The Conservatoire de Luxembourg is a conservatoire in Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg. The conservatoire was founded in 1906, after a private donation made possible its establishment, which had been mandated under a Grand Ducal decree issued in 1904. The conservatoire currently has over 2,600 students, from 60 countries, studying over 5,000 courses in total.

It is located on Campus Geesseknäppchen, along with several other educational institutions, in Hollerich, in the south-west of the city.

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Meteorological radar near Legionowo, Poland.

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Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center in Poznan, Poland.

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Warsaw University Main Library (BUW) is one of the biggest libraries in Poland. BUW collects all necessary materials to support research and teaching of the University. The Library is also a public library with humanities and social emphasis especially strong in materials on Polish studies, history of the Reformation in Poland, Varsaviana, 18th-20th century Polonica, 19th and 20th century Rossica, a rich collection of postwar materials on the former Soviet Union and by Soviet writers. The Library also owns also a Polish collection of independent presses from 70th and 80th.

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The United States Naval Observatory (USNO) is one of the oldest scientific agencies in the United States. Located in Northwest Washington, D.C., it is one of the very few observatories located in an urban area; when it was initially constructed, it was far from the light pollution generated by the then-smaller city center.

Established in 1830 as the Depot of Charts and Instruments, it was made into a national observatory in 1842 via a federal law. James Melville Gilliss was put in charge of the project.

The observatory's primary mission was to care for the United States Navy's marine chronometers, charts, and other navigational equipment. It calibrated ships' chronometers by timing the transit of stars across the meridian. Initially located downtown in Foggy Bottom (near the Kennedy Center), the observatory was moved to its present location in 1893, atop Observatory Hill overlooking Massachusetts Avenue, amidst perfectly circular grounds.

The Astronomical Observatory is an Institute within the Department of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. It is named after Nicolaus Copernicus and is based at Fort Skala, some 10 km (6 miles) west of the center of the city. Travel is through either of the settlements of Bielany or Zakamycze.

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Figsbury Ring (grid reference SU188338) is a 11.2 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, notified in 1975.

Within the wider SSSI mentioned above, the earthworks of Figsbury Ring are sub-circular and enclose 6.4 hectares of grassland on a chalk ridge to the north east of Salisbury, in the parish of Firsdown, Wiltshire at NGR SU188338. It is yet to be fully investigated.

Small portions of the site were excavated in 1924 by Ben and Maud Cunnington as it was their belief that the site was the remains of an Iron Age Hillfort. Superficially this description of an earthwork with exterior ditch would seem appropriate, however the presence of an enigmatic inner ditch has led many archaeologists to doubt this interpretation. This ditch is separated from the outer rampart by a berm of up to 30 metres in width and, to many, it seems likely that the site actually began as a late neolithic Henge.

Military base in Kabaty Woods in Warsaw.

Former Cipher Bureau building constructed in 1937. Cipher Bureau was the Polish agency concerned with both cryptography (the use of ciphers and codes) and cryptanalysis (the "breaking" of ciphers and codes).

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