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| 1 | ETH Zurich ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 459 Lat/Lng : 47.3764 / 8.5481 | ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich;) is a science, technology, engineering and mathematics university in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. Like its sister institution EPFL, it is an integral part of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain (ETH Domain) that is (...) | |
| 2 | Mulhouse ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 242 Lat/Lng : 47.7495 / 7.3399 | Mulhouse (; Alsatian: Milhüsa or Milhüse, ; ; i.e. mill house) is a city and commune in eastern France, close to the Swiss and German borders. With a population of 112,063 in 2013 and 284,739 inhabitants in the metropolitan area in 2012, it is the largest city in the Haut-Rhin département, and the (...) | |
| 3 | Asti ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 130 Lat/Lng : 44.9009 / 8.207 | Asti (listen;) is a city and comune of 76,164 inhabitants (1-1-2017) located in the Piedmont region of northwestern Italy, about east of Turin in the plain of the Tanaro River. It is the capital of the province of Asti and it is deemed to be the modern capital of Monferrato (...) | |
| 4 | Germany ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 216 Lat/Lng : 51.165 / 10.4553 | Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany (listen), is a country in Central and Western Europe, lying between the Baltic and North seas to the north, and the Alps to the south. It borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the (...) | |
| 5 | University of Florida ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 29.6483 / -82.3494 | The University of Florida (commonly referred to as Florida or UF) is a public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida that traces its origins to 1853,Julian M (...) | |
| 6 | Bank for International Settlements ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 279 Lat/Lng : 47.5481 / 7.5919 | The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is an international financial institution owned by central banks which "fosters international monetary and financial cooperation and serves as a bank for central banks" (...) | |
| 7 | Tanzania ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1135 Lat/Lng : -6.307 / 34.854 | Tanzania ,These approximate the Kiswahili pronunciation . However, is also heard in English. officially the United Republic of Tanzania , is a country in eastern Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; the Indian Ocean to the east; (...) | |
| 8 | France ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 48.8567 / 2.3508 | France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe and several overseas regions and territories. The metropolitan area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to (...) | |
| 9 | Potsdamer Platz ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 41 Lat/Lng : 52.5094 / 13.3765 | Potsdamer Platz (literally Potsdam Square) is an important public square and traffic intersection in the centre of Berlin, Germany, lying about south of the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag (German Parliament Building), and close to the southeast corner of the Tiergarten park (...) | |
| 10 | Somalia ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 273 Lat/Lng : 6.1833 / 47.0 | Somalia , officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe Federal Republic of Somalia is the country's name per Article 1 of the . , is a sovereign state with its territory located in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, Djibouti to the northwest, the Gulf of Aden to the north, (...) | |
| 11 | Amsterdam ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 52.3702 / 4.8904 | Amsterdam is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Netherlands. Its status as the capital is mandated by the Constitution of the Netherlands, although it is not the seat of the government, which is The Hague (...) | |
| 12 | Athens ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 84 Lat/Lng : 37.984 / 23.7278 | Athens (; , Athína ; , Athênai) is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years and its earliest human presence starting somewhere between the 11th and 7th millennium BC (...) | |
| 13 | United States ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 691 Lat/Lng : 40.0 / -100.0 | The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions. At 3.8 million square miles (9 (...) | |
| 14 | Florida State University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 30.442 / -84.298 | Florida State University (Florida State or FSU) is a public space-grant and sea-grant research university with its primary campus on a campus in Tallahassee, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida (...) | |
| 15 | École Centrale Paris ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 79 Lat/Lng : 48.7658 / 2.2884 | École Centrale Paris (ECP, often referred to as École Centrale or Centrale) was a French postgraduate-level institute of research and higher education in engineering and science. It was also known by its official name École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures (...) | |
| 16 | Giants Stadium ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 40.8122 / -74.0769 | Giants Stadium (sometimes referred to as Giants Stadium at the Meadowlands or The Swamp) was a stadium located in East Rutherford, New Jersey, in the Meadowlands Sports Complex. The venue had been open between 1976 and 2010, and it primarily hosted sporting events and concerts in its history (...) | |
| 17 | Nuclear program of Iran ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : 28.829 / 50.887 | The nuclear program of Iran has included several research sites, two uranium mines, a research reactor, and uranium processing facilities that include three known uranium enrichment plants. In 1970, Iran ratified the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), making its nuclear program subject to the IAEA's (...) | |
| 18 | Mount Evans ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 4321 Lat/Lng : 39.5883 / -105.6438 | Mount Evans is the highest summit of the Chicago Peaks in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The prominent 14,271-foot (4350 m) fourteener is located in the Mount Evans Wilderness, southwest by south (bearing 214°) of the City of Idaho Springs in Clear Creek County, Colorado, (...) | |
| 19 | Meiringen ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 599 Lat/Lng : 46.7274 / 8.1873 | Meiringen is a municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. Besides the village of Meiringen, the municipality includes the settlements of Balm, Brünigen, Eisenbolgen, Hausen, Prasti, Sand, Stein, Unterbach, Unterheidon, Wylerli and Zaun (...) | |
| 20 | Salginatobel Bridge ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 841 Lat/Lng : 46.9817 / 9.7183 | Salginatobel Bridge is a reinforced concrete arch bridge designed by Swiss civil engineer Robert Maillart. It was constructed across an alpine valley in Schiers, Switzerland between 1929 and 1930. In 1991, it was declared an International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark, the thirteenth such (...) | |
| 21 | Schaan ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 451 Lat/Lng : 47.1681 / 9.5111 | Schaan is the largest municipality of Liechtenstein by population. It is located to the north of Vaduz, the capital, in the central part of the country. it has a population of 5,983https://www.llv.li/files/as/bevolkerungsstatistik-30-juni-2017 (...) | |
| 22 | Robert Maillart ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 660 Lat/Lng : 46.5946 / 6.4058 | Robert Maillart (6 February 1872 – 5 April 1940) was a Swiss civil engineer who revolutionized the use of structural reinforced concrete with such designs as the three-hinged arch and the deck-stiffened arch for bridges, and the beamless floor slab and mushroom ceiling for industrial buildings (...) | |
| 23 | Al-Andalus ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 899 Lat/Lng : 41.5167 / -2.8167 | al-Andalus (trans. ; ; ; ; Berber: Andalus), also known as Muslim Spain, Muslim Iberia, or Islamic Iberia, was a medieval Muslim territory and cultural domain that in its early period occupied most of Iberia, today's Portugal and Spain (...) | |
| 24 | Seoul National University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 122 Lat/Lng : 37.4593 / 126.9531 | Seoul National University (SNU; , colloquially Seouldae) is a national research university located in Seoul, South Korea. Founded in 1946, Seoul National University is considered to be the most prestigious university in the country (...) | |
| 25 | Labyrinth ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1795 Lat/Lng : -23.2944 / 16.4782 | In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth (labúrinthos) was an elaborate, confusing structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos. Its function was to hold the Minotaur, the monster eventually killed by the hero Theseus (...) | |
| 26 | Princeton University Department of Mathematics ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 62 Lat/Lng : 40.3491 / -74.6536 | The Princeton University Department of Mathematics is an academic department at Princeton University. Founded in 1760, the department has trained some of the world's most renowned and internationally recognized scholars of mathematics (...) | |
| 27 | Virginia Tech ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 632 Lat/Lng : 37.2289 / -80.4236 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, commonly known as Virginia Tech and by the initialisms VT and VPI, is an American public, land-grant, research university with a main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, educational facilities in six regions statewide, and a study-abroad site in (...) | |
| 28 | Wilhelm Reich ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 474 Lat/Lng : 44.991 / -70.7139 | Wilhelm Reich (; ; 24 March 1897 – 3 November 1957) was an Austrian doctor of medicine and psychoanalyst, a member of the second generation of analysts after Sigmund Freud.Danto 2007, p. . The author of several influential books, most notably Character Analysis (1933), The Mass Psychology of Fascism (...) | |
| 29 | Cisco Systems ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 37.4084 / -121.9541 | Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in San Jose, California, in the center of Silicon Valley, that develops, manufactures and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment and other high-technology services and products (...) | |
| 30 | Schiers ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 692 Lat/Lng : 46.9667 / 9.6833 | Schiers is a Swiss village in the Prättigau and a municipality in the political district Prättigau/Davos Region in the canton of Graubünden. The first concrete girder bridge ever built, Salginatobel Bridge, is located in Schiers (...) | |
| 31 | Austria-Hungary ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 214 Lat/Lng : 48.2 / 16.35 | Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Dual Monarchy in English-language sources, was a constitutional union of the Austrian Empire (the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council, or Cisleithania) and the Kingdom of Hungary (Lands of the Crown of Saint (...) | |
| 32 | Prague ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 203 Lat/Lng : 50.0878 / 14.4205 | Prague is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, the 14th largest city in the European Union and the historical capital of Bohemia. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1 (...) | |
| 33 | Yellowstone National Park ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 2522 Lat/Lng : 44.6218 / -110.6296 | Yellowstone National Park is an American national park located in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. It was established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872. Yellowstone was the first national park in the U.S (...) | |
| 34 | Sussex County, New Jersey ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 169 Lat/Lng : 41.14 / -74.69 | Sussex County is the northernmost county in the State of New Jersey. Its county seat is Newton., New Jersey Department of State. Accessed July 10, 2017. It is part of the New York City Metropolitan Area. As of the 2017 Census estimate, the county's population was 141,682, making it the 17th-most (...) | |
| 35 | Pepperdine University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 117 Lat/Lng : 34.0387 / -118.7076 | Pepperdine University is a private, not-for-profit, coeducational research university affiliated with the Churches of Christ. The university's 830-acre (340 ha) campus overlooking the Pacific Ocean in unincorporated Los Angeles County, California, United States, near Malibu, is the location for (...) | |
| 36 | Bavarian Soviet Republic ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 525 Lat/Lng : 48.1333 / 11.5667 | The Bavarian Soviet Republic Mitchell, Allan (1965) Revolution in Bavaria, 1918-1919: The Eisner Regime and the Soviet Republic. Princeton University Press, p.346. Hollander, Neil (2013) Elusive Dove: The Search for Peace During World War I. McFarland. p.283, note 269 (...) | |
| 37 | Brookhaven National Laboratory ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 34 Lat/Lng : 40.8733 / -72.8721 | Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory located in Upton, New York, on Long Island, and was formally established in 1947 at the site of Camp Upton, a former U.S. Army base (...) | |
| 38 | Cologne War ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 69 Lat/Lng : 50.734 / 7.0998 | The Cologne War (1583–88) was a conflict between Protestant and Catholic factions that devastated the Electorate of Cologne, a historical ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire, within present-day North Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany (...) | |
| 39 | Battle of Kehl (1796) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 139 Lat/Lng : 48.5667 / 7.8167 | During the Battle of Kehl (23–24 June 1796), a Republican French force under the direction of Jean Charles Abbatucci mounted an amphibious crossing of the Rhine River against a defending force of soldiers from the Swabian Circle (...) | |
| 40 | Army of the Rhine and Moselle ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 134 Lat/Lng : 48.9333 / 8.4 | The Army of the Rhine and Moselle was one of the field units of the French Revolutionary Army. It was formed on 20 April 1795 by the merger of elements of the Army of the Rhine and the Army of the Moselle. The Army of the Rhine and Moselle participated in two principal campaigns in the War of the (...) | |
| 41 | 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 (...) | |
| 42 | Rhine Campaign of 1796 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 134 Lat/Lng : 48.9333 / 8.4 | In the Rhine Campaign of 1796 (June 1796 to February 1797), two First Coalition armies under the overall command of Archduke Charles outmaneuvered and defeated two French Republican armies. This was the last campaign of the War of the First Coalition, part of the French Revolutionary Wars (...) | |
| 43 | Italian Fascism ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 71 Lat/Lng : 45.6 / 10.5167 | Italian Fascism , also known as Classical Fascism or simply Fascism, is the original fascist ideology as developed in Italy. The ideology is associated with a series of three political parties led by Benito Mussolini: the Fascist Revolutionary Party (PFR) founded in 1915,Benito Mussolini (2006), My (...) | |
| 44 | University of New Mexico ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1580 Lat/Lng : 35.0839 / -106.6186 | The University of New Mexico (also referred to as UNM) is a public research university in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Founded in 1889, UNM offers bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and professional degree programs in a wide variety of fields. Its Albuquerque campus encompasses over 600 acres (2 (...) | |
| 45 | Oak Ridge National Laboratory ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 245 Lat/Lng : 35.9279 / -84.3153 | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is an American multiprogram science and technology national laboratory sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and administered, managed, and operated by UT–Battelle as a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) under a contract with the (...) | |
| 46 | Central Council of Ukraine ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 181 Lat/Lng : 50.4448 / 30.5135 | The Central Council of Ukraine (also called the Tsentralna Rada or the Central Rada) was the All-Ukrainian council that united the political, public, cultural and professional organizations of the Ukrainian People's Republic (...) | |
| 47 | Leslie Howard ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 46.1167 / -10.25 | Leslie Howard Steiner (3 April 18931 June 1943) was an English stage and film actor, director, and producer.Obituary Variety, 9 June 1943. Howard also wrote many stories and articles for The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair and was one of the biggest box-office draws and movie idols (...) | |
| 48 | Veneto ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 23 Lat/Lng : 45.5679 / 11.8103 | Veneto (or ;' Collins American English Dictionary. Retrieved 21 October 2012. ;)' Collins English Dictionary. Retrieved 21 October 2012.' Oxford Dictionary. Retrieved 21 October 2012. is one of the 20 regions of Italy. Its population is about five million, ranking fifth in Italy (...) | |
| 49 | Spix's macaw ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 371 Lat/Lng : -9.4385 / -40.5052 | Spix's macaw (Cyanopsitta spixii), also known as the little blue macaw, is a macaw native to Brazil. It is a member of Tribe Arini in the subfamily Arinae (Neotropical parrots), part of the family Psittacidae (the true parrots) (...) | |
| 50 | John Wanamaker ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 86 Lat/Lng : 40.0853 / -75.1311 | John Wanamaker (July 11, 1838December 12, 1922) was an American merchant and religious, civic and political figure, considered by some to be a proponent of advertising and a "pioneer in marketing".Tucker, Jeffrey (2011-04-01) , Mises Institute He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and served as (...) | |
| 51 | Fritz Haber ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 321 Lat/Lng : 47.5656 / 7.6476 | Fritz Haber (; 9 December 1868 – 29 January 1934) was a German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas (...) | |
| 52 | AMIA bombing ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 32 Lat/Lng : -34.6018 / -58.3994 | The AMIA bombing was an attack on the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA; Argentine Israelite Mutual Association) building. It occurred in Buenos Aires on 18 July 1994, killing 85 people and injuring hundreds. It was Argentina's deadliest bombing ever (...) | |
| 53 | Paracelsus ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 838 Lat/Lng : 47.1675 / 8.7668 | Paracelsus (; 1493/4 – 24 September 1541), born Theophrastus von Hohenheim (full name Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von HohenheimThe name Philippus is only found posthumously, first on Paracelsus's tombstone (...) | |
| 54 | 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 (...) | |
| 55 | Marshall Space Flight Center ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 178 Lat/Lng : 34.6469 / -86.6742 | The George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), located in Huntsville, Alabama, is the U.S. government's civilian rocketry and spacecraft propulsion research center. The largest NASA center, MSFC's first mission was developing the Saturn launch vehicles for the Apollo Moon program (...) | |
| 56 | Auburn High School (Alabama) ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 214 Lat/Lng : 32.5973 / -85.4629 | Auburn High School is a public high school in Auburn, Alabama. It is the only high school in the Auburn City School District. Auburn High offers technical, academic, and International Baccalaureate programs, as well as joint enrollment with Southern Union State Community College and Auburn (...) | |
| 57 | Ganter Bridge ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1356 Lat/Lng : 46.2962 / 8.0509 | Ganter Bridge is a reinforced concrete road bridge which is the longest spanning bridge in Switzerland, located along the Simplon Pass road in the canton of Valais about south of Brig.Billington, 1983, p.260 It was designed by renowned Swiss civil engineer Christian Menn and completed in 1980 (...) | |
| 58 | SANAA ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 23 Lat/Lng : 35.6091 / 139.7301 | SANAA (Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates) is a multiple award-winning architectural firm based in Tokyo, Japan. It was founded in 1995 by architects Kazuyo Sejima (1956–) and Ryue Nishizawa (1966–), who were awarded the Pritzker Prize in 2010 (...) | |
| 59 | Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 388 Lat/Lng : 46.2218 / 6.1511 | The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, or the Graduate Institute (in French: Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (previously known as Institut (universitaire) de hautes études internationales), abbreviated IHEID (previously HEI, IHEI, or IUHEI) is (...) | |
| 60 | Battle of Schliengen ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 249 Lat/Lng : 47.7556 / 7.5772 | At the Battle of Schliengen (24 October 1796), both the French Army of the Rhine and Moselle under the command of Jean-Victor Moreau and the Austrian army under the command of Archduke Charles of Austria claimed victories (...) | |
| 61 | The Family of Man ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 361 Lat/Lng : 50.0542 / 6.0303 | The Family of Man was an ambitiousThe Family of Man is "one of the most ambitious and challenging projects, photography has ever attempted. It was conceived as a mirror of the universal elements and cmotions in the everydayness of life and demonstrates that the art of photography is a dynamic (...) | |
| 62 | Grigori Aleksandrov ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 128 Lat/Lng : 55.7247 / 37.5542 | Grigori Vasilyevich Aleksandrov or Alexandrov (; original family name was Мормоненко or Mormonenko;Jay Leyda. Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. Princeton University Press, 1983. Page 124n. 23 January 1903 – 16 December 1983) was a prominent Soviet film director who was named a People's (...) | |
| 63 | Illinois College ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 205 Lat/Lng : 39.731 / -90.247 | Illinois College is a private, liberal arts college in Jacksonville, Illinois. It is affiliated with the United Church of Christ and the Presbyterian Church (USA). It was the second college founded in Illinois, but the first to grant a degree (in 1835) (...) | |
| 64 | Prehistoric Europe ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1234 Lat/Lng : 41.3167 / 44.2 | Prehistoric Europe is the designation for the period of human presence in Europe before the start of recorded history, beginning in the Lower Paleolithic. As history progresses, considerable regional irregularities of cultural development emerge and increase (...) | |
| 65 | James Burrill Angell ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 288 Lat/Lng : 42.2782 / -83.7281 | James Burrill Angell (January 7, 1829 – April 1, 1916) was an American educator, academic administrator, and diplomat. He is best known for being the longest-serving president of the University of Michigan, from 1871 to 1909 (...) | |
| 66 | Appleby College ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 86 Lat/Lng : 43.4262 / -79.6857 | Appleby College is an international independent school (grades 7-12) located in Oakville, Ontario, Canada, founded in 1911 by John Guest, a former Headmaster of the Preparatory School at Upper Canada College. Guest dreamed of establishing a small boarding school in the country, and did so with the (...) | |
| 67 | Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 31 Lat/Lng : 38.908 / -77.0403 | The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is a division of Johns Hopkins University based in Washington, D.C., United States, with campuses in Bologna, Italy; and Nanjing, China. It is generally considered one of the top graduate schools for international relations in the (...) | |
| 68 | University of Prince Edward Island ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 23 Lat/Lng : 46.259 / -63.138 | The University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) is a public university in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, and the sole university in the province. Founded in 1969, the enabling legislation is the University Act, R.S.P.E.I 2000. http://www.gov.pe.ca/law/statutes/pdf/u-04 (...) | |
| 69 | Groton School ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 109 Lat/Lng : 42.5933 / -71.5842 | Groton School is a private Episcopal college preparatory boarding school located in Groton, Massachusetts, United States. It enrolls about 370 boys and girls, from the eighth through twelfth grades. Tuition, room and board and required fees in 2014-15 amounted to $56,700 (with books extra); 38% of (...) | |
| 70 | August 1965 ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 15.1667 / 117.6667 | The following events occurred in August 1965: (...) | |
| 71 | International School of Geneva ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 426 Lat/Lng : 46.1989 / 6.1722 | The International School of Geneva (in French: Ecole Internationale de Genève), also known as "Ecolint" or "The International School", is a private international school based in Geneva, Switzerland. Founded in 1924 in the service of the League of Nations, it is the oldest and largest operating (...) | |
| 72 | Battle of Rastatt (1796) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 121 Lat/Lng : 48.85 / 8.2 | The Battle of Rastatt (5 July 1796) saw part of a Republican French army under Jean Victor Marie Moreau clash with elements of a Habsburg Austrian army under Maximilian Anton Karl, Count Baillet de Latour which were defending the line of the Murg River (...) | |
| 73 | Army of Sambre and Meuse ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 183 Lat/Lng : 50.3667 / 7.3833 | The Army of Sambre and Meuse was one of the armies of the French Revolution. It was formed on 29 June 1794 by combining the Army of the Ardennes, the left wing of the Army of the Moselle and the right wing of the Army of the North. Its maximum paper strength was approximately 83,000 (...) | |
| 74 | Museum of Anatolian Civilizations ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 930 Lat/Lng : 39.9383 / 32.8619 | The Museum of Anatolian Civilizations is located on the south side of Ankara Castle in the Atpazarı area in Ankara, Turkey. It consists of the old Ottoman Mahmut Paşa bazaar storage building, and the Kurşunlu Han (...) | |
| 75 | Egg (disambiguation) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 548 Lat/Lng : 47.2998 / 8.6903 | An egg is an organic vessel in which an embryo begins to develop. Egg or eggs may also refer to: (...) | |
| 76 | Mercersburg Academy ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 182 Lat/Lng : 39.8261 / -77.8983 | Mercersburg Academy is a selective private, independent, coed college preparatory boarding school of approximately 435 students in grades 9-12, including postgraduates, located in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, about 90 miles northwest of Washington, D.C (...) | |
| 77 | Yale-NUS College ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 77 Lat/Lng : 1.2956 / 103.7767 | Yale-NUS College is a liberal arts college in Singapore. Established in 2011 as a collaboration between Yale University and the National University of Singapore, it is the first liberal arts college in Singapore and one of the few in Asia (...) | |
| 78 | Esquiline Treasure ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 42 Lat/Lng : 41.8938 / 12.4914 | The Esquiline Treasure is an ancient Roman silver treasure that was found in 1793 on the Esquiline Hill in Rome. The hoard is considered an important example of late antique silver work from the 4th century AD, probably about 380 for the major pieces (...) | |
| 79 | Morristown–Beard School ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 118 Lat/Lng : 40.8036 / -74.4494 | Morristown–Beard School is a coeducational, independent, college-preparatory day school located in Morristown, in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. Serving students in sixth through twelfth grades, the school has two academic units: an Upper School (9-12) and a Middle School (6-8) (...) | |
| 80 | Campus of Virginia Tech ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 622 Lat/Lng : 37.225 / -80.425 | The main campus of Virginia Tech is located in Blacksburg, Virginia; the central campus is roughly bordered by Prices Fork Road to the northwest, Plantation Drive to the west, Main Street to the east, and U.S. Route 460 bypass to the south, although it also has several thousand acres beyond the (...) | |
| 81 | Williamsville South High School ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 215 Lat/Lng : 42.9664 / -78.7316 | Williamsville South High School is a high school located in Williamsville, New York, a suburb of Buffalo, New York. South is one of three high schools in the Williamsville Central School District, along with Williamsville North High School and Williamsville East High School. (...) | |
| 82 | Greengates School ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 2339 Lat/Lng : 19.4843 / -99.2614 | Greengates School is a British-style international school located in the Balcones de San Mateo neighbourhood in Naucalpan, located north-west of Mexico City metropolitan area, in the State of Mexico."." Greengates School. Retrieved on 22 May 2014. "Balcones de San Mateo. Av. Circunvalación Pte. 102 (...) | |
| 83 | Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 2657 Lat/Lng : 37.8647 / -107.882 | The Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant, constructed in 1890 near Ophir, Colorado, was the world's first commercial system to produce and transmit alternating current (AC) electricity for industrial use and one of the first AC hydro-electric plants ever constructed (...) | |
| 84 | Narxoz University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 893 Lat/Lng : 43.2146 / 76.8711 | Narxoz University is a private higher education institution in Almaty, Kazakhstan, established in 1963. It focuses on teaching economics and offers over 20 specialties in the fields of economics, finance, management, marketing, law, international affairs, tourism, catering and hotel management, (...) | |
| 85 | Thomas Mann House ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 166 Lat/Lng : 34.059 / -118.4994 | The Thomas Mann House at 1550 San Remo Drive in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California, was designed by the modernist architect JR Davidson for the exiled German writer Thomas Mann in 1941. Mann lived at the house between 1942 and 1952 before his emigration to Switzerland, where he spent the (...) | |
| 86 | Embassy of the United States, Tehran ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1208 Lat/Lng : 35.708 / 51.424 | The Embassy of the United States of America in Tehran was the United States of America's diplomatic mission in the Imperial State of Iran. Direct bilateral diplomatic relations between the two governments were severed following the Iranian Revolution in 1979, and the subsequent seizure of the (...) | |
| 87 | International School of Los Angeles ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 157 Lat/Lng : 34.1595 / -118.3128 | The International School of Los Angeles (Lycée International de Los Angeles) is a nonprofit, private, dual immersion international French school for grades Preschool-12th in Greater Los Angeles. The school's corporate office is in Burbank, California, in the San Fernando Valley." (...) | |
| 88 | 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 (...) | |
| 89 | Sanctuary of Macereto ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1005 Lat/Lng : 42.9762 / 13.1157 | The Sanctuary of Macereto is a Renaissance-style chapel or Marian shrine in Visso, province of Macerata, Marche, Italy. Built between 1528 and 1538 around a rustic 14th-century chapel housing a venerated statue of the Madonna, it is located in the Parco Nazionale dei Monti Sibillini. (...) | |
| 90 | Mary Foote ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 41.3089 / -72.6714 | Mary Foote (1872 - 1968) was an American painter and producer of notes of Carl Jung's seminars. As an artist, she lived and worked in New York's Washington Square, Paris and Peking. From 1928 to the 1950s she lived in Zurich and created and published notes of Carl Jung's seminars until World War II (...) | |
| 91 | Saint John's Church (Hagerstown, Maryland) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 91 Lat/Lng : 39.3839 / -77.4335 | St. John's Church, or St. John's Episcopal Church, founded in 1786, is an historic Episcopal church located at 101 South Prospect Street in the South Prospect Street Historic District of Hagerstown, Maryland. It is the seat of Saint John's Parish, Diocese of Maryland, which covers most of Washington (...) | |
| 92 | Edgeplain ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1852 Lat/Lng : 38.8497 / -104.8208 | Edgeplain, also known as the Arthur House, is a historic building used as a dormitory on the Colorado College campus in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It is on the National Register of Historic Places. Arthur House was built by Lyman Bass, a successful attorney who partnered with Grover Cleveland and (...) | |