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Pop star Michael Jackson died in his rented mansion on North Carolwood Drive in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles on June 25th, 2009, aged 50 years old. He was found unresponsive on a bed at the property by Dr Conrad Murray, his personal physician, who had previously prescribed or administered various medications to the singer, including the anesthetic propofol. After unsuccessful attempts at resuscitation, Jackson was taken by ambulance to Ronald Regan/UCLA Medical Center, where he was declared dead. The cause of death was found to be cardiac arrest as a result of acute propofol intoxication. Dr Murray was later convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson and sentenced to four years in prison.

Stanford University’s Hoover Tower observation platform is open to the public, as are the exhibits of US President Herbert Hoover and his wife Lou Henry Hoover in the tower lobby. An elevator carries visitors to the 14th floor, where there is a 48-bell carillon and the observation platform with 360-degree views out over the Stanford campus. Except during academic holidays, finals, and Cardinal home games, the Hoover Tower is open daily from 10 am to 4 pm, with the last ticket sold at 3:30 pm. Stanford University students, employees and retirees with a current Stanford ID card can visit the tower for free and bring up to 5 guests. Backpacks, large bags, strollers and skateboards are not allowed on the platform.

Binghamton University’s WHRW-FM radio studio is located in the Union West basement, beneath the MarketPlace food court. WHRW broadcasts at 90.5 MHz FM from a transmitter atop the Bartle Library tower on campus, and also streams online.

The Binghamton Rumble Ponies minor league baseball team plays its home games at the NYSEG Stadium ballpark in downtown Binghamton, New York. The stadium has a seating capacity of 6,012 spectators. Formerly called the Binghamton Municipal Stadium, the ballpark’s naming rights were sold to the New York State Electric and Gas company in 2001.

The name of Disney’s Epcot stands for Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. The acronym was coined by Walt Disney as part of his plans for a new self-contained community, a model urban utopia that would be both a company town and visitor attraction showcasing innovative technologies to improve the quality of urban life. His death in 1966 meant that the concept never became a reality, but in 1982, The Walt Disney Company opened the Epcot Center theme park on the Walt Disney World resort complex near Orlando, Florida, inspired by Walt’s original vision.

New York City’s Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed suspension bridge that uses suspension cables and also diagonal cables from both towers to provide additional stiffening. Completed in 1883 to a design by John A. Roebling, the Brooklyn Bridge was the first bridge to use suspension cables made from steel wire. The bridge crosses the East River between Manhattan and Brooklyn.

In the 1994 movie Forest Gump, the title character, played by actor Tom Hanks, completes his cross-country run on the runway of Marshall Point Lighthouse in Port Clyde, Maine. The lighthouse sits on the southernmost point of the St George peninsula in Mid-Coast Maine. The lighthouse’s museum, open from July to mid-October features exhibits relating to the filming of the movie in 1993.

Manhattan’s Empire State Building is 1,454 feet (or 443 meters ) high to the tip of its rooftop antenna. The 102-story skyscraper has an architectural height of 1,250 feet (or 381 meters). From its completion in 1931, it was the tallest building in the world, until 1970 when it was overtaken by the World Trade Center towers.

The Hank Williams Museum is located on Commerce Street at Bibb Street in downtown Montgomery, Alabama. The museum is dedicated to the popular American singer-songwriter and musician, who died in 1953, aged 29

At its center, the height of the Golden Gate Bridge from the water to the underside of the bridge deck averages 220 feet (or 67 meters) at high tide, increasing to 225 feet (or 68.5 meters) at low tide. The bridge towers stand 746 feet (or 227 meters) above the water and 500 feet (152 meters) above the road deck.

The largest stadium in the United States is Michigan Stadium, located at the corner of South Main Street and Stadium Boulevard in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with an official capacity of 107,601. Nicknamed The Big House, Michigan Stadium is the home football stadium of the University of Michigan’s Wolverines football team. The stadium saw 115,109 in attendance for the Wolverines’ 41-30 win over Notre Dame on September 7th, 2013, at the time an NCAA football single-game attendance record.

The Subaru dealer in Red Deer, Alberta, is Scott Subaru, located on Gaetz Avenue at Phelan Street. Part of the Scottsville Group, the dealership offers new and pre-owned Subaru cars along with certified repair, service, parts and accessories.

ORD is the IATA code for Chicago O’Hare International Airport, which is derived from the airport’s former name, Orchard Douglas airport. The airport originated as an airfield attached to the Douglas Aircraft Co manufacturing facility during World War II, in an area northeast of Chicago called Orchard Place, at which time it was known as Douglas Field. After Douglas vacated the site at the end of the war, it was variously known as Douglas Airport, Orchard Field, Orchard Depot, and, particularly by the military who used the base, Orchard Place Airport. Having taken ownership of the airfield, in 1949 the City of Chicago renamed the facility O’Hare Field, Chicago International Airport, to honor Edward “Butch” O’Hare, the US Navy’s first Medal of Honor recipient in World War II, who was killed in action in 1943, and lived in Chicago before entering service.

If you are moving to a new home in Manhattan, New York City, aim to set up utility accounts at least two weeks before your move-in date. Electricity in Manhattan is supplied by ConEdison and you can move or set up a new service online at coned.com or by phone on 1-800-752-6633. New customers require an ID number from a driver’s license, social security card, passport or similar to avoid paying a deposit. Gas in Manhattan is also supplied by ConEdison so you can set up an account at the same time as electricity if needed. If you are renting, it is likely that gas is included in your rent so a supply account might not be required. Check with your landlord. Water services in Manhattan are provided by NYC Department of Environmental Protection. If you are renting, water charges are likely included in your rent so a supply account might not be required. Check with your landlord. Phone, Internet & TV packages are offered by various providers in Manhattan by cable, fiber and satellite, depending on what’s available at your building. A service technician appointment will likely be required for install. DISH – 1-888-656-2461 DirecTV – 1-800-288-2020 Charter Spectrum – 1-855-243-8892 RCN – 1-800-746-4726 Verizon – 1-800-837-4966

Times Square in Manhattan was so named in 1904 in anticipation of completing the newly-constructed headquarters of The New York Times newspaper at the convergence of Broadway and 7th Avenue at 43rd Street, an area previously called Longacre Square. With its distinctive narrow wedge-shaped tower, the New York Times Building was a prominent architectural landmark and provided access to the new Times Square subway station through its arcade level. Starting on December 31st, 1904, the Times celebrated New Year’s Eve annually with rooftop fireworks, and for 1908, an illuminated ball was lowered down the building’s flagople at midnight. The annual ball drop continues to this day and is a focal point of New York City’s New Year’s Eve celebrations. The New York Times quickly outgrew the space and relocated to bigger offices on West 43rd Street in 1913, but the Times Square name endured.

The Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team originated in Brooklyn, New York, where they were known as the Brooklyn Dodgers until 1958 when they relocated to LA. During the Brooklyn era, one of the team’s nicknames was the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers, a reference to Brooklyn’s burgeoning number of electric trolley cars in the 1890s and the tricky business of dodging them when crossing the street. The name gradually stuck, becoming shortened to just the Dodgers, and other than being known as the Brooklyn Robins between 1914 and 1931, the name has endured to this day.

Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford lived with his mother and siblings in the Manchester suburbs of Withington and Fallowfield before the family moved to a home on Button Lane on the Northern Moor estate in Wythenshawe when he was 9 years old. He attended Button Lane Primary School and later, Ashton on Mersey School, a specialist sports college in Sale with links to Manchester United Football Club. As a young boy, Rashford played for Fletcher Rangers FC in nearby Didsbury and joined the Manchester United academy system at the age of seven.

The Dallas Stars NHL ice hockey team plays its home games at American Airlines Center in the Victory Park neighborhood in downtown Dallas, Texas. The Stars relocated here from the Reunion Arena where they played until 2001.

The Notorious B.I.G., also known as Biggie Smalls, was killed, aged 24, in a drive-by shooting at the intersection of Fairfax Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles in the early hours of March 9th, 1997. The Brooklyn-born rapper, whose real name was Christopher Wallace, had just left a music industry event at the Petersen Motor Museum at around 12:30 am with an entourage that included Sean Combs. He was a front seat passenger in a GMC Suburban travelling northbound on Fairfax and stopped a red light at the intersection with Wilshire Boulevard when multiple shots were fired at the car from a sedan that pulled up alongside. Wallace was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center where he was declared dead shortly later. An autopsy revealed that he was struck by four bullets, one of which wounded him fatally, having struck his colon, liver, heart, and left lung after entering through his right hip. The police investigation into the murder remains unsolved.

Socialite Nancy Pfister was found dead, aged 57, at her home on West Buttermilk Road in Aspen, Colorado, on February 26th, 2014. She had been bludgeoned to death with a hammer and her body left covered in bedding in a bedroom closet with a plastic bag over her head and electrical cord wrapped around her neck. Police investigating the death charged Doctor William ‘Trey’ Styler, a former hospital anesthesiologist, and his wife Nancy Styler, with first-degree murder, along with Pfister’s friend, Kathy Carpenter, who worked as a teller at Alpine Bank in Aspen. The Stylers had rented Pfister’s home over the winter, but vacated the property in February following a dispute with her. During the three suspects’ detention pending trial, Dr Styler made a plea deal, confessing to being solely responsible for the killing, resulting in charges being dropped against Nancy Styler and Kathy Carpenter. Trey Styler died in August 2015 after committing suicide at the Arrowhead Correction Facility in Cañon City where he was serving a 20-year sentence for second degree murder. Nancy Pfister was the daughter of Art Pfister, a prominent figure in Aspen who made his fortune when his ranchland was used to create the Buttermilk Ski Area. She was well known in the Aspen community and socialized with celebrities in the Colorado town. She reportedly dated actor Jack Nicholson, and was briefly engaged to Michael Douglas.