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Sightseeing placemarks that don't fit into any of the other sightseeing categories. |
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 | The Hartebeesthoek space launch ground station is located along the Magaliesberg mountain range, approximately 70 km west of Pretoria, South Africa, and provides world-class telemetry, tracking and command (TT&C) services. |  | 06/15/2006 | 129 | 



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 | Round??? no Square. |  | 06/12/2006 | 79 | 



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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 | 199 | 



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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 | 411 | 



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 | Big circle near Atbara in Sudan.
Diameter 900m. |  | 05/30/2006 | 290 | 



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 | The most famous square in Athens, Greece |  | 05/30/2006 | 207 | 



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 | Shows outbreak cases throughout he world in both animals and humans. |  | 05/27/2006 | 265 | 



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 | Plataforma Solar de Almería is a solar-thermic testing and demonstration center which is operated jointly in the framework of a German-Spanish treaty by the Spanish Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Tecnológicas y Medioambientales (CIEMAT) and the German Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR). |  | 05/27/2006 | 282 | 



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 | A wine professional from Portugal by the name of António Rocha Graça has, although not yet finished, provided us with all the wine regions in California, Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Belgium, Canada and Australia. He has also marked at least two regions for every other wine-producing country. HThe placemarks are over vineyards belonging to a particular wine apellation. |  | 05/25/2006 | 423 | 



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 | A more or less giant dinosaur in a park near Basel, Switzerland. Went to play there a lot when I was a kid. You can see the actual shape of the thing by the shadow on the ground. |  | 05/23/2006 | 310 | 



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 | In the Fredenbaum Park in Dortmund, Germany, stands the biggest Indian tipi of the world. About 35 meters high, it was built for the EXPO 2000 in Hannover. http://www.bigtipi.dortmund.de/ |  | 05/23/2006 | 156 | 



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 | Kucova in Albania is known for the oil depositions. It has been exploited since before the WWII. There are several oil wells which now are oldfashioned. |  | 05/20/2006 | 150 | 



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 | Water pumps on the Rio de la Plata (River Plate)
Purification plant
Old waterworks building (now a museum and one of the
most beautiful buildings in the city. Unfortunately
the viwe from GE is not so good.)
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 | A bar in Tinos, one of the best in the town |  | 05/20/2006 | 82 | 



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 | Ploshtad Vuzrazhdane (Renaissance Square) - a famous square in Sofia, Bulgaria |  | 05/18/2006 | 103 | 



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 | locations of operating Hydroelectric and Geothermal Plants in the Philippines |  | 05/15/2006 | 654 | 



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 | What is that? Maybe storage buildings if a factory. |  | 05/15/2006 | 99 | 



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 | Some major conflicts from around the world |  | 05/15/2006 | 416 | 



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 | If you've ever seen Bowser, this cloud will remind you of this classical Nintendo villain. Picture (not mine) is added for assistance if you forgot what Bowser looks like. |  | 05/14/2006 | 122 | 



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 | Here we see yellow (regular), pink (mutated red), red (borderline in dispute), light blue (territories), and orange (cease fire line) border lines. |  | 05/13/2006 | 138 | 



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 | antennas near Chernobil |  | 05/13/2006 | 212 | 



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 | This location is on the M62 motorway in England. The story goes that the motorway was originally planned to pass directly through the farm house. The owner wasnt, shall we say, impressed at this and decided to fight it out. After many months of "discussion" no agreement was reached so the motorway planners built around the farmhouse. What you see on the placemark is the east and w... |  | 05/12/2006 | 399 | 



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 | I've seen pools filled with green soup but i'm not sure what this could be in this Hong Kong pool!! |  | 05/12/2006 | 72 | 



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 | Come on Rio get a grip! A 5 mile long oil slick from a refinery near the Duque de Caxias area of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |  | 05/11/2006 | 126 | 



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 | Great "real" viewpoint from the "Löwensteiner Berge" above the "Weinsberger Tal" |  | 05/11/2006 | 108 | 



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