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George Strait's Ranch House
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George Strait is an American country singer who is one of the most influential and popular recording artists of all time. He is known in the genre as a neo-traditionalist, wearing cowboy attire to most of his live shows, and his claim to fame is being one of the first artists to bring country music back to its roots from the pop country era in the 1980s dominated by artists including Reba McEntire and Garth Brooks. To the recording industry, he is known as the "King of Country" and has been elected into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Strait is the 12th highest-selling album recording artist in the United States overall, and alone has sold more than 100 million records worldwide. His albums, which include the classics "Strait Country," "Strait from the Heart," "Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind," "Ocean Front Property," and "If You Ain't Lovin' You Ain't Livin'" have gone multi-platinum 13 times, platinum 33 times, and gold 38 times. He has achieved more number one songs than any other artist, and has won a Grammy award for the album Troubadour.
George Strait began his career in a rock and roll garage band formed to capitalize off the popularity of the Beatles and the British Invasion sound, but after being exposed to singers Hank Thompson, Lefty Frizzell, Merle Haggard, George Jones, Bob Wills, and Hank Williams, he moved into playing country music full-time.
In 2012, George Strait announced that he would be retiring from touring, and arranged the Cowboy Rides Away Tour as one last hurrah. With a star-studded set of opening acts including Martina McBride, Jason Aldean, Eric Church, Sheryl Crow, Vince Gill, Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson, and Little Big Town, shows spanned through 2013 and 2014 and concluded in Arlington, Texas in front of over 104 thousand fans, setting the record for the largest gross revenue at a single-show country concert, over $18,000,000.
George Strait has a net worth of $300 million. His San Antonio house is also mapped on this site.

Site of the Ashtabula River Railroad bridge disaster
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The Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster (also called the Ashtabula Horror or the Ashtabula Bridge Disaster) was a train disaster caused by bridge failure. It was the worst rail accident in American history when it occurred in far northeastern Ohio on December 29, 1876, at 7:28 p.m.
One or perhaps two of the bridge designers later committed suicide. The disaster helped focus efforts to draw up standards for bridges including adequate testing and inspection.

Snoopy's House
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Snoopy is a fictional character in the long-running comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. He is Charlie Brown's pet beagle. Snoopy began his life in the strip as a fairly ordinary dog, but eventually evolved into perhaps the strip's most dynamic character — and among the most recognizable comic characters in the world. The original drawings of Snoopy were "slightly patterned" after Spike, one of Schulz's childhood dogs.

'Linked Hybrid' by Steven Holl
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AAFES truck in Rotterdam
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The Army & Air Force Exchange Service (or AAFES) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense. Its dual missions are to provide quality merchandise and services of necessity and convenience to authorized customers at uniform low prices, and to generate reasonable earnings to supplement appropriated funds for the support of United States Army and Air Force Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) programs. AAFES is headquartered in Dallas, Texas and is presently commanded by Major General Keith Lee Thurgood. The position of AAFES commander rotates between the Army and Air Force. The Navy operates the equivalent Navy Exchange (NEX), while the Marine Corps operates the Marine Corps Exchange (MCX) and the United States Coast Guard operates the Coast Guard Exchange (CGX).
Picture of a AAFES truck.
http://www4.picturepush.com/photo/a/2155772/640/2155772.jpg

'Het Oosten Pavilion' by Steven Holl
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Teapot Rock
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Teapot Rock is a distinctive rock formation in Natrona County, Wyoming that lent its name to a nearby oilfield that became notorious as the focus of a bribery scandal during the Presidential administration of Warren G. Harding, the Teapot Dome scandal. The rock is a sandstone formation about 25 miles (40 km) north of Casper. The outline of the rock once resembled a teapot and gave its name to the nearby geological formation that encompassed the Teapot Dome Oilfield. The Teapot Dome field was one of several such oilfields in the area, and was in 1915 designated Naval Petroleum Reserve Number Three as part of a program to ensure that the U.S. Navy, which was converting to oil-fired boilers at the time, would have sufficient fuel reserves in an emergency.
The Teapot Dome Scandal was an unprecedented bribery scandal and investigation during the White House administration of United States President Warren G. Harding.

W. Allen Morris' House
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W. Allen Morris is chairman and CEO of The Allen Morris Company, one of the largest developers and managers of office buildings in the State of Florida.

Monument to the victims of the Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster
The Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster (also called the Ashtabula Horror or the Ashtabula Bridge Disaster) was a train disaster caused by bridge failure. It was the worst rail accident in American history when it occurred in far northeastern Ohio on December 29, 1876, at 7:28 p.m.
Twenty years after the accident, in Ashtabula's Chestnut Grove Cemetery, a monument was erected to all those "unidentified" who perished in the Ashtabula Railroad disaster.

"Que Sera Sera" First Aircraft on the South Pole, R4D-5
"Que Sera Sera" (What will be will be) made History by becoming the first aircraft to land on the South Pole on October 31st 1956. The extended Nose and extra Antenna were used for Radar. The Jato (jet assisted-take off) bottles under the fuselage were used for taking off in deeper snow.

Gonâve Island
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Gonâve Island (French: Île de la Gonâve) is an island of Haiti located to the west-northwest of Port-au-Prince in the Gulf of Gonâve. It is the largest of the Hispaniolan satellite islands, situated off the mainland. The island is an arrondissement in the Ouest Department and includes the communes of Anse-à-Galets and Pointe-à-Raquette. Made up of mostly limestone, the reef-fringed island of Gonâve is 60 km (37 miles) long and 15 km (9 miles) wide and covers an area of 743 km² (287 sq. miles). The island is mostly barren and hilly with the highest point reaching 778 meters (2,552 ft). The island gets anywhere from 800 mm to 1600 mm of rain a year, higher areas representing the latter figure. Issues of overgrazing and water resource over-exploitation affect the island's approximately 100,000 residents. The island was once used as a base for pirates.
In 1925, U.S. Marine Corps Sergeant Faustin E. Wirkus (1897-1948) was proclaimed by the residents of the island as King Faustin II. His reign lasted until 1929, when he returned to the United States.

Ghost Cars
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Four ghost cars in parking lot at Manassas National Battlefield Park.

Tasman Bridge
The Tasman Bridge is a five-lane bridge crossing the Derwent River, near the CBD of Hobart, Tasmania. The bridge has a total length (including approaches) of 1,395 metres (4,576 ft). It provides the main traffic route from the CBD (on the western shore) to the eastern shore - particularly Hobart International Airport and Bellerive Oval. It has a pedestrian foot way on each side, but no dedicated lane for bicycles. However, steps to the pedestrian foot way have recently been replaced with on-ramps.

Kickers-stadion Am Dallenberg
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Fußball-Club Würzburger Kickers e.V.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kickers_W%C3%BCrzburg

Space Shuttle 1/8 scale model

Folsom Dam
Folsom Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the American River in Northern California, about 25 miles northeast of Sacramento. Folsom Dam is 340 feet (100 m) high concrete and 1,400 feet (430 m), long flanked by earthen wing dams. It was completed in 1955.
The dam, at the juncture of the north and south forks of the American River, was built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, and upon its completion, was transferred to the United States Bureau of Reclamation. The dam and lake are part of the Central Valley Project, a multipurpose project that provides flood control, hydroelectricity, drinking water and water for irrigation. Upgrades to provide increased flood protection for Sacramento are scheduled to be completed in 2015.

Institut Lumière museum
The Lumière brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas (19 October 1862, Besançon, France – 10 April 1954, Lyon) and Louis Jean (5 October 1864, Besançon, France – 6 June 1948, Bandol), were among the earliest filmmakers.
Since 1982, the Institut Lumière has had its home in the heart of Monplaisir, the historical area of Lyon where the Lumière brothers invented Cinématographe and where, in 1895, they shot the first film in the history of the cinema : "Sortie d'Usine".
Concurrently, a place of reminiscence and a film theater, the Institut is a genuine Living Museum of the Cinema. Films are screened, directors are invited, exhibitions are organized, young viewers are educated within these walls.
Its double vocation embodies heritage conservation – films, books, photos, posters, pre-cinematographic and cinematographic equipment – and publicity-related artistic activities – film screenings, exhibitions, publication, education and training.

Retractable roof open over a pool (Piscine Georges-Vallerey)

NAMC YS-11A-213
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAMC_YS-11

'Contemporary Jewish Museum' by Daniel Libeskind
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Kawasaki OH-6J (369HM)
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http://www.helis.com/database/cn/9359/

Folsom Prison Museum

Pedersen Alfelt Museum
Carl-Henning Pedersen
Else Alfelt

Small plane over Folsom Prison

Herning Museum of Art

Space Shuttle mural

Wormatia-Stadion
Verein für Rasensport Wormatia Worms e.V.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormatia_Worms

Cirque du Grand Celeste

Herning Sculpture Park
36 sculptures laid out in a circle

Wullenstadion Witten
Sportfreunde Siegen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportfreunde_Siegen

Grumman SHU-16B Albatross

Birds flying in a V

Sportzentrum Rüdinghausen an der Brunebeckstr

Rainbow smoke stack
At Wychwood Car Barns Park.

Boeing 707-330B

Water drop mural on smoke stacks by Fréderic Gracia

Singkep
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Singkep is an island in the Lingga Archipelago in Indonesia. Its area is 757 square kilometres (292 sq mi). It is separated from the east coast of Sumatra by the Berhala Strait. It is surrounded by islands P. Posik to the west, P. Serak to the SW, P. Lalang to the South, and P. Selayar of Riau Islands between Lingga and Singkep.

Little Andaman
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Little Andaman island (Onge: Gaubolambe) is the fourth largest of the Andaman Islands with an area of 739 km², lying at the southern end of the archipelago. It is separated from Rutland Island in Great Andaman by the Duncan Passage. It is home to the Onge tribe and has been a tribal reserve since 1957.
The lowlying island has widespread rainforest and several rare species of marine turtle. In the 1960s, the Government of India initiated a colonisation programme centred on forestry, but this was later largely abandoned and a court order in 2002 confirmed its protection.
Little Andaman is often considered the counterpart of the Great Andaman island group.

Candle Lake Airport (CCL2)

Canora Airport (CJR7)

Pferdebachstraße

Camsell Portage Airport (CJP6)

Canaipiscau Aerodrome (CCP6)