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| Lebanon  FeatureType : country Elevation : 1210 Lat/Lng : 33.8333 / 35.8333 | Lebanon (; ; Lebanese pronunciation: ;), officially known as the Lebanese RepublicRepublic of Lebanon is the most common phrase used by Lebanese government agencies. The phrase Lebanese Republic is a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names, no longer in use (...) |
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| Baalbek FeatureType : city Elevation : 1143 Lat/Lng : 34.0069 / 36.2039 | Baalbek , properly Baʿalbek (Syriac-Aramaic: ܒܥܠܒܟ) and also known as Balbec, Baalbec or Baalbeck, is a city in the Anti-Lebanon foothills east of the Litani River in Lebanon's Beqaa Valley, about northeast of Beirut and about north of Damascus (...) |
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| Ramallah FeatureType : city Elevation : 880 Lat/Lng : 31.9051 / 35.2059 | Ramallah (help=no) is a Palestinian city in the central West Bank located north of Jerusalem at an average elevation of above sea level, adjacent to al-Bireh. It currently serves as the de facto administrative capital of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) (...) |
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| Bahrain FeatureType : country Elevation : 57 Lat/Lng : 26.0675 / 50.5511 | Bahrain , officially the Kingdom of Bahrain (help=no), is an island country in the Persian Gulf. The sovereign state comprises a small archipelago centered around Bahrain Island, situated between the Qatar peninsula and the north eastern coast of Saudi Arabia, to which it is connected by the King (...) |
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| Nantes FeatureType : null Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 47.2181 / -1.5528 | Nantes (Gallo: Naunnt or Nantt (or); is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth-largest in France, with a population of nearly 300,000 in Nantes and a metropolitan area of 908,815 inhabitants (...) |
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| Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 69.041 / 33.069 | Admiral Flota Sovetskogo Soyuza Kuznetsov ("Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov") is an aircraft carrier (heavy aircraft-carrying missile cruiser, or TAVKR, in Russian classification) serving as the flagship of the Russian Navy (...) |
| 7 | October 23 FeatureType : null Elevation : 137 Lat/Lng : 33.0 / 112.5 | ==Events== *42 BC – Liberators' civil war: Mark Antony and Octavian decisively defeat Brutus's army. Brutus commits suicide. * 425 – Valentinian III is elevated as Roman emperor at the age of six. * 501 – The Synodus Palmaris, called by Gothic king Theoderic, absolves Pope (...) | |
| 8 | Sabra and Shatila massacre FeatureType : event Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 33.8628 / 35.4984 | The Sabra and Shatila massacre (also known as the Sabra and Chatila massacre) was the killing of between 460 and 3,500 civilians, mostly Palestinians and Lebanese Shiites, by a militia close to the Kataeb Party, also called Phalange, a predominantly Christian Lebanese right-wing party in the Sabra (...) | |
| 9 | Brussels bombings FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 50.9014 / 4.4844 | On the morning of 22 March 2016, three coordinated suicide bombings occurred in Belgium: two at Brussels Airport in Zaventem, and one at Maalbeek metro station in central Brussels. Thirty-two civilians and three perpetrators were killed, and more than 300 people were injured (...) | |
| 10 | Harvard Law School FeatureType : edu Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 42.3779 / -71.12 | Harvard Law School (also known as Harvard Law or HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest continuously operating law school in the United States and one of the most prestigious in the world (...) | |
| 11 | 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) (...) | |
| 12 | Phoenicia FeatureType : null Elevation : 46 Lat/Lng : 34.1236 / 35.6511 | Phoenicia (;. Collins English Dictionary. from the , ') was a thalassocratic, ancient Semitic-speaking Mediterranean civilization that originated in the Levant in the west of the Fertile Crescent. Scholars generally agree that it included the coastal areas of today's Lebanon, northern Israel and (...) | |
| 13 | Lufthansa FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 50 Lat/Lng : 50.9415 / 6.9809 | Deutsche Lufthansa AG (or JSC) , commonly known as Lufthansa (sometimes also as Lufthansa German Airlines), is the largest German airline and, when combined with its subsidiaries, also the largest airline in Europe both in terms of fleet size, largest airlines in Europe (...) | |
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| USS Barry (DD-933) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 38.871 / -76.996 | USS Barry (DD-933) was one of eighteen Forrest Sherman–class destroyers of the United States Navy, and was the third US destroyer to be named for Commodore John Barry. Commissioned in 1954, she spent most of her career in the Caribbean, Atlantic, and Mediterranean, but also served in the Vietnam (...) |
| 15 | 2015 FeatureType : null Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : 29.7565 / 112.9243 | 2015 was designated as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soils __TOC__ (...) | |
| 16 | Tram FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 530 Lat/Lng : 48.1484 / 11.4616 | A tram (in North America streetcar or trolley) is a rail vehicle which runs on tramway tracks along public urban streets; some include segments of segregated right-of-way. The lines or networks operated by tramcars are called tramways (...) | |
| 17 | Geography of the United Kingdom FeatureType : country Elevation : 464 Lat/Lng : 54.0 / -2.5 | The United Kingdom is a sovereign state located off the north-western coast of continental Europe. With a total area of approximately , the UK occupies the major part of the British Isles archipelago and includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern one-sixth of the island of Ireland and (...) | |
| 18 | July Monarchy FeatureType : null Elevation : 41 Lat/Lng : 48.8167 / 2.4833 | The July Monarchy was a liberal constitutional monarchy in France under Louis Philippe I, starting with the July Revolution of 1830 and ending with the Revolution of 1848. It marks the end of the Bourbon Restoration (1814–30) (...) | |
| 19 | Bloody Sunday (1972) FeatureType : event Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 54.997 / -7.3256 | Bloody Sunday – sometimes called the Bogside Massacre – was an incident on 30 January 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland, when British soldiers shot 28 unarmed civilians during a peaceful protest march against internment (...) | |
| 20 | Ruins FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 560 Lat/Lng : 49.9808 / 12.4196 | Ruins are the remains of human-made architecture: structures that were once intact have fallen, as time went by, into a state of partial or total disrepair, due to lack of maintenance or deliberate acts of destruction (...) | |
| 21 | Wonders of the World FeatureType : null Elevation : 110 Lat/Lng : 29.9758 / 31.1308 | Various lists of the Wonders of the World have been compiled from antiquity to the present day, to catalogue the world's most spectacular natural wonders and manmade structures. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is the first known list of the most remarkable creations of classical antiquity; it (...) | |
| 22 | 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 (...) | |
| 23 | Long Island (disambiguation) FeatureType : null Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : -35.9356 / 139.4576 | Long Island is an island and geographical area of New York state. It may also refer to: (...) | |
| 24 | Svalbard Global Seed Vault FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 78.2382 / 15.4471 | The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a secure seed bank on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen near Longyearbyen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago, about from the North Pole. Conservationist Cary Fowler, in association with the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), (...) | |
| 25 | USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 3826 Lat/Lng : 39.8853 / 75.1794 | USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) (formerly CVA-67) is the only ship of her class (a variant of the Kitty Hawk class of aircraft carrier) and the last conventionally powered carrier built for the United States Navy. The ship is named after the 35th President of the United States, John F (...) | |
| 26 | Khedivate of Egypt FeatureType : country Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 30.05 / 31.2167 | The Khedivate of Egypt was an autonomous tributary state of the Ottoman Empire, established and ruled by the Muhammad Ali Dynasty following the defeat and expulsion of Napoleon Bonaparte's forces which brought an end to the short-lived French occupation of Lower Egypt (...) | |
| 27 | Commonwealth War Graves Commission FeatureType : null Elevation : 33 Lat/Lng : 51.5238 / -0.7252 | The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military service members who died in the two World Wars (...) | |
| 28 | Edgware Road FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 51.5166 / -0.1652 | Edgware Road is a major road through north-west London, starting at Marble Arch in the City of Westminster (south end) and running north to Edgware in the London Borough of Barnet. It is also a boundary between several North London boroughs (...) | |
| 29 | Mediterranean U-boat Campaign (World War II) FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : 35.6333 / -3.45 | The Mediterranean U-boat Campaign lasted from about 21 September 1941 to 19 September 1944 during the Second World War. Malta was an active British base strategically located near supply routes from Europe to North Africa (...) | |
| 30 | Asda FeatureType : null Elevation : 32 Lat/Lng : 53.7922 / -1.545 | Asda Stores Ltd. trading as Asda, is a British supermarket retailer, headquartered in Leeds, West Yorkshire. The company was founded in 1949 when the supermarket owning Asquith family merged with the Associated Dairies company of Yorkshire (...) | |
| 31 | University at Albany, SUNY FeatureType : edu Elevation : 96 Lat/Lng : 42.6862 / -73.8239 | The State University of New York at Albany, also known as University at Albany, SUNY Albany or UAlbany, is a public research university with campuses in the New York cities of Albany and Rensselaer and the Township of Guilderland, United States (...) | |
| 32 | Bahraini uprising of 2011 FeatureType : country Elevation : 81 Lat/Lng : 26.0275 / 50.55 | The Bahraini uprising of 2011 was a series of anti-government protests in Bahrain led by the Shia-dominant Bahraini Opposition from 2011 until 2014. The protests were inspired by the unrest of the 2011 Arab Spring and 2011–12 Iranian protests and escalated to daily clashes after the Bahraini (...) | |
| 33 | Virgin Megastores FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 363 Lat/Lng : 31.753 / -8.1718 | Virgin Megastores is an international entertainment retailing chain, founded by Sir Richard Branson as a record shop on London's Oxford Street in early 1976. In 1979 the company opened their first Megastore at the end of Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road (...) | |
| 34 | Gaza flotilla raid FeatureType : event Lat/Lng : 32.6411 / 33.5673 | The Gaza flotilla raid was a military operation by Israel against six civilian ships of the "Gaza Freedom Flotilla" on 31 May 2010 in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea. Nine activists were killed on one ship during the raid and ten Israeli soldiers were wounded, one seriously (...) | |
| 35 | Special Tribunal for Lebanon FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 2 Lat/Lng : 52.0808 / 4.3914 | The Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), also referred to as the Lebanon Tribunal or the Hariri Tribunal, is a tribunal of international character applying Lebanese criminal law to carry out the investigation and prosecution of those responsible for the 14 February 2005 assassination of Rafic Hariri, (...) | |
| 36 | United Nations Truce Supervision Organization FeatureType : null Elevation : 790 Lat/Lng : 31.7544 / 35.2361 | The United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) is an organization founded on 29 May 1948 Appointment and terms of reference of a United Nations Mediator in Palestine UN Security Council Resolution 73 for peacekeeping in the Middle East (...) | |
| 37 | Nihonjin gakkō FeatureType : null Elevation : 216 Lat/Lng : 42.1214 / -87.9814 | , also called Japanese school, is a full-day school outside Japan for native speakers of Japanese. It is an expatriate school designed for children whose parents are working on diplomatic, business, or education missions overseas and have plans to repatriate to Japan (...) | |
| 38 | DCAF FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 395 Lat/Lng : 46.2208 / 6.1436 | DCAF (; Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces; French: Centre pour le contrôle démocratique des forces armées - Genève, German: Genfer Zentrum für die demokratische Kontrolle der Streitkräfte) is an intergovernmental foundation-based think tank that provides research and project (...) | |
| 39 | 1968 in aviation FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 32.9667 / 32.8 | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1968: (...) | |
| 40 | Army Ranger Wing FeatureType : null Elevation : 128 Lat/Lng : 53.1474 / -6.8298 | The Army Ranger Wing (ARW) ("SFA") is the special operations force of the Irish Defence Forces, the military of Ireland. A branch of the Irish Army, it also selects personnel from the Naval Service and Air Corps (...) | |
| 41 | Exit (festival) FeatureType : null Elevation : 107 Lat/Lng : 45.25 / 19.8667 | Exit is an award-winning summer music festival which is held at the Petrovaradin Fortress in the city of Novi Sad, Serbia. It was officially proclaimed as the 'Best Major European festival' at the EU Festival Awards, which were held in Groningen in January 2014 and 2018, while its Montenegrin (...) | |
| 42 | Sarepta FeatureType : null Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 33.4575 / 35.2958 | Sarepta (near modern , Lebanon) was a Phoenician city on the Mediterranean coast between Sidon and Tyre, also known biblically as Zarephath. It became a bishopric, which faded, and remains a double (Latin and Maronite) Catholic titular see (...) | |
| 43 | Creamfields FeatureType : null Elevation : 63 Lat/Lng : 53.34 / -2.63 | Creamfields is a major dance music festival series founded and organised by British club promoter Cream, with its flagship UK edition taking place on August Bank Holiday weekend, with a number of international editions held across various territories worldwide (...) | |
| 44 | Kennedy FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -66.45 / 98.5 | Kennedy may refer to: (...) | |
| 45 | United Nations Disengagement Observer Force FeatureType : null Elevation : 888 Lat/Lng : 33.1167 / 35.8667 | The United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) was established by United Nations Security Council Resolution 350 on 31 May 1974, to implement Resolution 338 (1973) which called for an immediate ceasefire and implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 (...) | |
| 46 | Saint Paul (disambiguation) FeatureType : null Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 45.958 / -73.4154 | Saint Paul and Apostle Paul usually refers to Paul the Apostle, the Christian religious leader. (...) | |
| 47 | Penguin Random House FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 40.7653 / -73.9825 | Penguin Random House (PRH) is an American multinational publishing company formed in 2013 from the merger of Random House (owned by German media conglomerate Bertelsmann) and Penguin Group (owned by British publishing company Pearson PLC) (...) | |
| 48 | West Downs School FeatureType : null Elevation : 125 Lat/Lng : 51.056 / -1.343 | West Downs School, Romsey Road, Winchester, Hampshire, was an English independent preparatory school, which was established in 1897 and closed in 1988. (...) | |
| 49 | Victoria Drummond FeatureType : null Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : 56.4075 / -3.2301 | Victoria Alexandrina Drummond MBE (1894–1978), was the first woman marine engineer in Britain and first woman member of Institute of Marine Engineers. In World War II she served at sea as an engineering officer in the British Merchant Navy and received awards for bravery under enemy fire. (...) | |
| 50 | Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul FeatureType : null Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 32.9167 / 45.0833 | The Battle of Dayr al-‘Aqul was fought on April 8, 876, between forces of the Saffarid Ya'qub ibn Laith and the Abbasid Caliphate. Taking place some 80 km southeast (downstream) of Baghdad, the battle ended in a decisive victory for the Abbasids, forcing Ya`qub to halt his advance into Iraq (...) | |
| 51 | St. Francis Catholic Cemetery FeatureType : null Elevation : 370 Lat/Lng : 33.4706 / -111.9776 | St. Francis Catholic Cemetery, established in 1897, is one of the oldest in the city of Phoenix, Arizona. It consists of , 45 of which are developed. Before 1969, the cemetery was run by the Order of St. Francis, under the Diocese of Tucson (...) | |
| 52 | ACS FeatureType : null Elevation : 116 Lat/Lng : 47.7123 / 18.0113 | ACS or Acs may refer to: (...) | |
| 53 | German submarine U-97 (1940) FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 33.0 / 34.0 | German submarine U-97 was a Type VIIC U-boat built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine for service during the Second World War. She carried out thirteen patrols during her career, sinking sixteen ships and damaging a seventeenth. She was a member of two wolfpacks (...) | |
| 54 | El Hed FeatureType : null Elevation : 264 Lat/Lng : 34.559 / 36.159 | El Hed (also El Hedd or ElHedd) is a village in Akkar Governorate, Lebanon. The villagers are Maronites. (...) | |
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