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Sightseeing placemarks that don't fit into any of the other sightseeing categories. |
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 | On the west coast of Australia, neat Perth, in the city of Kwinana. Itīs the first large-scale seawater desalination plant of Australia and the biggest of the south part of the earth.
For or against the desalination plants? at least, all the energy necesary to produce that potable water come officially from a windmill fram. So, itīs actually, the most ecologic in the world.
By the... |  | 12/20/2008 | 105 | 
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 | The ashkelon desalination plant is the biggest actualy existing in the world. Able to produice 320 000m3 per day of potable domestic water, this is the first of five "mega" desalination plants proyected in the country.
Using the reverse osmosis tecnology, it is actualy the best way for a very good quality water and the cheapest, as well. 20% of the potable water production is o... | | 12/17/2008 | 307 |
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 | This is the exact geographic center of California, coordinates provided by California's Gold episode #608, "Center of California", and also verified by the United States Geological Survey (in the episode) in the following Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Fork,_California | | 12/15/2008 | 540 |
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 | Iowa 80 is the world's largest truckstop, located along Interstate 80 off exit 284 in Walcott, Iowa. Set on a 220-acre (89 ha) plot of land (four times larger than an average truckstop and 2.5 times larger than Disneyland) -- 75 acres (30 ha) of which are currently developed -- the site receives 5,000 visitors daily, and features a 67,000 sq ft (6,200 m2) main building, parking for 800 trucks, ... |  | 12/10/2008 | 727 |
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 | Crop circle found in hertford |  | 12/08/2008 | 677 |
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 | Flowers arranged in a pentagony shape. |  | 12/05/2008 | 149 |
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 | condensation trail cross over Porto Santo Island, | | 12/04/2008 | 252 |
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 | Locations from the zombie novel, Eve of the Dead by Nathan Tucker. |  | 11/29/2008 | 221 |
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 | a funny place-- really looks like C-3PO---famous character in Star Wars | | 11/25/2008 | 186 |
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 | water treatment plant in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine | | 11/21/2008 | 82 |
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 | a weird place in Georgia. Looks like some kind of military training facility. | | 11/14/2008 | 548 |
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 | a rare shape castle in Georgia |  | 11/14/2008 | 124 |
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 | Locations of Oil Rigs in the Santa Barbara Channel. Some locations do not show images in Google Earth, but locations are correct. | | 11/12/2008 | 387 |
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 | yurt near by runway--an interesting scene | | 10/30/2008 | 233 |
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 | what a wonderful shinning golden glare | | 10/28/2008 | 159 |
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 | French School in Riyadh | | 10/25/2008 | 98 |
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 | All about UK military forces: 1st Part: RAF,Navy,Marines, Army(Infantry,Artillery,Cavalry regiments, locations, with links & heraldry, ODB by arms including T.A | | 10/09/2008 | 2,497 |
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 | NOTE: This placemark is best viewed with the overlay from the following post loaded:
Post by McMaster_de
Another image from the aftermath of hurricane Ike was that of a single house that remained amidst the obvious devastation of everything around it. This is that house, and indeed if y... | | 09/19/2008 | 1,292 |
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 | The Knob Creek Gun Range is host to the semi-annual Machine Gun Shoot. This is one of the biggest events of this sort in the United States. It draws gun enthusiasts from all over to come and watch the firing line, rent a lane themselves, or just rent a little bit of time using someone else's gun. These guns cover a range of weapons from small machine pistols and sub-machine guns up through wate... | | 09/19/2008 | 412 |
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 | In my continuing curiosity about locations seen in often-used images and videos, I have found a house seen in many galleries on news sites. June Peveto painted a message for people trying to find out if she and her husband were ok, and this message did bring quite a bit of attention to them.
The house is easily visible, but in the NOAA net link file posted by McMaster_de the mess... | | 09/18/2008 | 513 |
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 | Bronze statue of Francois Mitterrand (1916-1996), opened in 1998 on the plaza bearing his name at the foot of the Lille-Europe station. A subscription was launched last year by the foundation Francois Mitterrand and Pierre Mauroy.
Sculptor: Francois Cacheux | | 09/14/2008 | 796 |
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 | I visited Japan back in 2000. This set of placemarks shows some pictures I took at three different locations.
TO SEE THE FULL IMAGE: Just click on the image in the Placemark.
Nijo-jo, a shogunate castle
Old Imperial Palace Gardens
Higashi Hongaji, which has changed dramatically since my visit. They have built an outer building around the largest build... | | 09/12/2008 | 291 |
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 | Streetlights on Highway near Lille in France. | | 09/04/2008 | 190 |
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 | Theres even two windmill layouts on the ground.. | | 08/29/2008 | 225 |
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 | Good place for fishing! | | 08/28/2008 | 159 |
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