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The main river running through Valladolid, Spain, is the Pisuerga, which flows in a southwesterly direction through the city. A tributary, the Esgueva river, enters Valladolid from the east along a man-made channel and converges with the Pisuerga in the north of the city. The 283-kilometer (or 176-mile) long Pisuerga originates some 145 kilometres (or 90 miles) north of Valladolid Read more...
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The Olympic pipeline explosion on June 10th, 1999, was caused by the ignition of gasoline leaking from a petroleum pipeline carrying product from the Cherry Point refinery, after it ruptured at a point where it passed through Whatcom Falls Park in Bellingham, Washington. At around 3:30 pm, a pressure build-up caused a rupture in the 16-inch-diameter steel pipeline, near the Read more...
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The main river running through Aspen, Colorado, is the Roaring Fork River. The Roaring Fork originates some 13 miles (or 21 kilometers) east southeast of Aspen at Independence Lake, an alpine lake near Independence Pass in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains. From Aspen, it continues flowing northwest along the Roaring Fork Valley (named after the river) to Glenwood Read more...
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Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University is a public HBCU located in Tallahasee, Florida, also known as Florida A&M University or shortened to FAMU. The HBCU designation, an acronym for Historically Black Colleges and Universities, is given by the US Department of Education to an accredited college or university established prior to 1964, whose principal mission was, and is, the education Read more...
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Bodø/Glimt football club plays its home games at the Aspmyra Stadium in the town of Bodø in Northern Norway. Glimt has played at Aspmyra since the stadium opened in 1966. Over the years it has undergone several upgrades, including new stands, and conversion of the pitch to artificial turf with underheating. The 4,616-seat stadium is also home to the Idrettsklubben Read more...
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The capital city of Washington state is Olympia. Located some 60 miles (or 100 kilometers) south of Seattle, it is the state’s second-largest city, and home to the Washington State Capitol and the Washington Governor’s Mansion. Olympia became the capital of Washington Territory in 1853 and was incorporated as a town in 1859, and as a city in 1882. Read more...
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American indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie formed in Bellingham, Washington, in 1997, initially as a solo project by singer and guitarist Ben Gibbard while he was a student at the city’s Western Washington University. Gibbard’s first demo cassette of eight songs, titled You Can Play These Songs With Chords, was recorded with fellow WWU student Chris Walla and Read more...
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The Pittsburgh Steelers NFL football team plays its home games at Heinz Field in the North Shore neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They previously played nearby at the now-demolished Three Rivers Stadium which was shared with the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team. The Steelers moved in 2001 to their newly constructed Heinz Field stadium, which is shared with the Pitt Panthers, the Read more...
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The Arizona Cardinals NFL football team plays its home games at the State Farm Stadium (formerly University of Phoenix Stadium) in Glendale, Arizona. The stadium, located some 11.5 miles (or 18.5 kilometers) northwest of downtown Phoenix, has been home to the Cardinals since 2006, having previously played at Arizona State University’s Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe since relocating to Arizona Read more...
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The name of Argentina’s capital city, Buenos Aires, comes from the name given to a settlement in the present-day city’s suburb of San Telmo, by Spanish explorer Pedro de Mendoza in 1536: Nuestra Señora Santa MarÃa del Buen Ayre (translated to English as Our Lady Saint Mary of the Good Air (or Fair Wind)). By 1541, it was abandoned, but Read more...
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A mass shooting at the King Soopers supermarket on Table Mesa Drive in the south of Boulder, Colorado, on March 22, 2021, resulted in the death of ten people. The gunman, 21-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa of Arvada, Colorado, was armed with a Ruger semi-automatic pistol and a 9 mm handgun, and fired at people in the supermarket’s parking lot Read more...
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Circuito de Jerez hosted the Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix five times from 1986 to 1990 and staged the European Grand Prix races in 1994 and 1997. From 1991 onwards, the Spanish Grand Prix moved to the new Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Montmeló, near Barcelona, where it continues to be held. The Jerez circuit museum features various Formula 1 related Read more...
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The Humboldt Broncos junior ice hockey team plays its home games at the Elgar Petersen Arena (or EPA) in Humboldt, Saskatchewan, Canada. The Broncos, who play in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League, were founded in 1970 and originally played at the city’s Leo Parker Arena before moving in 1982 to the new Uniplex Arena. In September 2000, the arena was Read more...
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The nearest hotels to the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya race track are the Ibis Barcelona Montmelo Granollers Hotel and the Holiday Inn Express Barcelona – Montmeló. Both hotels are located next to each other in an industrial zone on the eastern boundary of the circuit, just two minutes’ walk from Gate 3 behind the main grandstand. Neither hotel offers a shuttle Read more...
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The 2018 season Super Bowl 53 was played at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia, on February 3rd, 2019, between the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Rams. The Patriots won, defeating the Rams 13–3, giving them their sixth Super Bowl championship win in eleven Super Bowl appearances. Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman was named Super Bowl MVP. Pop group Read more...
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The NPR member radio station in Albany, New York, is WAMC/Northeast Public Radio which broadcasts to the Albany Capital District of New York on AM at 1400 KHz, on FM and HD Radio at 90.3 MHz, and also streams online. WAMC’s main FM transmitter is on Mount Greylock in North Adams, Massachusetts, on land leased from the Massachusetts Department of Read more...
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American television host and comedian Jimmy Fallon spent most of his childhood in Saugerties, New York, where he lived with his parents and older sister, Gloria, in a house on Overbaugh Street. Fallon’s family moved to Saugerties shortly after his birth in Brooklyn, New York, and he attended St Mary of the Snow Catholic elementary school and later, Saugerties High Read more...
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A person who is a long-time resident or native of Boise is called a Boisean. It is the commonly used demonym for someone from Boise, Idaho. Read more...
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The city of Eugene, Oregon, is named after Eugene Franklin Skinner, one of the area’s first white settlers in 1846. Skinner built a cabin in an elevated location on the west bank of the Willamette River, still known today as Skinner Butte, where he operated a trading post, and had it registered as a post office in 1850. 1851 saw Read more...
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American singer Bing Crosby died at La Moraleja Golf Club in Alcobendas, near Madrid, Spain, on October 14th, 1977, at the age of 74. He was returning to the clubhouse after a round of golf on the 18-hole course when he collapsed outside having suffered a massive heart attack. Despite efforts to revive him, he was declared dead at the Read more...