28 November 2022 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , San Francisco Bay Area
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Pleasanton is a city in
Alameda County, California , United States. Located in the
Amador Valley , it is a suburb in the
East Bay region of the
San Francisco Bay Area . The population was 79,871 at the
2020 census . In 2005 and 2007, Pleasanton was ranked the wealthiest middle-sized city in the United States by the Census Bureau. Pleasanton is home to the headquarters of
Safeway ,
Workday ,
Ellie Mae ,
Roche Molecular Diagnostics ,
Blackhawk Network Holdings , and
Veeva Systems . Other major employers include
Kaiser Permanente ,
Oracle and
Macy’s . Although Oakland is the Alameda County seat, a few county offices are located in Pleasanton. The
Alameda County Fairgrounds are located in Pleasanton, where the county fair is held during the last week of June and the first week of July.
Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park is located on the west side of town.
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27 November 2022 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , Architecture , New York City
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Billionaires’ Row is a set of ultra-luxury residential
skyscrapers , constructed or in development, that are arrayed roughly along the southern end of
Central Park in
Manhattan ,
New York City . Several of these buildings are in the
supertall category, taller than 1,000 feet (300 m), and are among the tallest buildings in the world. Since most of these
pencil towers are on
57th Street , the term has been used to refer to the street itself as well.
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27 November 2022 | Author/Destination: Around the World / Rund um die Welt | Rubric: General
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26 November 2022 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General
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Burlada-Burlata (
Spanish /
Basque ) is a commune in the
Autonomous Community of Navarre (Comunidad Foral de Navarra) in
Spain . It borders
Pamplona and Villava to the north,
Huarte to the east,
Egüés to the south and Pamplona to the west. The town is located in the Pamplona valley and is part of the extended urban space of the Navarrese capital.
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26 November 2022 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General , Berlin
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Dahlem is a locality of the
Steglitz-Zehlendorf borough in southwestern
Berlin . Until
Berlin’s 2001 administrative reform it was a part of the former borough of
Zehlendorf . It is located between the mansion settlements of
Grunewald and
Lichterfelde West . Dahlem is one of the most affluent parts of the city and a center for
academic research . It is home to the
Freie Universität Berlin , with its architecturally significant
Philological Library (“The Brain”). Several other research institutions and museums, as well as parts of the
Grunewald forest with its
renaissance hunting lodge, are located in Dahlem. The
U3 line of the
Berlin U-Bahn system connects Dahlem to central Berlin.
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25 November 2022 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General
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Egüés (
Spanish : Valle de Egüés,
Basque : Eguesibar) is a
municipality of
Navarre , Spain, in the
metropolitan area of
Pamplona . Its population is 19,014.
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25 November 2022 | Author/Destination: Great Britain / Großbritannien | Rubric: General
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Ascension Island is an isolated volcanic island, 7°56′ south of the
Equator in the
South Atlantic Ocean . It is about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from the coast of Africa and 1,400 miles (2,300 km) from the coast of
South America . It is governed as part of the
British Overseas Territory of
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha , of which the main island,
Saint Helena , is around 800 miles (1,300 km) to the southeast. The territory also includes the sparsely populated
Tristan da Cunha archipelago, 2,300 miles (3,700 km) to the south, about halfway to the
Antarctic Circle .
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24 November 2022 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General
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Estella (
Spanish ) or Lizarra (
Basque ) is a town located in the
autonomous community of
Navarre , in northern
Spain . It lies south west of
Pamplona , close to the border with
La Rioja and
Álava . In 1927,
Club Deportivo Izarra was formed who currently play in the
Segunda División B . The town regularly hosts the
GP Miguel Induráin .
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24 November 2022 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General
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Bergen auf Rügen is the capital of the former district of
Rügen in the middle of the island of
Rügen in
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ,
Germany . Since 1 January 2005, Bergen has moreover been the administrative seat of the
Amt of Bergen auf Rügen, which with a population of over 23,000 is Mecklenburg-Vorpommern’s most populous
Amt .
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