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1 | ![]() | Vancouver ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 52 Lat/Lng : 49.2611 / -123.1139 | Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2016 census recorded 631,486 people in the city, up from 603,502 in 2011 (...) |
2 | ![]() | Berlaymont building ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 70 Lat/Lng : 50.8436 / 4.3828 | The Berlaymont is an office building in Brussels, Belgium, that houses the headquarters of the European Commission, which is the executive of the European Union (EU). The structure is located at Schuman roundabout at Wetstraat 200 Rue de la Loi, in what is known as the "European Quarter" (...) |
3 | ![]() | USS Texas (BB-35) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 29.7564 / -95.0894 | USS Texas (BB-35), the second ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the U.S. state of Texas, is a . The ship was launched on 18 May 1912 and commissioned on 12 March 1914. Soon after her commissioning, Texas saw action in Mexican waters following the "Tampico Incident" and made numerous (...) |
4 | Siege of Galle (1640) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 6.0258 / 80.2175 | The Siege of the Portuguese fort Santa Cruz de Gale at Galle in 1640, took place during the Dutch–Portuguese and Sinhalese–Portuguese Wars. The Galle fort commanded 282 villages, which contained most fertile cinnamon lands in southern Sri LankaS.G. Perera p 116 (...) | |