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Edmonton Oilers ice hockey forward Colby Cave died, aged 25, on April 11th, 2020, at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto. He suffered a stroke after undergoing emergency surgery to remove a colloid cyst that was causing pressure on his brain, and had been placed in a medically-induced coma. The Battleford, Saskatchewan, native joined the Boston Bruins’ organization for the 2014-15 season Read more...
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The Wind Harp is located on the Point San Bruno knoll at the center of the Genentech campus on the east side of South San Francisco, formerly the Cabot, Cabot and Forbes Industrial Park. The prominent 92-foot-tall steel sculpture is open to the public and accessed on foot by a short pathway next to Building 28 on DNA Way. Visit Read more...
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The huge boulder balanced on five smaller rocks near the town of North Salem, New York, is widely thought to have been carried to the area on moving glacial ice during the last ice age and deposited, by chance, on the supporting stones as the ice retreated. Such a geological feature is called a glacial erratic and widely observed around Read more...
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On March 22nd, 2014 at 10:37 am, the deadliest landslide in US history engulfed the community around Steelhead Haven, about 4 miles east of Oso, Washington. A portion of tree-covered hillside above the North Fork Stillaguamish River gave way, sending masses of mud and timber flowing across the river, through the Steelhead Haven neighborhood and onto State Route 530. The Read more...
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The last major volcanic eruption of lava at Mount Baker occurred some 6,700 years ago. However, it is still an active volcano and there have been significant hydrothermal eruptions as recently as 1880. Since the mid 1970s, reheating has been detected along with increased emissions of hot steam and gases from fumaroles, or vent holes, in the mountain’s Sherman Crater, Read more...
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Jane’s Carousel is a restored 1922 carousel with ornate carved horses located in the Empire Fulton Ferry section of the Brooklyn Bridge Park in Dumbo, between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges. Originally installed at Idora Park in Youngstown, Ohio, the carousel was purchased in the 1980s by David Walentas, the real estate developer behind the revitalization of the Dumbo neighborhood, Read more...
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San Francisco’s Telegraph Hill was so named because of the semaphore signal station erected on it in September 1847. The station operated as an optical telegraph, having two hinged arms on a tall mast which were raised or lowered to relay information which could be read from downtown and the waterfront as to the type of ships entering the Golden Read more...
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Arthur Laing was a Canadian politician and Liberal Member of Parliament for Vancouver South between 1949 and 1953, and again from 1962 to 1972. In 1953, he became leader of the BC Liberals and was elected to the British Columbia legislature to represent Vancouver-Point Grey from 1953 to 1956. He was appointed by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau as a Senator Read more...
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The 59-story Millennium Tower in San Francisco was built on a floating pile foundation. Rather than sitting on bedrock, floating piles are supported by the gripping action of friction with the surrounding mud and sand, and some settling is anticipated. In the case of the Millennium Tower, the ground has been unable to adequately support the weight of the tower. Read more...
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Parts of Doune Castle in Stirlingshire, Central Scotland were used during filming of the unaired pilot episode of Game of Thrones to depict Winterfell, home of the Stark family. Very few scenes from Doune ultimately made it into broadcast episodes as the commissioned series was filmed in other locations, including Castle Ward and soundstages in Northern Ireland. Doune Castle was Read more...
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Parts of Doune Castle in the district of Stirling, Central Scotland, were used during filming of the unaired pilot episode of Game of Thrones to depict Winterfell, home of the Stark family. Very few scenes ultimately made it into the series as the commissioned series was shot in other locations, including Castle Ward in Northern Island, and soundstages. Read more...
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Mendocino, California was used as a filming location to represent Cabot Cove, Maine, the fictional town featured in the TV series Murder, She Wrote. 264 episodes of the crime drama were made between 1984 and 1996, of which nine were filmed in Mendocino, and exterior shots taken in the area were used in other episodes. The exterior of Blair House, Read more...
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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 Read more...
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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, Read more...
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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 Read more...
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Coney Island is located on a peninsula at the southwestern tip of the borough of Brooklyn, New York City, some 13 miles (or 21 kilometers) south of midtown Manhattan. The area was once truly an island, originally being the westernmost of the several, smaller, Outer Barrier islands on the southern shore of Long Island, and separated from the rest of Read more...
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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 Read more...
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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 Read more...
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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 Read more...
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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. Read more...