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| 1 | Ypsilanti, Michigan ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 3482 Lat/Lng : 42.2428 / 83.6181 | Ypsilanti (often mispronounced), commonly shortened to Ypsi, is a city in Washtenaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan, perhaps best known as the home of Eastern Michigan University. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 21,018 (...) | |
| 2 | Peoria, Illinois ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 190 Lat/Lng : 40.7208 / -89.6094 | Peoria is the county seat of Peoria County, Illinois, and the largest city on the Illinois River. Established in 1691 by the French explorer Henri de Tonti, Peoria is the oldest European settlement in Illinois, and is named after the Peoria tribe (...) | |
| 3 | South Bend, Indiana ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 218 Lat/Lng : 41.6725 / -86.2553 | South Bend is a city in and the county seat of St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States, on the St. Joseph River near its southernmost bend, from which it derives its name. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total of 101,168 residents; its Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of (...) | |
| 4 | 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 (...) | |
| 5 | Monterrey ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 538 Lat/Lng : 25.6822 / -100.3111 | Monterrey is the capital and largest city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León, Mexico. The city is anchor to the third-largest metropolitan area in Mexico and is the country's ninth-largest city. Monterrey serves as a commercial center of northern Mexico and is the base of many significant (...) | |
| 6 | St. Louis ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 149 Lat/Lng : 38.6272 / -90.1978 | St. Louis is a common alternate pronunciation outside of St. Louis. is an independent city and major U.S. port in the state of Missouri, built along the western bank of the Mississippi River, which marks Missouri's border with Illinois (...) | |
| 7 | Metro Detroit ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 187 Lat/Lng : 42.358 / -83.215 | The Detroit metropolitan area, often referred to as Metro Detroit, is a major metropolitan area in the U.S. State of Michigan, consisting of the city of Detroit and its surrounding area. There are varied definitions of the area, including the official statistical areas designated by the Office of (...) | |
| 8 | Minneapolis ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 262 Lat/Lng : 44.9802 / -93.2641 | Minneapolis is the county seat of Hennepin County and the larger of the Twin Cities, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States. As of 2017, Minneapolis is the largest city in the state of Minnesota and 45th-largest in the United States, with an estimated population of 422,331 (...) | |
| 9 | 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 (...) | |
| 10 | Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 38.8897 / -76.9717 | Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium (commonly known as RFK Stadium, originally District of Columbia Stadium) is a multi-purpose stadium in Washington, D.C. It is located about due east of the US Capitol building, near the west bank of the Anacostia River and adjacent to the D.C. Armory (...) | |
| 11 | Elizabeth, New Jersey ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 2 Lat/Lng : 40.6663 / -74.1935 | Elizabeth is both the largest city and the county seat of Union County, in New Jersey, United States., New Jersey Department of State. Accessed July 10, 2017. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city had a total population of 124,969, retaining its ranking as New Jersey's fourth most populous (...) | |
| 12 | Bucharest ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 82 Lat/Lng : 44.4325 / 26.1039 | Bucharest is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, at , on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of the Danube River and the Bulgarian border (...) | |
| 13 | Vermont ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 542 Lat/Lng : 44.0833 / -72.6167 | Vermont is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders the U.S. states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north (...) | |
| 14 | Darien, Connecticut ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : 41.0511 / -73.4792 | Darien is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, 37 miles northeast of New York City. With a population of 20,732 for the 2010 census and a land area of just under 13 square miles, it is the smallest town on Connecticut's "Gold Coast" (...) | |
| 15 | Mobile Regional Airport ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 63 Lat/Lng : 30.6914 / -88.2428 | Mobile Regional Airport is a combined public/military airport 13 miles west of the city of Mobile, in Mobile County, Alabama. It is near Pascagoula, Mississippi. The airport is owned and operated by the Mobile Airport Authority, a self-funded entity that receives no local tax dollars (...) | |
| 16 | Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 33 Lat/Lng : 30.63 / -90.4 | Tangipahoa Parish (; French: Paroisse de Tangipahoa) is a parish located in the southeast of the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 121,097. The parish seat is Amite City, while the largest city is Hammond. Southeastern Louisiana University is located in Hammond (...) | |
| 17 | Paramount Pictures ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 96 Lat/Lng : 34.0853 / -118.3189 | Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994. Paramount is the fifth oldest surviving film studio in the world, the second oldest in the (...) | |
| 18 | Del Rio, Texas ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 302 Lat/Lng : 29.3708 / -100.8958 | Del Rio is a city in and the county seat of Val Verde County, Texas. It is 152 miles west of San Antonio. As of 2015, the city had a population of 40,549. Del Rio is connected with Ciudad Acuña via the Lake Amistad Dam International Crossing and Del Río – Ciudad Acuña International Bridge (...) | |
| 19 | 2012 Major League Baseball season ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 179 Lat/Lng : 32.7514 / -97.0826 | The 2012 Major League Baseball season began on March 28 with the first of a two-game series between the Seattle Mariners and the Oakland Athletics at the Tokyo Dome in Japan. On November 22, 2011, a new contract between Major League Baseball and its players union was ratified, and as a result, an (...) | |
| 20 | 2011 Major League Baseball season ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 179 Lat/Lng : 32.7514 / -97.0826 | The 2011 Major League Baseball season began on Thursday, March 31, and ended on Wednesday, September 28. This marked the first time a season began on a Thursday since 1976, and the first time a regular season ended on a Wednesday since 1990 (...) | |
| 21 | Bothell, Washington ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 87 Lat/Lng : 47.7717 / -122.2044 | Bothell is a city located in King and Snohomish Counties in the State of Washington. It is part of the Seattle metropolitan area. Based on per capita income, Bothell ranks 78th of 614 areas in the state of Washington to be ranked. (...) | |
| 22 | North America ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 453 Lat/Lng : 48.1667 / -100.1667 | North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the west and south by (...) | |
| 23 | Beaumont, Texas ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 30.08 / -94.1267 | Beaumont is a city in and the county seat of Jefferson County, Texas in the United States, within the Beaumont–Port Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area. Located in Southeast Texas on the Neches River about east of Houston (city center to city center), Beaumont had a population of 118,296 at the (...) | |
| 24 | NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 128 Lat/Lng : 34.0722 / -118.4441 | The NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, also known and branded as NCAA March Madness, is a single-elimination tournament played each spring in the United States, currently featuring 68 college basketball teams from the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), (...) | |
| 25 | Stonewall riots ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 40.7338 / -74.0021 | The Stonewall riots (also referred to as the Stonewall uprising or the Stonewall rebellion) were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay (LGBT) communityAt the time, the term "gay" was commonly used to refer to all LGBT people (...) | |
| 26 | Northern Michigan ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 367 Lat/Lng : 44.75 / -84.75 | Northern Michigan, also known as Northern Lower Michigan or Upper Michigan (known colloquially to residents of more southerly parts of the state and summer residents from cities such as Chicago as "up north"), is a region of the U.S. state of Michigan (...) | |
| 27 | Minden, Louisiana ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 84 Lat/Lng : 32.6167 / -93.2833 | Minden is a small city in and the parish seat of Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana, United States. It is located twenty-eight miles (km) east of Shreveport in Caddo Parish. The population has been relatively stable since 1960, when it was 12,786. Minden is 51.7 percent African American (...) | |
| 28 | Wisconsin ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 334 Lat/Lng : 44.5 / -89.5 | Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north (...) | |
| 29 | William P. Hobby Airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 29.6456 / -95.2789 | William P. Hobby Airport is an international airport in Houston, Texas, from downtown Houston."." Denver Business Journal. Monday August 9, 2010. Retrieved on March 27, 2011. Hobby is Houston's oldest commercial airport and was its primary commercial airport until Houston Intercontinental Airport, (...) | |
| 30 | 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 (...) | |
| 31 | 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 (...) | |
| 32 | Negro league baseball ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 257 Lat/Lng : 39.8 / -84.3 | The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams predominantly made up of African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latin Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be used narrowly for the seven (...) | |
| 33 | National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 380 Lat/Lng : 42.7003 / -74.9237 | The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is an American history museum and hall of fame, located in Cooperstown, New York, and operated by private interests. It serves as the central point for the study of the history of baseball in the United States and beyond, displays baseball-related (...) | |
| 34 | 2015 Major League Baseball season ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 179 Lat/Lng : 32.7514 / -97.0826 | The 2015 Major League Baseball season began on April 5 with a Sunday night game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field, and ended on November 1 with the Kansas City Royals winning the World Series. This was Rob Manfred's first season serving as Commissioner of Baseball (...) | |
| 35 | American Football League ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 29.7628 / -95.3831 | The American Football League (AFL) was a major professional American football league that operated for ten seasons from 1960 until 1969, when it merged with the older National Football League (NFL). The upstart AFL operated in direct competition with the more established NFL throughout its existence (...) | |
| 36 | Veterans Stadium ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 39.9066 / -75.1711 | Veterans Stadium was a multi-purpose stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It was located at the northeast corner of Broad Street and Pattison Avenue, as part of the South Philadelphia Sports Complex (...) | |
| 37 | 2013 Major League Baseball season ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 179 Lat/Lng : 32.7514 / -97.0826 | The 2013 Major League Baseball season started on March 31 with a Sunday night game between the Texas Rangers and the Houston Astros. Hardball Talk via NBC Sports, January 3, 2013 Opening Day for most clubs was a day later on April 1 (...) | |
| 38 | Santa Clara University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 23 Lat/Lng : 37.3492 / -121.9381 | Santa Clara University (also referred to as Santa Clara) is a private Jesuit university located in Santa Clara, California. It has 5,499 full-time undergraduate students, and 3,130 graduate students. Founded in 1851, Santa Clara University is the oldest operating institution of higher learning in (...) | |
| 39 | August 1965 ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 15.1667 / 117.6667 | The following events occurred in August 1965: (...) | |
| 40 | Joliet Catholic Academy ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 204 Lat/Lng : 41.5456 / -88.124 | Joliet Catholic Academy (Joliet Catholic or JCA) is a coed Catholic High School located in Joliet, Illinois. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Joliet. One of the oldest Catholic high schools in the Chicago area, Joliet Catholic is perhaps best known for its prowess in football (...) | |
| 41 | KFI ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 23 Lat/Lng : 33.8797 / -118.0131 | KFI (640 kHz) is an AM radio station in Los Angeles, California, owned and operated by iHeartMedia. It received its license to operate on March 31, 1922 and began operating on April 16, 1922, and after a succession of power increases, became one of the United States' first high-powered, (...) | |
| 42 | 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. (...) | |
| 43 | Sarasota High School ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 27.325 / -82.5294 | Sarasota High School is a public high school of the Sarasota County Public Schools in Sarasota, Florida, a city on the Gulf of Mexico coast south of Tampa. The school colors are black and orange and the mascot is a sailor. (...) | |
| 44 | Sacramento City College ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 38.5416 / -121.4911 | Sacramento City College (SCC) (also known as locally as Sac City College or Sac City) is a two-year community college located in Sacramento, California.http://www.scc.losrios.edu/ SCC is part of the Los Rios Community College District and had an enrollment of 25,307 in 2009 (...) | |
| 45 | University and college buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 217 Lat/Lng : 34.7786 / -86.5717 | This is an incomplete list of historic properties and districts at United States colleges and universities that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). This includes National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) and other National Register of Historic Places listings (...) | |
| 46 | St. Mary's Preparatory ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 293 Lat/Lng : 42.5939 / -83.3578 | St. Mary's Preparatory is a Catholic secondary school for boys in the Detroit suburb of Orchard Lake Village, Michigan. (...) | |
| 47 | McNeese State University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 30.1798 / -93.216 | McNeese State University is a public regional university located in Lake Charles, Louisiana, in the United States. Founded in 1939 as Lake Charles Junior College, it was renamed McNeese Junior College after John McNeese, an early local educator. The present name was adopted in 1970 (...) | |
| 48 | Appalachia ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 352 Lat/Lng : 38.8 / -81.0 | Appalachia is a cultural region in the Eastern United States that stretches from the Southern Tier of New York to northern Alabama and Georgia. While the Appalachian Mountains stretch from Belle Isle in Canada to Cheaha Mountain in Alabama, the cultural region of Appalachia typically refers only to (...) | |
| 49 | Detroit School of Arts ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 188 Lat/Lng : 42.3484 / -83.0614 | The Detroit School of Arts (DSA), originally known as the Detroit High School for the Fine and Performing Arts, is a blue ribbon high school located in Midtown Detroit, Michigan. from the University Cultural Center Association, retrieved 6/9/09"." Detroit School of Arts (...) | |
| 50 | Saint Joseph Regional High School ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 121 Lat/Lng : 41.0499 / -74.0712 | Saint Joseph Regional High School (known as SJR, St. Joe's or Joe's) is a private, Roman Catholic, college preparatory school for boys, located on a campus in Montvale, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The school operates under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark (...) | |
| 51 | Speed limits in the United States by jurisdiction ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1145 Lat/Lng : 31.4087 / -105.9724 | Speed limits in the United States vary depending on jurisdiction, with common in the Western United States and common in the Eastern United States. States may also set special speed limits for trucks and night travel along with minimum speed limits (...) | |
| 52 | Tustin High School ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 33.7373 / -117.8185 | Tustin High School is a public high school located in Tustin, California, United States. The school's mascot is the Tiller. Tustin High is a part of Tustin Unified School District and was originally established in 1921 as Tustin Union High School (...) | |
| 53 | Worcester Academy ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 189 Lat/Lng : 42.2527 / -71.7907 | Worcester Academy is a private school in Worcester, Massachusetts. It is one of the country's oldest day-boarding schools, with alumni including H. Jon Benjamin, Edward Davis Jones (Dow Jones), Cole Porter, and Olympian Bill Toomey (...) | |
| 54 | Smith Reynolds Airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 288 Lat/Lng : 36.1336 / -80.2219 | Smith Reynolds Airport is a public airport located 3 miles (5 km) northeast of the city of Winston-Salem in Forsyth County, North Carolina, USA. The airport has two runways, and is used primarily for general aviation and flight training as there is no scheduled passenger airline service at the (...) | |
| 55 | Theodore Roosevelt College and Career Academy ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 190 Lat/Lng : 41.5742 / -87.3454 | Theodore Roosevelt College and Career Academy (TRCCA), formerly known as Theodore Roosevelt High School and often referred to as Gary Roosevelt, is a charter school located in the Midtown neighborhood of Gary, Indiana, United States (...) | |
| 56 | Neville High School ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 27 Lat/Lng : 32.5367 / -92.0889 | Neville High School is a high school in Monroe, Louisiana, United States. It is administered by the Monroe City Schools Board. It is located 1/2 mile from the Ouachita River. Its mascot is the Tiger. (...) | |
| 57 | Westin Bonaventure Hotel ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 102 Lat/Lng : 34.0528 / -118.2558 | The Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites is a , 35-story hotel in Los Angeles, California, constructed between 1974 and 1976. Designed by architect John C. Portman, Jr., it is the largest hotel in the city. The top floor has a revolving restaurant and bar (...) | |
| 58 | Embassy of Austria, Washington, D.C. ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 98 Lat/Lng : 38.9442 / -77.0687 | The Embassy of Austria in Washington, D.C. is the primary diplomatic mission of the Republic of Austria to the United States and represent the interests of Austria and Austrian citizens in the U.S. It is located at 3524 International Court, NW, Washington, D.C (...) | |
| 59 | National Diaper Bank Network ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 41.3061 / -72.925 | The National Diaper Bank Network is a United States-based non-profit organization that is dedicated to ensuring that every child in the U.S. has an adequate supply of diapers to remain clean, dry and healthy. NDBN is a nationwide network of independently operating diaper banks and pantries that (...) | |
| 60 | Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 38.9078 / -77.0044 | The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is a federal law enforcement organization within the United States Department of Justice. Its responsibilities include the investigation and prevention of federal offenses involving the unlawful use, manufacture, and possession of (...) | |
| 61 | WWCU ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1400 Lat/Lng : 35.4397 / -83.1197 | WWCU FM 90.5 is a radio station licensed to Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina. The station plays a classic hits format. WWCU broadcasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week from studios in the Old Student Union on the Western Carolina campus as Jackson County's only local FM (...) | |