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PROMESAS

Giant writing in Mexico: “PROMESAS“. Using my excellent Spanish skills I translated this to “Promises”, although who’s promising who what I can’t tell you. Thanks: Timo V Tikansalo & marwan

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Thursday, 13th October 2005

Hyundai & Audi cars

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

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Wednesday, 12th October 2005

The Oldest Electronically Lit School Emblem in the World

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…

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Wednesday, 12th October 2005

Eat Pecans

Woah! Somebody really, really likes pecans! Thanks to Steve Andersen and William Eckley.

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Monday, 10th October 2005

Kio Towers

Here at Google Sightseeing we’ve previously featured photos of buildings which appear to be leaning towards each other due to the angle of the photo. However, Madrid’s Kio Towers actually do lean towards each other, here’s a ground level pic…

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Saturday, 8th October 2005

Fuller’s Brewery

Nice large type here on the roof of Fuller’s Brewery in London. Fuller, Smith and Turner PLC are famous for their award-winning beers and ales which are brewed in this, the oldest brewery in London. There’s a been a brewery…

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Thursday, 6th October 2005

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Definitely a duck (maybe)

Here in the United States somewhere (we think, we haven’t checked), we’ve found this random patch of land that we…

Google Maps publishes aerial images of murder scene

The continuing rollout of 45° “birds eye view” images across the globe1 has now revealed a real-life tragedy. On the…

Trollstigen (Troll’s path)

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