| 247 records found in wikipedia | |||
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| Chatham Islands  FeatureType : isle Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : -43.988 / -176.4536 | The Chatham Islands form an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean about east of the South Island of New Zealand. It consists of about ten islands within a radius, the largest of which are Chatham Island and Pitt Island (...) |
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| Walt Disney World FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 28.3842 / -81.5652 | The Walt Disney World Resort, also called Walt Disney World and Disney World, is an entertainment complex in Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista, Florida, in the United States, near the cities Orlando and Kissimmee. Opened on October 1, 1971, the resort is owned and operated by Walt Disney Parks, (...) |
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| Kazan FeatureType : null Elevation : 81 Lat/Lng : 55.7964 / 49.1089 | Kazan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. With a population of 1,243,500, it is the sixth most populous city in Russia. Kazan is one of the largest religious, economic, political, scientific, educational, cultural and sports centers in Russia (...) |
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| Rehovot FeatureType : city Elevation : 47 Lat/Lng : 31.8942 / 34.812 | Rehovot is a city in the Central District of Israel, about south of Tel Aviv. In it had a population of . (...) |
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| Valley of the Kings FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 187 Lat/Lng : 25.7403 / 32.6024 | The Valley of the Kings , also known as the Valley of the Gates of the Kings ,Reeves and Wilkinson (1996), p.6 is a valley in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the 16th to 11th century BC, rock cut tombs were excavated for the Pharaohs and powerful nobles of the New Kingdom (the (...) |
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| Illinois FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 167 Lat/Lng : 41.2782 / -88.3802 | Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is the 6th-most populous U.S. state and 25th-largest state in terms of land area, and is often noted as a microcosm of the entire United States (...) |
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| Rhodes FeatureType : isle Elevation : 117 Lat/Lng : 36.1836 / 27.9639 | Rhodes (Ródos) is the largest of the Dodecanese islands of Greece in terms of land area and also the island group's historical capital. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within the Rhodes regional unit, which is part of the South Aegean administrative region (...) |
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| Saipan FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 151 Lat/Lng : 15.2093 / 145.7632 | Saipan (formerly in Spanish: Saipán) is the largest island of the Northern Mariana Islands, a commonwealth of the United States in the western Pacific Ocean. According to 2017 estimates by the United States Census Bureau, Saipan's population was 52,263 (...) |
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| Afghanistan FeatureType : country Elevation : 1817 Lat/Lng : 34.5167 / 69.1333 | Afghanistan (; Pashto/Dari: , Pashto: Afġānistān ,The phoneme ف occurs only in loanwords in Pashto, it tends to be replaced with پ. is also an allophone of before voiced consonants; is an allophone of before voiced consonants in loanwords (...) |
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| Brown University FeatureType : edu Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 41.8262 / -71.4032 | Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, it is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the U.S (...) |
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| Dubai FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 25.205 / 55.2698 | Dubai is the largest and most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). On the southeast coast of the Persian Gulf, it is the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, one of the seven emirates that make up the country.The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa. D Long, B Reich. p (...) |
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| Amman FeatureType : city Elevation : 820 Lat/Lng : 31.954 / 35.9354 | Amman is the capital and most populous city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political and cultural centre. Situated in north-central Jordan, Amman is the administrative centre of the Amman Governorate. The city has a population of 4,007,526 and a land area of (...) |
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| University of Southern California FeatureType : edu Elevation : 70 Lat/Lng : 34.0205 / -118.2856 | The University of Southern California (USC or SC) is an American private research university in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1880, it is the oldest private research university in California. . Usc.edu. Retrieved on 2015-11-28 (...) |
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| Finland FeatureType : country Lat/Lng : 64.35 / 26.65 | Finland , officially the Republic of Finland "Republic of Finland", or "" in Finnish, "" in Swedish, and "" in Sami, is the long protocol name, which is however not defined by law. Legislation recognises only the short name (...) |
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| 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 (...) |
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| Cardiff FeatureType : city Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 51.4827 / -3.1823 | Cardiff is the capital of Wales, and its largest city. The eleventh-largest city in the United Kingdom, it is Wales's chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural institutions and Welsh media, and the seat of the National Assembly for Wales (...) |
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| McAllen, Texas FeatureType : city Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : 26.2164 / -98.2364 | McAllen is the largest city in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States, and the twenty-second most populous city in Texas. It is located at the southern tip of the state in the Rio Grande Valley. The city limits extend south to the Rio Grande, across from the Mexican city of Reynosa, and McAllen is (...) |
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| Turin FeatureType : null Elevation : 243 Lat/Lng : 45.0792 / 7.6761 | Turin , then Taurinum. is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy. It is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Turin (an administrative division of Italy) and of the Piedmont region, and was the first capital city of Italy from 1861 to 1865 (...) |
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| Philippines FeatureType : country Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 14.5889 / 120.9715 | The Philippines (; or '), officially the Republic of the Philippines , is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Situated in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of about 7,641 islands that are categorized broadly under three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and (...) |
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| Butte, Montana FeatureType : city Elevation : 1664 Lat/Lng : 45.9989 / -112.5242 | Butte is a town in, and the county seat of Silver Bow County, Montana, United States. In 1977, the city and county governments consolidated to form the sole entity of Butte-Silver Bow. The city covers , and, according to the 2010 census, has a population of approximately 36,400, making it Montana's (...) |
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| Wall Street FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 40.7063 / -74.0092 | Wall Street is an eight-block-long street running roughly northwest to southeast from Broadway to South Street, at the East River, in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City., retrieved July 17, 2007 (...) |
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| Damascus FeatureType : null Elevation : 694 Lat/Lng : 33.5122 / 36.2984 | Damascus (; ' , Syrian:) is the capital of the Syrian Arab Republic; it is also the country's largest city, following the decline in population of Aleppo due to the battle for the city. It is colloquially known in Syria as ash-Sham and titled the City of Jasmine (...) |
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| Montevideo FeatureType : null Elevation : 46 Lat/Lng : -34.8833 / -56.1667 | Montevideo is the capital and largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 1,319,108 (about one-third of the country's total population) in an area of . The southernmost capital city in the Americas, Montevideo is situated on the southern coast of the (...) |
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| 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 (...) |
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| Hackensack, New Jersey FeatureType : city Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 40.8894 / -74.0457 | Hackensack is a city in Bergen County in New Jersey, United States, and serves as its county seat., New Jersey Department of State. Accessed July 10, 2017. The area was officially named New Barbadoes Township until 1921, but it was informally known as Hackensack since at least the 18th century (...) |
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| Darłowo FeatureType : city Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 54.4222 / 16.4111 | Darłowo (in full The Royal City of Darłowo;), is a seaside town in the West Pomeranian Region, at the south coast of the Baltic Sea, north-western Poland, with 14,931 inhabitants . Located in Sławno County in West Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999, it was previously in the Koszalin Voivodeship (...) |
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| Virginia City, Nevada FeatureType : city Elevation : 1886 Lat/Lng : 39.3103 / -119.6494 | Virginia City is a census-designated place (CDP) that is the county seat of Storey County, Nevada. It is part of the Reno–Sparks Metropolitan Statistical Area. Virginia City sprang up as a boomtown with the 1859 discovery of the Comstock Lode, the first major silver deposit discovery in the United (...) |
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| Vietnam Veterans Memorial FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 38.8911 / -77.0478 | The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a 2-acre (8,000 m²) U.S. national memorial in Washington D.C. It honors service members of the U.S. armed forces who fought in the Vietnam War, service members who died in service in Vietnam/South East Asia, and those service members who were unaccounted for (missing (...) |
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| Belleville, New Jersey FeatureType : city Elevation : 52 Lat/Lng : 40.7955 / -74.1618 | Belleville (French: "Belle ville" meaning "Beautiful city / town"Hutchinson, Viola L. , New Jersey Public Library Commission, May 1945. Accessed August 27, 2015., Westfield Historical Society. Accessed November 8, 2011 (...) |
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| 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 (...) |
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| Millburn, New Jersey FeatureType : city Elevation : 147 Lat/Lng : 40.7416 / -74.3213 | Millburn is a suburban township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 20,149, reflecting an increase of 384 (+1.9%) from the 19,765 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 1,135 (+6 (...) |
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| Triborough Bridge FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 40.78 / -73.9267 | The Triborough Bridge (known officially as the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge, and sometimes referred to as the RFK Triborough Bridge, the RFK Bridge, or simply the RFK) is a complex of bridges and elevated expressway viaducts in New York City (...) |
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| Idaho National Laboratory FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1504 Lat/Lng : 43.53 / -112.94 | Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is one of the national laboratories of the United States Department of Energy and is managed by the Battelle Energy Alliance. While the laboratory does other research, historically it has been involved with nuclear research (...) |
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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 (...) |
| 35 | 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 (...) | |
| 36 | Internet Archive FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 55 Lat/Lng : 37.7823 / -122.4716 | The Internet Archive is a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge." It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and (...) | |
| 37 | YouTube FeatureType : null Elevation : 46 Lat/Lng : 37.6281 / -122.4264 | YouTube, LLC is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1 (...) | |
| 38 | Theodor Herzl FeatureType : null Elevation : 832 Lat/Lng : 31.7739 / 35.1806 | Theodor Herzl (; ; Te'odor Hertsel; ; Hebrew name given at his brit milah Binyamin Ze'ev , also known in Hebrew as , Chozeh HaMedinah, lit. "Visionary of the State"; 2 May 1860 – 3 July 1904) was an Austro-Hungarian journalist, playwright, political activist, and writer who was the father of modern (...) | |
| 39 | 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 (...) | |
| 40 | Facebook FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 37.4848 / -122.1484 | Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and (...) | |
| 41 | Google FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 37.4222 / -122.0844 | Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D (...) | |
| 42 | IKEA FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 52.1671 / 4.4824 | IKEA is a Swedish-founded multinational group that designs and sells , kitchen appliances and home accessories, among other useful goods and occasionally home services. It has been the world's largest furniture retailer since at least 2008 (...) | |
| 43 | 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 (...) | |
| 44 | Dominican Republic FeatureType : country Elevation : 143 Lat/Lng : 18.9583 / -70.3456 | The Dominican Republic is a country located in the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands, along with Saint Martin, (...) | |
| 45 | Nullarbor Plain FeatureType : city Elevation : 161 Lat/Lng : -30.7678 / 128.97 | The Nullarbor Plain (; Latin: nullus, "no", and arbor, "tree") is part of the area of flat, almost treeless, arid or semi-arid country of southern Australia, located on the Great Australian Bight coast with the Great Victoria Desert to its north (...) | |
| 46 | Oklahoma FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 399 Lat/Lng : 35.5167 / -97.6 | Oklahoma is a state in the South Central region of the United States, bordered by Kansas on the north, Missouri on the northeast, Arkansas on the east, Texas on the south, New Mexico on the west, and Colorado on the northwest (...) | |
| 47 | 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 (...) | |
| 48 | Girl Scouts of the USA FeatureType : null Elevation : 61 Lat/Lng : 40.7509 / -73.9834 | Girl Scouts of the United States of America (GSUSA), commonly referred to as simply Girl Scouts, is a youth organization for girls in the United States and American girls living abroad. Founded by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912, it was organized after Low met Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of (...) | |
| 49 | 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). (...) | |
| 50 | United States Department of Homeland Security FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 115 Lat/Lng : 38.9381 / -77.0822 | The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is a cabinet department of the United States federal government with responsibilities in public security, roughly comparable to the interior or home ministries of other countries (...) | |
| 51 | Tesco FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : 51.7052 / -0.0268 | Tesco plc, trading as Tesco, is a British multinational groceries and general merchandise retailer with headquarters in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom. It is the third-largest retailer in the world measured by gross revenues and ninth-largest retailer in the world (...) | |
| 52 | Willis Tower FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 183 Lat/Lng : 41.8789 / -87.6358 | The Willis Tower, built as and still commonly referred to as the Sears Tower, is a 110-story, skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. At completion in 1973, it surpassed the World Trade Center towers in New York to become the tallest building in the world, a title it held for nearly 25 years; it remained (...) | |
| 53 | PricewaterhouseCoopers FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : 51.5077 / -0.1241 | PricewaterhouseCoopers (doing business as PwC) is a multinational professional services network headquartered in London, United Kingdom. PwC ranks as the second largest professional services firm in the world behind Deloitte, and is one of the Big Four auditors, along with Deloitte, EY and KPMG (...) | |
| 54 | City FeatureType : null Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 31.3222 / 45.6361 | A city is a large human settlement.Goodall, B. (1987) The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) The Social Science Encyclopedia. 2nd edition. London: Routledge (...) | |
| 55 | Six Flags Great Adventure FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : 40.1377 / -74.4405 | Six Flags Great Adventure is an amusement park located in Jackson, New Jersey, owned by Six Flags Entertainment Corp. Situated between New York City and Philadelphia, the park complex also contains the Hurricane Harbor water park. The park opened in 1974 under restaurateur Warner LeRoy (...) | |
| 56 | 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 (...) | |
| 57 | Berkeley County, West Virginia FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 177 Lat/Lng : 39.47 / -78.03 | Berkeley County is in the Eastern Panhandle region of West Virginia in the United States. The county is part of the Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the county population was 104,169, making it the second-most populous of West Virginia's 55 (...) | |
| 58 | 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 (...) | |
| 59 | Berlin Wall FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 36 Lat/Lng : 52.5161 / 13.3769 | The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany), starting on 13 August 1961, the Wall cut off (by land) West Berlin from virtually all of surrounding East Germany and (...) | |
| 60 | Bergen County, New Jersey FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 40.9595 / -74.0688 | Bergen County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of New Jersey., United States Census Bureau. Accessed March 29, 2018. As of the 2017 Census estimate, the county's population was 948,406, an increase of 4.8% from the 2010 United States Census,, United States Census Bureau (...) | |
| 61 | Sun Yat-sen FeatureType : null Elevation : 726 Lat/Lng : 20.6918 / -156.3785 | Sun Yat-sen (; 12 November 1866 – 12 March 1925)Singtao daily. Saturday edition. 23 October 2010. section A18. Sun Yat-sen Xinhai revolution 100th anniversary edition . was the founding father of the Republic of China (...) | |
| 62 | Nokia FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 60.2255 / 24.7509 | Nokia Corporation (commonly referred to as Nokia;) is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics company, founded in 1865. Nokia's headquarters are in Espoo, in the greater Helsinki metropolitan area (...) | |
| 63 | 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 (...) | |
| 64 | Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport FeatureType : null Elevation : 185 Lat/Lng : 32.8968 / -97.038 | Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport is the primary international airport serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex area in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the largest hub for American Airlines, which is headquartered near the airport (...) | |
| 65 | California Gold Rush FeatureType : null Elevation : 250 Lat/Lng : 38.8025 / -120.8947 | The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California."vents from January 1848 through December 1855 generally acknowledged as the 'Gold Rush' (...) | |
| 66 | 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) (...) | |
| 67 | KSTP-TV FeatureType : null Elevation : 307 Lat/Lng : 45.0622 / -93.1395 | KSTP-TV, virtual channel 5 (UHF digital channel 35), is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States and serving the Twin Cities television market. It is the flagship television property of Saint Paul-based Hubbard Broadcasting, which has owned the station (...) | |
| 68 | Scientology FeatureType : null Elevation : 1908 Lat/Lng : 35.5117 / -104.58 | Scientology is a body of religious beliefs and practices launched in May 1952 by American author L. Ron Hubbard (1911–86). Hubbard initially developed a program of ideas called Dianetics, which was distributed through the Dianetics Foundation (...) | |
| 69 | Palestinian territories FeatureType : null Elevation : 814 Lat/Lng : 31.8833 / 35.2 | Palestinian territories has been used for many years to describe the territories occupied by Israel since 1967, namely the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip. More recently, the official United Nations terminology has been used, occupied Palestinian territory (OPT or oPt) (...) | |
| 70 | Iowa State University FeatureType : edu Elevation : 287 Lat/Lng : 42.0239 / -93.6476 | Iowa State University of Science and Technology, generally referred to as Iowa State, is a public land-grant and space-grant research university located in Ames, Iowa, United States. It is the largest university in the state of Iowa and the third largest university in the Big 12 athletic conference (...) | |
| 71 | WBTS-LD FeatureType : null Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 42.3103 / -71.2372 | WBTS-LD, virtual channel 8 (UHF digital channel 46), is a low-powered NBC owned-and-operated television station licensed to Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. The station is owned by the NBC Owned Television Stations (NBC-OTVS) subsidiary of the NBCUniversal division of Comcast, and (...) | |
| 72 | Society of Jesus FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 41.9014 / 12.4606 | The Society of Jesus (SJ;) is a scholarly religious congregation of the Catholic Church which originated in sixteenth-century Spain. The members are called Jesuits .Spiteri, Stephen C. (2016). . University of Malta. p. 16 (...) | |
| 73 | Free City of Danzig FeatureType : country Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 54.35 / 18.6667 | The Free City of Danzig was a semi-autonomous city-state that existed between 1920 and 1939, consisting of the Baltic Sea port of Danzig (now , Poland) and nearly 200 towns and villages in the surrounding areas (...) | |
| 74 | 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 (...) | |
| 75 | 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 (...) | |
| 76 | 1906 San Francisco earthquake FeatureType : null Elevation : 60 Lat/Lng : 37.6908 / -122.4658 | The 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck the coast of Northern California at 5:12 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18 with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). High intensity shaking was felt from Eureka on the North Coast to the Salinas Valley, an (...) | |
| 77 | 20th Century Fox FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 89 Lat/Lng : 34.0511 / -118.4114 | Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (colloquial: Twentieth Century Fox; Fox; 20th Century Fox) is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox. One of the "Big Six" major American film studios, it was formed from the merger of the Fox Film Corporation and Twentieth Century Pictures (...) | |
| 78 | United States presidential election, 2008 FeatureType : null Elevation : 1636 Lat/Lng : 39.7392 / -104.9847 | The United States presidential election of 2008 was the 56th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. The Democratic ticket of Barack Obama, a Senator from Illinois, and Joe Biden, a long-time Senator from Delaware, defeated the Republican ticket of Senator John (...) | |
| 79 | Kim Il-sung FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 910 Lat/Lng : 39.9721 / 126.3214 | Kim Il-sung (officially transcribed Kim Il Sung; ; ; ; born Kim Sŏng-ju ; 15 April 1912 – 8 July 1994) was the first Supreme Leader of North Korea, from its establishment in 1948 until his death in 1994. He held the posts of Premier from 1948 to 1972 and President from 1972 to 1994 (...) | |
| 80 | Sussex County, New Jersey FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 169 Lat/Lng : 41.14 / -74.69 | Sussex County is the northernmost county in the State of New Jersey. Its county seat is Newton., New Jersey Department of State. Accessed July 10, 2017. It is part of the New York City Metropolitan Area. As of the 2017 Census estimate, the county's population was 141,682, making it the 17th-most (...) | |
| 81 | Lawrence of Arabia (film) FeatureType : null Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 37.0236 / -1.8814 | Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 epic historical drama film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. It was directed by David Lean and produced by Sam Spiegel through his British company Horizon Pictures, with the screenplay by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson (...) | |
| 82 | 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 (...) | |
| 83 | Alexander von Humboldt FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 60.3833 / 59.2 | Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (;. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. ; 14 September 17696 May 1859) was a Prussian polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of Romantic philosophy and science (...) | |
| 84 | 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 (...) | |
| 85 | WCBS-TV FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 58 Lat/Lng : 40.7484 / -73.9857 | WCBS-TV, channel 2, is the flagship station of the CBS television network, licensed to New York City. WCBS-TV is owned by the CBS Television Stations division of CBS Corporation, and operates as part of a television duopoly with Riverhead, New York-licensed independent station WLNY-TV (channel 55) (...) | |
| 86 | Monocacy River FeatureType : null Elevation : 63 Lat/Lng : 39.2228 / -77.4542 | The Monocacy River is a free-flowing left tributary to the Potomac River, which empties into the Atlantic Ocean via the Chesapeake Bay. The river is long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. , accessed August 15, 2011 with a drainage area of about (...) | |
| 87 | Statistics New Zealand FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : -41.2777 / 174.7843 | Statistics New Zealand , branded as Stats NZ, is the public service department of New Zealand charged with the collection of statistics related to the economy, population and society of New Zealand. To this end, Stats NZ produces censuses and surveys. (...) | |
| 88 | Universal Studios Florida FeatureType : null Elevation : 36 Lat/Lng : 28.4752 / -81.4671 | Universal Studios Florida is a theme park and production studio located in Orlando, Florida, United States. Opened on June 7, 1990, the park's theme is the entertainment industry, in particular movies and television (...) | |
| 89 | WSMV-TV FeatureType : null Elevation : 196 Lat/Lng : 36.1412 / -86.8623 | WSMV-TV, virtual channel 4 (VHF digital channel 10), is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to Nashville, Tennessee, United States. The station is owned by the Des Moines, Iowa-based Meredith Corporation. WSMV's studios and transmitter are located on Knob Road in west Nashville. (...) | |
| 90 | Smithsonian American Art Museum FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 38.897 / -77.0227 | The Smithsonian American Art Museum (commonly known as SAAM, and formerly the National Museum of American Art) is a museum in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institution. Together with its branch museum, the Renwick Gallery, SAAM holds one of the world's largest and most inclusive (...) | |
| 91 | WJLA-TV FeatureType : null Elevation : 129 Lat/Lng : 38.9503 / -77.0797 | WJLA-TV, virtual and VHF digital channel 7, is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to the American capital city of Washington, District of Columbia. The station is owned by Hunt Valley, Maryland-based Sinclair Broadcast Group, which also operates local cable channel WJLA 24/7 News (...) | |
| 92 | 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 (...) | |
| 93 | KNTV FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 350 Lat/Lng : 37.6853 / -122.4336 | KNTV, virtual channel 11 (VHF digital channel 12), branded as NBC Bay Area, is an NBC owned-and-operated television station licensed to San Jose, California, United States and serving the San Francisco Bay Area (...) | |
| 94 | 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 (...) | |
| 95 | KARE FeatureType : null Elevation : 307 Lat/Lng : 45.0622 / -93.1392 | KARE, virtual and VHF digital channel 11, is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States and serving the Twin Cities television market. The station is owned by Tegna, Inc (...) | |
| 96 | Georgia Public Broadcasting FeatureType : null Elevation : 290 Lat/Lng : 33.7861 / -84.3956 | Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) is a state network of PBS member television stations and NPR member radio stations serving the U.S. state of Georgia. It is operated by the Georgia Public Telecommunications Commission, which holds the licenses for most of the PBS and NPR member stations licensed in (...) | |
| 97 | Joseph Smith FeatureType : null Elevation : 162 Lat/Lng : 40.5405 / -91.3924 | Joseph Smith Jr. (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader and founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. When he was 24, he published the Book of Mormon, and he had attracted tens of thousands of followers and founded a religion that continues to the present (...) | |
| 98 | KNXV-TV FeatureType : null Elevation : 815 Lat/Lng : 33.3333 / -112.0636 | KNXV-TV, virtual and UHF digital channel 15, is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Phoenix, Arizona, United States. The station is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company. KNXV-TV's studios are located on the city's east side (north of Sky Harbor International Airport), and its transmitter (...) | |
| 99 | WKYC FeatureType : null Elevation : 316 Lat/Lng : 41.3861 / -81.6891 | WKYC is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 17 (or virtual channel 3 via PSIP) from a transmitter in suburban Parma, Ohio. Owned by Tegna, Inc (...) | |
| 100 | WIVB-TV FeatureType : null Elevation : 178 Lat/Lng : 43.0256 / -78.9284 | WIVB-TV, virtual channel 4 (UHF digital channel 32), is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Buffalo, New York, United States. The station is owned by the Nexstar Media Group, as part of a duopoly with CW affiliate WNLO (channel 23) (...) | |
| 101 | National Institute of Standards and Technology FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 130 Lat/Lng : 39.1331 / -77.2236 | The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is a physical sciences laboratory, and a non-regulatory agency of the United States Department of Commerce. Its mission is to promote innovation and industrial competitiveness (...) | |
| 102 | WTAE-TV FeatureType : null Elevation : 307 Lat/Lng : 40.2803 / -79.8028 | WTAE-TV, virtual channel 4 (UHF digital channel 27), is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It has been owned by the Hearst Television subsidiary of Hearst Communications since the station's inception, making this one of two stations that have (...) | |
| 103 | WHDH (TV) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 43 Lat/Lng : 42.3114 / -71.2167 | WHDH, channel 7, is an independent television station located in Boston, Massachusetts. WHDH is owned by Sunbeam Television, and operates as part of a duopoly with CW affiliate WLVI (channel 56). The two stations share studio facilities located at Bulfinch Place, near Government Center in downtown (...) | |
| 104 | WSBK-TV FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 42.3103 / -71.2372 | WSBK-TV, virtual channel 38 (UHF digital channel 39), is a MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station licensed to Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of CBS Corporation, as part of a duopoly with CBS owned-and-operated station WBZ-TV (...) | |
| 105 | WPIX FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 58 Lat/Lng : 40.7483 / -73.9861 | WPIX, virtual and VHF digital channel 11, is a CW-affiliated television station licensed to New York City and owned by Tribune Broadcasting. Since its inception in 1948, WPIX's studios and offices have been located in the Daily News Building at 220 E. 42nd St (...) | |
| 106 | Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival FeatureType : null Elevation : 2 Lat/Lng : 33.678 / -116.234 | The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (commonly referred to as Coachella or the Coachella Festival) is an annual music and arts festival held at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, located in the Inland Empire's Coachella Valley in the Colorado Desert (...) | |
| 107 | Johns Hopkins Hospital FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 47 Lat/Lng : 39.2974 / -76.5924 | The Johns Hopkins Hospital (JHH) is the teaching hospital and biomedical research facility of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, located in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. It was founded in 1889 using money from a bequest of over $7 million (1873 money, worth 134 (...) | |
| 108 | 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 (...) | |
| 109 | WMUR-TV FeatureType : null Elevation : 392 Lat/Lng : 42.9838 / -71.5897 | WMUR-TV, virtual channel and VHF digital channel 9, is an ABC-affiliated television station located in Manchester, New Hampshire, United States. The station is owned by the Hearst Television subsidiary of the Hearst Corporation (...) | |
| 110 | Forest Hills, Queens FeatureType : null Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : 40.715 / -73.845 | Forest Hills is a mostly residential neighborhood in the borough of Queens in New York City. Originally, the area was referred to as "Whitepot". at QueensNewYork.com The north, east, and south boundaries are the Long Island Expressway, Grand Central Parkway, and Union Turnpike, respectively (...) | |
| 111 | American Israel Public Affairs Committee FeatureType : null Elevation : 34 Lat/Lng : 42.3558 / -71.0582 | The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is a lobbying group that advocates pro-Israel policies to the Congress and Executive Branch of the United States. The current President of AIPAC is Lillian Pinkus (...) | |
| 112 | Panama–Pacific International Exposition FeatureType : null Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 37.8047 / -122.4467 | The Panama–Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) was a world's fair held in San Francisco, California, U.S., from February 20 to December 4, 1915. Its stated purpose was to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal, but it was widely seen in the city as an opportunity to showcase its recovery (...) | |
| 113 | Bay Islands Department FeatureType : adm1st Lat/Lng : 16.2908 / -86.4108 | The Bay Islands is a group of islands off the coast of Honduras. Collectively, the islands form one of the 18 Departments of Honduras. The departmental capital is Roatan, on the island of Roatán. The total surface area of the islands is 250 km2 (...) | |
| 114 | California Institute of the Arts FeatureType : edu Elevation : 436 Lat/Lng : 34.3931 / -118.5669 | The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is a private university in Santa Clarita, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the United States created specifically for students of both the visual and performing arts (...) | |
| 115 | Vice Media FeatureType : null Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 40.7139 / -73.9597 | Vice Media LLC is a North American digital media and broadcasting company. Originating from the Montreal-based Vice magazine co-founded by Suroosh Alvi, Shane Smith, and Gavin McInnes (who left the company in 2008), Vice expanded primarily into youth and young adult–focused digital media, including (...) | |
| 116 | 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 (...) | |
| 117 | Museum of Bad Art FeatureType : null Elevation : 36 Lat/Lng : 42.248 / -71.173 | The Museum Of Bad Art (MOBA) is a privately owned museum whose stated aim is "to celebrate the labor of artists whose work would be displayed and appreciated in no other forum". It was originally in Dedham with current branches in Somerville, Brookline, and South Weymouth in Massachusetts (...) | |
| 118 | Golden Square Mile FeatureType : null Elevation : 58 Lat/Lng : 45.5005 / -73.5763 | The Square Mile and also known as the Golden Square Mile (officially in and also known as Mille carré doré) is the nostalgic name given to an urban neighbourhood developed principally between 1850 and 1930 at the foot of Mount Royal, in the west-central section of downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada (...) | |
| 119 | Valve Corporation FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 62 Lat/Lng : 47.6139 / -122.1949 | Valve Corporation is an American video game developer, publisher and digital distribution company headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. It is the developer of the software distribution platform Steam and the Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Portal, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress, Left 4 Dead, and Dota 2 (...) | |
| 120 | WOOD-TV FeatureType : null Elevation : 250 Lat/Lng : 42.6872 / -85.5094 | WOOD-TV, virtual channel 8 (VHF digital channel 7), is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States and serving the Grand Rapids–Kalamazoo–Battle Creek television market (...) | |
| 121 | University of Dayton FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 245 Lat/Lng : 39.7404 / -84.1792 | The University of Dayton (UD) is an American private Roman Catholic national research university in Ohio's sixth-largest city, Dayton. Founded in 1850 by the Society of Mary (Marianists), it is one of three Marianist universities in the nation and the second-largest private university in Ohio (...) | |
| 122 | WBMA-LD FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 288 Lat/Lng : 33.4411 / -86.8839 | WBMA-LD, virtual channel 58 (UHF digital channel 40), is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Birmingham, Alabama, United States. The station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, as part of a de facto legal triopoly with MyNetworkTV affiliate WABM (channel 68) and Homewood-licensed (...) | |
| 123 | WYFF FeatureType : null Elevation : 943 Lat/Lng : 35.1119 / -82.6067 | WYFF, virtual channel 4 (UHF digital channel 36), is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to Greenville, South Carolina, United States, serving Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina. The station is owned by the Hearst Television subsidiary of Hearst Communications (...) | |
| 124 | Fort Greene, Brooklyn FeatureType : city Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : 40.687 / -73.975 | Fort Greene is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Part of Brooklyn Community Board 2 and served by the New York City Police Department's 88th Precinct,, NYPD. Fort Greene is listed on the New York State Registry and on the National Register of Historic Places, and is a New York (...) | |
| 125 | Dumont, New Jersey FeatureType : city Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 40.9406 / -73.9967 | Dumont is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 17,479, reflecting a decrease of 24 (-0.1%) from the 17,503 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 316 (+1 (...) | |
| 126 | San Diego Comic-Con FeatureType : event Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 32.7063 / -117.1618 | San Diego Comic-Con International is a multi-genre entertainment and comic convention held annually in San Diego, California, United States. The name, as given on its website, is Comic-Con International: San Diego; but it is commonly known simply as Comic-Con or the San Diego Comic-Con or "SDCC" (...) | |
| 127 | Philo Farnsworth FeatureType : null Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 37.8004 / -122.4025 | Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971) was an American inventor and television pioneer.Obituary Variety, March 17, 1971, page 79. He made many contributions that were crucial to the early development of all-electronic television (...) | |
| 128 | Veterans of Foreign Wars FeatureType : null Elevation : 305 Lat/Lng : 39.0668 / -94.591 | With The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (VFW, or simply Veterans of Foreign Wars) is an American war veterans organization headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. The Veterans of Foreign Wars was established by James C. Putnam on September 29, 1899, in Columbus, Ohio (...) | |
| 129 | Robert Gordon University FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 23 Lat/Lng : 57.1185 / -2.1409 | Robert Gordon University, commonly called RGU, is a public university in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland. It became a university in 1992, and originated from an educational institution founded in the 18th century by Robert Gordon, a prosperous Aberdeen merchant, and various institutions which (...) | |
| 130 | WRDA (FM) FeatureType : null Elevation : 497 Lat/Lng : 34.0661 / -84.4542 | WRDA (105.7 FM) – branded Alt 105.7 – is a commercial radio station licensed to Canton, Georgia, broadcasting an alternative rock format. Owned by iHeartMedia, WRDA serves the Atlanta metropolitan area (...) | |
| 131 | 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 (...) | |
| 132 | Scopes Trial FeatureType : null Elevation : 216 Lat/Lng : 35.4949 / -85.0127 | The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in July 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John T (...) | |
| 133 | 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 (...) | |
| 134 | Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 34.3927 / 132.4524 | is a memorial park in the center of Hiroshima, Japan. It is dedicated to the legacy of Hiroshima as the first city in the world to suffer a nuclear attack, and to the memories of the bomb's direct and indirect victims (of whom there may have been as many as 140,000) (...) | |
| 135 | WOWT FeatureType : null Elevation : 361 Lat/Lng : 41.3111 / -96.0269 | WOWT, virtual channel 6 (UHF digital channel 22), is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to Omaha, Nebraska, United States and also serving Council Bluffs, Iowa. The station is owned by Gray Television (...) | |
| 136 | The Winsford Academy FeatureType : edu Elevation : 46 Lat/Lng : 53.1951 / -2.5359 | The Winsford Academy (simply referred to as Winsford Academy and formerly The Winsford E-ACT Academy) is an 11–16 mixed secondary school with academy status in Winsford, Cheshire, England. It was established in September 2010 following the amalgamation of the two predecessor schools; Verdin High (...) | |
| 137 | Ingersoll, Ontario FeatureType : null Elevation : 272 Lat/Lng : 43.0391 / -80.8846 | Ingersoll is a town in Oxford County on the Thames River in southwestern Ontario, Canada. The nearest cities are Woodstock to the east and London to the west. Ingersoll is situated north of and along Highway 401 (...) | |
| 138 | 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 (...) | |
| 139 | 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 (...) | |
| 140 | Etchmiadzin Cathedral FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 875 Lat/Lng : 40.1618 / 44.2912 | Etchmiadzin Cathedral (Ēǰmiatsni mayr tačar) is the mother church of the Armenian Apostolic Church, located in the city of Vagharshapat (Etchmiadzin), Armenia. According to scholars it was the first cathedral built in ancient Armenia, and is considered the oldest cathedral in the world (...) | |
| 141 | Storming of the Bastille FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 43 Lat/Lng : 48.8531 / 2.3692 | The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France, on the afternoon of 14 July 1789. The medieval fortress, armory, and political prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris (...) | |
| 142 | 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 (...) | |
| 143 | Battle of Appomattox Court House FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 228 Lat/Lng : 37.3778 / -78.7944 | The Battle of Appomattox Court House (Virginia, U.S.), fought on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last battles of the American Civil War (1861–1865). It was the final engagement of Confederate States Army General-in-Chief, Robert E (...) | |
| 144 | National Rifle Association FeatureType : null Elevation : 141 Lat/Lng : 38.8631 / -77.3356 | The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) is an American nonprofit organization that advocates for gun rights.More gun rights sources: * * * * * Founded in 1871, the group has informed its members about firearm-related legislation since 1934, and it has directly lobbied for and against (...) | |
| 145 | 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 (...) | |
| 146 | The Golden Girls FeatureType : null Elevation : 116 Lat/Lng : 34.066 / -118.4474 | The Golden Girls is an American sitcom created by Susan Harris that originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992, with a total of 180 half-hour episodes spanning seven seasons. The show stars Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty as four older women who share (...) | |
| 147 | KOIN FeatureType : null Elevation : 340 Lat/Lng : 45.5161 / -122.7342 | KOIN, virtual channel 6 (UHF digital channel 25), is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Portland, Oregon, United States. The station is owned by Nexstar Media Group. KOIN's studios are located in the basement of the KOIN Center skyscraper on Southwest Columbia Street in downtown (...) | |
| 148 | Lehman Brothers FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 40.7606 / -73.983 | Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. was a global financial services firm. Before filing for bankruptcy in 2008, Lehman was the fourth-largest investment bank in the United States (behind Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Merrill Lynch), doing business in investment banking, equity and fixed-income sales (...) | |
| 149 | WKEF FeatureType : null Elevation : 278 Lat/Lng : 39.7244 / -84.255 | WKEF, virtual channel 22 (UHF digital channel 18), is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Dayton, Ohio, United States and serving the Miami Valley. The station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, which also operates Fox affiliate WRGT-TV (channel 45) through a local marketing (...) | |
| 150 | Bread and Puppet Theater FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 419 Lat/Lng : 44.6842 / -72.178 | The Bread and Puppet Theater (often known simply as Bread & Puppet) is a politically radical puppet theater, active since the 1960s, currently based in Glover, Vermont. Its founder and director is Peter Schumann (...) | |
| 151 | Wheaton College (Massachusetts) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 2 Lat/Lng : 41.9683 / -71.1845 | Wheaton College is a four-year, private liberal arts college with a student body of approximately 1,650. Located in Norton, Massachusetts, between Boston, and Providence, Rhode Island, Wheaton was founded in 1834 as a female seminary, it remained one of the oldest institutions of higher education (...) | |
| 152 | LucasArts FeatureType : null Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 37.8007 / -122.4497 | LucasArts Entertainment Company, LLC is an American video game publisher and licensor. Until 2013, it was also a video game developer. LucasArts is best known for its graphic adventure games, as well as games based on the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises (...) | |
| 153 | Lunar and Planetary Institute FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 29.588 / -95.1009 | The Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) is a scientific research institute dedicated to study of the solar system, its formation, evolution, and current state. The Institute is part of the Universities Space Research Associationhttp://www.usra (...) | |
| 154 | Jasenovac concentration camp FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 91 Lat/Lng : 45.2817 / 16.935 | The Jasenovac concentration camp was an extermination camp established in Slavonia by the authorities of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during World War II. The camp was established and operated solely by the governing Ustaše regime rather than by Nazi Germany as in the rest of occupied (...) | |
| 155 | The American University in Cairo FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 321 Lat/Lng : 30.0199 / 31.5003 | The American University in Cairo (abbreviated to AUC; ') is an independent, English language, private, research university located in Cairo, Egypt. The university offers American-style learning programs at the undergraduate, graduate and professional levels, along with a continuing education program (...) | |
| 156 | Battle of Stones River FeatureType : event Elevation : 178 Lat/Lng : 35.8685 / -86.4306 | The Battle of Stones River (also known as the Second Battle of Murfreesboro) was a battle fought from December 31, 1862, to January 2, 1863, in Middle Tennessee, as the culmination of the Stones River Campaign in the Western Theater of the American Civil War (...) | |
| 157 | Network Knowledge FeatureType : null Elevation : 229 Lat/Lng : 40.6289 / -89.57 | Network Knowledge is a consortium of three Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member stations in West Central Illinois, United States. It is operated by the West Central Illinois Educational Telecommunications Corporation (...) | |
| 158 | WNCN FeatureType : null Elevation : 109 Lat/Lng : 35.6747 / -78.5275 | WNCN, virtual and UHF digital channel 17, branded as CBS 17, is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Goldsboro, North Carolina, United States and serving the Triangle region (Raleigh–Durham–Chapel Hill–Fayetteville). The station is owned by the Nexstar Media Group (...) | |
| 159 | Western Governors University FeatureType : null Elevation : 1319 Lat/Lng : 40.6848 / -111.8697 | Western Governors University (WGU) is a private, nonprofit, online university based in Salt Lake City, Utah. The university was founded by 19 U.S. governors in 1997 after the idea was formulated at a 1995 meeting of the Western Governors Association (...) | |
| 160 | Tel Rumeida FeatureType : city Elevation : 904 Lat/Lng : 31.524 / 35.104 | Tel Rumeida/Jabla al RahamaRaja Shehadeh, BRILL 1997 p.289. is an agricultural and residential area in the West Bank city of Hebron. Within it lies an archaeological tell whose remains go back to the Chalcolithic period. It may have been a Canaanite royal city (...) | |
| 161 | Los Bañales FeatureType : null Elevation : 526 Lat/Lng : 42.2886 / -1.2303 | Los Bañales is a Roman archaeological site located in the municipality of Uncastillo, in the northwestern part of the province of Zaragoza, Spain. It is located in the region of the Cinco Villas, with extensive occupation before, during, and after the Roman period (...) | |
| 162 | WHSV-TV FeatureType : null Elevation : 896 Lat/Lng : 38.6014 / -78.6322 | WHSV-TV, virtual channel 3 (UHF digital channel 49), is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States and serving the Shenandoah Valley. Owned by Gray Television, WHSV maintains studios at 50 North Main Street (U.S (...) | |
| 163 | 1967 Detroit riot FeatureType : event Elevation : 197 Lat/Lng : 42.3764 / -83.0994 | The 1967 Detroit riot, also known as the 1967 Detroit Rebellion or 12th Street riot was the bloodiest race riot in the "Long, hot summer of 1967". Composed mainly of confrontations between black people and police, it began in the early morning hours of Sunday July 23, 1967 in Detroit, Michigan (...) | |
| 164 | WRGT-TV FeatureType : null Elevation : 278 Lat/Lng : 39.7245 / -84.2547 | WRGT-TV, virtual channel 45 (UHF digital channel 30), is the Fox-affiliate and is also a subchannel-only primary MyNetworkTV and secondary ThisTV-affiliated television station licensed to Dayton, Ohio, United States and serving the Miami Valley (...) | |
| 165 | Louisiana Public Broadcasting FeatureType : null Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 30.373 / -91.2046 | Louisiana Public Broadcasting (LPB) is a state network of Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member television stations serving the U.S. state of Louisiana. The stations are operated by the Louisiana Educational Television Authority, an agency created by the executive department of the Louisiana (...) | |
| 166 | WCIV FeatureType : null Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 32.94 / -79.6956 | WCIV is a dual MyNetworkTV/ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Charleston, South Carolina, United States and serving the Lowcountry area. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on virtual and UHF channel 36 from a transmitter in Awendaw, South Carolina (...) | |
| 167 | Ruby Ridge FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 873 Lat/Lng : 48.6206 / -116.4331 | Ruby Ridge was the site of an eleven-day siege near Naples, Idaho, U.S., beginning on August 21, 1992, when Randy Weaver, members of his immediate family, and family friend Kevin Harris resisted agents of the United States Marshals Service (USMS) and the Hostage Rescue Team of the Federal Bureau of (...) | |
| 168 | WRGB FeatureType : null Elevation : 547 Lat/Lng : 42.6254 / -74.0102 | WRGB, virtual and VHF digital channel 6, is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Schenectady, New York, United States and serving New York's Capital District (Albany–Schenectady–Troy) as well as Berkshire County, Massachusetts (...) | |
| 169 | Battle of Buna–Gona FeatureType : event Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : -8.65 / 148.3667 | The Battle of Buna–Gona was part of the New Guinea campaign in the Pacific Theatre during World War II. It followed the conclusion of the Kokoda Track campaign and lasted from 16 November 1942 until 22 January 1943 (...) | |
| 170 | The Boulevard Mall FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 611 Lat/Lng : 36.1239 / -115.136 | The Boulevard Mall is located at 3528 S. Maryland Pkwy in Paradise, Nevada, United States (an unincorporated town in the Las Vegas Valley). The mall, located on , is a single-story super-regional mall with of lease-able retail space (...) | |
| 171 | Itamar attack FeatureType : null Elevation : 634 Lat/Lng : 32.1724 / 35.3082 | The Itamar attack, * * also called the Itamar massacre, * * * * was an attack on a Jewish family in the Israeli settlement of Itamar in the West Bank that took place on 11 March 2011, in which five members of the same family were murdered in their beds (...) | |
| 172 | 2011 San Fernando massacre FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 47 Lat/Lng : 24.8475 / -98.1583 | The 2011 San Fernando massacre, also known as the second massacre of San Fernando, was the mass murder of 193 people by Los Zetas drug cartel at La Joya ranch in the municipality of San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico in March 2011 (...) | |
| 173 | WRSP-TV FeatureType : null Elevation : 179 Lat/Lng : 39.7992 / -89.4461 | WRSP-TV is a Fox-affiliated television station licensed to Springfield, Illinois, United States and also serving Decatur. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 44 (or virtual channel 55.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter, west of Mechanicsburg, in unincorporated Sangamon County (...) | |
| 174 | Haditha massacre FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 119 Lat/Lng : 34.1397 / 42.3781 | The Haditha killings (also called the Haditha massacre or the Haditha incident) were a series of killings on November 19, 2005, in which a group of United States Marines murdered 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians. The killings occurred in Haditha, a city in Iraq's western province of Al Anbar (...) | |
| 175 | Koffler Centre of the Arts FeatureType : null Elevation : 96 Lat/Lng : 43.6469 / -79.4175 | The Koffler Centre of the Arts is a broad-based cultural institution established in 1977 by Murray and Marvelle Koffler and based at Artscape Youngplace in the West Queen West area of downtown Toronto, Ontario., Koffler Centre of the Arts, retrieved 16 March 2017 (...) | |
| 176 | 2015 in science FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 11.5265 / 90.4295 | A number of significant scientific events occurred in 2015. Gene editing based on CRISPR got significantly improved. A new human-like species, Homo naledi, was first described. Gravitational waves were observed for the first time (announced publicly in 2016), and dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres were (...) | |
| 177 | Bayview–Hunters Point, San Francisco FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 2 Lat/Lng : 37.7269 / -122.3887 | Bayview–Hunters Point, simply known as The Bayview, or most commonly known as Hunters Point, are two major neighborhoods in the southeastern corner of San Francisco, California, United States. The decommissioned Hunters Point Naval Shipyard is located within its boundaries and Candlestick Park, (...) | |
| 178 | Misfits (TV series) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 2 Lat/Lng : 51.4996 / 0.1226 | Misfits is a British science fiction comedy-drama television show, on E4, about a group of young offenders sentenced to work in a community service programme, where they obtain supernatural powers after a strange electrical storm (...) | |
| 179 | Republic of West Florida FeatureType : null Elevation : 43 Lat/Lng : 30.7833 / -91.3667 | The Republic of West Florida was a short-lived republic in the western region of Spanish West Florida for several months during 1810. It was annexed and occupied by the United States later in 1810 and subsequently became part of eastern Louisiana. (...) | |
| 180 | Ninety-Nines FeatureType : null Elevation : 399 Lat/Lng : 35.4066 / -97.5976 | The Ninety-Nines: International Organization of Women Pilots, also known as The 99s, is an international organization that provides networking, mentoring, and flight scholarship opportunities to recreational and professional female pilots (...) | |
| 181 | WLNY-TV FeatureType : null Elevation : 34 Lat/Lng : 40.8972 / -72.9152 | WLNY-TV, channel 55, is an independent television station licensed to Riverhead, New York and serving the New York City market. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of CBS Corporation, and is one half of a television duopoly with CBS' flagship station WCBS-TV (channel 2) (...) | |
| 182 | Silliman University FeatureType : edu Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 9.3128 / 123.3067 | Silliman University (also referred to as Silliman or SU) is a private research university in Dumaguete, Negros Oriental, Philippines. . Visayan Daily Star. Retrieved 2012-06-05. Established in 1901 as Silliman Institute by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, it is the first American (...) | |
| 183 | WAKA FeatureType : null Elevation : 77 Lat/Lng : 32.1492 / -86.7786 | WAKA is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Selma, Alabama, United States, serving the Black Belt and River Region of central Alabama, including Montgomery. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 42 (or virtual channel 8 via PSIP) from a transmitter in Gordonville (...) | |
| 184 | The Sergeants affair FeatureType : city Elevation : 49 Lat/Lng : 32.27 / 34.8874 | The Sergeants affair was an incident that took place in Mandate Palestine in July 1947 during Jewish insurgency in Palestine, in which the Jewish underground group Irgun kidnapped two British Army Intelligence Corps NCOs, Sergeant Clifford Martin and Sergeant Mervyn Paice and threatened to hang them (...) | |
| 185 | Grand Central Art Galleries FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 40.7528 / -73.9768 | The Grand Central Art Galleries were the exhibition and administrative space of the nonprofit Painters and Sculptors Gallery Association, an artists' cooperative established in 1922 by Walter Leighton Clark together with John Singer Sargent, Edmund Greacen, and others (...) | |
| 186 | Pelican Bay State Prison FeatureType : null Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 41.855 / -124.15 | Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP) is the only supermax state prison in California. The 275 acre prison is located in Del Norte County, California. The prison takes its name from a shallow bay on the Pacific coast, about 2 miles (3 km) to the west (...) | |
| 187 | History of Kosovo FeatureType : null Elevation : 1047 Lat/Lng : 42.4061 / 20.9728 | The history of Kosovo is intertwined with the histories of its neighboring regions. The name "Kosovo" is derived from the Kosovo Plain, where the Battle of Kosovo was fought between Serbia and the Ottoman Empire (...) | |
| 188 | Millennium Village FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 33 Lat/Lng : 28.3711 / -81.5519 | The Millennium Village was located in Epcot and was the centerpiece of Disney's Millennium Celebration. The pavilion opened up its doors to the public on October 1, 1999 and was closed down on January 1, 2001. It is, however, used on occasion (...) | |
| 189 | Prussian Settlement Commission FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 79 Lat/Lng : 52.4096 / 16.9192 | The Prussian Settlement Commission was a Prussian government commission that operated between 1886 and 1924, but actively only until 1918.Ethno-nationality, Property Rights in Land and Territorial Sovereignty in Prussian Poland, 1886-1918: Buying the land from under the Poles' feet?" by Scott M (...) | |
| 190 | Cyan Worlds FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 581 Lat/Lng : 47.7905 / -117.3543 | Cyan Inc., also known as Cyan Worlds Inc., is an American video game developer, founded as Cyan Productions by brothers Rand and Robyn Miller in 1987, and best known as the creators of the Myst series. After Myst and its sequel Riven sold several million copies each, Cyan went on to create the (...) | |
| 191 | 442nd Infantry Regiment (United States) FeatureType : null Elevation : 730 Lat/Lng : 47.7684 / 11.6487 | The 442nd Infantry Regiment is an infantry regiment of the United States Army and is the only infantry formation in the Army Reserve. The regiment is best known for its history as a fighting unit composed almost entirely of second-generation American soldiers of Japanese ancestry (Nisei) who fought (...) | |
| 192 | Fort Malden FeatureType : null Elevation : 183 Lat/Lng : 42.107 / -83.1132 | Fort Malden, formally known as Fort Amherstburg, is a defence fortification located in Amherstburg, Ontario. It was built in 1795 by Britain in order to ensure the security of British North America against any potential threat of American Invasion (...) | |
| 193 | Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 38.8872 / -77.0188 | The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial is a United States presidential memorial under construction, honoring Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe during World War II and the 34th President of the United States (...) | |
| 194 | WDVM-TV FeatureType : null Elevation : 422 Lat/Lng : 39.6625 / -77.9647 | WDVM-TV, virtual channel 25 (UHF digital channel 26), is an independent television station licensed to Hagerstown, Maryland, United States and serving the western portion of the Washington, D.C. television market. The station is owned by the Nexstar Media Group (...) | |
| 195 | Temple Israel (Boston) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 42.3403 / -71.1093 | Temple Israel is a Reform synagogue in the American city of Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1854, the congregation is the largest Reform synagogue in Boston and New England. (...) | |
| 196 | Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 51 Lat/Lng : 29.868 / 31.2194 | Khnumhotep (pronunciation: xaˈnaːmaw-ˈħatpew) and Niankhkhnum (pronunciation: nij-daˌnax-xaˈnaːmaw) were ancient Egyptian royal servants. They shared the title of Overseer of the Manicurists in the Palace of King Nyuserre Ini, sixth pharaoh of the Fifth Dynasty, reigning during the second half of (...) | |
| 197 | Arm Holdings FeatureType : null Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : 52.1818 / 0.1782 | Arm Holdings (Arm) is a British multinational semiconductor and software design company, owned by SoftBank Group and its Vision Fund. With its headquarters in Cambridgeshire, within the United Kingdom, its primary business is in the design of ARM processors (CPUs), although it also designs software (...) | |
| 198 | History of Ybor City FeatureType : null Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 27.9564 / -82.4344 | Ybor City is a historic neighborhood that includes the Ybor City Historic District in Tampa, Florida. It is located just northeast of downtown Tampa and north of Port Tampa Bay. The neighborhood has distinct architectural, culinary, cultural, and historical legacy that reflects its multi-ethnic (...) | |
| 199 | Israeli–Palestinian conflict in Hebron FeatureType : city Elevation : 929 Lat/Lng : 31.5333 / 35.095 | The Israeli–Palestinian conflict in Hebron refers to an ongoing conflict between Palestinians and Jewish settlers in the West Bank city of Hebron in the context of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Hebron has a Palestinian majority, consisting of an estimated 208,750 citizens (2015) Palestinian (...) | |
| 200 | Waldorf Astoria New York FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 46 Lat/Lng : 40.7564 / -73.9742 | The Waldorf Astoria New York is a luxury hotel in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The hotel has been housed in two historic landmark buildings in New York. The first, bearing the same name, was built in two stages, as the Waldorf Hotel and the Astoria Hotel, which accounts for its dual name (...) | |
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