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As a constitutional monarchy ruled by the Grimaldi dynasty, Monaco is a country in its own right and independent from France, although both countries have a special relationship. A July 1918 treaty, incorporated into the Treaty of Versailles, provides for limited French protection over the Principality of Monaco, establishing a policy alignment with French political, military, and economic interests, while Read more...
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Foster City, California, was created in the 1960s on former tidal marshland near San Mateo, overlaid with an engineered landfill of sand and shell dredged from San Francisco Bay. The lands were once tidal wetlands sitting around mean sea level which were dried out in the 19th century using dikes and levees to keep out the tidal flows. The reclaimed Read more...
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San Juanico Bridge in the Philippines links the islands of Leyte and Samar in the Eastern Visayas region, connecting by road the city of Tacloban and the Municipality of Santa Rita. The 2,164-metre (or 7,100-foot) bridge spans the San Juanico Strait, and is the longest bridge in the Philippines spanning a body of water. The bridge was opened in 1973 Read more...
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Coffin Bay was named by British naval explorer Lieutenant Matthew Flinders after Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, the Resident Commissioner of Sheerness Naval Dockyards in England, where Flinder’s survey ship, HMS Investigator, was fitted out. The bay was identified in 1802 by Flinders and his crew on board the Investigator during the first ever circumnavigation of Australia by ship. Originally named Read more...
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The Cincinnati Bengals NFL football team plays its home games at Paul Brown Stadium in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. The Bengals moved to the newly-constructed football stadium in August 2000, which is named after the team’s late founder and first head coach, Paul Brown. Known as PBS for short, the Paul Brown Stadium is also nicknamed The Jungle by fans. Read more...
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During summer, Seastreak operates a fast passenger ferry between New York and Nantucket, via Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard, departing 4 pm on Fridays and returning 2:30 pm Sundays. The New York City ferry terminal is at East 35th Street and FDR Drive on the east side of midtown Manhattan. The crossing time to Nantucket takes approximately 6 hours 15 minutes, Read more...
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The stone towers and arches of Menai Suspension Bridge are built of grey-brown veined limestone quarried nearby in Penmon on the eastern tip of the Isle of Anglesey. Construction started with the bridge towers in 1819, with the stone, also known as Penmon marble, transported to the site by boat down the Menai Strait. The Thomas Telford-designed bridge connects Anglesey Read more...
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The YYZ code for Toronto Pearson airport originates in the two-digit YZ location identifier assigned to Malton Airport, the airfield’s original name, in the late 1930s and early 40s. Most airfields and weather stations in the United States, Canada and Alaska, had unique two-letter identities, emitted by beacons as a Morse code radio signal for aeronautical navigation and reporting of Read more...
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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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Actor James Dean died, aged 24, on the early evening of September 30th, 1955, when his car crashed into another at the junction of California State Routes 41 and 46 (formerly US Route 466) in Cholame, California. Dean was driving his Porsche 550 Spyder from Los Angeles to a road race in Salinas, with German mechanic Rolf Wütherich as a 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 19th-century London Bridge that once spanned the River Thames in London, England, was dismantled in 1967 and relocated to Lake Havasu City, Arizona, where it still stands. By 1962 it was decided that the bridge, dating from 1831, could not handle increasing levels of London road traffic and needed replacing. Following a search for potential buyers, it was sold Read more...
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The flashing red light on the spire atop the Capitol Records Building, near Hollywood and Vine, spells out the word ‘HOLLYWOOD’ in Morse code. 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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The former summer resort village of Minnewanka Landing lies beneath the waters of Lake Minnewanka, near Banff, Alberta. Minnewanka Landing grew around the Beach House log hotel established on the shores of the original Lake Minnewanka in 1886. The village was a popular summer destination, and by 1912 the resort was laid out along four avenues and three streets, with 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 Banff Visitor Centre is located next to St Paul’s Presbyterian Church on Banff Avenue in downtown Banff, in a stone and half-timbered black and white heritage building that was once the Banff School Auditorium. Operated by Parks Canada, the visitor information centre includes the Banff Lake Louise Tourism office, and is open until 5 pm daily. The centre offers 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 Upper Hot Springs pool in Banff, Alberta, is supplied entirely with natural mineral water from the hot spring for most of the season, although water flow naturally decreases later in the year and there may be times in late fall and winter when the pool is topped up with heated municipal water. The Banff Upper Hot Springs website provides 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...