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| 1 | Duke University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 123 Lat/Lng : 36.0011 / -78.9389 | Duke University is a private, non-profit, research university located in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James Buchanan Duke established The (...) | |
| 2 | George Bush Intercontinental Airport ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 32 Lat/Lng : 29.9848 / -95.3414 | George Bush Intercontinental Airport is an international airport in Houston, Texas, United States, under class B airspace, serving the Greater Houston metropolitan area. Located about north of Downtown Houston, between Interstate 45 and Interstate 69/U.S (...) | |
| 3 | South African Airways ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1683 Lat/Lng : -26.1392 / 28.2461 | South African Airways (SAA) is the flag carrier airline of South Africa. Its headquarters are in Airways Park on the grounds of O. R. Tambo International Airport in Kempton Park, Ekurhuleni, Gauteng. In partnership with SA Express, SA Airlink and its low-cost carrier, Mango, the airline flies to 56 (...) | |
| 4 | May 5 ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 37.6 / 21.0 | This day marks the approximate midpoint of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and of autumn in the Southern Hemisphere (starting the season at the March equinox). (...) | |
| 5 | 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 (...) | |
| 6 | 2010 Chile earthquake ![]() FeatureType : event Lat/Lng : -35.846 / -72.719 | The 2010 Chile earthquake occurred off the coast of central Chile on Saturday, 27 February at 03:34 local time (06:34 UTC), having a magnitude of 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale, with intense shaking lasting for about three minutes (...) | |
| 7 | 1938 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 61 Lat/Lng : 53.3937 / 13.7438 | ==Events== ===January=== * January 1 ** The California Golden Bears defeat the Alabama Crimson Tide in the 1938 Rose Bowl with a final score 13-0. ** The Company 1938 OEM Industrial Groups is officially registered (...) | |
| 8 | Global city ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 40.39 / -73.56 | A global city, also called world city or sometimes alpha city or world center, is a city which is a primary node in the global economic network. The concept comes from geography and urban studies, and the idea that globalization is created, facilitated, and enacted in strategic geographic locales (...) | |
| 9 | Canopy walkway ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 438 Lat/Lng : 48.0828 / 7.9587 | Canopy walkways - also called canopy walks, treetop walks or treetop walkways - provide pedestrian access to a forest canopy. Early walkways consisted of bridges between trees in the canopy of a forest; mostly linked up with platforms inside or around the trees (...) | |
| 10 | Cranfield University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 105 Lat/Lng : 52.0733 / -0.6278 | Cranfield University is a British postgraduate and research-based public university specialising in science, engineering, technology and management. It contains two campuses: the main campus is at Cranfield, Bedfordshire, and the second is at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom at Shrivenham, (...) | |
| 11 | HMS Hydra (A144) ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -35.0 / -35.0 | HMS Hydra (Pennant Number A144) was a Royal Navy deep ocean hydrographic survey vessel, the third of the original three of the Hecla class. The ship was laid down as yard number 2258 on 14 May 1964 at Yarrow Shipbuilders, at Scotstoun on the River Clyde and launched on 14 July 1965 by Mary Lythall, (...) | |
| 12 | Food and Agriculture Organization ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 41.8823 / 12.4883 | The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO;) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate arguments and (...) | |
| 13 | 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 (...) | |
| 14 | Causeway ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 19.0487 / 72.8382 | A causeway is a track, road or railway on top of an embankment across "a low, or wet place, or piece of water".Oxford English Dictionary It can be constructed of earth, masonry, wood, or concrete. One of the earliest known wooden causeways is the Sweet Track in the Somerset Levels, England, that (...) | |
| 15 | SS Empire Darwin ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 43.05 / -16.1 | Empire Darwin was a British CAM ship built in 1941 by William Gray & Co. Ltd., West Hartlepool, United Kingdom for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). Her Hawker Sea Hurricane was involved in the last action by an aircraft flown off a CAM ship, shooting down a Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor on 28 July (...) | |
| 16 | CMA CGM ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 43.3149 / 5.366 | CMA CGM S.A. is a French container transportation and shipping company. It is a leading worldwide shipping group, using 200 shipping routes between 420 ports in 150 different countries. Its headquarters are in Marseille,"." GMA CGM. Retrieved on 22 September 2011 (...) | |
| 17 | 1968 in aviation ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 32.9667 / 32.8 | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1968: (...) | |
| 18 | Rem Koolhaas ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 61 Lat/Lng : 48.8559 / 2.2182 | Remment Lucas "Rem" Koolhaas (; born 17 November 1944) is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University (...) | |
| 19 | TAAG Angola Airlines ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 53 Lat/Lng : -8.8155 / 13.2374 | TAAG Angola Airlines E.P. is the state-owned national airline of Angola. Based in Luanda, the airline operates an all-Boeing fleet on domestic services within Angola, medium-haul services in Africa and long-haul services to Brazil, Cuba, China, and Portugal (...) | |
| 20 | Cranfield School of Management ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 106 Lat/Lng : 52.074 / -0.629 | Cranfield School of Management, established in 1967, is a business school that is part of Cranfield University in Bedfordshire, United Kingdom. It was ranked among the Top 30 European Business Schools by the Financial Times in 2017 (...) | |
| 21 | NSE ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 236 Lat/Lng : 6.25 / -7.5333 | NSE may refer to: == Stock exchanges == * Nagoya Stock Exchange,Japan * Nairobi Stock Exchange, Kenya * Nigerian Stock Exchange, Lagos * National Stock Exchange of India * National Stock Exchange, the former name of Vilnius Stock Exchange, Lithuania == Transportation== * Network SouthEast, a former (...) | |