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| 1 | Continental AG ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 204 Lat/Lng : 46.3708 / -84.5714 | Continental AG, commonly known as Continental, is a leading German automotive manufacturing company specializing in tires, brake systems, interior electronics, automotive safety, powertrain and chassis components, tachographs, and other parts for the automotive and transportation industries (...) | |
| 2 | Mount Ararat ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 5101 Lat/Lng : 39.7019 / 44.2984 | Mount Ararat (;; ; , Masis and Արարատ, Ararat) is a snow-capped and dormant compound volcano in the extreme east of Turkey. It consists of two major volcanic cones: Greater Ararat and Little Ararat. Greater Ararat is the highest peak in Turkey and the Armenian plateau with an elevation of ; while, (...) | |
| 3 | Ladakh ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 3518 Lat/Lng : 34.17 / 77.58 | Ladakh ("land of high passes") is a region in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir that currently extends from the Siachen Glacier in the Karakoram range to the main Great Himalayas to the south, inhabited by people of Indo-Aryan and Tibetan descent (...) | |
| 4 | Dayton, Ohio ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 237 Lat/Lng : 39.7594 / -84.1917 | Dayton is the sixth-largest city in the state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County. A small part of the city extends into Greene County. The 2017 U.S. census estimate put the city population at 140,371, while Greater Dayton was estimated to be at 803,416 residents (...) | |
| 5 | Aspen, Colorado ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 2419 Lat/Lng : 39.195 / -106.837 | Aspen is the home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Pitkin County, Colorado, United States. Its population was 6,658 at the 2010 United States Census. Aspen is in a remote area of the Rocky Mountains' Sawatch Range and Elk Mountains, along the Roaring (...) | |
| 6 | 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 (...) | |
| 7 | Vanuatu ![]() FeatureType : country Lat/Lng : -16.6333 / 168.0167 | Vanuatu (or ; Bislama, French), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (Bislama: Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is a Pacific island country located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, east of New Guinea, southeast (...) | |
| 8 | Big Sur ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 36.1075 / -121.6258 | Big Sur is a rugged and mountainous section of the Central Coast of the U.S. state of California between Carmel Highlands and San Simeon, where the Santa Lucia Mountains rise abruptly from the Pacific Ocean. It is frequently praised for its dramatic scenery (...) | |
| 9 | Wake Island ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 19.29 / 166.601 | Wake Island (also known as Wake Atoll) is a coral atoll in the western Pacific Ocean in the northeastern area of the Micronesia subregion, east of Guam, west of Honolulu and southeast of Tokyo. The island is an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the United States that is also claimed by the (...) | |
| 10 | Okinawa Prefecture ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Lat/Lng : 26.1831 / 127.5497 | is the southernmost prefecture of Japan.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Okinawa-shi" in It encompasses two thirds of the Ryukyu Islands in a chain over long. The Ryukyu Islands extend southwest from Kyushu (the southwesternmost of Japan's four main islands) to Taiwan (Yilan County) (...) | |
| 11 | Namibia ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 1667 Lat/Lng : -22.5631 / 17.0786 | Namibia , officially the Republic of Namibia (German: Republik Namibia;), is a country in southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean; it shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east (...) | |
| 12 | Babylon ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 33 Lat/Lng : 32.5364 / 44.4208 | Babylon was a key kingdom in ancient Mesopotamia from the 18th to 6th centuries BC. The city was built on the Euphrates river and divided in equal parts along its left and right banks, with steep embankments to contain the river's seasonal floods (...) | |
| 13 | Ventura, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 75 Lat/Lng : 34.275 / -119.2278 | Ventura, officially the City of San Buenaventura,Erwin G. Gudde, California Place Names: The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names, 4th ed., rev. and enlarged by William Bright (University of California Press, 1998), p. 410 (...) | |
| 14 | Whitby ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 54.4858 / -0.6206 | Whitby is a seaside town, port and civil parish in the Scarborough borough of North Yorkshire, England. Situated on the east coast of Yorkshire at the mouth of the River Esk, Whitby has a maritime, mineral and tourist heritage (...) | |
| 15 | Mexico ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 2040 Lat/Lng : 22.3833 / -102.0333 | Mexico , officially the United Mexican States (listen), is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of (...) | |
| 16 | Chile ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 543 Lat/Lng : -33.45 / -70.6667 | Chile , officially the Republic of Chile (RepChile.ogg), is a South American country occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far (...) | |
| 17 | Kyrgyzstan ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 779 Lat/Lng : 42.8667 / 74.6 | Kyrgyzstan (;Or , or with the stress on the first syllable. See J. C. Wells, Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, 3rd ed. (Harlow, England: Pearson Education Ltd., 2008). Kyrgyzstan ; or Кыргызстан), officially the Kyrgyz Republic , and also known as Kirghizia, is a sovereign state in Central Asia (...) | |
| 18 | Seattle–Tacoma International Airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 113 Lat/Lng : 47.449 / -122.3093 | Seattle–Tacoma International Airport , also referred to as Sea–Tac Airport or Sea–Tac , is the primary commercial airport serving the Seattle metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Washington. It is located in the city of SeaTac, approximately south of Downtown Seattle (...) | |
| 19 | Zimbabwe ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 1487 Lat/Lng : -17.8268 / 31.0553 | Zimbabwe , officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa, Botswana, Zambia and Mozambique. The capital and largest city is Harare (...) | |
| 20 | Princeton, New Jersey ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 46 Lat/Lng : 40.3571 / -74.6702 | Princeton is a municipality with a borough form of government in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States, that was established in its current form on January 1, 2013, through the consolidation of the Borough of Princeton and Princeton Township (...) | |
| 21 | Bolivia ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 208 Lat/Lng : -16.712 / -64.666 | Bolivia , officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country located in western-central South America. The capital is Sucre while the seat of government and financial center is located in La Paz (...) | |
| 22 | Myanmar ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 121 Lat/Lng : 19.75 / 96.1 | Myanmar , officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma, is a country in Southeast Asia. Myanmar is bordered by India and Bangladesh to its west, Thailand and Laos to its east and China to its north and northeast (...) | |
| 23 | Hanford Site ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 143 Lat/Lng : 46.6475 / -119.5986 | The Hanford Site is a decommissioned nuclear production complex operated by the United States federal government on the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington. The site has been known by many names, including Hanford Project, Hanford Works, Hanford Engineer Works and Hanford Nuclear (...) | |
| 24 | Ross Ice Shelf ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : -81.4845 / -177.6417 | The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica (as of 2013 an area of roughly and about across: about the size of France). It is several hundred metres thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than long, and between high above the water surface (...) | |
| 25 | Rockhampton ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : -23.3752 / 150.513 | Rockhampton is a city in the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. The estimated urban population of Rockhampton in June 2015 was 80,665, making it the fourth largest city in the state outside of the cities of South East Queensland. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2015 (...) | |
| 26 | Da Nang ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 16.0486 / 108.2206 | Da Nang is the fifth largest city in Vietnam after Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Hanoi, Can Tho and Haiphong in terms of urbanization and economy. Located on the coast of the South China Sea at the mouth of the Han River, it is one of Vietnam's most important port cities (...) | |
| 27 | Sweden ![]() FeatureType : country Lat/Lng : 63.0 / 16.0 | Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish: Konungariket Sverige), is a Scandinavian Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north and Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund, a strait at the (...) | |
| 28 | Atlantic City, New Jersey ![]() FeatureType : city Lat/Lng : 39.3773 / -74.4511 | Atlantic City is a resort city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, known for its casinos, boardwalk, and beaches. In 2010, it had a population of 39,558. , New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, February 2011. Accessed June 19, 2013., United States Census Bureau (...) | |
| 29 | Cambodia ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 11.55 / 104.9167 | Cambodia (; also Kampuchea ; ;), officially the Kingdom of Cambodia , is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is in area, bordered by Thailand to the northwest, Laos to the northeast, Vietnam to the east and the Gulf of Thailand to the southwest (...) | |
| 30 | Mount Adams (Washington) ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 3737 Lat/Lng : 46.2024 / -121.4909 | Mount Adams, known by some Native American tribes as Pahto or Klickitat, is a potentially active stratovolcano in the Cascade Range. Although Adams has not erupted in more than 1,000 years, it is not considered extinct. It is the second-highest mountain in the U.S (...) | |
| 31 | Burning Man ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1191 Lat/Lng : 40.7863 / -119.2066 | Burning Man is an annual event in the western United States at Black Rock City – a temporary city erected in the Black Rock Desert of northwest Nevada, approximately north-northeast of Reno. The late summer event is described as an experiment in community and art, influenced by ten main principles: (...) | |
| 32 | Palmyra Atoll ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 5.8868 / -162.0796 | Palmyra Atoll is one of the Northern Line Islands (southeast of Kingman Reef and north of Kiribati Line Islands), located almost due south of the Hawaiian Islands, roughly one-third of the way between Hawaii and American Samoa. The nearest continent is almost to the northeast (...) | |
| 33 | Lincoln Park, Chicago ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 183 Lat/Lng : 41.92 / -87.65 | Lincoln Park is a designated community area on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois. Lying to the west of Lincoln Park, Chicago's largest park, it is one of the most affluent neighborhoods in Chicago. (...) | |
| 34 | Treblinka extermination camp ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 124 Lat/Lng : 52.6311 / 22.0531 | Treblinka was an extermination camp, built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II. It was located in a forest north-east of Warsaw, south of the Treblinka train station in what is now the Masovian Voivodeship (...) | |
| 35 | Yellowstone Lake ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : 2368 Lat/Lng : 44.42 / -110.37 | Yellowstone Lake is the largest body of water in Yellowstone National Park. The lake is above sea level and covers with of shoreline. While the average depth of the lake is , its greatest depth is at least . Yellowstone Lake is the largest freshwater lake above in North America (...) | |
| 36 | Tuolumne River ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 37.605 / -121.175 | The Tuolumne River (; Yokutsan: Tawalimnu) flows for through Central California, from the high Sierra Nevada to join the San Joaquin River in the Central Valley. Originating at over above sea level in Yosemite National Park, the Tuolumne drains a rugged watershed of , carving a series of canyons (...) | |
| 37 | Battle of Mogadishu (1993) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 67 Lat/Lng : 2.0525 / 45.3247 | The Battle of Mogadishu, or Day of the Rangers , was part of Operation Gothic Serpent. It was fought on 3–4 October 1993, in Mogadishu, Somalia, between forces of the United States—supported by UNOSOM II—and Somali militiamen loyal to the self-proclaimed president-to-be Mohamed Farrah Aidid, who had (...) | |
| 38 | Shea Stadium ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 40.7558 / -73.8482 | Shea Stadium (; formally known as William A. Shea Municipal Stadium) was a stadium in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Queens, New York City. of the dedication handout that shows the stadium is in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park (...) | |
| 39 | Port Republic, New Jersey ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 1 Lat/Lng : 39.5344 / -74.477 | Port Republic is a city on the Mullica River, located in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city had a total population of 1,115, reflecting an increase of 78 (+7.5%) from the 1,037 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 45 (+4 (...) | |
| 40 | SS Edmund Fitzgerald ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 179 Lat/Lng : 46.9985 / -85.1102 | SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in a Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes, and she remains the largest to have sunk there (...) | |
| 41 | Qumran ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : -338 Lat/Lng : 31.7408 / 35.4586 | Qumran is an archaeological site in the West Bank managed by Israel's Qumran National Park. It is located on a dry plateau about from the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea, near the Israeli settlement and kibbutz of Kalya (...) | |
| 42 | Trinity (nuclear test) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1498 Lat/Lng : 33.6773 / -106.4754 | Trinity was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon. It was conducted by the United States Army at 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945, as part of the Manhattan Project. The test was conducted in the Jornada del Muerto desert about 35 miles (56 km) southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, on what (...) | |
| 43 | Trans-Alaska Pipeline System ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 70.2572 / -148.6189 | The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) includes the trans-Alaska crude-oil pipeline, 11 pump stations, several hundred miles of feeder pipelines, and the Valdez Marine Terminal. TAPS is one of the world's largest pipeline systems (...) | |
| 44 | Skunk Works ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 794 Lat/Lng : 34.6147 / -118.1187 | Skunk Works is an official pseudonym for Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs (ADP), formerly called Lockheed Advanced Development Projects. It is responsible for a number of aircraft designs, including the U-2, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, Lockheed Martin (...) | |
| 45 | Palm Island, Queensland ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 56 Lat/Lng : -18.7333 / 146.5833 | Palm Island is an Aboriginal community located on Great Palm Island, also called by the Aboriginal name "Bwgcolman", an island on the Great Barrier Reef in North Queensland, AustraliaBindloss, Joseph (2002) page 330 The settlement is also known by a variety of other names including "the Mission", (...) | |
| 46 | Nintendo ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 34.9697 / 135.7562 | Nintendo Co., Ltd. is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics and video game company headquartered in Kyoto. Nintendo is one of the world's largest video game companies by market capitalization, creating some of the best-known and top-selling video game franchises, such as Mario, The Legend of (...) | |
| 47 | Tesla, Inc. ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 60 Lat/Lng : 37.3947 / -122.1503 | Tesla, Inc. (formerly Tesla Motors, Inc.) is an American automotive and energy company based in Palo Alto, California. The company specializes in electric car manufacturing and, through its SolarCity subsidiary, solar panel manufacturing (...) | |
| 48 | Twitter ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 37.7768 / -122.4166 | Twitter, Inc. is an American online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets". Tweets were originally restricted to 140 characters, but on November 7, 2017, this limit was doubled for all languages except Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (...) | |
| 49 | Apple Inc. ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 69 Lat/Lng : 37.3318 / -122.0312 | Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. The company's hardware products include the iPhone smartphone, the iPad tablet computer, the Mac personal (...) | |
| 50 | AOL ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 47 Lat/Lng : 40.7308 / -73.9914 | AOL (stylized as Aol., formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online) is a web portal and online service provider based in New York City. It is a brand marketed by Oath, a subsidiary of Verizon Communications (...) | |
| 51 | Intel ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 37.3879 / -121.9635 | Intel Corporation (commonly known as Intel and stylized as intel) is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, in the Silicon Valley. It is the world's second largest and second highest valued semiconductor chip maker based on revenue (...) | |
| 52 | Raasay ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 75 Lat/Lng : 57.3833 / -6.0667 | Raasay is an island between the Isle of Skye and the mainland of Scotland. It is separated from Skye by the Sound of Raasay and from Applecross by the Inner Sound. It is most famous for being the birthplace of Gaelic poet Sorley MacLean, an important figure in the Scottish Renaissance (...) | |
| 53 | Arcata, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 40.87 / -124.08 | Arcata, originally Union Town or Union, is a city adjacent to the Arcata Bay (northern) portion of Humboldt Bay in Humboldt County, California, United States. At the 2010 census, Arcata's population was 17,231. Arcata, located north of San Francisco (via Highway 101), is home to Humboldt State (...) | |
| 54 | Roscosmos ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 161 Lat/Lng : 55.7838 / 37.6306 | The Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities (Gosudarstvyennaya korporaciya po kosmicheskoy dyeyatyel'nosti "Roskosmos"), commonly known as Roscosmos , is a state corporation responsible for the space flight and cosmonautics program for the Russian Federation (...) | |
| 55 | Ludwigshafen ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 92 Lat/Lng : 49.4908 / 8.4151 | Ludwigshafen am Rhein is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the river Rhine, opposite Mannheim. With Mannheim, Heidelberg, and the surrounding region, it forms the Rhine Neckar Area. Known primarily as an industrial city, Ludwigshafen is the home of chemical giant BASF and other companies (...) | |
| 56 | North East England ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 99 Lat/Lng : 55.0 / -1.8667 | North East England is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes. It covers Northumberland, County Durham, Tyne and Wear, and the former county of Cleveland now in North Yorkshire (...) | |
| 57 | Prince Rupert, British Columbia ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 54.3122 / -130.3271 | Prince Rupert is a port city in the province of British Columbia, Canada. Located on Kaien Island, Prince Rupert is the land, air, and water transportation hub of British Columbia's North Coast, and has a population of 12,220 people (Statistics Canada, 2016). (...) | |
| 58 | Arnhem Land ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 58 Lat/Lng : -12.7308 / 134.5928 | Arnhem Land is one of the five regions of the Northern Territory of Australia. It is located in the north-eastern corner of the territory and is around from the territory capital Darwin. The region has an area of , which also covers the area of Kakadu National Park, and a population of 16,230 (...) | |
| 59 | Blue Mountains (New South Wales) ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 1002 Lat/Lng : -33.7181 / 150.3106 | The Blue Mountains are a mountainous region and a mountain range located in New South Wales, Australia. The region borders on Sydney's metropolitan area, its foothills starting about west of centre of the state capital (...) | |
| 60 | Disneyland ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 48 Lat/Lng : 33.81 / -117.92 | Disneyland Park, originally Disneyland, is the first of two theme parks built at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, opened on July 17, 1955. It is the only theme park designed and built to completion under the direct supervision of Walt Disney (...) | |
| 61 | 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 (...) | |
| 62 | Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 37.4214 / 141.0325 | The was an energy accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima Prefecture, initiated primarily by the tsunami following the Tōhoku earthquake on 11 March 2011. Immediately after the earthquake, the active reactors automatically shut down their sustained fission reactions (...) | |
| 63 | Packard ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 196 Lat/Lng : 42.3796 / -83.0289 | Packard was an American luxury automobile marque built by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, United States. The first Packard automobiles were produced in 1899, and the last Detroit-built Packard in 1956, when they built the Packard Predictor, their last concept car (...) | |
| 64 | Emery County, Utah ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 1816 Lat/Lng : 38.99 / -110.69 | Emery County is a county located in east-central Utah, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 10,976. Its county seat is Castle Dale, and the largest city is Huntington. The county was named for George W. Emery, governor of the Utah Territory in 1875. (...) | |
| 65 | Oberlin College ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 250 Lat/Lng : 41.2929 / -82.2186 | Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio. Founded as the Oberlin Collegiate Institute in 1833 by John Jay Shipherd and Philo Stewart, it is the oldest coeducational liberal arts college in the United States and the second oldest continuously operating coeducational (...) | |
| 66 | Nueva Ecija ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 49 Lat/Lng : 15.5833 / 121.0 | Nueva Ecija (: 034900000;) is a landlocked province in the Philippines located in the Central Luzon region. Its capital is the city of Palayan. Nueva Ecija borders, from the south clockwise, Bulacan, Pampanga, Tarlac, Pangasinan, Nueva Vizcaya and Aurora (...) | |
| 67 | 1999 Jiji earthquake ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1347 Lat/Lng : 23.772 / 120.982 | The Jiji earthquake , known locally as the 921 earthquake , was a 7.3 ML or 7.6–7.7 Mw earthquake which occurred in Jiji, Nantou County, Taiwan on Tuesday, 21 September 1999 at 01:47:12 local time. 2,415 people were killed, 11,305 injured, and billion worth of damage was done (...) | |
| 68 | Huntington, West Virginia ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 173 Lat/Lng : 38.413 / -82.4336 | Huntington is a city in Cabell County and Wayne County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is the county seat of Cabell County, and largest city in the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area, sometimes referred to as the Tri-State Area (...) | |
| 69 | SL-1 ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1541 Lat/Lng : 43.5182 / -112.8237 | The SL-1, or Stationary Low-Power Reactor Number One, was a United States Army experimental nuclear power reactor in the United States which underwent a steam explosion and meltdown on January 3, 1961, killing its three operators (...) | |
| 70 | 2011 Norway attacks ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 39 Lat/Lng : 59.915 / 10.7458 | The 2011 Norway attacks, referred to in Norway as 22 July , the date of the events, were two sequential lone wolf terrorist attacks by Anders Behring Breivik against the government, the civilian population, and a Workers' Youth League (AUF) summer camp. 77 people were killed (...) | |
| 71 | Saratoga Springs, New York ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 95 Lat/Lng : 43.0832 / -73.7848 | Saratoga Springs is a city in Saratoga County, New York, United States. The population was 26,586 at the 2010 census. The name reflects the presence of mineral springs in the area, which has made Saratoga a popular resort destination for over 200 years (...) | |
| 72 | Pennsylvania State University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 361 Lat/Lng : 40.796 / -77.8627 | The Pennsylvania State University (commonly referred to as Penn State or PSU) is a state-related, land-grant, doctoral university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania. Founded in 1855 as the Farmers High School of Pennsylvania,https://news.psu (...) | |
| 73 | George Orwell ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 51 Lat/Lng : 56.1108 / -5.6917 | Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic whose work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism and outspoken support of democratic socialism (...) | |
| 74 | Chagos Archipelago ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -5.3333 / 71.85 | The Chagos Archipelago or Chagos Islands (formerly the Bassas de Chagas, and later the Oil Islands) are a group of seven atolls comprising more than 60 individual tropical islands in the Indian Ocean about 500 kilometres (310 mi) south of the Maldives archipelago (...) | |
| 75 | Six Flags Magic Mountain ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 338 Lat/Lng : 34.427 / -118.597 | Six Flags Magic Mountain is a amusement park located in the Santa Clarita, California neighborhood of Valencia, northwest of downtown Los Angeles that opened on May 30, 1971, as Magic Mountain, a development of the Newhall Land and Farming Company (...) | |
| 76 | Ludwig Wittgenstein ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 52.2176 / 0.1001 | Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (;. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. ; 26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language (...) | |
| 77 | Golden Gate Park ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 68 Lat/Lng : 37.768 / -122.482 | Golden Gate Park, located in San Francisco, California, United States, is a large urban park consisting of of public grounds. It is administered by the San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department, which began in 1871 to oversee the development of Golden Gate Park (...) | |
| 78 | 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. (...) | |
| 79 | Rutgers University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 40.7416 / -74.1749 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , commonly referred to as Rutgers University, Rutgers, or RU, is a public research university in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is the largest institution of higher education in New Jersey (...) | |
| 80 | 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 (...) | |
| 81 | Kapisa Province ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 2184 Lat/Lng : 35.0 / 69.7 | Kapisa (Pashto/Persian: کاپيسا) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan. Located in the north-east of the country. The population of Kapisa is estimated to be 364,900, although there has never been an official estimate (...) | |
| 82 | Boston Marathon bombing ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 42.3498 / -71.0789 | During the annual Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013, two homemade pressure cooker bombs detonated 12 seconds and apart at 2:49 p.m., near the finish line of the race, killing three people and injuring several hundred others, including 16 who lost limbs (...) | |
| 83 | Ocean City, New Jersey ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 2 Lat/Lng : 39.2636 / -74.6046 | Ocean City is a city in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population was 11,701, reflecting a decline of 3,677 (-23.9%) from the 15,378 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn declined by 134 (-0 (...) | |
| 84 | Beslan school siege ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 497 Lat/Lng : 43.1841 / 44.5409 | The Beslan school siege (also referred to as the Beslan school hostage crisis or Beslan massacre), BBC News, 4 June 2005. , U.S. Department of State, 31 August 2005 started on 1 September 2004, lasted three days, involved the illegal imprisonment of over 1,100 people as hostages (including 777 (...) | |
| 85 | Battle of Ia Drang ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 222 Lat/Lng : 13.5833 / 107.7167 | The Battle of Ia Drang was the first major battle between the United States Army and the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), also referred to as the North Vietnamese Army (NVA), and was part of the Pleiku Campaign conducted early in the Vietnam War (...) | |
| 86 | 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 (...) | |
| 87 | Northeastern University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 42.3389 / -71.0903 | Northeastern University (NU, formerly NEU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, established in 1898. It is categorized as an R1 institution (Doctoral Universities: Highest Research Activity) by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education (...) | |
| 88 | Space Shuttle Challenger disaster ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 28.4548 / -80.5255 | On January 28, 1986, the NASA shuttle orbiter mission STS-51-L and the tenth flight of (OV-99) broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members, which consisted of five NASA astronauts and two payload specialists (...) | |
| 89 | Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 34.3948 / 132.4548 | During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. The United States dropped the bombs after obtaining the consent of the United Kingdom, as required by the Quebec Agreement (...) | |
| 90 | 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 (...) | |
| 91 | Leonardo da Vinci ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 53 Lat/Lng : 43.7833 / 11.25 | Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (; 15 April 14522 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance, whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, (...) | |
| 92 | Munich massacre ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 517 Lat/Lng : 48.1797 / 11.5493 | The Munich massacre was an attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, in which the Palestinian terrorist group Black September took eleven Israeli Olympic team members hostage and killed them along with a West German police officer (...) | |
| 93 | Bailey bridge ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : -1 Lat/Lng : 50.7253 / -1.7622 | The Bailey bridge is a type of portable, pre-fabricated, truss bridge. It was developed by the British during World War II for military use and saw extensive use by British, Canadian and US military engineering units (...) | |
| 94 | Central Intelligence Agency ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 73 Lat/Lng : 38.9521 / -77.1452 | The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the Federal government of the United States, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) (...) | |
| 95 | Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 7.02 / 103.68 | Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Malaysia Airlines that disappeared on 8 March 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia, to its destination, Beijing Capital International Airport in China (...) | |
| 96 | Le Corbusier ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 58 Lat/Lng : 48.8519 / 2.2654 | Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier , was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930 (...) | |
| 97 | Kaspersky Lab ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 168 Lat/Lng : 55.8365 / 37.482 | Kaspersky Lab (; Russian: Лаборатория Касперского, Laboratoriya Kasperskogo) is a multinational cybersecurity and anti-virus provider headquartered in Moscow, Russia and operated by a holding company in the United Kingdom (...) | |
| 98 | Diana, Princess of Wales ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 98 Lat/Lng : 52.2831 / -1.0003 | Diana, Princess of Wales (born Diana Frances Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997), was a member of the British royal family. She was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, the heir apparent to the British throne, and the mother of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Prince Harry, Duke of (...) | |
| 99 | Nelson Mandela ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 834 Lat/Lng : -31.8061 / 28.6146 | Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (; ; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully (...) | |
| 100 | Sony Mobile ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 526 Lat/Lng : 48.1368 / 11.6881 | Sony Mobile Communications Inc. is a multinational telecommunications company founded on October 1, 2001 as a joint venture between Sony and Ericsson, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and wholly owned by Sony. It was originally incorporated as Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, and headquartered in (...) | |
| 101 | University of Nebraska–Lincoln ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 359 Lat/Lng : 40.82 / -96.6996 | The University of Nebraska–Lincoln, often referred to as Nebraska, UNL or NU, is a public research university in the city of Lincoln, in the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States. It is the state's oldest university, and the largest in the University of Nebraska system (...) | |
| 102 | Vichy France ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 249 Lat/Lng : 46.1667 / 3.4 | Vichy France is the common name of the French State (État français) headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II. Evacuated from Paris to Vichy in the unoccupied "Free Zone" (zone libre) in the southern part of metropolitan France which included French Algeria, it remained responsible for (...) | |
| 103 | Illinois State University ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 247 Lat/Lng : 40.5108 / -88.9935 | Illinois State University (ISU) is a public university in Normal, Illinois. Founded in 1857 as Illinois State Normal University, it is the oldest public university in Illinois. The university emphasizes teaching and is recognized as one of the top ten largest producers of teachers in the US (...) | |
| 104 | Los Angeles Public Library ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 113 Lat/Lng : 34.0501 / -118.2558 | The Los Angeles Public Library system (LAPL) serves the residents of the City of Los Angeles. The system holds more than six million volumes, and with over 18 million residents in the Los Angeles Metropolitan area, it serves the largest population of any publicly funded library system in the United (...) | |
| 105 | McKinsey & Company ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 454 Lat/Lng : 48.3304 / 11.7366 | McKinsey & Company is an American worldwide management consulting firm. It conducts qualitative and quantitative analysis to evaluate management decisions across public and private sectors. McKinsey publishes the McKinsey Quarterly since 1964, funds the McKinsey Global Institute research (...) | |
| 106 | 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 (...) | |
| 107 | Second Battle of Fallujah ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 45 Lat/Lng : 33.35 / 43.7833 | The Second Battle of Fallujah—code-named Operation Al-Fajr (Arabic: الفجر "the dawn") and Operation Phantom Fury—was a joint American, Iraqi, and British offensive in November and December 2004, considered the highest point of conflict in Fallujah during the Iraq War. It was led by the U.S (...) | |
| 108 | Hawes ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 237 Lat/Lng : 54.3041 / -2.1964 | Hawes is a small market town and civil parish in Upper Wensleydale in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England, that was granted its market charter in 1699. Historically in the North Riding of Yorkshire, Hawes is located at the head of Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales; the River Ure (...) | |
| 109 | Intermountain Healthcare ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1444 Lat/Lng : 40.5776 / -111.8533 | Intermountain Healthcare is a not-for-profit healthcare system and is the largest healthcare provider in the Intermountain West. Intermountain Healthcare provides hospital and other medical services in Utah and Idaho and also offers integrated managed care under the insurance brand SelectHealth (...) | |
| 110 | Snowmobile ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 83.0797 / -74.1381 | A snowmobile, also known as a motor sled, motor sledge, or snowmachine, is a motorized vehicle designed for winter travel and recreation on snow. It is designed to be operated on snow and ice and does not require a road or trail, but most are driven on open terrain or trails (...) | |
| 111 | WFAA ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 253 Lat/Lng : 32.585 / -96.9781 | WFAA, virtual and VHF digital channel 8, is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Dallas, Texas, United States and serving the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex. The station is owned by Tegna, Inc. WFAA maintains business offices and secondary studio facilities at the WFAA Communications Center (...) | |
| 112 | Lac-Mégantic rail disaster ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 402 Lat/Lng : 45.5778 / -70.885 | The Lac-Mégantic rail disaster occurred in the town of Lac-Mégantic, in the Eastern Townships region of Quebec, Canada, at approximately 01:15 EDT, on July 6, 2013, when an unattended 74-car freight train carrying Bakken Formation crude oil rolled down a 1 (...) | |
| 113 | Jersey Shore (TV series) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 39.9455 / -74.0701 | Jersey Shore is an American reality television series that ran on MTV from December 3, 2009 to December 20, 2012 in the United States. The series follows the lives of eight housemates who spend their summer together at a vacation home: in Seaside Heights, New Jersey in seasons one, three, five and (...) | |
| 114 | Oakland, New Jersey ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 77 Lat/Lng : 41.03 / -74.2438 | Oakland is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States and a suburb of New York city. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 12,754, reflecting an increase of 288 (+2.3%) from the 12,466 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 469 (+3 (...) | |
| 115 | Philmont Scout Ranch ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 2043 Lat/Lng : 36.4542 / -104.9558 | Philmont Scout Ranch is a ranch located near the town of Cimarron, New Mexico; it covers 140,177 acres (219 sq mi; 567 km²) of wilderness in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of the Rocky Mountains. Donated by oil baron Waite Phillips, the ranch is owned and operated by the Boy Scouts of America (...) | |
| 116 | KXAS-TV ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 250 Lat/Lng : 32.5853 / -96.9683 | KXAS-TV, virtual channel 5 (UHF digital channel 24), is an NBC owned-and-operated television station licensed to Fort Worth, Texas, United States and serving the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex. The station is owned by the NBC Owned Television Stations subsidiary of NBCUniversal (itself a subsidiary of (...) | |
| 117 | Dell ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 239 Lat/Lng : 30.4866 / -97.6665 | Dell is an American multinational computer technology company based in Round Rock, Texas, United States, that develops, sells, repairs, and supports computers and related products and services. Named after its founder, Michael Dell, the company is one of the largest technological corporations in the (...) | |
| 118 | Stalybridge ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 116 Lat/Lng : 53.4834 / -2.055 | Stalybridge is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 23,731 at the 2011 Census. Historically a part of Cheshire, it is east of Manchester city centre and north-west of Glossop. With the construction of a cotton mill in 1776, Stalybridge became one of the first centres (...) | |
| 119 | Late Show with David Letterman ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 33 Lat/Lng : 40.7638 / -73.9829 | Late Show with David Letterman is an American late-night talk show hosted by David Letterman on CBS, the first iteration of the Late Show franchise. The show debuted on August 30, 1993, and was produced by Letterman's production company, Worldwide Pants, and CBS Television Studios (...) | |
| 120 | Epicurus ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 84 Lat/Lng : 37.9838 / 23.7275 | Epicurus (341–270 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher who founded a highly influential school of philosophy now called Epicureanism. He was born on the Greek island of Samos to Athenian parents. Influenced by Democritus, Aristotle, and possibly the Cynics, he turned against the Platonism of his day (...) | |
| 121 | Argyle International Airport ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 48 Lat/Lng : 13.1564 / -61.1503 | Argyle International Airport (often referred to as Argyle Airport or simply AIA) is a newly constructed international airport in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, about from Kingstown. The airport is one of St Vincent and the Grenadines most important infrastructure assets and the country's first (...) | |
| 122 | WLW ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 254 Lat/Lng : 39.3531 / -84.325 | WLW (700 AM), branded "Newsradio 700 WLW", is a commercial news/talk radio station serving Greater Cincinnati. Owned by iHeartMedia, the station's studios are located in Sycamore Township, and its transmitter is at Mason, Ohio (...) | |
| 123 | Father Ted ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 79 Lat/Lng : 53.0098 / -9.03 | Father Ted is a British sitcom that was produced by Hat Trick Productions for Channel 4. Written by Irish writers Arthur Mathews & Graham Linehan and starring a predominantly Irish cast, it originally aired over three series from 21 April 1995 until 1 May 1998, including a Christmas special, for a (...) | |
| 124 | 2012 Aurora shooting ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 1683 Lat/Lng : 39.7059 / -104.8206 | On July 20, 2012, a mass shooting occurred inside a Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, during a midnight screening of the film The Dark Knight Rises. Dressed in tactical clothing, James Eagan Holmes set off tear gas grenades and shot into the audience with multiple firearms (...) | |
| 125 | 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 (...) | |
| 126 | The Great Game ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : 40.02 / 52.97 | "The Great Game" was a political and diplomatic confrontation that existed for most of the nineteenth century between the British Empire and the Russian Empire over Afghanistan and neighbouring territories in Central and Southern Asia (...) | |
| 127 | KTVU ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 267 Lat/Lng : 37.7552 / -122.4529 | KTVU, virtual channel 2 (UHF digital channel 44), is a Fox owned-and-operated television station licensed to Oakland, California, United States and serving the San Francisco Bay Area. The station is owned by the Fox Television Stations subsidiary of 21st Century Fox, as part of a duopoly with San (...) | |
| 128 | Renewable energy ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 37.3131 / 126.6128 | Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources, which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat. Renewable energy often provides energy in four important areas: electricity generation, air and water (...) | |
| 129 | Santa Claus ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 90.0 / 0.0 | Santa Claus, also known as Saint Nicholas, Kris Kringle, Father Christmas, or simply Santa, is a legendary figure originating in Western Christian culture who is said to bring gifts to the homes of well-behaved ("good" or "nice") children on Christmas Eve (24 December) and the early morning hours of (...) | |
| 130 | Los Cabos Municipality ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 22.8811 / -109.9136 | Los Cabos is a municipality located at the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula, in the state of Baja California Sur. It encompasses the two towns of Cabo San Lucas and San José del Cabo (the municipal seat) linked by a twenty-mile Resort Corridor of beach-front properties and (...) | |
| 131 | Costa Concordia disaster ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 42.3653 / 10.9214 | On 13 January 2012, the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground and overturned after striking an underwater rock off Isola del Giglio, Tuscany, resulting in 32 deaths. The eight year old Costa Cruises vessel was on the first leg of a cruise around the Mediterranean Sea when she deviated from (...) | |
| 132 | James Bay Project ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 171 Lat/Lng : 53.7771 / -77.4646 | The James Bay Project refers to the construction by state-owned utility Hydro-Québec of a series of hydroelectric power stations on the La Grande River in northwestern Quebec, Canada, and the diversion of neighbouring rivers into the La Grande watershed (...) | |
| 133 | 2015 San Bernardino attack ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 309 Lat/Lng : 34.0761 / -117.2777 | On December 2, 2015, 14 people were killed and 22 others were seriously injured in a terrorist attack consisting of a mass shooting and an attempted bombing at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California (...) | |
| 134 | USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 47.982 / -122.2278 | USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) is the fifth in the United States Navy. She is the second Navy ship to have been named after late President Abraham Lincoln. Her home port is Norfolk, Virginia, and she is a member of the United States Atlantic Fleet (...) | |
| 135 | Jagatsinghpur district ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 20.266 / 86.166 | Jagatsinghpur District is one of the thirty districts of Odisha in the eastern coast of India. It became a new district on 1 April 1993 (Vide Government Notification No.14218/R dated 27.03.1993 and EOG No.459 dated 01.04.1993) being separated from Cuttack district (...) | |
| 136 | Egyptian Air Force ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 118 Lat/Lng : 30.3422 / 32.0547 | The Egyptian Air Force (EAF) , is the aviation branch of the Egyptian Armed Forces, is responsible for all airborne defence missions and operates all military aircraft, including those used in support of the Egyptian Army, Egyptian Navy and the Egyptian Air Defense Forces, created as a separate (...) | |
| 137 | Battle of Jenin ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 165 Lat/Lng : 32.4603 / 35.3014 | The Battle of Jenin took place in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank in April 1–11, 2002. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) entered the camp, and other areas under the administration of the Palestinian Authority, during the Second Intifada, as part of Operation Defensive Shield (...) | |
| 138 | Appalachia ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 352 Lat/Lng : 38.8 / -81.0 | Appalachia is a cultural region in the Eastern United States that stretches from the Southern Tier of New York to northern Alabama and Georgia. While the Appalachian Mountains stretch from Belle Isle in Canada to Cheaha Mountain in Alabama, the cultural region of Appalachia typically refers only to (...) | |
| 139 | Newport, Tennessee ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 345 Lat/Lng : 35.9633 / -83.1965 | Newport is a city in and the county seat of Cocke County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 6,945 at the 2010 census, down from 7,242 at the 2000 census. The estimated population in 2014 was 6,880. It is located along the Pigeon River. (...) | |
| 140 | Siege of Sloviansk ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 58 Lat/Lng : 48.87 / 37.625 | The Siege of Sloviansk was an operation by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to recapture the city of Sloviansk in Donetsk Oblast from pro-Russian insurgents who had seized it on 12 April 2014. The city was taken back on 5 July 2014 after shelling from artillery and heavy fighting (...) | |
| 141 | Swastika ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 32.6762 / -117.1577 | The swastika (as a character 卐 or 卍) is a geometrical figure and an ancient religious icon from the cultures of Eurasia, where it is a symbol of divinity and spirituality in some Eastern religions. In the Western world it was a symbol of auspiciousness and good luck until the 1930s, when it became a (...) | |
| 142 | University of Southern Mississippi ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 66 Lat/Lng : 31.3296 / -89.3338 | The University of Southern Mississippi (USM), known informally as Southern Miss, is a public research university with its main campus located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The Hattiesburg campus is located north of Gulfport, Mississippi and northeast of New Orleans, Louisiana (...) | |
| 143 | Coast to Coast AM ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 224 Lat/Lng : 34.1533 / -118.4656 | Coast to Coast AM is an American late-night radio talk show that deals with a variety of topics. Most frequently the topics relate to either the paranormal or conspiracy theories. The program is distributed by Premiere Networks, both as part of its talk network and separately as a syndicated program (...) | |
| 144 | Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 27 Lat/Lng : 37.8269 / -122.4225 | The Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary or United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island (often just referred to as Alcatraz or The Rock) was a maximum high-security federal prison on Alcatraz Island, off the coast of San Francisco, California, which operated from August 11, 1934, until March 21, 1963 (...) | |
| 145 | Glen Canyon Dam ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1139 Lat/Lng : 36.9371 / -111.4844 | Glen Canyon Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam on the Colorado River in northern Arizona, United States, near the town of Page. The high dam was built by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) from 1956 to 1966 and forms Lake Powell, one of the largest man-made reservoirs in the U.S (...) | |
| 146 | John von Neumann ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 31 Lat/Lng : 40.3487 / -74.5923 | John von Neumann (; , ; December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, and polymath. He made major contributions to a number of fields, including mathematics (foundations of mathematics, functional analysis, ergodic theory, representation (...) | |
| 147 | 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 (...) | |
| 148 | Private Eye ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 51.5147 / -0.1336 | Private Eye is a British fortnightly satirical and current affairs news magazine, founded in 1961. It is published in London and has been edited by Ian Hislop since 1986. The publication is widely recognised for its prominent criticism and lampooning of public figures (...) | |
| 149 | Idlewild and Soak Zone ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 354 Lat/Lng : 40.2611 / -79.2814 | Idlewild and Soak Zone, commonly known as Idlewild Park or simply Idlewild, is a children's amusement park situated in the Laurel Highlands near Ligonier, Pennsylvania, United States, about east of Pittsburgh, along US Route 30 (...) | |
| 150 | George Mason ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 48 Lat/Lng : 38.6686 / -77.1682 | George Mason (sometimes referred to as George Mason IV; October 7, 1792) was an American planter, politician and delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, one of three delegates, together with fellow Virginian Edmund Randolph and Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, who refused to sign the (...) | |
| 151 | WMAQ-TV ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 183 Lat/Lng : 41.8789 / -87.6361 | WMAQ-TV, virtual channel 5 (UHF digital channel 29), is an NBC owned-and-operated television station licensed to Chicago, Illinois, United States. The station is owned by the NBC Owned Television Stations subsidiary of NBCUniversal, as part of a duopoly with Telemundo owned-and-operated station (...) | |
| 152 | Manhattan Project ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 143 Lat/Lng : 46.6475 / -119.5986 | The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of (...) | |
| 153 | Larrys Creek ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 160 Lat/Lng : 41.2167 / -77.2203 | Larrys Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. , accessed August 8, 2011 tributary of the West Branch Susquehanna River in Lycoming County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania (...) | |
| 154 | Bears Ears National Monument ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 2592 Lat/Lng : 37.6296 / -109.8676 | Bears Ears National Monument is a United States national monument located in San Juan County in southeastern Utah, controversially established by President Barack Obama by presidential proclamation on December 28, 2016 (...) | |
| 155 | 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 (...) | |
| 156 | Center for Strategic and International Studies ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 44 Lat/Lng : 38.9021 / -77.0421 | The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is a think tank based in Washington, D.C., in the United States. CSIS was founded as the "Center for Strategic and International Studies" of Georgetown University in 1962 (...) | |
| 157 | History of radio ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 179 Lat/Lng : 48.2097 / 16.3831 | The early history of radio is the history of technology that produces and uses radio instruments that use radio waves. Within the timeline of radio, many people contributed theory and inventions in what became radio. by Mary Bellis (ThoughtCo.com) Radio development began as "wireless telegraphy" (...) | |
| 158 | Wardenclyffe Tower ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 48 Lat/Lng : 40.9476 / -72.8982 | Wardenclyffe Tower (1901–1917), also known as the Tesla Tower, was an early experimental wireless transmission station designed and built by Nikola Tesla in Shoreham, New York in 1901–1902. Tesla intended to transmit messages, telephony and even facsimile images across the Atlantic to England and to (...) | |
| 159 | Alcor Life Extension Foundation ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 443 Lat/Lng : 33.6174 / -111.9109 | The Alcor Life Extension Foundation, most often referred to as Alcor, is a nonprofit organization based in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. Alcor advocates for, researches, and performs cryonics, the preservation of human corpses in liquid nitrogen after legal death, with hopes of restoring them to full (...) | |
| 160 | 1996 Manchester bombing ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 55 Lat/Lng : 53.4833 / -2.2435 | The 1996 Manchester bombing was an attack carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on Saturday 15 June 1996. The IRA detonated a Lorry bomb on Corporation Street in the centre of Manchester, England (...) | |
| 161 | Fort Astoria ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 46.1882 / -123.827 | Fort Astoria (also named Fort George) was the primary fur trading post of John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company (PFC). A maritime contingent of PFC staff was sent on board the Tonquin, while another party traveled overland from St. Louis (...) | |
| 162 | Sustainable energy ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 132 Lat/Lng : 38.0308 / -7.6228 | Sustainable energy is energy that is consumed at insignificant rates compared to its supply and with manageable collateral effects, especially environmental effects. Another common definition of sustainable energy is an energy system that serves the needs of the present without compromising the (...) | |
| 163 | Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 265 Lat/Lng : 13.1667 / 44.7667 | A military intervention was launched by Saudi Arabia in 2015, leading a coalition of nine African and Middle East countries, in response to calls by former ousted Yemeni interim President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi for military support in response to Houthi takeover in Yemen which was inspired by (...) | |
| 164 | Lord Dunmore's War ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 189 Lat/Lng : 39.918 / -80.8048 | Lord Dunmore's War — or Dunmore's War — was a 1774 conflict between the Colony of Virginia and the Shawnee and Mingo American Indian nations. The Governor of Virginia during the conflict was John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore — Lord Dunmore (...) | |
| 165 | Hans Rosling ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 32 Lat/Lng : 59.8542 / 17.6222 | Hans Rosling (27 July 1948 – 7 February 2017) was a Swedish physician, academic, statistician, and public speaker. He was the Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institute and was the co-founder and chairman of the Gapminder Foundation, which developed the Trendalyzer software system (...) | |
| 166 | Reichsautobahn ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 306 Lat/Lng : 50.2664 / 9.7132 | The Reichsautobahn system was the beginning of the German autobahns under the Third Reich. There had been previous plans for controlled-access highways in Germany under the Weimar Republic, and two had been constructed, but work had yet to start on long-distance highways (...) | |
| 167 | Batu Lintang camp ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 1.5308 / 110.3481 | Batu Lintang camp (also known as Lintang Barracks and Kuching POW camp) at Kuching, Sarawak on the island of Borneo was a Japanese internment camp during the Second World War. It was unusual in that it housed both Allied prisoners of war (POWs) and civilian internees (...) | |
| 168 | Deepwater Horizon explosion ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 28.7367 / -88.3872 | The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion was the April 20, 2010, explosion and subsequent fire on the Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU), which was owned and operated by Transocean and drilling for BP in the Macondo Prospect oil field about southeast off the (...) | |
| 169 | History of Venezuela ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 1263 Lat/Lng : 10.5 / -66.9667 | The history of Venezuela reflects events in areas of the Americas colonized by Spain starting 1522; amid resistance from indigenous peoples, led by Native caciques, such as Guaicaipuro and Tamanaco. However, in the Andean region of western Venezuela, complex Andean civilization of the Timoto-Cuica (...) | |
| 170 | Eglinton Country Park ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 55.64 / -4.67 | Eglinton Country Park is located in the grounds of the old Eglinton Castle estate, Kilwinning, North Ayrshire, Scotland (map reference NS 3227 4220). Eglinton Park is situated in the parish of Kilwinning, part of the former district of Cunninghame, and covers an area of 400 hectares (of which are (...) | |
| 171 | Volvo Cars ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 64 Lat/Lng : 57.722 / 11.855 | Volvo Cars , stylized as VOLVO in the logo, is a Chinese-owned, Swedish luxury vehicles company . It is headquartered on Torslanda in Gothenburg and is a subsidiary of Chinese automotive company Geely. The company manufactures and markets sport utility vehicles, station wagons, sedans and compact (...) | |
| 172 | Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 28.8296 / 50.886 | The Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Iran southeast of the city of Bushehr, between the fishing villages of Halileh and Bandargeh along the Persian Gulf. Construction of the plant was started in 1975 by German companies, but the work was stopped in 1979 after the Islamic (...) | |
| 173 | 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 (...) | |
| 174 | Bald Head Island, North Carolina ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 33.8672 / -78.0067 | Bald Head Island, historically Smith Island, is a village located on the east side of the Cape Fear River in Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States. Compared to the nearby city of Wilmington to the north, the village of Bald Head Island is small and somewhat remote (...) | |
| 175 | Cologne War ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 69 Lat/Lng : 50.734 / 7.0998 | The Cologne War (1583–88) was a conflict between Protestant and Catholic factions that devastated the Electorate of Cologne, a historical ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire, within present-day North Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany (...) | |
| 176 | Jayville, New York ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 348 Lat/Lng : 44.1542 / -75.1889 | Jayville was a hamlet located in the southwest part of St. Lawrence County, New York, in the United States. The hamlet started as a mining community in 1850 on what eventually became the Carthage and Adirondack Railroad (...) | |
| 177 | Timeline of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 14.9 / 109.25 | The timeline of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 lists events associated with the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370—a scheduled, commercial flight operated by Malaysia Airlines from Kuala Lumpur International Airport to Beijing Capital International Airport on 8 March 2014 with 239 (...) | |
| 178 | Conneaut Lake Park ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 336 Lat/Lng : 41.6356 / -80.315 | Conneaut Lake Park is a summer resort and amusement park, located in Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania, United States. It has long served as a regional tourist destination, and is noted by roller coaster enthusiasts for its classic Blue Streak coaster, which was recently classified as "historic" by the (...) | |
| 179 | Mississippi State Penitentiary ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 43 Lat/Lng : 33.9178 / -90.4964 | Mississippi State Penitentiary (MSP), also known as Parchman Farm, is a prison farm, the oldest prison, and the only maximum security prison for men in the state of Mississippi. Begun with four stockades in 1901, the Mississippi Department of Corrections facility was constructed largely by state (...) | |
| 180 | Manhattanville College ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 105 Lat/Lng : 41.0321 / -73.7156 | Manhattanville College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college offering undergraduate and graduate degrees, located in the village of Harrison near Purchase, New York, in suburban Westchester County, north of New York City (...) | |
| 181 | Surrender of Japan ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 35.3547 / 139.76 | The surrender of Imperial Japan was announced on August 15 and formally signed on September 2, 1945, bringing the hostilities of World War II to a close. By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was incapable of conducting major operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was (...) | |
| 182 | Myitsone Dam ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 140 Lat/Lng : 25.6897 / 97.5178 | The Myitsone Dam (; the Confluence Dam) is a large dam and hydroelectric power development project which was planned to be built in Myanmar (aka Burma). The proposed construction site is at the confluence of the Mali and N’mai rivers and the source of the Irawaddy River (Ayeyawady River) in northern (...) | |
| 183 | Jerry Michael Williams homicide ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 36 Lat/Lng : 30.4859 / -84.1939 | Jerry Michael Williams (born October 16, 1969) went missing on December 16, 2000 when it was said he left his home in Tallahassee, Florida, United States, to go duck hunting. After subsequent investigations, he was presumed to have drowned in Lake Seminole, but investigators later came to suspect he (...) | |
| 184 | Hinkley groundwater contamination ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 674 Lat/Lng : 34.903 / -117.16 | From 1952 to 1966, the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) dumped approximately 370 million gallons of chromium-tainted wastewater into unlined wastewater spreading ponds around the town of Hinkley, California, located in the Mojave Desert (about 121 miles driving distance north-northeast of Los (...) | |
| 185 | Tourism in Ecuador ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -0.25 / 78.59 | Ecuador is a country with vast natural and cultural wealth. The diversity of its four regions has resulted in hundreds of thousands of species of flora and fauna. It has about 1640 species of birds. The species of butterflies line the 4,500, the 345 reptiles, 358 amphibians and 258 mammals, among (...) | |
| 186 | Battle of Wanat ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1187 Lat/Lng : 35.0525 / 70.9075 | The Battle of Wanat took place on July 13, 2008, when about 200 Taliban insurgents attacked American troops near Quam, in the Waygal district in Afghanistan's far eastern province of Nuristan.Wanat Combat Action in Afghanistan 2008 The position was defended primarily by United States Army soldiers (...) | |
| 187 | Wimbledon Common ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 56 Lat/Lng : 51.4297 / -0.2383 | Wimbledon Common is a large open space in Wimbledon, southwest London, totalling 460 hectares (1,140 acres). There are three named areas: Wimbledon Common, Putney Heath, and Putney Lower Common, which together are managed under the name Wimbledon and Putney Commons (...) | |
| 188 | St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 49 Lat/Lng : -33.8739 / 151.2063 | St Andrew's Cathedral is the cathedral church of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney in the Anglican Church of Australia. The cathedral is the seat of the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney and Metropolitan of New South Wales, the Most Reverend Glenn Davies, elected August 2013 (...) | |
| 189 | Battle of Fort Bull ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 127 Lat/Lng : 43.2242 / -75.5025 | The Battle of Fort Bull was a French attack on the British-held Fort Bull on 27 March 1756, early in the French and Indian War. The fort was built to defend a portion of the waterway connecting Albany, New York to Lake Ontario via the Mohawk River. Lt (...) | |
| 190 | Monadnock Building ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 214 Lat/Lng : 41.8775 / -87.6295 | The Monadnock Building (historically the Monadnock Block; pronounced) is a 16-story skyscraper located at 53 West Jackson Boulevard in the south Loop area of Chicago, Illinois. The north half of the building was designed by the firm of Burnham & Root and built starting in 1891 (...) | |
| 191 | WCBS-FM ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 58 Lat/Lng : 40.748 / -73.986 | WCBS-FM (101.1 FM) is a radio station offering a classic hits format licensed to New York City and is owned and operated by Entercom. The station's studios are in the combined Entercom facility in the Hudson Square neighborhood of Manhattan, and its transmitter is located at the Empire State (...) | |
| 192 | Battle of Kamdesh ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 1437 Lat/Lng : 35.4231 / 71.3289 | The Battle of Kamdesh took place during the War in Afghanistan (2001–present). It occurred on October 3, 2009, when a force of 300 Taliban assaulted the American Combat Outpost ("COP") Keating near the town of Kamdesh of Nuristan province in eastern Afghanistan (...) | |
| 193 | 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 (...) | |
| 194 | Northwest Airlines Flight 253 ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 190 Lat/Lng : 42.208 / -83.356 | Northwest Airlines Flight 253 was an international passenger flight from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands, to Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in Romulus, Michigan, United States (...) | |
| 195 | Linnwood, Guildford ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : -33.8546 / 150.9754 | Linnwood is an heritage-listed former residence, school, local history museum and children's home and now historical society located at 11-35 Byron Road, Guildford in the Cumberland Council local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed and built by George McCredie during 1891 (...) | |
| 196 | Nuclear power in France ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 139 Lat/Lng : 47.5117 / 2.8742 | Nuclear power is a major source of energy in France, with a 40% share of energy consumption in 2015.http://www.iea.org/Sankey/index.html#?c=France&s=Balance Nuclear power is the largest source of electricity in the country, with a generation of 379.1 TWh, or 71 (...) | |
| 197 | Henry W. Coe State Park ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 826 Lat/Lng : 37.1883 / -121.545 | Henry W. Coe State Park (known simply as Henry Coe or Coe Park) is a state park of California, USA, preserving a vast tract of the Diablo Range. The park is located closest to the city of Morgan Hill, and is located in both Santa Clara and Stanislaus counties (...) | |
| 198 | 1956 Grand Canyon mid-air collision ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 1253 Lat/Lng : 36.175 / -111.8333 | The Grand Canyon mid-air collision occurred on June 30, 1956, when a United Airlines Douglas DC-7 struck a Trans World Airlines Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation over the Grand Canyon National Park. All 128 on board both flights perished, making it the first commercial airline crash to result in (...) | |
| 199 | Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster (Unit 3 Reactor) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 37.4214 / 141.0325 | The was a series of equipment failures, nuclear meltdowns, and releases of radioactive materials at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, following the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011. It is the largest nuclear disaster since the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 (...) | |
| 200 | Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 unofficial disappearance theories ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -12.0422 / 107.38 | Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared on 8 March 2014, after departing from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing, with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board. Malaysia's former Prime Minister, Najib Razak, has stated that the aircraft's flight ended somewhere in the Indian Ocean, but no further (...) | |