VirtualGlobetrotting: Maps Submitted On: 2011-01-25

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Michael Bloomberg's compound
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The mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, owns this house and the surrounding equestrian estate.

Bad Girls Club Season 6
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Bad Girls Club 6 is the sixth season of the Oxygen reality television series, The Bad Girls Club. Located in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California, season 6's mansion was nearly two miles away from city owned streets.

Steven Tananbaum's House
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He is CEO of GoldenTree Asset Management.
GoldenTree has grown to an organization of 21 partners, 175 employees and over $11 billion of assets under management. Prior to forming GoldenTree, Mr. Tananbaum joined MacKay Shields as an investment specialist in 1989 and became head of their high yield group in 1991. In 1997, Mr. Tananbaum formed and was lead portfolio manager of the firm’s hedge fund area. MacKay Shields’ high yield mutual funds were rated in the top 5% by Lipper during the period June 1, 1991 through December 31, 1999. Prior to joining MacKay Shields, Mr. Tananbaum worked primarily on high yield and merger & acquisition transactions in the corporate finance department of Kidder, Peabody & Co. Mr. Tananbaum is a graduate of Vassar College (B.A. in Economics) and is a CFA charterholder. He serves as a Trustee of Vassar College, is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and sits on the Board of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
He also owns a condo in Palm Beach.

Bad Girls Club Season 5 (Miami)
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By: LoganLSE.
As to similar previous season's of The Bad Girls Club, the girls must live in a mansion that the producers has given them to stay for nearly three months. The girls must try to co-exist which each others different personalities and life.

Mansion in The Bridle Path
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The Bridle Path is an upscale residential neighbourhood in the former city of North York, now part of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that is characterized by large multi-million dollar mansions and two to four acre (8,000 to 16,000 m²) lot sizes. It is often referred to as "Millionaires' Row". It is the most affluent neighbourhood in Canada by household income, as well as property values.

Sunda Strait
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The Sunda Strait is the strait between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra. It connects the Java Sea to the Indian Ocean. The name comes from the Indonesian term Pasundan, meaning "West Java.
The Battle of Sunda Strait was a naval battle which occurred during World War II. On the night of February 28 – March 1, 1942, the Australian cruiser HMAS Perth and the United States cruiser USS Houston faced a major Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) task force. After a fierce battle of several hours duration, both Allied ships were sunk. Five Japanese ships were sunk by friendly fire, of which two were refloated.

Kevin Streelman's House
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Kevin Streelman is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour. This home was purchased on 11/30/2010 for $1,515,000: 6,040 sq. ft., built in 2006 with 5 bedrooms and 5.5 baths.

Basic Instinct's Cliffside Mansion
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St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
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St George's Chapel is the place of worship at Windsor Castle in England, United Kingdom. It is both a royal peculiar and the chapel of the Order of the Garter. The chapel is governed by the Dean and Canons of Windsor.
The chapel is located in the Lower Ward of the castle, which is one of the principal residences of Queen Elizabeth II.
The day to day running of the chapel is the responsibility of the religious College of St George, which is directed by a chapter of the dean and four canons, assisted by a clerk, virger (traditional spelling of verger) and other staffers. The Society of the Friends of St George's and Descendants of the Knights of the Garter, a registered charity, was established in 1931 to assist the College in maintaining the chapel.

Official NHL hockey puck factory
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By: milwhcky.
Soucy Baron produces the official hockey pucks used by the NHL, along with other pucks which do not meet the same standards. In one of only a few hockey puck factories in the world, they produce about 5 million pucks each year.
After production, the pucks are sent to the league's official supplier, InGlasCo in Sherbrooke, Quebec. InGlasCo stamps each puck with the necessary logos and distributes them to the individual teams.
Soucy Baron makes a wide variety of other molded rubber products, including gas masks for the US Army and engine mounts.

Fort Donelson
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Fort Donelson was a fortress built by the Confederacy during the American Civil War to control the Cumberland River leading to the heart of Tennessee, and the heart of the Confederacy.
It was garrisoned by the Confederacy until 1862 when Union General Ulysses S. Grant and his army captured it during a brutal winter offensive to cut the confederacy in two by controlling the Mississippi River. (see Battle of Fort Donelson)
The fort was attacked again on August 25, 1863 by a Confederate force demanding its surrender, but it was repulsed.
Bushrod Johnson men of the Corps of Engineers, approved the site. Construction was begun by a large force of men brought from the nearby Cumberland Iron Works.

John Lehman's House
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A wealthy investor is selling this house in 2011 for $7,950,000.

Jeff P. Gannon's House
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By: borlefborlef.
The former-CEO of Zenith Electronics and VU1 Corp. (a lighting company) lives here.

Jan Jorfald's House
The CEO of Helix International lives here.
The company is the world’s leading producer of spiral filter-core and filter-liner machines.

Campo de' Fiori
Campo dei Fiori is a rectangular piazza near Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy, on the border of rione Parione and rione Regola. Campo dei Fiori, translated literally from Italian, means "field of flowers." The name was first given during the Middle Ages when the area was actually a meadow.

Matagorda Bay
Matagorda Bay is a large estuary bay on the Texas coast.
The major Texas seaport of Port Lavaca is located on the system's northwestern extension of Lavaca Bay. The city of Palacios is found on northeastern extension of Tres Palacios Bay, and Port O'Connor is located on the southwestern tip of the main bay's shore. The ghost town of Indianola, which was a major port before it was destroyed by two hurricanes in the late 19th Century, is also found on the bay.

Site of the Buffalo Creek Flood (2/26/1972)
The Buffalo Creek Flood was a disaster that occurred on February 26, 1972, when the Pittston Coal Company's coal slurry impoundment dam #3, located on a hillside in Logan County, West Virginia, USA, burst four days after having been declared 'satisfactory' by a federal mine inspector.
The resulting flood unleashed approximately 132,000,000 US gallons (500,000 m3) of black waste water, cresting over 30 ft high, upon the residents of 16 coal mining hamlets in Buffalo Creek Hollow. Out of a population of 5,000 people, 125 were killed, 1,121 were injured, and over 4,000 were left homeless. 507 houses were destroyed, in addition to forty-four mobile homes and 30 businesses. The disaster also destroyed or damaged homes in Lundale, Saunders, Amherstdale, Crites, Latrobe and Larado.

Indianola ghost town
Indianola is a ghost town located on Matagorda Bay in Calhoun County, Texas, United States. The community, once the county seat of Calhoun County, is a part of the Victoria, Texas, Metropolitan Statistical Area. In 1875, the city had a population of 5,000, but on September 15 of that year, a powerful hurricane struck, killing between 150 and 300 and almost entirely destroying the town. Indianola was rebuilt, only to be wiped out on August 19, 1886, by another intense hurricane, which was followed by a fire.

Former site of Fort Stoddert
Fort Stoddert was a stockade fort in the Mississippi Territory, in what is today Alabama. It was located on a bluff of the Mobile River, near modern Mount Vernon, close to the confluence of the Tombigbee and Alabama Rivers.

Teatro alla Scala

Michael E. Hughes' House
A consultant for Accenture lives here.

Moorgate Station
Moorgate station is a central London National Rail and London Underground station in the City of London, on Moorgate, north of London Wall. At one time the station was named "Moorgate Street". It is the central London railway terminus for suburban First Capital Connect services from Hertford, Welwyn Garden City and Letchworth and was, until March 2009, a terminus for trains on the Thameslink line, also run by First Capital Connect. It is the site of the Moorgate tube crash of 1975 in which 46 people were killed and 74 were injured.

Dirtiest Hotel In the United States
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By: jbottero.
TripAdvisor has named what it calls the dirtiest hotels in America for 2011, with the unenviable top stop this year going to The Grand Resort Hotel in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.
News story here:
The pictures are... interesting.

Ibrahimi Mosque / Cave of the Patriarchs
The Cave of the Patriarchs or the Cave of Machpelah is a series of subterranean caves located in a complex called by Muslims the Sanctuary of Abraham or Ibrahimi Mosque. The name is either a reference to the layout of the burial chamber, or alternatively refers to the biblical couples, i.e.: cave of the tombs of couples.

Bad Girls Club Season 4

Royal Oak pub
Fishguard's ancient Royal Oak pub was the site of the signing of surrender following the Battle of Fishguard in 1797, said to be the last invasion of Britain, when a force of 1,400 French soldiers landed near Fishguard but surrendered two days later.

ESPN Entrance
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Arena Plaza Shopping Center
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The biggest mall in Budapest

Amanda Sharp's House in Dead Again
Also the site of the Hightower Elevator.

South Shetland Islands
The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands, lying about 120 kilometres (75 mi) north of the Antarctic Peninsula, with a total area of 3,687 square kilometres (1,424 sq mi). By the Antarctic Treaty of 1959, the Islands' sovereignty is neither recognized nor disputed by the signatories and they are free for use by any signatory for non-military purposes.

Porsche factory conveying bridge
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At the Porsche factory, bodies being moved from the body shop to the paint shop across a 15 m high conveying bridge over Schwieberdinger Strasse.

Olof Palme House
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Built in 1885, this building desparately needs renovation, it seems.
(45° view)

Ziggurat
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45° view

Former Pearl Brewery
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Although the image shows the "Pearl" signs, the brewery was closed in 2001. The buildings are to be preserved as part of revitalizing north San Antonio.

Caminito del Rey
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Boats on River Walk
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By: skyeye.
Visible are tour boats on the San Antonio River in downtown San Antonio, Texas. Here the river is bordered by the River Walk (Paseo del Rio), a popular area for hotels, restaurants and bars.
http://www.thesanantonioriverwalk.com/

San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge (Eastern Span)
The San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge (known locally as the Bay Bridge) is a pair of bridges spanning San Francisco Bay of California, in the United States. Forming part of Interstate 80 and of the direct road route between San Francisco and Oakland, it carries approximately 270,000 vehicles per day on its two decks. It has one of the longest spans in the world.

National Public Radio (NPR) headquarters

New Britain
New Britain, or Niu Briten, is the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago (named after Otto von Bismarck) of Papua New Guinea. It is separated from the island of New Guinea by the Dampier and Vitiaz Straits and from New Ireland by St. George's Channel. The main towns of New Britain are Rabaul/Kokopo and Kimbe.
While the island was part of German New Guinea, it was named Neupommern ("New Pomerania").

Wal-Mart Shooting (02 Jun 2009)
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By: jbottero.
Ahhhh, Wal-Mart home the the average Mid-Western American... And quite a few shootings.
This one took place in Lakewood, Washington, and involved an armored car robbery...
Here's the scoop: A single bullet killed an armored-car guard and wounded a bystander during a robbery this afternoon at a Wal-Mart store in Lakewood, Washington.

Oktoberfest Grounds

Loveland Basin sign
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By: Tyco.
See picture taken 1/23/2010. Ski Mountain

Cassino War Cemetery & Memorial

Mary Tyler Moore Statue
When in the intersection of 7th Street and Nicollet Mall, face to the south east and you will see the bronze statue of Mary Tyler Moore throwing her hat in the air as she did on the intro to her show.

Museo Galileo

Korda Studios
The satellite image is from 2001, so you can only see an early stage of construction. The six studios were inaugurated in April 2007.

Villa Rustica

Gödör (Pit)
Abandoned project of the National Theatre originally planned on this spot left only the foundation pit which was converted into a very popular entertainment center.

San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge (Western Span)
The San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge (known locally as the Bay Bridge) is a pair of bridges spanning San Francisco Bay of California, in the United States. Forming part of Interstate 80 and of the direct road route between San Francisco and Oakland, it carries approximately 270,000 vehicles per day on its two decks. It has one of the longest spans in the world.

Former Pearl Brewery
The brewery was closed in 2001, but the buildings are to be preserved as part of revitalizing north San Antonio.

Remains of Fort Craig
Fort Craig was a U.S. Army fort located along El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, near Elephant Butte Lake State Park and the Rio Grande in Socorro County, New Mexico.
The Fort Craig site was approximately 1,050 feet east-west by 600 feet north-south.
In 1853 the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment began construction of the fort on a bluff five miles away from Fort Conrad. The new fort, named in honor of Captain Louis S. Craig, a popular young officer of the Mexican-American War, was garrisoned in 1854 with troops from Fort Conrad.

City Hall
45° view

Gresham Palace (Now Four Seasons)

Palace of Arts
State-of-the-art concert hall, one of the best acoustics in the world

Greenhouse of the Botanical Garden
45° view

Wal-Mart Shooting (23 Jan 2011)
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By: jbottero.
Two people were shot dead and two sheriff's deputies were wounded late Sunday afternoon outside a Walmart store in western Washington state.
The perp was fingered to 911 as being "suspicious", and when police arrived, took off toward the wooded area to the south of the Walmart parking lot, while shooting at the police. The police returned fire, killing the guy and a young lady who was with him...

Ferrari F430
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Szabó Ervin Central Library
45° view turned 90°

Rail Switcher
Can anyone identify this rail vehicle standing near the former Pearl brewery in San Antonio?

National Stud Farm

Swimming pool
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Hotel Novotel Congress

Dog
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