| 113 records found in wikipedia | |||
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| Bryce Canyon National Park  FeatureType : null Elevation : 2505 Lat/Lng : 37.605 / -112.1575 | Bryce Canyon National Park is an American national park located in southwestern Utah. The major feature of the park is Bryce Canyon, which despite its name, is not a canyon, but a collection of giant natural amphitheaters along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau (...) |
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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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| Big Sur FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 36.1075 / -121.6258 | Big Sur is a rugged and mountainous section of the Central Coast of the U.S. state of California between Carmel Highlands and San Simeon, where the Santa Lucia Mountains rise abruptly from the Pacific Ocean. It is frequently praised for its dramatic scenery (...) |
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| Death Valley National Park FeatureType : null Elevation : -83 Lat/Lng : 36.2419 / -116.8258 | Death Valley National Park is an American national park that straddles the California—Nevada border, east of the Sierra Nevada. The park occupies an interface zone between the arid Great Basin and Mojave deserts, protecting the northwest corner of the Mojave Desert and its diverse environment of (...) |
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| Kiritimati FeatureType : isle Lat/Lng : 1.8833 / -157.4 | Kiritimati,Kiritimati is the rendition of Christmas in Taetae ni Kiribati, the local Kiribati language, and it is pronounced very closely to "Christmas," with the same meaning. or Christmas Island, is a Pacific Ocean raised coral atoll in the northern Line Islands (...) |
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| Area 51 FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1363 Lat/Lng : 37.2388 / -115.8105 | The United States Air Force facility commonly known as Area 51 is a highly classified remote detachment of Edwards Air Force Base, within the Nevada Test and Training Range. According to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the correct names for the facility are Homey Airport and Groom Lake, (...) |
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| Maldives FeatureType : country Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 4.1743 / 73.51 | The Maldives (; Dhivehi Raa'jey), officially the Republic of Maldives, is a South Asian country, located in the Indian Ocean, situated in the Arabian Sea. It lies southwest of Sri Lanka and India. The chain of 26 atolls stretches from Ihavandhippolhu Atoll in the north to the Addu City in the south (...) |
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| National Security Agency FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 39.0983 / -76.766 | The National Security Agency (NSA) is a national-level intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence. The NSA is responsible for global monitoring, collection, and processing of information and data for foreign (...) |
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| Asheville, North Carolina FeatureType : city Elevation : 633 Lat/Lng : 35.58 / -82.5558 | Asheville is a city and the county seat of Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. It is the largest city in Western North Carolina, and the 12th-most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The city's population was 89,121 according to 2016 estimates.https://www.census (...) |
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| Darwin, Northern Territory FeatureType : city Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : -12.4362 / 130.8412 | Darwin Macquarie Dictionary, Fourth Edition (2005). Melbourne, The Macquarie Library Pty Ltd. is the capital city of the Northern Territory of Australia. Situated on the Timor Sea, Darwin is the largest city in the sparsely populated Northern Territory, with a population of 145,916 (...) |
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| Colombia FeatureType : country Elevation : 1215 Lat/Lng : 3.8167 / -73.9167 | Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia (Es-republica_de_colombia.ogg), is a country largely situated in the northwest of South America, with territories in Central America. Colombia shares a border to the northwest with Panama, to the east with Venezuela and Brazil and to the south with (...) |
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| Clipperton Island FeatureType : isle Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 10.3039 / -109.2177 | Clipperton Island (or ;) is an uninhabited coral atoll in the eastern Pacific Ocean off the coast of Central America. It is 10,677 kilometres away from Paris, France, 5,400 km from Papeete, Tahiti, and 1,081 km from Mexico (...) |
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| Myanmar FeatureType : country Elevation : 121 Lat/Lng : 19.75 / 96.1 | Myanmar , officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma, is a country in Southeast Asia. Myanmar is bordered by India and Bangladesh to its west, Thailand and Laos to its east and China to its north and northeast (...) |
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| Bolivia FeatureType : country Elevation : 208 Lat/Lng : -16.712 / -64.666 | Bolivia , officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country located in western-central South America. The capital is Sucre while the seat of government and financial center is located in La Paz (...) |
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| Shenyang FeatureType : null Elevation : 53 Lat/Lng : 41.7956 / 123.4481 | Shenyang , formerly known by its Manchu name Mukden or Fengtian , is the provincial capital and the largest city of Liaoning Province, People's Republic of China, as well as the largest city in Northeast China by urban population.2010 census According to the 2010 census, the city's urban area has 6 (...) |
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| Bethany Beach, Delaware FeatureType : city Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 38.5394 / -75.0553 | Bethany Beach is an incorporated town in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. According to the 2010 Census Bureau figures, the population of the town is 1,060; however, during the summer months some 15,000 more populate the town as vacationers., Graeme Browning, Washington Post, July 22, 1989 (...) |
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| Attu Island FeatureType : null Elevation : 431 Lat/Lng : 52.9025 / 172.9094 | Attu is the westernmost and largest island in the Near Islands group of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, and the westernmost point of land relative to Alaska, the United States, and America. The island became uninhabited in 2010 (...) |
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| Mount Jefferson (Oregon) FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 3077 Lat/Lng : 44.6743 / -121.7996 | Mount Jefferson is a stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc, part of the Cascade Range in the U.S. state of Oregon. The second highest mountain in Oregon, it is situated within Linn County, Jefferson County, and Marion County and forms part of the Mount Jefferson Wilderness (...) |
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| Mount Diablo FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 1146 Lat/Lng : 37.8817 / -121.9142 | Mount Diablo is a mountain of the Diablo Range, in Contra Costa County of the eastern San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California. It is south of Clayton and northeast of Danville. It is an isolated upthrust peak of , visible from most of the San Francisco Bay Area (...) |
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| Tower of Babel FeatureType : city Elevation : 33 Lat/Lng : 32.5363 / 44.4208 | The Tower of Babel (Migdal Bavel) as told in Genesis 11:1-9 is an origin myth meant to explain why the world's peoples speak different languages. According to the story, a united humanity in the generations following the Great Flood, speaking a single language and migrating eastward, comes to the (...) |
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| SS Edmund Fitzgerald FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 179 Lat/Lng : 46.9985 / -85.1102 | SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in a Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes, and she remains the largest to have sunk there (...) |
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| Independence Pass (Colorado) FeatureType : pass Elevation : 3691 Lat/Lng : 39.1086 / -106.564 | Independence Pass, originally known as Hunter Pass, is a high mountain pass in the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado in the United States. It is at elevation on the Continental Divide in the Sawatch Range. The pass is midway between Aspen and Twin Lakes, on the border between Pitkin and Lake (...) |
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| Laysan FeatureType : isle Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 25.7706 / -171.7344 | Laysan (; Hawaiian: Kauō), located northwest of Honolulu at N25° 42' 14" W171° 44' 04", is one of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. It comprises one land mass of , about in size. It is an atoll of sorts, although the land completely surrounds a shallow central lake some above sea level that has a (...) |
| 24 | Shoshone National Forest FeatureType : null Elevation : 1809 Lat/Lng : 44.4644 / -109.6136 | Shoshone National Forest is the first federally protected National Forest in the United States and covers nearly in the state of Wyoming. Originally a part of the Yellowstone Timberland Reserve, the forest is managed by the United States Forest Service and was created by an act of Congress and (...) | |
| 25 | Klondike Gold Rush FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 64.0569 / -139.4361 | The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899. Gold was discovered there by local miners on August 16, 1896, and, when news reached Seattle and San Francisco the following year, it (...) | |
| 26 | Nuclear weapons testing FeatureType : null Elevation : 1224 Lat/Lng : 37.0114 / -116.0598 | Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the effectiveness, yield, and explosive capability of nuclear weapons. Throughout the twentieth century, most nations that developed nuclear weapons tested them (...) | |
| 27 | Kim Il-sung FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 910 Lat/Lng : 39.9721 / 126.3214 | Kim Il-sung (officially transcribed Kim Il Sung; ; ; ; born Kim Sŏng-ju ; 15 April 1912 – 8 July 1994) was the first Supreme Leader of North Korea, from its establishment in 1948 until his death in 1994. He held the posts of Premier from 1948 to 1972 and President from 1972 to 1994 (...) | |
| 28 | Wrangell, Alaska FeatureType : null Elevation : 2 Lat/Lng : 56.4694 / -132.3814 | The City and Borough of Wrangell (Tlingit: Ḵaachx̱aana.áakʼw) is a borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2010 census the population was 2,369, up from 2,308 in 2000. Incorporated as a Unified Home Rule Borough on May 30, 2008, Wrangell was previously a city in the Wrangell-Petersburg Census (...) | |
| 29 | Operation Crossroads FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 11.6 / 165.5 | Operation Crossroads was a pair of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in mid-1946. They were the first nuclear weapon tests since Trinity in July 1945, and the first detonations of nuclear devices since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945 (...) | |
| 30 | Ludwig Wittgenstein FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 52.2176 / 0.1001 | Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (;. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. ; 26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language (...) | |
| 31 | 2008 Mumbai attacks FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 18.9221 / 72.8326 | --> The 2008 Mumbai attacks (also referred to as 26/11) were a group of terrorist attacks that took place in November 2008, when 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Islamic terrorist organisation based in Pakistan, carried out a series of 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four (...) | |
| 32 | Columbanus FeatureType : null Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 48.6481 / -2.0075 | Columbanus (543 – 21 November 615), also known as St. Columban, was an Irish missionary notable for founding a number of monasteries from around 590 in the Frankish and Lombard kingdoms, most notably Luxeuil Abbey in present-day France and Bobbio Abbey in present-day Italy (...) | |
| 33 | Glacier National Park (U.S.) FeatureType : null Elevation : 2033 Lat/Lng : 48.6953 / -113.718 | Glacier National Park is an American national park located in northwestern Montana, on the Canada–United States border, adjacent to the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia. The park encompasses over and includes parts of two mountain ranges (sub-ranges of the Rocky Mountains), over (...) | |
| 34 | Intel FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 37.3879 / -121.9635 | Intel Corporation (commonly known as Intel and stylized as intel) is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, in the Silicon Valley. It is the world's second largest and second highest valued semiconductor chip maker based on revenue (...) | |
| 35 | Pan Am Flight 103 FeatureType : event Elevation : 74 Lat/Lng : 55.1156 / -3.3585 | Pan Am Flight 103 was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit via London and New York. On 21 December 1988, N739PA, the aircraft operating the transatlantic leg of the route, was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew – a disaster known as the (...) | |
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| El Kab FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 84 Lat/Lng : 25.1197 / 32.7982 | El Kab (or better Elkab) is an Upper Egyptian site on the east bank of the Nile at the mouth of the Wadi Hillal about south of Luxor (ancient Thebes). El Kab was called Nekheb in the Egyptian language, a name that refers to Nekhbet, the goddess depicted as a white vulture.Limme, Luc (...) |
| 37 | George Orwell FeatureType : null Elevation : 51 Lat/Lng : 56.1108 / -5.6917 | Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic whose work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism and outspoken support of democratic socialism (...) | |
| 38 | California FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 96 Lat/Lng : 37.0 / -120.0 | California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States. With 39.5 million residents, California is the most populous U.S. state and the third-largest by area. The state capital is Sacramento. The Greater Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation's second- and (...) | |
| 39 | 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 (...) | |
| 40 | Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 34.3948 / 132.4548 | During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. The United States dropped the bombs after obtaining the consent of the United Kingdom, as required by the Quebec Agreement (...) | |
| 41 | Battle of Culloden FeatureType : event Elevation : 34 Lat/Lng : 57.4912 / -4.1322 | The Battle of Culloden was the final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745. On 16 April 1746, the Jacobite forces of Charles Edward Stuart were decisively defeated by Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands (...) | |
| 42 | North East England FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 99 Lat/Lng : 55.0 / -1.8667 | North East England is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes. It covers Northumberland, County Durham, Tyne and Wear, and the former county of Cleveland now in North Yorkshire (...) | |
| 43 | Ocean City, New Jersey FeatureType : city Elevation : 2 Lat/Lng : 39.2636 / -74.6046 | Ocean City is a city in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population was 11,701, reflecting a decline of 3,677 (-23.9%) from the 15,378 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn declined by 134 (-0 (...) | |
| 44 | Twitter FeatureType : null Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 37.7768 / -122.4166 | Twitter, Inc. is an American online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets". Tweets were originally restricted to 140 characters, but on November 7, 2017, this limit was doubled for all languages except Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (...) | |
| 45 | Le Corbusier FeatureType : null Elevation : 58 Lat/Lng : 48.8519 / 2.2654 | Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier , was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930 (...) | |
| 46 | National Weather Service FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 114 Lat/Lng : 38.9917 / -77.03 | The National Weather Service (NWS) is an agency of the United States federal government that is tasked with providing weather forecasts, warnings of hazardous weather, and other weather-related products to organizations and the public for the purposes of protection, safety, and general information (...) | |
| 47 | Siege of Sevastopol (1941–42) FeatureType : event Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : 44.6047 / 33.5411 | The Siege of Sevastopol also known as the Defence of Sevastopol (transliteration: Oborona Sevastopolya) or the Battle of Sevastopol (German: Schlacht um Sewastopol) was a military battle that took place on the Eastern Front of the Second World War (...) | |
| 48 | Eleventh Air Force FeatureType : null Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 51.8778 / -176.6425 | The Eleventh Air Force (11 AF) is a Numbered Air Force of the United States Air Force Pacific Air Forces (PACAF). It is headquartered at Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson, Alaska.This unit is not related to the Eleventh Air Force headquartered in Pennsylvania described below (...) | |
| 49 | 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 (...) | |
| 50 | Central Intelligence Agency FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 73 Lat/Lng : 38.9521 / -77.1452 | The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the Federal government of the United States, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) (...) | |
| 51 | Huntington, West Virginia FeatureType : null Elevation : 173 Lat/Lng : 38.413 / -82.4336 | Huntington is a city in Cabell County and Wayne County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is the county seat of Cabell County, and largest city in the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area, sometimes referred to as the Tri-State Area (...) | |
| 52 | Srebrenica massacre FeatureType : null Elevation : 373 Lat/Lng : 44.103 / 19.298 | The Srebrenica massacre, also known as the Srebrenica genocide * * * * * , was the July 1995 massacre * * * of more than 8,000Potocari Memorial Center Preliminary List of Missing Persons from Srebrenica '95 * * , p. 81. * , p. 25 (...) | |
| 53 | Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park FeatureType : null Elevation : 2 Lat/Lng : 38.8997 / -77.0578 | The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park is located in the District of Columbia and the states of Maryland and West Virginia. The park was established in 1961 as a National Monument by President Dwight D (...) | |
| 54 | Los Angeles Public Library FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 113 Lat/Lng : 34.0501 / -118.2558 | The Los Angeles Public Library system (LAPL) serves the residents of the City of Los Angeles. The system holds more than six million volumes, and with over 18 million residents in the Los Angeles Metropolitan area, it serves the largest population of any publicly funded library system in the United (...) | |
| 55 | Bluefield, West Virginia FeatureType : city Elevation : 799 Lat/Lng : 37.2622 / -81.2186 | Bluefield is a city in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 10,447 at the 2010 census. It is the core city of the Bluefield WV-VA micropolitan area, which has a population of 107,342. (...) | |
| 56 | Philmont Scout Ranch FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 2043 Lat/Lng : 36.4542 / -104.9558 | Philmont Scout Ranch is a ranch located near the town of Cimarron, New Mexico; it covers 140,177 acres (219 sq mi; 567 km²) of wilderness in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of the Rocky Mountains. Donated by oil baron Waite Phillips, the ranch is owned and operated by the Boy Scouts of America (...) | |
| 57 | Lakhimpur Kheri district FeatureType : null Elevation : 147 Lat/Lng : 27.9484 / 80.7767 | Lakhimpur Kheri district is the largest district in Uttar Pradesh, India, on the border with Nepal. Its administrative capital is the city of Lakhimpur. Lakhimpur Kheri district is a part of Lucknow division, with a total area of (...) | |
| 58 | Photovoltaics FeatureType : null Elevation : 1292 Lat/Lng : 37.55 / 105.0539 | Photovoltaics (PV) is the conversion of light into electricity using semiconducting materials that exhibit the photovoltaic effect, a phenomenon studied in physics, photochemistry, and electrochemistry. A photovoltaic system employs solar panels, each comprising a number of solar cells, which (...) | |
| 59 | Air Force Research Laboratory FeatureType : null Elevation : 244 Lat/Lng : 39.8231 / -84.0494 | The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is a scientific research organization operated by the United States Air Force Materiel Command dedicated to leading the discovery, development, and integration of affordable aerospace warfighting technologies, planning and executing the Air Force science and (...) | |
| 60 | Phaistos Disc FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 86 Lat/Lng : 35.0517 / 24.8149 | The Phaistos Disc (also spelled Phaistos Disk, Phaestos Disc) is a disk of fired clay from the Minoan palace of Phaistos on the island of Crete, possibly dating to the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age (second millennium B.C.). The disk is about 15 cm (5 (...) | |
| 61 | Trinity River (California) FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : 56 Lat/Lng : 41.1847 / -123.7086 | The Trinity River (originally called the Hoopa or Hupa by the Yurok, and hun' by the Natinixwe/Hupa people) is a major river in northwestern California in the United States, and is the principal tributary of the Klamath River (...) | |
| 62 | Wardenclyffe Tower FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 48 Lat/Lng : 40.9476 / -72.8982 | Wardenclyffe Tower (1901–1917), also known as the Tesla Tower, was an early experimental wireless transmission station designed and built by Nikola Tesla in Shoreham, New York in 1901–1902. Tesla intended to transmit messages, telephony and even facsimile images across the Atlantic to England and to (...) | |
| 63 | Isan FeatureType : null Elevation : 206 Lat/Lng : 16.0 / 103.0 | Isan (Isan/, ; also written as Isaan, Isarn, Issarn, Issan, Esan, or Esarn; from Pali īsāna or Sanskrit ईशान īśāna "northeast") consists of 20 provinces in the northeastern region of Thailand. Isan is Thailand's largest region, located on the Khorat Plateau, bordered by the Mekong River (along the (...) | |
| 64 | Automated teller machine FeatureType : null Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 51.6523 / -0.082 | An automated teller machine (ATM) is an electronic telecommunications device that enables customers of financial institutions to perform financial transactions, such as cash withdrawals, deposits, transfer funds, or obtaining account information, at any time and without the need for direct (...) | |
| 65 | Huawei FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 75 Lat/Lng : 22.6533 / 114.0546 | Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. is a Chinese telecommunications-equipment and consumer-electronics company based in Shenzhen, Guangdong, South China. Huawei has deployed its products and services in more than 170 countries, and it served 45 of the 50 largest telecoms operators (...) | |
| 66 | Carrizo Plain FeatureType : null Elevation : 586 Lat/Lng : 35.1914 / -119.7929 | The Carrizo Plain (Obispeño: tšɨłkukunɨtš, "Place of the rabbits") is a large enclosed grassland plain, approximately long and up to across, in southeastern San Luis Obispo County, California, about northwest of Los Angeles."Carrizo Plain National Monument" Bureau of Land Management. 27 Feb. 2008. U (...) | |
| 67 | Dasmariñas FeatureType : null Elevation : 92 Lat/Lng : 14.3264 / 120.9361 | , officially the , , or simply known as City, is a settlement_text of the Philippines in the province of , . According to the , it has a population of people. Nicknamed Dasma, it has a land area of and is located south of Manila (...) | |
| 68 | Binghamton University FeatureType : edu Elevation : 292 Lat/Lng : 42.0893 / -75.9699 | The State University of New York at Binghamton, commonly referred to as Binghamton University and SUNY Binghamton, is a public research university with campuses in Binghamton, Vestal, and Johnson City, New York, United States (...) | |
| 69 | Chester Zoo FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 53.2267 / -2.8842 | Chester Zoo is a zoo at Upton by Chester, in Cheshire, England. Chester Zoo was opened in 1931 by George Mottershead and his family. It is one of the UK's largest zoos at . The zoo has a total land holding of approximately (...) | |
| 70 | 2015 San Bernardino attack FeatureType : event Elevation : 309 Lat/Lng : 34.0761 / -117.2777 | On December 2, 2015, 14 people were killed and 22 others were seriously injured in a terrorist attack consisting of a mass shooting and an attempted bombing at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California (...) | |
| 71 | Battle of Khe Sanh FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 493 Lat/Lng : 16.6554 / 106.7286 | The Battle of Khe Sanh (21 January – 9 July 1968) was conducted in the Khe Sanh area of northwestern Quảng Trị Province, Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), during the Vietnam War. The main US forces defending Khe Sanh Combat Base (KSCB) were two regiments of US Marines supported by elements from (...) | |
| 72 | Cuban intervention in Angola FeatureType : null Elevation : 1221 Lat/Lng : -15.15 / 19.1667 | In November 1975, on the eve of Angola's independence, Cuba launched a large-scale military intervention in support of the leftist People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) against United States-backed interventions by South Africa and Zaire in support of two right-wing independence (...) | |
| 73 | Wreck of the RMS Titanic FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 41.732 / -49.946 | The wreck of the RMS Titanic lies at a depth of about , about south-southeast off the coast of Newfoundland. It lies in two main pieces about a third of a mile (600 m) apart. The bow is still recognizable with many preserved interiors, despite deterioration and damage sustained hitting the sea floor (...) | |
| 74 | Private Eye FeatureType : null Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 51.5147 / -0.1336 | Private Eye is a British fortnightly satirical and current affairs news magazine, founded in 1961. It is published in London and has been edited by Ian Hislop since 1986. The publication is widely recognised for its prominent criticism and lampooning of public figures (...) | |
| 75 | International Cospas-Sarsat Programme FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 41.1344 / 16.8344 | The International Cospas-Sarsat Programme is a satellite-aided search and rescue initiative. It is organized as a treaty-based, nonprofit, intergovernmental, humanitarian cooperative of 44 nations and agencies (see infobox) (...) | |
| 76 | Willow Run FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 231 Lat/Lng : 42.241 / -83.551 | Willow Run, also known as Air Force Plant 31, was a manufacturing complex in Michigan, located between Ypsilanti Township and Belleville, constructed by the Ford Motor Company for the mass production of aircraft, especially the B-24 Liberator heavy bomber (...) | |
| 77 | Budapest University of Technology and Economics FeatureType : edu Elevation : 113 Lat/Lng : 47.4816 / 19.056 | The Budapest University of Technology and Economics (or in short), official abbreviation BME, is the most significant University of Technology in Hungary and is considered the world's oldest Institute of Technology which has university rank and structure (...) | |
| 78 | Mid-Canada Line FeatureType : null Elevation : 86 Lat/Lng : 55.4645 / -60.2328 | The Mid-Canada Line (MCL), also known as the McGill Fence, was a line of radar stations running east-west across the middle of Canada, used to provide early warning of a Soviet bomber attack on North America. It was built to supplement the less-advanced Pinetree Line, which was located further south (...) | |
| 79 | National Institute of Technology Calicut FeatureType : edu Elevation : 70 Lat/Lng : 11.322 / 75.9354 | National Institute of Technology Calicut (NIT Calicut or NITC) is an autonomous, federally funded technical university and an institute of national importance governed by the NIT Act passed by the Parliament of India (...) | |
| 80 | Death of Osama bin Laden FeatureType : null Elevation : 1195 Lat/Lng : 34.17 / 73.23 | Osama bin Laden, the founder and first leader of the Islamist group Al-Qaeda, was killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2011 shortly after 1:00 am PKT (20:00 UTC, May 1) by United States Navy SEALs of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group (also known as DEVGRU or SEAL Team Six) (...) | |
| 81 | Snezhnoye, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 65.4492 / 172.9794 | Snezhnoye (lit. snowy; Chukchi: , lit. snowfieldV.V. Leontev and K.A. Novikova, Топонимический словарь северо-востока СССР (Toponymic Dictionary of the Northeastern USSR) (1989) Magadan. p.329) is a rural locality (a selo) in Anadyrsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia,Directive #617-rp (...) | |
| 82 | Joseph's Tomb FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 506 Lat/Lng : 32.2132 / 35.2851 | Joseph's Tomb (Qever Yosef, , Qabr Yūsuf) is a funerary monument located at the eastern entrance to the valley that separates Mounts Gerizim and Ebal, 300 metres northwest of Jacob's Well, on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Nablus, near Tell Balata, the site of Shakmu in the Late Bronze Age (...) | |
| 83 | Alaskan Air Command FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 61.2514 / -149.8064 | Alaskan Air Command (AAC) is an inactive United States Air Force Major Command originally established in 1942 under the United States Army Air Forces. Its mission was to organize and administer the air defense system of Alaska, exercise direct control of all active measures, and coordinate all (...) | |
| 84 | 2008 Chatsworth train collision FeatureType : event Elevation : 314 Lat/Lng : 34.2719 / -118.6014 | The Chatsworth train collision occurred at 4:22 p.m. PDT (23:22 UTC) on Friday, September 12, 2008, when a Union Pacific freight train and a Metrolink commuter train collided head-on in the Chatsworth district of Los Angeles, California (...) | |
| 85 | Batopilas, Chihuahua FeatureType : null Elevation : 602 Lat/Lng : 27.0285 / -107.7412 | Batopilas (Spanish) is a small town, and seat of the surrounding municipality of the same name, in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, located along the Río Batopilas at the bottom of the Batopilas canyon, part of the Copper Canyon. As of 2010, the town of Batopilas had a population of 1,220 (...) | |
| 86 | Battle of Yongju FeatureType : null Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 39.4736 / 125.4828 | The Battle of Yongju, also known as the Battle of the Apple Orchard, took place from 21 to 22 October 1950 as part of the United Nations (UN) offensive towards the Yalu River, against the North Korean forces which had invaded South Korea during the Korean War (...) | |
| 87 | Mexico–United States border FeatureType : null Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 25.8838 / -97.4762 | The Mexico–United States border is an international border, nearly 3,100 kilometers long (2,000 miles) separating Mexico and the United States, extending from the Pacific Ocean to the west and Gulf of Mexico to the east (...) | |
| 88 | WLRA FeatureType : null Elevation : 197 Lat/Lng : 41.6028 / -88.0803 | WLRA (88.1 FM) or sometimes called WLRA Radio, or WLRA-FM, is a college radio station broadcasting a Variety format. Licensed to Lockport, Illinois, USA, the station serves the Chicago/greater Joliet region. The station is licensed to and owned by Lewis University (...) | |
| 89 | The Jersey Devil (The X-Files) FeatureType : null Elevation : 85 Lat/Lng : 49.2553 / -123.1378 | "The Jersey Devil" is the fifth episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on October 8, 1993. It was written by series creator Chris Carter, directed by Joe Napolitano, and featured guest appearances by Gregory Sierra, (...) | |
| 90 | Verifone FeatureType : null Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 37.3721 / -121.9257 | Verifone is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Jose, California, that provides technology for electronic payment transactions and value-added services at the point-of-sale. Verifone sells merchant-operated, consumer-facing and self-service payment systems to the financial, (...) | |
| 91 | West Kimberley FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 466 Lat/Lng : -16.1707 / 125.725 | West Kimberley is part of the Kimberley region within Western Australia, a significant portion of which is heritage-listed for its cultural landscape. It is an area with a wide array of fauna and flora. It connects to a long history of Indigenous Australian culture, language and knowledge (...) | |
| 92 | Tourism in Ecuador FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -0.25 / 78.59 | Ecuador is a country with vast natural and cultural wealth. The diversity of its four regions has resulted in hundreds of thousands of species of flora and fauna. It has about 1640 species of birds. The species of butterflies line the 4,500, the 345 reptiles, 358 amphibians and 258 mammals, among (...) | |
| 93 | Redstone Inn FeatureType : null Elevation : 2209 Lat/Lng : 39.18 / -107.2394 | The Redstone Inn is located on Redstone Boulevard in Redstone, Colorado, United States. It is a structure in the Tudor Revival architectural styles built at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1980 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (...) | |
| 94 | Bundy standoff FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 433 Lat/Lng : 36.7166 / -114.2385 | The 2014 Bundy standoff was an armed confrontation between supporters of cattle rancher Cliven Bundy and law enforcement following a 21-year legal dispute in which the United States Bureau of Land Management (BLM) obtained court orders directing Bundy to pay over $1 million in withheld grazing fees (...) | |
| 95 | Willow Run Airport FeatureType : airport Elevation : 210 Lat/Lng : 42.2379 / -83.5304 | Willow Run Airport is an airport in Van Buren Charter Township and Ypsilanti Township,"" . Ypsilanti Township. Retrieved on June 22, 2009."". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on October 28, 2009. near Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States, and serves freight, corporate, and general aviation (...) | |
| 96 | St Padarn's Church, Llanbadarn Fawr FeatureType : null Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : 52.409 / -4.061 | Saint Padarn's Church is a parish church of the Church in Wales, and the largest mediaeval church in mid-Wales. Founded in the early sixth century, St Padarn's Church has gone through many changes, from a Welsh monastic centre (a clas), a Benedictine priory, a clas again, a royal rectory, a church (...) | |
| 97 | Selwyn College, Cambridge FeatureType : edu Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 52.2008 / 0.1056 | Selwyn College, Cambridge (formally "The Master, Fellows, and Scholars of Selwyn College in the University of Cambridge") is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. The college was founded by the Selwyn Memorial Committee in memory of George Augustus Selwyn (...) | |
| 98 | Fort Banks (Massachusetts) FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 42.3842 / -70.9803 | Fort Banks was a U.S. Coast Artillery fort located in Winthrop, Massachusetts. It served to defend Boston Harbor from enemy attack from the sea and was built in the 1890s during what is known as the Endicott period, a time in which the coast defenses of the United States were seriously expanded and (...) | |
| 99 | Dye 3 FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 65.1833 / -43.8167 | Dye 3 is an ice core site and previously part of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) line, located at (2480 masl) in Greenland. As a DEW line base, it was disbanded in years 1990/1991. An ice core is a core sample from the accumulation of snow and ice that has re-crystallized and trapped air bubbles (...) | |
| 100 | Amtrak's 25 Hz traction power system FeatureType : null Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 38.8975 / -76.9593 | Amtrak's 25 Hz traction power system is a traction power grid operated by Amtrak along the southern portion of its Northeast Corridor (NEC): the 225 route miles (362 km) between Washington, D.C. and New York CityThe 25 Hz system continues through New York Penn Station and Sunnyside Yard (...) | |
| 101 | 1950 French Annapurna expedition FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 7940 Lat/Lng : 28.5953 / 83.8256 | The 1950 French Annapurna expedition, led by Maurice Herzog, successfully reached the summit of Annapurna I at , the highest peak in the Annapurna Massif. The mountain is located in Nepal and the government had given permission for the expedition, the first time it had permitted mountaineering in (...) | |
| 102 | Afghanistan–India relations FeatureType : null Elevation : 1920 Lat/Lng : 34.32 / 69.1 | Bilateral relations between the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the Republic of India have traditionally been strong and friendly.The Republic of India was the only South Asian country to recognize the Soviet-backed Democratic Republic of Afghanistan in the 1980s, its relations were diminished (...) | |
| 103 | 1983 Beirut barracks bombings FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : 33.8292 / 35.4947 | On October 23, 1983, two truck bombs struck buildings in Beirut, Lebanon, housing American and French service members of the Multinational Force in Lebanon (MNF), a peacekeeping operation during the Lebanese Civil War. The attack killed 307 people: 241 U.S (...) | |
| 104 | Indian Air Force FeatureType : null Elevation : 246 Lat/Lng : 31.4369 / 75.7558 | The Indian Air Force (IAF) is the air arm of the Indian armed forces. Its complement of personnel and aircraft assets ranks fourth amongst the airforces of the world. Its primary mission is to secure Indian airspace and to conduct aerial warfare during armed conflict (...) | |
| 105 | Lawrence Hall of Science FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 340 Lat/Lng : 37.8794 / -122.2467 | The Lawrence Hall of Science is a public science center that offers hands-on science exhibits, designs curriculum, aids professional development, and offers after school science resources to students of all ages (...) | |
| 106 | Sea Shepherd Conservation Society operations FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 0.3167 / 5.4167 | The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society engages in various demonstrations, campaigns, and tactical operations at sea and elsewhere, including conventional protests and direct actions to protect marine wildlife. Sea Shepherd operations have included interdiction against commercial fishing, shark (...) | |
| 107 | British anti-invasion preparations of the Second World War FeatureType : null Elevation : 428 Lat/Lng : 54.0037 / -2.5479 | British anti-invasion preparations of the Second World War entailed a large-scale division of military and civilian mobilisation in response to the threat of invasion by German armed forces in 1940 and 1941. The British army needed to recover from the defeat of the British Expeditionary Force in (...) | |
| 108 | Congo Square FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 29.9612 / -90.0685 | Congo Square is an open space, now within Louis Armstrong Park, which is located in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, just across Rampart Street north of the French Quarter. The Tremé neighborhood is famous for its history of African American music (...) | |
| 109 | General Electric Specialty Control Plant FeatureType : null Elevation : 383 Lat/Lng : 38.0922 / -78.8694 | General Electric Specialty Control Plant is a historic factory complex located at Waynesboro, Virginia. The complex includes three contributing buildings, one contributing site (the original formal entry drive), and two contributing structures (...) | |
| 110 | Pirinçlik Air Base FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 815 Lat/Lng : 37.9167 / 40.0 | Pirinçlik Air Base or Pirinçlik Air Station, formerly Diyarbakır Air Station, was a 41-year-old American-Turkish military base near Diyarbakir, Turkey. It was known as NATO's frontier post for monitoring the former Soviet Union and the Middle East, completely closed on 30 September 1997 (...) | |
| 111 | Lindbergh Beacon (Los Angeles) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 101 Lat/Lng : 34.0536 / -118.243 | The Lindbergh Beacon, an aircraft beacon atop the Los Angeles City Hall, operated nightly from April 26, 1928, until just after the attack on Pearl Harbor. It was restored to its original condition in 2001, and Los Angeles magazine described it as "a tiara of light atop our beautifully restored Los (...) | |
| 112 | Hector J. Robinson Observatory FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 179 Lat/Lng : 42.2458 / -83.1869 | The Hector J. Robinson Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Lincoln Park, Michigan. It houses a Celestron SCT. It went back into operation in September 2009. First light ceremonies happened in early September. (...) | |
| 113 | Majene FeatureType : null Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : -3.5433 / 118.9703 | Majene is the capital city of Majene Regency and it is located in the Indonesian province of West Sulawesi. (...) | |
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