Where In The World?
Since nobody got the last one, I made this one a bit easier.
UPDATE: Congrats to Captain Ned! This is Rybachiy Submarine Base.
From Global Security.
The primary Pacific Fleet operating bases are Pavlovskoye [Pavlovsk] near Vladivostok and Rybachiy near Petropavlovsk. Petropavlovsk is home to much of Russia’s Pacific nuclear submarine fleet.
Located on the far-eastern frontier of Russia and the former Soviet Union, Kamchatka has always been of strategic importance. Home to the Pacific nuclear submarine fleet at the secret Rybachy base, the Peninsula was a closed region for many decades, until the early 1990s. Even today, a decade after the Cold War’s end, Russia continues to maintain a heavy military presence on the Peninsula, and many areas of Kamchatka remain off-limits. Located across Avacha Bay, the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky is the industrial, scientific and cultural center of Kamchatka.
Rybachiy is an inspectable submarine facility under the START-1 agreement. The United States and the Soviet Union signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) on 31 July 1991. When START entered into force on 05 December 1994, the signatories began to implement the Treaty’s complex set of intrusive inspection and verification measures. As part of START’s verification provisions, each signatory was required to declare all facilities related to ICBMs, submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs), and heavy bombers. The former Soviet Union (FSU) has declared over five dozen START-inspectable sites in all categories, including five SLBM facilities and six submarine facilities.
Where In The World?
Back to the old fort theme.
UPDATE: Congrats to Marc! This is Fort Loudoun in TN.
Fort Loudoun was a British colonial fort in present-day Monroe County, Tennessee, near the towns of the Overhill Cherokee. The fort was reconstructed during the Great Depression and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965.
Where In The World?
OK, play time’s over. This one is for the advanced time wasters.
UPDATE: Well, I guess it wasn’t too hard since I forgot to save the image after cropping off the coordinates 
Congrats to cynical!
This is mighty Royal Palace of the Kingdom of Toro! Toro also boasts the world’s youngest reigning monarch.
Where In The World?
Eh, we’ll start out 2010 with an easy one.
UPDATE: C’mon folks… it’s been three days. B&S has never had one of these go unsolved. I’ll stick this up at the top for a while to see if any of you chumps can get it. New posts will be below.
UPDATE2: Congrats to 3rd Way! This is the official residence of the Sultan of Brunei and the largest residence in the world at 2,152,782 square feet.
Geography Quiz
We haven’t done one of these in a while. Where is this?
UPDATE: Congrats to Rick. This is the square in Prishtina, Kosovo, where President Clinton’s statue now stands erect.
Waldseemuller Map
The Waldseemuller map was - and still is - an astonishing sight to behold. Drawn 15 years after Columbus first sailed across the Atlantic, and measuring a remarkable 8ft wide by 4½ft high, it introduced Europeans to a fundamentally new understanding of the make-up of the earth.
The map represented a remarkable number of historical firsts. In addition to giving America its name, it was also the first map to portray the New World as a separate continent - even though Columbus, Vespucci, and other early explorers would all insist until their dying day that they had reached the far-eastern limits of Asia.
The map was the first to suggest the existence of what explorer Ferdinand Magellan would later call the Pacific Ocean, a mysterious decision, in that Europeans, according to the standard history of New World discovery, aren’t supposed to have learned about the Pacific until several years later.
Guess That Geographical Location—15 July 2009
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Congrats to Concerned West Bend Citizen.
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Guess That Geographical Location—13 July 2009
This one would be impossible without a clue, so here’s a big one. The white spot is a bus.
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Congrats to deanp.
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Guess That Geographical Location—9 July 2009
Easy one today.
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Congrats to Kurt.
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Guess that Geographical Location—8 July 2009
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Congrats to MichaelP.
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Guess That Geographical Location—6 July 2009
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Congrats to gelt.
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Guess That Geographical Location—2 July 2009
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Congrats to gelt.
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Guess That Geographical Location—30 June 2009
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Congrats to gelt.
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Guess That Geographical Location—29 June 2009
This one has the potential to be very tough. Or at least a good test of your Google/Wikipedia skills.
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Congrats to gelt.
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