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As a matter of fact, I just saw the episode where the owner said she was closing down. Apparently, the building is in such bad shape it would cost too much to repair.

That's Bruce Meyer's Ardun powered coupe.
http://www.petersen.org/exhibitions/bruce-meyer-gallery

For Sale! http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/142-Park-Rd_Perinton_NY_14534_M47631-63787

Ford Model T Touring: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_T

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2013/07/31/studebaker-tree-sign-to-be-restored-for-its-75th-anniversary/

"L-1049G Super Constellation - CF-TGE (c/n 4544) Is on display at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington with its original Trans-Canada Air Lines markings..."

The Beast of Kandahar? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_RQ-170_Sentinel

Former Saunders-Roe flying boat hangar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Saro_Princess_G-ALUN_Cowes_1954.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saunders-Roe

Now Venture Quays. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cowes_03.jpg

Ooops: http://www.smokymountainnews.com/news/item/7502-franklin-lacked-proper-license-to-douse-mound-with-weed-killer

Bugatti 101? If so, it's very rare.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugatti_Type_101

RIP Doc: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/life_and_entertainment/2012/05/30/folk-musician-influenced-world-with-his-fast-picking.html

The move is complete: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=santa+monica+airport&hl=en&ll=34.015054,-118.44745&spn=0.001093,0.001062&sll=28.293809,-81.443228&sspn=0.000821,0.001062&t=h&hq=santa+monica+airport&radius=15000°=180&z=20

Back in business: http://woodstockearlyworm.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/we-all-scream-for-ice-cream/

It's a T. Note the tall fifth windows and the flat roof.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wurlitzer

http://thewurlitzerbuilding.com/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9177893/Cutty-Sark-to-reopen-with-almost-90-per-cent-of-original-vessel-intact.html

Nah, Mustangs had square wingtips. Spitfire maybe?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornaby-on-Tees#Royal_Air_Force

"In 2007 a full-size replica Spitfire aircraft was erected on the roundabout at the junction of Thornaby Road, Bader Avenue and Trenchard Avenue. Hidden beneath the roundabout is part of one of the three runways which used to run east to west."

Please include a 'More Info' link when submitting maps.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0koda_Auto

Satellite image of the wreck: http://www.digitalglobe.com/sites/default/files/italy_giglio_jan17_2012_0.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_Ford#1934_Ford

Wow, that's a real SPAD, not a reproduction.

Fantastic!

Oops: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2070977/Mythbusters-crew-shoots-cannonball-HOUSE-van-stunt-goes-terribly-wrong.html

Closed and demolished November 2011.

Looks like they moved her: http://g.co/maps/3ku6w
And this photo shows her in the drydock: http://www.strategypage.com/military_photos/20111021123724.aspx

A Lotus or more likely a Caterham: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caterham_Cars

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2048025/Forsyth-County-Estate-Le-R-ve--45m-mansion-sells-just-11-5m.html

That's actually a Bessemer Converter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessemer_process
The blast furnace is long gone.

John Cobb and the Napier-Railton Airborne at Brooklands:
http://theoldmotor.com/?p=30050

And the black 'stinger' on the hood indicates a big-block V-8.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Big-Block_engine

Donk: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-Riser_%28automobile%29

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14883521

One person has been killed and four injured, one seriously, by a blast at the Marcoule nuclear site in France.

There was no risk of a radioactive leak after the blast, caused by a fire near a furnace in the Centraco radioactive waste storage site, said officials.

The plant's owner, national electricity provider EDF, said it had...

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/US/09/08/fbi.solyndra.raid/

(CNN) -- FBI agents on Thursday were searching the offices of a California solar energy company touted by President Barack Obama that recently halted operations, FBI spokesman Peter Lee confirmed to CNN.

Search warrants were executed at the Fremont, California, offices of Solyndra, which recently filed for bankruptcy, in a...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SK0cUNMnMM {8^D

Kate Winslet, the Oscar-winning actress, saved Sir Richard Branson’s mother as a fire ripped through the tycoon’s Caribbean home.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/8716525/Kate-Winslet-escapes-fire-on-Sir-Richard-Bransons-Necker-Island.html

Probably a ceviche vendor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceviche

That's a Mooney. Cessna's are high winged planes.
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=6082Q

'57 Chevy wagon on the left.

Second Gen. Chevy El Camino.

Chevy stepside pickup truck.

1932 Ford Roadster, Hiboy style.

Chevrolet Camaro: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camaro#First_generation:_1967.E2.80.931969

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MG_MGB I think...

1956 Chevy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Bel_Air#Second_generation_.281955.E2.80.931957.29

"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated" - Mark Twain

http://www.roadfood.com/Digest/265/welcome-back-elliston-place-soda-shop

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2014826/Bye-bye-Banksy-Iconic-painting-whitewashed-bungling-worker-building-transformed-Muslim-centre.html

Modified Ford Model A Sedan: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/1929_Ford_Model_A_155B_Town_Sedan_SZT424_2.jpg

Thanks to mlc1us for finding this.

Very cool. The Google car drove right through the arcade!

Not a Caddy, a Merc. http://www.bluesarthouse.com/ford/1970mercury.htm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2008119/Crew-flies-Boeings-new-747-Seattle-Pittsburgh-sandwiches.html

Now known as the 1861 Farmhouse Market: https://www.facebook.com/pages/1861-Farmhouse-Market/207685085939601?sk=info

ASBURY PARK, N.J. -- Clarence Clemons, the larger-than-life saxophone player who helped catapult Bruce Springsteen to rock fame, was known as "The Big Man," a nod to his physical size as well as his stage presence and booming sax notes.

Outside The Stone Pony, the legendary Jersey shore rock club where Clemons, Springsteen and other E Street band mates cut their musical teeth, the 69-year-old Clemons loomed large as ever hours after his death Saturday from complications of a...

Old photos from Life magazine: http://www.life.com/gallery/39992/inside-a-serial-killers-house#index/0

Former top-secret Hollywood military base for sale as home at $6.3m

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2003075/Former-secret-Hollywood-military-base-sale-home-6-3m.html#ixzz1PBclYf4L

Destroyed 6/13/11: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chibrknews-crews-responding-to-incident-involving-wwii-bomber-20110613,0,5852034.story

A good story and some great photos here: http://scotthaefner.com/beyond/mothball-fleet-ghost-ships/

Round (cylindrical) hay bales wrapped in white plastic?
http://members.iglou.com/perkins/newkpf/2004_02/home3604.htm

Closed for good: http://blog.al.com/businessnews/2011/06/after_closing_in_downtown_birm.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/05/pictures/110520-spy-plane-area-51-cover-up-crash-cia-conspiracy/

Photos of an A-12 Blackbird crash, the cleanup afterwards and some photos of A-12 RCS testing.

Photo gallery: http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-68549-6.html
Article: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,765771,00.html

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/17/trump-removed-new-jersey-casino/

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.-- Donald Trump's name no longer beckons gamblers to one New Jersey casino.

Landry's Inc. is buying the property for $38 million and will rename it Golden Nugget. The name was used on another Atlantic City casino from 1980 to 1987.

Read more: ...

NORFOLK (May 11, 2011) The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) departs Naval Station Norfolk for its maiden deployment. George H.W. Bush, the Navy's newest aircraft carrier, deployed as part of the George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group supporting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th and 6th Fleet areas of responsibility.

...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genoa,_Nevada
Every year since 1919 Genoa has held a festival called The Candy Dance, where candy, food and crafts are sold to support its town government. The Candy Dance is usually held during the final weekend of September.

Imagery is dated September 29, 2008

North Pole? I thought he lived in a hollow tree...

They train dogs to search all sorts of vehicles there. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0IBQ/is_2002_May/ai_87719609/

And the fuselages http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/fuselages/ are part of the facility, as I suspected a few years ago.

The thumbnail is just the agility training area. Zoom out to see how big this facility really is.

Some artists conceptual drawing of what the crashed 'Stealthhawk' might have looked like: http://defensetech.org/2011/05/04/what-the-secret-bin-laden-raid-helo-might-look-like/

This HVT was special, and the raids required practice, so they replicated the one-acre compound at Camp Alpha, a segregated section of Bagram Air Base. Trial runs were held in early April.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/05/the-secret-team-that-killed-osama-bin-laden/238163/

I forget where I read it, but the training site was a fenced off area at Bagram Air Base.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/whitehouse/the-secret-team-that-killed-bin-laden-20110502

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Special_Warfare_Development_Group

Google Earth pegs the imagery as June 15 2005.

Wikimapia concurs: http://wikimapia.org#lat=34.1693017&lon=73.242588&z=18&l=0&m=b&search=Osama Bin Laden Compound

Titanic's unknown child is finally ID'd

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42755013/ns/technology_and_science-science

"I took my styrofoam tray across the street, where a few picnic tables act as placemats. Flipping open the lid, the unmitigated scent of pork leaped out, heightening my senses as much as the stinging bites from fire ants that had crawled up my leg to demand a taste.

If these ants had learned to fight for barbecue, I had the Scotts to blame—their whole hog was nothing short of perfect. Apportioned in moist chunks and tender strands with chewy bits throughout, the barbecue here...

2009 Mille Miglia

Last night, in the waning months of Ferran Adrià's El Bulli, Anthony Bourdain, chef José Andrés, and the crew of No Reservations documented one of Adrià's 52-course "last suppers" by photo, video, and Twitter. Bourdain proclaims, "I will never eat so well again," and "Half the dining room were in tears."

...

Early 70's Plymouth Duster.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Duster#Year-by-year_changes

Mid 50's GMC Pick up truck.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMC_%28automobile%29

It's the ultimate hot rod, a 1932 Ford roadster, AKA a 'Deuce'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932_Ford

More likely a 181: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_181

Mummified puppies by the millions revealed:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42342086/ns/technology_and_science-science

Controversy in the cheese-rolling community!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1369824/Thoroughly-cheesed-Gloucestershire-cheese-rolling-festival-cancelled-second-year-running-organisers-receive-abuse-20-entry-fee.html

It's a serious business, cheese...

Welcome to Virtual Globetrotting!
Please include a "More Info" link with your map submissions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crofton_Pumping_Station

THE white ensign is lowered for the final time on HMS Ark Royal yesterday - as the warship is formally decommissioned.

The last remaining 150 crew - many in tears - watched the moving ceremony with 900 family members and ex-sailors.

...

Japan is battling to stave off a nuclear disaster after an explosion at a north-eastern nuclear plant in the wake of the enormous earthquake and tsunami.

Authorities are evacuating tens of thousands of residents living within a 12 mile (20km) radius of the Fukushima Daiichi plant and those within 6 miles of a second installation in Futuba, 150 miles north of Tokyo.

...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703597804576194123030511478.html

MARCH 11, 2011, 5:53 P.M. ET

At Tokyo Electric Power's Fukushima Daiichi plant, three reactors shut down automatically as designed after a magnitude 8.9 earthquake struck off the northeast of Japan on Friday afternoon. The quake also caused diesel-powered generators used to cool...

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110311-715299.html

MARCH 11, 2011, 5:38 P.M. ET

TOKYO (Dow Jones)--Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501.TO) said Saturday that the temperatures of its No.1 and No.2 reactors at its Fukushima Daini nuclear power station are rising, and it has lost control over pressure in the reactors.

Fukushima Daini station is the second nuclear...

Looking for an authentic piece of American history? Well a historic warship in Philadelphia can be yours - but it may need a little work.

The Independence Seaport Museum is looking for a new owner for the USS Olympia, a steel cruiser from the Spanish-American War.

The catch? It needs $2million to $5million in repairs to stabilize it, immediately. After that it will need $10-20million for dry dock and restoration.

...

International Harvester Pick up truck.

We moderators *do* have the ability to delete comments. {8^)

Eatery Closes After Decades-Long Family Spat
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703933404576170353672375910.html

Some type of pheasant. There are lots of cross-breeds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringneck_pheasant#Subspecies

As many as 22 tourists are thought to be buried in the rubble of Christ Church Cathedral and its spire.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10708575

Appears to be fiberglass, still Googling though.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21666102@N08/2525327356/

Love the title of this piece.