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The flashing red light on the spire atop the Capitol Records Building, near Hollywood and Vine, spells out the word ‘HOLLYWOOD’ in Morse code.

The Daily Californian is the student-run newspaper covering the University of California, Berkeley campus and the city of Berkeley. The newspaper has been independent of the university since 1971 and is run entirely by current or recently-graduated UC Berkeley students and published by the nonprofit Independent Berkeley Students Publishing Company, Inc. Known informally as The Daily Cal, it is published every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday during the academic year and once a week during the summer. It has a daily paper circulation of approximately 10,000 copies and also publishes online.

The former summer resort village of Minnewanka Landing lies beneath the waters of Lake Minnewanka, near Banff, Alberta. Minnewanka Landing grew around the Beach House log hotel established on the shores of the original Lake Minnewanka in 1886. The village was a popular summer destination, and by 1912 the resort was laid out along four avenues and three streets, with restaurants, hotels, and two cruise boats, Lady of the Lake and Daughter of the Peaks, offering lake tours to visitors. A small log dam was constructed in 1895 to improve the shoreline for boating, followed by a larger dam in Devil’s Canyon in 1912 to create water storage for a downstream hydro-electric plant, increasing the lake level by 16 feet and claiming part of the village. During World War II, the needs of a growing and energy-hungry city of Calgary were prioritised over national park protections, and a larger dam built in 1941 increased the water level by a further 65 feet, submerging the entire village and the 1912 dam. The remnants of Minnewanka Landing’s structures are well preserved in the icy cold waters, making it a popular scuba diving location.

LaGuardia Airport terminals for arrivals and departures are shown below. In case of terminal changes, contacting the airline to confirm before travel is advisable. AirlineTerminal Air Canada B American Airlines B American Shuttle B Delta C / D Delta Shuttle C Frontier Airlines C JetBlue Airways A Spirit Airlines B Southwest Airlines C United Airlines B WestJet C

The Banff Visitor Centre is located next to St Paul’s Presbyterian Church on Banff Avenue in downtown Banff, in a stone and half-timbered black and white heritage building that was once the Banff School Auditorium. Operated by Parks Canada, the visitor information centre includes the Banff Lake Louise Tourism office, and is open until 5 pm daily. The centre offers visitor maps, attraction brochures, Park Passes and activity permits, safety advice, backcountry reservations, weather, trail, avalanche and road condition reports, and features interpretive exhibits and events throughout the year.

The official mascot of the University of California, Berkeley is Oski the Bear, who represents the university’s California Golden Bears sports teams. Oski originated as a cartoon-strip character in Cal’s student newspaper, The Daily Californian, and made his real-life debut on September 27th, 1941, during Cal Football’s victory in a season opener against the Saint Mary’s Gaels. Previously, Cal had used live bears at games as mascots. Oski is named after the old ‘Oski Yell’ that was once regularly chanted at football and basketball games, but now rarely heard.

The Upper Hot Springs pool in Banff, Alberta, is supplied entirely with natural mineral water from the hot spring for most of the season, although water flow naturally decreases later in the year and there may be times in late fall and winter when the pool is topped up with heated municipal water. The Banff Upper Hot Springs website provides regular updates on the flow status of natural mineral water into the pool, along with water temperature, and signs on site display the same information. The water temperature of the outdoor pool normally ranges between 37 and 40 degrees Celsius (or 98 and 104 degrees Fahrenheit), and the Hot Springs closes whenever the water temperature falls below 37 degrees Celsius. Such unplanned closures are infrequent and typically only occur when ambient temperatures are very cold.

The FC Dallas MLS soccer team plays its home games at the Toyota Stadium (previously called Pizza Hut Park) in Frisco, Texas, some 30 miles north of downtown Dallas. Frisco Independent School District also uses the stadium for high school football games and it is also the home of the National Soccer Hall of Fame which opened in 2018.

The former townsite of Dillon, Colorado, lies beneath the waters of Dillon Reservoir, and the town moved to its current location, at the northeast edge of the reservoir, for the Denver Water Board to start work on building a dam across the Blue River in 1961 to create the freshwater reservoir, also known as Lake Dillon. Prior to inundating the area with water, a grave site and many of old Dillon’s buildings were moved to the new townsite, including the Town Hall, the former Dillon School House and Community Church building (now the Summit Historical Society museum), and the Arapaho Café. Other buildings were moved to the neighboring towns of Frisco, Silverthorne and Breckenridge, and any remaining structures were demolished. It was the third relocation in its history for Dillon since being established as a stage stop and trading post by the Dillon Mining Company in 1881.

The Tobin Bridge carries US Route 1 over the Mystic River between Chelsea and the Charlestown area of Boston, Massachusetts. Officially named the Maurice J Tobin Memorial Bridge, it is sometimes informally called the Mystic River Bridge, its original name until 1967. The double-deck cantilevered truss bridge carries southbound traffic into Boston on its upper level and Chelsea-bound traffic going north on the lower level, with a cashless toll system operational in both directions. Including approaches, the bridge is approximately 2¼ miles (or 3.6 kilometers) long.

Bruce’s Beach park in Manhattan Beach, California, is named after a former beach resort of the same name in the park’s location, operated by a black couple, Charles and Willa Bruce. The Bruces purchased beachfront property along the Strand between 26th and 27th streets in Manhattan Beach in 1912, developing it into a popular resort for African-American beachgoers and vacationers. By the early 1920s there was a small community of black families living in the area, despite simmering hostility towards them in the predominantly white town. In 1924, the city condemned the area and seized several properties through eminent domain, with the purported aim of creating a public park. The action drove the black community away from the area, and the Bruces left town altogether. It was another 30 years before a park was developed, which later became Bayview Terrace Park, and renamed Parque Culiacan in 1974 after a sister city in Mexico. In 2006, Manhattan Beach City Council voted to rename the park Bruce’s Beach to recognize the racism and prejudice behind the city’s actions against its African-American community some eighty years earlier.

The Ponte Vecchio bridge crosses the Arno River, in Florence, Italy, connecting the Duomo area with Oltrarno on the south side of the river. Completed in its current form in 1345, the segmental arch bridge also carries the Vasari Corridor enclosed passageway, added in 1565, which runs between Palazzo Vecchio, the Uffizi Gallery and Palazzo Pitti. The Ponte Vecchio was the only one of Florence’s bridges not destroyed by the German army as they retreated in 1944 during World War II.

The state of Rhode Island is not an island as most of the coastal state is located on the mainland. Until 2020, the state was officially called State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, a name dating back to the merger of four Colonial settlements, including what was then called Rhode Island, but is now Aquidneck Island, an actual island off the coast in Narragansett Bay. In use, the name became shortened to Rhode Island and used to refer to the entire state. In 2020, voters approved the removal of the words ‘Providence Plantations’ from the state’s official name due to the historical association of plantations with slavery and racism.

When San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts was demolished in 1963, it was rebuilt with modern construction materials over the next decade, to the same design. The only parts reused were in the exhibition hall which was rebuilt on its 1915 steel frame, and retains some of the original fireplaces and doors. The Palace of Fine Arts was originally constructed for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition which celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal. Designed by architect Bernard Maybeck to resemble faux ruins inspired by Roman and Greek architecture, the Palace of Fine Arts was one of eleven exhibition palaces constructed for the event. None of the structures were intended to be retained after the exposition, but such was the appeal of the Palace of Fine Art’s magnificent structures, it was saved from demolition. But the lack of durability in its construction materials, for the most part plaster-covered timber, saw a progressive decline in its condition until it could no longer be economically maintained and demolition was the only option.

The entire o.6-mile (or 1 kilometer) loop of Mount Rushmore’s Presidential Trail can be completed in around 30 minutes, depending on visitor numbers at the time. There are various interpretive panels and viewpoints along the route. As there are steps on the Presidential Trail, it is only accessible to wheelchairs and strollers from the Grand View Terrace to the viewing areas at the base of the mountain.

The Foresthill Bridge over the North Fork American River, northeast of Auburn, California, is the highest bridge in California, with a road deck that’s 730 feet (or 220 meters) above the river. The steel cantilever bridge, also known as the Auburn-Foresthill Bridge or the Auburn Bridge, is situated some 35 miles (or 56 kilometers) northeast of Sacramento. Opened in 1973, the bridge carries both pedestrian and road traffic.

The Presidio of San Francisco is a 1,491-acre former US Army installation in the northwest corner of the city, at the south end of the Golden Gate Bridge, transferred to the National Park Service when it was vacated by the military in 1994. Today, the Presidio is a thriving urban park with a unique mix of residential communities, businesses, historic sites, recreation areas, forests, grasslands, beaches and bluffs, connected by a network of hiking and biking trails. In 1996, after considering a sale of the Presidio, it was effectively privatized by transfer of its management to the Presidio Trust, a federal government corporation tasked with making the Presidio self-sufficient and independent of direct taxpayer support. The Presidio Trust now manages most of the park, with the National Park Service managing the coastal areas, both working in partnership with the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy.

Auckland’s Sky Tower is 328 metres (or 1,076 feet) high to the top of its mast, making it the tallest freestanding structure in the Southern Hemisphere. On clear days, the Skydeck observation deck on Level 60, just below the mast at 220 meters (or 720 feet) above street level, offers 360-degree views over distances of up to 80 kilometres (or 50 miles). The Sky Tower is open daily from 10 am – 8 pm, with last entry at 7.30 pm.

The first ever Super Bowl was played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on January 15th, 1967, when it was known as the AFL-NFL World Championship Game. The contest did not formally adopt the Super Bowl name until Super Bowl 3 in 1969. The game was between the National Football League champions, the Green Bay Packers, and the American Football League champions, the Kansas City Chiefs. The Packers won, defeating the Chiefs 35-10, and Green Bay quarterback Bart Starr was named MVP. It is the only Super Bowl to have been simulcast by two networks, as NBC had the rights to televise AFL games and CBS held the broadcast rights to NFL games. The LA Coliseum has only hosted the Super Bowl twice, the second time being Super Bowl 7 in 1973.

Wyatt Earp, who died on January 13th, 1929, was cremated and his remains are interred in a burial plot at the Hills of Eternity Memorial Park, a Jewish cemetery in Colma, California. At the time of his death, the former Old West lawman was living in Los Angeles with his Jewish wife, Josephine Marcus, and she arranged for Earp’s ashes to be buried in the Marcus family plot in Colma, near her native San Francisco. When Josephine died in 1944, her cremated remains were buried alongside those of her husband. That Wyatt Earp’s ashes were buried in Colma was not widely known for many years, but the grave’s granite marker was stolen in 1957 after a newspaper publicized the grave’s location, and the thieves also reportedly dug down in a failed attempt to locate Wyatt Earp’s ashes. The stolen headstone was found three months later in undergrowth on Crystal Springs Road in San Bruno. A new black marble headstone was erected in the late 1990s, replacing the existing marker which is now on display at the nearby Colma Historical Association museum.