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Thursday, 29th July 2010 by Noel Ballantyne
We’ve only ever written one other post about Venezuela, so it’s about time we took another trip. We’d like to have crafted a post about the Orinoco River, but sadly there isn’t enough of it in high resolution to write about… until you get to the Casiquiare canal. The Casiquiare canal is the largest river on the planet that links two major river systems, and is possibly the best example…
Friday, 23rd July 2010 by Alex Turnbull
After what feels like months of work1, we’ve finally launched our brand new design for Google Sightseeing (14 weeks after we originally planned to launch it, on our 5th birthday). Today we’re very proud to bring…
Tuesday, 27th July 2010 by Ian Brown
The Rideau Canal is a World Heritage Site waterway which connects Canada’s capital Ottawa to the city of Kingston on Lake Ontario. The route consists of a combination of several lakes, numerous rivers and dams, and 19km of man-made canals, featuring 45 locks. Used today for recreational boating, the Canal…
Friday, 23rd July 2010 by Matt Bucher
Freemasonry is the world’s largest and oldest fraternity. It’s also sort of hard to define. It’s a fraternal organisation, but it’s also bound up with ideas of morals, charity, and social gatherings.1 For centuries, Masons have taken pride in constructing monuments to their brotherhood (although a common Masonic saying is…
Tuesday, 20th July 2010 by Ian Brown
This gleaming expanse of white marble is the Sheikh Zayed Mosque in Abu Dhabi. It is particularly gleaming, and spectacularly white, because the $2billion no-expense-spared project entailed shipping in the purest white stone known to man, all the way from Macedonia. Twenty seven other varieties of marble were used in…
Friday, 16th July 2010 by Ian Brown
Terry Fox is a hero to many Canadians for his Marathon of Hope – an endeavour for which he is commemorated with a statue directly across from Parliament Hill in Ottawa, the nation’s capital1. Born in 1958 in in Winnipeg, at age 8 Fox moved with his family to British…
Tuesday, 13th July 2010 by Chris Hannigan
The crazy American TV series “Wipeout” is ranked as the third most popular game show in the world1, and for a long time its exact outdoor filming location remained a mystery. Thanks to updates in Google’s satellite imagery, the insane obstacle course that sends the contestants flying through the air…
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It’s Volcano Week 4 here at GSS. Volcanoes, about a week. You know the drill! Newberry Volcano is an immense…
An erratic boulder is, simply enough, a piece of rock that doesn’t originate from the place where it is found.…
The Google Latlong Blog has posted an announcement of new terrain and imagery in Google Earth and Google Maps. Rather…
The crazy American TV series “Wipeout” is ranked as the third most popular game show in the world1, and for…
INTERNET fan Luther Blissett told yesterday how he found the ANTICHRIST – on Google Earth. The 26-year-old recognised the image…
As we all know, the general theory of relativity states that a black hole is a region of space from…
INTERNET fan Luther Blissett told yesterday how he found the ANTICHRIST – on Google Earth. The 26-year-old recognised the image…
Freemasonry is the world’s largest and oldest fraternity. It’s also sort of hard to define. It’s a fraternal organisation, but…
The crazy American TV series “Wipeout” is ranked as the third most popular game show in the world1, and for…
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