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CFB Borden Airshow 2006

CFB Borden Airshow 2006

Celebrating the 90th anniversary of its establishment, Canadian Forces Base Borden hosted an Open House and air show that included a variety of military, ex-military and civilian aircraft. Opened in 1916, the base was part of the Royal Flying Corps' training organization in North America during the First World War and has maintained a strong 'air force' connection since, providing at one time o...
No rating yet04/29/2008265Google Earth Logo
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House demolished after renovating attempt

House demolished after renovating attempt

The owner of this hous in Aalborg, Denmark, began yesterday renovating his house he had let out.

He began with the basement by increasing the hight but forgot to support the house. The result was the house began yesterday evening to slide towards the road and the facade cracked.

This morning the house was demolished and all the household effects had to be left ins...
No rating yet03/20/2008349Google Earth Logo
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2008 Super 14 Rugby

2008 Super 14 Rugby

The Super 14 is the largest rugby union football club championship in the southern hemisphere, consisting of provincial teams from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The fourteen sides all compete against one another, with no divisional or pool system. Each team plays 13 games during the regular season which runs for fourteen weeks.
No rating yet03/17/2008614Google Earth Logo
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UEFA football EM 2008 in austria and switzerland

UEFA football EM 2008 in austria and switzerland

a general information (english and german)for the football europe championship 2008 in austria and switzerland:

TICKET SERVICE
STADIUMS - DATES OF MATCHES
TEAM ACCOMODATIONS AND TRAININGSCAMPS
FAN ZONES - PUBLIC VIEWING
FAN CAMPS
ACCOMODATIONS (only austria)

have much fun with planning your EM week
No rating yet02/24/2008445Google Earth Logo
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Arkansas Tornado Damage

Arkansas Tornado Damage

These are overlays of tornado damage in Arkansas caused on Feb. 5, 2008.
Rating of 502/18/2008812Google Earth Logo
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Blood Mountain Trail

Blood Mountain Trail

Where 24 year old Meredith Emerson and her dog went missing on January 1, 2008.
No rating yet01/03/2008623Google Earth Logo
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2007 California Wildfires

2007 California Wildfires

This collection contains a wide variety of data for the California wildfires of October/November 2007.
No rating yet12/21/2007235Google Earth Logo

Fans from the Netherlands during the World Football Cup 2006

Fans from the Netherlands during the World Football Cup 2006

You cann see the fans all over downtown Leipzig in their orange shirts.
There were fan parties at the Burgplatz and Augustusplatz.
Rating of 4.512/18/2007672Google Earth Logo
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Wallerawang firework plant exploded

Wallerawang firework plant exploded

A large explosion has ripped through a fireworks factory near the Australian city of Sydney, damaging nearby houses.
No injuries have been reported, but 10 homes have been evacuated in a one-kilometre exclusion zone around the Howard and Sons plant at Wallerawang.

The blast could have been caused by an intruder, a police spokesman said.

New Year's Eve fir...
No rating yet12/09/2007625Google Earth Logo
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Bundesgartenschau Gera-Ronneburg 2007

Bundesgartenschau Gera-Ronneburg 2007

The Bundesgartenschau (abbr. BUGA) is the biannual Federal horticulture show in Germany. It also covers topics like landscaping. Taking place in different cities, the location changes in a two-year cycle. The next BUGA is arranged by the two cities Gera and Ronneburg from April 27th to October 14th, 2007.

With a high budget, extensive landscape architectures and gardenings are re...
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Hackney Bus Garage, London. 11-12-07 destroyed by fire

Hackney Bus Garage, London. 11-12-07 destroyed by fire

On November 12th a big fire destroyed this hall at Hackney Bus Garage in Stratford. It's an industrial area east of London. The column of smoke was visible over many kilometres.
Hackney Bus Garage is located next to Olympia 2012 terrain and the recently opened Stratford Eurostar Terminal.
No rating yet11/15/2007496Google Earth Logo
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Jokela High School shootings

Jokela High School shootings

This is the high school in Jokela where a 18 year old student killed 8 people, the head master and 7 students, on november 7th. at 11:40 Finland time. Then he shot himself in the head and died later that evening.

He had made a video of himself and placed it on YouTube.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jokela_school_shooting
No rating yet11/08/2007922Google Earth Logo
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Fires Californina, October 24th 2007, Resolution 250m

Fires Californina, October 24th 2007, Resolution 250m

Source: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?AERONET_La_Jolla/2007297/AERONET_La_Jolla.2007297.aqua.250m.jpg
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Cannstatter Wasen in Stuttgart

Cannstatter Wasen in Stuttgart

The Cannstatter Wasen is the main event like the Oktoberfest in Munich and took place from sept 28th. to october 14th. 2007. Here you see the preparations for it.

You can see the beer tents, the ferris wheel and the roller coaster.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannstatter_Wasen
Rating of 410/24/2007348Google Earth Logo
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Fires California October 23rd, 2007Resolution 250m

Fires California October 23rd, 2007Resolution 250m

Cource of Overlay: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/AERONET_La_Jolla/2007296/AERONET_La_Jolla.2007296.terra.250m.jpg
Rating of 510/24/2007863Google Earth Logo
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San Diego Fires 10-22-07

San Diego Fires 10-22-07

NASA satellite shot overlay. Shows general fire locations surrounding Oxnard, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego.

Lower image opacity and zoom in to see if the fires are near anybody you know.
No rating yet10/23/20071,199Google Earth Logo
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1953 Railway Tunnel Collapse Disaster

1953 Railway Tunnel Collapse Disaster

The morning of Tuesday 25th April 1953 was dawning in Temple Drive when at 5.35am part of the roof of Clifton Hall Tunnel suddenly collapsed at a point below an old construction shaft. The sand filling the shaft poured into the tunnel, creating a chasm into which a pair of semi-detached houses Nos. 22 and 24 – were precipitated while the end wall of No. 26 also gave way. The accident tragically...
No rating yet10/05/2007588Google Earth Logo
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La Jolla Sinkhole

La Jolla Sinkhole

News Story from 10/4/07: sink hole appears in road in La Jolla, CA (near San Diego). Houses are evacuated.

File has links to CNN & Foxnews articles.
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Flooding in England, 1 August 2007

Flooding in England, 1 August 2007

June and July 2007 brought drenching rain and devastating floods to England. One of the hardest hit regions was Gloucestershire, in southwest England. The floods started in late June and continued throughout July.

Though water levels had receded, floods were still evident along the Severn River when the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) captur...
No rating yet08/29/2007263Google Earth Logo

Greece wildfires from 26 August 2007

Greece wildfires from 26 August 2007

The death toll from fierce forest fires in Greece has risen to 63, as dozens of fires continued today to burn out of control, officials said.

On Sunday, they continued to consume homes and threatened the ruins where the Olympic Games were first played. The government had warned that little progress was made on Sunday in putting out the 44 separate fires, which continued to rage ...
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Hells Angel gunned down on M40

Hells Angel gunned down on M40

A motorcyclist has been shot dead while riding along the M40 in Warwickshire.
The man died between junctions 13 and 12 on the southbound carriageway near Leamington Spa on Sunday afternoon.
It is thought the victim had attended the Bulldog Bash, billed as Europe's top biker party, held at Long Marston airfield near Stratford.

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Glasgow International Airport terror attack

Glasgow International Airport terror attack

On 30th June 2007, two muslim doctors tried to drive their jeep into the main entrance of Glasgow, which had they been successful would resulted in the deaths of Innocent people. One of the terrorists later died from his burns, the second is being detained. Some say that this was an act of treason against fellow citizens, the punishment for this act is death by firing squad as in WWI & WWII
Rating of 308/12/2007601Google Earth Logo
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Crandall Canyon Mine

Crandall Canyon Mine

Ten miners were in the middle of a 12-hour shift early Monday (Aug 6, 2007)morning when a mine shaft collapsed, trapping six of the men. The other four were able to escape and are now helping in rescue efforts. It's believed the six miners are trapped 1,500 feet underground, 2,000 feet from the nearest access and nearly 4 miles from where they entered the mine.
No rating yet08/08/20072,196Google Earth Logo
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Pirbright Laboratories

Pirbright Laboratories

News related KMZ file of Pirbright Laboratories from where Britain's latest foot & mouth outbreak may have originated
No rating yet08/07/2007212Google Earth Logo
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Foot and mouth disease farm in Surrey

Foot and mouth disease farm in Surrey

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6930684.stm
No rating yet08/04/2007708Google Earth Logo
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