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Friday, 8th April 2005 by James Turnbull
Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a 60ft rock carving featuring (left to right) former U.S. Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.
Props to xylon (and many others).
The Morganza Spillway is a flood management system on the Mississippi River in Louisiana, intended to protect the cities of…
Back to his very origins, humans have chosen to worship physical representations of their deities. Currently the most popular religion…
For centuries, the port of [Aden][w] has served as Yemen’s gateway to the the world. Its distinctive double harbour lies in the crater of an extinct volcano. Over the years, a number of wrecked ships have accumulated in Aden’s harbour, many of which are visible in Google Maps imagery.
Lesotho is one of the most unique countries on the planet. It’s the southernmost landlocked country, the largest country that’s entirely surrounded by another country, and the highest country on Earth. Yet, it doesn’t really show up on too many people’s radar. With the arrival of Google Street View imagery this month to Lesotho, it’s time to shed some light on the world’s largest enclave.
The Netherlands is renowned for being a very flat1 and windy country. In the western town of Rozenburg the strong…
Lesotho is one of the most unique countries on the planet. It’s the southernmost landlocked country, the largest country that’s entirely surrounded by another country, and the highest country on Earth. Yet, it doesn’t really show up on too many people’s radar. With the arrival of Google Street View imagery this month to Lesotho, it’s time to shed some light on the world’s largest enclave.
The Netherlands is renowned for being a very flat1 and windy country. In the western town of Rozenburg the strong…
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i think google needs to re-take that picture b/c it’s all cloudy! you can only barely make our washington’s head! it doesn’t look so big from above…
Wait a minute, where’s Phillip Vandamm’s house??
This is Mount Rushmore in NASA WorldBlind with enabled Shuttle Radar Topography Mission:
http://img95.echo.cx/img95/1906/mountrushmore8ig.jpg
Am I the only one that thinks that this historic monumant seen from above looks like something else when you rotate it 90 degrees to the right?
Florida, that’s it, Florida, right.
Peter
“I want to go to Mount splashmore,take me take me take me take me now, now now now,mount splashmore take me there right now!!”