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Sightseeing placemarks that don't fit into any of the other sightseeing categories. |
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 | At the mongolian border ther are 3 destroyed cities (Or factory).
Bad!!!!!!!!! |  | 08/06/2006 | 265 | 
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 | This is the border crossing between Nepal and Tibet. Halfway across the bridge, a painted red line makes for a photo opportunity. |  | 08/06/2006 | 214 |
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 | This sundial in san francisco shows exactly 12o'clock. |  | 08/05/2006 | 146 |
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 | I've found this camp in Taklamakan desert near a road.
It's probably for the search of oil.
| | 08/05/2006 | 170 |
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 | In nowhere this is a water reserve.
30x10m |  | 08/05/2006 | 142 |
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 | The Torugart Pass is a pass in the Tian Shan mountain range. Elevation: 3,752 m (12,310 ft).
The pass is the main border crossing between the People's Republic of China (Xinjiang province) and Kyrgyzstan. The nearest large Chinese city is Kashgar, the nearest Kyrgyz city is Naryn. The road on the Kyrgyz side, from Torugart to Naryn and then to Balykshy and Bishkek, is narrow and ... | | 08/05/2006 | 239 |
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 | Camden Lock London the famous markt | | 08/03/2006 | 112 |
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 | On south of Xincheng/Yinchuan (Ningxia), they are hundred Wind Mill. | | 08/01/2006 | 103 |
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 | This is the AM transmitter from Jülich,Germany. This transmitter broadcasts the DLF(Deutschlandfunk) and the WDR (West Deutscher Rundfunk) with 5KW Power. |  | 08/01/2006 | 172 |
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 | The Italian Public Television (R.A.I.) has in Milan one of the most important center, where many of the shows are made.
| | 07/27/2006 | 79 |
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 | It's clear that a huge amount of time and resources has been invested in this perplexing scale model, which incidentally represents an area of around 450 by 350 kilometers. The big question is:why?
| | 07/24/2006 | 472 |
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 | These 8 tanks can be seen at the Army Airfield in Erbenheim/Wiesbaden in Germany. | | 07/23/2006 | 381 |
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 | Cold water from here -(Zaghouan)- was taken by this aqueduct to Carthage over than 30 km. | | 07/19/2006 | 119 |
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 | The sunlight falls on one of the three windows in the column (east, south, west) and over light conductors on the wall is indicated. See the pictures inside the placemarker. |  | 07/19/2006 | 146 |
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 | The northern Point of Africa |  | 07/19/2006 | 137 |
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 | This is the Mask of Sorrows built on a hillside above the port of Magadan to commemorate the many lives lost during the Stalin era. Magadan was the port where many poltical prisoners were landed during Stalin's era. These prisoners were sent to work mainly in the labour camps in the gold mining area to the north. They first had to build the 'Road of Bones' - so called because so many people die... | | 07/18/2006 | 142 |
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 | Riverside, Iowa, is the future birthplace of Captain James T. Kirk of Star Trek fame. The town takes advantage of that little piece of fiction by holding a Trek Fest every year, complete with a not-quite-exact replica of the U.S.S. Enterprise. Riverside's starship is christened the U.S.S. Riverside.
http://www.cloudbow.com/journeys/1998vaca/trip98odd3.html | | 07/18/2006 | 200 |
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 | I found this crane in Mainz, germany. Use the measure-tool: the arm is more than 90 meters (245 feet) long. | | 07/17/2006 | 169 |
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 | This is the end of the line for the Iron Ore mined at Mt Whaleback, Newman Iron ore mine. You can see five ships in port ready to be loaded | | 07/15/2006 | 107 |
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 | Town used for many western movies recently detroyed by wildfires. | | 07/15/2006 | 145 |
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 | the free auctionsite in the Netherlands | | 07/09/2006 | 132 |
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 | This ballon flyes 150 meters high and is used as a prospect platform. | | 07/07/2006 | 186 |
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 | In days of old, shot for rifles was made in the "Shot Tower." Molten lead was dropped from the top of the tower into a vat of water at the bottom. The lead droplets, like raindrops, would form into perfect spheres, cool and solidify as they fell into the cooling water vat below.
http://www.baltimore.to/ShotTower/ | | 07/06/2006 | 172 |
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 | Apollo 13 was the third American manned lunar landing mission, part of the Apollo program. Two days after launch, the Apollo Spacecraft was crippled by an explosion, causing the Service Module portion of the Apollo Command/Service Module to lose its oxygen and electrical power. The crew used the Lunar Module as a lifeboat in space. The command module systems remained functional but were deactiv... | | 07/06/2006 | 400 |
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 | Barney Clark was a retired Seattle dentist who was the first recipient of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart. Clark was 61 years old and had heart disease. He donated himself for scientific experimentation. The operation was performed on December 1, 1982 by Dr. William C. DeVries at the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City. The transplant itself was successful, though Clark lived for ... | | 07/03/2006 | 136 |
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