VirtualGlobetrotting: Maps Submitted On: 2012-09-05

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Bill Laurie & Nancy Walton's House
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One of the richest women in America (Wal-Mart heiress) and her husband Bill (owner of the St. Louis Blues) paid $12 million for this Bel Air property in May 2012. They also own the larger property next door, so this acquisition brings their estate to nearly 4 acres. Their homes in Henderson (NV) and Columbia (MO) are both also featured on this site.

Andrew Lessman's House
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The Las Vegas-based TV vitamin hawker paid $13M for this oceanfront Malibu compound in July 2012. Lessman started his infomercial career with QVC in 1992 and later moved to rival HSN in 1997, where he can be seen frequently today.

Steele Platt's house
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Steele Platt is the founder of Yard House Restaurants, with nearly 50 locations throughout Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Nevada, New York, Texas and Virginia.

Whales
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Big Splash Water Park (former)
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Laccadive Sea
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The Laccadive Sea or Lakshadweep Sea is a body of water bordering India (including its Lakshadweep islands), the Maldives, and Sri Lanka. It is located to the west of Kerala. This warm sea has a stable water temperature through the year and is rich in marine life, with the Gulf of Mannar alone hosting about 3,600 species.

Munich Massacre
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The Munich massacre is an informal name for an attack that occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Bavaria, in southern West Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and eventually killed by the Palestinian group Black September

First Christian Church of North Hollywood
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The site of many films, TV shows and Katy Perry's Hot n Cold music video.

Ti'tsa-pa / Great Salt Lake
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The Great Salt Lake, located in the northern part of the U.S. state of Utah, is the largest salt water lake in the western hemisphere, and the fourth-largest terminal lake in the world. In an average year the lake covers an area of around 1,700 square miles (4,400 km2), but the lake's size fluctuates substantially due to its shallowness. For instance, in 1963 it reached its lowest recorded level at 950 square miles (2,460 km²), but in 1988 the surface area was at the historic high of 3,300 square miles (8,500 km2). In terms of surface area, it is the largest lake in the United States that is not a Great Lake.

The Daily Planet
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The Daily Planet is a fictional broadsheet newspaper in the DC Comics Universe, appearing mostly in the stories of Superman.
In Superman with Christopher Reeve, the Daily Planet exterior images used the New York Daily News building.

'Singer Apartments' by Donald Singer
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1964
Singer's first studio was here

Yellowstone Art Museum
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Geyser Park
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Billings Train Station

Montana Brewing Company
The Montana Brewing Company opened in 1994 and has a nice variety of brews available including seasonal brews.

St. Patrick's Co-Cathedral
The first parish in Billings was named St. Joachim, and it was established in 1887. The present church building was built in the Gothic Revival style in 1904 for $64,000

Campinas Brazil Temple
The Campinas Brazil Temple, in Campinas, São Paulo, is the 111th operating temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Porto Alegre Brazil Temple
The Porto Alegre Brazil Temple is the 102nd operating temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Temple construction began on May 2, 1998. The Temple was dedicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley on December 17, 2000. The Temple sits on a hill in Porto Alegre's Vila Jardim district.

São Paulo Brazil Temple
The São Paulo Brazil Temple (formerly the São Paulo Temple) is the 19th constructed and 17th operating temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Located in the Brazilian city of São Paulo, it was the first LDS temple built in South America, and also the first temple to use the single story, single spire design. The spire is 101 feet (31 m) tall.

Mozambique Channel
The Mozambique Channel is a portion of the Indian Ocean located between the island nation of Madagascar and southeast Africa, primarily the country of Mozambique. It was a World War II clashpoint during the Battle of Madagascar. The channel is approximately 460 km (286 mi) across at its narrowest point between Angoche, Mozambique, and Tambohorano, Madagascar.

Recife Brazil Temple
The Recife Brazil Temple is the 101st operating temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

FSO Factory
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Boeddicker Crater
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Named for: German astronomer Otto Boeddicker (1853-1937)
Otto Boeddicker (1853–1937) was a German astronomer. He published drawings of naked-eye observations of the Milky Way in 1892, made over a period of six years. He also observed the Moon, including the emitted heat during a total eclipse of the Moon.

Curitiba Brazil Temple
Announced in 2002, the Curitiba Brazil Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) was completed in early May 2008 and was dedicated June 1 by Thomas S. Monson, the president of the LDS Church. Located in Curitiba, the capital of Paraná state, it is the fifth LDS temple in Brazil.

Alexey Tolstoy Crater
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Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, often referred to as A. K. Tolstoy (September 5 [O.S. August 24] 1817 – October 10 [O.S. September 28] 1875), was a Russian poet, novelist and playwright, considered to be the most important nineteenth-century Russian historical dramatist, primarily on the strength of his dramatic trilogy The Death of Ivan the Terrible (1866), Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich (1868), and Tsar Boris ( 1870).

Bonestell Crater
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Named for: American space artist Chesley Bonestell (1888-1986)
Chesley Bonestell (January 1, 1888 – June 11, 1986) was an American painter, designer and illustrator. His paintings were a major influence on science fiction art and illustration, and he helped inspire the American space program. An early pioneering creator of astronomical art, along with the French astronomer-artist Lucien Rudaux, Bonestell was dubbed the "Father of Modern Space Art".

Barnard Crater
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Named for: American astronomer Edward E. Barnard (1857-1923)
Edward Emerson Barnard (December 16, 1857 – February 6, 1923) was an American astronomer. He was commonly known as E. E. Barnard, and was recognized as a gifted observational astronomer. He is best known for his discovery of Barnard's Star in 1916, which is named in his honor.

Pyramid of Flowers
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Xochitecatl pre-Columbian archaeological site.

Airy Crater
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Named for: British astronomer George B. Airy (1801-1892)
Sir George Biddell Airy PRS KCB (27 July 1801 – 2 January 1892) was an English mathematician and astronomer, Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881. His many achievements include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, a method of solution of two-dimensional problems in solid mechanics and, in his role as Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian. His reputation has been tarnished by allegations that, through his inaction, Britain lost the opportunity of priority in the discovery of Neptune.

Babakin Crater
Named for: Soviet builder of unmanned space stations
Georgy Nikolayevich Babakin (November 13, 1914 – August 3, 1971) was a Soviet engineer working in the space program. He was Chief Designer at the Lavochkin Design Bureau from 1965 until his death.

Becquerel Crater
Named for: French physicist Antoine H. Becquerel (1852-1908)
Antoine Henri Becquerel (15 December 1852 – 25 August 1908) was a French physicist, Nobel laureate, and the discoverer of radioactivity along with Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie, for which all three won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Brashear Crater
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Named for: American physicist John A. Brashear (1840-1920)
Beginning in 1861 Brashear worked as a millwright in a rolling steel mill in Pittsburgh. He pursued his love for astronomy at night, with the help of his wife Phoebe Stewart, a Sunday school teacher whom Brashear met in 1861 and married in 1862.[1] Of too little means to purchase a telescope, Brashear built his own workshop from a three-meter-square coal shed behind his house and proceeded to build his own refractor.
Brashear Crater LAST ONE

Bakhuyzen Crater
Named for: Dutch astronomer Henricus G. Bakhuysen (1838-1923)
Hendricus Gerardus van de Sande Bakhuyzen (Apr 2, 1838, The Hague – Jan 8, 1923, Leiden) was a Dutch astronomer.
He studied astronomy under Frederik Kaiser.
After he got his degree, he was a high school teacher from 1864–1867, during which time he wrote a very successful textbook on mechanics. In 1867 he became a professor at the Technical College in Delft.
He became director of the Leiden Observatory in 1872 upon the death of Frederik Kaiser. He retired in 1908.

Beer Crater
Named for: German astronomer Wilhelm Beer (1797-1850)
Wilhelm Wolff Beer (4 January 1797 – 27 March 1850) was a banker and astronomer from Berlin, Prussia, and the half-brother of Giacomo Meyerbeer.
Beer's fame derives from his hobby, astronomy. He built a private observatory with a 9.5 cm refractor in Tiergarten, Berlin. Together with Johann Heinrich Mädler he produced the first exact map of the Moon (entitled Mappa Selenographica) in 1834-1836, and in 1837 published a description of the Moon (Der Mond nach seinen kosmischen und individuellen Verhältnissen). Both remained the best descriptions of the Moon for many decades.
In 1830, Beer and Mädler created the first globe of the planet Mars. In 1840 they made a map of Mars and calculated its rotation period to be 24 h 37 min 22.7 s, only 0.1 seconds different from the actual period as it is known today.

Archaelogical dig in progress
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Tzintzuntzan Archaeological Zone

Bond Crater
Named for: American astronomer George P. Bond (1825-1865)
George Phillips Bond (May 20, 1825 – February 17, 1865) was an American astronomer. He was the son of William Cranch Bond. Some sources give his year of birth as 1826.
His early interest was in nature and birds, but after his elder brother William Cranch Bond Jr. died, he felt obliged to follow his father into the field of astronomy. He succeeded his father as director of Harvard College Observatory from 1859 until his death. His cousin was Edward Singleton Holden, first director of Lick Observatory.
Bond took the first photograph of a star in 1850 (Vega) and of a double star in 1857 (Mizar); suggested photography could be used to measure a star's magnitude; and discovered numerous comets and calculated their orbits. Bond also studied Saturn and the Orion Nebula. He and his father jointly discovered Saturn's moon, Hyperion (which was also independently discovered by William Lassell). In addition to his astronomical contributions, Bond also surveyed the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

Baldet Crater
Named for: French astronomer Ferdnand Baldet (1885-1964)
Fernand Baldet (16 March 1885 – 8 November 1964)