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Locations of famous places in history |
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 | Costal defenses of Rio de Janeiro |  | 07/31/2005 | 532 | 
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 | Historic and modern coastal defense emplacements in and around San Francisco, CA. |  | 07/31/2005 | 293 |
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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 | 335 |
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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 | 476 |
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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 | 418 |
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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 | 440 |
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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 | 683 |
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 | Former Wall checkpoint between separated West and East Berlin | | 07/22/2005 | 2,085 |
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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 | 2,032 |
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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 | 1,572 |
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 | Location of Thomas Alva Edison's Laboratory and Factory in West Orange, NJ | | 07/18/2005 | 302 |
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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 | 608 |
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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 | 4,789 |
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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 | 1,472 |
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 | The Alamo in San Antonio, Texas | | 07/12/2005 | 1,435 |
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 | Site of the horrible terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001. | | 07/05/2005 | 4,517 |
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