VirtualGlobetrotting: Maps Submitted On: 2009-08-04

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Gerald Forsythe's House
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Gerald Forsythe is an American businessman and auto racing magnate.

Günther Jauch's House
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Gunther Juachs, national treasure of Germany, and one of Germany's most famous television hosts lives here in this beautiful yet classically sensible home in Potsdam.
Günther Johannes Jauch is a member of the Hamburg Jauch family, who made a name for himself as a television host. The TV star currently lives here in Potsdam, Brandenburg with his wife Thea Jauch and his four children. Jauch and Thea have two biological daughters, Svenja and Kristin. The couple later adopted two orphaned daughters in 1997 and 2000, named Katja and Masha. They live here happily.
Günther Jauch has won several awards for German television and owns the production company i&u TV. He is a philanthropist who has made large donations from money he has earned doing advertisements and promotional work, explaining his low net worth despite his birth and influence. He has also used his money to obtain and restore historical buildings in Potsdam where he lives. A costly but passion project for Juach. Jauch is perhaps best known as the host and producer of the German primetime television series Stern TV. He was named the most famous German in the world by Stern magazine in 2005.
After 18 years of common-law marriage, Jauch married Thea in 2006 without permitting the press to photograph the private wedding. A photo that circulated in the tabloid media was published by BILD against his wishes. The newspaper was fined €200,000 for the abuse of personal rights, as is German law. He married in the Orangerie at Schloss Sanssouci in Potsdam.
The lot facing south is also owned by Günther Jauch. Günther Jauch has a modest $40 Million net worth. Germany's most recognizable face, Mr. Juach has touched millions of lives over his impressive career. Well recognized, respected, and revered, Juach is one of Germany’s sweethearts.

B-2 bomber hangars
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Each B-2 requires a climate-controlled hangar large enough for its 172-foot (52 m) wingspan to protect the operational integrity of its sophisticated radar absorbent material and coatings.
These are portable B-2 hangers, that can be flown to distant bases, thus keeping the bombers in the air less, and reducing the amount of maintenance needed. B-2 quality hangers have been built at Guam, in the Pacific, and Diego Garcia in the Indian ocean

Hasso Plattner's house
neotrix (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: neotrix.
The cofounder of software giant SAP AG. Today he is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of SAP AG owns this house.
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This house is also known as "Churchill-Villa". Winston Churchill lived here in 1943 when the Potsdam Conference was held in Postdam.
'Haus Urbig' by Mies van der Rohe, 1914

B-1B Lancers at Diego Garcia
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The B-1 Lancer is a strategic bomber used by the United States Air Force. First envisioned in the 1960s as a supersonic bomber with sufficient range and payload to replace the B-52 Stratofortress, it developed primarily into a low-level penetrator with long range and supersonic speed capability. Its development was stopped and restarted multiple times over its history, as the theory of strategic balance changed from flexible response to mutually assured destruction and back again. It eventually entered service more than 20 years after first being studied.

Gerry Smith's House
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Gerry Smith is CEO of Office Depot. Smith purchased this home from H. Wayne Huizenga Jr. for $6.7M.

Queen Mary 2
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The RMS Queen Mary 2 is a Cunard Line ocean liner named after the earlier Cunard liner Queen Mary, which was in turn named after Mary of Teck, the Queen Consort of George V.
At the time of her construction in 2003 by the Chantiers de l'Atlantique, the Queen Mary 2 was the longest, widest and tallest passenger ship ever built, and at gross tonnage (GT) of 148,528 tons, was also the largest. She lost the gross tonnage distinction to Royal Caribbean International's 154,407 GT Freedom of the Seas in April 2006

Nadja Auermann's house
Former Top model Nadja Auermann owns this house.

Mathias Döpfner's house
Mathias Döpfner, CEO of the media group Axel Springer AG owns this house called "Villa Henkel". Since 2006 Döpfner has been an advisory board member at U.S. media group Time Warner. He is also on the advisory boards of German media conglomerate ProSiebenSat.1 Media and the Deutsche Presse-Agentur German press agency.
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http://www.potsdam-wiki.de/index.php/Villa_Henckel
http://www.pnn.de/potsdam/159006

Achmed al Shaik's house
The Villa Kampffmeyer which was build in 1924 is owned by the military attachéof the VEA Achmed al Shaik.
The former Swiss diplomat Thomas Borer-Fielding also owned th house.

Villa Quandt
The Villa Quandt is headquarter of th Theodor-Fontane-Archivs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Fontane
http://www.fontanearchiv.de

Wolfgang Joop's house (former)
The fashion designer Wolfgang Joop bought the house in 2005 for 2,1 Mio €. He sold the house later.

Stefan Seuss' House (former)
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Stefan Seuss is a managing partner of Seuss and Partners, which is an international team of highly qualified experts in global taxation and asset management. Choosing the S&P network guarantees its international clients state-of-the art support and advice around the world seven days a week.

Maze
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Sale Velodrome
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Diamond mine vehicle graveyard
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The mine owned by De Beers is reputed to have the largest private earth moving fleet in the world.
Once a machine has been used for diamond harvesting in the De beers mine, it won't leave the mine anymore, even after it's Obsolete. Machines of any types have been piling up in the graveyard since the 1900's. The reason seems to be that people could find diamonds trapped in those old machines.

Adcock Park Velodrome
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Outdoor, Asphalt, 460m

Barbados National Stadium Velodrome
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Outdoor, Concrete, 500m

Jerry Siegel's former house
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By: Dania.
Jerome "Jerry" Siegel (October 17, 1914 – January 28, 1996), who also used pseudonyms including Joe Carter, Jerry Ess, and Herbert S. Fine, was the American co-creator of Superman (along with Joe Shuster), the first of the great comic book superheroes and one of the most recognizable fictional characters of the 20th century.
http://www.supermansupersite.com/glenville.html

MS Explorer of the Seas
The MS Explorer of the Seas is one of five Voyager-class cruise ships from Royal Caribbean International. It can handle over 3100 guests, including scientists making use of a built-in atmospheric and oceanographic laboratory operated by the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. Voyager-class ships are the third largest passenger ships in the world, after Cunard's Queen Mary 2 and Royal Caribbean's own Freedom Class.

Marmorpalais - Marble Palace
Construction on the Marble Palace started in 1787 for Frederick Wilhelm II according to the plans of Carl von Gontard. The early classical design and furnishing of the interior, however, were only completed in 1845, long after the king died in 1797. The concert hall, the adjoining anteroom, and the oriental cabinet are among the more significant interior works of Carl Gotthard Langhans, who assumed the site management after Gontard. From the second floor, one has magnificent views of the Neuen Garten, the Heiligen See (the Holy Lake), and the Havel river landscape.

NEFTEGAZ-29 is a Offshore Supply/Tug and was built at Gadanska Lenina Shipyard,Gdansk,Poland in 1983 for Russia.

Nadja Uhl's house
The German actress owns this 80-rooms house.

SNCF regional trains
SNCF (Société Nationale des Chemins de fer français) (French National Railway) is a French public enterprise. Its functions include operation of rail services for passengers and freight, and maintenance and signalling of rail infrastructure owned by RFF (Réseau Ferré de France). It employs about 180,000 people. The rail network consists of about 32,000 km of route, of which 1,800 km is high-speed line and 14,500 km electrified. About 14,000 trains are operated daily.

Serdika Velodrome
Outdoor, Concrete/Epowit, 333m

Monster Truck driving over cars
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438 Tactical Helicopter 'Wildcats' Squadron patch
438 Squadron is a Total Force Air Reserve Squadron located at St. Hubert, Quebec.
Equipped with CH-146 Griffons , 438 Squadron supports the various militia elements in the region.
With a typical staffing level of over 60-percent reservists, 438 Squadron typifies the Total Force concept in which highly trained Reserve Forces are relied upon to augment regular CF units for international commitments and domestic operations.
438 Squadron had its roots as a fighter-bomber squadron during World War II. At that time, it flew Hurricanes and Typhoons. After the war, it was equipped with Vampires and Sabres , becoming 438 "City of Montreal" Squadron Reserve .
With unification, it took on the role of an Air Reserve Squadron based at CFB Montreal flying the CC-123 Otter and CH-136 Kiowa helicopter. In January 1996, the Kiowas were retired from service and that April the Squadron took delivery of its first CH-146

Ans-Alleur Velodrome
Outdoor, Asphalt, 400m

Alto Irpavi Velodrome
Outdoor, Concrete, 333m

Tug boat Theodore Too
Dania (VirtualGlobetrotting)
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Theodore Too is a large-scale imitation tugboat based on the fictional tugboat Theodore from the television show Theodore Tugboat.

Villa Schöningen
The Villa Schöningen is a residental building in Potsdam. By order of the king Frederick William IV of Prussia designed the architect Ludwig Persius the house in 1843. Since 1996 is the Villa Schöningen a part of the Berlin-Potsdam UNESCO-world heritage.
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Mathias Döpfner, CEO of the media group Axel Springer AG now owns Villa Schöningen. Since 2006 Döpfner has been an advisory board member at U.S. media group Time Warner. He is also on the advisory boards of German media conglomerate ProSiebenSat.1 Media and the Deutsche Presse-Agentur German press agency.
Döpfner restored the building over the last years. In November 2009 he will open a historical museum in the Villa Schönningen.

Grumman F-14 Tomcat
The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is a supersonic, twin-engine, two-seat, variable-sweep wing aircraft. The F-14 was the United States Navy's primary maritime air superiority fighter, fleet defense interceptor and tactical reconnaissance platform from 1974 to 2006. It later performed precision strike missions once it was integrated with the Low Altitude Navigation and Targeting Infrared for Night LANTIRN system. The F-14 was developed after the collapse of the F-111B project, and was the first of the American teen-series fighters which were designed incorporating the experience of air combat against MiGs during the Vietnam War.

Yerevan Velodrome
Outdoor, Concrete, 250m

Elewijt (Den Reggel) Velodrome
Outdoor, Asphalt, 377m

Griffith Park Velodrome

Unanderra Velodrome

Queanbeyan Velodrome

Tom Flood Sports Centre Velodrome

Toormina Velodrome

Canberra Space Dome & Observatory
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A unique astronomy complex is annexed to the Downer Club in suburban Dickson 4km from Canberra City Centre.

Wangaratta Velodrome

Dalgety Road Velodrome
Outdoor, Concrete , 333m

Castlemaine Velodrome

Chelsea Velodrome

Dutch Military Convoy
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Unpainted business jet

Air Canada landing in Montreal

The Belvedere on the Pfingstberg
Using his own plans, Frederick William IV had the Belvedere on the Pfingstberg constructed on account of its beautiful views. He received architectural stimulation for this building during his trip to Rome in 1828.
The construction of the Belvedere began in 1847. The two towers were created first, containing a Roman and a Moorish Gallery respectively, as well as the connecting northern gallery. This was followed by the first inner courtyard, enclosed by lateral arcades topped with colonnades. The second inner courtyard was intended to be framed by wing walls and crowning towers facing south.

KDT Circuit Velodrome

Lavington Velodrome

Oil rig under construction

Blue Lake Sports Park Velodrome

Canadian Vickers PBV-1A Canso
Canadian Vickers built version of the PBY-5A, 380 built including 150 to the Royal Canadian Air Force as the Canso-A and the rest to the USAAF as the OA-10A.

Kenrick Tucker Velodrome

Rosario Municipal Velodrome

Buried Roman City Altinum
The city used to be a thriving Roman City until it was sacked multiple times because of its exposed location. The remains of Altinum have been buried in some fields north of the Venice airport.
The foundations of the city have recently been rediscovered near Marco Polo Airport, seven miles north of Venice. They have been examined with a combination of visible and near-infrared photos of the area taken during a drought in 2007, when cropmarks in maize and soybean fields revealed the presence of brickwork and foundations beneath the plow zone. The traditional Roman grid plan, here with a canal that cut through the city, and the recognizable outlines of theaters and other public structures enabled Andrea Ninfo and colleagues from Padua University to make a detailed reconstruction of the city's topography and the network of canals and sluices that drained the marshy environment.

Horsham Velodrome

H. A. Smith Reserve Velodrome

'Hudson Bay' by Lyman Kipp
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By: pmoore66.
1968
at the Univ of Arizona Art Museum

Beijing South Railway Station
The current Beijing South Railway Station (Chinese: pinyin: Běijīng Nán Zhàn) is a new and massive railway station on the south side of Beijing that opened on August 1, 2008. The new station replaced the old Beijing South Station, also known as the Yongdingmen Railway Station before 1988, which stood 500 m away and operated from 1897 to 2006. The new Beijing South Station, reportedly the largest in Asia, joins the Beijing Railway Station and the Beijing West Railway Station as the third major passenger rail hub in the Chinese capital. It will serve as the terminus for high-speed trains to the city, including the Beijing–Tianjin Intercity Rail, which can reach speeds above 350 km/h.

Oostende Sport Park Velodrome

Casino Velodrome

Marty Busch Reserve Velodrome

Censored
This area of the airport is censored in BEV but not Bing. But the freight hub in the SW corner is censored in both BEV and Bing.

Oran Velodrome
Outdoor, concrete, 250m

Botanical Garden Park Velodrome

'Headicus' by Gregg Arnold
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By: mlc1us.
14-foot-tall pseudo-tiki sculpted of wood and stucco by Gregg Arnold

Shepparton Velodrome

Airliner on approach to Amsterdam

The Temple of Pomona
In the 18th century a large private vineyard was located on the southern slope of the Pfingstberg. During the course of beautification work in 1800, its owner, the privy councilor Carl Ludwig von Oesfeld, commissioned Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841) – who was only nineteen at that time – to create a new building as a “temple de Pomona” in honor of the goddess of fruit trees and gardens. It was intended as a present to Oesfeld’s wife.

Mariscal Park (Santa Cruz) Velodrome

Ernesto Contreras Provincial Velodrome

Walkerston Velodrome

Huge UN logo
On the grond ot the UN Enviromental Project (UNEP) HQ in Nairobi.

Mount Isa Velodrome

Velodrome of the Republic

Ste Jeanne d'Arc
Saint Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d'Arc; ca. 1412 – 30 May 1431) is a national heroine of France and a Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in eastern France, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, claiming divine guidance, and was indirectly responsible for the coronation of Charles VII. She was captured by the Burgundians, sold to the English, tried by an ecclesiastical court, and burned at the stake when she was nineteen years old. Twenty-four years later, on the initiative of Charles VII, who could not possibly afford being seen as having been brought to power with the aid of a condemned heretic, Pope Callixtus III reviewed the decision of the ecclesiastical court, found her innocent, and declared her a martyr.

Launceston Silverdome
Indoor, Wood, 286m

Antwerp (Ter Beke) Cycling Centre

Inverell Velodrome

McKittrick Park Velodrome

Small Hovercraft

Airliner departing Amsterdam

PEI International Motoring Festival
Set against the backdrop of the stunning waterfront in Historic Downtown Charlottetown, the PEI International Motoring Festival celebrates the best in North American and Foreign make automobiles ranging from heritage vehicles to exotic cars. Moreover, brands not usually seen on Prince Edward Island are displayed for the enjoyment of all.

Patrick Sercu Velodrome

Blackburn C.C. Velodrome

Narrabundah Capital Velodrome

Canterbury Velodrome

Julio Polet Panamerican Velodrome

Aircraft wing assemblies

Limestone Park Velodrome

Minas Gerais (Fernão Dias Pk) Velodrome

Lighthouse on the Green
The Fredericton Lighthouse is now a Museum. The museum still operates the light at night, but it is a redundant aid to navigation.

Brunswick Velodrome

Beer (lots of it)

Vicente Alejo Chancay Velodrome

Tres de Febrero Velodrome

Prince Edward Island Regiment HQ
The Prince Edward Island Regiment is a Reserve Force armoured reconnaissance regiment.

Roberto “Paco” Echegaray Velodrome
Outdoor, concrete, 333m

Rebecq Velodrome