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Vehicles cannot drive up Maidstone High Street, as it is a pedestrian zone, with the following exceptions: Bicycles and taxis are permitted to enter from Pudding Lane and King Street. Buses can enter from Fairmeadow, King Street, Pudding Lane and Mill Street. Disabled blue badge holders can enter only from Pudding Lane, and parking is permitted in the marked parking Read more...
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Raleigh-Durham International Airport has two terminals, Terminal 1 and Terminal 2. Terminal 1 is used only by Southwest Airlines while all other airlines operate from Terminal 2. Southwest Airlines international flights arrive at Terminal 2. The walk from one terminal to the other takes about 5-10 minutes, and a free shuttle bus also operates between terminals. Read more...
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Tatiana, a four-year-old Siberian tiger escaped her open-air enclosure by scaling a 12-foot-4-inch (or 3.8 meter) high wall at the San Francisco Zoo on Christmas Day, 2007, and mauled three men visiting the zoo, killing one of them. 17-year-old Carlos Souza of San Jose died after suffering blunt-force trauma from tiger bites to his head and neck. His friends, brothers Read more...
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Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore is named after its first benefactor, the 19th-century Maryland entrepreneur and philanthropist, Johns Hopkins. Hopkins was born in 1795 into a family of tobacco-farming Quakers and made his fortune as a businessman and investor, most notably in the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company (B&O), where he was also a director. In his senior years, Hopkins Read more...
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The statue of Hans Christian Andersen is located near Manhattan’s Conservatory Water pond on the east side of Central Park, just north of the entrance at East 772nd Street and 5th Avenue. The oversize bronze sculpture depicts the seated Danish author reading from a book, which is open at his tale The Ugly Duckling. At his feet is a bronze Read more...
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The Dish at Stanford University is a steerable radio telescope used for satellite calibrations, spacecraft command and telemetry, and radio astronomy measurements. Measuring approximately 150 feet (or 46 meters) in diameter, the steel and aluminum parabolic antenna was built in the early 1960s by the Stanford Research Institute with funding from the US Air Force to probe the scattering properties Read more...
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Two life-size bronze sculptures of Indian rhinoceroses flank the entrance to Harvard’s Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. Sculpted by Katherine Lane Weems and unveiled on May 12th, 1937, the 3-ton rhinos, affectionately named Bessie and Victoria, overlook the internal courtyard of the Bio Labs buildings. Weems was also responsible for the ornate carvings on the entrance doors and the Read more...
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Cornell University’s Libe Slope is a shortened form of the name Library Slope, so named for the library built at the top of the grassy incline. Cornell’s University Library, nicknamed ‘The Libe’, opened in 1891 and was the main library until 1961, after which it was renamed the Uris Library. Libe Slope’s green space is the location of the annual Read more...
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WQXR-FM is a classical music radio station licensed to Newark, New Jersey, broadcasting to New York City and North Jersey at 105.9 MHz FM, and streaming online. The station is owned by the nonprofit New York Public Radio and broadcasts from their studios in Hudson Square, Manhattan via a transmitter atop the Empire State Building. WQXR also reaches central and Read more...
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For Tandon School of Engineering students, New York University’s ID card, the NYUCard, may be picked up on weekdays at the Tandon NYUCard Center on the ground floor of 2 MetroTech Center in Brooklyn. NYUCard applicants must bring government issued ID with a current photo, and an N number or NetID. New students may upload a photo via photoid.nyu.edu and Read more...
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New York University’s ID card, the NYUCard, may be picked up on weekdays at the Washington Square NYUCard Center located in the ground floor lobby of 7 Washington Place (at the corner of Mercer Street). NYUCard applicants must bring government issued identification with a current photo, and an N number or NetID. New students may upload a photo via photoid.nyu.edu. Read more...
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Jaguar Land Rover’s Slovakian car assembly plant is located on an industrial park outside the city of Nitra, some 95 kilometres east of the capital, Bratislava. JLR opened the Nitra Manufacturing Centre in autumn 2018 to produce its Land Rover Discovery vehicles. Since September 2019, the plant also assembles the Land Rover Defender model. The facility has a planned annual Read more...
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Cornell University’s main campus is in Ithaca, New York, where it covers some 2,300 acres in the city. Cornell’s medical campus, known as Weill Cornell, is on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, and the university’s Cornell Tech campus is on Roosevelt Island in New York City. Read more...
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There are two bronze statues in Duffy Square, the northern triangle of Times Square in Manhattan, New York City, one of Chaplain Francis P Duffy and the other of musical theater star George M Cohan. The statue of Father Duffy, a military chaplain and priest after whom the square is named, was sculpted by Charles Keck and dedicated on May Read more...
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Jazz pianist and singer Nat King Cole was born on March 17th, 1919 in a house at 1524 St John Street in Montgomery, Alabama, located where the ASU Stadium stands today. The house was saved from demolition and has since been acquired by Alabama State University who relocated it in 2000 to the corner of Harris Way and North University Read more...
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Rapper King Von was shot and killed, aged 26, in the early hours of Friday, November 6th, 2020, during an altercation outside the Monaco Hookah Lounge in south downtown Atlanta, Georgia. A native of Chicago’s Kingsway Gardens, King Von, whose real name was Dayvon Bennett, was based in Atlanta. He had been at the city’s Opium Nightclub with a group Read more...
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Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis died at his home on Barton Street in Macclesfield, Cheshire on 18th May 1980, aged 23 years old. Curtis committed suicide in the early hours of the morning by hanging himself using a washing line in the kitchen of the house. Joy Division had been due to leave the UK that day for the Read more...
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Kamloops, British Columbia sits at the confluence of the North Thompson and South Thompson rivers. At Kamloops, the westbound South Thompson River and the North Thompson River flowing from the north, meet to form the mainstem Thompson River which continues eastwards until it joins the Fraser River at Lytton, British Columbia. The Thompson River is named after British-Canadian explorer, surveyor Read more...
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Actor Eddie Hassell was shot dead during the early hours of Sunday, November 1st, 2020, in an apparent random robbery at Indigo Pointe on Bardin Road in Grand Prairie, a suburb of Dallas, Texas. He was outside his girlfriend’s apartment and was pronounced dead after being taken to hospital with gunshot wounds to the stomach. The Corsicana, Texas native starred Read more...
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There is no driving range at the Furry Creek golf course in British Columbia. However, there are hitting nets near the first hole, and a practice putting green by the clubhouse and 18th green. Read more...