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British film director and producer Tony Scott died by suicide, aged 68, when he jumped off the Vincent Thomas Bridge in the San Pedro district of Los Angeles, California, on August 19th, 2012. He had left his Toyota Prius car parked on the bridge, with a note containing contact information, and a note for his family was found later in Read more...
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The Kalamazoo Greyhound stop is at the Kalamazoo Transportation Center on North Burdick Street at Kalamazoo Avenue in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan. The transport hub is shared by the Amtrak train station and bus services operated by Metro Transit, Greyhound Lines, Miller Transportation and Indian Trails. The complex has a concession stand, restrooms, and a waiting area open until 11 pm Read more...
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The City of Palo Alto prohibits smoking in public places, including workplaces, bars, restaurants, stores, and theaters. The ban extends to all commercial areas, including publicly-owned sidewalks, alleys, parking areas, and service areas such as taxi and bus stops, in the city’s commercial zones, including downtown Palo Alto, California Avenue business district, Town and County Shopping Center, and Stanford Shopping Read more...
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The 96.5 KOIT radio studios are located on the third floor of the DC Station building on Junipero Serra Boulevard in Daly City, California. The Adult Contemporary format radio station relocated here in 2020 from its former studios in downtown San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood. The broadcast facilities are shared with three other Bonneville-owned Bay Area FM stations, 99.7 NOW (KMVQ), Read more...
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For Colorado Avalanche ice hockey games at Ball Arena in Denver, doors open 1 hour before puck drop. Read more...
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On January 8, 2011, US Representative Gabrielle Giffords was shot during a constituent meeting held in the parking lot of the Safeway store at the Oracle Place Shopping Center in Casas Adobes, near Tucson, Arizona. Giffords was shot in the head at close range and taken to hospital in critical condition. Eighteen others were shot at the event, six fatally, Read more...
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You can drive to Manitoulin Island via the Little Current Swing Bridge which carries Highway 6 over the North Channel of Lake Huron in Northeastern Manitoulin, Ontario. To reach the Swing Bridge, from Highway 17 (Trans Canada Highway) between Sudbury and Sault Saint Marie, turn on to Highway 6 for Espanola and continue for 50 kilometers (or 31 miles) towards Read more...
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American entrepreneur Tony Hsieh died, aged 46, at Bridgeport Hospital, Connecticut, on November 27th, 2020, due to complications from smoke inhalation. The former CEO of online shoe retailer Zappos was rescued by first responders from a fire in a shed at a waterfront home on Pequot Avenue in New London, Connecticut, in the early hours of November 18th, 2020. Hsieh Read more...
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The Mackinac Bridge crosses the Straits of Mackinac between Michigan’s Lower and Upper Peninsulas. The Straits of Mackinac is the body of water connecting Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, two of the Great Lakes, and its width at the point of the Mackinac Bridge crossing is 4 miles (or 6.4 kilometers). At the south end of the bridge is the Read more...
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Over 20 shark species have been observed in California’s Monterey Bay, including white, basking, thresher, blue, mako, and salmon sharks. Great white shark sightings in nearshore waters are not uncommon during summer and early fall when they return to feed on young elephant seals. Shark attacks on humans are rare in Monterey Bay, and the last fatal attack occurred near Read more...
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Engine 54, Ladder 4, Battalion 9 in midtown Manhattan lost 15 members on 9/11, the biggest loss of any firehouse in New York City. When two planes struck the World Trade Center twin towers on the morning of September 11th, 2001, all 15 members of the night shift turned out, but none made it back to the firehouse after the Read more...
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WDBJ reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward were shot and killed during a live broadcast at Bridgewater Plaza, an outdoor shopping mall at Smith Mountain Lake in Moneta, Virginia, on the morning of August 26th, 2015. The Roanoke station was on location broadcasting a live interview with Vicki Gardner, executive director of the Smith Mountain Lake Regional Chamber of Read more...
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Actor Paul Walker died in a car crash on the afternoon of November 20th, 2013, on Hercules Street on the Rye Canyon Business Park in Santa Clarita’s Valencia neighborhood. 40-year-old Walker, a star of the Fast & Furious film franchise, was a passenger in a 2005 Porsche Carrera GT driven by Roger Rodas, who also died in the crash. The Read more...
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The cause of the helicopter crash that killed 39-year-old Scottish rally driver Colin McRae on the afternoon of 15th September 2007 was not positively determined. McRae was piloting his Eurocopter AS350B2 Squirrel helicopter, registered G-CBHL, when it crashed at high speed in a wooded valley next to his home, Jerviswood House, north of Lanark, some 150 metres from the intended Read more...
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The San Francisco Symphony doesn’t have a formal dress code and for most concerts it is a matter of personal choice. The dress of most concertgoers at Louise M Davies Symphony Hall ranges from smart casual to business or cocktail attire. The only exception is for events such as the SF Symphony Opening Gala where more formal attire like tuxedos Read more...
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New York’s Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge was named after Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano, but a mistake meant that the bridge’s official name was spelled with only one ‘z’ instead of two. The mis-spelled name remained in use from the bridge’s opening in 1964 until 2018, when a public campaign resulted in a bill being passed unanimously by the New York State Read more...
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Seattle’s NHL expansion ice hockey team is named the Seattle Kraken after a feared, mythical, tentacled sea monster from Scandinavian folklore. The name was selected for the city’s new ice hockey franchise in a nod to Seattle’s maritime history and its coastal location in the Pacific Northwest, where giant Pacific octopus are known to dwell. The new team’s name, colors, Read more...
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The New York 1 cable TV news channel broadcasts from studios on the sixth floor of the Chelsea Market Building at 9th Avenue and West 15th Street in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. NY1 has been at this location since January 2002, and programs produced here include: Mornings on 1 In Focus with Cheryl Wills Inside City Hall NY1 Live at Ten Read more...
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The summit of Britton Hill is Florida’s highest natural point, with an elevation of 345 feet (or 105 meters) above mean sea level. Located in Lakewood Park, near the Florida/Alabama border, off County Road 285 east of the town of Paxton, a granite monument marks the highest point and is engraved with: LAKEWOOD PARK FLORIDA’S HIGHEST POINT ELEVATION 345 FT Read more...
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On 4th June 1967, a British Midland Airways airplane, carrying 84 people, crashed into a green space and buildings near the junction of Hopes Carr and Waterloo Road in Stockport, Greater Manchester. The Canadair C-4 Argonaut plane, registered G-ALHG, left Palma de Mallorca airport at 5 am, bound for Manchester Airport. While attempting a second approach into Manchester, the aircraft Read more...