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The upper observation deck on the 148th floor SKY level of the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai is 555 meters (or 1,821 feet) high. The lower level At The Top observation decks on the 124th and 125th floors at 456 meters (or 1,496 feet) high feature a virtual reality enhanced viewing experience through electronic telescopes. Advance ticket booking advisable to Read more...

CKUW radio at the University of Winnipeg broadcasts to the campus and wider community in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba on 95.9 MHz FM, Bell MTS Channel 713, and streaming online. It broadcasts from studios above the 4th floor Buffeteria in Centennial Hall, and transmits from an antenna on top of the Seven Evergreen Place apartment tower in Osborne Village. Read more...

The Coquihalla Summit is a high mountain pass on British Columbia’s Coquihalla Highway, between the towns of Hope and Merritt in the Cascade mountains. Located along the highway some 50 kilometres (or 31 miles) north of Hope, the summit is marked by a roadside sign which displays the elevation, but there is no stopping point. With an elevation of 1,244 Read more...

The highest part of British Columbia’s Coquihalla Highway is the Surrey Lake Summit at an elevation of 1,444 metres (or 4,737 feet). Located between Kamloops and the town of Merrit, the summit is marked by a roadside sign which also displays the elevation. It was also previously known as the Clapperton Creek Summit. Read more...

The BMW Museum in Munich showcases BMW’s history, starting in 1917 when it made aircraft engines, through the introduction of BMW motorcycles in 1923, the first BMW automobile, based on the Austin Seven, in 1928, to BMW Group’s present-day and future vehicles and technologies. Since reopening in 2008 after redevelopment, the museum has two exhibition areas, one housing over 100 Read more...

Construction of Helsinki Cathedral started in 1830 and it was consecrated in 1852, initially named St Nicholas Church as a tribute to Tsar Nicholas I of Russia, who funded its construction, and Saint Nicholas. The Evangelical Lutheran cathedral was designed in a neoclassical style by architect Carl Ludvig Engel as part of the development of Helsinki’s Senate Square. Following his Read more...

Dinosaur Park in Rapid City, South Dakota, has large sculptures of six dinosaurs, representing an Apatosaurus, Tyrannosaurus rex, Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Edmontosaurus, and a Protoceratops, along with a non-mammalian synapsid known as a Dimetrodon, all created by sculptor Emmet Sullivan. The hilltop park was created as a tourist attraction in 1936 by the city of Rapid City and the Works Progress Read more...

Since joining the NHL in 1979, the Edmonton Oilers have won the Stanley Cup five times, in the 1983–84, 1984–85, 1986–87, 1987–88, and 1989–90 seasons. Wayne Gretzky captained the Oilers to the first four Stanley Cup victories, before he was traded to the LA Kings during the 1988 off-season. Mark Messier was captain of the team for their last Stanley Read more...

Between portals, the north tube of the Holland Tunnel, carrying westbound traffic under the Hudson River from Lower Manhattan to Jersey City, is 8,558 feet (or 2,608 meters) long. The south tube, for eastbound traffic leaving New York, is shorter at 8,371 feet (or 2,551 meters) in length. The two tubes of the tunnel run broadly parallel to each other, Read more...

Zermatt is car-free, so you can only drive as far as the town of Täsch, 5 kilometres (or 3.1 miles) from Zermatt. There, the Matterhorn Terminal train station has 2,100 covered parking spaces in addition to parking offered in Täsch by hotels and taxi operators. From Täsch you can continue to Zermatt by taxi or limousine service, or on the Read more...

The ice skating rink at Bryant Park in New York City is open from the last weekend in October through to the end of the last weekend in March each year. Located between 40th and 42nd Streets at Sixth Avenue in midtown Manhattan, the Bryant Park skating rink opens at 8 am daily, including holidays. Skating at Bryant Park can Read more...

Around 11 pm on April 15th, 2021, Brandon Scott Hole of Indianapolis fired a rifle in the parking lot and inside the FedEx facility near Indianapolis International Airport, killing 8 FedEx employees, before fatally shooting himself inside the building. 19-year-old Hole had previously worked for FedEx although the motive for the mass shooting is not known. The victims were identified Read more...

La Tomatina tomato-throwing festival is held in the town of Buñol in the province of Valencia, Spain, on the last Wednesday of August each year. The hour-long tomato throwing frenzy in the town square and surrounding streets is part of a week of festivities in Buñol, and has its origins in a spontaneous tomato fight that started during a parade Read more...

Real Betis Balompié football club plays its home games at Estadio Benito Villamarín in the Heliópolis district of the city of Seville, Spain. Real Betis has played at the stadium since it opened in 1929, later gaining ownership in 1961 and renaming it after the club’s president, Benito Villamarín. In 1997, it was renamed Estadio Manuel Ruiz de Lopera, after Read more...

Mirror Lake in Camrose, Alberta, is an artificial lake originally created in 1905 by the Canadian Pacific Railway as a reservoir to supply water for their steam locomotives passing through what was then, a hamlet called Sparling. The lake was created by a dam built across Stoney Creek, where the pedestrian footbridge is located today. Since then, the dam has Read more...

The Sitting Bull Monument stands on Standing Rock Indian Reservation on the west side of the Missouri River, near Mobridge, South Dakota. Sitting Bull, a translation of his Sioux name, Tatanka Iyotake, was the great Chief of the Hunkpapa Lakota (or Teton Sioux). He was shot and killed on the reservation in December 1890 after the Masacre at Wounded Knee, Read more...

Cheyenne Frontier Days is held at Frontier Park in Cheyenne, Wyoming, beginning on a Friday, over the last full week of July every year. Described as the world’s largest outdoor rodeo, it attracts some 200,000 visitors annually and features rodeo events in the Frontier Park Arena, tours of the Old Frontier Town, carnival rides, and Indian Village exhibits, along with Read more...

American rapper DMX died, aged 50, on April 9th, 2021, at White Plains Hospital in White Plains, New York, following a heart attack. The rap artist and actor, whose real name was Earl Simmons and also went by the name Dark Man X, had been on life support at the hospital after suffering a heart attack at his White Plains Read more...

The name Roodee for Chester Racecourse in Chester, England, is a corruption of its earlier name, Rood eye, thought to mean Island of the Cross. It is derived from a combination of the Saxon word ‘rood’ for ‘cross’, and the Norse ‘eye’, meaning ‘island’. The racecourse sits on the banks of the River Dee and much of it was under Read more...

Dogs are permitted in Badlands National Park, South Dakota, provided they are on a leash and owners clean up after them. The weather in Badlands National Park can be hot and dry in summer. Additional water should be brought for dogs as there is none available on the hiking trails. Dog owners should consider the increased likelihood of encounters with Read more...