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Ancient Ruins of Palmyra
In the past week, fighters from the Islamic State seized the ancient oasis city of Palmyra, Syria. Located at the crossroads of ancient Greek, Roman, Persian, and Islamic cultures, the city contains some of the world’s oldest known antiquities and ruins. The fabled amphitheater and the Temple of Bel seen in this Overview were completed as far back as 32 AD. ISIS despises antiquity since it represents culture that predates Islam and experts predict that they will vandalize and destroy these ancient ruins.
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Ferrari World
Ferrari World is an amusement park located on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Covering 86,000 square meters, it claims to be the world’s largest indoor theme park and contains "Formula Rossa" - the world's fastest roller coaster.
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Soekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)
Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta, Indonesia is the 9th busiest airport in the world, serving approximately 57.8 million passengers each year.
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Interchange construction
An interchange is constructed around the Pagano Freeway in Avondale, Arizona, USA. On average, an American motorist will pay approximately $171/year in road maintenance taxes.
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Blooming tulips
Blooming tulips are seen among the fields of Zeewolde, Netherlands. The country is the world leader in tulip production, growing an estimated 4.3 billion bulbs each year, 2.3 billion of which are made into cut flowers.
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Residential development
Residential communities are seen here in Delray Beach, Florida, USA. According to the 2010 census, 20.4% of the town’s 34,156 households are vacant.
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Lollapalooza
The Lollapalooza Music Festival takes places each year at Millennium Park by Lake Michigan in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The event hosts more than 160,000 people over a three-day period.
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San Francisco International Airport (SFO)
San Francisco International Airport is the twenty-first busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic, accommodating more than 50 million passengers every year.
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Adelaide Rift Complex
Rock formations of the Adelaide Rift Complex are visible in the South Australian Outback. The swirling patterns are composed of folded and faulted sediments that were deposited there in a large basin more than 540 million years ago. Since then, the land folded and faulted to become a large mountain range and then underwent extensive erosion to become the relatively low ranges that we see today. For a sense of scale, this Overview is approximately 100 square miles.
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The Forbidden City
The Forbidden City in Beijing, China was built from 1406 until 1420 by more than one million workers. The palace complex, which contains 9,999 rooms, is surrounded by walls and a moat that are 26 feet high and 171 feet wide, respectively.
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Roseville Yard
Roseville Yard, located north of Sacramento, California is the largest rail facility on the west coast of the United States. Operated by the Union Pacific Railroad, the yard accommodates approximately 98 percent of all rail traffic in the north of the state.
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The City of Arts and Sciences
The City of Arts and Sciences is an entertainment-based cultural and architectural complex in Valencia, Spain. Among its many destinations, the facility contains L’Hemisfèric (an IMAX cinema and planetarium), L’Umbracle (a landscaped walking space and outdoor art gallery), and El Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia (an opera house and performing arts center).
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Wrigley Field
It's Father's Day here in the United States, so I thought it was fitting to share an Overview of my dad's favorite place - Wrigley Field. The stadium is home to the Chicago Cubs and is the second-oldest active major league ballpark (after Fenway Park in Boston) with its first game played in 1916. known for its ivy-covered brick outfield wall and was the last major league ballpark to have lights installed for night games in 1988.
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Istanbul Shipyard
The Istanbul Shipyard offers facilities to build or repair fourteen large sea-faring vessels simultaneously. The complex contains cranes that have a lifting capacity of 550 tons as well as the largest drydock in Turkey - stretching more than one thousand feet (310 meters).
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Montreal Stadium
Olympic Stadium in Montreal, Canada was constructed for the 1976 Olympic Games. The stadium is home to the city's soccer and football teams and also features the world's largest inclined tower (574 feet). Hope all of our followers in Canada had a wonderful Canada Day yesterday!
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Donghai Bridge Wind Farm
Turbulence fields form behind the turbines of the Donghai Bridge Wind Farm in Shanghai, China. These streaks occur when wind hits the turbines' towers or when certain meteorological conditions cause the turbines to create condensation (i.e. clouds) of very humid air.
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Soybean fields
Soybeans fields straddle the border of São Domingos and São Desidério, Brazil. In 2014, Brazil became the world’s top producer of the crop with a harvest of 90 million metric tons.
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Arizona State Prison Complex - Perryville
The Arizona Department of Corrections facility in Goodyear, Arizona is surrounded by fields of lettuce, cabbage, and red potatoes. The prison holds 2,382 inmates across eight housing units (only one is pictured here). This Overview is part of a collaborative photo essay that we just released with Fusion to detail how prisons have become a part of the American landscape, often in plain sight. Check out the full story .
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Incheon International Airport
Incheon International Airport is located thirty miles west of Seoul, South Korea. The airport is one of the busiest in the world (23rd by annual passenger traffic at 47+ million) and also one of the most efficient. Airport authorities claim that the average departure and arrival at Incheon take only 19 minutes and 12 minutes, respectively. These times are significantly lower than the international average of 60 minutes for departures and 45 minutes for arrivals.
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Sepang Goldcoast Resort
We’re feeling very tropical with this Overview of the Sepang Goldcoast Resort in Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia. The hotel features over-water bungalows that extend out in a palm-shaped formation into the calm waters of the Malacca Straits.
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