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The river running through Rome, Italy, is the Tiber (or Tevere in Italian) which flows south on the western side of the city. The Tiber is the third-longest river in Italy, rising some 210 kilometres (or 130 miles) to the north, from water springs on Mount Fumaiolo in Emilia-Romagna’s Apennine Mountains. After passing through Rome, the river continues in an Read more...
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The height of Menai Suspension Bridge’s road deck above water at high tide is approximately 30.5 metres (or 100 feet) at centre span. Built by Thomas Telford between 1819 and 1826 across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the Welsh mainland, he designed the bridge height to allow for the passage below of sailing ships of the Read more...
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The ornate cast iron gates and railings across the Whitehall and St James’s Park entrances to Downing Street were installed in 1989, at a time when the threat of terrorist attack was high, particularly by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (or IRA). The British Prime Minister’s official London residence at 10 Downing Street, with its iconic black door, is arguably Read more...
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Turin’s Stadio Delle Alpi football and athletics stadium, demolished in 2009, suffered from high running costs and criticism for bad sightlines, seating distance from the pitch, poor acoustics and an atmosphere described as ‘soulless’. Built for the FIFA Italia 1990 World Cup with a theoretical capacity of just over 69,000 spectators, it incorporated an athletics track that encircled the football Read more...
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Bank Street football ground, also known as Bank Lane, was located in the Clayton area of east Manchester on the site where the National Indoor BMX Arena now stands, next to the Manchester Velodrome. Between 1893 and 1910, Bank Street was the home ground of Manchester United Football Club (which was known as Newton Heath Football Club until 1902), before Read more...
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Juventus FC plays at the Allianz Stadium (also called Juventus Stadium) in the Vallette neighborhood in the northwest of the city of Turin, Italy. Juventus moved to the new stadium in 2011, constructed on the site of the club’s former permanent home ground, Stadio delle Alpi, in an area known as Continassa. Despite sharing the old Stadio delle Alpi with Read more...
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Saint Joan of Arc Chapel was moved to the Marquette University campus in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during 1964 and 1965 from its previous location on Long Island, New York, after being gifted to the university by Marc and Lillian Rojtman. The Rojtmans acquired it in 1962 as part the Graenan estate in Brookville, Long Island, previously owned by Michael Gavin and Read more...
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The Eleanor Rigby statue by musician and entertainer Tommy Steele is located on Stanley Street in Liverpool city centre. The bronze statue depicts a woman in a headscarf, sitting on a stone bench with a shopping bag at her side. On the bench is an open copy of the local Liverpool Echo newspaper on which a small bird has landed, Read more...
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New York public radio station WNYC transmitted its AM signal from the WNYC Transmitter Park in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood for over 50 years from 1937 to 1990. When WNYC started broadcasting in 1924, it was owned by the City of New York, and broadcast from a transmitter located on the 25th floor of the Municipal Building in Manhattan. The proliferation Read more...
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Narendra Modi Stadium in the Motera neighbourhood of Ahmedabad in Gujarat, India, is the largest cricket ground in the world with a seating capacity of 132,000 (or 1.1 lakh) spectators. Previously known as the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium and the Motera Stadium, the former, smaller stadium was closed and demolished in 2015 and completely rebuilt as the larger capacity present-day Read more...
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Bogibeel Bridge connects the districts of Dibrugarh and Dhemaji in Assam in the northeast of India. The dual-deck steel truss bridge over the Brahmaputra river carries National Highway 15 on a three-lane upper road deck, and railway trains on the lower deck. At 4.9 kilometres (or 3.1 miles) long, the Bogibeel Bridge is the longest road-and-rail bridge in India. It Read more...
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The iconic section of Lombard Street in San Francisco is the block between Hyde and Leavenworth Streets in the Russian Hill neighborhood. Here, the one-way downhill section snakes its way through a series of eight tight hairpin turns, leading to it being dubbed the Crooked Street. This red-brick-paved section was created in 1922 to make the hill’s steep grade more Read more...
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On 30 January 1969, the Beatles performed live on the rooftop of the headquarters of their media company, Apple Corps, at 3 Savile Row in the Mayfair area of central London. Although pre-planned, the daytime concert was unannounced, but soon drew crowds on the street below. Their set lasted 42 minutes before London’s Metropolitan Police attended the property to request Read more...
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The Farallon Islands lie some 28 miles off the west coast of San Francisco in the Pacific Ocean’s Gulf of the Farallones. On clear days, the group of rocky islands and sea stacks are visible from the mainland as jagged peaks on the horizon, and despite their distance offshore, they are formally part of the City and County of San Read more...
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The San Mateo-Hayward Bridge has a total length of 7 miles (or 11.3 kilometers), making it the longest bridge in California. It carries the six-lane State Route 92 across San Francisco Bay between Foster City on the San Francisco Peninsula and the city of Hayward in the East Bay. The bridge comprises a 1.9-mile highrise orthotropic deck western span and Read more...
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The Rakotz Bridge (Rakotzbrücke) is a stone arch bridge across the Rakotz Lake in Kromlau’s Azalea and Rhododendron Park in the municipality of Gablenz in eastern Saxony, Germany. The bridge’s elegant semi-circular arch forms a complete circle with its reflection in the water on still days, making it a popular location for photography. Because of its delicate structure, access to Read more...
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The Theme Building at Los Angeles International Airport is a futuristic-looking structure, actually constructed in 1961, comprising an elevated circular tower beneath two crossed parabolic arches of stucco-covered steel. The iconic mid-century modernist structure is often described as resembling a UFO or flying saucer on legs, and is an example of the Googie style of architecture common to Southern California Read more...
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On December 21st, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 flying from Frankfurt to Detroit via London Heathrow and New York JFK airports, exploded some 40 minutes after taking off from London. Much of the Boeing 747’s wreckage fell on the town of Lockerbie, Scotland. All 259 people aboard the aircraft died, along with 11 people on the ground in Lockerbie who Read more...
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Former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher was born on 21 September 1972 at Saint Mary’s Hospital on Hathersage Road in Manchester. Born William John Paul Gallagher to Irish parents, Peggy and Thomas Gallagher, he is the youngest of their three sons. St Mary’s Hospital was demolished in 2010 to make way for new buildings, including a new Ronald McDonald House providing Read more...
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The Bronze Fonz statue is located on North RiverWalk Way just south of East Wells Street in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The life-size sculpture by Gerald P Sawyer depicts the character Arthur Fonzarelli, also known as The Fonz or Fonzie, played by Henry Winkler in the 1970s television sitcom Happy Days, which was set in 1950s Milwaukee, although never filmed there. Read more...