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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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American actor John Wayne was born in a house on South 2nd Street in Winterset, Iowa, on May 26th, 1907. Born Marion Robert Morrison, he only spent a few early years in Winterset, where his father was a pharmacist, before the family moved, eventually settling in Southern California. The house still stands today and has been restored to reflect its 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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Menai Suspension Bridge has narrow arches with a width restriction of 2.6 metres and a height limit of 4.7 metres. HGVs, large lorries, and buses normally use Britannia Bridge, the other bridge crossing the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the Welsh mainland, which is subject to less restrictive width and height limits. During periods of high winds, 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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Dirk Hartog Island, off Western Australia’s Gascoyne coast, can be reached by vehicle-carrying barge, boat or small plane. The privately-operated landing barge operates daily on-demand for transporting one four-wheel-drive vehicle and trailer at a time from Shelter Bay, Steep Point. Pre-booking the barge in advance is advisable as the island has a limit of 20 vehicles at any one time. 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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Just before 6 pm on June 28th, 1981, two diagonal steel cable stays on the Brooklyn Bridge snapped due to corrosion. One crashed down into the wooden-slatted pedestrian walkway, while the other whipped back and struck Akira Aimi as he was crossing the bridge on foot. 32-year-old Aimi, a Japanese professional photographer living in New York, was critically injured, suffering Read more...
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Part of the former quarry town of Stout lies beneath the south end of Horsetooth Reservoir near Fort Collins, Colorado. Stout grew around quarrying in the area, once a major source of sandstone for buildings and sidewalk paving in major cities such as Denver, Chicago and Omaha. By the early 1880s the Union Pacific railroad had reached Stout and the Read more...
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Martial artist and actor Bruce Lee is buried in Lot 276 of the Lake View Cemetery in Seattle, Washington. He died in Hong Kong of a cerebral edema on July 20th, 1973, aged 32, and his funeral was held in Seattle on July 25th, 1973. The red-colored headstone features Lee’s photograph and the engraved epitaph describes him as ‘FOUNDER OF 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...
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West Oakland’s Cypress Street Viaduct, also called the Cypress Freeway or Cypress Structure, was a 3-mile (or 2 kilometer) elevated section of the Nimitz Freeway (Interstate 880) between 7th Street and 34th street, which collapsed during the Loma Prieta earthquake on October 17th, 1989. The magnitude 6.9 earthquake caused the upper tier of the two-deck highway between 18th Street and Read more...
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You cannot drive up to the Gatlinburg SkyBridge on Crockett Mountain. The only way to access the SkyBridge is by taking the three-person SkyLift chair from the base of the mountain in downtown Gatlinburg, where pay parking is available. SkyLift tickets can be purchased online or at the ticket window, and include unlimited access to the bridge, observation deck and Read more...
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In the early hours of April 7th, 1982, a collision in the third bore of the Caldecott Tunnel involving a tanker truck carrying gasoline caused a devastating fire. The road tunnel, carrying westbound traffic from Orinda to Oakland, acted as a chimney during the fire with the natural draft moving smoke towards oncoming vehicles. Seven people died in the accident, Read more...
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The Holland Tunnel emerges in Lower Manhattan parallel to Canal Street in the Tribeca neighborhood. The Holland Tunnel Rotary road loops around Saint John’s Park, with right-lane exits in the following order: Exit 1: West Street (or West Side Highway 9A) via Laight Street Exit 2: Uptown via Hudson Street Exit 3: Brooklyn via Manhattan Bridge or Williamsburg Bridge Exit Read more...
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The capital city of Nova Scotia is Halifax, which is part of the Halifax Regional Municipality. The Nova Scotia House of Assembly, Nova Scotia’s legislative assembly, is based at Province House in downtown Halifax, where it has met since 1819, making the building Canada’s oldest house of government. Named after the 2nd Earl of Halifax, the city was established in Read more...
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The dual-span Bay Bridge across Chesapeake Bay is 4.3 miles (or 7 kilometers) long from shore to shore, including causeways, with the eastbound bridge being the longest by a small margin. The bridge connects Maryland’s Eastern Shore and Western Shore. Officially named the William Preston Lane Jr. Memorial Bridge, it opened as a single-span bridge 1952, and the second span, Read more...