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Jazz pianist and singer Nat King Cole was born on March 17th, 1919 in a house at 1524 St John Street in Montgomery, Alabama, located where the ASU Stadium stands today. The house was saved from demolition and has since been acquired by Alabama State University who relocated it in 2000 to the corner of Harris Way and North University Read more...
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Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis died at his home on Barton Street in Macclesfield, Cheshire on 18th May 1980, aged 23 years old. Curtis committed suicide in the early hours of the morning by hanging himself using a washing line in the kitchen of the house. Joy Division had been due to leave the UK that day for the Read more...
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The height of the Hoover Dam is 726.4 feet (or 221.4 meters) from the base foundation rock to the roadway on the top of the dam. The arch-gravity concrete dam is located in Black Canyon, about 30 miles southeast of Las Vegas, spanning the Colorado River near the border of the states of Nevada and Arizona. Constructed between 1931 and Read more...
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Pop star Michael Jackson died in his rented mansion on North Carolwood Drive in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles on June 25th, 2009, aged 50 years old. He was found unresponsive on a bed at the property by Dr Conrad Murray, his personal physician, who had prescribed or administered various medications to the singer, including the anesthetic propofol. After unsuccessful attempts Read more...
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Stanford University’s Hoover Tower observation platform is open to the public, as are the exhibits of US President Herbert Hoover and his wife Lou Henry Hoover in the tower lobby. An elevator carries visitors to the 14th floor, where there is a 48-bell carillon and the observation platform with 360-degree views out over the Stanford campus. Except during academic holidays, Read more...
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The name of Disney’s Epcot stands for Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. The acronym was coined by Walt Disney as part of his plans for a new self-contained community, a model urban utopia that would be both a company town and visitor attraction showcasing innovative technologies to improve the quality of urban life. His death in 1966 meant that the Read more...
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New York City’s Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed suspension bridge that uses suspension cables and also diagonal cables from both towers to provide additional stiffening. Completed in 1883 to a design by John A. Roebling, the Brooklyn Bridge was the first bridge to use suspension cables made from steel wire. The bridge crosses the East River between Manhattan and Read more...
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In the 1994 movie Forest Gump, the title character, played by actor Tom Hanks, completes his cross-country run on the runway of Marshall Point Lighthouse in Port Clyde, Maine. The lighthouse sits on the southernmost point of the St George peninsula in Mid-Coast Maine. The lighthouse’s museum, open from July to mid-October features exhibits relating to the filming of the Read more...
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Manhattan’s Empire State Building is 1,454 feet (or 443 meters) high to the tip of its rooftop antenna. The 102-story skyscraper has an architectural height of 1,250 feet (or 381 meters). From its completion in 1931, it was the tallest building in the world, until 1970 when it was overtaken by the World Trade Center towers. Read more...
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At its center, the height of the Golden Gate Bridge from the water to the underside of the bridge deck averages 220 feet (or 67 meters) at high tide, increasing to 225 feet (or 68.5 meters) at low tide. The bridge towers stand 746 feet (or 227 meters) above the water and 500 feet (152 meters) above the road deck. Read more...
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The largest stadium in the United States is Michigan Stadium, located at the corner of South Main Street and Stadium Boulevard in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with an official capacity of 107,601. Nicknamed The Big House, Michigan Stadium is the home football stadium of the University of Michigan’s Wolverines football team. The stadium saw 115,109 in attendance for the Wolverines’ 41-30 Read more...
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Times Square in Manhattan was so named in 1904 in anticipation of completing the newly-constructed headquarters of The New York Times newspaper at the convergence of Broadway and 7th Avenue at 43rd Street, an area previously called Longacre Square. With its distinctive narrow wedge-shaped tower, the New York Times Building was a prominent architectural landmark and provided access to the Read more...
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The Capitol Records Tower in Hollywood, Los Angeles, is built in the Googie architectural style. Located near the intersection of Hollywood and Vine, the distinctive white tower designed by Louis Naidorf was completed in 1956 and its cylindrical shape with window awnings on each level and a spike emerging from the top resembles a stack of records on a turntable. Read more...
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Use of the name Ajax for Aspen Mountain became common in the latter half of the 20th century, after the development of Aspen into a skiing resort started. Geologic maps from Aspen’s period as a silver-mining town in the late 1800s denote the point on Aspen Mountain where the original octagonal 1946 Sundeck later stood, as Ajax Hill. The name Read more...
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Cars are allowed on Lombard Street in San Francisco although the iconic ‘crooked’ section is one-way only, downhill between Hyde and Leavenworth streets. To drive down the famous zigzag section you will need to approach from the west on Lombard Street, or alternatively head north on Hyde Street and turn right at Lombard Street to access the top of the Read more...
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Pfeiffer Beach at Big Sur, California, has distinctive areas of purple sand, which are mostly grains of reddish-purple manganese garnet crystals. Garnet is a commonly-found mineral in beach sand, but usually at relatively low quantities. Pfeiffer Beach is notable because of the abundance of garnet minerals in the sand which give it a distinctive purple color. These garnets likely originated Read more...
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MTA operates the following subway trains across the Manhattan Bridge: B Sixth Avenue Express on weekdays only, at all times except late nights. D Sixth Avenue Express at all times. N Broadway Express at all times except late nights. Q Second Avenue/Broadway Express/Brighton Local at all times. For B and D trains, the stops on either side of the Manhattan Read more...
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You can walk across the Bear Mountain Bridge along pedestrian footpaths on both sides of the bridge, which have interpretive panels at various points. Ceremonially named the Purple Heart Veterans Memorial Bridge, the Bear Mountain Bridge carries the Appalachian Trail over the Hudson River between Bear Mountain State Park and Cortland, New York. Roadside parking is available at the eastern Read more...
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The main parking lot for upper Kaaterskill Falls is on Laurel House Road, reached by taking North Lake Road off Route 23A in the village of Haines Falls. From there, a wide, flat trail leads to the upper viewing platform less than half a mile away. The trail continues down to the foot of the upper falls and onwards to Read more...
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Water Light Public Plaza is located behind the Lyric apartments on Locust Street at Bonanza Street in downtown Walnut Creek, California. The courtyard-style parklet was designed by artist Jason Middlebrook and features a large abstract wall mosaic created from hand-cut glass and ceramic tiles, with arcs of mirrored glass. The patterns are emulated in a water feature spraying arcs of Read more...