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Peter Buck's House
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The guitarist and co-founder, along with Bill Berry, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe, of the alternative rock band "R.E.M.", lives here. He is the oldest member of the band. A former home of his is also featured on this site.

Robert Vaughn's House
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The actor noted for stage, film and television work lives here. He is perhaps best known as suave spy Napoleon Solo in the popular 1960s TV series "The Man from U.N.C.L.E". and his villainous performance as Ross Webster in "Superman III", and more recently the hit British drama, "Hustle", while continuing to be a popular television actor.

Edward Liddy's house
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The former chairman and former chief executive officer, of The Allstate Corp and current member of the Board at 3m lives here.

Jon Iwata's house
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The Senior Vice President Communications of IBM lives here.

Bertis Downs' House
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The counselor and manager for the rock band "R.E.M.", taking over from the band's long-term manager Jefferson Holt, lives here. He is usually credited simply as the band's "advisor". The homes of the other members of R.E.M. are also featured on this site.

Nicholas Donofrio's house
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The Executive Vice President Innovation and Technology of IBM lives here.

Catherine Brune's house
The Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Allstate Insurance Company lives here.

Amy and Van Greenfield's house
Amy van Greenfield, a managing partner of Van Prooyen Greenfield Llp, a law firm that specializes in providing strategic communications counsel and her husband Van, founder of several investment and money management firms, including Blue River Capital Llc. live here.
Architect = Norman Jaffe, 1986

Rand Araskog's house
The U.S. businessman and an ex-CEO of ITT Corporation owns this house.

Brenda Strong's house
The American actress and yoga instructor, best known for her roles as Sue Ellen Mischke on Seinfeld and Mary Alice Young on Desperate Housewives lives here.

Palazzo Chigi
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The Palazzo Chigi is a palace or noble residence in Rome, overlooking the Piazza Colonna and the Corso. It was begun in 1562 by Giacomo della Porta and completed by Carlo Maderno in 1580 for the Aldobrandini family. In 1659 it was purchased by the Chigi family. It was then remodeled by Felice della Greca and Giovan Battista Contini. It has five floors, a broad stairway that leads to the living rooms, and a courtyard decorated with a fountain, designed by Giacomo della Porta. The fountain has been copied in many sites in Rome and other Italian cities.
In 1878 it became the residence of the Austria-Hungarian Ambassador to Italy. 1916 it was bought by the Italian state and it became the seat of the Minister for Colonial Affairs. Later it was the official residence of the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs. In 1961 it became the official meeting place of Council of Ministers whose President is the Italian Prime Minister.

James Hohmann's house
The President and Chief Executive Officer of Allstate Financial lives here.

Bevo Mill

Tripp Isenhour's house
The pro golfer lives here.

Temple of Hercules Victor
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The Temple of Hercules Victor or Hercules Olivarius is an ancient edifice located in the Forum Boarium in Rome. It is is a monopteros, a round temple of Greek 'peripteral' design (surrounded by colonnades on all sides). This layout caused many to mistake it for a temple of Vesta, but it has been determined to be a temple of Hercules. Hercules was a favorite divinity for traders, so it is appropriate that it would be in a forum.
Dating from about 120 BC, the temple is 14.8m in diameter and consists of a circular cella within a concentric ring of 20 x 10.66 m tall Corinthian columns resting on a tuff foundation. These elements supported an architrave and roof which have disappeared. The original wall of the cella and the columns remain but the current tile roof was added later. Palladio suggested a dome, though this was apparently erroneous. The temple is the earliest surviving marble building in Rome.
By 1132 the temple had been converted to a church, known as St. Stephen 'of the carriages'. Additional restorations (and a fresco over the altar) were made in 1475. A plaque in the floor was dedicated by Sixtus IV. In the 17th Century the church was renamed St. Mary 'of the Sun'.
This temple and the Temple of Vesta in Tivoli inspired the centralized churches of the Renaissance.
Despite (or perhaps due to) the Forum Boarium's role as the cattle-market for ancient Rome, the Temple of Hercules is the object of a folk tale claiming that neither flies nor dogs will enter the holy place.

Macuteo obelisk
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Originally one of a pair at the Temple of Ra in Heliopolis, the other being the now much shorter Matteiano. Moved to the Temple of Isis near Santa Maria sopra Minerva. Found in 1373 near San Macuto and erected east of Santa Maria in Aracoeli on the Capitoline. Moved to the front of the Pantheon by Pope Clement XI in 1711 over a fountain by Filippo Barigioni.
Height (with base) 6.34 m (14.52 m)

CASA 352 (Junkers Ju-52/3m)
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House of Nikolai Sutyagin
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Temple of Portunus
The Temple of Portunus was the main temple dedicated to the god Portunus in Rome. It is in the Ionic order and is still more familiar by its erroneous designation, the Temple of Fortuna Virilis ("manly fortune") given it by antiquaries. Located in the ancient Forum Boarium by the Tiber, during Antiquity the site overlooked the Port Tiberinus at a sharp bend in the river; from here, Portunus watched over cattle-barges as they entered the city from Ostia.
The temple was built ca 100 BC and restored in the first century BC. The rectangular building consists of a tetrastyle portico and cella, raised on high podium reached by a flight of steps, which it retains. Like the Maison Carrée in Nîmes, it has a pronaos portico of four Ionic columns across and two columns deep. The columns of the portico are free-standing, while the six columns on the long sides and the four columns at the rear are engaged along the walls of the cella. This form is sometimes called pseudoperipteral, as distinct from a true peripteral temple like the Parthenon entirely surrounded by free-standing columns. It is built of tuff and travertine with a stucco surface.
The temple owes its state of preservation from its being converted to use as a church in 872 and rededicated to Santa Maria Egyziaca (Saint Mary of Egypt). Its Ionic order has been much admired, drawn and engraved and copied since the 16th century (see illustration, right). The original coating of stucco over its tuff and travertine construction has been lost.

Polish War Memorial
The Polish War Memorial is a memorial erected to remember the contribution of airmen from Poland who helped the Allied cause during World War II.
It is situated beside the A40/A4180 roundabout junction near RAF Northolt between Ruislip and Northolt in the English county of Middlesex, in the London Borough of Hillingdon. The Polish War Memorial is often used by locals as a landmark when giving directions, as it is prominently situated by a major road junction on one of the main routes into London. Other Polish war memorials exist within the United Kingdom, including those at Invergordon, Scotland.
The Polish Air Forces in France and Great Britain supported the Allied powers during World War II. A group of Polish officers who remained in Britain after the war formed the Polish Air Force Association and decided to erect a memorial. A committee, led by Air Vice Marshal Izycki, raised the necessary funds mostly from British people, and the memorial was unveiled on 2 November 1948 by Lord Tedder, Chief of the Air Staff, after a speech by Viscount Portal of Hungerford in which he said that it was a sad blow that many Polish veterans were unable to return home, as their country had been occupied by the Soviet Union. He added that it would be to the mutual advantage of Britons and Poles that the latter were to make their home in Britain.
The memorial was designed by Mieczysław Lubelski, who had been interred in a concentration camp during the war. The memorial is made from Portland Stone with bronze lettering and a bronze eagle - the symbol of the Polish air force. The names of 1,243 Poles who died during the war were inscribed on the memorial, and a further 659 names added between 1994 and 1996, when the memorial was refurbished and rededicated.
Polish presidents Lech Wałęsa and Aleksander Kwaśniewski have both visited the war memorial to lay a wreath, in 1991 and 2004 respectively.

Palazzo Venezia
The Palazzo Venezia is the name for a large palazzo (palace) in central Rome, just north of the Capitoline Hill. Its name recalls that it once served as the embassy of the Republic of Venice.
Begun in 1455, the building was one of the first Renaissance buildings in Rome; although it was built around the medieval tower at the right of its facade. Much of its stone was quarried from the nearby Colosseum, a common practice in Rome until recent centuries. It was originally inhabited by the Venetian cardinal, Pietro Barbo, who later became Pope Paul II. He supposedly had it built on this location in order to view the horse races in the adjacent Via del Corso.
The building became a papal residence, and Pope Pius IV gave use of much the building to the Republic of Venice for use as its embassy. Throughout the nineteenth century, the building was the seat for the Austrian ambassador to the Vatican.
In 1917, Italy regained possession of the building, and it was restored. Mussolini had his office in the Sala del Mappamondo, and used a balcony in the palazzo for many of his most notable speeches to people gathered in the Piazza Venezia below.
The Museo del Palazzo di Venezia is within the building. It contains galleries of art, predominantly pottery, tapestry, statuary from the early Christian era up to early Renaissance.

Palazzo Spada
The Palazzo Spada is a palace in Rome that houses a grand art collection, the Galleria Spada. The collection was originally assembled by Cardinal Bernardino Spada in the 17th century and added to by his grand-nephew Cardinal Fabrizio Spada (1643-1717), and by Virginio Spada (1596-1662). The palace is located in the rione Regola, at Piazza Capo di Ferro, 13, with a garden facing the Tiber, very close to the Palazzo Farnese.

Column of Phocas

St Pancras railway station
St Pancras railway station is a major railway station opened in 1868 and celebrated for its architecture. The station is situated in the St Pancras area of central London between the British Library and King's Cross station.

Lateran Obelisk
Tallest obelisk in Rome, and the largest standing ancient Egyptian obelisk in the world, weighing over 230 tons. Originally from the temple of Amun in Karnak. Brought to Rome by Constantius II in 357 to decorate the spina of the Circus Maximus. Found in three pieces in 1587, restored approximately 4 m shorter by Pope Sixtus V, and erected near the Lateran Palace and basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano in 1588 in the place of the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, which was moved to the Capitoline Hill.
Height (with base)

Tottenham High Cross
Tottenham High Cross was erected in Tottenham sometime between 1600 - 1609 by Owen Wood, Dean of Armagh, on the site of a wooden wayside cross first mentioned in 1409, and marks what was the centre of Tottenham Village. There is some speculation that the first structure on the site was a Roman beacon or marker[citation needed], situated on a low summit on Ermine Street, which became the Tottenham High Road, as it is now known.
The high cross was constructed of plain brick, in an octagonal, four level design, which was later stuccoed and ornamented in the Gothic style in 1809.
Tottenham High Cross is often mistakenly thought to be an Eleanor cross, possibly because it is only a few miles south of one of the true Eleanor crosses at Waltham Cross.

Inflatable Giraffe

Tower Hill Memorial
The Tower Hill Memorial is a national war memorial on the south side of Trinity Square Gardens, just to the north of the Tower of London. It commemorates those from the Merchant Navy and fishing fleets who died during both world wars and have no known grave.
The World War I memorial takes the form of a vaulted corridor, 21.5 metres long, 7 metres wide and 7 to 10 metres high. Inside are 12 bronze plaques engraved with 12,000 names. It was opened by Queen Mary on 12 December 1928. The World War II memorial takes the form of a semi-circular sunken garden located behind the corridor, to its north. It contains the names of 24,000 British seamen and 50 Australian seamen, listed on the walls of the sunken garden. In the center of the garden is a pool of bronze, engraved with a compass pointing north. The WWI memorial was designed by Edwin Lutyens and the WWII memorial by Edward Maufe.
Between the two memorials are two columns with statues representing an officer (western column) and a seaman (eastern). This was designed by Charles Wheeler. The second part of the memorial was opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 5 November 1955.
The main inscription, located in between the two columns, reads
THE TWENTY-FOUR THOUSAND OF THE MERCHANT NAVY AND FISHING FLEETS WHOSE NAMES ARE HONOURED ON THE WALLS OF THIS GARDEN GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY AND HAVE NO GRAVE BUT THE SEA.

Perth Motorplex
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A drag strip and 500 meter clay oval track opened in 2000 at a cost of $20 million. Several classes of stock cars and sprint cars race on the oval track. Demo derbies and burnout contests are also held on the grounds. It was previously named Quit Motorplex until 2006.

North American AT-6/SNJ Texan & Lockheed T-33A
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North American AT-6
Type: two-seat advanced trainer
Crew: 2: Pilot, trainee
Armament: none (though some foriegn versions were
armed for close air support roles.
Specifications:
Wing area: 253.7 sq. ft (23.57 sq. m)
Empty Weight: 4158 lbs (1886 kg)
Takeoff Weight: 5300 lbs (2404 kg) maximum
Propulsion:
No. of Engines: 1
Powerplant: Pratt & Whitney R-1340-AN-1 Wasp
Horsepower: 550 hp
Performance:
Range: 750 miles (1207 km)
Cruise Speed: 170 mph (274 km/hr)
Max Speed: 205 mph (330 km/hr)
Specifications (T-33A)
General characteristics
Crew: Two
Length: 37 ft 9 in (11.2 m)
Wingspan: 38 ft 10.5 in (11.5 m)
Height: 11 ft 8 in (3.3 m)
Empty weight: 8,300 lb (3,775 kg)
Max takeoff weight: 15,100 lb (6,865 kg)
Powerplant: 1× Allison J33-A-35 centrifugal compressor turbojet, 5,400 lbf (23 kN)
Performance
Maximum speed: 600 mph (970 km/h)
Range: 1,275 miles ferry (2,050 km)
Service ceiling 48,000 ft (14,600 m)

ATR ATR-72-500 "Air Dolomiti"
Specifications (72-500)
General characteristics
Crew: 2
Capacity: 62-74 passengers
Wingspan: 27.050 m (88 ft 9 in)
Height: 7.650 m (25 ft 1 in)
Wing area: 61.00 m² (656.6 ft²)
Empty weight: 12,950 kg (28,550 lb)
Loaded weight: 22,970 kg (50,640 lb)
Useful load: 7,850 kg (17,306 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 22,800 kg (50,265 lb)
Powerplant: 2× Pratt & Whitney Canada PW127F 6 blade Hamilton Standard 568F, 1,846 kW (2,475 hp) each
Performance
Cruise speed: 511 km/h (276 knots, 318 mph)
Service ceiling 7,000 m (21,000 ft)

EADS/CASA C-212 "Patrullero"
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What a luck, a rare pic of a Sqd.401 C212 with a "Magnetic Anomaly Detector" on the tail.

Aircraft from the Italian Government
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Volga-Dnepr An-124-100
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The Criterion Theatre
The Criterion Theatre is a West End theatre situated on Piccadilly Circus .
Architect Thomas Verity
Owned by Criterion Theatre Trust (lease)
Capacity 588 on 3 levels
Type West End theatre
Opened 21 March 1874
Production The 39 Steps

'National Police Memorial' by Lord Norman Foster and Per Arnoldi
The National Police Memorial is a memorial in central London, commemorating about 4000 police officers killed in the course of their duties in the United Kingdom. It was designed by Lord Norman Foster and Per Arnoldi and unveiled in 2005.

Sallustiano obelisk
Above the Spanish Steps. An Aurelian copy, although smaller, of the Flaminio obelisk of Ramses II in the Piazza del Popolo, for the Gardens of Sallust. Found by the Ludovisi and moved to the Piazza di San Giovanni in Laterano in 1734, but kept horizontal. Erected in 1789 by Pope Pius VI.
Height (with base) 13.91 m (30.45 m)

Solare Obelisk
Originally from Heliopolis. Brought to Rome by Augustus in 10 BC with the Flaminio obelisk to form the gnomon of a sundial on the Campus Martius. Found in 16th century but reburied. Rediscovered and erected by Pope Pius VI in front of the Palazzo Montecitorio in 1792.
Height (with base) 21.79 m (33.97 m)

Quirinale obelisk
An Aurelian creation for the Mausoleum of Augustus, almost identical to the Esquiline obelisk. Found in 1527. Erected by Pope Pius VI in 1786 on the Quirinal Hill next to statues of the Dioscuri (called the 'Horse Tamers') from the Baths of Constantine.
Height (including base) 14.63 m (28.94 m)

Stridsvagn 103 (Strv 103)

Northrop T-38A Talon
Portugal - Air Force Northrop T-38A Talon
2605 Static Display on the 47th Anniversary of Portugal Air Force
General characteristics
Crew: 2: student and instructor
Wingspan: 25 ft 3 in (7.7 m)
Wing area: 170 ft² (16 m²)
Empty weight: 7,200 lb (3,270 kg)
Loaded weight: 11,820 lb (5,360 kg)
Max takeoff weight: 12,500 lb (5,670 kg)
Powerplant: 2× General Electric J85-5A (J85-5R after PMP modification) afterburning turbojets, 3,850 lbf (17.1 kN) each
Performance
Maximum speed: Mach 1.3 (858 mph, 1,381 km/h)
Service ceiling 50,000 ft (15,240 m)
Rate of climb: 33,600 ft/min (170.7 m/s)
Wing loading: 70 lb/ft² (340 kg/m²)
Thrust/weight: 0.65

Flaminio obelisk
Originally from Heliopolis. Brought to Rome by Augustus in 10 BC with the Solare obelisk and erected on the spina of the Circus Maximus. Found with the Lateranense obelisk in 1587 in two pieces and erected by Pope Sixtus V in 1589. Sculptures with lion fountains were added to the base in 1818.
Height (with base) 24 m (36.50 m)

'Turismo de Portugal' Logo

Boeing 747 (Atlas Air)

Nord N-2502A Noratlas
Portugal - Air Force
Crew: 4-5
Capacity: 45 soldiers, 36 paratroopers, 18 patients with medics, or cargo
Length: 72 ft 1 in (21.96 m)
Wingspan: 106 ft 8 in (32.5 m)
Height: 19 ft 8 in (6.0 m)
Wing area: 1089 ft² (101.2 m²)
Empty weight: 28,825 lb (13,075 kg)
Useful load: 18,647 lb (8,458 kg)
Max takeoff weight: 48,500 lb (22,000 kg)
Powerplant: 2× SNECMA-manufactured Bristol Hercules 738/739 radial engine, 2,040 hp (1,520 kW) each
Maximum speed: 251 mph (405 km/h) under full load
Cruise speed: 199 mph (320 km/h) at 1,500 meters
Service ceiling 23,300 ft (7,100 m)
Rate of climb: 1,080 ft/min (5.5 m/s)

Hawker Hurricane

Kamov Ka-32 "Helix-C"

Boeing-707/MRTT (Multi Role Tanker Transport)

Heading for Reykjavík
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Tupolev Tu-154 "Careless" (Polish Air Force)

Equestrian statue of William III
The statue of William III by John Michael Rysbrack, cast in 1733 and erected in 1736 to signify the city's loyalty. The Bronze statue is on a Portland ashlar pedestal with a moulded plinth and cornice. It has been designated by English Heritage as a grade I listed building.

Lockheed P-3P Orion
Portugal - Air Force Lockheed P-3P Orion
Crew: 11
Wingspan: 99 ft 8 in (30.4 m)
Wing area: 1300 ft² (120.8 m²)
Loaded weight: 135,000 lb (61,400 kg)
Powerplant: 4× Allison T56-A-14(T56-A-10 in P-3A) turboprop, 4,600 shp (3,700 kW) each
Propellers: Four-bladed Hamilton Standard propeller, 1 per engine
Propeller diameter: 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m)
Maximum speed: 405 kt (750 km/h)
Cruise speed: 330 kt (610 km/h)
Range: 5,600 miles ferry (9,000 km)
Rate of climb: 3,140 ft/min (16 m/s)
Wing loading: 107 lb/ft² (530 kg/m²)
Power/mass: 0.03 hp/lb (0.06 kW/kg)
Armament
Missiles: AGM-84 Harpoon, AGM-84E SLAM, the Standoff Land Attack Missile, AGM-65 Maverick
Sonobuoys: 48 Pre-loaded, 50+ Deployable from inside
Other: MK-46 and MK-50 torpedoes, mines, depth charges

North American F-86 "Sabre"

North American F-86F Sabre
Portugal - Air Force North American F-86F Sabre
Crew: 1
Length: 37 ft 1 in (11.4 m)
Height: 14 ft 1 in (4.5 m)
Wing area: 313.4 sq ft (29.11 m²)
Loaded weight: 15,198 lb (6,894 kg)
Powerplant: 1× General Electric J47-GE-27 turbojet, 5,910 lbf (maximum thrust at 7.950 rpm for five min) (26.3 kN)
Fuel provisions Internal fuel load: 437 gallons (1,650 l), Drop tanks: 2 x 200 gallons (756 l) JP-4 fuel
Basic mission wing loading: 58 lb/sq ft
Zero-lift drag coefficient: 0.0132
Drag area: 3.8 sq ft (0.35 m²)
Aspect ratio: 4.78
Maximum speed: 687 mph at sea level at 14,212 lb (6,447 kg) combat weight
Service ceiling 49,600 ft at combat weight (15,100 m)
Rate of climb: 8,100 ft/min at sea level (41 m/s)
Thrust/weight: 0.38
Stalling speed (power off): 124 mph (108 kt, 200 km/h)
Landing ground roll: 2,330 ft, (710 m)
Lift-to-drag ratio: 15.1
Time to altitude: 5.2 min (clean) to 30,000 ft (9,100 m)
Armament
Guns: 6 × 0.50 in (12.7 mm) machine guns (1,602 rounds)
Various bombs (2 x 1,000 lb, 450 kg bombs, standard load) e.g napalm canisters, air-to-ground rockets. Four pylons presents, but only two dedicated to ordnances, while the other two were for auxiliary tanks, total load up to 2,400 kg (900 kg bombs and 1,500 l fuel), included a nuclear tactical weapon.

Stridsvagn 104 (Centurion)

Reclining Buddha in Bago
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A newly constructed 75m-long reclining Buddha facing the famous 55m Shwethalyaung reclining Buddha, which is located about 300m to the north and covered with a roof. In the pagoda- and shrine-studded town of Bago east of Yangon.

Mahazedi Paya
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"The Great Stupa". Originally constructed in 1560, it was destroyed during war in 1757and again later by earthquake in 1930; the current reconstruction was completed in 1982.

Kyaikpun Paya
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Four 30m-high seated Buddha statues facing outward from a central square pillar. Built in 1476 under King Dhammazedi.