First of all: apologies that I did not make it yesterday, but here is this weeks’ contest. It is about the church in the centre of the picture.
And a warm thank you to all who wrote me some nice lines.
The Online Geography Game
Due to family circumstances there will be no contest this week.
Next contest will be published on Friday 21 March.
Mr. Yoshikuni Kamichika visited The Netherlands in 1979 and was impressed by the Dutch water engineering skills. He was looking for a suitable development project for a location in the Omura bay and decided upon a Dutch Theme Park, named ‘Huis ten Bosch‘
To ensure that the buildings looked genuine, he imported the building bricks from The Netherlands
Those who looked in the right part of the world:
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Whut? Dutch style houses and windmills in this part of the world? Are you kidding me?
The largest solar power plant in the world was constructed in the Mojave desert in California, USA.
It is the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility and it formally opened on February 13 this year.
In total it consist of three concentric circles of mirrors, focussed to beam up to three towers with steam turbines.
It should produce some 377 MW per annum.
Those who did not look into the sun
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Not quite focused in this picture, but went into service three weeks ago
The John. C. Stennis Space Centre is not well known, although it is the major rocket test facility of NASA.
It was original built in 1961 for testing the Saturn rockets for the Apollo program.
In the centre of the picture is the B-2 test stand, where the Saturn rocket was tested and is currently being rebuilt for testing the SLS engines, which will also be used for (manned) Mars missions in the future.
Those who counted backwards:
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3….2….1….test!