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Derek Jeter's House (former)
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The professional baseball player lived here part-time. He purchased the property in December of 2002 for $35,000 to build a house. He sold the home in March of 2011 for $900,000.

Chris Isaak's House
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The indie rock, pop and rock and roll singer, songwriter, and occasional actor owns this house. It's the middle of the three in the thumbnail image.

Engelbert Humperdinck's House
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The well-known British pop singer who rose to international fame during the 1960s, after adopting the name of the famous German opera composer as his own stage name, lives here.

James Earl Jones' House
The Emmy- and Tony Award-winning actor of film and stage well known for his deep baritone voice lives here.

Wynonna Judd's House (former)
The country music singer lived here until 2000. Her current residence as well as her mom's (Naomi) house and her sister's (Ashley) house are also mapped on this site.

Sean Elliott's House
The retired professional basketball player lives here.

Lee Iacocca's House
The industrialist, most commonly known for his revival of the Chrysler brand in the 1980's when he was the CEO, lives here.

Gunnar Peterson's House
The "personal trainer to the stars" lives here in Beverly Hills. He purchased the house in 2012 for almost $9.3M, following his divorce from his billionaire heiress ex-wife.
This house was previously owned by Jeffrey Katzenberg, the Dreamworks head honcho. He has now moved onto his much larger home nearby.

Michael G. Moye's House
The photographer, and a former television writer and producer, lives here. In his television career he has written for shows such as "The Jeffersons", "Diff'rent Strokes", "Good Times" and "227", and produced "It's Your Move" and "The Jeffersons". His best known work is likely the 1987 series "Married... with Children", created alongside Ron Leavitt for the fledgling Fox network (at the time).

Gary David Goldberg's House (former)
The prolific Emmy award-winning writer and creator of iconic TV shows such as "Family Ties" and "Spin City", sold this home in 2009.

Cecilienhof Palace
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Schloss Cecilienhof is in the Northern part of the New Gardens in Potsdam, close to the Jungfernsee lake. It was the last palace built by the Hohenzollern family. Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany built it for his son Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany and the crown prince's wife Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. The house was designed by Paul Schultze-Naumburg to look like an English Tudor country house and was built between 1914 and 1917. Its design was based on a house called 'Bidston Court' (later 'Hillbark') on the Wirral Peninsula. which in turn was inspired by Little Moreton Hall.
The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, from July 17 to August 2, 1945. The participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The three nations were represented by Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and later Clement Attlee, and President Harry S. Truman.
The palace was used for the G8 foreign ministers summit on May 30, 2007.

Largest Corn Maze in the World at Cagle's Dairy Farm
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There is lost, and, then, there is really lost. And you get your choice at the new cornfield maze complex opened by Cagle's Dairy earlier this month.
Cagle's, which has operated a 10-acre corn maze in northeast Cherokee County for seven years, now also has 56 acres of perplexing pathways near Calhoun.
Utah-based Brett Herbst, who has designed more than 1,200 corn mazes over the past decade, said he made some of the six mazes on the farm tougher than others.
One maze, when viewed from high above, pictures a sailing ship on the sea.
"That one is more difficult," said Mark Cagle, owner of the farms in Canton and Resaca.
The maze with the "Trail of Tears" theme is fairly easy, Cagle said.
Two of the mazes are reserved for haunted hayrides, he said.
The Resaca complex comprise the biggest corn maze in the world, said Herbst, who this year designed nearly 200 mazes, including one in Italy.
The mazes in Canton and Resaca are open Friday through Sunday through November. If you go on Friday or Saturday night, you might want to bring a flashlight.
While there are light towers providing some illumination, Cagle said, "it gets pretty dark around the edges."

Minuteman III ICBM
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The LGM-30 Minuteman is a United States nuclear missile, a land-based intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). As of 2007, it is the only land-based ICBM in service in the United States. It is complemented by the sea-launched Trident missile SLBM and by nuclear weapons carried by long-range strategic bombers; see current status of United States nuclear weapons.
The “L” indicates that the missile is silo-launched; the “G” indicates that it is designed to attack ground targets; the “M” indicates that it is a guided missile.
The name “Minuteman” comes from the Revolutionary War’s Minutemen. The Air Force planned to keep the missile in service until 2020, but it may be upgraded to stay in service until 2040.

Sule Pagoda
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is a pagoda located on a roundabout in downtown Yangon, Myanmar. Prior to land reclaimation, the pagoda lay on an island on the Hlaing River. During British occupation, downtown Yangon was restructured, with Sule Pagoda in its centre. - Wikipedia

Saarbrücken Castle
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In 999, Saarbrücken was documented as "Castellum Sarabrucca" for the first time. In The castle was destroyed several times but it was always rebuilt. In the 17th century it was rebuilt in the style of the Rennaissance, and later destroyed again so that today only the cellars of this construction remain. In the 18th century, Prince Wilhelm Heinrich of Nassau-Saarbrücken had his famous architect Friedrich Joachim Stengel build a new residence on the same site, but this time in the Baroque style. During the French Revolution, part of it was burnt down before it was transformed into middle-class flats in 1810. From 1982 to 1989 it was thoroughly renovated. Today, the central block is made of steel and glass.
The castle is now an administrative center and a venue for cultural events, conferences and festivities.

Panavia Tornado GR.4 in Flight
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Cloaking device or imaging error?
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Lockheed is working on the US Military's latest fighters at this plant. Perhaps they've also mastered cloaking in the latest add-on to stealth technology. Either that, or some guy did a poor job stitching these images together.

Stadio Atleti Azzurri
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Capacity: 26,200 seats

Trident sub launched ICBM
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The Trident missile, named after the trident, is a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) which is armed with nuclear warheads and is launched from SSBNs, nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines. Trident missiles are carried by fourteen active US Navy Ohio class submarines and, with British warheads, four Royal Navy Vanguard class submarines.

Fortress of Königstein
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Königstein Fortress (German: Festung Königstein), the "Saxon Bastille", is a famous historic mountaintop fortress near Dresden, in Saxon Switzerland, Germany, near the town of Königstein. The fortress, which for centuries was used as a state prison and which is still intact, is one of Saxony's foremost tourist attractions, with 700,000 visitors per year.
The first reference to a castle at Königstein is from 1241. At that time the region was split between the Kingdom of Bohemia and the Bishopric of Meissen. To delimit the boundary running between the two states, King Wenceslaus I established the castle which controlled the Elbe valley above Pirna.
A castle since the mid-13th century situated on a prominent isolated rock in the "Saxon Switzerland" region, it originally belonged to the Kings of Bohemia, passing in 1408 to the Dukes of Saxony. Between 1516 and 1524, it included a monastery (Celestines), but it always remained a stronghold and a fortress with its own garrison; the fortifications were always updated and enlarged to meet the latest requirements of arms technology.
Because Königstein Fortress was regarded as unconquerable, the Saxon monarchs retreated to it from Wittenberg and later Dresden during times of crisis and also deposited the state treasure and many works of art from the famous Zwinger here; it was also used as a country retreat due to its lovely surroundings. The Königstein also became the state prison until 1922 for the most important prisoners, such as:
*the Crypto-Calvinists, including Caspar Peucer
*Johann Friedrich Böttger, the inventor of European porcelain
*the Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin
*the founder of German social democracy, August Bebel
Königstein was never taken, not even during World War II. However, on April 17, 1942, French General Henri Giraud successfully escaped German captivity from the castle.
Because of Böttger, the Königstein Fortress is also a site of the invention of European porcelain. Böttger also built the "Great Königstein Cask" in 1725, the greatest wine barrel in the world (and larger than the one in Heidelberg), with a capacity of 238,000 litres.
In World War I the castle was used as a prisoner of war camp (Oflag) for French and Russian officers. In World War II it again served as an Oflag, called Oflag IV-B, for British, French, Polish and other Allied officers.

Starting Grid at Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari
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La Fura dels Baus theater company's ship 'Naumon'
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With props that look like giant crash-test dummies.

Santa Rosa County Veterans Memorial Plaza
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Dedicated November 11, 2004
This Memorial is dedicated to the veterans of the United States of America - America's heroes of centuries past and freedom's defenders of days to come.
Very good memorial to see with lots of historical dates and data.

Lost island of Atlantis

Augustusburg Palace
Augustusburg Palace, the Mecca of motorcycle and carriage fans, is one of the most important renaissance castles in Germany. The Palace, also known as the "Crown of the Ore Mountains, can be recognised from far away and is fascinating due to its monumentality and architectural beauty. On behalf of the Elector of Saxony August I, Hieronymus Lotter, who had also built the Former Leipzig Town Hall, erected the Palace between 1568 and 1572. Augustusburg Palace is arranged in a regular way and consists of four wings. Together with linking wings and a yard it forms a Greek cross. In spite of an eventful history and architectural changes within the last centuries it has been a popular destination for decades. First of all bikers enjoy Europe`s most extensive motorcycle museum.

F-16 Fighting Falcon in Flight
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Fabra Observatory
The Fabra Observatory (Catalan: Observatori Fabra, obs. code: 006) is an astronomical observatory in Barcelona, Catalonia, pointed towards the south at 415 m above sea level.
It was established in 1904 and belongs to the Royal Academy of Science and Arts of Barcelona (Catalan: Reial Acadèmia de Ciències i Arts de Barcelona). Its main activity is the study of asteroids and comets. It's the 4th oldest functioning observatory in the world.

Allstedt Castle and Citadel
Today's castle and grounds near Sangerhausen (southern Saxony-Anhalt) is an amalgam of constructions from the 15th to the 18th centuries atop the site of the old Allstedt Imperial Palace, visited by almost every German ruler from 935 to 1200. The oldest part of the Castle is the Kernburg, now a museum, whose main attraction is its late Gothic fortress kitchen with one of the largest chimney-pieces ever seen in European castle construction.
Reformer Thomas Müntzer gave his famous "Fürstenpredigt" sermon in the castle chapel.

Neuenburg Castle
Founded around 1080 by Ludwig der Springer, this was the largest of the Thuringian landgraves' castles; it was also associated with the life and work of St. Elisabeth of Thuringia. Later, during the Baroque period, the building was redeveloped as a residential palace and hunting lodge for the Saxon princes.

Seattle World Trade Center
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Fortress of Coburg
The art collections are located in three connected historical wings of the fortress:
"Steinerne Kemenate": the Luther memorial room, the Great Court Banqueting Hall dating from 1504, the Hunting Room with its marquetry dating from 1632, arts and handicrafts from the Middle Age and Early Modern Time - for example Pietà from 1360, Madonna of Bamberg from 1370, paintings by old German masters from the time of Dürer (some paintings belong to the Georg Schäfer Collection, Schweinfurt), including 26 paintings by Lucas Cranach.
Carl-Eduard-Building: an internationally important collection of old glass (Venetian glass, baroque glass), collections of porcelain, faience, tin and more; cabinet of copperplate works and study room: about 350.000 prints from 5.000 masters of old European schools dating from the 15th century till today. (Arrangements for special studies on request).
Herzoginbau ("Duchess's Building"): collection of historical weapons (military and hunting objects on display), ceremonial carriages (the oldest operative coach in Europe), tournament sleighs dating from the 16th of 18th century and modern ceramic pieces. Regular special exhibitions (Programmes available on the info-telephone line).

Scharfenstein Castle
Scharfenstein Castle, which is over 750 years old, hosts a unique collection called "Longing for the Light". For decades Johannes Martin has collected old evidence of local handicraft for this "Toy and Christmas Museum". Visitors can admire exhibits of traditional and modern folk art. Lots of the masterpieces can be touched, moved or even felt. Furthermore, guests can enjoy an exhibition dealing with the history of the Castle and Karl Stülpner, the local popular hero. "Zisterne", "Bergfried" and the exhibition room "Tonne" are also a must. Of course, it is possible to purchase local handicraft products or watch how these products being made. Why not stop at the "Burgschänke" restaurant or enjoy a wonderful view from the observation tower?