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| Taipei  FeatureType : null Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : 25.0333 / 121.5333 | Taipei (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.; Hokkien POJ: Tâi-pak), officially known as Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of Taiwan (officially known as the Republic of China, "ROC") (...) |
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| Kinmen FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : 24.4504 / 118.3774 | Kinmen or Quemoy (; Standard Mandarin Pīnyīn: Jīnmén; Hokkien POJ: Kim-mn̂g/Kim-mûi), officially Kinmen County, is two groups of islands governed by the Republic of China (Taiwan) and located just off the southeastern coast of mainland China (...) |
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| Delray Beach, Florida FeatureType : null Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 26.4592 / -80.0831 | Delray Beach is a coastal city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. The population of Delray Beach was estimated at 67,371 in 2016. That is up from 60,522 according to the 2010 United States Census. Delray Beach is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an (...) |
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| Lakeland, Florida FeatureType : null Elevation : 65 Lat/Lng : 28.0411 / -81.9589 | Lakeland is a city in Polk County, Florida, along Interstate 4 east of Tampa. The westernmost city in Polk County, it is part of the Tampa Bay Area. According to the 2013 U.S. Census Bureau estimate, the city had a population of 100,710 (...) |
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| Walla Walla, Washington FeatureType : city Elevation : 300 Lat/Lng : 46.065 / -118.3303 | Walla Walla is the largest city and the county seat of Walla Walla County, Washington, United States. The population of the city itself was 31,731 at the 2010 census. The population of Walla Walla and its two suburbs, the town of College Place and unincorporated "East Walla Walla," is about 45,000 (...) |
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| Amherst, Massachusetts FeatureType : null Elevation : 99 Lat/Lng : 42.3745 / -72.5186 | Amherst is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Connecticut River valley. As of the 2010 census, the population was 37,819, making it the highest populated municipality in Hampshire County (although the county seat is Northampton) (...) |
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| Library of Congress FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 34 Lat/Lng : 38.8868 / -77.0046 | The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States (...) |
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| Cocos (Keeling) Islands FeatureType : isle Lat/Lng : -12.1603 / 96.8586 | The Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands is an Australian external territory in the Indian Ocean, comprising a small archipelago approximately midway between Australia and Sri Lanka and closer to the Indonesian island of Sumatra. It is part of Southeast Asia and is in the Southern Hemisphere (...) |
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| Lake Ontario FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : 73 Lat/Lng : 43.695 / -77.9586 | Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is surrounded on the north, west, and southwest by the Canadian province of Ontario, and on the south and east by the American state of New York, whose water boundaries meet in the middle of the lake (...) |
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| Gary, Indiana FeatureType : null Elevation : 189 Lat/Lng : 41.5956 / -87.3453 | Gary is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States, from downtown Chicago, Illinois. Gary is adjacent to the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and borders southern Lake Michigan. Gary was named after lawyer Elbert Henry Gary, who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation (...) |
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| New Orleans FeatureType : null Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 29.9647 / -90.0706 | New Orleans (. Merriam-Webster. ;) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana. With an estimated population of 393,292 in 2017, it is the most populous city in Louisiana (...) |
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| Burlington, Vermont FeatureType : null Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 44.492 / -73.2394 | Burlington is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Vermont and the seat of Chittenden County. It is located south of the Canada–United States border and south of Canada's second most populous city, Montreal. The city's population was 42,452 according to a 2015 U.S. census estimate (...) |
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| Warrington FeatureType : city Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 53.3873 / -2.6029 | Warrington is a large town and unitary authority area in Cheshire, England, on the banks of the River Mersey, east of Liverpool, and west of Manchester. The population in 2017 was estimated at 209,700, more than double that of 1968 when it became a New Town (...) |
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| Hamilton, New Zealand FeatureType : null Elevation : 39 Lat/Lng : -37.7833 / 175.2833 | Hamilton is a city in the North Island of New Zealand. It is the seat and most populous city of the Waikato region, with a territorial population of , the country's fourth most-populous city. Encompassing a land area of about on the banks of the Waikato River, Hamilton is part of the wider Hamilton (...) |
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| George Washington University FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 38.9007 / -77.0508 | The George Washington University (GW, GWU, or George Washington) is a private research university in Washington, D.C. It was charted in 1821 by an act of the United States Congress. The university is organized into 14 colleges and schools, including the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, the (...) |
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| 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 (...) |
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| Evansville, Indiana FeatureType : null Elevation : 118 Lat/Lng : 37.9747 / -87.5558 | Evansville is a city and the county seat of Vanderburgh County, Indiana, United States. The population was 117,429 at the 2010 census, making it the state's third-most populous city after Indianapolis and Fort Wayne, the largest city in Southern Indiana, and the 232nd-most populous city in the (...) |
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| Salem, Massachusetts FeatureType : city Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 42.5168 / -70.8985 | Salem is a historic coastal city in Essex County, Massachusetts, located in the North Shore region. It is a New England bedrock of history and is considered one of the most significant seaports in Puritan American history (...) |
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| Carnegie Mellon University FeatureType : edu Elevation : 292 Lat/Lng : 40.4433 / -79.9436 | Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private nonprofit research university based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools, the university became the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1912 and began granting four-year degrees (...) |
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| Omaha, Nebraska FeatureType : null Elevation : 351 Lat/Lng : 41.2667 / -96.0167 | Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County. Omaha is located in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about north of the mouth of the Platte River. Omaha is the anchor of the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area, which includes Council (...) |
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| 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 (...) |
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| Yale University FeatureType : edu Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 41.3111 / -72.9267 | Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine Colonial Colleges chartered before the American Revolution (...) |
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| Orlando, Florida FeatureType : city Elevation : 54 Lat/Lng : 28.54 / -81.38 | Orlando is a city in the U.S. state of Florida and the county seat of Orange County. Located in Central Florida, it is the center of the Orlando metropolitan area, which had a population of 2,802,570, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures released in July 2017 (...) |
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| Dundas, Ontario FeatureType : city Elevation : 94 Lat/Lng : 43.2642 / -79.9532 | Dundas is a community and former town in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It is nicknamed the Valley Town because of its topographical location at the bottom of the Niagara Escarpment on the Western edge of Lake Ontario (...) |
| 25 | Webster University FeatureType : edu Elevation : 169 Lat/Lng : 38.5892 / -90.3457 | Webster University is an American non-profit private university with its main campus in Webster Groves, Missouri. Webster operates as an independent, non-denominational university with multiple branch locations across the United States (...) | |
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| West Orange, New Jersey FeatureType : city Elevation : 174 Lat/Lng : 40.7858 / -74.2651 | West Orange is a suburbanHaddon, Heather. , The Wall Street Journal, December 19, 2014. Accessed March 28, 2016. "Mr. Bryne hails from the Irish-American Democratic establishment that was once a driving force of New Jersey politics (...) |
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| Romeo and Juliet FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 67 Lat/Lng : 45.4421 / 10.9986 | Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently (...) |
| 28 | Kagoshima Bay FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 31.4697 / 130.6357 | is a deep inlet on the coast of Japan.Merriam Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Third Edition, p. 562. Kagoshima Bay is on the south coast of the island of Kyushu. The port city of Kagoshima and its well-protected harbor lie on the bays western coast (...) | |
| 29 | Alameda, California FeatureType : null Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 37.7653 / -122.2417 | Alameda (; Spanish:) is a city in Alameda County, California, United States. It is located on Alameda Island and Bay Farm Island, and is adjacent to and south of Oakland and east of San Francisco across the San Francisco Bay (...) | |
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| Akron, New York FeatureType : null Elevation : 234 Lat/Lng : 43.0194 / -78.4947 | Akron is a village in Erie County, New York, United States. The population was 2,868 at the 2010 census. The name derives from the Greek word ἄκρον signifying a summit or high point. It is part of the Buffalo–Niagara Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area (...) |
| 31 | Manchuria FeatureType : null Elevation : 268 Lat/Lng : 43.0 / 125.0 | Manchuria is a name first used in the 17th century by Japanese people to refer to a large geographic region in Northeast Asia. Depending on the context, Manchuria can either refer to a region that falls entirely within the People's Republic of Chinahttp://oxforddictionaries (...) | |
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| Replicas of the Statue of Liberty FeatureType : null Elevation : 47 Lat/Lng : 48.8464 / 2.3332 | Hundreds of replicas of the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) have been created worldwide. (...) |
| 33 | April 17 FeatureType : null Elevation : 1824 Lat/Lng : 34.9 / 104.7 | ==Events== *1080 – Harald III of Denmark dies and is succeeded by Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized. *1349 – The rule of the Bavand dynasty in Mazandaran is brought to an end by the murder of Hasan II (...) | |
| 34 | Gettysburg Address FeatureType : null Elevation : 189 Lat/Lng : 39.82 / -77.2307 | The Gettysburg Address is a speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated (...) | |
| 35 | Southern Ocean FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : -77.8333 / 166.6667 | The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean or the Austral Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the World Ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude and encircling Antarctica. As such, it is regarded as the fourth-largest of the five principal oceanic divisions: smaller (...) | |
| 36 | 1990 African Cup of Nations FeatureType : null Elevation : 39 Lat/Lng : 36.7764 / 3.0586 | The 1990 African Cup of Nations was the 17th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the football championship of Africa (CAF). It was hosted by Algeria. Just like in 1988, the field of eight teams was split into two groups of four. Algeria won its first championship, beating Nigeria in the final 1−0 (...) | |
| 37 | Springfield, Massachusetts FeatureType : null Elevation : 63 Lat/Lng : 42.1125 / -72.5472 | Springfield is a city in the state of Massachusetts, United States, and the seat of Hampden County. Springfield sits on the eastern bank of the Connecticut River near its confluence with three rivers: the western Westfield River, the eastern Chicopee River, and the eastern Mill River (...) | |
| 38 | November 25 FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -2.5 / 100.5 | ==Events== * 571 BC – Servius Tullius, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans. *1034 – Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Scots, dies. His grandson, Donnchad, son of Bethóc and Crínán of Dunkeld, inherits the throne (...) | |
| 39 | Yuan dynasty FeatureType : country Elevation : 52 Lat/Lng : 39.9 / 116.3833 | The Yuan dynasty (;. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.), officially the Great Yuan , was the empire or ruling dynasty of China established by Kublai Khan, leader of the Mongolian Borjigin clan. It followed the Song dynasty and preceded the Ming dynasty (...) | |
| 40 | Springfield, Missouri FeatureType : null Elevation : 402 Lat/Lng : 37.195 / -93.2861 | Springfield is the third-largest city in the state of Missouri and the county seat of Greene County. As of the 2010 census, its population was 159,498. As of 2017, the Census Bureau estimated its population at 167,376 (...) | |
| 41 | McDonald's FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : 33.9475 / -118.1179 | McDonald's is an American fast food company, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States. They rechristened their business as a hamburger stand, and later turned the company into a franchise, with the Golden Arches logo being (...) | |
| 42 | August 16 FeatureType : null Elevation : 2571 Lat/Lng : 0.31 / -78.18 | ==Events== *1 BC – Wang Mang consolidates his power and is declared marshal of state. Emperor Ai of Han, who had died the previous day, had no heirs. * 963 – Nikephoros II Phokas is crowned emperor of the Byzantine Empire (...) | |
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| David Dunlap Observatory FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 246 Lat/Lng : 43.863 / -79.4227 | The David Dunlap Observatory (DDO) is a large astronomical observatory site just north of Toronto in Richmond Hill, Ontario, housed on a estate. Formerly owned and operated by the University of Toronto from its establishment in 1935 until 2008, the observatory is now managed by the Royal (...) |
| 44 | Ruhr FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 49 Lat/Lng : 51.5175 / 7.145 | The Ruhr The Ruhr may also be a shortening for Ruhr district, Ruhr region, Ruhr area or Ruhr valley is a urban area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With a population density of 2,800/km2 and a population of over 5 million (2011), it is the largest urban area in Germany, and third-largest in the (...) | |
| 45 | World Economic Forum FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 483 Lat/Lng : 46.2253 / 6.1917 | The World Economic Forum (WEF), based in Cologny-Geneva, Switzerland, was founded in 1971 as a not-for-profit organization. It gained formal status in January 2015 under the Swiss Host-State Act, confirming the role of the Forum as an International Institution for Public-Private Cooperation (...) | |
| 46 | Han dynasty FeatureType : country Elevation : 476 Lat/Lng : 34.1558 / 108.9464 | The Han dynasty (;. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.) was the second imperial dynasty of China (206 BC–220 AD), preceded by the Qin dynasty (221–206 BC) and succeeded by the Three Kingdoms period (220–280 AD) (...) | |
| 47 | Ming dynasty FeatureType : null Elevation : 52 Lat/Lng : 39.9 / 116.3833 | The Ming dynasty . Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. was the ruling dynasty of China – then known as the – for 276 years (1368–1644) following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming dynasty was the last imperial dynasty in China ruled by ethnic Han Chinese (...) | |
| 48 | Livingston County, New York FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 372 Lat/Lng : 42.7275 / -77.7698 | Livingston County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 65,393. Its county seat is Geneseo. The county is named after Robert R. Livingston, who helped draft the Declaration of Independence and negotiated the Louisiana Purchase (...) | |
| 49 | Francisco Franco FeatureType : null Elevation : 1381 Lat/Lng : 40.6419 / -4.1553 | Francisco Franco Bahamonde (;. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. ; 4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish general who ruled over Spain as a military dictator from 1939, after the nationalist victory in the Spanish Civil War, until his death in 1975.Payne (2000), p (...) | |
| 50 | San Antonio FeatureType : city Elevation : 224 Lat/Lng : 29.4286 / -98.4933 | San Antonio (; from Spanish, "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is the seventh most populous city in the United States and the second most populous city in both Texas and the Southern United States., Census.gov – "American Factfinder" July 2014 (...) | |
| 51 | Des Moines, Iowa FeatureType : null Elevation : 248 Lat/Lng : 41.5908 / -93.6208 | Des Moines is the capital and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Iowa. It is also the county seat of Polk County. A small part of the city extends into Warren County. It was incorporated on September 22, 1851, as Fort Des Moines, which was shortened to "Des Moines" in 1857 (...) | |
| 52 | 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 (...) | |
| 53 | Beppu Bay FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : 33.4067 / 131.6564 | is an arm of the western end of the Seto Inland Sea of Japan.Websters New Geographical Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster Inc., 1984, p. 137. Beppu Bay is located on the northeast coast of Kyushu in Ōita Prefecture (...) | |
| 54 | AKB48 FeatureType : null Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 35.6987 / 139.7742 | AKB48 (pronounced A.K.B. Forty-Eight) is a Japanese idol girl group named after the Akihabara (Akiba for short) area in Tokyo, where the group's theater is located. The group includes over 130 members , aged from their early teens to their mid-20s (...) | |
| 55 | Japanese Americans FeatureType : null Elevation : 216 Lat/Lng : 42.1214 / -87.9814 | are Americans who are fully or partially of Japanese descent, especially those who identify with that ancestry, along with their cultural characteristics. Japanese Americans were among the three largest Asian American ethnic communities during the 20th century; but, according to the 2000 census, (...) | |
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| Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 188 Lat/Lng : 42.9668 / -85.6773 | The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum is the presidential museum and resting place of Gerald Ford, the 38th President of the United States (1974–1977), and his wife Betty Ford, located near the Pew Campus of Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan (...) |
| 57 | Gated community FeatureType : null Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 52.4133 / 13.0903 | In its modern form, a gated community (or walled community) is a form of residential community or housing estate containing strictly controlled entrances for pedestrians, bicycles, and automobiles, and often characterized by a closed perimeter of walls and fences (...) | |
| 58 | Webster University Vienna FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 167 Lat/Lng : 48.2142 / 16.3829 | Webster Vienna Private University is the Austrian branch of Webster University in St. Louis, USA and is the only American university in Austria. (...) | |
| 59 | Phillips Exeter Academy FeatureType : edu Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 42.98 / -70.9511 | Phillips Exeter Academy (often called Exeter or PEA) is a coeducational independent school for boarding and day students in grades 9 through 12, and offers a postgraduate program. Located in Exeter, New Hampshire, it is one of the oldest secondary schools in the United States (...) | |
| 60 | 2008 Open Championship FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 53.622 / -3.033 | The 2008 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 137th Open Championship, played from 17–20 July at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England. Pádraig Harrington successfully defended his Open Championship title, his second; he shot four under par over the final nine holes (...) | |
| 61 | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dubuque FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 263 Lat/Lng : 42.485 / -90.6753 | The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dubuque is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the northeastern quarter of the state of Iowa in the United States. It includes all the Iowa counties north of Polk, Jasper, Poweshiek, Iowa, Johnson, Cedar, and Clinton counties, and (...) | |
| 62 | 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 (...) | |
| 63 | Beith FeatureType : null Elevation : 93 Lat/Lng : 55.7492 / -4.6368 | Beith is a small town situated in the Garnock Valley, North Ayrshire, Scotland approximately south-west of Glasgow. The town is situated on the crest of a hill and was known originally as the "Hill o' Beith" (hill of the birches) after its Court Hill. (...) | |
| 64 | Taylorsville, Utah FeatureType : city Elevation : 1329 Lat/Lng : 40.655 / -111.9494 | Taylorsville is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 58,657 at the 2010 census. Taylorsville was incorporated from the Taylorsville-Bennion CDP and portions of the Kearns CDP on April 24, 1996 (...) | |
| 65 | Baldwin Wallace University FeatureType : edu Elevation : 242 Lat/Lng : 41.3711 / -81.8478 | Baldwin Wallace University is a four-year private, coeducational, liberal arts college in Berea, Ohio, United States. The school was founded in 1845 as Baldwin Institute by Methodist settlers. Eventually the school merged with nearby German Wallace College in 1913 to become Baldwin–Wallace College (...) | |
| 66 | B'nai B'rith FeatureType : null Elevation : 32 Lat/Lng : 38.9046 / -77.0455 | B'nai B'rith International (from b'né brit, "Children of the Covenant") is the oldest Jewish service organization in the world. B'nai B'rith states that it is committed to the security and continuity of the Jewish people and the State of Israel and combating antisemitism and bigotry (...) | |
| 67 | Anglia Ruskin University FeatureType : edu Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 52.2031 / 0.1337 | Anglia Ruskin University is a public university in East Anglia, United Kingdom. It has 39,400 students worldwide and has campuses in Cambridge, Chelmsford, Peterborough and London. It also shares campuses with the College of West Anglia in King's Lynn, Wisbech and Cambridge (...) | |
| 68 | 2005 Open Championship FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 56.3433 / -2.8028 | The 2005 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 134th Open Championship, held from 14–17 July at the Old Course at St Andrews, Scotland. Tiger Woods led wire-to-wire for his tenth major title, five shots ahead of runner-up Colin Montgomerie (...) | |
| 69 | Newport Folk Festival FeatureType : event Elevation : -19 Lat/Lng : 41.4781 / -71.3356 | The Newport Folk Festival is an American annual folk-oriented music festival in Newport, Rhode Island, which began in July 1959 as a counterpart to the previously established Newport Jazz Festival. The festival is often considered one of the first modern music festivals in America and remains a (...) | |
| 70 | Rollins College FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 28.5922 / -81.3482 | Rollins College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college, founded in 1885 and located in Winter Park, Florida along the shores of Lake Virginia. Rollins is a member of the SACS, NASM, ACS, FDE, AAM, AACSB International, Council for Accreditation of Counseling, and Related Educational (...) | |
| 71 | American Enterprise Institute FeatureType : null Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 38.9053 / -77.0387 | The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, known simply as the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), is a Washington, D.C.-based conservative think tank that researches government, politics, economics, and social welfare (...) | |
| 72 | Tomahawk, Wisconsin FeatureType : city Elevation : 445 Lat/Lng : 45.4744 / -89.7314 | Tomahawk is a city in Lincoln County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 3,346 at the 2010 census. The city is located to the northeast of the Town of Tomahawk and is not contiguous with it. (...) | |
| 73 | 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 (...) | |
| 74 | Ledo Road FeatureType : null Elevation : 164 Lat/Lng : 27.6884 / 95.9326 | The Ledo Road (from Ledo, Assam, India to Kunming, Yunnan, China) was an overland connection between India and China, built during World War II to enable the Western Allies to deliver supplies to China, to aid the war effort against Japan — as an alternative to the Burma Road became required, once (...) | |
| 75 | Y-12 National Security Complex FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 283 Lat/Lng : 35.9333 / -84.3167 | The Y-12 National Security Complex is a United States Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration facility located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, near the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It was built as part of the Manhattan Project for the purpose of enriching uranium for the first (...) | |
| 76 | 2300 Arena FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1 Lat/Lng : 39.9176 / -75.1472 | 2300 Arena (previously named Viking Hall, New Alhambra Arena, and The Arena) is a multipurpose indoor arena used primarily for professional wrestling, boxing, mixed martial arts, and concert events. It was previously known as Asylum Arena through a naming rights agreement with the Asylum Fight (...) | |
| 77 | Clinton Engineer Works FeatureType : city Elevation : 263 Lat/Lng : 36.0133 / -84.2625 | The Clinton Engineer Works (CEW) was the production installation of the Manhattan Project that during World War II produced the enriched uranium used in the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima, as well as the first examples of reactor-produced plutonium (...) | |
| 78 | Hollywood Heights, Los Angeles FeatureType : null Elevation : 212 Lat/Lng : 34.1081 / -118.3426 | Hollywood Heights is a neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, bounded by the Hollywood Bowl on the north, Highland Avenue on the east, Outpost Estates on the west, and Franklin Avenue on the south. It includes a number of notable historic homes and buildings and has been home to (...) | |
| 79 | Vogtle Electric Generating Plant FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 68 Lat/Lng : 33.143 / -81.7657 | The Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, also known as Plant Vogtle , is a 2 unit nuclear power plant located in Burke County, near Waynesboro, Georgia, in the southeastern United States. It is named after a former Alabama Power and Southern Company board chairman, Alvin Vogtle (...) | |
| 80 | Buin, Papua New Guinea FeatureType : city Elevation : 53 Lat/Lng : -6.746 / 155.685 | Buin is a town on Bougainville Island, and the capital of the South Bougainville District, in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, in eastern Papua New Guinea. The island is in the northern Solomon Islands Archipelago of the Melanesia region, in the South Pacific Ocean (...) | |
| 81 | Watchtower Bible School of Gilead FeatureType : null Elevation : 193 Lat/Lng : 41.496 / -73.575 | Watchtower Bible School of Gilead is the formal name of the missionary school of Jehovah's Witnesses, typically referred to simply as Gilead or Gilead School.Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of World Religions (1999 edition), page 563 Gilead is the flagship school at the Watchtower Educational Center (...) | |
| 82 | Lowther Castle FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 226 Lat/Lng : 54.6058 / -2.7403 | Lowther Castle is a country house in the historic county of Westmorland, which now forms part of the modern county of Cumbria, England. It has belonged to the Lowther family, latterly the Earls of Lonsdale, since the Middle Ages. (...) | |
| 83 | United States territorial acquisitions FeatureType : null Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 32.6242 / -114.7792 | This is a United States territorial acquisitions and conquests list, beginning with American independence. Note that this list primarily concerns land the United States of America acquired from other nation-states. Early American expansion was tied to a national concept of manifest destiny. (...) | |
| 84 | Spaghetti Junction FeatureType : null Elevation : 281 Lat/Lng : 33.8921 / -84.2591 | "Spaghetti Junction" is a nickname sometimes given to a complicated or massively intertwined road traffic interchange that is said to resemble a plate of spaghetti. Such interchanges may incorporate a variety of interchange design elements in order to maximize connectivity. (...) | |
| 85 | Green-Wood Cemetery FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 49 Lat/Lng : 40.6528 / -73.9917 | Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 as a rural cemetery in Kings County, New York. Like other early rural cemeteries, Green-Wood was founded in a time of rapid urbanization when churchyards in New York City were becoming overcrowded (...) | |
| 86 | Timeline of Boston FeatureType : city Elevation : 41 Lat/Lng : 42.3581 / -71.0636 | This is a of the history of the city of Boston, US. (...) | |
| 87 | Launceston Church Grammar School FeatureType : null Elevation : 34 Lat/Lng : -41.4081 / 147.1275 | Launceston Church Grammar School (informally Launceston Grammar or simply Grammar, commonly abbreviated to LCGS) is an Anglican co-educational private school in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia for Early Learning through to Grade 12 (...) | |
| 88 | 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 (...) | |
| 89 | Brisbane Showgrounds FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : -27.45 / 153.0328 | Brisbane Showgrounds (formerly known as the Brisbane Exhibition Ground) is located at 600 Gregory Terrace, Bowen Hills, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia and was established in 1875. It hosts almost 300 events each year, with the largest being the Royal Queensland Show (Ekka) (...) | |
| 90 | Geography of Asia FeatureType : null Elevation : 517 Lat/Lng : 46.2833 / 86.6667 | Geography of Asia reviews geographical concepts of classifying Asia, the central and eastern part of Eurasia, comprising approximately fifty countries. (...) | |
| 91 | L.L.Bean FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 43.8494 / -70.1089 | L.L.Bean is an American, privately held retail company founded in 1912 by Leon Leonwood Bean. The company is headquartered where it was founded, in Freeport, Maine. It specializes in clothing and outdoor recreation equipment. (...) | |
| 92 | Lungmen Nuclear Power Plant FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 25.0383 / 121.9241 | The Lungmen Nuclear Power Plant (formerly Gongliao Nuclear Power Plant and Fourth Nuclear Power Plant, often abbreviated as:), located nearby Fulong Beach, Gongliao District, New Taipei City, is Taiwan's fourth nuclear power plant, consisting of two ABWRs each of 1,300 MWe net (...) | |
| 93 | Dollar Academy FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 54 Lat/Lng : 56.1652 / -3.6742 | Dollar Academy, founded in 1818 by benefaction of trader John McNabb, is an independent co-educational day and boarding school in Scotland. The open campus occupies a site in the centre of the town of Dollar in Central Scotland (...) | |
| 94 | ʻIolani School FeatureType : null Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 21.2865 / -157.8246 | Iolani School, located at 563 Kamoku Street in Honolulu, Hawaii, is a private coeducational college preparatory school serving over 1,800 students. Founded in 1863 by Father William R. Scott, it was the principal school of the former Anglican Church of Hawaii (...) | |
| 95 | Street running FeatureType : null Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : -23.3765 / 150.5073 | On-street running or street running is the routing of a railroad track or tramway track running directly along public streets, without any grade separation. The rails are embedded in the roadway, and the train shares the street with pedestrians and automobile traffic (...) | |
| 96 | European and American voyages of scientific exploration FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -66.6053 / 140.0667 | The era of European and American voyages of scientific exploration followed the Age of Discovery and were inspired by a new confidence in science and reason that arose in the Age of Enlightenment. Maritime expeditions in the Age of Discovery were a means of expanding colonial empires, establishing (...) | |
| 97 | Japan Center (San Francisco) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 47 Lat/Lng : 37.785 / -122.43 | The Japan Center is a shopping center in the Japantown neighborhood of San Francisco, California. It opened in March 1968 and was originally called the Japanese Cultural and Trade Center. It is bounded by Geary (on the south), Post (on the north), Fillmore (on the west), and Laguna (on the east) (...) | |
| 98 | St Albans School, Hertfordshire FeatureType : edu Elevation : 102 Lat/Lng : 51.751 / -0.3445 | St Albans School is an independent school in the city of St Albans in Hertfordshire, in the South East of England. Entry before Sixth Form is for boys only, but the Sixth Form has been co-educational since 1991 (...) | |
| 99 | Mission Point (Mackinac Island) FeatureType : null Elevation : 187 Lat/Lng : 45.8506 / -84.6067 | Mission Point is located on the southeast side of Mackinac Island, Michigan. It is approximately 21 acres in sizeMarian McBride, “New Idea in Old Setting”, ‘‘Milwaukee Sentinel’’, pp 3 & 6, 1966-10-5. Retrieved 2014-02-04. between Robinson’s Folly and the jetty terminating near Franks Street (...) | |
| 100 | 1965 Philippine Sea A-4 incident FeatureType : isle Lat/Lng : 27.5533 / 131.3217 | The 1965 Philippine Sea A-4 crash was a Broken Arrow incident in which a United States Navy Douglas A-4E Skyhawk attack aircraft of Attack Squadron 56 (VA-56) carrying a nuclear weapon fell into the sea off Japan from the aircraft carrier . The aircraft, pilot and weapon were never recovered. (...) | |
| 101 | Asahi Gakuen FeatureType : null Elevation : 82 Lat/Lng : 34.0478 / -118.2441 | Asahi Gakuen (あさひ学園 "School of the Rising Sun"), or the Los Angeles Japanese School (ロス・アンジェルス補習授業校 Rosu Anjerusu Hoshū Jugyō Kō) is a part-time Japanese school in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.Rainey, James. "." Los Angeles Times. December 31, 1987. Retrieved on March 6, 2014."" (...) | |
| 102 | History of the United States Coast Guard FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 52.65 / 167.4 | The history of the United States Coast Guard goes back to the United States Revenue Cutter Service, which was founded on 4 August 1790 as part of the Department of the Treasury. The Revenue Cutter Service and the United States Life-Saving Service were merged to become the Coast Guard per which (...) | |
| 103 | Sloan Fellows FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 42.3607 / -71.0838 | The Sloan Fellows program is the world's first mid-career master's degree in general management and leadership. It was initially supported by a grant from Alfred P. Sloan, the late CEO of General Motors, to his alma mater, MIT. The program was established in 1930 in MIT Sloan School of Management (...) | |
| 104 | Revere House FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 33 Lat/Lng : 42.3612 / -71.0629 | Revere House (1847–1912) was an upscale hotel in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts, located on Bowdoin Square in the West End. Fire destroyed the building in 1912. (...) | |
| 105 | 46th Tactical Missile Squadron FeatureType : null Elevation : 56 Lat/Lng : 40.035 / -74.4414 | The 46th Tactical Missile Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 35th Air Division of Air Defense Command (ADC) at McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey. It was last active in 1972. (...) | |
| 106 | Greengates School FeatureType : edu Elevation : 2339 Lat/Lng : 19.4843 / -99.2614 | Greengates School is a British-style international school located in the Balcones de San Mateo neighbourhood in Naucalpan, located north-west of Mexico City metropolitan area, in the State of Mexico."." Greengates School. Retrieved on 22 May 2014. "Balcones de San Mateo. Av. Circunvalación Pte. 102 (...) | |
| 107 | Dedman School of Law FeatureType : edu Elevation : 193 Lat/Lng : 32.8464 / -96.7861 | SMU Dedman School of Law, commonly referred to as SMU Law School or Dedman School of Law is a professional graduate law school located in Dallas, Texas. It was founded in February 1925. SMU Law School is located on the campus of its parent institution, Southern Methodist University SMU’s Law School (...) | |
| 108 | 2008 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational FeatureType : event Elevation : 313 Lat/Lng : 41.008 / -81.508 | The 2008 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational was a golf tournament that was contested from July 31 – August 3, 2008 over the South Course at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. It was the tenth WGC-Bridgestone Invitational tournament, and the third of three World Golf Championships events held in 2008 (...) | |
| 109 | 37th Tactical Missile Squadron FeatureType : null Elevation : 271 Lat/Lng : 46.3481 / -84.805 | The 37th Tactical Missile Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last active as the 37th Air Defense Missile Squadron, assigned to the 23d Air Division, stationed near Kincheloe Air Force Base, Michigan, where it was inactivated on 31 July 1972 (...) | |
| 110 | St. Louis Japanese School FeatureType : edu Elevation : 167 Lat/Lng : 38.5883 / -90.3465 | St. Louis Japanese School (セントルイス日本語教室 Santo Ruisu Nihongo Kyōshitsu "St. Louis Japanese Classroom") is a weekend Japanese educational program in the St. Louis metropolitan area. It focuses on teaching Japanese children Japanese, Math, Culture, History, and Geography (...) | |
| 111 | 6th Tactical Missile Squadron FeatureType : null Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 40.8333 / -72.6808 | The 6th Tactical Missile Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the New York Air Defense Sector of Aerospace Defense Command, stationed near Suffolk County AFB, New York. It was inactivated on 15 December 1964. (...) | |
| 112 | Arbroath High School FeatureType : edu Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 56.562 / -2.603 | Arbroath High School is a six-year, all-through comprehensive school situated on the west side of Arbroath, Angus, Scotland. (...) | |
| 113 | Golden Age of Radio FeatureType : null Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : -22.9083 / -43.1964 | The old-time radio era, sometimes referred to as the Golden Age of Radio, was an era of radio programming in the United States during which radio was the dominant electronic home entertainment medium. It began with the birth of commercial radio broadcasting in the early 1920s and lasted through the (...) | |
| 114 | The Ritz (rock club) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 36 Lat/Lng : 40.7644 / -73.9838 | The Ritz was a New York City rock club in the 1980s and early 1990s. (...) | |
| 115 | MV British Motorist (1924) FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : -12.4827 / 130.8388 | MV British Motorist was a 6,891 ton tanker, built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle upon Tyne in 1924 for the British Tanker Company. While under charter to the merchant navy, she was in port in Darwin, Australia when on 19 February 1942, she was hit by two bombs during the Japanese air (...) | |
| 116 | Balruddery FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 74 Lat/Lng : 56.4775 / -3.1144 | Balruddery House by Longforgan in Perthshire, Scotland, was designed by David Neave for James Webster circa 1820. In about 1879 it was bought by James F White, who had previously leased Castle Huntly in Longforgan (...) | |
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