House No 3, Street No 8-A, Garga Road, Thanda Chowa, Hashmi Colony, Abbottabad. On April 29, 2011, U.S. President Barack Obama authorized the CIA to conduct a raid, dubbed “Operation Neptune Spear”. In the late evening of May 1, 2011, (EDT), the president announced that bin Laden had been killed in the operation. Two teams [...]
The Contra Dam, commonly known as the Verzasca Dam and the Locarno Dam,is an arch dam on the Verzasca River in the Val Verzasca of Ticino, Switzerland. The dam creates Lago di Vogorno 2 km (1.2 mi) upstream of Lake Maggiore and supports a 105 MW hydroelectric power station. It was constructed between 1961 and [...]
Murud-Janjira is the local name for a fort situated at the coastal village of Murud, in the Raigad district of Maharashtra, India.It is famous for being the only fort along India’s western coast that remained undefeated despite Dutch and English East India Company attacks. More info via Wikipedia
The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric dam that spans the Yangtze River by the town of Sandouping, located in the Yiling District of Yichang, in Hubei province, China. The Three Gorges Dam is the world’s largest capacity hydroelectric power station with a total generating capacity of 18,200 MW. The dam body was completed in [...]
The INS Vikramaditya, India’s next aircraft carrier, formally the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkovm, was purchased from the Russian navy in 2009 and can been seen on Google maps currently undergoing reconfiguration. The INS Vikramaditya is currently under going extensive reconfiguration, changing its top deck layout to a STOBAR configuration, this includes removing the ballistic missile [...]
Site of ongoing battle for control between Libyan Forces and anti regime groups. The Ras Lanuf Refinery is a topping and reforming oil refinery in the city of Rā’s Lānūf, Libya. It is part of a larger petrochemical complex also consisting of an ethylene plant, a polyethylene plant, plant utilities, and Ras Lanuf Harbor.[1] The [...]
Area 51 has been a part of pop culture, shrouded in mystery, conspiracy theories and UFO’s. Area 51 is a military base, and a remote detachment of Edwards Air Force Base. It is located in the southern portion of Nevada in the western United States, 83 miles (133 km) north-northwest of downtown Las Vegas. Situated [...]
The recent earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit eastern Japan has also resulted in the Fukushima 1 nuclear power plant suffering major damage. The nuclear power plant located in the town of Okuma in the Futaba District of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. The plant consists of six boiling water reactors. These light water reactors have a [...]
The Richat Structure is a prominent circular feature in the Sahara desert of Mauritania near Ouadane. It has attracted attention since the earliest space missions because it forms a conspicuous bull’s-eye in the otherwise rather featureless expanse of the desert. The structure, which has a diameter of approx 50 kilometres (31 mi) and is located [...]
