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American figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was deliberately struck on the lower right thigh by an assailant with a telescopic baton as she walked along a corridor at Cobo Arena (now part of the TCF Center Grand Riverview Ballroom) in Detroit, Michigan, on January 6th 1994. The attack was planned by Jeff Gilloly, the ex-husband of fellow competitive figure skater Tonya Read more...
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A permit is required to hike Mount Whitney in California’s Sierra Nevada, both for day-use and overnight hikes. Rangers patrol regularly and any hikers found in the Mount Whitney Zone without a permit will be fined and directed to leave the mountain. For hikers starting from the east side of the Sierra Nevada at Whitney Portal, day use and overnight Read more...
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The Key West name originates from the anglicized pronunciation by English-speaking settlers, of the island’s Spanish name Cayo Hueso. The name was given to the island by the Spanish, the word cayo, referring to a small, flat, sandy island, and hueso, the Spanish word for bone, possibly a reference to the bones of prior native inhabitants, who used the island Read more...
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The highest natural point in Brooklyn, New York, is Battle Hill, at 216 feet (or 66 meters) above sea level. Also known as Gowan’s Heights, it is located in Green-Wood Cemetery in the western portion of Brooklyn. The hill is part of Harbor Hill Moraine, a terminal moraine formed during the Wisconsin Glaciation, one of the last major continental glacier Read more...
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Climbing on Morro Rock is prohibited by law as it is an ecological reserve and unauthorized entry will result in a fine. The domed volcanic plug, with a peak elevation of 581 feet (or 177 meters), is an important protected habitat for nesting peregrine falcons and other wildlife. Located in Morro Bay, California, between San Francisco and Los Angeles, Morro Read more...
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John Lennon’s 1965 Rolls-Royce Phantom V Touring Limousine is held by the Royal BC Museum in Victoria, British Columbia, and periodically displayed in the museum’s glass lobby, particularly in winter months. Coinciding with the 1967 release of The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album, Lennon had his black Rolls-Royce repainted yellow with psychedelic patterns and floral motifs inspired Read more...
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The Marmot Basin ski area is located 20 kilometres (or 12.5 miles) south of Jasper, Alberta, off Highway 93, a 20-minute drive by car. During ski season, the Jasper-Marmot Shuttle bus operates three daily morning departures from most Jasper hotels to Marmot, and three return trips back into town in the afternoon. Shuttle tickets are $7 each way and can Read more...
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The city of Vacaville, California, was named after Juan Manuel Vaca, whose family was one of the first to settle in the area. Vaca had acquired a share in a substantial portion of land in the area through a Mexican land grant. He sold nine square miles of land to William McDaniel in 1850, with a condition that a township Read more...
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A person who is a long-time resident or native of Sacramento is called a Sacramentan. It is the commonly used demonym for someone from Sacramento. Read more...
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The red-brick clock tower in the centre of the city of Bangor, Gwynedd, was built between 1886 and 1887, by builder T J Humphreys of Bangor. The Victorian listed structure on Bangor’s High Street has four clock faces and a chiming bell, and was given to the city by Bangor businessman Thomas Lewis, who was Mayor of Bangor between 1885 Read more...
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Duke University is located in Durham, North Carolina, while its Marine Laboratory is based some 170 miles to the southeast of the main campus, on Pivers Island, near Beaufort, North Carolina. It relocated to Durham in 1892, when it was known as Trinity College, in a move funded by local tobacco magnates Washington Duke and Julian S Carr. In 1924, Read more...
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Durham Cathedral in its present form dates back to the Norman era with its construction started in 1093 under Bishop William of St Calais, and being substantially completed over the next 40 years. Founded as a monastic cathedral, it was built to house the shrine of St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, replacing the White Church, the city’s previous Anglo-Saxon church constructed Read more...
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The best times for viewing manatees in Crystal River, Florida, are early mornings, during high tide, on cold days in late fall and winter between mid-November and mid-March. Large populations of West Indian manatees congregate around the warm water springs of the Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge when water temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico are too cold for them. Read more...
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The capital city of California is Sacramento. It is home to the state seat of government, the California State Capitol, which houses the chambers of the California State Legislature, and the office of the Governor of California. When gold-rush era California joined the Union in 1850 as the 31st state, it had yet to establish a permanent location for the Read more...
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The 2020 season Super Bowl 55 was played at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, on February 7th, 2021, between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Buccaneers won, defeating the Chiefs 31–9, and Bucs quarterback Tom Brady was named Super Bowl MVP. Canadian singer The Weeknd performed the half-time show. As the home stadium of the Read more...
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The colored ponds in south San Francisco Bay are salt evaporation ponds used for the commercial extraction of salt from the bay’s seawater. In a process spanning several years, seawater is allowed to flow into shallow enclosed ponds on the shoreline. In the south bay’s sunny, breezy, climate, the water gradually evaporates, leaving behind increasingly concentrated saltwater, which is pumped Read more...
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UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business is named after the late Walter A Haas Sr, a Berkeley alumnus and former president of Levi Strauss & Co. In 1989, his children donated $15 million, through the Walter & Elise Hass Fund, towards the construction of the school’s current building, at the time the largest donation ever made to Berkeley. In recognition Read more...
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The Enola Gay airplane is on display at the National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center annex, located near Washington Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Virginia. In service during World War II, the United States Army Air Forces Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber is known for dropping the first atomic bomb used in warfare, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Read more...
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San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge weighs approximately 887,000 tons (or 804,670 metric tons), including anchorages and approaches. In the 1980s, the original concrete road deck was replaced with a lighter, stronger, orthotropic steel deck, reducing the bridge’s total mass by some 12,300 tons (or 11,160 metric tons). Excluding the anchorages and approaches, the bridge structure weighs approximately 419,800 tons (or Read more...
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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers NFL football team plays its home games at the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. The stadium has been home to the Buccaneers since 1998, and the facility is shared with the NCAA’s South Florida Bulls football team and the Tampa Bay Vipers of the XFL. In addition to hosting the Super Bowl in 2001 and Read more...