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A-12 Blackbird
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RAF Enstone
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RAF Errol
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St. James' Park
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Home stadium of the Mighty Newcastle United Football Club. Who haven't won a single trophy since 1969. 37 years! Unlike, for example, Liverpool FC, who are current European champions.

Eckley Miners' Village
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From www.phmc.state.pa.us:
Eckley was founded in 1854 as a company owned and built anthracite-mining community and remained that way for 115 years. It included not only the mines and collieries but also the houses, churches, schools, hotel, and company store.
Eckley Miners' VillageThe entire village was owned by a series of coal companies during those years, and the houses were never sold to the occupants. As a result, very few changes were made to the surviving houses, and much of the original fabric of the houses has been retained.
It was for this reason Paramount Studios chose Eckley for on-site filming of the movie, The Molly Maguires. Paramount made some cosmetic restorations to the village, such as burying the power lines and building a reproduction breaker, company store, and mule barn.
At the end of the filming, the Greater Hazleton Chamber of Commerce saw the potential the village had and negotiated the purchase of the town. They formed the Anthracite Historic Site Museum, Inc., and three years later donated the property to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to be administered by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC). The village is part of the PHMC's Anthracite Museum Complex, which includes four museums in a 70-mile arc throughout the region. Each museum deals with the general history of the region from pre-history to the present.
In 1971, when the village became a museum, over 200 people still resided in the houses. These residents provided extensive oral historical information for the initial research on the Village. Today, only a few residents remain, but they, along with former residents, continue to provide information and insight that is useful in the museum's research, restoration projects, exhibits, and interpretive programming. Eckley today has a Visitor’s Center, which houses a number of exhibits on aspects of life in an anthracite community (including the work life of both men and women), education, religion, and recreation.

RAF Finningley
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Now Finningley/Doncaster airport.

Arcadia Volunteer Fire Company Demolition Derby Pit
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From www.washingtonpost.com:
The demolition derby somehow survives as if in a land before lawyers, in a world in which every thrill has not yet been hemmed in by worries about whether someone might get hurt or be offended. A signature on a waiver, a $40 entry fee, a quick inspection of your vehicle -- doors chained shut, all glass removed but for the windshield, drivers wearing helmets and seat belts -- and you're ready to aim thousands of pounds of steel at your fellow man.
It's always rush hour at the five demolition derbies sponsored each year by the volunteer fire department in Arcadia, Md., where amateurs with barely running junkers sign up for sessions of aggressive driving therapy.
We're in Arcadia, Md., an otherwise quiet hamlet on the northwestern edge of Baltimore County, about an 80-minute drive from Washington, and here at the base of a gentle hillside in a dirt pit filled with nearly 2,000 spectators, the volunteer fire company is staging one of five derbies it holds annually.
Your average county or state fair may offer a demolition derby, and the commercial version is a fine show, real-life bumper cars having at each other in front of a grandstand full of vicarious thrill-seekers. But in Arcadia, they cater to people who live, as the track announcer says, "derby-style." This is seven hours of action, from roundy-round races in which cars chase each other in circles around the short track to the big event, the smash-and-crash derby in which there is no pretense of a race, just a bunch of vehicles thrown into the pit slamming into each other until all but the winner are stuck in the mud, spinning wheels and getting whacked until the checkered flag flies.

Estadio Monumental
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Estadio de Colo Colo

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
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University of Illinois, home to the Big Ten champ Fighting Illini.

RAF Faldingworth

French Azilum
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From www.frenchazilum.com:
At a point about ten miles below Towanda, Pennsylvania, between Wysox and Wyalusing, the Susquehanna River arches into a great horseshoe bend, half encircling a terrace of land that slopes backward into the western hills. This fertile crescent of land was Azilum or Asylum. The Indians knew this place as Missicum - the "Meadows".
But to a little group of exiles who stepped ashore at this remote spot in late fall of the year 1793 it was a haven far removed from the dangers of revolution, imprisonment, slave insurrections and yellow fever. To them it was Azilum, a place of refuge.
Some of the refugees, because of their loyalty to the King of France, had left France to escape imprisonment or death at the hands of the French Revolution. Others had fled the French colony of Santo Domingo (Haiti) to escape the carnage of mulatto and slave uprisings inspired by the declaration of equality of the radical French Assembly. According to an unverified story, even Marie Antoinette, the Queen of France, and her two children were to settle here.
Several influential Philadelphians who were sympathetic to the exiles also saw in their plight an opportunity to profit financially. To this end, Stephen Girard, Robert Morris ans John Nicholson, Pennsylvania's comptroller general, abetted the purchase of a large tract of land in the northern wilderness of the State. 1600 acres were acquired, three hundred of which were laid out as a town plot with a two-acre market square, a gridiron pattern of broad streets and 413 lots of about one-half acre each. By the following spring about thirty rough log houses were built.
In time several small shops, a schoolhouse, a chapel and a theatre appeared around the market square; dairying and sheep raising were begun; orchards and gardens were planted; a gristmill, blacksmith shop and distillery were erected; and the manufacture of potash and pearlash was established.
Although the domestic structures were crude, many had chimneys, wallpaper, window glass, shutters and porches to satisfy the desire for beauty and comfort, and some of the little luxuries and extravagances brought with them from their native lands kept alive the memory of better days. The most imposing building in the colony was "La Grande Maison", a two-story log structure eighty-four feet long and sixty feet wide. It had numerous small-paned windows and eight large fire places, and it has been said, although not proven, that it was to be the dwelling of the Queen. It was the scene of many social gatherings and among its guests were Talleyrand and Louis Phillipe, who was later to become King.
The phantism of a quasi-aristocratic French court transplanted to a rustic sylvan environment, however, was to be of very short duration. Economic depression set in and money was hard to obtain. Morris and Nicholson went into bankruptcy, and the income which the colony received from French sources stopped. In the late 1790's many of the emigres drifted away to the southern cities of Charleston, Savannah and New Orleans, some returned to Santo Domingo. Napolean made it possible for exiles to return to France and many did. A few families, including the LaPortes, Homets, LeFevres, Brevosts and D'Autremonts remained in Pennsylvania and in later years their progeny helped to settle Wysox, Wyalusing, Athens, Towanda and other communities. Azilum itself soon passed into history.
Of the more than fifty structures erected by the refugees, not one remains. The four hundred-odd half-acre house and garden plots, so carefully planned and then abandoned, were absorbed into larger tracts of farmland and tilled for generations by later occupants.
The aura of serenity that pervaded French Azilum remains unchanged and the years have not obliterated all vestiges of the settlement. The millrace and millstones can still be seen at Homet's, traces of the old road that ran over the mountain toward Loyalsock are faintly discernible, and the spring that supplied the water for "La Grande Maison" still issues forth.

Starrucca Viaduct
From www.asce.org:
The Starrucca Viaduct of the Erie Railroad Company crosses Starrucca Creek between Lanesboro, and Susquehanna, Pennsylvania. It is the oldest and one of the longest railroad bridges in Pennsylvania. Its 18 slender, semicircular stone arches each span 50 feet and the structure rises 110 feet above the creek.
When built, it was believed to be the most expensive railroad bridge in the world, costing $320,000. Over 800 workers, paid $1 per day, completed the entire bridge in about a year. A half-million feet of cored and hewn timbers were used in the falsework, the temporary wooden framework for supporting the masonry arch rings until the keystones were placed.

Shopping City Süd
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Biggest shopping centre of Austria right besides the Motorway

Blaise castle
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Liverpool Anglican Cathedral
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The largest Anglican Cathedral in the world.

RAF USAAF Framlingham

Liverpool Cathedral (Paddy's Wigwam)
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Proper name is Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King. Which is a bit awkward. But then so was Christ the king. In a good way.
Designed by Frederick Gibberd in 1967.

Black-crowned night heron in flight
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RAF Eshott

RAF Evanton

RAF Elsham Wolds

RAF Filton

RAF Edgehill

RAF Elvington

Simon Fraser University Academic Quadrangle
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RAF Exeter

RAF Full Sutton

RAF Foulsham

Centre Pénitentiaire Maison d'arrêt des Femmes
The Central Penetentiary's facility for women.

RAF Fowlmere

Mersey Ferry
Made famous in the Gerry and the Pacemakers tune. If you're going to visit, bring a coat.

Centre Pénitentiaire Centre des Jeunes Détenus
The Central Penetentiary's facility for juveniles.

RAF USAAF Earles Colne

RAF USAAF Eye

RAF USAAF Fulbeck