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Over 20 shark species have been observed in California’s Monterey Bay, including white, basking, thresher, blue, mako, and salmon sharks. Great white shark sightings in nearshore waters are not uncommon during summer and early fall when they return to feed on young elephant seals. Shark attacks on humans are rare in Monterey Bay, and the last fatal attack occurred near Read more...
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Engine 54, Ladder 4, Battalion 9 in midtown Manhattan lost 15 members on 9/11, the biggest loss of any firehouse in New York City. When two planes struck the World Trade Center twin towers on the morning of September 11th, 2001, all 15 members of the night shift turned out, but none made it back to the firehouse after the Read more...
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WDBJ reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward were shot and killed during a live broadcast at Bridgewater Plaza, an outdoor shopping mall at Smith Mountain Lake in Moneta, Virginia, on the morning of August 26th, 2015. The Roanoke station was on location broadcasting a live interview with Vicki Gardner, executive director of the Smith Mountain Lake Regional Chamber of Read more...
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The cause of the helicopter crash that killed 39-year-old Scottish rally driver Colin McRae on the afternoon of 15th September 2007 was not positively determined. McRae was piloting his Eurocopter AS350B2 Squirrel helicopter, registered G-CBHL, when it crashed at high speed in a wooded valley next to his home, Jerviswood House, north of Lanark, some 150 metres from the intended Read more...
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The San Francisco Symphony doesn’t have a formal dress code and for most concerts it is a matter of personal choice. The dress of most concertgoers at Louise M Davies Symphony Hall ranges from smart casual to business or cocktail attire. The only exception is for events such as the SF Symphony Opening Gala where more formal attire like tuxedos Read more...
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Seattle’s NHL expansion ice hockey team is named the Seattle Kraken after a feared, mythical, tentacled sea monster from Scandinavian folklore. The name was selected for the city’s new ice hockey franchise in a nod to Seattle’s maritime history and its coastal location in the Pacific Northwest, where giant Pacific octopus are known to dwell. The new team’s name, colors, Read more...
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The New York 1 cable TV news channel broadcasts from studios on the sixth floor of the Chelsea Market Building at 9th Avenue and West 15th Street in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. NY1 has been at this location since January 2002, and programs produced here include: Mornings on 1 In Focus with Cheryl Wills Inside City Hall NY1 Live at Ten Read more...
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Vehicles cannot drive up Maidstone High Street, as it is a pedestrian zone, with the following exceptions: Bicycles and taxis are permitted to enter from Pudding Lane and King Street. Buses can enter from Fairmeadow, King Street, Pudding Lane and Mill Street. Disabled blue badge holders can enter only from Pudding Lane, and parking is permitted in the marked parking Read more...
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Tatiana, a four-year-old Siberian tiger escaped her open-air enclosure by scaling a 12-foot-4-inch (or 3.8 meter) high wall at the San Francisco Zoo on Christmas Day, 2007, and mauled three men visiting the zoo, killing one of them. 17-year-old Carlos Souza of San Jose died after suffering blunt-force trauma from tiger bites to his head and neck. His friends, brothers Read more...
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Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore is named after its first benefactor, the 19th-century Maryland entrepreneur and philanthropist, Johns Hopkins. Hopkins was born in 1795 into a family of tobacco-farming Quakers and made his fortune as a businessman and investor, most notably in the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company (B&O), where he was also a director. In his senior years, Hopkins Read more...
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WQXR-FM is a classical music radio station licensed to Newark, New Jersey, broadcasting to New York City and North Jersey at 105.9 MHz FM, and streaming online. The station is owned by the nonprofit New York Public Radio and broadcasts from their studios in Hudson Square, Manhattan via a transmitter atop the Empire State Building. WQXR also reaches central and Read more...
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For Tandon School of Engineering students, New York University’s ID card, the NYUCard, may be picked up on weekdays at the Tandon NYUCard Center on the ground floor of 2 MetroTech Center in Brooklyn. NYUCard applicants must bring government issued ID with a current photo, and an N number or NetID. New students may upload a photo via photoid.nyu.edu and Read more...
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New York University’s ID card, the NYUCard, may be picked up on weekdays at the Washington Square NYUCard Center located in the ground floor lobby of 7 Washington Place (at the corner of Mercer Street). NYUCard applicants must bring government issued identification with a current photo, and an N number or NetID. New students may upload a photo via photoid.nyu.edu. Read more...
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Jaguar Land Rover’s Slovakian car assembly plant is located on an industrial park outside the city of Nitra, some 95 kilometres east of the capital, Bratislava. JLR opened the Nitra Manufacturing Centre in autumn 2018 to produce its Land Rover Discovery vehicles. Since September 2019, the plant also assembles the Land Rover Defender model. The facility has a planned annual Read more...
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Cornell University’s main campus is in Ithaca, New York, where it covers some 2,300 acres in the city. Cornell’s medical campus, known as Weill Cornell, is on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, and the university’s Cornell Tech campus is on Roosevelt Island in New York City. Read more...
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Rapper King Von was shot and killed, aged 26, in the early hours of Friday, November 6th, 2020, during an altercation outside the Monaco Hookah Lounge in south downtown Atlanta, Georgia. A native of Chicago’s Kingsway Gardens, King Von, whose real name was Dayvon Bennett, was based in Atlanta. He had been at the city’s Opium Nightclub with a group Read more...
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Kamloops, British Columbia sits at the confluence of the North Thompson and South Thompson rivers. At Kamloops, the westbound South Thompson River and the North Thompson River flowing from the north, meet to form the mainstem Thompson River which continues eastwards until it joins the Fraser River at Lytton, British Columbia. The Thompson River is named after British-Canadian explorer, surveyor Read more...
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Actor Eddie Hassell was shot dead during the early hours of Sunday, November 1st, 2020, in an apparent random robbery at Indigo Pointe on Bardin Road in Grand Prairie, a suburb of Dallas, Texas. He was outside his girlfriend’s apartment and was pronounced dead after being taken to hospital with gunshot wounds to the stomach. The Corsicana, Texas native starred Read more...
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There is no driving range at the Furry Creek golf course in British Columbia. However, there are hitting nets near the first hole, and a practice putting green by the clubhouse and 18th green. Read more...
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Gooch’s Beach has curbside parking from 6 am to 11 pm on Beach Avenue running alongside the beach, with parking permits required between June 15th and September 15th. No parking is allowed between 11 pm and 6 am year round. Kennebunk property owners may obtain resident passes at the Kennebunk Town Hall, the first pass being free of charge. Non Read more...