VirtualGlobetrotting: Maps Submitted On: 2009-10-29

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Dick Cheney's house
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Dick Cheney bought this house, named Ballintober, for $2.67 million and is just a few miles away from Donald Rumsfeld's "Mount Misery" home.

Duane Hagadone's House
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Publishing tycoon Duane Hagadone owns this 32,016 square feet $30-million-plus home.

Gwen Stefani’s House
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The American singer and fashion designer, owns this property in the fashionable Primrose Hill area.

Chris Carter's House
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The "X-Files" creator purchased this home in March of 2009 for $5.45M. Much of his other real estate holdings are also featured on this site.

Patricia Kluge's House
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The winemaker and philanthropist is offering her 300-acre English country estate for $100M, one of the most expensive listings in the U.S (October 2009).

Kyuchu Sanden (Three Palace Sanctuaries)
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'Girl in a Wetsuit' by Elek Imredy
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A life size bronze statue of a woman in a wetsuit, with flippers on her feet and her mask pushed up on her forehead, sits on a large intertidal boulder just offshore of Stanley Park. In September of 1968, Douglas Brown, a Vancouver lawyer, talked to sculptor Elek Imredy about his desire to commission a sculpture inspired by the famous Copenhagen mermaid, which could be sited on the great granite boulder just off the northern shore of Stanley Park. Imredy proposed a life-size bronze sculpture of a scuba diver. On Brown's initiative, the Vancouver Harbour Improvement Society was formed with the intention of financing and facilitating a unique landmark for both Vancouverites and visitors to the city. They raised the money to produce the sculpture privately and Imredy was commissioned to craft the proposed work. The Vancouver Park Board gave permission to the society to place the sculpture on the rock. Because the boulder was often covered at high tide, a precast concrete ring was created and the rock was lifted by a floating crane and set on the ring about 100 feet from its original location. Imredy first took a mold of the top surface of the rock. In his studio, he made a replica of the rock and modeled the figure in clay. The model was a young friend but Imredy didn't want to make a recognizable image. "When I couldn't get the model to hold her hand the way I wanted it... I held my left hand in front of a mirror, showing its opposite, and I modeled right one. Of course, I made it a bit nicer, with longer fingers." A plaster of paris mold was made from the clay figure and the sculpture was cast in fibreglass. This fibreglass figure was flown to Rome where it was cast in bronze at Giovanni and Angelo Nicci's foundry. On June 9th, 1972, the sculpture was set in place by an electric crane reaching out from shore to the rock 8o feet away and fastened to the stone with stainless steel bolts. The next day the sculpture was ceremoniously unveiled. "Girl in Wetsuit" has become a landmark for visitors to Stanley Park and to boats that enter the harbor.
Artist Statement:
"I didn't believe we should have a copy of the mermaid (in Copenhagen harbor). She is rightfully a symbol of Copenhagen... I proposed to have a life-size scuba diver seated there. At that time scuba diving was getting quite popular here in Vancouver and, just as important, I didn't know of any similar sculpture anywhere in the world. It was a new idea… There was tremendous opposition and great controversy. I still don't know why.." (quoted in The Sculpture of Elek Imredy by Terry Nobel (publisher, Vancouver, 1993) "The sculpture (is) a symbolic figure of the future exploration of the continental shelf." (information provided by the artist) "She represents Vancouver's dependence on the sea and the necessity to use the sea for the benefit of all." - Peggy Imredy

"Miss Angela" B-17 at Palm Springs Air Museum
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One of only 15 B-17s worldwide that are in flying condition.
"Miss Angela"
Bob Pond - Palm Springs Air Museum
Palm Springs, California
Website: http://www.palmspringsairmuseum.org
Here is a list and photos of all fifteen planes:
http://www.b17flyinglegend.com/survivors/

'Anchor' by Christel Fuoss-Moore
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Near the west end of the pedestrian path along Spanish Banks is a stylized anchor with one point digging into the earth. It metaphorically marks the spot where Spanish explorer Don Jose Maria Naraez dropped anchor in 1791. He was reportedly the first European to come into this harbour.
Fuoss-Moore says that, "The anchor is a symbol of safety and solid footing. Vancouver with its port is intimately related to this symbol both past, present and future." (City Shapes catalogue, May 1986) The anchor was produced as part of the City Shapes Sculpture Symposium in 1986 to celebrate Vancouver's centennial.

Hummer H1
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Am General Hummer H1

Steam clock
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A steam clock is a clock which is fully or partially powered by a steam engine. Only a few functioning steam clocks exist.

'Coopers Mews' by Alan Storey
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Taking it’s source elements from the railway and cooperage that used to inhabit the area in the early twentieth century, the art work starts with a galvanized steel track that runs overhead and wanders through the tall buildings between Pacific Boulevard and the False Creek seawall west of the Cambie Street bridge. Cement and wood planks are interspersed with grass to create a walkway underneath the overhead track. The planks are reminiscent of a winding keyboard. The overhead track ends at the False Creek side with a row of 5 wooden barrels lined up like on an assembly line. Below the barrels is a board walk of 12 segments. Stepping on each board distinctly will cause steam to be forced through the barrels and out one side, creating a sound like a calliope on which you can play a tune. The sound harkens back to other times in relation to the contemporary sounds of the city which surround the piece.

Rooftop Garden
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At St. Luke’s International Hospital

Cannon Bridge Roof Garden
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"Invader" B-26 (39359) Invader at Palm Springs
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'Omphalos' by Richard Beckman
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Grand Chamberlain's Residence
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'People's Place' by John Dehn‎
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'Knife Edge (Two Piece)' by Henry Moore

'Cenotaph' by G. L. T. Sharp
This granite concrete monument is a twentieth century war memorial.

World's Greatest Treehouse
90 feet & 11 stories tall.

'Sentinel I' by Jack Cartlidge‎
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Salute of a guard of honor at the Imperial Palace
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Roman Theater
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Theatre of Oiniades
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Beluga Whales
The Beluga or White Whale (Delphinapterus leucas) is an Arctic and sub-Arctic species of cetacean. It is one of two members of the family Monodontidae, along with the Narwhal. This marine mammal is commonly referred to simply as the Beluga or Sea Canary due to its high-pitched twitter. It is up to 5 m (15 ft) in length and an unmistakable all-white color with a distinctive protuberance on the head. From a conservation perspective, the Beluga is considered "near threatened" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature; however the sub-population from the Cook Inlet in Alaska is considered critically endangered and has been placed under the protection of the Endangered Species Act by the U.S. federal government.

'Mr. Red' by David Langley

Figurehead from the 'Empress of Japan'
A heritage monument, this is a fiberglass reproduction of the original figurehead which was installed in 1923 and is now in the Maritime Museum. It commemorates the Empress of Japan which sailed into Vancouver during 1891-1922.
The Empress of Japan sailed between Vancouver and the Orient between 1891 and 1922. The original figurehead was saved by the Vancouver Daily Province and presented to the Park Board in 1928. In 1960 the badly deteriorated original was replaced with a fiberglass original . The original is kept at the Vancouver Maritime Museum.

Brockton Point lighthouse

'Synergy' by Linda Howard

'Nobody's Listening' by Jack Cartlidge

'Wind Blown Mounds' by Lutz Haufschild

Theatre of Orchomenus

Chinese Joss House Museum
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'Lumberman's Arch'

'Applause' by David E. Davis‎

'Samurai' by Bruce White

'Encore' by Saul Howard

'Save the World'

Remember... well.. everything!

'untitled' by Jack Hambelton

Eğirdir Komando

'The Runners' by Jorge Blanco
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