Tennessee

Streetview USA gets massive update

Yesterday, Google announced that they had added some extra cities to Street View, including Memphis, Tennessee; Birmingham, Alabama; and Charleston, South Carolina. What's even more interesting though, is that this update includes a lot of the places in-between places -…

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Wednesday, 10th December 2008

Street View Update March 08

It's been just over a month since Google added 12 new US cities to Street View, and yesterday we got new imagery in another 13 cities, and interestingly, a US national park! Here's some of the highlights, including links straight…

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Monday, 31st March 2008

Mud Island (Island Week 2)

(It’s Island Week 2 here at GSS, which means we’ll mostly be posting about Islands. For about a week.) On the mighty Mississippi River, Memphis, Tennessee, is Mud Island, which is home to a steamboat museum, restaurants, an outdoor amphitheatre…

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Wednesday, 29th August 2007

Athens Imposters

There are 21 cities worldwide that have at sometime been nick-named "Athens of the (something)". However, two of these cities have taken the name even further and built replicas of Athens' most famous landmark, the Parthenon. Nashville, Tennessee acquired the…

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Monday, 13th August 2007

Multi-Coloured Guitars

At the Memphis-Days Inn At Graceland there's a big blue guitar (yes, of course it's a pool - here's ground-level shots). And all the way over in Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia, there's the Big Golden Guitar, which is exactly…

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Monday, 27th November 2006

Nuclear Power MegaPost : Redux

The last Nuclear Power Megapost proved successful so here is another! I've been collating all the nuclear power themed entries since then and here are the most interesting of them. Shoreham Nuclear Power Station This is a plant that was…

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Sunday, 22nd January 2006

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Google Sightseeing takes you on a tour of the world as seen from satellite or street views using Google Maps. Our team of authors present weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.

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