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The former townsite of Dillon, Colorado, lies beneath the waters of Dillon Reservoir, and the town moved to its current location, at the northeast edge of the reservoir, for the Denver Water Board to start work on building a dam across the Blue River in 1961 to create the freshwater reservoir, also known as Lake Dillon. Prior to inundating the Read more...
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The Tobin Bridge carries US Route 1 over the Mystic River between Chelsea and the Charlestown area of Boston, Massachusetts. Officially named the Maurice J Tobin Memorial Bridge, it is sometimes informally called the Mystic River Bridge, its original name until 1967. The double-deck cantilevered truss bridge carries southbound traffic into Boston on its upper level and Chelsea-bound traffic going Read more...
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Bruce’s Beach park in Manhattan Beach, California, is named after a former beach resort of the same name in the park’s location, operated by a black couple, Charles and Willa Bruce. The Bruces purchased beachfront property along the Strand between 26th and 27th streets in Manhattan Beach in 1912, developing it into a popular resort for African-American beachgoers and vacationers. Read more...
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The Ponte Vecchio bridge crosses the Arno River, in Florence, Italy, connecting the Duomo area with Oltrarno on the south side of the river. Completed in its current form in 1345, the segmental arch bridge also carries the Vasari Corridor enclosed passageway, added in 1565, which runs between Palazzo Vecchio, the Uffizi Gallery and Palazzo Pitti. The Ponte Vecchio was 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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When San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts was demolished in 1963, it was rebuilt with modern construction materials over the next decade, to the same design. The only parts reused were in the exhibition hall which was rebuilt on its 1915 steel frame, and retains some of the original fireplaces and doors. The Palace of Fine Arts was originally constructed Read more...
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The entire 0.6-mile (or 1 kilometer) loop of Mount Rushmore’s Presidential Trail can be completed in around 30 minutes, depending on visitor numbers at the time. There are various interpretive panels and viewpoints along the route. As there are steps on the Presidential Trail, it is only accessible to wheelchairs and strollers from the Grand View Terrace up to the Read more...
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The Foresthill Bridge over the North Fork American River, northeast of Auburn, California, is the highest bridge in California, with a road deck that’s 730 feet (or 220 meters) above the river. The steel cantilever bridge, also known as the Auburn-Foresthill Bridge or the Auburn Bridge, is situated some 35 miles (or 56 kilometers) northeast of Sacramento. Opened in 1973, Read more...
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The Presidio of San Francisco is a 1,491-acre former US Army installation in the northwest corner of the city, at the south end of the Golden Gate Bridge, transferred to the National Park Service when it was vacated by the military in 1994. Today, the Presidio is a thriving urban park with a unique mix of residential communities, businesses, historic Read more...
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Auckland’s Sky Tower is 328 metres (or 1,076 feet) high to the top of its mast, making it the tallest freestanding structure in the Southern Hemisphere. On clear days, the Skydeck observation deck on Level 60, just below the mast at 220 meters (or 720 feet) above street level, offers 360-degree views over distances of up to 80 kilometres (or 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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Wyatt Earp, who died on January 13th, 1929, was cremated and his remains are interred in a burial plot at the Hills of Eternity Memorial Park, a Jewish cemetery in Colma, California. At the time of his death, the former Old West lawman was living in Los Angeles with his Jewish wife, Josephine Marcus, and she arranged for Earp’s ashes 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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The 1980 movie Somewhere in Time was mostly filmed on Mackinac Island, Michigan, with much of the film centered around the Grand Hotel, and other scenes filmed at the sound stage of The Mission Point Film Studio and Fine Arts Building (now Mission Point Resort). Some scenes were also filmed in Chicago, Illinois. Directed by Jeannot Szwarc, Somewhere in Time 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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Some of the best times to observe bioluminescence in northern California’s Tomales Bay inlet are on completely dark, moonless nights in late summer or fall. The bioluminescence is caused by tiny marine plankton known as dinoflagellates, which emit blue-green light when the water is agitated by wave action or a boat cutting through the surface. It is thought that the Read more...
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Spinning Chandelier, Canadian artist Rodney Graham’s giant chandelier art installation under the north end of the Granville Bridge in Vancouver, British Columbia, illuminates, descends and spins for two minutes at noon, 4 pm and 9 pm daily. The 4.2 metre-wide chandelier, made of stainless steel and over 600 polyurethane faux crystals, was installed on the underside of Granville Bridge at Read more...
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The San Diego-Coronado Bridge follows a curved route across San Diego Bay between Coronado and San Diego in order to achieve a water clearance of 200 feet (or 61 meters) at its highest point with just a gradual incline of the bridge. The water clearance was designed so that aircraft carriers from the nearby Naval Base San Diego could pass Read more...