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| 1 | 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 (...) | |
| 2 | Sydney Cricket Ground ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 45 Lat/Lng : -33.8917 / 151.2247 | The Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) is a sports stadium in Sydney, Australia. It is used for Test, One Day International and Twenty20 cricket, as well as Australian rules football, rugby league football and rugby union (...) | |
| 3 | Manhasset, New York ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 40.7884 / -73.6942 | Manhasset is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Nassau County, New York, on the North Shore of Long Island. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 8,080. As with other unincorporated communities in New York, its local affairs are administered by the town in which it is (...) | |
| 4 | Sheridan Circle ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : 38.9119 / -77.0506 | Sheridan Circle is a traffic circle in the Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Embassy Row. A number of embassies ring Sheridan Circle, including the former Turkish chancery, and the Romanian embassy on the southern side, and the Embassy of Pakistan to the northwest (...) | |
| 5 | 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__ (...) | |
| 6 | 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 (...) | |
| 7 | 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 40.7581 / -73.9858 | On May 1, 2010, a terrorist attack was attempted in Times Square in Manhattan, New York. Two street vendors alerted NYPD after they spotted smoke coming from a vehicle, and a car bomb was discovered. The bomb had been ignited, but failed to explode, and was disarmed before it caused any casualties (...) | |
| 8 | 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 (...) | |
| 9 | 1967 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 51.6523 / -0.082 | ==Events== ===January=== * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 2 – Ronald Reagan, past movie actor and future President of the United States, is inaugurated the (...) | |
| 10 | Siege of Cawnpore ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 132 Lat/Lng : 26.4607 / 80.3334 | The Siege of Cawnpore was a key episode in the Indian rebellion of 1857. The besieged Company forces and civilians in Cawnpore (now Kanpur) were unprepared for an extended siege and surrendered to rebel forces under Nana Sahib, in return for a safe passage to Allahabad (...) | |
| 11 | 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 (...) | |
| 12 | Australian Security Intelligence Organisation ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 578 Lat/Lng : -35.3005 / 149.1515 | The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) is Australia's national security agency responsible for the protection of the country and its citizens from espionage, sabotage, acts of foreign interference, politically motivated violence, attacks on the Australian defence system, and (...) | |
| 13 | August 1965 ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 15.1667 / 117.6667 | The following events occurred in August 1965: (...) | |
| 14 | North Cleveland Park ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 88 Lat/Lng : 38.9497 / -77.09 | North Cleveland Park is a neighborhood in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. It is bounded by Albemarle Street NW to the north, Rodman and Quebec Streets NW to the south, Wisconsin and Nebraska Avenues NW to the west, and Connecticut Avenue to the east (...) | |