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Sony Bravia Estate

It’s not often we would get to post about a council estate in Scotland, but this particular estate in Toryglen, Glasgow was the location for the latest Sony Bravia advert, which features huge quantities of paint exploding from the high-rise…

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Friday, 20th October 2006

The Sultan of Brunei

The ostentatious Istana Nurul Iman palace is the official residence of the one-time richest man on the planet, the Sultan of Brunei. Arguably this is the largest residential palace in the world, and possibly even the largest residence of any…

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Monday, 16th October 2006

Trafalgar Square Crowd

Man, there’s a whole heap of people in Trafalgar Square since the latest image update. Does anyone know what they’re all doing? Update: dda worked it out – this is the 29th of January 2006, and we’re seeing several thousand…

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Wednesday, 4th October 2006

Heathrow Terminal 5

With the recent image updates to central London we can see how they’re getting on with the controversial Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport. The aerial image was taken earlier this year and although there’s been some progress they still have…

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Tuesday, 3rd October 2006

Crikey, it’s Stingray City!

We feel sure that the undoubtedly great, and now very sadly late Steve Irwin wouldn’t blame the stingray that brought about his untimely demise for a single second. In fact we reckon that Steve probably wouldn’t want these normally very…

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Tuesday, 5th September 2006

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (Island Week)

Welcome to the loose collection of islands in the southern Atlantic Ocean known as South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. Currently an overseas territory of the United Kingdom, the glacier covered main island of South Georgia was invaded by…

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Tuesday, 29th August 2006

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Mystery Sand Formation (Desert Week 2011)

For our first post of Desert Week 2011, we’re travelling to the Grand Erg Oriental, or ‘Great Eastern Sand Sea’…

Desert Week 2011

As is customary, the “much-more-interesting-than-it-sounds” desert week is one week late again this year! However, our writers have been touring…

Wow! That’s a LOT of cars!

Check out all of these white cars parked on an airfield in Green Cove Springs, Florida! GSS reader Jon who…

Portmeirion & The Prisoner

Portmeirion is a small resort village in North Wales famous for its Italianate architecture, and for being the setting for…

St Petersburg UNESCO World Heritage Site – Part Two: Forts and Fortresses

Continuing our exploration of one of the world’s largest UNESCO World Heritage Sites, we’ll visit some of the structures built…

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