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 | This is a very large coal burning power plant in eastern Kazakhstan, with what is reported to be the tallest chimney in the world (420m). There should be another station very similar nearby, called GRES-1, although I can't locate it myself. This power station is just north of the worlds largest open-cast coal mine, the Bogatyr mine. |  | 08/04/2005 | 409 | 



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 | This is the worlds largest open-cast coal mine, the long thin face is about 6 x 1/4 miles and the W shaped face is about 3 x 2 miles. To the north you can find GRES-2, a very large Coal burning powerplant and to the east of this mine you can see an incredibly long canal flowing south-east. |  | 08/04/2005 | 516 | 



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 | You can see the tree fire trucks from the local fire brigade south of the burning stable. |  | 03/07/2007 | 475 | 



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 | This is the fire station where Londons Burning was Filmed |  | 08/25/2005 | 226 | 



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 | History and Background
The plant is located on the Salem Harbor waterfront and was first opened in 1951, making it one of the oldest plants in Massachusetts. The facility was originally designed to produce electricity by burning coal. This changed in 1969 when the plant transformed the plant to facilitate the burning of oil as its' new primary source of fuel for electricity. This however... |  | 07/24/2008 | 834 | 
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 | Age: 100 years and counting (as of 2001)
Installed: First installed at the fire department hose cart house in 1901. Then moved to fire station at First and McLeod, then to its present site in 1976 at the fire station, 4550 East Ave., Livermore, California
Proof of Longevity: From local newspaper records; also GE engineers researched it. Was donated to the Fire Department... |  | 09/19/2005 | 331 | 



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 | Fire in Serbia near border. Probably some villagers burning the remains of dryed up corn or some other plant in their field. |  | 02/19/2008 | 287 | 



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 | A crop fire, most likely intentional, burning near the city of Minsk, capital of Belarus. |  | 01/17/2007 | 320 | 



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 | It is burning!!! |  | 06/17/2006 | 970 | 



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 | The Causey Arch is a bridge near Stanley in County Durham. It is the world’s oldest surviving railway bridge.
It was built in 1725-26 by architect Ralph Wood, funded by a conglomeration of coal-owners known as the "Grand Allies" (founded by Colonel Liddell and the Hon. Charles Montague). Two tracks crossed the Arch — one to take coal to the River Tyne, and the other for the retur... |  | 08/02/2007 | 322 | 



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 | The Burning Man festival looks to be taking place at the moment this satellite image was snapped. This overlay was inserted by GE in the last update, and is pretty sloppily placed over the old Burning Man location. |  | 08/22/2007 | 1,221 | 



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 | Centralia is a borough in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States. Its population has dwindled from over 1,000 residents in 1981 to 12 in 2005 and 9 in 2007, as a result of a 46-year-old mine fire burning beneath the borough. |  | 02/29/2008 | 1,096 | 



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