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Robert Franklin Stroud, nicknamed the Birdman of Alcatraz, was a convicted murderer, imprisoned in US federal penitentiaries continuously from 1909 until his death in 1963. First incarcerated in 1909 on McNeil Island, Washington, for 12 years for manslaughter, Stroud gained a reputation for violent behavior. In 1912 he moved to the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, where, in 1916, he Read more...
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A person who is a long-time resident or native of Leeds is called a Loiner or a Leodensian. Both words are used as demonyms for someone from Leeds, West Yorkshire. Read more...
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The Daily Californian is the student-run newspaper covering the University of California, Berkeley campus and the city of Berkeley. The newspaper has been independent of the university since 1971 and is run entirely by current or recently-graduated UC Berkeley students and published by the nonprofit Independent Berkeley Students Publishing Company, Inc. Known informally as The Daily Cal, it is published Read more...
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LaGuardia Airport terminals for arrivals and departures are shown below. In case of terminal changes, contacting the airline to confirm before travel is advisable. Airline Terminal Air Canada B American Airlines B American Shuttle B Delta C Delta Shuttle C Frontier Airlines C JetBlue Airways (Boston) A JetBlue Airways B Southwest Airlines B Spirit Airlines A United Airlines B WestJet Read more...
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The official mascot of the University of California, Berkeley is Oski the Bear, who represents the university’s California Golden Bears sports teams. Oski originated as a cartoon-strip character in Cal’s student newspaper, The Daily Californian, and made his real-life debut on September 27th, 1941, during Cal Football’s victory in a season opener against the Saint Mary’s Gaels. Previously, Cal had Read more...
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The FC Dallas MLS soccer team plays its home games at the Toyota Stadium (previously called Pizza Hut Park) in Frisco, Texas, some 30 miles north of downtown Dallas. Frisco Independent School District also uses the stadium for high school football games and it is also the home of the National Soccer Hall of Fame which opened in 2018. Read more...
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The state of Rhode Island is not an island as most of the coastal state is located on the mainland. Until 2020, the state was officially called State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, a name dating back to the merger of four Colonial settlements, including what was then called Rhode Island, but is now Aquidneck Island, an actual island Read more...
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The first ever Super Bowl was played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on January 15th, 1967, when it was known as the AFL-NFL World Championship Game. The contest did not formally adopt the Super Bowl name until Super Bowl 3 in 1969. The game was between the National Football League champions, the Green Bay Packers, and the American Football Read more...
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There is a path going around the whole of False Creek which is part of the longer Vancouver Seaside Greenway, an uninterrupted waterfront pathway running from the Vancouver Convention Centre, along the Stanley Park Seawall to English Bay, and then around False Creek past Granville Island to Kitsilano Beach. The entire False Creek section is approximately 8.5 km (or 5.3 Read more...
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American singer-songwriter Christina Grimmie died, aged 22, after being shot following her performance at The Plaza Live in Orlando, Florida, on the evening of June 10th, 2016. As she met with fans after the show, 27-year-old Kevin James Loibl approached the singer and shot her once in the head and twice in the chest before shooting and killing himself. Despite Read more...
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The San Francisco 49ers NHL football team got its name from the nickname ‘forty niners‘ given to the first wave of fortune seekers who flocked to Northern California in 1849 during the gold rush era. The team retained San Francisco in its name despite moving some 32 miles outside the city in 2014 to a new home stadium, the Levi’s Read more...
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Chambers Bay Golf Course is a municipal public golf course, owned by Pierce County, located in University Place, southwest of Tacoma, Washington. Opened in June 2007 on the site of a former sand and gravel mine overlooking Puget Sound, Chambers Bay hosted the 2010 US Amateur and 2015 US Open Championships. The 18-hole championship golf course was designed by Robert Read more...
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Day-use entry to Jalama Beach is charged at $10 per vehicle, and leashed dogs are also welcome, with proof of current rabies vaccination, for an additional for $3 per dog. The entry fee is payable at the Ranger Kiosk as you drive in at the gate. Annual day-use permits are also available, with discounts for seniors, veterans and Santa Barbara Read more...
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The Tennessee Valley Trail from the parking lot to the Tennessee Beach cove is approximately 1.7 miles (or 2.8 kilometers) and the easy hike to the beach takes around 30 minutes. This popular trail on the Marin Headlands gets very busy, particularly at weekends, so arriving early is always advisable. Dogs are not permitted on the trail. The parking lot Read more...
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The Angeles Crest Highway (or State Route 2) between La Cañada Flintridge and Wrightwood, California, goes through the Angeles National Forest. The road is 66 miles (or 106 kilometers) end-to-end and passes through the San Gabriel Mountains, reaching a summit of 7,903 feet (or 2,409 meters) at the Dawson Saddle. The Angeles Crest Highway is normally closed over winter between Read more...
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The area of San Francisco now known as Cow Hollow was so named because it was where settlers in the mid-1800s established dairy farms, attracted by the natural fresh water sources and good grazing land for cows. Known then as Spring Valley, it was a verdant area of meadows, natural springs, and sand hills, which by the 1880s sustained over Read more...
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Ari Halberstam was a yeshiva student killed, aged 16, when Lebanese-born terrorist Rashid Baz shot at the van he was traveling in on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, on the morning of March 1st, 1994. Halberstam was one of 15 Chabad-Lubavitch Orthodox Jewish students in the van that had just joined the bridge from the FDR Drive on-ramp, Read more...
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American singer Bing Crosby moved to Hillsborough, California, with his second wife, Kathryn, and their three children in 1964, after selling their home in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles. Their first home in the area was at 101 Robin Road in Hillsborough’s Carolands neighborhood, but they moved by the end of 1965 to a larger property on Jackling Drive at Armsby Read more...
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A person who is a long-time resident or native of Spokane is called a Spokanite. It is the commonly used demonym for someone from Spokane, Washington. Read more...
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Dogs are not permitted on any of the sandy areas of Waukegan Municipal Beach. The only areas where dogs and other pets are allowed is in the beach parking lots and grassy areas. The restriction does not apply to service dogs or dogs being used for law enforcement purposes. Read more...