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 | This is a collection of satelite footprints showing coverage areas around the world |  | 03/15/2006 | 1,793 | 
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 | Overlaid map of the planned Anacostia riverfront baseball stadium. |  | 03/15/2006 | 192 |
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 | An overlay map of ancient Rome. |  | 03/15/2006 | 1,049 |
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 | In 1895 Wembley become home to London's own short lived, Eiffel Tower. During a trip to France in 1889, Sir Edward Watkin, Chairman of the Metropolitan Railway, became greatly impressed with the newly built Eiffel Tower, and wanted to build an even taller tower on land he owned in Wembley Park. Sir Watkin wanted Gustave Eiffel, the engineer behind the Eiffel Tower, to build the Wembley Tower, ... |  | 03/13/2006 | 306 |
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 | Apataki Atoll, an atoll in the Tuamotu Islands in the south Pacific, is approximately 370 kilometers northeast of the island of Tahiti, near 15°27' South, 146°19' West. The atoll was discovered in 1722 by a Dutch navigator, Jakob Roggeveen. It was later visited by Captain Cook in 1774. |  | 03/09/2006 | 266 |
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 | European Union overlay. Bulgaria and Romania included (they accede on 01.01.2007) | | 03/08/2006 | 598 |
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 | fort pampus amsterdam holland old fort fot protection of amsterdam | | 03/05/2006 | 652 |
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 | The Goseck circle consists of a circular Henge-construction with a diameter of 75m in the district of Weissenfels in Saxony-Anhalt. The reconstructed observatory was opened on the winter solstice, 21 December 2005, with great pageantry, including a spectacular fireworks display.
There are now two concentric wooden palisades, each 2.5 metres high, as well as a ditch and an earthen... | | 03/04/2006 | 504 |
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 | All the cities that have K-Life clubs! |  | 02/15/2006 | 126 |
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 | The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury Festival or Glasto was first held in 1970, and now is the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world. The festival is best known for its contemporary music, but also features dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and many other arts. In 2005, the enclosed area of the festival ... | | 02/13/2006 | 1,252 |
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 | The Triassic is a geologic period that extends from about 245 to 202 million years ago. As the first period of the Mesozoic Era, the Triassic follows the Permian and is followed by the Jurassic. Both the start and end of the Triassic are marked by major extinction events.
The characteristic sediments of the Triassic are red sandstones and evaporites, which suggest a warm dry climate. The... | | 02/07/2006 | 1,105 |
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 | The World's Largest Dam - located in Central China (Yangtze River)
It will be the largest hydroelectric dam in the world when completed in 2009. The reservoir began filling on June 1, 2003, and will occupy the present position of the scenic Three Gorges area, between the cities of Yichang, Hubei; and Fuling, Chongqing Municipality. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_gorges_dam | | 02/02/2006 | 1,335 |
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 | Watership Down is the title of Richard Adams's first and most successful novel, starring a group of rabbits and named after a hill in the north of Hampshire in England where Adams grew up.
It tells the story of a group of rebellious rabbits who — against the wishes of their Chief Rabbit — escape from their threatened warren, and of their subsequent adventures. They find sanctuary by buil... | | 01/30/2006 | 382 |
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 | Oxford Circus station opened on the Central London Railway in 1900, with the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway's platforms opening in 1906. The Victoria Line came much later in 1969. A tunnel for the Post Office Railway can also be seen on this plan. | | 01/29/2006 | 564 |
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 | Victoria Underground Station is one of the busiest on the network with passenger interchange to buses and mainline rail. The sub-surface Circle and District Lines opened in 1868. The deep level Victoria Line came much later in 1969. | | 01/28/2006 | 448 |
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 | Since September 2004 the official home of the Scottish Parliament has been a new Scottish Parliament Building, in the Holyrood area of Edinburgh, designed by Catalan architect Enric Miralles with a distinctive roof in the shape of an upturned boat. In 1997 it was estimated that a new building would cost £40 million, however costs spiraled and it ended up costing over 10 times as much at £431 m... | | 01/28/2006 | 304 |
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 | Bosnian explorer Semir Osmanagic is convinced he has found Europe's first pyramids which he says are a new world wonder dating back to ancient times.
The two pyramids are hidden in Visoko valley, Bosnia.
The explorer believes that builders from an unknown civilisation shaped the hill into a 'step pyramid' then coated it with a kind of primitive concrete.
The structure now... |  | 01/27/2006 | 1,260 |
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 | The Katsuura Tracking and Communication Station's facilities include four parabolic antennas, tracking and control building, electric building, and Nonozuka collimation building.
The Katsuura Tracking and Communication Station was established in Katsuura, Chiba, in February, 1968 as Katsuura radiowave tracking base of the Science and Technology Agency (STA) Space Development Headquarter... | | 01/25/2006 | 361 |
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 | Portsmouth Dockyard has been at the forefront of maritime technological developments since it was the site of the world's first dry dock in 1495.
That was followed in the 1690s by the first stone wet and dry docks which can still be seen today, one being the home to HMS Victory and another to Mary Rose. | | 01/25/2006 | 297 |
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 | Nautical map of the harbour at Torrevieja, Spain. | | 01/23/2006 | 1,202 |
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 | An overlay showing the harbour at Torrevieja, circa 1800 (ish).
This is the first time I've tried this, so I hope it works. | | 01/23/2006 | 736 |
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 | Aircraft production began on the Filton site in 1910, and continued with construction of aircraft such as the Bristol Brabazon, Bristol Britannia and famously Concorde. It now contains the UK headquarters of Airbus as well as the Rolls-Royce aircraft engine factory and BAE Systems. Also on site is the Concorde at Filton museum. | | 01/23/2006 | 372 |
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 | Blenheim Palace is the ancestral seat of the Duke of Marlborough and the birth place of Sir Winston Churchill. Not far away at St Martin's Church lies the grave of Sir Winston Churchill, who died in 1965 aged 90. | | 01/22/2006 | 438 |
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 | An overlay of an old (c. 1880s) map of beautiful Prospect Park in Brooklyn, New York. | | 01/22/2006 | 194 |
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 | Once known as the 'British Hollywood', Elstree and Borehamwood has played a significant role in the history of film making and television production. The original "Star Wars" trilogy was famously shot here, and one of the sound stages has been renamed "The George Lucas Stage". At the BBC Elstree studios are the sets for "Eastenders". | | 01/22/2006 | 826 |
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