VirtualGlobetrotting: Maps Submitted On: 2006-11-04

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Roosevelt Roads NAS
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Roosevelt Roads Naval Station is an inoperative, former United States military air base in the town of Ceiba, Puerto Rico.

Boldt Castle
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Boldt Castle, located on Heart Island (New York) in the Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence River, along the northern border of New York State, is the major landmark and tourist attraction of the region.
George Boldt, proprietor of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City and his family for several summers enjoyed an earlier frame cottage on Hart Island (the original name) which they greatly expanded. In 1900 the Boldts launched an ambitious construction campaign to build a huge masonry structure, one of the largest private homes in America. They engaged the architectural firm G. W. & W. D. Hewitt and hundreds of workers for a six-story "castle," a major international landmark. In addition four other masonry structures on the island are architecturally notable. Equally distinctive is a huge yacht house on a neighboring island where the Boldts had another summer home and a vast estate, incorporating farms, canals, a golf course, tennis courts, stables, and a polo field.

'Ne Mutlu Türküm Diyene'
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"Ne Mutlu Türküm Diyene"
(How happy is he who can say "I am a Turk")
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

'Persons in planes call 718-707-xx4x'
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The Ultimate Earth Mover
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Specifications:
~ The mover stands 311 feet tall and 705 feet long.
~ It weighs over 45,500 tons
~ Cost $100 million to build
~ Took 5 years to design and manufacture
~ 5 years to assemble.
~ Requires 5 people to operate it.
~ The Bucket Wheel is over 70 feet in diameter with 20 buckets, each of which can hold over 530 cubic feet of material.
~ A 6-foot man can stand up inside one of the buckets.
~ It moves on 12 crawlers (each is 12 feet wide, 8' high and 46 feet long). There are 8 crawlers in front and 4 in back. It has a maximum speed of 1 mile in 3 hours (1/3 mile/hour).
~ It can remove over 76,455 cubic meters each day. (100,000 large dump trucks at 40yds. each)

Trimaran from the movie Waterworld
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There were two trimaran's built for the movie. One is in San Diego and the other was until recently here in Orlando.

Mushroom house
Four round sections and a round deck. All on pedestals.

Carraizo Dam
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The dam forms the Loiza Lake (Lago Loiza) on the Río Grande de Loiza and serves as a water reservoir to the large metropolitan area of San Juan and adjacent towns. The lake is heavily poluted and is largely covered in parts with water hyacinth which over the years along with hillside runoff has reduced the capacity of the lake by raising the level of sedimentation. The dam was built in 1953.

Central Arecibo, Puerto Rico
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The Arecibo Electric Power Plant (Central Arecibo) is owned by the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) and has a capacity of 248MW. The plant is located on the coast of Arecibo, Puerto Rico and was built in 1997. The plant burns #2 Bunker Oil.

Giant Rattlesnake
This pedestrian bridge has been shaped into a giant rattlesnake, fangs and all.

Gospel Projects (World Tee-Ball Headquarters)
Gospel Projects, 6331 Chestnut St. in Milton, Florida. The birthplace and world headquarters of the sport of Tee-Ball Baseball, founded by local pastor Dr. Dayton Hobbs. Although Dr. Hobbs does not claim to have invented tee-ball, Gospel Project holds the Official US Trademank for the sport.

Banja Luka Airport (BNX / LQBK)
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'1986 World Champions'
Shea Stadium - The Mets

Large US Flag
On Shea Stadium.

'Baseball is for kids'

Helicopters at Banja Luka Air Force Base
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'Military Might' mural

Atlas and Titan Rockets
Situated next to the New York Hall of Science, the park’s collection of rockets is one of the few attractions remaining from the 1964-65 World’s Fair. The two main attractions are a Titan II-Gemini Rocket and an Atlas-Mercury Rocket.

Aircraft and Parts at Long Beach Airport
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Astroturf Maple Leaf on soccer field
The maple leaf is the logo for Corona Park.

Pepsi, 7up factory
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TH-57C Training Helicopter
This picture is of a TH-57C during a training landing at NOLF Pace (Navy Outlying Field), north of Pace, Florida. The craft belongs to the Helicopter Training Squadron EIGHTEEN (HT-18) from NAS Whiting Field, Milton, Florida. The squadron is also known as the Vigilant Eagles.

Auto driving event at Shea Stadium
Perhaps one of those test drive events put on by car dealers.

Piaggio P-136 Amphibian at Long Beach
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Punta Borinquen Lighthouse Ruins
Punta Borinquen Lighthouse was destroyed by a tsunami in 1918. The lighthouse is known to the locals as "Las Ruinas".
Year Built: 1889

Jet-like sculpture at New York Hall of Science

Las Cabezas de San Juan (PR) - Lighthouse
This lighthouse is located in the Las Cabezas de San Juan nature preserve on the northeastern part of the highest point of Cape San Juan in Fajardo, Puerto Rico. There is now a marine laboratory and a nature center at the lighthouse. The laboratory is operated by the College of Humacao of the University of Puerto Rico.
Tower Height: 45
Height of Focal Plane: 260
Description of Tower: White, cylindrical stone tower with black band around base.
Operational?: Yes
Other Buildings?: 1880 one-story stone keeper's house.
Date Established: 1880
Date Automated: 1975
Optics: 1880: Third Order Fresnel lens; now DCB-24.
Current Use: Active Aid to Navigation. Marine Laboratory.

Police Helicopter in flight at Long Beach Airport
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Arecibo Lighthouse
Loctation: Entrance of Port of Arecibo,about 35 miles west of San JUan on the north coast of Puerto Rico
Station Established: 1898
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1898
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1964
Foundation Materials: STONE
Construction Materials: STONE
Tower Shape: Hexagonal attached to rectangular building
Height: 46-feet, focal plane height = 120-feet
Markings/Pattern: White w/black lantern
Original Lens: Third Order, Fresnel 1898

Nipper, the RCA mascot
Statue of the famous dog Nipper on top of a former RCA building.

Memmingen Allgau Airport (EDJA)
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Dorint Hotelturm
At 167 m (548 ft), this is the tallest building in Augsburg

Classic Car Show at Long Beach

Car on a Smokestack
A red VW Beetle sits at the top of a tall brick smokestack in an old industrial section of Amsterdam. It's an old marketing gimmick for Dudka's Garage.

Sts. Ulrich & Afra Church

Police Helicopter in flight x2 at Long Beach Airport

Train station Augsburg

Caboose Motel
A motel consisting of a line of retired railroad cabooses.

Guanica Lighthouse
The Guanica Lighthouse is currently in ruins and the immediate area is fenced off but the walls and core to the light are still standing. The land is part of the Guánica Dry Forest.
- Year Light First Lit: 1893
- Is the Light Operational? NO
- Date Deactivated: 1950
- Construction Materials: BRICK & CEMENT BLOCKS
- Shape: OCTAGONAL W/OUT LANTERN
- Relationship to Other Structures: INTEGRAL
- Original Optic: SIXTH ORDER
- Year Original Lens Installed: 1893

Railway station of Zagreb

South Foreland Lighthouse
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Post center

Grob Strato 2C at Tussenhausen Airport