VirtualGlobetrotting: giove: Maps

VirtualGlobetrotting Live View

Valentino Rossi home in Tavullia
giove (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: giove.
Read more...
This is one property owned by Valentino Rossi, an Italian professional motorcycle road racer and multiple MotoGP World Champion. Rossi is widely considered one of the greatest motorcycle racers of all time, with nine Grand Prix World Championships to his name – seven of which are in the premier class. Rossi is also the only road racer to have competed in 400 or more Grands Prix. He has ridden with number 46 his entire career, also when being the title defender.
Rossi is currently contracted to race until the end of the 2020 season, when he will be 41 years old. He is also a team owner of junior class team Sky Racing Team by VR46 that competes in Moto2 and Moto3.
Valentino Rossi has a net worth of $140 million. Valentino Rossi is one of the most successful motorcycle racers of all time. Rossi has won nine Grand Prix World Championships so far, seven of which are in the premier class. When it comes to 500cc/MotoGP multiple champions, Rossi is second in all time with 105 race wins, right behind Giacomo Agostini who has 122. Valentino earned $34 million in 2007, $36 million in 2008. He was accused by Italian tax authorities of not declaring $160 million of earnings between 2000 and 2004. Settled the case for $60 million to avoid possible jail time.
Rossi is well known for being superstitious and renowned for his pre-ride rituals. On a race day, he will always watch the beginning of the Moto3 race to see how long the starting lights remain lit before going out at the start of the race. Prior to riding (whether racing, qualifying, or practice), he will start his personal ritual by stopping about two metres from his bike, bending over and reaching for his boots. Then, when arriving at his bike, he will crouch down and hold the right-side foot-peg, with his head bowed. He adjusts the fit of his leathers by standing straight up on the foot-pegs, whilst riding down the pit-lane before the start of race or practice. He also revealed in an interview with MotoGP.com that he always puts one particular boot on before the other, as well as one particular glove on before the other, and that he always gets on the bike the same way. He also gets off the bike in the same way, swinging his right leg over the front of the bike.

SAS Barrack Credenhill
giove (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: giove.
Read more...
22° Special Air Service facility in Credenhill, near Hereford where they have the old Stirling Lines

Seal team 6 DEVGRU
giove (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: giove.
Read more...
At DAM Neck Annex Virginia Beach. SEAL Team Six / DEVGRU the Navy's Delta Force component.

Villa San Martino - Silvio Berlusconi's House (Deceased)
Only one of the PM home

Auschwitz I concentration camp main gate
Auschwitz I was the original camp, serving as the administrative center for the whole complex. The site for the camp—16 one-story buildings—had earlier served as an army barracks. It was considered as a concentration camp site by Germany's Inspectorate for Concentration Camps in January 1940, but was deemed unsuitable. SS Captain Rudolf Höss visited the site again in April 1940, and acting on a favourable report from him, Heinrich Himmler, Germany's Minister of the Interior, ordered the camp to be built there, with Höss as its first commandant.
The 5-metre (16 ft), 41-kilogram (90 lb) wrought-iron "Arbeit macht frei" sign over the entrance to Auschwitz I was stolen in the early morning of December 18, 2009. The thieves unscrewed the sign at one end and broke it off its mountings at the other end, then carried the sign 300 metres to a hole in the concrete wall, where they cut four metal bars blocking the opening. Police found the sign, cut into three parts, in northern Poland two days later in the home of one of five men who were arrested. An unnamed overseas buyer is believed to have been involved.[ Polish police said that the five were common thieves, not neo-Nazis. The original sign will be welded back together and put back up after an improved security system is put in place.

US consulate Benghazi
The United States diplomatic mission in Benghazi was attacked Tuesday night. Four Americans were killed, including J. Christopher Stevens, the ambassador to Libya.

Bagger 293 giant excavator
Bagger 293, previously known as the MAN TAKRAF RB293, is a giant bucket-wheel excavator made by the German industrial company TAKRAF, formerly an East German Kombinat. It owns or shares some records for terrestrial vehicle in the Guinness Book of Records. Bagger 293 was built in 1995, one of a group of similar sized 'sibling' vehicles such as the Bagger 281 (built in 1958), Bagger 285 (1975), Bagger 287 (1976), Bagger 288 (1978), Bagger 291 (1993), etc.

The clock tower - SAS Credenhill
"We are the Pilgrims, master; we shall go
Always a little further; it may be
Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow
Across that angry or that glimmering sea..."

Camp Ederle
Caserma Ederle (Camp Ederle) is a United States Army post located in Vicenza, Italy. The post is the headquarters of the Southern European Task Force as well as of the 173d Airborne Brigade. Caserma Ederle serves as the headquarters of U.S. Army Garrison Vicenza, an umbrella for all U.S. properties in Vicenza. It is also the garrison for several important European-based U.S. military units. The post is named after Major Carlo Ederle, an Italian hero of World War I and recipient of the French War Cross, among other military honors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caserma_Ederle

Paul Jr designs - OCC (Former site)
Paul Michael "Paulie" Teutul (born October 2, 1974) is one of the stars of the American reality television series American Chopper. He co-founded Orange County Choppers (OCC) with his father, Paul Teutul, Sr. in 1999. Teutul was the chief designer and fabricator of OCC. Prior to this, Teutul was head of the rail shop at Orange County Ironworks. He was also responsible for designing the logo for OCC. He is the owner of Paul Jr. Designs, which manufactures custom motorcycles and sells branded clothing.
Teutul, along with his father and younger brother Michael Teutul, became celebrities when Orange County Choppers became the focus of a reality television series American Chopper on Discovery Channel in 2002.

Metropolitan Police Specialist Training Centre (MPSTC)
Metropolitan Police Specialist Training Centre (MPSTC) is located in Gravesend.
The £55m MPSTC was built by Equion (part of the John Laing group) in a Private Finance Initiative (PFI) deal. It was officially opened in April 2003 and provides the capital's officers with firearms and public order training by tutors from The Met's CO12 branch.
Brave students in riot gear are taught how to deal with petrol bombs being thrown at them. Weapons training is provided on indoor laser ranges and outdoors on the Army's old Milton Range further east. The MPSTC includes a mock-up of a mini town including a bank, shops, night club and even a football stadium. Also featured are train and underground stations with full size carriages and a section from a passenger jet – utilised to great effect by specialist firearms officers from Scotland Yard's elite CO19 (formerly SO19) branch.
In early 2009, the Gravesend facility played a crucial role in the Met's training to deal with the possibility of rioting protestors at the G20 Summit of world political leaders, as part of the massive police and counter-terrorism security plan codenamed Operation Glencoe.

Villa Belmonte - Mussolini death place
The shootings took place in the small village of Giulino di Mezzegra, in front of the gates of Villa Belmonte. According to the official version of events, the shootings were conducted by "Colonel Valerio" (Colonnello Valerio). Valerio's real name was Walter Audisio. Audisio was the communist partisan commander who was reportedly given the order to kill Mussolini by the National Liberation Committee.

SEAL Team 6 training facility
Some training structure near the Dam Neck base, home of DEVGRU - SEAL team 6

Scampia "Le Vele"
Scampìa is a modern suburb in the north of Naples. The population is about 80,000. The name of Le Vele has become infamous as the emblem of one of the most degraded and problematic of the city. Degradation is also accompanied by a marked material poverty and social causes which, though recent, are deeply popular in the northern suburbs of Naples. Such a density of people in precarious socio-economic conditions in a complex so large has led to an explosion of organized crime, which was a breeding ground for all their trades, an accomplice of the state and the lack of legality. Le Vele formed an island of crime well protected, isolated, in which the forces of order if you just could not risk venturing among the buildings unsafe. In the early '80s, the phenomenon of drugs in Scampia was not yet to the enormous levels of today. The main cause of the explosion of drug trafficking was due to the decision to open the new facility ASL Napoli 1 right next to the sails, and again, to accommodate a center of administration of methadone, which attracted crowds of addicts throughout the city, province , the Region, and now also from all over Italy. In this way the Camorra became huge revenues for the sole business of dealing in narcotic drugs, estimated at billions of euros. With the money from was also possible for organized crime to buy the silence of the authorities at any level. Today Scampia is in fact a square that is smuggling of large quantities of drugs, enough to be called the paradise of drugs in first place in Europe in terms of quantity of drugs sold to retail
Now 2 building was destroyed

Stirling lines gates

Tiger Hill - Kargil war
Tiger Hill is a mountain in the Kargil sector of Jammu and Kashmir. It is the highest peak in the sector, and its recapture was the most important objective for Indian forces during the Kargil War.
The Battle of Tiger Hill encompasses the battles fought in and around the the peak of Tiger Hill between Indian Army and Pakistani and allied force from the final week of May till second week of June, 1999 during the Kargil War in 1999. The Battle, with the concomitant battle for the adjoining peak of Tololing, culminated with Indian forces recapturing the peak on July 4, 1999. Indian forces involved in the operation included the 18 Grenadiers and the 8th Sikh regiment. The battle was one of costliest operations for the Indian forces in the entire conflict, with casualties nearly forty personnel killed and nearly a hundred wounded in the entire operation. Pakistan at the time denied regular troop involvement but Indian figures estimated twenty one killed in the battle for the peak itself.

KASOTC Special operation training center
Special operations units are the “tip of the spear” and the King Abdullah II Special Operations Training Center (KASOTC) is the sharpening-tool that hones the spear. KASOTC is located in Amman, Jordan and is a one-of-a-kind facility.
Its unique nature derives from an extraordinary combination of cutting-edge training, elite instructor and support staff, and integrated advanced technology.
The facility encompasses an elaborate urban area containing 56 live-fire and simulated-fire training structures – all outfitted with the latest instrumentation and simulated technologies, plus a fully-integrated Airbus, flat-ranges, a breaching complex, and a 5-story CQB live-fire shoot house.
Tying it all together is a fiber optic network and centralized Range Operations Control (ROC).
KASOTC is fully-quipped, staffed, and offers an ideal venue for special operations pre-deployment training, joint exercises, and other training initiatives.

Notting hill movie - Secret garden
The private communal gardens, into which Anna and William break at night (“Whoops a daisy!”), is Rosmead Gardens, Rosmead Road, W11. Don't even think about it – it's a fiercely private garden, and the drop from the fence is nastier than it appears on film

BUD/s Playground
Basic Underwater Demolitions/SEAL (BUD/S)
Upon arrival at Naval Special Warfare Command, check-ins for BUD/S are immediately placed into a pre-indoctrination phase of training known as 'PTRR', or Physical Training Rehabilitation and Remediation. PTRR is also where all of the 'roll-backs' are placed while waiting to be put into a class. Once additional medical screening is given, and after enough BUD/S candidates arrive for the same class, organized physical training begins.
BUD/S Instructor talking to trainees.
BUD/S consists of a three-week 'Indoctrination Course', known as INDOC, followed by three phases, covering physical conditioning (seven weeks), diving (eight weeks), and land warfare (nine weeks) respectively. Officer and enlisted personnel go through the same training program. It is designed to develop and test their stamina, leadership, and ability to work as a team.

Brecourt Manor Battle 06/06/1944
The Brécourt Manor Assault (June 6, 1944) during the U.S. parachute assault of the Normandy Invasion of World War II is often cited as a classic example of small-unit tactics and leadership in overcoming a larger enemy force.
Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division.

Gran Torino movie - Walt's house

Erwin Rommel death site and memorial

AUTEC-Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center
The U.S. Navy's Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC) is an instrumented laboratory that performs integrated three-dimensional hydrospace/aerospace trajectory measurements covering the entire spectrum of undersea simulated warfare: calibration, classifications, detection, and destruction. Its vital mission is to assist in establishing and maintaining naval supremacy of the United States through testing, evaluation, and underwater research.

Aprilia factory
Aprilia is an Italian motorcycle company, one of the seven marques owned by Piaggio, the world's fourth largest motorcycle manufacturer.
Aprilia started as a scooter manufacturer, but has more recently come to be known for its race-winning sportbikes. It is also known for its flagship 1,000 cc V-twin Superbike, the RSV Mille and latest V4 based RSV 4.

Partisan memorial in Piazzale Loreto
The massacre took place in Piazzale Loreto, 10 August 1944 in Milan. Fifteen anti-Fascist partisans and were shot by soldiers of the legion Ettore Muti, under the orders of the Germans, and their bodies were displayed to the public.
When the war ended, the site of the massacre and in memory of the martyrs who fell there was erected a memorial stone. This stone was replaced by a monument erected in August 1960 by the sculptor Giannino Castiglioni (1884-1971), located on the corner of the square and viale Andrea Doria. The monument, on the front, bears a bas-relief representing a martyr subjected to execution on the iconography of St. Sebastian, on the back is labeled "HIGH / THE NIGHT OF BOTH FELL IN THE NAME / OF FREEDOM" which follows the list of 15 fallen, the date dell'eccidio, August 10, 1944 and the symbols of the Italian Republic and the City of Milan.

Mark V Special Operations Craft of SEAL team 6
http://eyeball-series.org/seal-team-6/seal-team-6.htm

Ambush at Poteau - Battle of the Bulge
On December 18, 1944, very early in the morning, the American "14th Cavalry Group" had gotten in an ambush of the German "Kampfgruppe Hansen" on the road between Poteau and Recht. Propaganda movies were made by the Germans shortly after those fights and the numerous photos are often used as typical photos from the Battle of the Bulge.

Via Fani massacre site
At this intersection, between via Fani and via Stresa a commando of Birgate Rosse March 16 1978 kidnapped Aldo Moro (former PM and president of DC political party) and killed 5 members of the escort.
Mr. Moro was killed May 9 1978 and his body was found in Via Caetani.
The five men killed were: Domenico Ricci, Oreste Leonardi, Raffaele Jozzino, Giulio Rivera, and Francesco Zizzi.

Train in SAS training facility
Pontrilas Army Training Area
The area, north of the village of Pontrilas in Herefordshire, close to the Welsh border, seems to be a former munitions depot, judging by the (dismantled) train line system, just west of the training area's main gate, near the village of Ewyas Harold.
The old disused munitions train line system once connected into the nearby main line at a branch junction in the village of Pontrilas itself, a little further south.
The plane is rumoured to be used for counter-terrorism training. Rather than a real jet, it seems likely that the aircraft is in fact merely a "mock-up", similar to those used on film productions.

SSG Hq - Cherat
Special Service Group (SSG) is an independent commando division of the Pakistan Army. It is an elite special operations force similar to the United States Army Special Forces (Green Berets) and the British Army's SAS.
Official numbers are put at 2,100 men, in 3 Battalions; however the actual strength is classified. It is estimated to have been increased to 4 Battalions, with the eventual formation of 2 Brigades of Special Forces (6 Battalions).

Boy on skateboard

Haakonsvern Naval Base - Marinejegerkommandoen
Marinejegerkommandoen (MJK) is a Norwegian maritime special forces unit. It was formally established in 1951. It is located in Ramsund in the northern part of Norway and at Haakonsvern Naval Base in Bergen. MJK is employed in many kinds of operations, such as unconventional warfare, guerrilla warfare, special reconnaissance, recovery or protection of ships and oil installations, various counter-terrorism missions, hostage rescue and direct action (which includes sabotage, raids, kidnapping and specific enemy assassinations).

Tractor factory - Battle of Stalingrad
from Wikipedia
"After three months of slow advance, the Germans finally reached the river banks, capturing 90% of the ruined city and splitting the remaining Soviet forces into two narrow pockets. Ice floes on the Volga now prevented boats and tugs from supplying the Soviet defenders. Nevertheless, the fighting, especially on the slopes of Mamayev Kurgan and inside the factory area in the northern part of the city, continued as fiercely as ever. The battles for the Red October Steel Factory, the Dzerzhinsky tractor factory and the Barrikady gun factory became world-famous."

Notting hill movie - Max & Bella house
91 Lansdowne Road is the home of Bella and Max (Gina McKee and Tim McInnerny), where William surprises everyone with his megastar date at the birthday party.

Ludzidzini Royal Compound
Royal Palace of the King of Swaziland and his many wives

Bank of America - North Hollywood
The North Hollywood shootout was an armed confrontation between two heavily-armed and armored bank robbers, Larry Eugene Phillips, Jr. and Emil Matasareanu, and patrol and SWAT officers of the Los Angeles Police Department in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California on February 28, 1997. It happened when responding patrol officers engaged Phillips and Matasareanu, both 26 at the time, leaving a bank which the two men had just robbed. Ten officers and seven civilians sustained injuries before both robbers were killed.Phillips and Matasareanu had robbed several armored vehicles prior to their attempt in North Hollywood and were notorious for their heavy armament, which included automatic rifles.......

Fincantieri shipyard
Fincantieri - Cantieri Navali Italiani S.p.A. is a shipbuilding company based in Trieste, Italy.
It designs and builds merchant vessels, passenger ships, offshore, and naval vessels, and is also active in the conversion and ship repair sectors. The company also owned Grandi Motori Trieste, which constructed marine diesel engines, but this was sold to Wartsila in 1999.
Originally founded in 1959 as Società Finanziaria Cantieri Navali – Fincantieri S.p.A. as a State financial holding company, part of IRI, the company became a separate entity in 1984.
Today Fincantieri is one of Europe's largest shipbuilding groups and the largest in the Mediterranean.
In Italy Fincantieri employs a staff of nearly 9,400 (rising to approximately 20,000 if the supply chain is included) working at 8 shipyards, two design centres, one research centre and two production sites for mechanical components.
The shipyards of Monfalcone (Gorizia), Marghera (Venice), Sestri Ponente (Genoa), Ancona, Castellammare di Stabia (Naples) and Palermo report to the Merchant Ships Business Unit while the shipyards of Riva Trigoso (Sestri Levante) and Muggiano (Lerici) report to the Naval Vessel Business Unit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fincantieri

Brecourt Manor battle Easy Co. memorial
Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division.

CAOC Poggio Renatico
The base of Poggio Renatico is located on the site of Poggio Renatico Airport is now the headquarters of the Operational Command of the Air Force (COFA) and the Combined Air Operations Center Five (Caoc-5), has a heliport and is located in Poggio Renaticoin the province of Ferrara

Tank depot Lenta - Italian Army
Depot of armored force of Italian Army. I've found 72 Centauro, 42 M60, 226 VCC1, 1658 M113, 497 Leopard1, 30 Leopard+bridge element, 38 Bergerpanzer, 102 M109, I made a .kmz with all this element, divided for each type.
Recently a reportage on l'Espresso say some different number

Battle of Top Malo House - Falkland war
The Battle of Top Malo House was fought on the 31st May 1982 during the Falklands War, between 1st section Argentine Special Forces from 602 Commando Company and a patrol formed from staff and students of the British Mountain and Arctic Warfare Cadre, a training unit of the Royal Marines placed under Operational Control of 3 Commando Brigade for Operation Corporate.

Century house (former SIS HQ)
SIS moved to Century house in 1964, a modern tower block in Westminster Bridge Road, Lambeth. This was the Service's home for thirty years during the latter half of the Cold War.
In 1994 SIS moved to its present headquarters, Vauxhall Cross.
Now the tower is converted in modern flats

Qala i Jangi fortress
The Battle of Qala-i-Jangi took place between November 25 and December 1, 2001, in Northern Afghanistan. It began with the uprising of Taliban prisoners held at Qala-i-Jangi fortress, and escalated into one of the bloodiest engagements of the War in Afghanistan. Northern Alliance fighters, assisted by British and American special forces, took seven days to finally quell the revolt, leaving only 86 prisoners alive out of an original 300.
Among the survivors were two American citizens fighting with the Taliban, Yaser Esam Hamdi and John Walker Lindh.

Car accident in Nashville?
There is a little inconsistency between the road signal and the car which is a little bit damaged (where is the front right tire?)

4 Killer whale

Maierato landslide (Feb 15, 2010)
Giant landslide in Maierato, 2000 evacuated

Torre Poglina - Italian secret service base
At Poglina Tower, was built around 1960 a secret military base that at the end of the'60s became known in relation to the "Piano Solo" in the'80s and returned to the honors of the chronicles for the case "Gladio ".
The land had been purchased by a company with limited liability coverage, whose members were representatives of high level SIFAR, the military secret service. The base, used as headquarters of the GAC, guastatori Training Center, and then considered the main basis of the structure addestrativa illegal operation Gladio.
On the occasion of the implementation of Plan Solo, a project with which you could assign the Arma dei Carabinieri state control, the base of Cape Marrangiu was supposed to accommodate 731 "enucleandi", (people in the world of politics and Syndicate dangerous and according to this program to be held at the base until emergence ceased). The list of enucleandi had been drafted on the basis of findings obtained by the so-called "dossiers SIFAR, analytical reports of a certain depth on public and private life of about 157,000 people, produced by SIFAR by order of General De Lorenzo, organizer of the Piano Solo . The base is still operating as the center of the training for army and secret service. There is also a little airstrip

US Naval support Gricignano
The Naples Improvement Initiative (NII) is the largest quality-of-life improvement project in Europe. This 700 million-dollar project will affect virtually every military command, all military members and their families, and DOD civilians in the greater Naples area. The project began after the Naval Support Activity, located in Agnano, was shaken by a sizeable seismic event. The base infrastructure was damaged and it was decided that the Navy community in Naples was in desperate need of new facilities. After years of deliberation, the decision was made to build a support site, consisting of housing, schools and all aspects of community support, in the town of Gricignano, about 15 miles north of Capodichino.
In February 1996 construction commenced in Gricignano, the location of the Support Site. This lease program is being implemented in four phases. The first increment includes an elementary school, a high school, and 864 housing units. The new housing units have many amenities of stateside living with 110-volt electrical current, potable, water, central heating and air conditioning, and full size appliances, including dishwashers. All of the 876 available housing units were finished in the summer of 2001. .....

FOB Farah

Bugatti car factory
Bugatti was founded in Molsheim, France as a manufacturer of high performance automobiles by Ettore Bugatti, an Italian man described as an eccentric genius.
The original company is legendary for producing some of the most exclusive cars in the world, as well as some of the fastest. The original Bugatti brand failed with the coming of World War II, like many high-end marques of the time. The death of Ettore's son Jean was also a contributory factor. The company struggled financially, and released one last model in the 1950s, before eventually being purchased for its airplane parts business in the 1960s. Today the name is owned by Volkswagen Group, who have revived it as a builder of limited production exclusive sports cars.

Banca di Roma HQ

Mausefalle jump - Streif Downhill Course
Sections of the Streif downhill course

National Gendarmerie Intervention Group Training camp Satory
The National Gendarmerie Intervention Group, commonly abbreviated GIGN (French: Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale), is the French Gendarmerie's elite counter-terrorism and hostage rescue unit; it is part of the military force, not the police. It is composed of 380 men, including 11 commissioned officers.
Its missions include the arrest of armed criminals, in particular those taking hostages, counter-terrorism and dealing with airplane hijacking, and prevention of mutiny in prisons.
GIGN headquarters are in Satory, west of Paris. Along with the EPIGN and the GSPR it forms the GSIGN (Groupement de Sécurité et d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale, Grouping of Security and Intervention of the National Gendarmerie), part of the subdivision Mobile Gendarmerie.

Secondary school Morbio inferiore- arch. M.Botta project
Project of arch. Mario Botta

SBS naval facility
In Poole harbour there is this complex which is used by RM and SBS, in LL you can see a lot of landing craft ship and rigid keel vessel

Tremont towing - South beach tow
South Beach Tow is an American TV series that follow dramatized reenactments of the day-to-day business of Miami Towing Company

Easy company memorial-Battle of the Bulge
Easy Company, 2nd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 4th Brigade combat team of the 101st Airborne Division, the "Screaming Eagles", is one of the most well-known companies in the United States Army. Their experiences in World War II are the subject of the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers based on the book of the same name by historian Stephen Ambrose. In 2009, twenty of the last few remaining survivors from Easy Company recounted their stories in the oral-history book project We Who Are Alive and Remain: Untold Stories From the Band of Brothers.
During December 1944 and January 1945, Easy Company and the rest of the 101st Airborne Division fought in Belgium in the Battle of the Bulge. The 101st was in France in December when the Germans launched their offensive in the Ardennes. They were told to hold the vital cross-roads at Bastogne and were soon encircled by the Germans. Easy Company fought in cold weather under German artillery fire without winter clothing and with limited rations and ammunition. The Allies successfully defeated the German offensive. Afterward, Easy Company and the rest of the 506th PIR moved into Germany.

Eyl pirate fleet - Somalia
Eyl Somali Pirate Boats. The pirates' open fast boats are the larger of the white colored boats, with rounded bow and stern. The pirate boats used for attacks are readily differentiated as slightly longer and broader than the normal pointed fishing boats.

Benelli motorcycle factory
Benelli is an Italian Motorcycle manufacturer owned by Chinese company Qianjiang Group. It once manufactured shotguns, although this part of the business is now a separate company.
Benelli was established in Pesaro, Italy in 1911. Teresa Benelli, a widow, invested all of the family capital into the business in the hope that it would offer stable work for her six sons: Giuseppe, Giovanni, Francesco, Filippo, Domenico and Antonio ("Tonino").

Check Point Pasta 2/7/1993-Mogadishu
The battle of Checkpoint Pasta, was fought by the Italians in Mogadishu in Somalia.
On 2 July 1993, during the operation known as "Kangaroo 12" decided by the Command Italfor, Italian forces divided into two mechanized columns carried a mop in search of weapons of Haliwaa district, north of Mogadishu, to various targets close to Pastificio (the long shaped building) destroyed, close to which was composed of a block just called Pasta. According to some reconstructions of the real purpose was to capture Aidid, but no official confirmation was ever given by the Italian.
The mop
The two columns, respectively, Alpha and Bravo, the first came from the Old Port area of Mogadishu (south) and the second from the town of Balad (north), another important Italian garrison during the mission located about twenty miles from Mogadishu.
After mopping up operation, the two columns again the way back. Following serious riots erupted in the area, with broad participation by the local population to which snipers were mixed, the situation fell to the point of rendering need to request reinforcements from the column Bravo, who was near the Pastificio along the way Imperiale .
The ambush
Some Italian media Armored VCC-1, stopped in front of barricades erected by the Somalis, were immobilized with anti-tank rockets and the surrounding streets were blocked with barricades on the part of Somali militiamen in one of these armored vehicles died parachutist Pasquale Baccaro, which had been shot in the leg by a rocket, while two other crew members were injured. It was decided then the intervention of the relief column Alfa, almost arrived at the base, with APC and M60 tank and havy Centauro with 105mm guns, but did not have permission to use for the risk of hitting civilians, the crews of armored, with the support of Mangusta and AB205 heli, tried to protect other vehicles and injured comrades with machine guns, while trying to put in motion a vehicle immobilized and men afoot rake the area during this action was shot to death the sergeant incursore Stefano Paolicchi.
Only on two occasions was used heavy equipment: an unspecified number of M60 opened fire against the containers which were used as shield for militants, causing great losses, and Mangusta attack helicopter with a missile struck a TOW Italian Iveco VM 90 stolen by Somalis.
Among the men of the relief column, the lieutenant Millevoi Andrea, the head of a column of Centauro, was hit by a sniper while leaned his way to direct the fire of machine gun 12.7 mm
The account of this day of fighting in what was to be a mission of peace was of three soldiers killed:
* Andrea Millevoi, Lieutenant of the regiment Lancieri Montebello, Medaglia d'oro al valor militare (MOVM) memory;
* Stefano Paolicchi, Sergeant Major of the 9th Battalion paratroopers stormed Col Moschin, Medaglia d'oro al valor militare (MOVM) memory;
* Pasquale Baccaro, 186 ° Regiment Folgore Parachute Brigade, MOVM memory;
There were also 36 wounded by the Italian and an unknown number of Somali militiamen and civilians dead or wounded. Among the wounded, the then lieutenant Gianfranco Paglia, paratrooper, during which the action was struck by three bullets (one lung that caused internal bleeding and a cord that will force him to a wheelchair for life ) while trying to rescue the crew of an armored assets. Gianfranco Paglia, which has been conferred the gold medal for military valor to the action, despite having lost the use of the legs, remained in service.

Via Krupp - Capri
Via Krupp connects the area of the Charterhouse and the Gardens of Augustus with Marina Piccola, once linked to the town exclusively by way of Via Mulo.
Commissioned by the German industrialist, Friedrich Alfred Krupp, the pathway was built in the early 1900’s, overcoming a difference in height of approximately 100 meters,
Via Krupp was designed and realized by the engineer Emilio Mayer, who cut through the rock until the sea, creating a series hairpin bends set so close together they appear almost to overlap.
Observing the path from on high or walking along the winding route, one is inevitably struck by such an incredible feat of engineering and artistic genius, made all the more captivating by the typically Mediterranean vegetation which spontaneously grows along the path.
Along Via Krupp there is a small gate marking the way to the Grotta di Fra’Felice, where Krupp built his villa and, a little further on, a steep and crumbling pathway which leads to the Grotta dell’Arsenale, resting four meters above sea level. A favorite nudist spot, the more adventurous enjoy swimming here, despite the almost constant danger of falling rocks.
Via Krupp has been recently repaired, but the rock face above the road is not secure, especially on very windy days.
Access to the road is barred by a gate and the path can be observed only from on high.

GSG-9 Headquarters
The GSG 9 der Bundespolizei (originally the German abbreviation of Grenzschutzgruppe 9 or Border Guard Group 9) is the elite counter-terrorism and special operations unit of the German Federal Police and is considered to be among the best of its kind in the world. Many nations have modelled their counter-terrorism units after the GSG 9.

Vajont dam
The Vajont Dam is a dam completed in 1959 in the valley of the Vajont river under Monte Toc, 100 km north of Venice, Italy. It was one of the highest dams in the world measuring 262 metres (860 ft) high, 27 metres (89 ft) thick at the base and 3.4 metres (11 ft) at the top.
Its 1963 overtopping during initial filling was caused by the lack of consideration by the designers for the geological instability of the mountain on the southern side of the basin. Warning signs and negative appraisals during the early stages of the filling were ignored; the attempt to complete the filling led to a rapid landslide, causing a seiche wave which brought massive flooding and destruction to the area below, wiping several villages away completely and killing 2,000 people.

GROM Headquarters
GROM (In Polish: Grupa Reagowania Operacyjno-Manewrowego "Operational Mobile Reaction Group"; the acronym itself means "thunderbolt") is the primary special forces unit of the Polish Land Forces. It was officially activated on July 8, 1990. It can be and is deployed in a variety of special operations and unconventional warfare roles, including anti-terrorist actions and projection of power behind enemy lines.
The unit's full name, in Polish, is Wojskowa Formacja Specjalna GROM im. Cichociemnych Spadochroniarzy Armii Krajowej (Special Military Formation GROM of the Cichociemni parachutists of Armia Krajowa), although this title is purely formal and is rarely used. The acronym GROM is also related to the name of General Gromosław Czempiński, who, among other actions, managed to rescue a number of American CIA agents and personnel from Iraq prior to the onset of Operation Desert Storm in 1991. In Polish Army nomenclature, it is called JW 2305 (JW stands for Jednostka Wojskowa—Military Unit).

Ferry Splendid in Genova
Lenght: 222 m, built in 1994, speed 22 knots

Moto Guzzi factory
Moto Guzzi, is an Italian motorcycle manufacturer that has endured from the industry's infancy to its place today as the oldest European manufacturer in continuous motorcycle production. Moto Guzzi is now one of seven brands owned by Piaggio, Europe's largest motorcycle manufacturer and the world's fourth largest motorcycle manufacturer by unit sales.
Established in 1921 in Mandello del Lario, Italy, the company is noted for its central historic role in Italy's motorcycling manufacture, its prominence worldwide motorcycle racing, and a series of industry innovations — including the first motorcycle wind tunnel and the first motorcycle eight-cylinder engine.

Hundschopf jump - Lauberhorn Downhill Ski Run
The jump over the rock nose Hundschopf followed by the Minsch-Kante and the long curve, Canadian Corner, which leads to the narrow Kernen-S (named after 2003 winner Bruno Kernen) formerly known as Brüggli-S (a nearly 90° curve, followed by a small bridge and another 90° curve).

Moody Brook barracks
Moody Brook barracks. At 6:08 am the black clad Argentine Buzo Tactico forces launched a surprize ( House clearing ) attack on the barracks here at Moody Brook. The invaders simaltaniously kicked in all doors and windows before throwing in white phosphorus Grenades and following them up with long bursts of automatic fire. Fortunetly Major Mike Norman, commanding officer of the Falklands garrison known as Naval Party 8901 had earlier abandoned the barracks, and moved his 68 men to Government House to take up defensive positions there, and to protect the Governer : His Exellency Rex Hunt.

Large graffiti in Bronx
On three different floor

Attock fort - SSG facility
Akbar the Great built Attock Fort from 1581 - 1583 under the supervision of Khawaja Shamsuddin Khawafi to protect the passage of the Indus. Attock was won by Marathas led by Peshwas (Prime Ministers of Maratha rulers, based in Pune] between 1751-1760. The brother of then Peshwa Balaji Bajirao named Raghunathrao had won Attock. It saw countless battles and skirmishes between the Sikhs and the Afghans in later years.
When Ranjit Singh sought to include the Sikh states south of the Sutlej within his jurisdiction, in 1808 the heads of these states sought and obtained the protection of the British, whose territories had now extended to their neighbourhood. The British sought alliances with Lahore, as well as with Kabul, for protection against supposed French designs on India. A British envoy, Charles Metcalfe, was received by Ranjit at Kasur in 1809 and the alliance was formed. In 1813 Ranjit Singh secured Attock Fort as well as the Koh-i-Noor diamond, consolidating his control over the Punjab.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attock

San Giovanni church - Gubbio (don Matteo location)
Don Matteo is an Italian television series that has been airing since 2000 on the premier channel of Italian national television, Rai 1. Protagonist of the series is Father Matteo (portrayed by Terence Hill), a Catholic priest in a parish of the town of Gubbio (PG), who is also known for his unrivaled talent in investigating local crime stories. Father Matteo is a wise and respected person who really manages to understand people's problems, and always appears to be willing to help. Thanks to his charm and positivity, he often helps criminals on their way to redeeming and he always convince them to confess their crimes and to accept their responsibilities. Comedian Nino Frassica portrays Lt. Antonio Cecchini, a middle aged policeman who also happens to be Matteo's best friend. Cecchini is one of the main co-protagonists and often provides the humor and comic relief in the series. Other notable cast members include Flavio Insinna, who portrayed Captain Flavio Anceschi from 2000 to 2006, Milena Miconi, who played Laura, the mayor of Gubbio as well as Anceschi's love interest and Simone Montedoro who has been playing the role of Captain Giulio Tommasi, successor to Anceschi, since the sixth season. The seventh season of the series has recently been broadcast on Italian national TV.

Party Pieces HQ - Middleton's business
Party Pieces is a family business established in 1987. As a mother of three young children Carole Middleton founded Party Pieces hoping to inspire other mothers to create magical parties at home and to make party organising a little easier

Sayda Guba nuclear reactor storage
Seven reactor compartments on Sayda bay, are stored at the new special designed concrete pad in the Saida bay west of Murmansk towards the border to Norway.

Road construction

Le Piacentine - Novecento location
1900 (Italian: Novecento, "Twentieth Century") is a 1976 Italian epic film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, starring Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Donald Sutherland, Alida Valli, and Burt Lancaster. Set in Bertolucci's ancestral region of Emilia, the film chronicles the lives of two men during the political turmoils that took place in Italy in the first half of the 20th century. The film was screened at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival, but was not entered into the main competition.[2]

Gran Torino movie - Martin's barbershop
Martin’s’ barber shop, where Walt attempts to coach the naive Thao (Bee Vang) in man-talk, is Widgren’s Barber Shop, 204 West 11 Mile Road in Royal Oak.

Battle of the Twin Tunnels - Korean war
The Battle of the Twin Tunnels took place during the Korean War. In which the 1st Battalion 23rd Infantry Regiment 3rd Brigade Combat Team 2nd Infantry Division and elements of the 21st Infantry Regiment 24th Infantry Division inflicted heavy casualties for the People's Volunteer Army.
A series of battles, including Twin Tunnels, the Battle of Chipyong-ni, and the Battle of Wonju between January and February 1951 marked a turning point in many ways for the entire Korea War. Importantly, these battles (especially Chipyong-ni on February 13–14, 1951) shaped the tactics that would replay throughout both Korea and Vietnam whereby well equipped isolated firebases, in communication by air and radio with regional divisional forces, held out against numerically superior light infantry formations. Eventually such tactics turned around the UN's disastrous retreat from the north into a stalemate that lead to an Armistice two years later relatively close to the site of these important battles.
See also:
http://www.cgsc.edu/carl/docrepository/1korstfride_km.pdf

Forest of Aremberg-Paris Roubaix
The Trouée d'Arenberg, Tranchée d'Arenberg, (Trench of Arenberg), Trouee de Wallers Arenberg, has become the symbol of Paris-Roubaix. Officially 'La Drève des Boules d'Herin', the 2400m of cobbles were laid in the time of Napoleon through the Raismes Forest-Saint-Amand-Wallers, close to Wallers and Valenciennes. The road was proposed for Paris-Roubaix by former professional Jean Stablinski, who had worked in the mine under the woods of Arenberg. The mine closed in 1990 and the passage is now preserved. Although almost 100 km from Roubaix, the sector usually proves decisive and as Stablinski said,
“ Paris-Roubaix is not won in Arenberg, but from there the group with the winners is selected. ”
A memorial to him stands at one end of the road.
Introduced in 1968, the passage was closed from 1974 to 1983 by the Office National des Fôrets. Until 1998 the entry to the Arenberg pavé was slightly downhill, leading to a sprint for best position. The route was reversed in 1999 to reduce the speed. This was as a result of Johan Museeuw's crash in 1998 as World Cup leader, which nearly cost his leg to gangrene. In 2005 the Trouée d'Arenberg was left out, organisers saying conditions had deteriorated beyond safety limits. Abandoned mines had caused sections to subside. The regional and local councils spent €250,000 on adding 50 cm to restore the original width of three metres and the race continued using it. The Italian rider Filippo Pozzato said after trying the road after its repairs:
It's the true definition of hell. It's very dangerous, especially in the first kilometre when we enter it at more than 60kh. It's unbelievable. The bike goes in all directions. It will be a real spectacle but I don't know if it's really necessary to impose it on us.

Ahu A Umi Heiau archaeological site
Ahu A ʻUmi Heiau means "shrine at the temple of ʻUmi" in the Hawaiian Language. It is also spelled "ahu-a-Umi", or known as Ahua A ʻUmi Heiau, which would mean "mound of ʻUmi". It was built for 'Umi-a-Liloa, often called ʻUmi, who ruled the island of Hawaiʻi early in the 16th century. He moved the seat of government here from the Waipiʻo Valley. The seat of power generally remained in the Kona District until the plantation days hundreds of years later. Ahu A ʻUmi Heiau was also the place where the great chief Keawe Nui a ʻUmi (the son of ʻUmi) hid to escape death from a strong aliʻi, Kalepuni, who attempted to take over Keawe Nui a ʻUmi’s rule. The site was an enclosure surrounded by a number of stone cairns, up to four meters high and seven meters in diameter.
It is unusual to be built so far inland, on the high and dry plateau between Mauna Loa and Hualālai. In the 1800s the site was built into a corral, but parts remain intact. The Judd Trail was begun in 1849 to create a direct route between Kailua and Hilo near the site, but trail completion was abandoned after the Mauna Loa eruption of 1859 crossed the route. Otherwise the area, and elevation of over 5,000 feet (1,500 m), is not easily accessed today. A number of trails with traditional names mentioning King ʻUmi's probably existed in that time. Some of these have been proposed to be restored into a Mauna Loa trail system.
The site is on the state register of historic places as site number 10-29-3810.It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 13, 1974 as site number 74000343.[1] It is located in the upper elevations of the ahupuaʻa (traditional land division) called Keauhou 2.Modern research proposes that the complex includes an atronomical direction register.

Battle of Mirbat - 19/7/1972
The Battle of Mirbat took place on 19 July 1972 during the Dhofar Rebellion in Oman, which was supported by Communist guerrillas from South Yemen. Britain assisted the Omani government by sending elements of its Special Air Service both to train soldiers and compete against the Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman (PFLOAG) guerrillas for the "hearts and minds" of the Omani people.

Ducati factory

Capaci massacre 23/05/1992
Falcone was killed with his wife Francesca Morvillo (herself a magistrate) and three policemen: Rocco Di Cillo, Antonio Montinaro, Vito Schifani, near Capaci on the motorway between Palermo International Airport and the city of Palermo on May 23, 1992. The armored Fiat Croma in which he was travelling was blown up by a bomb (350 kg of explosive) that had been placed in trenches dug by the side of the road. When passing over the bomb, Falcone was driving his car at an estimated speed of nearly 100 mph (160 km/h.)
The murder was organized by Salvatore Riina in revenge for Falcone's conviction of dozens of mobsters in the Maxi-Trials. In the major crackdown against the Mafia following Falcone and Borsellino's deaths, Riina was arrested and is now serving a life sentence for sanctioning the murders of both magistrates as well as many other crimes. Another mafioso convicted of the murder of Falcone is Giovanni Brusca, one of Riina's associates who admitted to being the one who actually detonated the explosives

Palaindoor Ancona
New palace for indoor atletics with 200m track

Roberts ridge
In the early morning hours of March 4, 2002, on a mountaintop called Takur Ghar in southeastern Afghanistan, al Qaeda soldiers fired on an MH-47E helicopter carrying a
Special Operations Forces (SOF) reconnaissance element. This fire resulted in a Navy SEAL, ABH1 Neal Roberts, falling out of the helicopter, and began a chain of events
culminating in one of the most intense small-unit firefights of the war against terrorism;
the death of all the al Qaeda terrorists defending the mountain top; and, sadly, resulting also in the death of seven U.S. servicemen. Despite these losses, the U.S. forces involved in this fight again distinguished themselves by conspicuous bravery. Their countless acts of heroism demonstrated the best of America’s Special Operations Forces (SOF) as Army, Navy and Air Force special operators fought side by side to save one of their own, and each other, and in the process secured the mountain top and inflicted serious loss on the al Qaeda.
www.armyaircrews.com/chinook.html

SBS Barrack and training facility
Special Boat Squadron barrack and training facility with shooting range

Jack the Ripper - K. Eddowes body site
Mitre Square was the scene of what is generally accepted as the fourth murder committed by Jack the Ripper. Mitre Square is a small, quiet square heading off Mitre Street, Aldgate. It has three entrances: one from Mitre Street, the second leading from Duke Street via the narrow Church Passage, and the third leading from St James's Place.

Priscilla's catacombs
The catacomb of Priscilla, named in all the ancient liturgical and topographic sources, has its modern entrance on the Via Salaria through the cloister of the monastery of the Benedictines of Priscilla.
The development of the catacomb dates from the second through the fifth centuries A.D. with three principal areas: an arenarium, a cryptoportico from a large Roman villa, and an underground burial area of the noble Roman family Acilius Glabrio. On account of the fact that seven early popes and many martyrs were buried in the cemetery, it was known as the "Queen of the Catacombs" in antiquity.

Varignano COMSUBIN Italian Navy special force barrack
Gulf of Varignano near La Spezia. This is the principal barracks of COMSUBIN the spacial forces of Italian Navy, in the northern peninsula there are the barracks, in the south a helipad and other facility, in the center of the gulf a series of building called "Capannone" which are used for recovery the secret submarine equipment.

Culloden battlefield
The Battle of Culloden was the final battle of Jacobite Rebellion in 1745.
On 16 April 1746, the Jacobite forces of Charles Edward Stuart fought loyalist troops commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland near Inverness.
The Hanoverian victory at Culloden decisively stopped the Jacobite temptative to overthrow the House of Hanover and restore the House of Stuart to the British throne.
The strenght was about 8000 man with the Duke of Cumberland (300 casualties) and 7000 man with the Jacobite (2000 casualties)

Murrel Bridge battlefield
As the British pushed forward from their bridgehead at San Carlos they started to encounter the outer Argentine defences in the hills around Port Stanley. 3 Para took a northern rout and by the end of May had advanced to Estancia house. From there they sent out there specialist patrols from D company to scout out the enemies positions on Mount Longdon, their expected objective in the comming battles. There was a problem however that the journey from Estancia took several hours at each night and so a patrols base was set up at Murrel Bridge at about the halfway point.
On the Argentinian side it was soon realised that the units in the positions on the surrounding hills were illequiped in both training & moral to carry out their own patroling. Thus, the army commando units, normally used for deep-recce had to take on this roll. They were able to do so with some effect and in the early hours of the 7th June one such patrol was approaching Murrel Bridge.
After several successful nights in the area Sgt Addle's patrol had just arrived back at the bluff on the western bank of the river which they had been using as a base. Here they met up with a few others of the Patrols company & settled down for the night. Within a short space of time a sentry reported moving figures down near the bridge. The Paras opened up and a confused firefight developed in the darkness with smallarms, machinegun and LAW fire being exchanged. The Commando patrol was very aggreeive and before dawn broke had forced the Paras to withdraw, having to leave behind much of their equipment. The next night the paras returned in greater force but their equipment had gone. Patrols from then on had to be mounted from closer to their own lines.
The British claimed 5 Argentine casualties (none confermed) they suffered none themselves.

Ospedale regionale Torrette-Ancona
Regional hospital and University of medicine

Mount Longdon Battlefield
The Battle of Mount Longdon was an engagement of the Falklands War between British and Argentine forces, which took place on 11/12 June 1982, resulting in a British victory.

AISI Italian secret service building
According to Wikipedia this is the HQ of th Agenzia Informazioni e Sicurezza Interna (Italian for "Internal Information and Security Agency"), commonly known as AISI, is the domestic intelligence agency of Italy.
www.sicurezzanazionale.gov.it

Notting hill movie- William house
The famous blue door of the house of William Thacker (Hugh Grant) was sold from the true owner of the house for 20,000 pounds. Currently the port has been replaced with a black and columns were painted around the white.

Stava dam collapse
The Val di Stava Dam collapse occurred on July 19, 1985 when a tailings dam above the village of Stava, near Tesero, northern Italy, failed. It resulted in one of Italy's worst disasters, killing 268 people, destroying 62 buildings and demolishing 8 bridges.
The upper dam broke first, leading to the collapse of the lower dam. Around 200,000 cubic metres of mud, sand and water were released into the Rio di Stava valley and toward the village of Stava at a speed of 90 km/h. Having crashed through the village, the torrent continued until it reached the Avisio River a further 4.2 km away, destroying everything in its path.

Defender & VM90 Esercito Italiano
In front of the command of Brigata Acqui

Kiruna mine
The Kiruna mine is the largest and most modern underground iron ore mine in the world. The mine is located in Kiruna in Norrbotten County, Lapland. The mine which is owned by Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara AB, a large Swedish mining company, has an annual production capacity of over 26 million tonnes of iron ore. In 2008 the mine produced 27.5 million tonnes of iron ore. The Kiruna mine has an ore body which is 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) long, 80 metres (260 ft) to 120 metres (390 ft) thick and reaching a depth of up to 2 kilometres (1.2 mi). Since mining began at the site in 1898, the mine has produced over 950 million tonnes of ore

Camp Mercury

Carnival in Taft

Quartier Viénot - Legion Etrangere
French Foreign Legion