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| 1 | Estonia ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 59.4167 / 24.75 | Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland with Finland on the other side, to the west by the Baltic Sea with Sweden to the west (Scandinavia to the far west and north), to the south by Latvia (343 km), and to (...) | |
| 2 | Latvia ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 56.95 / 24.1 | Latvia (or ;), officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. Since its independence, Latvia has been referred to as one of the Baltic states. It is bordered by Estonia in the northern region, Lithuania in the southern, to the east is Russia, and Belarus to (...) | |
| 3 | Stockholm ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 59.3294 / 18.0686 | Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic countries; 960,031 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area (...) | |
| 4 | Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 41.0292 / 28.9517 | The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (Oikoumenikón Patriarkhíon Konstantinoupóleos, ; ; Vatican City State, 1978, p. 3 ,Ortaylı, İlber (2003). "Osmanlı Barışı", p. 14. .In Turkey it is also referred to unofficially as Fener Rum Patrikhanesi, "Roman Patriarchate of the Phanar" "Roman (...) | |
| 5 | Annapolis, Maryland ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 38.9729 / -76.5012 | Annapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Maryland, as well as the county seat of Anne Arundel County. Situated on the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Severn River, south of Baltimore and about east of Washington, D.C., Annapolis is part of the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area (...) | |
| 6 | Finland ![]() FeatureType : country Lat/Lng : 64.35 / 26.65 | Finland , officially the Republic of Finland "Republic of Finland", or "" in Finnish, "" in Swedish, and "" in Sami, is the long protocol name, which is however not defined by law. Legislation recognises only the short name (...) | |
| 7 | Chengdu ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 507 Lat/Lng : 30.657 / 104.066 | Chengdu , formerly romanized as Chengtu, is a sub-provincial city which serves as the capital of Sichuan province, People's Republic of China. It is one of the three most populous cities in Western China, the other two being Chongqing and Xi'an (...) | |
| 8 | Cyprus ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 949 Lat/Lng : 34.9 / 32.9333 | Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean and the third largest and third most populous island in the Mediterranean, located south of Turkey, west of Syria and Lebanon, northwest of Israel, north of Egypt, and southeast of Greece (...) | |
| 9 | 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) (...) | |
| 10 | Odessa ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 46.4857 / 30.7434 | Odessa (also known as Odesa; ; ;) is the third most populous city of Ukraine and a major tourism center, seaport and transportation hub located on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. It is also the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast and a multiethnic cultural center (...) | |
| 11 | Trondheim Airport, Værnes ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 63.4576 / 10.9242 | Trondheim Airport, Værnes is an international airport serving Trondheim, a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The airport is located in Værnes, a village in the municipality of Stjørdal in Trøndelag county, east of Trondheim (...) | |
| 12 | MS Estonia ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 59.3833 / 21.7 | MS Estonia, previously Viking Sally (1980–1990), Silja Star (1990–1991), and Wasa King (1991–1993), was a cruise ferry built in 1979/80 at the German shipyard Meyer Werft in Papenburg. The ship sank in 1994 in the Baltic Sea in one of the worst maritime disasters of the 20th century.Boesten, E (...) | |
| 13 | Baltic Fleet ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : 54.7167 / 20.5167 | The Baltic Fleet is the fleet of the Russian Navy in the Baltic Sea. Established 18 May 1703, under Tsar Peter the Great as part of the Imperial Russian Navy, the Baltic Fleet is the oldest Russian Navy formation (...) | |
| 14 | DHL Express ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 62 Lat/Lng : 50.7152 / 7.1301 | DHL Express"DHL" stands for Dalsey, Hillblom & Lynn, the surnames of the founders. is a division of the German logistics company Deutsche Post DHL providing international courier, parcel, and express mail services (...) | |
| 15 | Toompea ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 59 Lat/Lng : 59.4369 / 24.74 | Toompea (from , "Cathedral Hill") is a limestone hill in the central part of the city of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. The hill is an oblong tableland, which measures about 400 by 250 metres, has an area of and is about 20–30 metres higher than the surrounding areas (...) | |
| 16 | World Council of Churches ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 457 Lat/Lng : 46.2298 / 6.1288 | The World Council of Churches (WCC) is a worldwide inter-church organization founded in 1948. Its members today include the Assyrian Church of the East, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, most jurisdictions of the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Old Catholic Church, Anglican Communion, most mainline (...) | |
| 17 | April 27 ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -0.7167 / -156.2167 | ==Events== *33 BC – Lucius Marcius Philippus, step-brother to the future emperor Augustus, celebrates a triumph for his victories while serving as governor in one of the provinces of Hispania. * 395 – Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto (...) | |
| 18 | University of Delaware ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 43 Lat/Lng : 39.6791 / -75.7522 | The University of Delaware (colloquially UD, UDel, or U of D) is a public research university located in Newark, Delaware. University of Delaware is the largest university in Delaware. UD currently offers more than 135 undergraduate degrees (...) | |
| 19 | Eurovision Song Contest 2015 ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 353 Lat/Lng : 47.0667 / 15.4333 | The Eurovision Song Contest 2015 was the 60th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Vienna, Austria, following Conchita Wurst's win at the 2014 contest in Copenhagen, Denmark with the song "Rise Like a Phoenix" (...) | |
| 20 | 2017 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 45.4961 / -73.5719 | The 2017 IIHF World Junior Championship was the 41st World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (WJC or WM20). The main tournament was co-hosted by the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec and the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario.http://www.hockeycanada.ca/index (...) | |
| 21 | 2011 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 202 Lat/Lng : 42.9047 / -78.8494 | The 2011 IIHF World U20 Championship, commonly referred to as the 2011 World Junior Hockey Championships (2011 WJHC), was the 2011 edition of the IIHF World U20 Championship and was hosted by the United States. The games were played in Western New York, at HSBC Arena in Buffalo and Niagara (...) | |
| 22 | 2008 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 221 Lat/Lng : 50.0311 / 15.7711 | The 2008 IIHF World U20 Championship, commonly referred to as the 2008 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (2008 WJHC), was the 32nd edition of the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. The Elite group, what the IIHF refer to as the Top Division, was held in Pardubice and Liberec, Czech Republic, (...) | |
| 23 | 2012 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1057 Lat/Lng : 51.0464 / -114.0605 | The 2012 IIHF U20 World Championship was the 36th World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (WJHC). It was hosted in Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It began on December 26, 2011, and ended with the gold medal game played in Calgary on January 5, 2012 (...) | |
| 24 | Group of Seven ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 18.4588 / -66.2677 | The Group of Seven (G7) is a group consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. These countries, with the seven largest advanced economies in the world, represent 58% of the global net wealth ($317 trillion) (...) | |
| 25 | 1997 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 60.2057 / 24.9289 | The 1997 Ice Hockey World Championships took place in Finland from 26 April to 14 May 1997. The matches were played in Helsinki, Tampere and Turku. Twelve teams took part, with the first round being split into two teams of six, and the six best teams going to a further group stage (...) | |
| 26 | Ironman Triathlon ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : -31.45 / 152.9167 | An Ironman Triathlon is one of a series of long-distance triathlon races organized by the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC), consisting of a swim, a bicycle ride and a marathon run, raced in that order and without a break (...) | |
| 27 | 2015 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 121 Lat/Lng : 43.6614 / -79.3831 | The 2015 IIHF World Junior Championships was the 39th edition of World Junior Ice Hockey Championship, played from December 26, 2014 to January 5, 2015. It was co-hosted by Toronto, Ontario and Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and organized by Hockey Canada, Hockey Quebec, the Ontario Hockey Federation, (...) | |
| 28 | 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 — (...) | |
| 29 | 2008 IIHF World U18 Championships ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1433 Lat/Lng : 45.4011 / 6.5656 | The 2008 IIHF World U18 Championships were held in Kazan, Russia. The championships began on April 13, 2008, and finished on April 24, 2008. Games were played at TatNeft Arena and Arena Kazan in Kazan. Canada defeated Russia 8–0 in the final to claim the gold medal, while the United States defeated (...) | |
| 30 | 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 (...) | |
| 31 | 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 (...) | |
| 32 | 1980 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 787 Lat/Lng : 40.85 / 15.28 | ==Events== ===January=== * January 1 – Changes to the Swedish Act of Succession make Princess Victoria of Sweden first in line to the throne ("heir apparent") and therefore Crown Princess, ahead of her younger brother. * January 4 – U.S (...) | |
| 33 | 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 (...) | |
| 34 | NATO Integrated Air Defense System ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 150 Lat/Lng : 45.6167 / 16.0667 | NATO's NATO Integrated Air Defense System (short: NATINADS) is a command and control compound (structure or system) of the alliance's air defence forces, subordinated to the NATO command authorities, already in peace time as well as in crisis and war. (...) | |
| 35 | Institut Français ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 48.8544 / 2.2937 | The Institut Français (French capitalization, Institut français; "French institute") is a French public industrial and commercial organization (EPIC). Started in 1907 by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for promoting French, francophone as well as local cultures around the world, in 2011 it replaced (...) | |
| 36 | Estonian Students' Society ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 69 Lat/Lng : 58.3765 / 26.7104 | Estonian Students' Society (The German name for the Estonian Students Society is Verein Studierender Esten while the Latin version is Societas Studiosorum Estonorum. commonly used acronym: EÜS) is the largest and oldest all-male academical student society in Estonia, which is similar to Baltic (...) | |
| 37 | Center of population ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 174 Lat/Lng : 56.5667 / 53.5 | In demographics, the centre of population (or population center) of a region is a geographical point that describes a centrepoint of the region's population. There are several different ways of defining such a "centre point", leading to different geographical locations; these are often confused. (...) | |
| 38 | HMS Viscount (D92) ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 54.5833 / -18.3 | HMS Viscount was a V-class destroyer (Thornycroft V and W class) of the British Royal Navy that saw service in the final months of World War I and in World War II. (...) | |
| 39 | Rouen Business School ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 146 Lat/Lng : 49.4633 / 1.0645 | The Rouen Business School was a leading French business school. Rouen Business School's quality is recognized by its "triple-crown" accreditations (AACSB, AMBA, EQUIS) and its Financial Times ranking 13th position best European Master in Management (...) | |
| 40 | Saku Brewery ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 44 Lat/Lng : 59.3014 / 24.6686 | Saku Brewery is an Estonian brewery and soft drinks company based in Saku. It was founded in 1820 by the local Baltic German landlord Graf Karl Friedrich von Rehbinder. (...) | |
| 41 | Instituto Camões ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 67 Lat/Lng : 38.7248 / -9.149 | The Instituto Camões (Camões Institute) is an institution created in 1992 for the worldwide promotion of the Portuguese language and culture. The Instituto Camões has administrative and patrimonial autonomy, that, under the supervision of the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs, assures the (...) | |
| 42 | École supérieure d'Informatique, réseaux et systèmes d'information ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 97 Lat/Lng : 49.0412 / 2.0291 | Ecole supérieure d'Informatique, réseaux et systèmes d'information (acronym ITIN) was a public higher education apprenticeship school in Cergy-Pontoise, France. The school was created in Cergy, France, in 1988 under the signature of René Monory, French Minister of Education (...) | |
| 43 | ESET Technical School of Engineering ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 43 Lat/Lng : 39.55 / -0.4 | The ESET Technical School of Engineering (acronym by which the Escuela Superior de Enseñanzas Técnicas - (E.S.E.T.) in Spanish) is the school of engineering of the CEU Cardinal Herrera University, located in Alfara del Patriarca (Valencia), Spain (...) | |
| 44 | Estonian Business School ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 24 Lat/Lng : 59.4322 / 24.7567 | Estonian Business School is a private, higher-education institution situated in Tallinn, Estonia. EBS offers business-related higher education in bachelor-, master- and doctoral levels. Estonian Business School also has a high school part, named EBS Gümnaasium which offers high school education from (...) | |