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| Montreal  FeatureType : null Elevation : 44 Lat/Lng : 45.5077 / -73.5626 | Montreal (; is the local English pronunciation; in the rest of Canada, it tends to be , but the British and American pronunciation is . ; officially Montréal) is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada (...) |
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| Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport FeatureType : null Elevation : 32 Lat/Lng : 45.4718 / -73.7366 | Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport or Montréal–Trudeau, formerly known as Montréal–Dorval International Airport (Aéroport international Montréal-Dorval), is an international airport serving Montreal, Quebec, Canada, located on the Island of Montreal, from Downtown Montreal (...) |
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| Canada FeatureType : country Elevation : 73 Lat/Lng : 45.4116 / -75.6984 | Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering , making it the world's second-largest country by total area (...) |
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| Saint Pierre and Miquelon FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 53 Lat/Lng : 46.825 / -56.275 | Saint Pierre and Miquelon, officially the Overseas Collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon , is a self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France, situated in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean near the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador (...) |
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| Plattsburgh (city), New York FeatureType : city Elevation : 45 Lat/Lng : 44.6951 / -73.4563 | Plattsburgh is a city in and the seat of Clinton County, New York, United States. The population was 19,989 at the 2010 census. The population of the unincorporated areas within the Town of Plattsburgh was 11,870 as of the 2010 census, making the population for the immediate Plattsburgh region (...) |
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| Saint-Malo FeatureType : null Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 48.6481 / -2.0075 | Saint-Malo (; Gallo: Saent-Malô;) is a historic French port in Brittany on the Channel coast. The walled city had a long history of piracy, earning much wealth from local extortion and overseas adventures. In 1944, the Allies heavily bombarded Saint-Malo, mistaking it for a major enemy base (...) |
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| Saint-Nazaire FeatureType : null Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 47.2806 / -2.2086 | Saint-Nazaire (; ; Gallo: Saint-Nazère/Saint-Nazaer) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France, in traditional Brittany. The town has a major harbour on the right bank of the Loire River estuary, near the Atlantic Ocean (...) |
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| Montréal–Mirabel International Airport FeatureType : airport Elevation : 71 Lat/Lng : 45.6819 / -74.0053 | Montréal–Mirabel International Airport , originally called Montréal International Airport and widely known as Mirabel, is a cargo and former international passenger airport in Mirabel, Quebec, Canada, northwest of Montreal (...) |
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| Nice FeatureType : null Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 43.7034 / 7.2663 | Nice (; Niçard , classical norm, or ', nonstandard, ; ; ;) is the fifth most populous city in France and the capital of the Alpes-Maritimes département. The metropolitan area of Nice extends beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of about 1 million, April 2016 – INSEE, 2008 on an (...) |
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| Saint John, New Brunswick FeatureType : null Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : 45.2806 / -66.0761 | Saint John is the port city of the Bay of Fundy in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. The port is Canada’s third largest port by tonnage with a cargo base that includes dry and liquid bulk, break bulk, containers, and cruise (...) |
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| Newfoundland and Labrador FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 63 Lat/Lng : 47.6011 / -52.6976 | Newfoundland and Labrador (; ; Newfoundland Irish:) is the most easterly province of Canada. Situated in the country's Atlantic region, it comprises the island of Newfoundland and mainland Labrador to the northwest, with a combined area of (...) |
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| Anticosti Island FeatureType : null Elevation : 184 Lat/Lng : 49.5001 / -62.9986 | Anticosti Island is an island in the province of Quebec, Canada at the outlet of the Saint Lawrence River into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, between 49° and 50° N., and between 61° 40' and 64° 30' W. At in size, it is the 90th largest island in the world and 20th largest island in Canada (...) |
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| Haiti FeatureType : country Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 18.5392 / -72.3364 | Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti and formerly called Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola, east of Cuba in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican Republic (...) |
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| Maine FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 188 Lat/Lng : 45.5 / -69.0 | Maine is a U.S. state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. Maine is the 12th smallest by area, the 9th least populous, and the 38th most densely populated of the 50 U.S. states. It is bordered by New Hampshire to the west, the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast, and the Canadian (...) |
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| Hanoi FeatureType : city Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 21.0283 / 105.8542 | Hanoi is the capital of Vietnam and the country's second largest city by population. The population in 2015 was estimated at 7.7 million people. The city lies on the right bank of the Red River. Hanoi is north of Ho Chi Minh City and west of Haiphong (...) |
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| Brussels FeatureType : null Elevation : 66 Lat/Lng : 50.8432 / 4.363 | Brussels , officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) , is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium (...) |
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| Abidjan FeatureType : null Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 5.3364 / -4.0267 | Abidjan is the economic capital of Ivory Coast and one of the most populous French-speaking cities in Africa. According to the 2014 census, Abidjan's population was 4.7 million, which is 20 percent of the overall population of the country, and this also makes it the fourth most populous city proper (...) |
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| Beirut FeatureType : city Elevation : 77 Lat/Lng : 33.8898 / 35.5003 | Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. No recent population census has been conducted, but 2007 estimates ranged from slightly more than 1 million to 2.2 million as part of Greater Beirut."". The World Bank. 30 September 2016. Retrieved 20 March 2016 (...) |
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| Antarctica FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -69.3578 / -2.2472 | Antarctica (or) is Earth's southernmost continent. It contains the geographic South Pole and is situated in the Antarctic region of the Southern Hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. At , it is the fifth-largest continent (...) |
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| Detroit FeatureType : null Elevation : 192 Lat/Lng : 42.3314 / -83.0458 | Detroit is the largest and most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County. The municipality of Detroit had a 2017 estimated population of 673,104, making it the 23rd-most populous city in the United States (...) |
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| Sackville, New Brunswick FeatureType : city Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 45.9188 / -64.3845 | Sackville is a town in southeastern New Brunswick, Canada. It is home to Mount Allison University, a primarily undergraduate liberal arts university. Historically home to two foundries manufacturing stoves and furnaces, the economy is now driven by the university and tourism (...) |
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| José Martí International Airport FeatureType : null Elevation : 63 Lat/Lng : 22.9892 / -82.4091 | José Martí International Airport , sometimes known by its former name Rancho-Boyeros Airport, is an international airport located southwest of Havana, Cuba, and is a hub for Cubana de Aviación and Aerogaviota, and former Latin American hub for the Soviet (later Russian) airline Aeroflot (...) |
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| Fort Niagara FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 83 Lat/Lng : 43.2628 / -79.063 | Fort Niagara is a fortification originally built to protect the interests of New France in North America. It is located near Youngstown, New York, on the eastern bank of the Niagara River at its mouth, on Lake Ontario. (...) |
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| Lake George (New York) FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : 99 Lat/Lng : 43.5667 / -73.6167 | Lake George, nicknamed the Queen of American Lakes,See: * Bolton Landing Chamber of Commerce, , Retrieved May 12, 2008 * Albany International Airport, , 2004. Retrieved May 12, 2008 * The Hyde Collection, , September, 2005 (...) |
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| 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 (...) |
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| Headquarters of the United Nations FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 40.7494 / -73.9681 | The United Nations is headquartered in New York City, in a complex designed by a board of architects led by Wallace Harrison, and built by the architectural firm Harrison & Abramovitz. The complex has served as the official headquarters of the United Nations since its completion in 1952 (...) |
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| Nicaragua FeatureType : country Elevation : 201 Lat/Lng : 12.9042 / -84.9219 | Nicaragua , officially the Republic of Nicaragua (República de Nicaragua.ogg), is the largest country in the Central American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the northwest, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest (...) |
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| Nigeria FeatureType : country Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 4.5417 / 7.9833 | The Federal Republic of Nigeria, commonly referred to as Nigeria , is a federal republic in West Africa, bordering Niger in the north, Chad in the northeast, Cameroon in the southeast, and Benin in the west. Its coast in the south is located on the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean (...) |
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| Shahba FeatureType : null Elevation : 1083 Lat/Lng : 32.8551 / 36.629 | Shahba (/ ALA-LC: Shahbā) is a city located 87 km south of Damascus in the Jabal el Druze in As-Suwayda Governorate of Syria, but formerly in the Roman province of Arabia Petraea. Known in Late Antiquity as Philippopolis (in Arabia), the city was the seat of a Bishopric (see below), which remains a (...) |
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| Saint Petersburg FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 59.9339 / 30.3061 | Saint Petersburg is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with 5 million inhabitants in 2012, part of the Saint Petersburg agglomeration with a population of 6.2 million (2015). An important Russian port on the Baltic Sea, it has a status of a federal subject (a federal city) (...) |
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| RMS Titanic FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 41.7325 / -49.9469 | RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early hours of 15 April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. There were an estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, and more than 1,500 died, making (...) |
| 32 | Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport FeatureType : null Elevation : 47 Lat/Lng : 44.8286 / -0.7153 | Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport is the international airport of Bordeaux, in south-western France. It is situated in the commune of Mérignac, west of Bordeaux, within the département of the Gironde. It mainly features flights to metropolitan and leisure destinations in Europe and Northern Africa and (...) | |
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| Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education FeatureType : edu Elevation : 543 Lat/Lng : 25.6514 / -100.2907 | Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) (in), also known as Tecnológico de Monterrey or simply as Tec, is a private, nonsectarian and coeducational multi-campus university based in Monterrey, Mexico (...) |
| 34 | Quebec FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 83 Lat/Lng : 46.8091 / -71.2135 | Quebec According to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in English; the name is . In this system, the official name of the capital is Québec in both official languages (...) | |
| 35 | Expo 67 FeatureType : null Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 45.5167 / -73.5356 | The 1967 International and Universal Exposition or Expo 67, as it was commonly known, was a general exhibition, Category One World's Fair held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from April 27 to October 29, 1967. It is considered to be the most successful World's Fair of the 20th century (...) | |
| 36 | Loire-Atlantique FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 46 Lat/Lng : 47.3333 / -1.6667 | Loire-Atlantique (; formerly Loire-Inférieure) is a department in Pays de la Loire on the west coast of France named after the Loire River and the Atlantic Ocean. (...) | |
| 37 | France 24 FeatureType : null Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 48.8305 / 2.2649 | France 24 (pronounced "France vingt-quatre") is a state-owned international news and current affairs television network based in Paris. Its channels broadcast in French, English, Arabic, and Spanish. Based in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux,"." France 24. Retrieved 29 October 2009 (...) | |
| 38 | TV5Monde FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 50 Lat/Lng : 48.8836 / 2.3019 | TV5Monde (; formerly known as TV5) is a French pay television network, broadcasting several channels of French language programming. It is an approved participant member of the European Broadcasting Union. (...) | |
| 39 | International Civil Aviation Organization FeatureType : null Elevation : 68 Lat/Lng : 45.5003 / -73.5642 | The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO;), is a specialized agency of the United Nations. It codifies the principles and techniques of international air navigation and fosters the planning and development of international air transport to ensure safe and orderly growth (...) | |
| 40 | Upper Canada FeatureType : null Elevation : 305 Lat/Lng : 44.0 / -80.0 | The Province of Upper Canada was a part of British Canada established in 1791 by the Kingdom of Great Britain, to govern the central third of the lands in British North America. It was the primary destination of Loyalist refugees and settlers from the United States after the American Revolution (...) | |
| 41 | Ancien Régime FeatureType : null Elevation : 41 Lat/Lng : 48.8167 / 2.4833 | The Ancien Régime (; ; French for "old regime") was the political and social system of the Kingdom of France from the Late Middle Ages (circa 15th century) until 1789, when hereditary monarchy and the feudal system of French nobility were abolished by the (...) | |
| 42 | Gaspé, Quebec FeatureType : null Elevation : 23 Lat/Lng : 48.831 / -64.4844 | Gaspé is a city at the tip of the Gaspé Peninsula in the Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine region of eastern Quebec in Canada. Gaspé is located about northeast of Quebec City, and east of Rimouski. As of the Canada 2011 Census, the city had a total population of 15,163 (...) | |
| 43 | Ontario FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 178 Lat/Lng : 50.0 / -85.0 | Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada (along with Manitoba) (...) | |
| 44 | HEC Montréal FeatureType : edu Elevation : 122 Lat/Lng : 45.5035 / -73.6214 | HEC Montréal (formerly) is a Canadian business school located in Montreal, Canada. Founded in 1907, HEC Montréal is the graduate business school of the Université de Montréal and the first established school of management in Canada (...) | |
| 45 | La Flèche FeatureType : null Elevation : 36 Lat/Lng : 47.6997 / -0.0761 | La Flèche is a town and commune in the French department of Sarthe, in the Pays de la Loire region in the Loire Valley. It is the sub-prefecture of the South-Sarthe, the chief district and the chief city of a canton, and the second most populous city of the department (...) | |
| 46 | Saint Denis FeatureType : null Elevation : 101 Lat/Lng : 49.7052 / 1.0949 | Saint Denis may refer to: * Denis, a Christian saint, patron saint of Paris (...) | |
| 47 | Parliament of Canada FeatureType : null Elevation : 97 Lat/Lng : 45.4252 / -75.7001 | The Parliament of Canada is the federal legislature of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, the national capital. The body consists of the Canadian monarch, represented by a viceroy, the Governor General; an upper house, the Senate; and a lower house, the House of Commons (...) | |
| 48 | Sherbrooke FeatureType : null Elevation : 144 Lat/Lng : 45.3999 / -71.8842 | Sherbrooke is a city in southern Quebec, Canada. Sherbrooke is situated at the confluence of the Saint-François (St. Francis) and Magog rivers in the heart of the Estrie administrative region.http://ftp.geogratis.gc.ca/pub/nrcan_rncan/raster/atlas_6_ed/reference/bilingual/que (...) | |
| 49 | Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine FeatureType : null Elevation : 101 Lat/Lng : 48.1242 / -1.2081 | Vitré is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France. Vitré, a sub-prefecture until 1926, is the seat of a canton of 17,798 inhabitants (2015). It lies on the edge of Brittany, near Normandy, Maine, and Anjou (...) | |
| 50 | Lyon FeatureType : null Elevation : 177 Lat/Lng : 45.7597 / 4.8422 | Lyon (also spelled Lyons and in this case alternatively pronounced ; ;) is the third-largest city and second-largest urban area of France. It is located in the country's east-central part at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, about south from Paris, north from Marseille and northeast from (...) | |
| 51 | New Brunswick FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 45.9576 / -66.6444 | New Brunswick (; Canadian French pronunciation:) is one of four Atlantic provinces on the east coast of Canada. The indigenous inhabitants of the land at the time of European colonization were the Mi'kmaq, the Maliseet, and the Passamaquoddy peoples, aligned politically within the Wabanaki (...) | |
| 52 | Organisation internationale de la Francophonie FeatureType : null Elevation : 44 Lat/Lng : 48.86 / 2.3032 | The Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), generally known as the Francophonie , Francophonie is the name of the "French-speaking world". but also called International Organisation of the Francophonie in English language context, is an international organization representing countries (...) | |
| 53 | July 25 FeatureType : null Elevation : 1691 Lat/Lng : 46.1 / 7.2 | ==Events== * 306 – Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops. * 315 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge (...) | |
| 54 | Battle of the Plains of Abraham FeatureType : null Elevation : 90 Lat/Lng : 46.803 / -71.215 | The Battle of the Plains of Abraham, also known as the Battle of Quebec (Bataille des Plaines d'Abraham, or Première bataille de Québec in French), was a pivotal battle in the Seven Years' War (referred to as the French and Indian War to describe the North American theatre) (...) | |
| 55 | Acadia FeatureType : city Elevation : 81 Lat/Lng : 47.6653 / -65.7542 | Acadia was a colony of New France in northeastern North America that included parts of eastern Quebec, the Maritime provinces, and modern-day Maine to the Kennebec River. During much of the 17th and early 18th centuries, Norridgewock on the Kennebec River and Castine at the end of the Penobscot (...) | |
| 56 | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 43.175 / 5.4028 | Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry (; 29 June 1900 – 31 July 1944) was a French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist, and pioneering aviator. He became a laureate of several of France's highest literary awards and also won the U.S. National Book Award (...) | |
| 57 | La Rochelle FeatureType : null Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 46.1591 / -1.1517 | La Rochelle is a city in western France and a seaport on the Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Charente-Maritime department. The city is connected to the Île de Ré by a bridge completed on 19 May 1988 (...) | |
| 58 | Pasteur Institute FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 52 Lat/Lng : 48.8404 / 2.3108 | The Pasteur Institute is a French non-profit private foundation dedicated to the study of biology, micro-organisms, diseases, and vaccines. It is named after Louis Pasteur, who made some of the greatest breakthroughs in modern medicine at the time, including pasteurization and vaccines for anthrax (...) | |
| 59 | Bathurst, New Brunswick FeatureType : city Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 47.6175 / -65.6491 | Bathurst (2011 population; UA 12,275; CA population 13,424) is the county seat for Gloucester County, New Brunswick, and is at the estuary of the Nepisiguit River. (...) | |
| 60 | Zinedine Zidane FeatureType : null Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 43.2844 / 5.3495 | Zinedine Zidane (; born 23 June 1972), nicknamed "Zizou", is a French professional football coach and former player. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time,. BBC. Retrieved 20 April 2013. . ESPN. Retrieved 20 April 2013 The Independent. Retrieved 17 November 2013. New York Times (...) | |
| 61 | Michigan FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 341 Lat/Lng : 44.2333 / -84.8333 | Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States. The state's name, Michigan, originates from the Ojibwe word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake". Michigan is the tenth most populous of the 50 United States, with the 11th most extensive total area, and (...) | |
| 62 | Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport FeatureType : airport Elevation : 261 Lat/Lng : 39.0489 / -84.6679 | Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport is a public international airport located in Hebron, Kentucky, United States. It serves the Greater Cincinnati metropolitan area. The airport's code, CVG, comes from the nearest city at the time of its opening, Covington, Kentucky (...) | |
| 63 | Northwest Territory FeatureType : null Elevation : 260 Lat/Lng : 41.0 / -86.0 | The Northwest Territory in the United States (also known as the Old Northwest) was formed after the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), and was known formally as the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio. It encompassed most of the pre-war British colonial territory north of the Ohio River of (...) | |
| 64 | Musée Grévin Montreal FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 65 Lat/Lng : 45.5035 / -73.5712 | The Musée Grévin Montreal is a waxwork museum in Montreal located in Montreal Eaton Centre in Ville-Marie, Montreal, Canada. It is open daily; an admission fee is charged. (...) | |
| 65 | Saint-Sulpice Seminary (Montreal) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 32 Lat/Lng : 45.5039 / -73.5569 | The Saint-Sulpice Seminary (French:Vieux Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice) is a building in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the second oldest structure in Montreal and was declared a National Historic Site of Canada in 1980 (...) | |
| 66 | Society of Jesus FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 41.9014 / 12.4606 | The Society of Jesus (SJ;) is a scholarly religious congregation of the Catholic Church which originated in sixteenth-century Spain. The members are called Jesuits .Spiteri, Stephen C. (2016). . University of Malta. p. 16 (...) | |
| 67 | Gothic Revival architecture in Canada FeatureType : null Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : 45.5079 / -73.5698 | Gothic Revival architecture in Canada is an historically influential style, with many prominent examples. The Gothic Revival was imported to Canada from Britain and the United States in the early 19th century, and rose to become the most popular style for major projects throughout the late 19th and (...) | |
| 68 | Ignace Bourget FeatureType : null Elevation : 70 Lat/Lng : 46.7927 / -71.1249 | Ignace Bourget (October 30, 1799 – June 8, 1885) was a French-Canadian Roman Catholic priest who held the title of Bishop of Montreal from 1840 to 1876. Born in Lévis, Quebec in 1799, Bourget entered the clergy at an early age, undertook several courses of religious study, and in 1837 was (...) | |
| 69 | Institut d'études politiques de Lyon FeatureType : null Elevation : 174 Lat/Lng : 45.7469 / 4.8358 | The Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Lyon (or Lyon Institute of Political Studies) also known as Sciences Po Lyon, is a grande école located in Lyon, France. It is one of nine Institutes of Political Studies in France, and was established in 1948 by Charles de Gaulle’s provisional government (...) | |
| 70 | Air France Flight 358 FeatureType : event Elevation : 156 Lat/Lng : 43.6556 / -79.6242 | Air France Flight 358 was a regularly scheduled international flight from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, France, to Toronto Pearson International Airport in Ontario, Canada. On the afternoon of 2 August 2005, while landing at Pearson Airport, the Airbus A340-313E operating the route crashed (...) | |
| 71 | SAP SE FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 112 Lat/Lng : 49.2935 / 8.6418 | SAP SE (; , "Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing") is a German-based European multinational software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations (...) | |
| 72 | Williams Grand Prix Engineering FeatureType : null Elevation : 75 Lat/Lng : 51.6181 / -1.4128 | Williams Grand Prix Engineering Limited, currently racing in Formula One as Williams Martini Racing, is a British Formula One motor racing team and constructor. It was founded and is run by team owner Sir Frank Williams and automotive engineer Sir Patrick Head (...) | |
| 73 | École du Louvre FeatureType : null Elevation : 42 Lat/Lng : 48.8608 / 2.3322 | The École du Louvre is an institution of higher education located in the Aile de Flore of the Louvre Palace in Paris, France. It is dedicated to the study of archaeology, art history, anthropology and epigraphy (...) | |
| 74 | Alexander von Humboldt FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 60.3833 / 59.2 | Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (;. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. ; 14 September 17696 May 1859) was a Prussian polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of Romantic philosophy and science (...) | |
| 75 | Charlie Hebdo shooting FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 39 Lat/Lng : 48.8592 / 2.3703 | On 7 January 2015 at about 11:30 local time, two brothers, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, forced their way into the offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Armed with rifles and other weapons, they killed 12 people and injured 11 others (...) | |
| 76 | Battle of Quebec (1775) FeatureType : city Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 46.8151 / -71.2023 | The Battle of Quebec was fought on December 31, 1775, between American Continental Army forces and the British defenders of Quebec City early in the American Revolutionary War. The battle was the first major defeat of the war for the Americans, and it came with heavy losses (...) | |
| 77 | Pittsburgh International Airport FeatureType : airport Elevation : 343 Lat/Lng : 40.492 / -80.2327 | Pittsburgh International Airport , formerly Greater Pittsburgh International Airport, is a civil–military international airport in the eastern United States, in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is located in Findlay and Moon townships of Allegheny County, about west of downtown (...) | |
| 78 | Maronite Church FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 240 Lat/Lng : 33.9678 / 35.6339 | The Maronite Church is an Eastern Catholic sui iuris particular church in full communion with the Pope and the worldwide Catholic Church, with self-governance under the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches. It is headed by Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rahi since 2011 (...) | |
| 79 | Orleans County, Vermont FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 306 Lat/Lng : 44.83 / -72.25 | Orleans County is a county in the northeastern part of the state of Vermont, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 27,231. Its county seat is the city of Newport. The county was created in 1792 and organized in 1799 (...) | |
| 80 | Greenpeace FeatureType : null Elevation : 1 Lat/Lng : 52.3503 / 4.8331 | Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over 39 countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Greenpeace was founded by Irving Stowe and Dorothy Stowe, Canadian and US ex-pat environmental activists in 1971 (...) | |
| 81 | Benjamin Franklin FeatureType : null Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 39.9488 / -75.1468 | Benjamin Franklin (April 17, 1790) was an American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat (...) | |
| 82 | 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 (...) | |
| 83 | 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 (...) | |
| 84 | International Labour Organization FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 446 Lat/Lng : 46.2292 / 6.1342 | The International Labour Organization (ILO), which will mark its centenary in 2019, is a United Nations agency that sets international labour standards and promotes social protection and work opportunities for all (...) | |
| 85 | 1974 FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : 27.9606 / -82.7299 | ==Events== ===January=== * January 11 – David, Elizabeth, Emma, Grant, Jason and Nicolette Rosenkowitz are born in Cape Town, the first recorded sextuplets in the world where all six babies survive. * January 17 – Two commercial divers, Pier Skipness and Robert John Smyth, die from rapid (...) | |
| 86 | 49th parallel north FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 60 Lat/Lng : 49.0 / 0.0 | The 49th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 49° north of Earth's equator. It crosses Europe, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean. The city of Paris is about south of the 49th parallel and is the largest city between the 48th and 49th parallels (...) | |
| 87 | 2016 FeatureType : null Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : 30.6004 / 114.6192 | 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the International Social Science Council (ISSC), and the International (...) | |
| 88 | IKEA FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 52.1671 / 4.4824 | IKEA is a Swedish-founded multinational group that designs and sells , kitchen appliances and home accessories, among other useful goods and occasionally home services. It has been the world's largest furniture retailer since at least 2008 (...) | |
| 89 | Saint Martin (disambiguation) FeatureType : null Elevation : 1497 Lat/Lng : 46.1733 / 7.446 | Saint Martin may refer to: (...) | |
| 90 | 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 (...) | |
| 91 | Grand River (Ontario) FeatureType : null Elevation : 172 Lat/Lng : 42.8501 / -79.5663 | The Grand River (la rivière Grand in French and O:se Kenhionhata:tie in Mohawk) is a large river in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. It also lies along the western fringe of the Golden Horseshoe region of Ontario which overlaps the eastern portion of southwestern Ontario along the length of this river (...) | |
| 92 | New York (state) FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 126 Lat/Lng : 43.1167 / -75.95 | New York is a state in the Northeastern United States. New York was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that formed the United States. With an estimated 19.85 million residents in 2017, it is the fourth most populous state (...) | |
| 93 | Expo 2017 FeatureType : null Elevation : 348 Lat/Lng : 51.0913 / 71.4128 | Expo 2017 Astana was an International Exposition which took place from June 10 to September 10, 2017 in Astana, Kazakhstan. The expo's theme was "Future Energy", and aimed to create a global debate between countries, nongovernmental organizations, companies and the general public on the crucial (...) | |
| 94 | Manila FeatureType : null Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 14.5833 / 120.9667 | Manila (; , or), officially the City of Manila , is the capital of the Philippines. It is one of the most densely populated cities proper in the world. It was the first chartered city by virtue of the Philippine Commission Act 183 on July 31, 1901 and gained autonomy with the passage of Republic Act (...) | |
| 95 | Gander International Airport FeatureType : null Elevation : 137 Lat/Lng : 48.9376 / -54.5681 | Gander International Airport is located in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, and is operated by the Gander International Airport Authority. Canadian Forces Base Gander shares the airfield but is a separate entity from the airport. (...) | |
| 96 | Rapides du Cheval Blanc FeatureType : null Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 45.519 / -73.8303 | There are three locations in Quebec, Canada with the name "Rapides du Cheval Blanc". This article is on the rapids between the north side of the Island of Montreal, and the south side of Sainte-Dorothée, Laval. The Rapides du Cheval Blanc, or White Horse Rapids, flow between the Island of Montreal, (...) | |
| 97 | 1980 Summer Olympics FeatureType : null Elevation : 140 Lat/Lng : 57.24 / 43.58 | The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad , was an international multi-sport event held in Moscow, Soviet Union, in present-day Russia.. sports-reference.com The 1980 Games were the first Olympic Games to be staged in Eastern Europe, and remain the only Summer (...) | |
| 98 | Traffic light FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1905 Lat/Lng : 43.4795 / -110.7627 | Traffic lights, also known as traffic signals, traffic lamps, traffic semaphore, signal lights, stop lights, robots (in South Africa and most of Africa), and traffic control signals (in technical parlance), The Origins and Globalization of Traffic Control Signals — Retrieved 8 December 2013 are (...) | |
| 99 | Gay Games FeatureType : null Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 37.7749 / -122.4194 | The Gay Games is a worldwide sport and cultural event that promotes acceptance of sexual diversity, featuring lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) athletes and artists. Founded as the Gay Olympics, it was started in the United States in San Francisco, California, in 1982, as the brainchild (...) | |
| 100 | Fort William, Ontario FeatureType : city Elevation : 190 Lat/Lng : 48.38 / -89.28 | Fort William was a city in Northern Ontario, located on the Kaministiquia River, at its entrance to Lake Superior. It amalgamated with Port Arthur and the townships of Neebing and McIntyre to form the city of Thunder Bay in January 1970 (...) | |
| 101 | Canadian National Vimy Memorial FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 146 Lat/Lng : 50.3794 / 2.7736 | The Canadian National Vimy Memorial is a war memorial site in France dedicated to the memory of Canadian Expeditionary Force members killed during the First World War. It also serves as the place of commemoration for Canadian soldiers of the First World War killed or presumed dead in France who have (...) | |
| 102 | Illinois Country FeatureType : null Elevation : 181 Lat/Lng : 40.25 / -90.25 | The Illinois Country (lit. "land of the Illinois (plural)", i.e. the Illinois people) — sometimes referred to as Upper Louisiana — was a vast region of New France in what is now the Midwestern United States (...) | |
| 103 | Northeastern University FeatureType : edu Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 42.3389 / -71.0903 | Northeastern University (NU, formerly NEU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, established in 1898. It is categorized as an R1 institution (Doctoral Universities: Highest Research Activity) by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education (...) | |
| 104 | Tesla, Inc. FeatureType : null Elevation : 60 Lat/Lng : 37.3947 / -122.1503 | Tesla, Inc. (formerly Tesla Motors, Inc.) is an American automotive and energy company based in Palo Alto, California. The company specializes in electric car manufacturing and, through its SolarCity subsidiary, solar panel manufacturing (...) | |
| 105 | York, Upper Canada FeatureType : city Elevation : 106 Lat/Lng : 43.6525 / -79.3817 | York was a town and second capital of the district of Upper Canada. It is the predecessor to the old city of Toronto (1834–1998). It was established in 1793 by Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe as a "temporary" location for the capital of Upper Canada, while he made plans to build a capital (...) | |
| 106 | Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 69 Lat/Lng : 45.4992 / -73.5682 | Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral is a minor basilica in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and the seat of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Montreal. It is the third largest church in Quebec after Saint Joseph's Oratory (also in Montreal) and the Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré east of Quebec City (...) | |
| 107 | Antoine Lefèbvre de La Barre FeatureType : null Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 46.817 / -71.217 | Joseph-Antoine le Fèbvre, sieur de La Barre (or Antoine Lefebvre, Antoine Lefèvre; 1622–1688) was a French lawyer and administrator best known for his disastrous three years term as governor of the colony of New France (Quebec). As a young man he served in the administration in France (...) | |
| 108 | Arts et Métiers ParisTech FeatureType : edu Elevation : 58 Lat/Lng : 48.8336 / 2.3583 | Arts et Métiers ParisTech is a French engineering and research graduate school (Grande Ecole). It is a general engineering school recognized for leading French higher education in the fields of mechanics and industrialization (...) | |
| 109 | The Maritimes FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 46.0 / -64.0 | The Maritimes, also called the Maritime provinces or the Canadian Maritimes, is a region of Eastern Canada consisting of three provinces: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island (PEI). The Maritimes had a population of 1,813,606 in 2016 (...) | |
| 110 | Kanesatake FeatureType : null Elevation : 165 Lat/Lng : 45.5114 / -74.1237 | Kanehsatà:ke is a Kanien'kéha:ka Mohawk settlement on the shore of the Lake of Two Mountains in southeastern Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Ottawa and St. Lawrence rivers and about 30 miles west of Montreal. People who reside in Kanehsatà:ke are referred to as (...) | |
| 111 | Michigan Territory FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 177 Lat/Lng : 46.0972 / -85.3975 | The Territory of Michigan was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from June 30, 1805, until January 26, 1837, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Michigan. Detroit was the territorial capital. (...) | |
| 112 | Atholville, New Brunswick FeatureType : city Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 47.9937 / -66.7135 | Atholville (2011 population: 1,237) is a village in Restigouche County, New Brunswick, Canada. The first inhabitants of the area were the Mi'kmaq who settled there in the 6th century BC and were then called Tjikog (...) | |
| 113 | Ernest Renan FeatureType : null Elevation : 31 Lat/Lng : 50.8666 / 4.3796 | Joseph Ernest Renan (; 28 February 1823 – 2 October 1892) was a French expert of Semitic languages and civilizations (philology), philosopher, historian, and writer, devoted to his native province of Brittany. He is best known for his influential historical works on early Christianity, and his (...) | |
| 114 | Kaministiquia River FeatureType : null Elevation : 179 Lat/Lng : 48.4001 / -89.2168 | The Kaministiquia River is a river which flows into western Lake Superior at the city of Thunder Bay, Ontario. Kaministiquia (Gaa-ministigweyaa) is an Ojibwe word meaning "(river) with islands" due to two large islands (McKellar and Mission) at the mouth of the river (...) | |
| 115 | 44th G7 summit FeatureType : null Elevation : 50 Lat/Lng : 47.6206 / -70.1456 | The 44th G7 summit was held on 8–9 June 2018, in La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada. This was the sixth time since 1981 that Canada has hosted the meetings. In March 2014, the Group of Seven (G7) — comprising leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States — (...) | |
| 116 | Air Algérie Flight 5017 FeatureType : event Elevation : 273 Lat/Lng : 15.1355 / -1.08 | Air Algérie Flight 5017 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, to Algiers, Algeria, which crashed in Mali, near Gossi, on 24 July 2014. The McDonnell Douglas MD-83 with 110 passengers and 6 crew on board, operated by Swiftair for Air Algérie, disappeared from (...) | |
| 117 | Bnei Akiva FeatureType : null Elevation : 807 Lat/Lng : 31.7815 / 35.2165 | Bnei Akiva (lit: Children of Akiva) is the largest religious Zionist youth movement in the world, with over 125,000 members in 42 countries. It was established in 1929 in Mandatory Palestine. (...) | |
| 118 | Zouave FeatureType : null Elevation : 146 Lat/Lng : 49.4889 / 3.0489 | The Zouaves were a class of light infantry regiments of the French Army serving between 1830 and 1962 and linked to French North Africa, as well as some units of other countries modelled upon them. The zouaves, along with the indigenous Tirailleurs Algeriens, were among the most decorated units of (...) | |
| 119 | Revolutions of 1848 FeatureType : null Elevation : 66 Lat/Lng : 48.8468 / 2.3435 | The Revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the Spring of Nations, People's Spring, Springtime of the Peoples,Merriman, John, A History of Modern Europe: From the French Revolution to the Present, 1996, p (...) | |
| 120 | Inland port FeatureType : null Elevation : 109 Lat/Lng : 43.89 / -78.86 | An inland port is a port on an inland waterway, such as a river, lake, or canal, which may or may not be connected to the ocean. The term "inland port" is also used to refer to a dry port, which is an inland extension of a seaport, usually connected by rail to the docks (...) | |
| 121 | Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage FeatureType : null Elevation : 121 Lat/Lng : 48.8745 / 2.4071 | The Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage (External Documentation and Counter-Espionage Service), abbreviated SDECE, was France's external intelligence agency from 6 November 1944 to 2 April 1982, when it was replaced by the Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE) (...) | |
| 122 | L'Oréal FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 48 Lat/Lng : 48.8682 / 2.3234 | L'Oréal S.A. is a French personal care company headquartered in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine with a registered office in Paris."." L'Oréal. 16 April 2009. Retrieved 3 May 2010. It is the world's largest cosmetics company and has developed activities in the field concentrating on hair colour, skin care, (...) | |
| 123 | Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye FeatureType : null Elevation : 329 Lat/Lng : 49.3619 / -94.7809 | Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye (November 17, 1685 – December 5, 1749) was a French Canadian military officer, fur trader and explorer. In the 1730s, he and his four sons explored the area west of Lake Superior and established trading posts there (...) | |
| 124 | Battle of Jumonville Glen FeatureType : event Elevation : 717 Lat/Lng : 39.8796 / -79.6456 | The Battle of Jumonville Glen, also known as the Jumonville affair, was the opening battle of the French and Indian WarMiller & Molesky, pp. 23–24 fought on May 28, 1754, near what is present-day Hopwood and Uniontown in Fayette County, Pennsylvania (...) | |
| 125 | La Baie, Quebec FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 48.3378 / -70.8794 | La Baie (French pronunciation: /la bɛ/, Quebec French pronunciation: /la be/) is one of three boroughs in the city of Saguenay, Quebec, Canada. It was created during Quebec's municipal reorganization in 2002. From 1976 to 2001, it was known as the Town of La Baie, a municipality composed of the (...) | |
| 126 | Jean Malaurie FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 78.4833 / -68.9 | Jean Malaurie (born December 22, 1922) is a French cultural anthropologist, geographer, physicist, and writer. (...) | |
| 127 | Canada–Democratic Republic of the Congo relations FeatureType : null Elevation : 59 Lat/Lng : 45.4274 / -75.6737 | Canada–Democratic Republic of the Congo relations refers to the bilateral relationship between Canada and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Canada has an embassy in Kinshasa and D.R. Congo has an embassy in Ottawa (...) | |
| 128 | Battle of the Scheldt FeatureType : event Elevation : 2 Lat/Lng : 51.4167 / 4.1667 | The Battle of the Scheldt in World War II was a series of military operations by Canadian, British and Polish formations to open up the shipping route to Antwerp so that its port could be used to supply the Allies in north-west Europe (...) | |
| 129 | Wilder Penfield FeatureType : null Elevation : 82 Lat/Lng : 45.5003 / -73.5831 | Wilder Graves Penfield (January 26, 1891April 5, 1976) was an American-Canadian neurosurgeon. He expanded brain surgery's methods and techniques, including mapping the functions of various regions of the brain such as the cortical homunculus (...) | |
| 130 | Oratory of Saint Philip Neri FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 32 Lat/Lng : 41.8986 / 12.4708 | The Congregation of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri is a pontifical society of apostolic life of Catholic priests and lay-brothers who live together in a community bound together by no formal vows but only with the bond of charity. They are commonly referred to as Oratorians (Oratorian Fathers) (...) | |
| 131 | André the Giant FeatureType : null Elevation : 132 Lat/Lng : 35.1162 / -79.8063 | André René Roussimoff (May 19, 1946 – January 27, 1993), best known as André the Giant, was a French professional wrestler and actor. He famously feuded with Hulk Hogan, culminating at WrestleMania III in 1987. His best-remembered film role was that of Fezzik, the giant in The Princess Bride (...) | |
| 132 | Ermenek FeatureType : city Elevation : 1277 Lat/Lng : 36.6393 / 32.8898 | Ermenek is a town and district of Karaman Province in the Mediterranean region of Turkey. As ancient Germanicopolis (in Isauria; has namesakes), a former bishopric, it remains a Latin Catholic titular see. The district forms the core of the plateau region Taşeli (...) | |
| 133 | Montreal Laboratory FeatureType : edu Elevation : 169 Lat/Lng : 45.5047 / -73.6128 | The Montreal Laboratory in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, was established by the National Research Council of Canada during World War II to undertake nuclear research in collaboration with the United Kingdom, and to absorb some of the scientists and work of the Tube Alloys nuclear project in Britain (...) | |
| 134 | Lordship of Batiscan FeatureType : null Elevation : 153 Lat/Lng : 46.75 / -72.6167 | The Lordship of Batiscan was located on, and included 1/2 lieue of frontage along, the north shore of the St. Lawrence River (between the mouth of the Batisan and Champlain Rivers, in the current administrative area the Mauricie) in the province of Quebec, Canada. It was 20 lieues deep (...) | |
| 135 | Exhibition Place FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 78 Lat/Lng : 43.6328 / -79.4161 | Exhibition Place is a publicly owned mixed-use district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located by the shoreline of Lake Ontario, just west of downtown. The site includes exhibit, trade, and banquet centres, theatre and music buildings, monuments, parkland, sports facilities, and a number of civic, (...) | |
| 136 | Petitcodiac River FeatureType : river Lat/Lng : 45.8584 / -64.5668 | The Petitcodiac River , known informally as the Chocolate River, is a river in south-eastern New Brunswick, Canada. The river has a meander length of and is located in Westmorland, Albert, and Kings counties, draining a watershed area of about (...) | |
| 137 | North Shore (Lake Superior) FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : 202 Lat/Lng : 47.65 / -90.6667 | The North Shore of Lake Superior runs from Duluth, Minnesota, United States, at the southwestern end of the lake, to Thunder Bay and Nipigon, Ontario, Canada, in the north to Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, in the east (...) | |
| 138 | Daniel Lavoie FeatureType : null Elevation : 457 Lat/Lng : 49.4062 / -99.7322 | Daniel Lavoie (born Joseph-Hubert-Gérald Lavoie; March 17, 1949;) is a Canadian singer–songwriter, actor, producer, poet, and radio host, known for his song and the role of Frollo in musical Notre-Dame de Paris (...) | |
| 139 | Battle of Fort Bull FeatureType : event Elevation : 127 Lat/Lng : 43.2242 / -75.5025 | The Battle of Fort Bull was a French attack on the British-held Fort Bull on 27 March 1756, early in the French and Indian War. The fort was built to defend a portion of the waterway connecting Albany, New York to Lake Ontario via the Mohawk River. Lt (...) | |
| 140 | Society of the Priests of Saint Sulpice FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 52 Lat/Lng : 48.8489 / 2.3264 | The Society of the Priests of Saint-Sulpice ("Society of Saint-Sulpice", ;) is a society of apostolic life of the Catholic Church named for the Church of Saint-Sulpice, Paris, in turn named for Sulpitius the Pious, where they were founded (...) | |
| 141 | Tour First FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 42 Lat/Lng : 48.8889 / 2.2517 | Tour First (previously known as Tour UAP between 1974–1998, and as Tour AXA between 1998–2007) is an office skyscraper in Courbevoie, in La Défense, the business district of the Paris metropolitan area. The tower was built in 1974 by Bouygues for the UAP insurance company (...) | |
| 142 | Hochelaga (village) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 47 Lat/Lng : 45.5037 / -73.5749 | Hochelaga was a St. Lawrence Iroquoian 16th century fortified village on or near Mount Royal in present-day Montréal, Québec, Canada. Jacques Cartier arrived by boat on October 2, 1535; he visited the village on the following day (...) | |
| 143 | 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 (...) | |
| 144 | Marshall Taylor FeatureType : null Elevation : 192 Lat/Lng : 41.5545 / -87.6144 | Marshall Walter "Major" Taylor (November 26, 1878 – June 21, 1932) was an American track cyclist who began his amateur career while he was still a teenager in Indianapolis, Indiana. He became a professional racer in 1896, at the age of 18, and won the sprint event at the 1899 world track (...) | |
| 145 | Scala Sancta FeatureType : null Elevation : 55 Lat/Lng : 41.887 / 12.507 | The are a set of 28 white marble steps that are Roman Catholic relics located in an edifice on extraterritorial property of the Holy See in Rome, Italy proximate to the Archbasilica of St. John in Laterano. Stampa della Santa Sede: Zone extraterritoriali vaticani, 3 April 2001 (Italian) (...) | |
| 146 | Saint-Sulpice FeatureType : null Elevation : 214 Lat/Lng : 46.3203 / 5.0417 | Saint-Sulpice or Saint Sulpice may identify: (...) | |
| 147 | Great Train Robbery (1963) FeatureType : event Elevation : 93 Lat/Lng : 51.8897 / -0.6731 | The Great Train Robbery was the robbery of £2.6 million from a Royal Mail train heading from Glasgow to London on the West Coast Main Line in the early hours of 8 August 1963, at Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn, near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire, England (...) | |
| 148 | 1967 FeatureType : null Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 51.6523 / -0.082 | ==Events== ===January=== * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 2 – Ronald Reagan, past movie actor and future President of the United States, is inaugurated the (...) | |
| 149 | Spencer W. Kimball FeatureType : null Elevation : 1451 Lat/Lng : 40.7772 / -111.858 | Spencer Woolley Kimball (March 28, 1895 – November 5, 1985) was an American business, civic, and religious leader, and was the 12th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), from 1973 to 1985. Grandson of the LDS apostle Heber C (...) | |
| 150 | Grey Owl FeatureType : null Elevation : 560 Lat/Lng : 54.1469 / -106.4678 | Grey Owl was the name British-born Archibald Belaney (September 18, 1888 – April 13, 1938) chose for himself when he took on a fraudulent First Nations identity as an adult. While he achieved fame as a conservationist during his life, after his death the revelation of his non-Native origins and (...) | |
| 151 | Oakwood Collegiate Institute FeatureType : null Elevation : 146 Lat/Lng : 43.6786 / -79.4364 | Oakwood Collegiate Institute (known to students as OCI or Oakwood) is a public high school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located near the neighbourhoods of Regal Heights, Oakwood-Vaughan and Bracondale-Hill/Hillcrest. (...) | |
| 152 | R101 FeatureType : null Elevation : 90 Lat/Lng : 49.3986 / 2.1017 | R101 was one of a pair of British rigid airships completed in 1929 as part of a British government programme to develop civil airships capable of service on long-distance routes within the British Empire. It was designed and built by an Air Ministry-appointed team and was effectively in competition (...) | |
| 153 | Old Mobile Site FeatureType : null Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 30.9686 / -87.9939 | The Old Mobile Site was the location of the French settlement La Mobile and the associated Fort Louis de La Louisiane, in the French colony of New France in North America, from 1702 until 1712. The site is located in Le Moyne, Alabama, on the Mobile River in the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta (...) | |
| 154 | Keolis FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 49 Lat/Lng : 48.8708 / 2.328 | Keolis is a Franco-Québécois private operator of public transport. The company manages bus, metro, tramways and coach networks, rental bikes, car parks, boat shuttles, cable cars, trolleybuses and airport services (...) | |
| 155 | Koffler Centre of the Arts FeatureType : null Elevation : 96 Lat/Lng : 43.6469 / -79.4175 | The Koffler Centre of the Arts is a broad-based cultural institution established in 1977 by Murray and Marvelle Koffler and based at Artscape Youngplace in the West Queen West area of downtown Toronto, Ontario., Koffler Centre of the Arts, retrieved 16 March 2017 (...) | |
| 156 | 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony FeatureType : event Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 51.5386 / -0.0164 | The opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games took place on the evening of Friday 27 July 2012 in the Olympic Stadium, London. As mandated by the Olympic Charter, the proceedings combined the formal ceremonial opening of this international sporting event (including welcoming speeches, (...) | |
| 157 | Mont Tremblant Resort FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 238 Lat/Lng : 46.21 / -74.5854 | Mont Tremblant Ski Resort (commonly referred to as Tremblant) is a year-round resort in the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec, Canada, located about northwest of Montreal. It is best known as a ski destination, but also features Lake Tremblant suitable for swimming and two golf courses in the summer (...) | |
| 158 | École nationale supérieure de mécanique et des microtechniques FeatureType : edu Elevation : 288 Lat/Lng : 47.2514 / 5.9916 | The École Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et des Microtechniques (ENSMM) is a French school of engineering. It is part of Polyméca, a network of schools focusing on mechanical engineering. (...) | |
| 159 | Waterloo, Nova Scotia FeatureType : null Elevation : 105 Lat/Lng : 44.3248 / -64.691 | Waterloo, Nova Scotia is a small rural community in western Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia. The community extends approximately 10 kilometers from Route 210 to the Queens County line and is 20 kilometers from the commercial hub of Bridgewater (...) | |
| 160 | 1938 in aviation FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 12.45 / 130.6667 | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1938: (...) | |
| 161 | Zurich University of Applied Sciences/ZHAW FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 445 Lat/Lng : 47.4969 / 8.73 | The Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW;) located in the city of Winterthur, with facilities in Zurich and Wädenswil, is one of the largest University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland and is part of the Zürcher Fachhochschule (...) | |
| 162 | École des Mines de Douai FeatureType : edu Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 50.3752 / 3.0678 | The École des mines de Douai (École des Mines-Télécom de Lille-Douai (IMT) since 2018) also called "École nationale supérieure des mines de Douai (Mines Douai)" (ENSMD) is a French National Graduate School of Engineering (Grande école d'ingénieurs) located in the cities of Douai and (...) | |
| 163 | Acadia River FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 45.4837 / -73.2684 | The Acadia River flows Northerly over 82 km through seven municipalities in the MRC La Vallée-du-Richelieu, Les Jardins-de-Napierville and Le Haut-Richelieu, in Montérégie, on the South Shore of St. Lawrence river, the Quebec, Canada (...) | |
| 164 | Sainte-Geneviève FeatureType : null Elevation : 134 Lat/Lng : 49.7194 / 4.0714 | Saint Genevieve or Sainte-Geneviève may refer to: * Saint Genevieve (419/422–512), the patron of Paris * Saint Geneviève de Loqueffret (10th century), a local saint from Loqueffret, Brittany (...) | |
| 165 | 
| CHU (radio station) FeatureType : null Elevation : 88 Lat/Lng : 45.2964 / -75.7561 | CHU is the call sign of a shortwave time signal radio station operated by the Institute for National Measurement Standards of the National Research Council of Canada. (...) |
| 166 | Lordship of Champlain FeatureType : null Elevation : 50 Lat/Lng : 46.5333 / -72.45 | The Lordship of Champlain was granted in 1664, on the north side of the St. Lawrence River between Trois-Rivières and Quebec City, under the feudal system of New France. Today, the territory of the former manor of Champlain is located in the administrative region of Mauricie in Quebec, Canada (...) | |
| 167 | Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station FeatureType : city Lat/Lng : 75.4313 / -89.8234 | The Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station (FMARS) is the first of two simulated Mars habitats (or Mars Analog Research Stations) established and maintained by the Mars Society. (...) | |
| 168 | January 1915 FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -76.5667 / -31.5 | The following events occurred in January 1915: (...) | |
| 169 | Saint-Michel FeatureType : null Elevation : 62 Lat/Lng : 45.2318 / -73.5762 | Saint-Michel is the name or part of the name of many places. Michel is French for Michael, and in most cases, these placenames refer to Michael (archangel). (...) | |
| 170 | Notre Dame FeatureType : null Elevation : 66 Lat/Lng : 46.1001 / -73.4324 | Notre Dame most commonly refers to: * Notre-Dame de Paris, a church * University of Notre Dame, a university in Indiana, United States ** Notre Dame Fighting Irish ** "Notre Dame, Our Mother", the alma mater of the University of Notre Dame Notre Dame may also refer to: (...) | |
| 171 | Territorial era of Minnesota FeatureType : null Elevation : 397 Lat/Lng : 46.0 / -94.0 | The territorial era of Minnesota lasted from the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 to Minnesota's achieving statehood in 1858. The Minnesota Territory itself was formed only in 1849 but the area had a rich history well before this (...) | |
| 172 | April 1968 FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 33.25 / -45.8333 | The following events occurred in April 1968: (...) | |
| 173 | January 1934 FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 64.8333 / 8.1667 | The following events occurred in January 1934: (...) | |
| 174 | 1968 in aviation FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 32.9667 / 32.8 | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1968: (...) | |
| 175 | Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : -34.6145 / -58.3656 | The Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina, whose full name in Spanish is Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina "Santa María de los Buenos Aires", also known as Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA), is a university in Argentina with campuses in the cities of Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Rosario, (...) | |
| 176 | AXA FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : 48.8713 / 2.3135 | AXA is a French multinational insurance firm headquartered in the 8th arrondissement of Paris that engages in global insurance, investment management, and other financial services. The AXA Group operates primarily in Western Europe, North America, the Asia Pacific region, and the Middle East, with (...) | |
| 177 | Kateri Tekakwitha FeatureType : null Elevation : 27 Lat/Lng : 45.4152 / -73.6769 | Saint Kateri Tekakwitha (in Mohawk), given the name Tekakwitha, baptized as Catherine and informally known as Lily of the Mohawks (1656 – April 17, 1680), is a Roman Catholic saint who was an Algonquin–Mohawk laywoman (...) | |
| 178 | Autodesk FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 38.0056 / -122.531 | Autodesk, Inc. is an American multinational software corporation that makes software for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, and entertainment industries. Autodesk is headquartered in San Rafael, California, and features a gallery of its customers' work in its San (...) | |
| 179 | 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. (...) | |
| 180 | Harbor Defenses of New York FeatureType : null Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 40.6086 / -74.0322 | The Harbor Defenses of New York was a United States Army Coast Artillery Corps harbor defense command. It coordinated the coast defenses of New York City from 1895 to 1950, beginning with the Endicott program, some of which were located in New Jersey (...) | |
| 181 | Roman Catholic Diocese of Langres FeatureType : null Elevation : 463 Lat/Lng : 47.8598 / 5.3347 | The Roman Catholic Diocese of Langres (Latin: Dioecesis Lingonensis; French: Diocèse de Langres) is a Roman Catholic diocese comprising the département of Haute-Marne in France. The diocese is now a suffragan in ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Reims, having been a suffragan of Lyon (...) | |
| 182 | Bateaux Mouches FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 32 Lat/Lng : 48.8639 / 2.3058 | Bateaux Mouches are open excursion boats that provide visitors to Paris, France, with a view of the city from along the river Seine. They also operate on Parisian canals such as Canal Saint-Martin which is partially subterranean (...) | |
| 183 | Île aux Noix FeatureType : null Elevation : 27 Lat/Lng : 45.1232 / -73.2641 | Île aux Noix is an island on the Richelieu River in Quebec, close to Lake Champlain. The island is the site of Fort Lennox National Historic Site of Canada. Politically, it is part of Saint-Paul-de-l'Île-aux-Noix. (...) | |
| 184 | Versailles (disambiguation) FeatureType : null Elevation : 299 Lat/Lng : 39.0675 / -85.255 | Versailles refers to the Palace of Versailles, a royal in Versailles in the region of France. Versailles may also refer to: (...) | |
| 185 | Fort de la Montagne FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 68 Lat/Lng : 45.4945 / -73.5861 | The Fort de la Montagne (also called Fort des Messieurs or Fort Belmont) was an old fortification, the remaining structures of which are located on Sherbrooke Street in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The fort was constructed in 1685 and parts of it were demolished in the mid 19th century (...) | |
| 186 | Metro FeatureType : null Elevation : 275 Lat/Lng : -8.1831 / 112.5342 | Metro, short for metropolitan, may refer to: (...) | |
| 187 | Tomifobia River FeatureType : null Elevation : 161 Lat/Lng : 45.187 / -72.0255 | The Tomifobia River is a flowing body of fresh water in Memphremagog Regional County Municipality, in the Eastern Townships, in the province of Quebec, in Canada. The river forms a part of an international border between Canada and the United States near the village of Beebe Plain, Vermont (...) | |
| 188 | Saint Louis FeatureType : null Elevation : 279 Lat/Lng : 48.987 / 7.356 | Saint Louis, Saint-Louis or St. Louis may refer to a number of things, the great majority named after Saint Louis IX (1214–1270), a King of France and Catholic saint, and including the American city of St. Louis. (...) | |
| 189 | 1949 Air France Lockheed Constellation crash FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1016 Lat/Lng : 37.8091 / -25.2076 | The 1949 Air France Lockheed Constellation crash on 28 October 1949 happened when a Lockheed L-749A-79-46 Constellation of Air France crashed into a mountain while attempting to land at Santa Maria Airport, Azores on a stopover during a scheduled international passenger flight from Paris-Orly (...) | |
| 190 | June 2013 Egyptian protests FeatureType : event Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 30.0444 / 31.2356 | The June 2013 protests were mass protests that occurred in Egypt on 30 June 2013, marking the one-year anniversary of Mohamed Morsi's inauguration as president. The events ended with the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état after millions of protesters across Egypt took to the streets and demanded the (...) | |
| 191 | Indo-European migrations FeatureType : null Elevation : 115 Lat/Lng : 55.8833 / 55.7 | Indo-European migrations were the migrations of pastoral peoples speaking the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE), who departed from the Yamnaya and related cultures in the Pontic–Caspian steppe, starting at . Their descendants spread throughout Europe and parts of Asia, forming new cultures with the (...) | |
| 192 | St. Francis Xavier Cathedral and Library FeatureType : null Elevation : 135 Lat/Lng : 38.6789 / -87.5342 | The St. Francis Xavier Cathedral (also known as the Basilica of St. Francis Xavier, or simply "The Old Cathedral") is a Roman Catholic church in Vincennes, Indiana. The basilica is named for Francis Xavier, a 16th-century Jesuit apostle, and is located opposite George Rogers Clark National (...) | |
| 193 | AXA Equitable Center FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : 40.7617 / -73.9818 | The AXA Equitable Center (originally The Equitable Tower or Equitable Center West) is an American 752-foot (229.3 m)-tall skyscraper, located at 787 Seventh Avenue between 51st and 52nd Streets in Manhattan, New York City. (...) | |
| 194 | History of Albany, New York (1664–1784) FeatureType : null Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 42.6508 / -73.7541 | The history of Albany, New York from 1664 to 1784 begins with the English takeover of New Netherland and ends with the ratification of the Treaty of Paris by the Congress of the Confederation in 1784, ending the Revolutionary War (...) | |
| 195 | Eugène Godard FeatureType : null Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 48.9068 / 2.3481 | Eugène Godard Ainé was a notable French aeronaut, born in Clichy on August 26, 1827, died in Brussels on September 9, 1890. (...) | |
| 196 | Durban High School FeatureType : null Elevation : 98 Lat/Lng : -29.8444 / 30.9978 | Durban High School is an all-boys public school in Durban, South Africa. DHS opened its doors in 1866 in two rooms and with seven pupils in Smith Street. From there it moved to a disused granary in Cato Square in 1880, just after the Zulu War, and then to the Old Hospital on the foreshore (...) | |
| 197 | Collège Stanislas (Quebec) FeatureType : null Elevation : 75 Lat/Lng : 46.7909 / -71.2592 | Collège Stanislas in Sainte-Foy and Collège Stanislas de Montréal Outremont, Quebec are two campuses of an exclusive French language private education institution for boys and girls aged 4 to 18 years. (...) | |
| 198 | Beth Rivkah FeatureType : edu Elevation : 33 Lat/Lng : 40.6661 / -73.9498 | Beth Rivkah (Bais Rivkah, lit. "House of Rebecca"), formally known as Associated Beth Rivkah Schools, is a private girls' school system affiliated with the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic movement. It was established in 1941 by Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, and developed by (...) | |
| 199 | Jean Dallaire FeatureType : null Elevation : 34 Lat/Lng : 45.5921 / -73.7994 | Jean-Philippe Dallaire (9 June 1916 – 27 November 1965) was a French Canadian painter with an eclectic and highly original style. He is known for his festive scenes peopled by macabre characters. (...) | |
| 200 | Hudson Bay expedition FeatureType : null Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 58.7972 / -94.2134 | The Hudson Bay expedition of Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse was a series of military raids on the lucrative fur trading posts and fortifications of the Hudson's Bay Company on the shores of Hudson Bay by a squadron of the French Royal Navy (...) | |
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