VirtualGlobetrotting: Maps Submitted On: 2009-04-09

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Akon's House
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The hip hop singer-songwriter, and record producer, owns this estate. He purchased the 10-bed, 9.5-bath, 14,994 sq ft home in February of 2007 for $2.685M, according to public records.

Alon Kaufman's House
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By: kenny1.
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Alon is the founder of HoMedics, the leading global manufacturer of home massage, relaxation, and wellness products.

Bob Kevoian's House
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The radio host of the nationally syndicated radio show "The Bob & Tom Show", owns this lake home. His main residence is also featured on this site.

Ramona Singer's house
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By: neotrix.
Ramona Singer, best known for her role in "The Real Housewives of New York City", owns this house.

Windows XP 'Bliss' Wallpaper photo location
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By: kjfitz.
This is the location where the Windows XP 'Bliss' wallpaper was taken in Sonoma, CA. It is probably one of the most viewed images in the world.

John Staluppi's house
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By: Champion3.
Staluppi is the founder of Millennium Super Yachts and a successful car dealer.

Loan Cosmescu's House
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By: kenny1.
Loan is the inventor of the laser used in lasik eye surgery as well as the owner of many patents.

Kenneth Kahn's house
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By: Champion3.
Kahn is the founder of LRP Publications, one of the nation’s foremost purveyors of information on human resources, workers compensation, education administration, law, and higher education. With offices in Florida, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, LRP publishes several magazines and over 120 newsletters, maintains education-based web sites, and offers a full spectrum of seminars, conferences, and symposiums on such topics as workers compensation and human resources technology.

Charles Barker's house
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By: Champion3.
Barker owns Charles Barker Automotive in Virginia Beach and dealerships in Florida.

Boeing Boardman Radar Cross Section range
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By: kjfitz.
Located in an isolated area west of Boardman, Oregon, the Boardman RCS range is owned and operated by Boeing. The facility consists of a radar array at the west end and a pylon for mounting test articles at the east end. The pylon can be covered by a large, moveable hangar, to protect sensitive test objects from view. When RCS testing is ongoing, the hangar slides out of the field of view of the radar sensors on a set of rails. The sliding shelter concept is similar to what was used at the former Grey Butte RCS test range.

GSG-9 Headquarters
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By: giove.
The GSG 9 der Bundespolizei (originally the German abbreviation of Grenzschutzgruppe 9 or Border Guard Group 9) is the elite counter-terrorism and special operations unit of the German Federal Police and is considered to be among the best of its kind in the world. Many nations have modelled their counter-terrorism units after the GSG 9.

GROM Headquarters
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By: giove.
GROM (In Polish: Grupa Reagowania Operacyjno-Manewrowego "Operational Mobile Reaction Group"; the acronym itself means "thunderbolt") is the primary special forces unit of the Polish Land Forces. It was officially activated on July 8, 1990. It can be and is deployed in a variety of special operations and unconventional warfare roles, including anti-terrorist actions and projection of power behind enemy lines.
The unit's full name, in Polish, is Wojskowa Formacja Specjalna GROM im. Cichociemnych Spadochroniarzy Armii Krajowej (Special Military Formation GROM of the Cichociemni parachutists of Armia Krajowa), although this title is purely formal and is rarely used. The acronym GROM is also related to the name of General Gromosław Czempiński, who, among other actions, managed to rescue a number of American CIA agents and personnel from Iraq prior to the onset of Operation Desert Storm in 1991. In Polish Army nomenclature, it is called JW 2305 (JW stands for Jednostka Wojskowa—Military Unit).

Submarine Magnetic Silencing facility
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By: kjfitz.
Degaussing is the process of decreasing or eliminating an unwanted magnetic field. It is named after Carl Friedrich Gauss, an early researcher in the field of magnetism. Due to magnetic hysteresis it is generally not possible to reduce a magnetic field completely to zero, so degaussing typically induces a very small "known" field referred to as bias.

Knole House
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By: neotrix.
Knole is an English stately home in the town of Sevenoaks in west Kent, surrounded by a 1,000-acre (4.0 km2) deer park. It is remarkable in England for the degree to which the early 17th-century appearance of its state rooms is preserved: the interiors of many houses of this period were altered later on. The surrounding deer park is also a remarkable survivor, having changed little over the past 400 years except for the loss of over 70% of its trees in the Great Storm of 1987.
The house was built by Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury, between 1456 and 1486, on the site of an earlier house belonging to James Fiennes, the Lord Say and Sele who was executed after the victory of Jack Cade's rebels at the Battle of Solefields.

MetLife blimp "Snoopy Two"
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Thorndon Hall
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By: neotrix.
Thorndon Hall is the former country seat of the Petre family.
The current house was originally designed by James Paine and construction started in 1764. The park was then landscaped between 1766 and 1772 by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown at a cost of £5,000, much of which still survives, albeit merged into the landscaping of Thorndon Park Golf Course.

Dolphins at the US Navy Marine Mammal Program (NMMP)
Everyone is familiar with security patrol dogs. You may even know that because of their exceptionally keen sense of smell, dogs like beagles are also used to detect drugs and bombs, or land mines. But a dog would not be effective in finding a sea mine. Sea mines are sophisticated, expensive weapons that are designed to work in the ocean where they can sink ships, destroy landing craft, and kill or injure personnel. Sea mines are made so that they cannot be set off easily by wave action or marine animals growing on or bumping into them. If undetected, sea mines can be deadly, destructive weapons. But just as the dog's keen sense of smell makes it ideal for detecting land mines, the U.S. Navy has found that the biological sonar of dolphins, called echolocation, makes them uniquely effective at locating sea mines so they can be avoided or removed. Other marine mammals like the California sea lion also have demonstrated the ability to mark and retrieve objects for the Navy in the ocean. In fact, marine mammals are so important to the Navy that there is an entire program dedicated to studying, training, and deploying them. It is appropriately called the Navy Marine Mammal Program (NMMP).

One Stop Cafe
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By: Parabellum.
One Stop Café is a locals' favorite stop for breakfast and lunch. With an entrée, choose from a large menu of such companions as turnip greens, cream corn, hash brown casserole, mac & cheese, and baked cinnamon apples. The menu lists twenty-four different side dishes! Service is cafeteria style. Tote your own tray.

Litton's Market and Restaurant
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By: Parabellum.
"The man sitting next to me ordered the chili dog. When it arrived we all stared at it for a minute, never having seen a chili dog quite this large. It gave a whole new definition to the term SMOTHERED! There is a hot dog somewhere in that chili. He managed to finish this, but it took awhile!"

L'Aquila Earthquake April 6, 2009 : San Bernardino church before bell tower collapse
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By: Effi.
Bell tower collapse :

Formoza training facility-Gdynia
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By: giove.
Formoza is the name of the Special Operations Sections (Formoza - Sekcje Działań Specjalnych Marynarki Wojennej) of the Special forces of Poland (by 2008 - of the Polish Navy), which used to operate under the name of Special Naval Frogman Group. The Formoza was founded in 1974. Its first commander was a retired certified commander, Józef Rembisz.

Frank Gehry inspired gas station

Ambulance
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By: Rene73.

Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster Retrieval Ships
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The two retrieval ships which perform the SRB recovery, the Liberty Star and Freedom Star, are unique vessels specifically designed and constructed for this task. Recovery Vessel (R/V) Freedom Star and R/V Liberty Star are owned by NASA.

Boeuf Bayou Vertical Lift Bridge
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"Red Buoyant II" by Mary Ann E. Mears
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Elliston Place Soda Shop
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By: Parabellum.
A soda shop and meat-and-three lunch room, Elliston Place serves a full Southern repertoire from country ham and biscuits to fried chicken and delightful lemon icebox pie.

Float Planes
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Washington Old Hall
Washington Old Hall is a manor house located in the Washington area of Tyne and Wear.
The manor was the ancestral home of the family of George Washington, the first President of the United States.

Sea Lions

Ridgewood Barbecue
Ridgewood’s pork is as good as it gets. Hickory-cooked hams are sliced and souped with a tangy, dark-red, slightly smoky sauce (available by the pint and quart near the cash register) and served as a platter, under a heap of terrific dark-gold French fries, or in a giant sandwich that spills out all sides of the bun.

Birds in flight

Pope's Cafe

Lenox Lounge

SH-60 Sea Hawk in flight

Kirby Muxloe Castle
It was begun in 1480 by William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings, during the period of the Wars of the Roses. However work stopped at the castle when he was executed in 1483 for treason by Richard III and it was never completed. It is now an English Heritage property.

Dixie Barbecue Company
Here is an eatery where you really, truly can have it your way. To complement sliced pork, pulled pork, inside white meat, outside dark meat, pork ribs, or sliced beef, or smoked chicken, your waitress will present you with a choice of sauces: East Tennessee Red, North Carolina Vinegar, Devil’s Dew, South Carolina Gold, Alabama White, Texas/Oklahoma Style, Richard Petty brand, Maurice’s Gourmet Sauce, and Sauce from Hell.

Bolton's Spicy Chicken & Fish
The fact is that if you don't like really hot food, Bolton's chicken might indeed be reason for a melt-down, especially if you ask for it hot. What's great about it, for those who do like ferocious food, is that the heat is deep in the meat, right down to the bone itself. It is much more spicy than it is salty, making each bite a taste-buds adventure.

Taking a picture of the Google car (Flickr User |||LowLight|||)
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By: Rene73.

Circulatory Collapse?
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By: Rene73.

Doumar's Cones and Barbecue
Doumar’s of Norfolk is marked by a sign with two big ice cream cones on either side, a reminder that Abe Doumar, the founder, invented the ice cream cone. You can still get your ice cream served in a freshly-made waffle cone, but before dessert, this is a great place to eat cheeseburgers and hot dogs, as well as peppery pork barbecue sandwiches, served with cole slaw inside the bun.

Fonte Avellana Hermitage
Fonte Avellana was a Roman Catholic hermitage in Serra Sant'Abbondio in the Marche in Italy. It was also the name of an order of hermits based at the hermitage. It was once presided over by Saint Peter Damian, and it was described by Dante in the Divine Comedy.

BMW e39 540i
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By: kuressaare.

US Navy SH-60 Sea Hawk taking off

Christmas tree

Big Ford truck
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Taking a picture of the Google car (Flickr User Nick_Newbury)

Tree Garden
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Police car
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By: alfjon.
In Netherlands.

Lighthouse Harbor Grill

Taking a Photo of Eagle's Deli