Today , VirtualGlobetrotting reached an amazing milestone:
The 200,000th map was submitted!
Congratulations to adrbr for submitting the 200,000th map! This is also adrbr’s 20,745th map. No one has submitted more. Very Impressive!
It is time for our 25th Scavenger Hunt!
For this one you’ll be looking for pictures or statues of people, characters, and animals.
The winner receives a $25 Amazon gift card!
Paintings, photos, posters, ads, statues, artwork, logos, etc. Everything is free game as long as it depicts the person, character, or animal we’re seeking. I’ll be looking for a picture, not a written name.
HINT: Memorials and statues are a good source for deceased famous people.
If the person lived in real life then please include a sentence describing who they were and when they were born and died.
Example:
Bob Doe, (March 3, 1960 – May 5, 2000), obscure brother of John Doe.
This Scavenger Hunt will end at midnight PST on March 25, 2015.
Good luck and Happy Hunting!
Link to the scavenger hunt is HERE
The Blog post for the Photo Safari #68 that starts today (30 Aug 2012) somehow got posted out of order.
Here is a link to it.
Today is Cow Appreciation Day. And, that’s no bull! But, it is something to “Moo” about. 
Friends is an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004. The series revolves around a group of friends in Manhattan.
The USS San Francisco (SSN-71) hits an uncharted undersea mountain while travelling at high speed about 500 ft below surface.
The Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO) completes the withdrawal of all workers from the Light Water Reactor project site in Kumho, North Korea.
Another great safari with 453 posts. adrbr and daggerwell played leapfrog for the lead all week with dagerwell in front at the end. K7ISS overtook WacoKidd110 in the final hour to finish 3rd. Good job folks!
The final results:
453 maps submitted.
daggerwell – 170 points
adrbr – 141 points
K7ISS – 52 points
WacoKidd110 – 49 points
LancelotLink – 21 points
forthefallendrms – 11 points
kuressaare – 7 points
giove – 2 points
Here are a few of my favorites:
1952 – The first Vickers Viscount enters commercial service.
1981 – The Swann Covered Bridge is added to the National Register of Historic Places.
kjfitz is in France for a cycling event, so I get to post the Safari results for a couple of weeks.
Another record setting safari this week with a whopping 598 maps. You posted way more than any other safari so far. Congratulations to kuressaare for finishing in the top spot.
The final results:
598 maps submitted.
kuressaare – 182 points
daggerwell – 132 points
WacoKidd110 – 113 points
adrbr – 76 points
LancelotLink – 68 points
kkeps – 15 points
Tyco – 12 points
Here are a few favorites kjfitz selected before he left.
Google LatLong posted that there is new Google Earth Imagery imagery available today.
