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The town of Wertheim in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, sits at the the confluence of the rivers Tauber and Main. The Tauber runs northwards into Wertheim, flowing into the river Main which runs from east to west through the town. From there, the Main continues in a northwesterly direction towards Frankfurt and eventually flows into the river Rhine, some Read more...

The Beach Boys Historic Landmark, commemorating the site of the childhood home of brothers Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson of The Beach Boys, is located at West 119th Street and South Kornblum Avenue in Hawthorne, California. Early Beach Boys recordings were made in the home, where the Wilsons lived until the mid-1960s. The house was demolished in the 1980s to Read more...

The Boston Celtics basketball team has reached the NBA Finals 22 times and won the championship 17 times. Their most recent appearance in the best-of-seven playoff series was the 2022 NBA Finals when the Golden State Warriors defeated the Celtics by 4-2. The last time the Boston Celtics won the championship was the 2008 NBA Finals when they defeated the Read more...

The Australian city of Melbourne was named after William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, the then-serving British Prime Minister, whose seat was Melbourne Hall in the town of Melbourne, Derbyshire, England. Permanent European settlement of the area on the Yarra River had unofficially started some two years before it was recognised as a Crown settlement in March 1837. It was variously Read more...

A person who is a long-time resident or native of Melbourne is called a Melburnian. It is the commonly used demonym for someone from Melbourne, the capital city of Victoria, Australia. Read more...

The Ellen E Ward Memorial Clock Tower in the village of Roslyn, New York, was built in 1895. It was commissioned as a memorial to prominent Roslyn resident Ellen Ward by her children after her death in 1893. The clock tower was designed by the New York firm Lamb & Rich and features four clock faces and a Seth Thomas Read more...

A mass shooting at the Tops Friendly Markets grocery store on Jefferson Avenue in Buffalo, New York, on the afternoon of Saturday, May 14, 2022, left ten people dead and injured three others. The gunman, 18-year-old Payton Gendron of Conklin, New York, was dressed in military-style gear, including body armor and a helmet, and livestreamed his attack on social media Read more...

The dress code at The Ivy restaurant in central London is smart casual. During fine weather, tailored shorts and short-sleeved shirts are permitted, but long-sleeved shirts are required at all other times. Athletic attire of any kind is not acceptable. Ties are not required and smart dark jeans may be worn, but as dining at The Ivy is a special Read more...

The 2021 season Super Bowl 56 was played at SoFi Stadium in the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood, California, on February 13th, 2022, between the Los Angeles Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals. The LA Rams won, defeating the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20, and Rams wide receiver Cooper Kupp was named Super Bowl MVP. Country singer Mickey Guyton performed the national anthem Read more...

The sale or public drinking of alcohol in Ocean City, New Jersey, is prohibited by law, and as such it is considered a dry town, although alcohol is available to purchase in the neighboring community of Strathmere. The ban includes New Year’s Eve, which is traditionally an alcohol-free celebration in Ocean City, but drinking alcohol is permitted in private settings, Read more...

The city of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, has an elevation of 2,133 feet (or 650 meters) above sea level at the downtown lakefront. The highest natural point in the city is the summit of Tubbs Hill which has an elevation of 2,503 feet (or 763 meters). Read more...

English comedian and TV personality Bob Monkhouse was cremated at Chilterns Crematorium in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, on 2 January 2004, in a service attended by close friends and family. Monkhouse died on 29 December 2003, aged 75, at his home in the village of Eggington, near Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, and had been diagnosed with bone and prostate cancer. Born Robert Alan Read more...

Auburn University’s athletics teams, known as the Tigers, have only one mascot, Aubie the Tiger. “War Eagle” is Auburn University’s battle cry and fight song, and at the beginning of Tigers football games at Auburn’s Jordan-Hare Stadium an eagle is released to circle the stadium. However, despite being symbolic of Auburn’s battle cry, the eagle is not a mascot, and Read more...

The Buffalo Sabres NHL ice hockey team plays its home games at KeyBank Center (formerly called First Niagara Center, HSBC Arena, and Marine Midland Arena) in the Cobblestone District of downtown Buffalo, New York. The Sabres moved to the newly-built arena in 1996, having played nearby at the now-demolished Buffalo Memorial Auditorium, or the ‘Aud’, for the preceding 26 years. Read more...

Hylan Boulevard in the borough of Staten Island is the longest street in New York City, at around 14 miles (or 23 kilometers) long. The boulevard runs northeast-southwest from Rosebank in northeastern Staten Island, along the entire East Shore, to the Tottenville neighborhood on the South Shore. Hyland Boulevard was named in 1923 in honor of John Francis Hylan, mayor Read more...

The new Wembley Stadium in Wembley, north-west London, was built between 2003 and 2007, on the site of the original Wembley Stadium, which was demolished between 2002 and 2003. Owned by England’s governing body of football, the Football Association (or FA), the new Wembley was expected to be completed in time for the FA Cup final in May 2006, but, Read more...

Stanford University renamed Serra Mall to Jane Stanford Way in October 2019, in recognition of the harmful impacts on Native Americans of the California mission system established by the street’s namesake, the 18th century Roman Catholic missionary Father Junipero Serra. Changing the name of the pedestrian and bicycle mall was symbolic because it is also the official address of Stanford Read more...

Mickey Mantle is interred in the Mantle family mausoleum at Sparkman/Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery in Dallas, Texas. The American former professional baseball player for the New York Yankees died, aged 63, on August 13th, 1995, at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. He received a liver transplant two months earlier after cancer was found in his own liver, already damaged Read more...

Colored curbs in Los Angeles, California, indicate the following parking prohibitions or restrictions: Red curbs: no stopping, standing or parking at any time, regardless of whether a vehicle is attended. Yellow curbs: between 7 am and 6 pm, stopping restricted to loading or unloading freight by vehicles with commercial license plates for up to 30 minutes, and other vehicles may Read more...

Cranberry Township in Butler County, Pennsylvania, is a municipality located some 22 miles (or 34.5 kilometers) north of downtown Pittsburgh, known for being a major economic and employment center, home to the Pittsburgh Penguins’ practice and training facility, and its municipal recreational facilities that include a waterpark and golf course. Despite being a residential suburb of Pittsburgh, Cranberry attracts thousands Read more...