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Sightseeing placemarks that don't fit into any of the other sightseeing categories. |
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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 | 202 | 



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 | The northern Point of Africa |  | 07/19/2006 | 218 | 



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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 | 435 | 



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 | Law, Dundee is an area located in the centre of Dundee, Scotland. Its predominant feature is a large hill. |  | 07/18/2006 | 271 | 



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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 | 343 | 



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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 | 224 | 



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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 | 414 | 



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 | Town used for many western movies recently detroyed by wildfires. |  | 07/15/2006 | 185 | 
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 | the free auctionsite in the Netherlands |  | 07/09/2006 | 157 | 



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 | A man-shaped park |  | 07/08/2006 | 171 | 



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 | This ballon flyes 150 meters high and is used as a prospect platform. |  | 07/07/2006 | 239 | 



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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 | 278 | 



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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 | 248 | 



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 | A patriot missile battery in Kuwait. |  | 06/28/2006 | 614 | 



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 | near Dresden, Ger |  | 06/23/2006 | 337 | 



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 | Zero Mark Square / Praça do Marco Zero, in Recife, PE - Brazil. |  | 06/20/2006 | 150 | 



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 | Vilaweb is an Internet newspaper in Catalan language, probably the first and more visited one. It has one general edition placed in Barcelona (Catalonia) and an Internet TV space, but also it has 99 local editions mainly based on Catalan Countries but also in some other continents. |  | 06/16/2006 | 105 | 



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 | Circle near lasa airport. Probably for retain water.
Overlay description :
I take this picture 2 minutes before landind at Lasa airport the October 1 2003.
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 | This is a best known part of the great wall near badaling. |  | 06/15/2006 | 925 | 



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 | This is a Native American Tipi set up in a garden, in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. |  | 06/12/2006 | 250 | 



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 | Round??? no Square. |  | 06/12/2006 | 140 | 



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 | Every Monday a public market takes place in Zografou.
You can find everything: fruits, vegetables, fishes, cheap clothes. |  | 06/06/2006 | 270 | 



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 | This is the ranch where a giant pot bust happened September 12th, 2002. Estimated 3000 -5500 plants seized, planted in rows visible to the right of pool. Lower left corner is grape vineyard. Pot garden visible from neighboring public parkland (see trail), as was the DEA bust(who used chainsaws for the premature harvest)
"In the past six weeks, as the harvest approached, neighbors s... |  | 06/01/2006 | 528 | 



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 | Big circle near Atbara in Sudan.
Diameter 900m. |  | 05/30/2006 | 413 | 



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 | The most famous square in Athens, Greece |  | 05/30/2006 | 286 | 



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