Archive for October 12th, 2005

Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Each weekday your guides James and Alex present new weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.

The editors: James & Alex

FedEx Field

Wednesday, 12th October 2005 by James

At a capacity of 91,665 FedEx Field is the largest stadium in the NFL. This explains the VAST amounts of parking around the stadium, there’s even helicopter parking.

Thanks: Tony Scida, Peter, Duncan McKenzie, Steve & Charlie

Hyundai & Audi cars

by James

Just by looking at the shape and colour of these tiny cars parked outside an Australian car dealership I can identify them as Hyundai and Audi cars. Pretty impressive, huh?

Thanks: shea marshall

The Oldest Electronically Lit School Emblem in the World

by Alex

Perched on the side of Mount Zion in Colorado is a giant ‘M’ for the Colorado School of Mines. The school claims that it is the ‘largest electronically-lit school emblem in the world’, a claim which is disputed by Brigham Young University, whose giant illuminated ‘Y’ is clearly much larger.

However, the M is definitely older, and has also been lighted for a good thirty years longer – so Colorado is entitled to lay claim to having the ‘oldest electronically lit school emblem in the world’ . . . if they wanted to that is.

School of Mines \'M\'

Thanks to Andrew G. Milmoe, Cyndi Wheeler, Timothy, Keith Maxon, Skor Grimm and Charles Christensen