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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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The SkyWheel ferris wheel ride on the Boardwalk at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, takes approximately 12 minutes and completes three full revolutions. VIP ticket holders get to stay on the SkyWheel for twice as long and ride in a special four-person glass-bottomed gondola cabin fitted with leather seats. Opened in 2011, the Myrtle Beach SkyWheel observation wheel carries passengers up 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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Rutland Water is a man-made reservoir created in the 1970s by the construction of a clay dam in the Gwash Valley, near Oakham, Rutland, to store water for supply to major towns in the East Midlands region of England. The village of Nether Hambleton and most of Middle Hambleton were lost to the development and submerged by water. Originally called 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 city of Ithaca, New York, sits at the south end of Cayuga Lake, one of the Finger Lakes of New York state. Cayuga Lake is the longest of the state’s glacial Finger Lakes, so named because of their long, narrow shape, formed in an overdeepened glacial valley, and it is the second largest in surface area and volume. It 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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American guitarist and singer-songwriter Jimi Hendrix is buried at Greenwood Cemetery in Renton, Washington. He died in London, England, on September 18th, 1970, at the age of 27. Hendrix, whose birth name was Johnny Allen Hendrix, was interred on October 1st, 1970, in the cemetery where his mother, Lucille, was buried. In 2002, his casket was exhumed and he was 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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Auburn University uses private cleaning crews to remove the toilet paper hanging from the trees at Toomer’s Corner after the Auburn fans’ tradition of ‘rolling’ to celebrate a win by the university’s sports teams. After a team victory, two live oak trees standing at the intersection of Magnolia Avenue and College Street have long been a gathering point on campus Read more...
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The Python Bridge spans the Railway Basin canal between the Sporenburg and Borneo peninsulas in Amsterdam’s now-residential regenerated Eastern Docklands area. Officially known as High Bridge (or Hoge Brug in Dutch), the distinctive red undulating footbridge was completed in 2000 and connects the Panamakade on the Sporenburg Peninsula with the Stuurmankade on Borneo Island. The 93-meter-span bridge reaches a height 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...
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Idora Park amusement park in Youngstown, Ohio, closed in September 1984. The once-flourishing attraction was opened as Terminal Park in 1899 by the Youngstown Park and Falls Street Railway Company to encourage use of their streetcar services on weekends and holidays. Later named Idora Park, it was known as ‘Youngstown’s Million Dollar Playground’. It remained popular longer than many other Read more...
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The River Mersey starts in the Portwood area of Stockport, Greater Manchester, where the River Tame and River Goyt meet. The River Goyt originates some 14 miles (or 22.5 kilometres) to the southeast on Axe Edge Moor in the Peak District, and the River Tame starts 14.5 miles (or 23.3 kilometres) to the northeast at the Readycon Dean Reservoir on Read more...
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The Indianapolis Colts NFL football team plays its home games at Lucas Oil Stadium in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. The Colts moved to the newly constructed stadium in 2008, which has a retractable roof and a capacity of 67,000 for football games. The Lucas Oil Stadium is located opposite the site of the team’s former home stadium, the RCA Dome, which Read more...