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The possession or consumption of alcohol is prohibited on Colorado State University’s campus in Fort Collins, including residence halls, with exceptions for university facilities licensed to sell alcohol and events authorized to serve alcohol by CSU’s Office of Risk Management. On campus, the Ramskeller Pub in the Lory Student Center serves alcohol to over-21s and has its own microbrewery on Read more...

The New York City Marathon starts from Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island, near the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. The 26.2-mile (or 42.2-kilometer) marathon route passes through all five boroughs of New York City before finishing in Manhattan’s Central Park. It is usually held annually on the first Sunday in November and is the world’s largest marathon by participation. Read more...

The Port Elizabeth Campanile memorial tower has 204 steps leading up to the observation room, and it was made more accessible during refurbishment in 2017 with the addition of a lift. The 53-metre-high, nine-floor tower, located between the railway station and the port, was opened in 1923 to commemorate the landing of British settlers in South Africa in 1820. Long Read more...

Port Clyde is a picturesque fishing village on mid-coast Maine’s St George peninsula that has become a haven for artists and writers, and the nearby Marshall Point Lighthouse featured in the 1994 movie Forrest Gump. Once an important port for the fishing, granite and lumber industries, the main economic activity in Port Clyde now is tourism and lobster fishing. The Read more...

Ewloe Castle was built by native Welsh prince Llywelyn ap Gruffudd after he captured the lands forming most of modern-day Flintshire from the English Crown in 1257. It is thought that the castle may have built upon earlier fortification work by his grandfather, Llywelyn the Great, and great-grandfather, Owain Gwynedd. The castle’s life was short and it was abandoned after Read more...

LHR is the IATA code for London Heathrow airport, located 14 miles (or 23 kilometres) west of Central London. Originally called London Airport, it was renamed Heathrow in 1966 after the rural hamlet of Heath Row that made way for the airfield and aerodrome that were precursors to the present-day airport. Heathrow is one of six airports with scheduled flights Read more...

Father Francis Patrick Duffy was a Canadian-American Catholic priest and military chaplain, recognized for his service during World War I on the Western Front in France. Duffy served on the battlefield as part of the Rainbow Division, helping to recover many injured soldiers, and became the most decorated cleric in the US Army. He was later pastor of Manhattan’s Holy Read more...

The Columbine High School shooting occurred on April 20, 1999, in Columbine, near the city of Littleton, Colorado, United States. Two twelfth grade students at Columbine, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, entered the school with multiple firearms and shot dead 12 students and one teacher. More than 20 others were injured in what was the worst high school shooting in US history at the Read more...

A bronze bust of Catalan painter Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa, mounted on a marble plinth, is located on the Pine Walk in Puerto Pollensa, Mallorca. Barcelona-born Anglada Camarasa was prominent in the Post-Impressionism art movement, and moved to Mallorca in 1914, marking a shift in his work towards painting landscapes. He lived in Puerto Pollensa for many years, except for a Read more...

American businesswoman, writer, and media personality Martha Stewart’s childhood home is on Elm Place in Nutley, New Jersey. Born Martha Helen Kostyra in 1941, she moved with her family from Jersey City to Nutley when she was three years old and attended Yantacaw School before graduating from Nutley High School in 1959. Martha Stewart was inducted into the Nutley Hall Read more...

Swedish rapper Einár was shot dead, aged 19, outside an apartment complex in southeast Stockholm’s Hammarby sjöstad district on the evening of 21 October 2021. It is believed to be a gang-related targeted killing. Einár, whose real name was Nils Kurt Erik Einar Grönberg, rose to prominence in Sweden with the 2019 release of his hit single Katten i trakten Read more...

American actor and musician River Phoenix died, aged 23, in the early hours of October 31st, 1993, at The Viper Room nightclub on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California. He stopped at the club on the evening before his death to perform with the band P, and reportedly became unwell after taking cocaine and heroin at the venue. He Read more...

A person who is a long-time resident or native of Ahmedabad is called an Amdavadi. It is the commonly used demonym for someone from Ahmedabad in the Indian state of Gujarat. Read more...

A person who is a long-time resident or native of New Orleans is called a New Orleanian. It is the commonly used demonym for someone from New Orleans, Louisiana. Read more...

WNUR is the student radio station of Northwestern University, broadcasting to Chicago, Illinois, and its northern suburbs at 89.3 MHz FM and HD1, and streaming online. The station has studios on the university’s Evanston campus in the Barbara and Garry Marshall Studio Wing of John J Louis Hall, with its broadcast transmitter located on Nathaniel Leverone Hall. Listener-supported WNUR is Read more...

The city of Lompoc, California, is notable for its proximity to the Vandenberg Space Force Base, vast fields of colorful summer flowers, its restored Spanish mission, local wineries and the murals painted on its downtown buildings. La Purisima Mission is a faithfully restored and probably the most complete example of one of California’s 21 Spanish Catholic missions, and the park Read more...

Australian actor Dieter Brummer was found dead on Saturday, 24 July 2021, at his family home in Glenhaven, a northwestern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, having committed suicide at the age of 45. Police attended after receiving a report of concerns for the welfare of a person, and discovered his body at the property. Brummer was most well-known for Read more...

Sixteen men died during the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge between 1923 and 1932. Seven were employed on the bridge structure itself, of whom two died falling from the bridge, seven worked at associated workshops, and two died in accidents at the rock quarries in Moraya supplying granite for the bridge pylons. Many more workers were left with injuries Read more...

The Sixth Street Viaduct bridge between the Boyle Heights neighborhood and the Arts District in downtown Los Angeles, California, was demolished in 2016 because of concern about its ability to withstand a major earthquake event. Constructed in 1932, the condition of the iconic arched concrete bridge over the Los Angeles River was deteriorating because of an alkali-silica reaction caused by Read more...

Donner Lake water temperature varies from winter lows in February of around 40°F, to 72°F in summer, (or 4.5°C to 22.2°C). Located just west of Truckee, California, Donner Lake is at its warmest in August, ranging between 65 and 72 °F (or 18.3 and 22.2°C), although these water temperatures are still considered cold and swimmers should be mindful of the Read more...