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The Piece Hall in Halifax, West Yorkshire, opened in 1779 as a cloth hall, where pieces of woollen fabric woven on handlooms would be traded by the area’s clothiers. The 19th-century industrial revolution brought automation and scale to the area’s weaving industry, and the fall in the number of small-scale producers precipitated a decline in the Piece Hall’s fortunes to Read more...
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Greeley Square Park is a small, triangular, tree-lined, paved park in midtown Manhattan at 6th Avenue and West 34th Street, near the 33rd Street subway and PATH station. There are many things to see and do within a short walking distance: See Alexander Doyle’s bronze statue of Horace Greeley, founder and editor of the New York Tribune newspaper. Bring your Read more...
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The Newport Mall shopping center in Jersey City is located near Newport PATH station, which is served by: 33 Street / Journal Square PATH train from Manhattan’s 33rd Street (at 6th Avenue), 27th Street, 14th Street, 9th Street, and Christopher Street stations World Trade Center / Hoboken PATH train on weekdays from World Trade Center PATH station at Vesey Street Read more...
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Southampton Airport Parkway Station is located adjacent to Southampton Airport and is a short walk from the terminal building via a mostly covered walkway. The station is on the South Western Main Line between Winchester and Southampton Central stations. Read more...
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The NPR member radio station in Southampton, NY, is WLIW-FM which broadcasts to eastern Long Island and southern Connecticut on FM and HD Radio at 88.3 MHz, and also streams online. Formerly called WPPB-FM, the station was acquired in 2020 by the WNET Group, parent company of New York’s THIRTEEN and WLIW21 public television broadcasters and operator of New Jersey’s Read more...
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University of Utah freshman running back Ty Jordan died, aged 19, of an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound on the evening of December 25th, 2020. Police responding to reports of a shooting at 1109 South Avenue B in Denton, Texas, found Jordan suffering from a gunshot injury to his abdomen. He was transported to hospital where he died shortly afterwards. Jordan, Read more...
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The memorial plaque for the workers killed in the West Gate Bridge collapse is mounted on one of the bridge’s supporting pedestals at the accident site, where Hyde Street runs under the bridge in Spotwood, Melbourne. During construction on 15 October 1970, a 112-metre steel box-girder span gave way and fell into the mud and water of the Yarra River. Read more...
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The parking lot of the Royal Gorge Bridge and Park has a free observation platform which offers a view of the gorge without having to pay to access the bridge or other park attractions. To reach the parking lot, follow County Road 3A from Highway 50 near Cañon City, Colorado. For those wanting to cross the historical Royal Gorge Bridge Read more...
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The Dallas Mavericks NBA basketball team plays its home games at American Airlines Center in the Victory Park neighborhood of downtown Dallas, Texas. The Mavs relocated here from the Reunion Arena where they played until 2001. American Airlines Center is also the home arena of the Dallas Stars NHL ice hockey team. Read more...
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Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans is open to cars during the daytime in a one-way direction from Canal Street towards Esplanade Avenue. At night, from around 7 pm, bollards and police barriers close off most of Bourbon Street to traffic and it becomes a pedestrian mall for night-time revellers. Cross streets remain open to vehicles. Bourbon Read more...
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Pop star Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch was located on Figueroa Mountain Road in Los Olivos, California, some 31 miles (or 50 kilometers) northwest of Santa Barbara. Then-named Sycamore Valley Ranch, Jackson purchased the house with 2,700-acre grounds as a home in 1988, renaming it Neverland, and built a private amusement park on the property, complete with fairground rides, a mini Read more...
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A person who is a long-time resident or native of Stockport is called a Stopfordian. It is the commonly used demonym for someone from Stockport, Greater Manchester. Read more...
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Whistler ski resort in British Columbia is named after the whistling sound made by the hoary marmots native to the area’s alpine environments. Whistler Mountain itself was originally named London Mountain by British naval officers surveying the area in the 1860s. The name Whistler Mountain was officially adopted in the mid-1960s during the early years of its development as a Read more...
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In good daytime conditions, driving across the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway between Metairie and Mandeville, Louisiana, takes approximately 25 minutes. In foggy conditions, the crossing time will be nearer 45 minutes as traffic is restricted to a single lane and a speed limit of 35 mph. At the 16 mile marker, the bridge has a bascule drawbridge to allow passage of Read more...
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Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by George Zimmerman on the evening of February 26th, 2012, on a path between houses on Twin Trees Lane and Retreat View Circle, at The Retreat at Twin Lakes residential community in Sanford, Florida. Martin, a 17-year-old high school student, was returning on foot from a nearby convenience store to the home of his Read more...
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When Norfolk, Virginia’s Berkley Bridge is lifted, it stays open for as long as required to allow water traffic to pass, which can be as much as 15 minutes, during which time road and pedestrian traffic is stopped. Subject to federal regulations, during weekday daytime hours, the double-leafed bascule bridge over the Eastern Branch Elizabeth River is limited to four Read more...
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There is no access to Point Bonita Lighthouse when closed as the final leg of the trail to the bridge and lighthouse passes though a rock tunnel which is gated and locked outside of opening hours. Point Bonita Lighthouse is normally open only on Sunday and Monday from 12:30 pm to 3:30 pm. The short, steep trail from the car Read more...
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The statue of English footballer Duncan Edwards is located on Market Place in the centre of his home town of Dudley, West Midlands. The Manchester United and England national team player, was one of the Busby Babes, a group of young, talented footballers playing for Manchester United in the 1950s under manager Matt Busby. Edwards was one of eight Manchester Read more...
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Alexander Hamilton’s 1802 home, The Grange, was relocated in June 2008 to the northern end of Saint Nicholas Park in Harlem’s Hamilton Heights neighborhood. The Founding Father’s yellow and white Federal-style house previously stood a block north, next to Saint Luke’s Episcopal Church on Convent Avenue at 141st Street. Despite becoming a National Memorial in 1962, it was hemmed in Read more...
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Notorious American gangster Al Capone spent 4½ years in the prison on Alcatraz Island after being transferred there in August 1934 from the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta. Capone was serving an 11-year sentence for tax evasion, during which time his mental health seriously declined due to syphilis contracted prior to his incarceration. He spent his final year at Alcatraz on Read more...