HMS Victory is a 104-gun ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built between 1759 and 1765. She is the oldest naval ship still in commission and the only remaining ship of the line. She sits in dry dock in Portsmouth as a museum ship.

In December 1758, the commissioner of Chatham Dockyard was instructed to prepare a dry dock for the construction of a new 100-gun first-rate ship. This was an unusual occurrence at the time; during the whole of the 18th century only ten were constructed—the Royal Navy preferred smaller and more manoeuvrable ships and it was unusual for more than two to be in commission simultaneously.

The outline plans arrived in June 1759 and were based on HMS Royal George which had been launched at Woolwich Dockyard in 1756. The Naval Architect to design the ship was Sir Thomas Slade who, at the time, was the appointed Surveyor of the Navy.

Officially named California Memorial Stadium, Memorial Stadium is the current home for Cal football. It was opened in 1923, and currently seats 72,662 spectators.

The stadium was built with money raised from public contributions, as a memorial to the fallen of World War I. The chair of the architectural committee was John Galen Howard, the University's chief architect, and his influence is evident in the stadium's neoclassical motif. The stadium has no track, so the stands come right up to the football field. Currently the stadium sports a FieldTurf surface, but has sported AstroTurf and natural grass. The FieldTurf surface allows football practices and less popular sports such as lacrosse to be held on the field. Previously, those games would be held in other athletic fields nearby.

The Hayward Fault passes under Memorial Stadium, where right-lateral strike-slip motion is shifting the northeast half of the building to the southwest at a rate of 1 cm/yr. Expansion joints have been placed in the walls of the stadium to maintain the integrity of the building. A 1998 seismic safety study at the Berkeley campus gave the stadium a "poor" rating (meaning that the building represents an "appreciable life hazard" in an earthquake), and estimated the cost of making the structure safe in an earthquake at $14 million.

Stanford Stadium (capacity 50,000 as of 2006) is a stadium on the Stanford University campus. It was built in 1921 and is the present home for Stanford football.

Built partly in competition with the University of California, Berkeley to see who could build a football stadium first, Stanford Stadium was built in four months and opened its gates on November 19, 1921. The first game was against California, who defeated Stanford 42-7. Seating capacity was originally 60,000, but subsequent renovations increased it to its maximum capacity of 85,500. The last athletics track was installed in 1978, and was removed after the 2005 football season.

Other high profile events hosted at Stanford Stadium include Herbert Hoover's acceptance speech for the 1928 Republican Presidential nomination, Super Bowl XIX in 1985 and international soccer matches for the 1984 Summer Olympics, the 1994 FIFA World Cup, and the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. Each event resulted in additional changes to the stadium, including a new press box and aluminum bench seating.

The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is a large outdoor sports stadium in Downtown Los Angeles, California at Exposition Park that has hosted two Olympics and is home to the USC Trojans football team. It is located next to the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena adjacent to the campus of the University of Southern California. It is sometimes referred to as The Grand Old Lady or The Old Gray Lady by Los Angelenos.

Originally opened in May 1923, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, which for a time was known as Olympic Stadium, served as the primary track and field venue and site of the opening and closing ceremonies of both the 1932 and 1984 Summer Olympic Games. The Olympic cauldron torch which burned through the Games remains above the peristyle at one end of the stadium as a reminder of this, as do the Olympic rings symbols over one of the main entrances. A pair of life-sized bronze statues of male and female athletes atop a 20,000 pound (9,000 kg) post-and-lintel frame formed the Olympic Gateway created by Robert Graham for the 1984 games. The statues, modeled on water polo player Terry Schroeder and sprinter Jackie Joyner-Kersee who participated in the games, were noted for their anatomical accuracy.

Mount Tambora is a stratovolcano on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa. In 1815, the volcano of Tambora suffered the most violent eruption in modern times. Beginning in early April and continuing through the middle of July, its explosion affected an immense area that included the Maluku Islands (Molucca Islands), Java, and portions of Sulawesi (Celebes), Sumatra, and Borneo. Heavy ash rains also specifically affected the islands of Bali and Lombok. Approximately 92,000 people were killed because of pyroclastic flows or starvation and disease. 1816 became known as "the Year Without a Summer" because of the extreme weather conditions the eruption caused as far away as North America.

Mount Tambora erupted on April 10, by most accounts, and the eruption lasted from April 10 to April 15. The explosion, of Volcanic Explosivity Index 6-7 released roughly 4 times the energy of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa and it ejected an estimated 100 cubic km of pyroclastic trachyandesite, weighing approximately 2-3 × 1014 kg. This left a caldera 7 km (4 mi) across. Before the explosion, Mount Tambora was approximately 4200 m (13,000 ft) high; after the explosion, it was only 2851 m (about 9,000 ft) high.

The beach in Ipanema is world-renowned. Populated with tiny-bikini clad bodies and many rich Brazilian youths, the beach is a symbol of pleasure and wealth. Two rocks called the 'Two Brothers' rise at the western end of the beach. The beach is marked into segments with points known as postos; Posto 9 is known for attracting the best looking girls. Beers are sold everywere on the beach for 1.25 dollars along with the traditional cachaça. After a late morning visit to the beach, Ipanema girls walk through the city in swimwear and wraps known as cangas. There are always circles of people playing football, volleyball, and footvolley, a combination sport originating in Brazil.

In the winter the surf can reach 10-15ft. The water quality varies with days of crystal-clear light-blue water to a more murky green after heavy rains. Constant swells keep the water clean. The beach break regularly forms barrels.

Itacoatiara beach in Niterói, 30 minutes east of the city downtown.

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Sugarloaf Mountain (in Portuguese, Pão de Açúcar) location 22°56'56.7"S 43°9'27"W, is a peak situated in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from the mouth of Guanabara Bay on a peninsula that sticks out into the Atlantic Ocean. Rising 396 meters (1,300 ft) above sea-level, its name is said to refer to its resemblance to the traditional shape of concentrated refined loaf sugar. This may, however, be a folk-etymology, since it is believed by some that the name actually derives from Pau-nh-acuqua (“high hill”) in the Tupi-Guarani language, as used by the indigenous Tamoios.

The mountain is only one of half a dozen monolithic morros of granite and quartz that rise straight from the water's edge around Rio de Janeiro. A glass-paneled cablecar (in popular Portuguese, bondinho - more properly called teleférico), capable of holding 75 passengers, runs along a 1400-metre route between the peaks of Babilônia and Urca every half hour. The original cablecar line was built in 1912. So familiar is this peak, the mere sight of it in a film is sufficient to establish the setting as Rio.