| 44 records found in wikipedia | |||
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| University of Edinburgh  FeatureType : edu Elevation : 93 Lat/Lng : 55.9474 / -3.1872 | The University of Edinburgh (abbreviated as Edin. in post-nominals), founded in 1582, is the sixth oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's ancient universities. The university is deeply embedded in the fabric of the city of Edinburgh, with many of the buildings in the (...) |
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| Hawaii FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 235 Lat/Lng : 21.3114 / -157.7964 | Hawaii is the 50th and most recent state to have joined the United States, having received statehood on August 21, 1959. Hawaii is the only U.S. state located in Oceania, the only U.S. state located outside North America, and the only one composed entirely of islands (...) |
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| Wakefield FeatureType : null Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 53.6801 / -1.492 | Wakefield is a city in West Yorkshire, England, on the River Calder and the eastern edge of the Pennines, which had a population of 99,251 at the 2011 census.https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2011/ks101ew Census 2011 table KS101EW Usual resident population, West Yorkshire - Wakefield BUASD, code (...) |
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| Topeka, Kansas FeatureType : city Elevation : 291 Lat/Lng : 39.0558 / -95.6894 | Topeka (; Kansa: Tó Pee Kuh) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the seat of Shawnee County. It is situated along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County, in northeast Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 127,473 (...) |
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| New Hampshire FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 96 Lat/Lng : 43.1939 / -71.5724 | New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north (...) |
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| Honduras FeatureType : country Elevation : 1001 Lat/Lng : 14.0819 / -87.1981 | Honduras , officially the Republic of Honduras , is a country in Central America. It has at times been referred to as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became modern-day Belize. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El (...) |
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| Tuvalu FeatureType : country Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : -8.5208 / 179.1986 | Tuvalu (or), formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is a Polynesian island country located in the Pacific Ocean, situated in Oceania, about midway between Hawaii and Australia. It lies east-northeast of the Santa Cruz Islands (belonging to the Solomons), southeast of Nauru, south of Kiribati, west of (...) |
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| Malta FeatureType : country Elevation : 96 Lat/Lng : 35.9167 / 14.4333 | Malta , officially known as the Republic of Malta , is a Southern European island country consisting of an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea. It lies south of Italy, east of Tunisia, and north of Libya. Malta is one of the world's smallest and most densely populated countries, at over with a (...) |
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| Cape Town FeatureType : city Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : -33.9227 / 18.4167 | Cape Town (; Xhosa: iKapa; Dutch: Kaapstad) is a coastal city in South Africa. It is the capital and primate city of the Western Cape province. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality. As the place where the Parliament of South Africa is found, Cape Town is the legislative (...) |
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| Albania FeatureType : country Elevation : 91 Lat/Lng : 41.3333 / 19.8 | Albania , officially the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeast Europe on the Adriatic and Ionian Sea within the Mediterranean Sea. It is bounded by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast (...) |
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| Sierra Leone FeatureType : country Elevation : 89 Lat/Lng : 8.5833 / -11.8333 | Sierra Leone , officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Guinea to the northeast, Liberia to the southeast and the Atlantic Ocean to the southwest. It has a tropical climate, with a diverse environment ranging from savanna to rainforests (...) |
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| Taiwan FeatureType : country Elevation : 120 Lat/Lng : 25.0333 / 121.6333 | Taiwan , officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East Asia. Its neighbors include the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the west, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south. It is the most populous state and largest economy that is not a member of the United Nations (...) |
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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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| São Jorge Island FeatureType : null Elevation : 593 Lat/Lng : 38.6278 / -28.0172 | São Jorge is an island situated in the central group of the Azores archipelago and part of the autonomous region of Portugal. Separated from its nearest neighbors (Pico and Faial islands) by the Pico-São Jorge Channel, the central group is often referred colloquially as part of the Triangulo (...) |
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| Devizes FeatureType : city Elevation : 133 Lat/Lng : 51.353 / -1.994 | Devizes is a market town and civil parish in the centre of Wiltshire, England. It developed around Devizes Castle, an 11th-century Norman castle, and received a charter in 1141 permitting regular markets, which are held weekly in an open market place (...) |
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| Leith FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 55.9801 / -3.17 | Leith is an area to the north of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, at the mouth of the Water of Leith. The earliest surviving historical references are in the royal charter authorising the construction of Holyrood Abbey in 1128 (...) |
| 17 | Province of Valladolid FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 712 Lat/Lng : 41.5833 / -4.6667 | Valladolid is a province of northwest Spain, in the central part of the autonomous community of Castile and León. It has a population of 526,223 people in a total of 225 municipalities, an area of 8,110 km2 and a population density of 64.88 people per km2. The capital is the city of Valladolid (...) | |
| 18 | Florida FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : 28.0009 / -81.4993 | Florida (; Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States. The state is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the south by the Straits of Florida (...) | |
| 19 | 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 (...) | |
| 20 | Church of Scotland FeatureType : null Elevation : 86 Lat/Lng : 55.9497 / -3.195 | The Church of Scotland (CoS; ;), also known by its Scots language name, the Kirk, is the national church of Scotland., royal.gov.uk. Retrieved 5 July 2015. It is Presbyterian and adheres to the Bible and Westminster Confession; the Church of Scotland celebrates two sacraments, Baptism and the Lord's (...) | |
| 21 | Battle of Okinawa FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 26.5 / 128.0 | The , codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Marine and Army forces against the Imperial Japanese Army.Feifer 2001 pages 99-106 The initial invasion of Okinawa on April 1, 1945, was the largest amphibious assault in the (...) | |
| 22 | 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 (...) | |
| 23 | Nelson Mandela FeatureType : null Elevation : 834 Lat/Lng : -31.8061 / 28.6146 | Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (; ; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully (...) | |
| 24 | Ted Kennedy FeatureType : null Elevation : 34 Lat/Lng : 38.8791 / -77.069 | Edward Moore Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was an American politician who served in the United States Senate from Massachusetts for almost 47 years, from 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the second most senior member of the Senate when he died (...) | |
| 25 | Virginia Tech shooting FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 633 Lat/Lng : 37.2297 / -80.4233 | On April 16, 2007, a school shooting occurred at West Ambler Johnston Hall and Norris Hall at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, in Blacksburg, Virginia. Seung-Hui Cho, an undergraduate student at the university and a U.S (...) | |
| 26 | Roslin, Midlothian FeatureType : null Elevation : 158 Lat/Lng : 55.8582 / -3.1694 | Roslin (formerly spelt Rosslyn or Roslyn) is a village in Midlothian, Scotland, 7 miles (11 km) to the south of the capital city Edinburgh. It stands on high ground, near the northwest bank of the river North Esk. (...) | |
| 27 | Hanwell FeatureType : null Elevation : 27 Lat/Lng : 51.5089 / -0.3376 | Hanwell is a town in the London Borough of Ealing, west London, England. It is about 2.5 km west of Ealing Broadway. It is the westernmost location of the London post town. (...) | |
| 28 | History of New South Wales FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -38.0 / 145.0 | The history of New South Wales refers to the history of the state of New South Wales and the area's preceding Indigenous and British colonial societies. The Mungo Lake remains indicate occupation of parts of the New South Wales area by Indigenous Australians for at least 40,000 years (...) | |
| 29 | Chester Zoo FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 53.2267 / -2.8842 | Chester Zoo is a zoo at Upton by Chester, in Cheshire, England. Chester Zoo was opened in 1931 by George Mottershead and his family. It is one of the UK's largest zoos at . The zoo has a total land holding of approximately (...) | |
| 30 | Calverton, Nottinghamshire FeatureType : null Elevation : 54 Lat/Lng : 53.0374 / -1.0834 | Calverton is a village and civil parish, of some , in the Gedling district, about seven miles north-east of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, and situated, like nearby Woodborough and Lambley, on one of the small tributaries of the Dover Beck (...) | |
| 31 | Hamilton Gardens FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 33 Lat/Lng : -37.8046 / 175.3039 | Hamilton Gardens is a public garden park in the south of Hamilton owned and managed by Hamilton City Council in New Zealand. The 54-hectare park is based on the banks of the Waikato River and includes enclosed gardens, open lawns, a lake, a nursery, a convention centre and the Hamilton East Cemetery (...) | |
| 32 | Glenbrook Vintage Railway FeatureType : railwaystation Elevation : 72 Lat/Lng : -37.2083 / 174.7856 | The Glenbrook Vintage Railway (GVR) is a heritage steam railway in Glenbrook, New Zealand. The GVR is run by a trust board of three trustees elected and appointed from Railway Enthusiasts Society (RES) membership. The board appoints a general manager who is responsible for day-to-day operation (...) | |
| 33 | Oulton Park FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 69 Lat/Lng : 53.1776 / -2.6144 | Oulton Park Circuit is a motor racing track close to the small village of Little Budworth, Cheshire, England. It is about from Winsford, from Chester city centre, from Northwich and from Warrington, with a nearby rail connection along the Mid-Cheshire Line (...) | |
| 34 | Portobello, Dublin FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 24 Lat/Lng : 53.3304 / -6.2652 | Portobello (– meaning 'beautiful harbour') is an area of Dublin located in the South City Centre, adjacent to the Grand Canal. Portobello came into existence as a small suburb south of the city of Dublin in the 18th century, centred on Richmond St (...) | |
| 35 | History of Florida FeatureType : null Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 27.5234 / -82.6431 | The history of Florida can be traced to when the first Native Americans began to inhabit the peninsula as early as 14,000 years ago. They left behind artifacts and archeological evidence. Florida's written history begins with the arrival of Europeans; the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León in 1513 (...) | |
| 36 | History of Limerick FeatureType : null Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 52.6652 / -8.6238 | The history of Limerick, stretches back to its establishment by the Vikings as a walled city on King's Island (an island in the River Shannon) in 812, and its charter in 1197. A great castle was built on the orders of King John in 1200 (...) | |
| 37 | Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies FeatureType : null Elevation : 182 Lat/Lng : 55.8653 / -3.2 | The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, commonly referred to as the Dick Vet, is the veterinary school of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and part of the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine the head of which is Sir John Savill (...) | |
| 38 | 2007 Iranian arrest of Royal Navy personnel FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 29.8544 / 48.7458 | Iranian military personnel arrested 15 Royal Navy personnel in 2007 and held them for 13 days. On 23 March 2007, 15 Royal Navy personnel from HMS Cornwall were searching a merchant vessel when they were surrounded by the Navy of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and subsequently detained off the (...) | |
| 39 | Aubrey–Maturin series FeatureType : null Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : -3.7919 / 102.2561 | The Aubrey–Maturin series is a sequence of nautical historical novels—20 completed and one unfinished—by Patrick O'Brian, set during the Napoleonic Wars and centering on the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, a physician, natural (...) | |
| 40 | Thorverton FeatureType : city Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 50.8 / -3.5333 | Thorverton is a village in Devon, England, about a mile west of the River Exe and north of Exeter. It is almost centrally located between Exeter and the towns of Tiverton, Cullompton and Crediton, and contains the hamlets of Yellowford and Raddon. It has two churches and two public houses (...) | |
| 41 | Llandissilio FeatureType : null Elevation : 107 Lat/Lng : 51.8628 / -4.7328 | Llandissilio is a village in the community of Llanddisilio West in east Pembrokeshire, Wales on the A478 road between Efailwen to the north and Clunderwen to the south. A largely ribbon development along the main road, the village is surrounded by farmland. (...) | |
| 42 | Glencorse FeatureType : null Elevation : 186 Lat/Lng : 55.8507 / -3.2042 | Glencorse is a parish of Midlothian, Scotland, lying 7 miles south of Edinburgh.Gazetteer of Scotland, publ, by W & AK Johnston, Edinburgh, 1937. Article on Glencorse. Places are presented alphabetically It is bounded on the north-west by the former parish of Colinton now within the City of (...) | |
| 43 | Giant's Causeway and Bushmills Railway FeatureType : null Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 55.21 / -6.535 | The Giant's Causeway and Bushmills Railway (GC&BR) is a narrow gauge heritage railway operating between the Giant's Causeway and Bushmills on the coast of County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The line is long. (...) | |
| 44 | Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 69 Lat/Lng : 36.1246 / -5.3504 | The Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) is Gibraltar's public service broadcaster. It has provided the community with a radio and television service since 1963. (...) | |
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