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Locations of famous places in history |
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 | Site of the first McDonald's ever, located at 1398 N. E St., San Bernardino, CA |  | 08/05/2005 | 860 | 
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 | In the spring and summer of 1876 the United States Government launched a military campaign upon a portion of the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, who refused to live within the boundaries of the Great Sioux Reservation. They chose to continue their traditional nomadic way of life. The campaign was initiated when a Government ultimatum to return to the Great Sioux Reservation, in South Dakota, by Jan... | | 08/04/2005 | 687 |
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 | Pact of eternal mutual defence, thereby laying the foundation of the Swiss Confederation as it stands today. |  | 08/03/2005 | 201 |
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 | This site in Moscow, Maine was used to watch for Soviet missile attack during the Cold War. Abandoned almost as quickly as the Cold War. During its operational lifetime it provided cover to many marijuana farmers as surveillance helicopter flights were not allowed in the vicinity. |  | 08/03/2005 | 492 |
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 | Location of Philo Farnsworth's Green Street workshop in San Francisco, California, the spot where electronic television was invented. Original lab is gone but a nice memorial and plaque still remain.
From the Wikipedia: Farnsworth developed the vacuum tube television display, an idea he conceived at age 14 and developed at age 21. During a patent lawsuit against RCA his high school... | | 08/02/2005 | 168 |
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 | Former al-qaeda training camp outside of Jalalabad, Afghanistan | | 08/02/2005 | 579 |
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 | This is the workshop (or art studio) where Rembrandt van Rijn painted before he went to Amsterdam. | | 08/01/2005 | 171 |
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 | Crater left after the explosion of a large tank of ammonium nitrate. The explosion took place on September 21, 2001 (10 days after the World Trade Center terror attack) and left 31 victims. |  | 08/01/2005 | 653 |
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 | The place where Napoleon finally lost his last battle |  | 08/01/2005 | 532 |
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 | This is an old Nike missile site on an island in the Long Island Sound near New York City. The base is actually on what was once a potter's field, the largest in the NYC area. Over 1 million people were buried here by prisoners. The radar base for the missiles is located just to the north on Davids Island. |  | 07/31/2005 | 356 |
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 | This is the site of the old East Hanover, NJ Nike Missile Base. It is now gone, covered by condominiums. The streets in the center of the map are where there used to be a bunch of missile silos. If you look off Nike Drive, toward Hornung Road, these now-abandoned homes were once soldier's homes.
The Nike Missiles at this base had small nuclear warheads and were intended to prevent... | | 07/31/2005 | 515 |
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 | The place where 1066 Willem the concerer defeated and killed Harold Godwinson, the last Saxon King of England, and destroyed his army, opening England to the Norman conquest. |  | 07/31/2005 | 430 |
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 | Hot Spot in the cold war.
Point Alpha is located on the border between Hessen and Thuringia between Rasdorf and Geisa in the Rhoen Mountains. Located in the middle of nature-preserve Rhoen and other nature sanctuaries, this historic facility with its authentic buildings and grounds is a reminder of the partition of Germany and the horrors of the Cold War. The entire complex is a ... | | 07/30/2005 | 452 |
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 | The East West road is the route 9 from Thailand to Vietnam. From this viewpoint to the east it is just 40 km to the Vietnamese border, where the De-Militarized-Zone (17th paralell) was. The Ho-Chi-Minh trail started from North Vietnam into Laos, crossed the road #9 at Xepone and moved south on a network of paths through Laos and Cambodia into South Vietnam. This smalltown received more tons of ... | | 07/30/2005 | 710 |
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 | Former Wall checkpoint between separated West and East Berlin | | 07/22/2005 | 2,101 |
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 | This is the site of the toppling of Saddam Hussein's statue on 9 April 2003. The statue stood on the south end of the oval and is still visible in this image. The mosque with the blue dome on the southeast side is the 14th of Ramadan Mosque. The large building on the northwest corner of the square is the Palestine Hotel.
I updated the description of the placemark to include a ... | | 07/21/2005 | 2,037 |
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 | One of the best ports I ever visited and quite an interesting place peopled since Neolithic times.
St. Paul was ship wrecked on Malta. Later it became home to the Knights Hospitalers.
It has a history that dreams are made of...
(Just google Bogart and Malta)
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 | Some of locations involved in the Charlie Manson mass-murder case of 1969. | | 07/19/2005 | 1,604 |
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 | Location of Thomas Alva Edison's Laboratory and Factory in West Orange, NJ | | 07/18/2005 | 312 |
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 | This is the famous plaza where the assasination of JFK took place. The Texas School Book Depository and the grasy knoll are clearly visible. | | 07/18/2005 | 626 |
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 | The Tunguska event was an aerial explosion that occurred at 60°55′ N 101°57′ E, near the Podkamennaya (Stony) Tunguska River in what is now Evenkia, Siberia, at 7:17 AM on June 30, 1908. The size of the blast was later estimated to be between 10 and 15 megatons. It felled an estimated 60 million trees over 2,150 square kilometers. | | 07/14/2005 | 4,943 |
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 | The test of the first atomic explosion in history was conducted at the Jornada del Muerto trail (Journey of Death) at the Alamogordo Bombing Range in New Mexico. The device was called Gadget, the whole test operation was code-named TRINITY.
Gadget was a 150 cm sphere consisting of the basic explosive assembly described above with its dural shell, the firing electronics and equipm... | | 07/13/2005 | 1,501 |
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 | The Alamo in San Antonio, Texas | | 07/12/2005 | 1,448 |
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 | Site of the horrible terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001. | | 07/05/2005 | 4,567 |
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