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Mendocino, California was used as the filming location to represent Cabot Cove, Maine, the fictional town where the TV series Murder, She Wrote was set. 264 episodes of the crime drama starring Angela Lansbury were made between 1984 and 1996, of which nine were filmed in Mendocino, and exterior shots taken in the area were used extensively in the remaining episodes. The exterior of Blair House, a Victorian bed and breakfast inn on the corner of Ford and Little Lake Street in Mendocino, featured as the home Jessica Fletcher, the program’s central character played by Angela Lansbury.

Most towed vehicles in San Francisco go to the City and County of San Francisco Impound on 7th Street, between Harrison Street and Bryant Street, which is open 24 hours a day. The facility is operated by the City’s contractor, Auto Return, and confirmation that a vehicle is there can be made online at autoreturn.com or by calling 415-865-8200. To release your towed vehicle you must appear in person at the impound and pay all fees. To claim a vehicle towed by order of the San Francisco Police Department, you must first obtain a release form by taking your driver’s license and proof of ownership to a police station.

The 2019 season Super Bowl LIV was played at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida on February 2nd, 2020, between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers. The Kansas City Chiefs won, defeating the 49ers 31–20, and Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes was named Super Bowl MVP.

McCovey Cove is named in honor of former San Francisco Giants baseball player Willie McCovey. The body of water in San Francisco Bay is officially called China Basin, but the section alongside Oracle Park, the Giants’ ballpark, that lies outside right field is widely known as McCovey Cove. Credit for suggesting the name originally is given to sportswriters Mark Purdy and Leonard Koppett. Splash hits are recorded when Giants players hit home runs that land in the Cove on the fly and an electronic counter on the right field wall keeps a tally of the total since the ballpark opened in 2000. Barry Bonds was the first to hit a home run that landed in the water on May 1st, 2000.

The 2013 season Super Bowl XLVIII was played at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on February 2nd, 2014 between the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks. The Seahawks won, defeating the Broncos 43-8, and giving them their first ever Super Bowl victory. Seattle Seahawks linebacker Malcolm Smith was named Super Bowl MVP.

The fifteen digit clock on the building facade above Best Buy at 1 Union Square South in New York measures the time from midnight and the time remaining in the day as follows: From the left side the first seven digits show the time in 24-hour format as hours, minutes, seconds and tenths of a second. The last seven digits, from right to left, display the time remaining in the day as hours, minutes, seconds and tenths of a second. The eighth digit in the center represents hundredths of a second. For example, if the clock shows 120510911495411, the time is 12:05 and 10.9 seconds, and there are 11 hours, 54 minutes, and 49.1 seconds left in the day. The clock display is called The Passage and is part of larger art installation on the building, called Metronome by Kristin Jones and Andrew Ginzel.

The Flintstone House is located on Berryessa Way in the town of Hillsborough, California. The cartoon-like appearance of the domed house, led to it gaining the popular nickname after The Flintstones animated TV sitcom from the 1960s. The distinctive house, constructed in 1976 to a design by architect William Nicholson, is visible from the Doran Memorial Bridge on I-280 where it crosses San Mateo Creek.

Coney Island is located on a peninsula at the southwestern tip of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City.

American Airlines Flight 587 crashed near Beach 131st Street and Newport Avenue in the residential neighborhood of Belle Harbor in Queens, New York City shortly after takeoff from nearby JFK Airport on November 12th, 2001. All 260 passengers and crew were killed, along with 5 people on the ground, and the impact and ensuing fire destroyed several houses. The NTSB concluded that the Airbus A300-600, en route to the Dominican Republic, encountered wake turbulence from a Boeing 747-400 that took off shortly before it. Flight 587’s first officer was said to have responded with aggressive use of the rudder controls which stressed the tail fin until it snapped off the plane. The plane’s engines broke off as it fell to the ground, with one landing in the parking area of a Texaco gas station on Beach 129th Street.

The Beaver Street Wall is a radiolarian chert, a hard sedimentary rock comprising fine silica crystals originating from the shells of radiolaria, tiny ocean-dwelling plankton, that settled to the sea floor millions of years ago. Large areas of the rock appear smooth and shiny, a feature known as a slickenside, which suggests that the rock sat on one side of a geological fault line. Sliding against rock on the other side of the fault over many years has left a polished, glassy surface in places.

Thruxton Circuit is situated near the village of Thruxton, just over 5 miles (or 8 kilometres) west of Andover, Hampshire. Located on the Thruxton Aerodrome site, the race track is signposted from the A303 road.

Yes, The Elizabeth F. Gamble Garden in Old Palo Alto is free and open to the public every day during daylight hours. The historic house and 2.5-acre garden, located on Waverley Street and Churchill Avenue were owned by Elizabeth Gamble, granddaughter of the co-founder of Procter & Gamble. On her death in 1981, aged ninety two, the property was bequeathed to the City of Palo Alto, and since 1985 has been operated by a non-profit organization as a public garden and community resource.

The San Bruno pipeline explosion occurred near the intersection of Glenview Drive and Earl Avenue in the Crestmoor residential neighborhood of San Bruno, California. On the evening on September 9th, 2010, an underground natural gas pipeline owned by Pacific Gas & Electric exploded and fire quickly engulfed nearby houses. Eight people died and 38 houses were destroyed.

The nearest hotel to Cheshire Oaks Outlet Village is the Travelodge Cheshire Oaks situated on the Coliseum Leisure Park next to the retail park.

The nearest hotels to Universal Studios are the Hilton Los Angeles/Universal City and the Sheraton Universal Hotel. Both hotels are located adjacent to Universal Studios Hollywood, within easy walking distance of the park entrance, and free shuttle buses are also provided.

MetLife Stadium is located at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey, 8 miles (or 13 kilometers) west of New York City. Opened in April 2010, it is the home stadium of two NFL football teams, the New York Giants and the New York Jets, and hosted Super Bowl 48 between the Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos in February 2014.

The Carolina Panthers NFL football team plays its home games at the Bank of America Stadium in uptown Charlotte, North Carolina. The Panthers are one of only a few NFL teams that own their home stadium.

Google’s global headquarters are located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, California. Known as the Googleplex, Google first leased office space on the corporate campus in 2003 from Silicon Graphics, Inc. before purchasing the buildings in 2006.

The Clemson University campus is located in Clemson, South Carolina. The city of Clemson is situated the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, along the shores of Lake Hartwell, roughly halfway by road between Atlanta, Georgia, and Charlotte, North Carolina.

The Eiffel Tower is 324 metres (or 1063 feet) tall when measured to the tip of the antenna at the top of the tower. It is the tallest structure in Paris. Until the addition of a television broadcasting antenna in 1957, the tower’s height was 300 meters (or 1024 feet).