia and Sri Lanka and closer to the Indonesian island of Sumatra. It is part of Southeast Asia and is in the Southern Hemisphere (...) |
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| Newark Liberty International Airport FeatureType : airport Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 40.6928 / -74.1686 | Newark Liberty International Airport , originally Newark Metropolitan Airport and later Newark International Airport, is the primary airport serving the U.S. state of New Jersey. The airport straddles the boundary between the cities of Newark and Elizabeth, the former of which is the most populous (...) |
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| Shantou FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 23.354 / 116.682 | Shantou, formerly romanized as SwatowFrom postal romanization, based on the local Teochew pronunciation and sometimes known as Santow,from the local Cantonese pronunciation is a prefecture-level city on the eastern coast of Guangdong, China, with a total population of 5,391,028 as of 2010 and an (...) |
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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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| Daniel K. Inouye International Airport FeatureType : airport Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 21.3187 / -157.9224 | Daniel K. Inouye International Airport , also known as Honolulu International Airport, is the principal aviation gateway of the City and County of Honolulu on Oahu in the State of Hawaii. It is identified as one of the busiest airports in the United States, with traffic now exceeding 21 million (...) |
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| Chongqing FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 238 Lat/Lng : 29.55 / 106.5069 | Chongqing , formerly romanized as Chungking, is a major city in southwest China. Administratively, it is one of China's four municipalities under the direct administration of central government (the other three are Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin), and the only such municipality in China located far (...) |
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| Los Angeles International Airport FeatureType : airport Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : 33.9427 / -118.4081 | Los Angeles International Airport is the primary international airport serving Los Angeles, California. The airport is most often referred to by its IATA airport code (and FAA LID) LAX, with the letters pronounced individually (...) |
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| Emory University FeatureType : edu Elevation : 283 Lat/Lng : 33.7911 / -84.3233 | Emory University is a private research university in the Druid Hills neighborhood of the city of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia, by the Methodist Episcopal Church and was named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory (...) |
| 9 | NBBJ FeatureType : null Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : 47.6201 / -122.3308 | NBBJ is an American global architecture, planning and design firm with offices in Beijing, Boston, Columbus, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, Pune, San Francisco, Seattle, and Shanghai. NBBJ provides services in architecture, interiors, planning and urban design, branding, consulting, (...) | |
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| HMS Belfast (C35) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 51.5067 / -0.0812 | HMS Belfast is a Town-class light cruiser that was built for the Royal Navy. She is now permanently moored as a museum ship on the River Thames in London and is operated by the Imperial War Museum. Construction of Belfast, the first ship in the Royal Navy to be named after the capital city of (...) |
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| Waibaidu Bridge FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 31.2453 / 121.4857 | The Waibaidu Bridge , called the Garden Bridge in English, is the first all-steel bridge,"The Preservation and Renovation of Waibaidu Bridge,"WHITR-AP (Shanghai) NEWSLETTER 9 (March 2009):4.; http://whitr-ap.org/download/Newsletter%209 (...) |
| 12 | Ferris wheel FeatureType : null Elevation : 641 Lat/Lng : 36.1174 / -115.1681 | A Ferris wheel (sometimes called in the case of the very tallest examples, giant wheel) is an amusement ride consisting of a rotating upright wheel with multiple passenger-carrying components (commonly referred to as passenger cars, cabins, tubs, capsules, gondolas, or pods) attached to the rim in (...) | |
| 13 | Boeing 777 FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 6.9208 / 103.5786 | The Boeing 777 is a long-range wide-body twin-engine jet airliner developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. It is the world's largest twinjet and has a typical seating capacity of 314 to 396 passengers, with a range of (...) | |
| 14 | Amazon (company) FeatureType : null Elevation : 519 Lat/Lng : 48.1333 / 11.5833 | Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon , is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company based in Seattle, Washington, that was founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994. The tech giant is the largest Internet retailer in the world as measured by revenue and market capitalization, and (...) | |
| 15 | Boeing 737 FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 47.5197 / -122.2994 | The Boeing 737 is a short- to medium-range twinjet narrow-body airliner developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in the United States. Originally developed as a shorter, lower-cost twin-engine airliner derived from the 707 and 727, the 737 has developed into a family of thirteen (...) | |
| 16 | George Bush Intercontinental Airport FeatureType : null Elevation : 32 Lat/Lng : 29.9848 / -95.3414 | George Bush Intercontinental Airport is an international airport in Houston, Texas, United States, under class B airspace, serving the Greater Houston metropolitan area. Located about north of Downtown Houston, between Interstate 45 and Interstate 69/U.S (...) | |
| 17 | CNBC FeatureType : null Elevation : 132 Lat/Lng : 40.8986 / -73.9392 | CNBC is an American pay television business news channel that is owned by NBCUniversal News Group, a division of NBCUniversal, with both being ultimately owned by Comcast. Headquartered in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, " ." NBC Universal. Retrieved on August 28, 2009 (...) | |
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| USS Turner Joy FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 47.564 / -122.622 | USS Turner Joy (DD-951) was one of 18 s of the United States Navy. She was named for Admiral Charles Turner Joy USN (1895–1956). Commissioned in 1959, she spent her entire career in the Pacific. She participated extensively in the Vietnam War, and was one of the principal ships involved in the (...) |
| 19 | South African Airways FeatureType : null Elevation : 1683 Lat/Lng : -26.1392 / 28.2461 | South African Airways (SAA) is the flag carrier airline of South Africa. Its headquarters are in Airways Park on the grounds of O. R. Tambo International Airport in Kempton Park, Ekurhuleni, Gauteng. In partnership with SA Express, SA Airlink and its low-cost carrier, Mango, the airline flies to 56 (...) | |
| 20 | World Trade Organization FeatureType : null Elevation : 385 Lat/Lng : 46.2239 / 6.1496 | The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization that regulates international trade. The WTO officially commenced on 1 January 1995 under the Marrakesh Agreement, signed by 124 nations on 15 April 1994, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which (...) | |
| 21 | Hurricane Harvey FeatureType : null Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 29.6667 / -95.3 | Hurricane Harvey of 2017 is tied with 2005's Hurricane Katrina as the costliest tropical cyclone on record, inflicting $125 billion in damage, primarily from catastrophic rainfall-triggered flooding in the Houston metropolitan area and Southeast Texas (...) | |
| 22 | 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) (...) | |
| 23 | Sewage treatment FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1424 Lat/Lng : -22.4764 / 18.9516 | Sewage treatment is the process of removing contaminants from municipal wastewater, containing mainly household sewage plus some industrial wastewater. Physical, chemical, and biological processes are used to remove contaminants and produce treated wastewater (or treated effluent) that is safe (...) | |
| 24 | BMW FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 513 Lat/Lng : 48.1771 / 11.5593 | BMW AG (; originally an initialism for Bayerische Motoren Werke in German, or Bavarian Motor Works in English) is a German multinational company which currently produces luxury automobiles and motorcycles, and also produced aircraft engines until 1945 (...) | |
| 25 | Concorde FeatureType : null Elevation : 102 Lat/Lng : 49.0107 / 2.5534 | The Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde is a British-French turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner that was operated from 1976 until 2003. It had a maximum speed over twice the speed of sound at Mach 2.04 (at cruise altitude), with seating for 92 to 128 passengers (...) | |
| 26 | Sihanoukville (city) FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 10.6333 / 103.5 | Sihanoukville (Krong Preah Sihanouk), also known as "Kampong Som" , is a coastal city in Cambodia and the capital city of Sihanoukville Province, at the tip of an elevated peninsula in the country's south-west on the Gulf of Thailand (...) | |
| 27 | Railway electrification system FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 53.4491 / 10.0015 | A railway electrification system supplies electric power to railway trains and trams without an on-board prime mover or local fuel supply. Electric railways use electric locomotives to haul passengers or freight in separate cars or electric multiple units, passenger cars with their own motors (...) | |
| 28 | Paris Air Show FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 32 Lat/Lng : 48.9555 / 2.4324 | The Paris Air Show (Salon international de l'aéronautique et de l'espace de Paris-Le Bourget, Salon du Bourget) is the largest Air Show before UK's Farnborough, followed by Dubai Air Show or Singapore Airshow. The latest was the 52nd Air Show, held from 19 to 25 June 2017, attended by 3,450 (...) | |
| 29 | Chicago FeatureType : null Elevation : 224 Lat/Lng : 41.8819 / -87.6278 | Chicago , formally the City of Chicago, is located on the shores of freshwater Lake Michigan, and is the third most populous city in the United States. As of the 2017 census-estimate, Chicago has a population of 2,716,450, which makes it the most populous city in both the state of Illinois and the (...) | |
| 30 | 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 (...) | |
| 31 | 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 (...) | |
| 32 | SilkAir Flight 185 FeatureType : null Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : -2.4583 / 104.9367 | SilkAir Flight 185 was a scheduled SilkAir passenger flight operated by a Boeing 737-300 from Jakarta, Indonesia, to Singapore, that crashed into the Musi River near Palembang in southern Sumatra, on 19 December 1997, killing all 97 passengers and seven crew on board (...) | |
| 33 | Levi Strauss & Co. FeatureType : null Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 37.8028 / -122.4028 | Levi Strauss & Co. is a privately held American clothing company known worldwide for its Levi's brand of denim jeans. It was founded in May 1853 when German immigrant Levi Strauss came from Buttenheim, Bavaria, to San Francisco, California to open a west coast branch of his brothers' New York dry (...) | |
| 34 | South Dakota State University FeatureType : edu Elevation : 505 Lat/Lng : 44.3167 / -96.7858 | South Dakota State University is a public research university located in Brookings, South Dakota. The state's largest university, founded in 1881, is the oldest continually-operating university in the South Dakota (...) | |
| 35 | Teresa Teng FeatureType : null Elevation : 311 Lat/Lng : 25.251 / 121.604 | Teresa Teng (29 January 1953 – 8 May 1995) was a Taiwanese singer, one of the most famous and successful singers to originate from the Mandarin-speaking world. She is known to the Chinese community worldwide (especially in South East Asian countries), even in groups who may not speak Mandarin as (...) | |
| 36 | Electronic Arts FeatureType : landmark Elevation : -1 Lat/Lng : 37.5221 / -122.2546 | Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers responsible (...) | |
| 37 | McConnell Air Force Base FeatureType : null Elevation : 414 Lat/Lng : 37.6231 / -97.2672 | McConnell Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located four miles (6 km) southeast of the central business district of Wichita, a city in Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States. The airbase was named in honor of the brothers Fred and Thomas McConnell of Wichita, who had both been Air (...) | |
| 38 | Sanxingdui FeatureType : city Elevation : 487 Lat/Lng : 30.9934 / 104.2003 | Sanxingdui is the name of an archaeological site and a major Bronze Age culture in modern Guanghan, Sichuan, China. Largely discovered in 1986, following a preliminary finding in 1929, archaeologists excavated remarkable artifacts that radiocarbon dating placed in the 12th-11th centuries BCE (...) | |
| 39 | USS Midway (CV-41) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 2 Lat/Lng : 32.7138 / -117.1749 | USS Midway (CVB/CVA/CV-41) is a decommissioned aircraft carrier, formerly of the United States Navy, the lead ship of her class. Commissioned a week after the end of World War II, Midway was the largest ship in the world until 1955, as well as the first U.S (...) | |
| 40 | Joshua Slocum FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 33.0633 / -79.3453 | Joshua Slocum (February 20, 1844 – on or shortly after November 14, 1909) was the first man to sail single-handedly around the world. He was a Nova Scotian-born, naturalised American seaman and adventurer, and a noted writer (...) | |
| 41 | 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 (...) | |
| 42 | Sihanoukville Province FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 10.6233 / 103.525 | Preah Sihanouk Province ("King Sihanouk"), commonly referred to as Sihanoukville Province, is a province (ខេត្ត, khaet) in the south-west of Cambodia at the Gulf of Thailand. The provincial capital, also called Sihanoukville, is a deep-water port city and a steadily growing and diversifying urban (...) | |
| 43 | McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet FeatureType : null Elevation : 188 Lat/Lng : 32.7734 / -97.4298 | The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet is a twin-engine, supersonic, all-weather, carrier-capable, multirole combat jet, designed as both a fighter and attack aircraft (hence the F/A designation). Designed by McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) and Northrop, the F/A-18 was derived from the latter's YF-17 in (...) | |
| 44 | USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 47.5525 / -122.6558 | The supercarrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63), formerly CVA-63, was the second naval ship named after Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the site of the Wright brothers' first powered airplane flight. Kitty Hawk was both the first and last active ship of her class, and the last oil-fired aircraft carrier in (...) | |
| 45 | USS Worden (CG-18) FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 22.9517 / -160.0033 | The fourth USS Worden (DLG/CG-18), a , was a ship of the United States Navy named in honor of Admiral John L. Worden. Originally called a "destroyer leader" or frigate, in 1975 she was redesignated a cruiser in the Navy's ship reclassification (...) | |
| 46 | August 1965 FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 15.1667 / 117.6667 | The following events occurred in August 1965: (...) | |
| 47 | Hikawa Maru FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 35.4467 / 139.6513 | is a Japanese ocean liner that Yokohama Dock Company built for Nippon Yūsen Kabushiki Kaisha ("NYK Line"). She was launched on 30 September 1929 and made her maiden voyage from Kobe to Seattle on 13 May 1930. She is permanently berthed as a museum ship at Yamashita Park, Naka-ku, Yokohama (...) | |
| 48 | Kamloops Airport FeatureType : null Elevation : 343 Lat/Lng : 50.7022 / -120.4444 | Kamloops Airport , also known as Fulton Field or Davie Fulton Airport, is a regional airport located west northwest of Kamloops, British Columbia, a city in the Thompson region of Canada. It is owned by the Kamloops Airport Authority Society, while operated by Kamloops Airport Limited, serving the (...) | |
| 49 | Marine Stewardship Council FeatureType : null Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : 51.5167 / -0.1027 | The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) is an independent non-profit organization which sets a standard for sustainable fishing. Fisheries that wish to demonstrate they are well-managed and sustainable compared to the science-based MSC standard are assessed by a team of experts who are independent of (...) | |
| 50 | Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : -34.6145 / -58.3656 | The Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina, whose full name in Spanish is Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina "Santa María de los Buenos Aires", also known as Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA), is a university in Argentina with campuses in the cities of Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Rosario, (...) | |
| 51 | Linden Lab FeatureType : null Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : 37.8003 / -122.4016 | Linden Research, Inc., doing business as Linden Lab, is a privately held American Internet company that is best known as the creator of Second Life. The company's head office is in San Francisco, with additional offices in Boston, Seattle, Virginia and Davis, California (...) | |
| 52 | 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 (...) | |
| 53 | Astor House Hotel (Shanghai) FeatureType : null Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 31.246 / 121.4866 | The Astor House Hotel , known as the Pujiang Hotel in Chinese since 1959, has been described as once "one of the famous hotels of the world". Established in 1846 as Richards' Hotel and Restaurant on The Bund in Shanghai, it has been at 15 Huangpu Lu, Shanghai, near the confluence of the Huangpu (...) | |
| 54 | Stanford Law School FeatureType : edu Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 37.4242 / -122.1678 | Stanford Law School (also known as Stanford Law or SLS) is a professional graduate school of Stanford University, located in Silicon Valley near Palo Alto, California. Established in 1893, Stanford Law has been ranked one of the top three law schools in the country, with Yale Law School and Harvard (...) | |
| 55 | Woodrow Wilson High School (Dallas) FeatureType : edu Elevation : 173 Lat/Lng : 32.8059 / -96.7507 | Woodrow Wilson High School is a public secondary school located in the Lakewood neighborhood of East Dallas, Texas (USA). Woodrow enrolls students in grades 9-12 and is a part of the Dallas Independent School District (...) | |
| 56 | Rem Koolhaas FeatureType : null Elevation : 61 Lat/Lng : 48.8559 / 2.2182 | Remment Lucas "Rem" Koolhaas (; born 17 November 1944) is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University (...) | |
| 57 | 1968 in aviation FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 32.9667 / 32.8 | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1968: (...) | |
| 58 | Ali Mazrui FeatureType : null Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : -4.0618 / 39.6789 | Ali Al'amin Mazrui (24 February 1933 – 12 October 2014), was an academic professor, and political writer on African and Islamic studies and North-South relations. He was born in Mombasa, Kenya. His positions included Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at Binghamton University in (...) | |
| 59 | Westwood FeatureType : null Elevation : 51 Lat/Lng : 52.2746 / -2.1842 | Westwood may refer to: (...) | |
| 60 | Bids for the 2012 Summer Olympics FeatureType : null Elevation : 49 Lat/Lng : 48.8495 / 2.2499 | Nine cities submitting bids to host the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Paralympics were recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The Committee shortlisted five of them—London, Madrid, Moscow, New York City, and Paris—from which London eventually prevailed; thus becoming the (...) | |
| 61 | Royal Aeronautical Society FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 51.5043 / -0.1504 | The Royal Aeronautical Society, also known as the RAeS, is a British multi-disciplinary professional institution dedicated to the global aerospace community. Founded in 1866, it is the oldest aeronautical society in the world (...) | |
| 62 | National Network to End Domestic Violence FeatureType : null Elevation : 31 Lat/Lng : 38.909 / -77.0371 | The National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization founded in 1990, based in the District of Columbia. It is a network of state domestic violence coalitions, representing over 2,000 member organizations nationwide (...) | |
| 63 | HMAS Onslow FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : -33.8692 / 151.2 | HMAS Onslow (SS 60/SSG 60) was one of six s operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). The submarine was named after the town of Onslow, Western Australia, and Sir Alexander Onslow, with the boat's motto and badge derived from Onslow's family heritage (...) | |
| 64 | TAAG Angola Airlines FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 53 Lat/Lng : -8.8155 / 13.2374 | TAAG Angola Airlines E.P. is the state-owned national airline of Angola. Based in Luanda, the airline operates an all-Boeing fleet on domestic services within Angola, medium-haul services in Africa and long-haul services to Brazil, Cuba, China, and Portugal (...) | |
| 65 | USS Atlanta (CL-104) FeatureType : null Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 32.8796 / -118.5081 | USS Atlanta (CL-104) of the United States Navy was a light cruiser during World War II. She was the fourth Navy ship named after the city of Atlanta, Georgia. The ship was laid down on 25 January 1943 at Camden, New Jersey, by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, launched on 6 February 1944, (...) | |
| 66 | World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 2005 FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 22.3 / 114.2 | The Sixth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization, also known as the WTO Hong Kong Ministerial Conference and abbreviated as MC6, was held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Wan Chai, Hong Kong from 13 to 18 December 2005 (...) | |
| 67 | 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines FeatureType : null Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 34.7597 / -77.4097 | 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines, abbreviated as (3/3), is an infantry battalion of the United States Marine Corps, based out of Kāne'ohe, Hawai'i. Known as either "Trinity" or "America's Battalion", the unit falls under the command of the 3rd Marine Regiment of the 3rd Marine Division (...) | |
| 68 | Metro FeatureType : null Elevation : 275 Lat/Lng : -8.1831 / 112.5342 | Metro, short for metropolitan, may refer to: (...) | |
| 69 | Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo FeatureType : null Elevation : 208 Lat/Lng : 41.8519 / -87.6161 | The Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2) is a Chicago fan convention dedicated to comics, pop culture, graphic novels, anime, manga, video games, toys, movies, and television. The inaugural event was held April 16–18, 2010 at the McCormick Place in Chicago. (...) | |
| 70 | MS World Discoverer FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : -9.0231 / 160.123 | The MS World Discoverer was a cruise ship designed for and built by Schichau Unterweser, Germany in 1974. During construction called BEWA Discoverer, the ship was completed in Bremerhaven, Germany. (...) | |
| 71 | SS Empire Adur FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 17.933 / 113.75 | SS Empire Adur was a 1,479 ton steamship which was built in 1920 as the Griffdu. She was renamed Noyo in 1935 and in 1940 was sold to Thailand, being renamed Nang Suang Nawa, being seized in 1942 and renamed Empire Adur (...) | |
| 72 | HMAS Vampire (D11) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : -33.8692 / 151.1999 | HMAS Vampire was the third of three Australian-built Daring class destroyers serving in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). One of the first all-welded ships built in Australia, she was constructed at Cockatoo Island Dockyard between 1952 and 1959, and was commissioned into the RAN a day after (...) | |
| 73 | Saas FeatureType : null Elevation : 981 Lat/Lng : 46.9102 / 9.8087 | Saas, SAAS, or SaaS may refer to: * Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences * Société Anonyme des Ateliers de Sécheron, a Swiss manufacturing company * Social Accountability Accreditation Services that accredits according to the SA8000 certification standard * Software as a service (SaaS) * South (...) | |
| 74 | Concorde aircraft histories FeatureType : null Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 51.3553 / -0.4642 | Twenty Concorde aircraft were built, six for development and 14 for commercial service. These were *Two prototypes *Two pre-production aircraft *Two development aircraft *14 production aircraft All but two of these aircraft are preserved. (...) | |
| 75 | Phoenix City Square FeatureType : null Elevation : 347 Lat/Lng : 33.4915 / -112.0757 | Phoenix City Square, formerly Kent Plaza and the Rosenzweig Center, is a mixed use high rise complex covering 15 acres at 3800-4000 N. Central Ave. in Phoenix, Arizona. The project was developed by the Del Webb Corporation in 1962 (...) | |
| 76 | Study Group International FeatureType : null Elevation : 33 Lat/Lng : 50.8322 / -0.1408 | Study Group is a global company that prepares international students for university degree programmes, teaches high school education, and teaches English language courses. Study Group owns and operates colleges and also partners with more than 50 universities across the UK, Europe, North America and (...) | |
| 77 | USS Southerland (DD-743) FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 34.95 / -122.1333 | USS Southerland (DD-743), a , was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for William Henry Hudson Southerland, an admiral. Southerland was laid down on 27 May 1944 by the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine and launched on 5 October 1944; sponsored by Mrs (...) | |
| 78 | Amaravati Stupa FeatureType : null Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 16.5753 / 80.358 | The Amarāvatī Stupa, popularly known as the great stūpa at Amarāvathī, is a ruined Buddhist monument, probably built in phases between the third century BCE and about 250 CE, at Amaravathi village, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh, India (...) | |
| 79 | Ardmore Residence FeatureType : null Elevation : 65 Lat/Lng : 1.31 / 103.8289 | Ardmore Residence is a residential development in Singapore. The building, designed by UNStudio's architect Ben van Berkel, was completed in 2013. The tower’s skin is composed of four storey sections from which large openings and balconies are carved (...) | |
| 80 | USS Elliot (DD-967) FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -24.7167 / 155.8333 | USS Elliot (DD-967) was a in the United States Navy. Built by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries at Pascagoula, Mississippi, the ship was named for Lieutenant Commander Arthur J. Elliot II, USN (1933–1968), who as commanding officer of Patrol Boat River Squadron 57, was (...) | |
| 81 | Southeast High School (Florida) FeatureType : edu Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 27.4684 / -82.5507 | Southeast High School is a public high school in Bradenton, FL operated by the Manatee County School District & is the only public high school in Manatee County to offer the International Baccalaureate (IB) program. (...) | |
| 82 | USNS General H. H. Arnold (T-AGM-9) FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 39.8 / -54.6167 | USNS General H. H. Arnold (T-AGM-9) (originally named USS General R. E. Callan (AP-139)) was a for the U.S. Navy in World War II. She was named in honor of U.S. Army general Robert Emmet Callan. She was transferred to the U.S. Army as USAT General R. E. Callan in 1946 (...) | |
| 83 | SS Black Osprey FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 61.3 / -18.1 | SS Black Osprey was a cargo ship for the American Diamond Lines and the British Cairn Line. She was formerly known as SS West Arrow when she was launched for the United States Shipping Board (USSB) during World War I (...) | |
| 84 | Aircraft bridge FeatureType : null Elevation : 245 Lat/Lng : 40.0002 / -82.9052 | Aircraft bridges, including taxiway bridges and runway bridges, bring aircraft traffic over motorways, railways, and waterways, and must be designed to support the heaviest aircraft that may cross them. In 1963, a taxiway bridge at Chicago O'Hare Airport, one of the busiest airports in the world, (...) | |
| 85 | Berkeley APEC Study Center FeatureType : null Elevation : 92 Lat/Lng : 37.87 / -122.258 | The Berkeley APEC Study Center (BASC) is a research center at the University of California, Berkeley. Created in 1996 in response to an initiative by U.S. President Bill Clinton, history the center undertakes research, disseminates information and facilitates discussion on APEC-related issues (...) | |
| 86 | Immigration detention FeatureType : null Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : 36.12 / -5.45 | Immigration detention is the policy of holding individuals suspected of visa violations, illegal entry or unauthorised arrival, and those subject to deportation and removal in detention until a decision is made by immigration authorities to grant a visa and release them into the community, or to (...) | |
| 87 | Suwa Maru FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 19.2167 / 166.5667 | was a Japanese ocean liner owned by Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK). The ship was launched in 1914 by Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. at Nagasaki, Japan. The ship was named for the Suwa Jinja, a noted Shinto shrine located in Suwa, Nagano.Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1935). (...) | |
| 88 | Hawaii Maru FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 30.4 / 128.2833 | Hawaii Maru was a 9,482-ton Japanese troop transport during World War II, which sank on 2 December 1944 with great loss of life. The ship was built in 1915 by the Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation in Kobe for the Osaka Shosen Kaisha shipping company (...) | |
| 89 | Bootie (club night) FeatureType : event Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 37.7711 / -122.4128 | Bootie is the first club night in the United States dedicated solely to mashups and bootlegs, and is now the biggest all-mashup party in the world, with regular parties in several cities. The original party began at the Cherry Bar (now Codeword) in San Francisco in August 2003, and moved to DNA (...) | |
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