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Where is this tower, likely photographed in Belgium about 100 years ago?
This is not in Belgium, but in Béthune, France, although not far from the Belgian border.
The belfry (the tower) is originally from 1346, but was destroyed during the first world war and rebuilt ...
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Is the 4 Corners Monument wrong, or is Google Maps wrong?
There was a discussion in a land surveying forum of how far off Google Earth was in various situations. Google Maps and Google Earth are not exactly the same product, but the discussion may be ...
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Is it possible to climb Uluru (Ayers Rock)?
As of October 26th 2019, it will not be possible to climb Uluru:
In line with the agreed process in the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park Management Plan 2010-2020 and the wishes of traditional owners,...
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Is the 4 Corners Monument wrong, or is Google Maps wrong?
I am going to add a bit more background to Gerard Ashton's answer as my background is in mapping, surveying, and GIS. Gerard is absolutely correct. Whatever the original survey said is the location of ...
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What's the least difference in longitude on a flight between a pair of IATA airports?
I have a database of OpenFlights data laying around from What's the quickest route between antipodes using regularly scheduled transit?, so let's put it to work.
[an excruciatingly boring period ...
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In which city is this building with the inscription "domus dei et porta coeli"?
Yes, that is Cittadella, province of Padua, Italy
https://traveling4numbers.com/tag/cittadella/
and aerial view picture:
another view picture
it is really easy to spot since you can read clearly ...
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Help identifying this landmark and road in "Los Angeles 1940s, Residential Area in color"
Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation:
The Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation is in Los Angeles, California. The shrine is a 75-foot-tall (23 m) structure of marble, mosaic, and ...
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Is there any kind of monument or marker for the Tropic of Cancer along the coast on the east side of Taiwan?
I think what you're looking for is Jing Pu Tropic of Cancer landmark. It's located just off route 11 and is marked on Google Maps as a landmark.
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What's the least difference in latitude on a flight between a pair of IATA airports?
Following the same procedure as the longitude question and the same elimination of nonsense and duplicates:
SELECT ST_Y(source_geom) as src_y, ST_Y(destination_geom) as dst_y, abs(ST_Y(source_geom)-...
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What's the difference between the main deck and top deck of the Empire State Building?
The biggest difference between main deck: 86th floor and top deck: 102nd floor is that main deck is open air observatory and top deck is much smaller room enclosed by glass. As question mentions the ...
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Paying Respects to Holocaust Victims in Paris: Are the Vélodrome d'Hiver & Drancy Camp respectable museums to visit? Are they even museums?
I don't think there's a museum at the Velodrome d'Hiver site (the building itself doesn't exist anymore). There's a monument there : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_des_Martyrs-Juifs-du-V%C3%...
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Are the Kinmen Islands visible from Xiamen?
They are easily visible. In Xiamen you can walk down to the water, there is some kind of promenade and unless it is super foggy you can see the islands. Source, I've been there and done that.
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Can I buy tickets to Crown of Statue of Liberty on premise?
As the official National Park Service website states clearly,
Due to its extreme popularity, access to the crown is by advanced reservation only. Statue Cruises is the official source for crown ...
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Is the 4 Corners Monument wrong, or is Google Maps wrong?
The answer is somewhat interesting. The monument itself is the legal border, as defined by New Mexico v. Colorado, 267 U.S. 30 (1925) because it lies directly on the lines "as surveyed". ...
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Visiting Neuschwanstein on December 31
From previous visits: the parking lots will also be closed, as will be the restaurants and any horse-carts or stuff that taxis you uphill. The Marienbrücke is in publicly accessible forest, as is the ...
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Is the 4 Corners Monument wrong, or is Google Maps wrong?
I don't know whether this is helpful, but below is a picture of my GPS (unfortunately without coordinates shown) from the middle of the monument at Four Corners. When I was there (in 2005) I recall ...
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What are these mysterious craters?
Volcanic craters, most likely. The Cascades are mostly volcanic, after all.
You can see some similar-looking volcanoes here, just east of Lassen Volcanic National Park. And lots more near Lava Beds ...
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White House tour as an Indian tourist ? (Indian Embassy does not help)
No foreign embassy can organize a tour of the White House. The White House staff organizes tours. But applications have to made either via a member of the Congress (in case of US citizens) or via a ...
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Can someone help me identify where this rock is located in Lanzarote?
Alamy stock photos has an almost identical image, identifying it as the Lanzarote lava landscape on the Calle del Candil, near El Majon. Location for off-road quad biking round tufa rocks.
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Where is this geyser?
Heh, they've made a simple mistake. It IS Old Faithful, but not the Yellowstone one. It's the one in Calistoga, California.
http://www.oldfaithfulgeyser.com/
Wiki page on Calistoga, with image on ...
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Pre-booking a visit to the Reichstagsgebäude in Berlin
If it's already fully booked then that will likely not change. It might be possible that people cancel their appointments in advance (though I do not know if that is actually possible). If that ...
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What are the actual rules for legally visiting Stull Cemetery?
I doubt you're going to find an "official" listing anywhere. Reading between the lines of the article, it sounds very much like this is still an active cemetery, meaning that there's points where it's ...
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Is this image, taken about 1900, actually from Nuremberg?
I would suggest asking the Nuremberg Municipal Museums about this image or others tagged as Nürnberg.
Local museums are often interested in receiving such images taken by visitors since sometimes ...
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Is it possible to climb Uluru (Ayers Rock)?
Please don't do this. Uluru is sacred to the Pitjantjatjara Anangu. You wouldn't like if if some foreigner came to your country and started climbing up your sacred monument.
Since there seems no ...
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What is the oldest building in the world still in use?
The Cave of the Patriachs ( Machpela )in Hebron in Israel is the oldest continuous use building dating back to 40BC . It is a mausoleum used today as a place of prayer . Originally it was built as a ...
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Reaching all of Canada's "land's end" spots - which ones are marked?
There are parks at at least two of Canada's extremities: Point Pelee (the southernmost point on the mainland) and Cape Spear (the easternmost point). There are signs on both pointing this out.
Point ...
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Can someone help me identify where this rock is located in Lanzarote?
by some researching I found the location!
Here is the google maps link: Google Maps
The coordinates are: 29°3'24.145124"N, 13°30'14.991932"W
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