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The annual La Vaquilla del Ángel festival in the city of Teruel, Spain, is celebrated over the weekend closest to July 10th, continuing until late on the Monday evening. Part of the wider Fiestas del Ángel celebrations in Teruel, dedicated to the patron saint of the city, Santo Ángel Custodio (or Holy Guardian Angel), La Vaquilla, draws large crowds to Read more...

The Washington Capitals NHL ice hockey team plays its home games at Capital One Arena (formerly Verizon Center) in the Penn Quarter neighborhood of Washington, DC. They moved to the newly-built arena in 1997, having previously played at the now-demolished Capital Centre in the Washington suburb of Landover, Maryland. The Capitals played their first game at the new arena on Read more...

Stanford University’s athletic teams are named the Cardinal after the teams’ main color, cardinal red. Reference to the Cardinal started around Stanford football team’s victory over Cal in the first Big Game on March 19th, 1892. Later, Stanford adopted the name Indians in 1930 along with a depiction of a native American as a mascot, often in stylized cartoon form. Read more...

Train services on the New York City subway carry a white number or letter in a colored circle or diamond, called a bullet, identifying the route that the train service takes along the various lines. Those lines are grouped by color denoting that at some point on their route they share a common section of track, but they do not Read more...

Leavenworth, Washington, was a former logging town in decline when, in 1962, a committee of local business people and residents sought to revitalize the community by remodeling the downtown area in the style of a traditional Bavarian village, with the aim of turning around its fortunes with tourism income. While Leavenworth had no real historical connections to Germany, its location Read more...

The Elephant and Castle district of London is named after an 18th century public house and coaching inn of the same name that became a notable landmark because of its location near a major road intersection in the area. The inn was rebuilt in 1816 and in 1898, and ultimately demolished in 1959. A new pub called the Elephant and Read more...

The New Orleans Saints NFL football team plays its home games at Caesars Superdome (formerly Mercedes-Benz Superdome) in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana. The Superdome has been home to the Saints since 1975, having previously played for eight seasons at Tulane University’s now-demolished Tulane Stadium. The Saints played their first regular-season game of the 1975 NFL season Read more...

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, or WHOI, is an American private, non-profit marine science research facility that undertakes studies of the physical, chemical, and biological features of the ocean environment. It was established in 1930 on Cape Cod, in the village of Woods Hole near Falmouth, Massachusetts, from where it operates laboratories, oceangoing research vessels, and runs marine science post-doctoral research Read more...

Gyllyngvase Beach in Falmouth has a seasonal ban on dogs from 15 May to 30 September between the hours of 10 am and 6 pm daily, but is dog-friendly at all other times. Cornwall Council enforces the ban and may issue a £100 fixed penalty notice to people found in charge of a dog on the beach during prohibited periods. Read more...

The townsite of Banff, Alberta, has an elevation of 1,383 metres (or 4,537 feet) above sea level. Located in the Rocky Mountains, its elevation makes Banff the highest town in Canada. However, the hamlet of Lake Louise, Alberta, is higher at 1,540 metres (or 5,053 feet). Read more...

WNYU-FM is a student-run college radio station owned by New York University, broadcasting to the New York metropolitan area on FM at 89.1 MHz between 4 pm and 1 am weekdays and streaming online 24 hours a day. The station shares the 89.1 FM frequency with WFDU, Farleigh Dickinson University’s radio station, under a shared-time agreement with the FCC, which Read more...

Actor Michael K Williams was found dead, aged 54, in his penthouse apartment at the Schaefer Landing North condo building in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on September 6th, 2021. The cause of his death is believed to be a heroin overdose and he had previously spoken in interviews about his history of drug use. Williams, a native of Brooklyn, rose to prominence Read more...

The American city of Vancouver, Washington, is not named after the Canadian city of Vancouver, British Columbia. However, both cities are named after British naval officer Captain George Vancouver who led the expedition between 1791 and 1795 to chart North America’s northwestern Pacific Coast regions. The American city is older than its Canadian counterpart, having been incorporated as the city Read more...

The Fox affiliate television station in New Orleans, Louisiana, is WVUE, broadcasting on virtual channel 8. Branded as Fox 8, WVUE broadcasts from studios on Norman C Francis Parkway (formerly Jefferson Davis Parkway) in the Gert Town neighborhood of New Orleans, via a transmitter located some 9 miles to the east at 601 Magistrate Street in Chalmette, Louisiana. Read more...

Dubai is not a country but is a city and capital of the Emirate of Dubai, located on the southeast coast of the Arabian Gulf. Dubai is one of the seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates, or UAE. The UAE is a country, with each of its constituent emirates governed by a Sheikh, who together form the Read more...

CKUW radio at the University of Winnipeg broadcasts to the campus and wider community in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba on 95.9 MHz FM, Bell MTS Channel 713, and streaming online. It broadcasts from studios above the 4th floor Buffeteria in Centennial Hall, and transmits from an antenna on top of the Seven Evergreen Place apartment tower in Osborne Village. Read more...

The BMW Museum in Munich showcases BMW’s history, starting in 1917 when it made aircraft engines, through the introduction of BMW motorcycles in 1923, the first BMW automobile, based on the Austin Seven, in 1928, to BMW Group’s present-day and future vehicles and technologies. Since reopening in 2008 after redevelopment, the museum has two exhibition areas, one housing over 100 Read more...

Since joining the NHL in 1979, the Edmonton Oilers have won the Stanley Cup five times, in the 1983–84, 1984–85, 1986–87, 1987–88, and 1989–90 seasons. Wayne Gretzky captained the Oilers to the first four Stanley Cup victories, before he was traded to the LA Kings during the 1988 off-season. Mark Messier was captain of the team for their last Stanley Read more...

Between portals, the north tube of the Holland Tunnel, carrying westbound traffic under the Hudson River from Lower Manhattan to Jersey City, is 8,558 feet (or 2,608 meters) long. The south tube, for eastbound traffic leaving New York, is shorter at 8,371 feet (or 2,551 meters) in length. The two tubes of the tunnel run broadly parallel to each other, Read more...

Zermatt is car-free, so you can only drive as far as the town of Täsch, 5 kilometres (or 3.1 miles) from Zermatt. There, the Matterhorn Terminal train station has 2,100 covered parking spaces in addition to parking offered in Täsch by hotels and taxi operators. From Täsch you can continue to Zermatt by taxi or limousine service, or on the Read more...