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The iconic Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas Nevada sign is located on South Las Vegas Boulevard at the south end of the strip near the airport, about a 12-minute walk beyond Mandalay Bay. The famous 1950s-style sign is a popular spot for a photo opportunity and there is dedicated parking nearby in the central median of South Las Vegas Boulevard, Read more...
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The Bear Hole swimming hole in Big Chico Creek is situated near Parking Area K in Upper Bidwell Park in Chico, California. It can be reached from the many park trails, including the Yahi Trail, and by car along the gravel section of Upper Park Road except on Sundays and Mondays, when the road gate at Horseshoe Lake is locked. Read more...
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The Spotted Pig gastropub in Manhattan’s West Village closed permanently in January 2020 after employees accused owner Ken Friedman of sexual harassment. The popular Michelin-starred restaurant opened to much fanfare in 2004 when Friedman and investor Mario Batali launched the venture, with British chef April Bloomfield appointed to run the kitchen. It attracted a big following, including a well-heeled celebrity Read more...
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The Australian Broadcasting Corporation studios are located in the Southbank Centre at the corner of Sturt Street and Southbank Boulevard in Melbourne’s Arts precinct. First opened in 1994, ABC brought all of its Melbourne-based TV and radio operations under one roof at the Southbank in 2017, having previously also had studios in Elsternwick and Ripponlea. The Southbank facility has multiple Read more...
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Denver Water prohibits swimming, scuba diving, water skiing and other any other activities that involve direct human contact with the water at Dillon Reservoir in Colorado. With an elevation of 9,017 feet (or 2,748 meters) above sea level, Lake Dillon’s water is cold year-round, ranging from 45 to 65°F (or 7 to 18°C), and generally considered too cold to safely Read more...
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Renowned electrical engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla had an apartment in the Radio Wave Building in New York City in the late 19th century, when it was known as the Gerlach Hotel. He emigrated to the United States in 1884, establishing laboratories in Manhattan where he experimented with electrical energy and patented many discoveries. He stayed at the Gerlach for Read more...
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The Textor Disc sculpture was created by Jack Squier and mounted on the top of Textor Hall at Ithaca College in 1967. Also known as the Textor Ball or Textor Fish, the silver-colored 10-foot (or 3-meter) high circular abstract sculpture is carved from styrofoam supported on a steel frame, which was then covered in fiberglass and finished in aluminium leaf. Read more...
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The first Tim Hortons store opened in Hamilton, Ontario, on May 17th, 1964, on the site of a former gas station at the corner of Ottawa Street North and Dunsmure Road in the city’s Crown Point neighbourhood. Established by professional NHL ice hockey player Tim Horton and Jim Charade, the first Tim Horton Donuts location was a franchise opened by Read more...
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The Eshima Ohashi bridge in Japan is not as steep as it appears in images circulating widely on the internet. Pictures of the bridge show cars travelling along an incredibly steep road deck, but it is mostly an illusory effect caused by photographing the bridge from a distance with a telephoto lens. The fixed-frame bridge crosses Nakaumi lake and connects Read more...
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The Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (or FALN), in English: Armed Forces of National Liberation, claimed to have planted the bomb at Fraunces Tavern in Manhattan’s Financial District on January 24th, 1975. An attaché case packed with explosives, placed in the tavern’s entrance hallway, detonated during a busy Friday lunchtime, killing four people and injuring more than 50 others. The Read more...
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The newly-constructed Nipigon River Bridge in northern Ontario heaved apart in January 2016 due to multiple bolt failure during a winter storm, causing the bridge deck to lift by around 60 centimetres (or 24 inches). The bridge, part of the Trans Canada Highway, was closed to vehicular traffic for 17 hours, severing the only road link between eastern and western Read more...
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The probable cause of the Florida International University pedestrian bridge collapse on March 15th, 2018, was load and capacity calculation errors by the bridge designers, according to a National Transportation Safety Board investigation. The partially-constructed elevated foot bridge was being installed to improve pedestrian access across Southwest 8th Street, an eight-lane highway separating the FIU campus in University Park, a Read more...
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Vinegar Hill in Brooklyn, New York City, is named after the Battle of Vinegar Hill, a major clash between the United Irishmen and British forces that took place in Ireland during the Irish Rebellion of 1798. The neighborhood was named by John Jackson who was developing his land holdings on this stretch of the East River waterfront in the early Read more...
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John F Kennedy International Airport was officially called New York International Airport-Anderson Field, after it opened in 1948, but was more commonly known as Idlewild Airport. The airport in Queens, New York, was developed on land once occupied by the Idlewild Beach Golf Course, leading to it being referred to as Idlewild, and even used IDL as the FAA and Read more...
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Gamla stan means the Old Town in Swedish and refers to the historic centre of Stockholm, Sweden, an area comprising the island of Stadsholmen, and the surrounding islets of Helgeandsholmen, Riddarholmen and Strömsborg. Until 1980, it was officially called the City Between the Bridges (or Staden mellan broarna in Swedish). Present-day Stockholm has its foundations here, with the area substantially Read more...
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New York’s WPIX TV, known as PIX11, is located in the News Building at 42nd Street and 2nd Avenue in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Midtown Manhattan. WPIX was once the TV broadcast subsidiary of the New York Daily News newspaper, and the building housed the Daily News operations until 1995, but PIX 11, by then under separate ownership, remained Read more...
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Gorton Monastery is owned by The Monastery of St Francis & Gorton Trust Limited, a Building Preservation Trust and registered charity established in 1996 to acquire, restore and maintain the once-derelict former Church and Friary of St Francis in the Gorton district of east Manchester. The church, known locally as Gorton Monastery, was designed in the Gothic Revival style by Read more...
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The Edge observation deck on Level 100 of New York’s 30 Hudson Yards skyscraper is 1,131 feet (or 345 meters) above the ground. The cantilevered outdoor platform extends up to 80 feet (or 24 meters) from the building and offers views across Manhattan and the Hudson River, and visitors can stand on a glass floor panel looking straight down to Read more...
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EWR is the IATA code for Newark Liberty International Airport, located 3 miles (or 4.8 kilometers) south of downtown Newark, New Jersey, and 9 miles (or 14 kilometers) west of Manhattan. Although it is in the state of New Jersey, its proximity to New York City makes it is one of the three major airports serving the New York metropolitan Read more...
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Diana, Princess of Wales, suffered fatal injuries in a car crash in the Pont de l’Alma tunnel in Paris, France, in the early hours of 31st August 1997. She was a rear passenger in a Mercedes limousine provided by the Hôtel Ritz, along with film producer Dodi Fayed, with whom she was in a romantic relationship. The car was being Read more...