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The Chicago Blackhawks NHL ice hockey team plays its home games at United Center in Chicago, Illinois.

The San Jose Sharks ice hockey team plays its home games at the SAP Center at San Jose, also colloquially known as The Shark Tank.

CNN’s broadcast studios in Manhattan are based at 30 Hudson Yards on West 33rd Street and 10th Avenue in the Chelsea neighborhood. CNN’s parent, WarnerMedia, moved its New York operations here from the old Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle in 2019. Shows produced at this location include: Early Start Cuomo Prime Time Quest Means Business CNN Tonight with Don Lemon Erin Burnett OutFront Fareed Zakaria GPS Anderson Cooper 360°

Actor James Gandolfini died after suffering a heart attack while staying at the Boscolo Exedra Roma Hotel (now called Palazzo Naiadi) in Rome, Italy on 19th June, 2013. Attempts to resuscitate 51-year-old Gandolfini were unsuccessful and he was declared dead at the hospital. The Emmy Award-winning actor was best known for playing New Jersey crime boss Tony Soprano in HBO’s television series The Sopranos.

Oasis brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher grew up in the Manchester suburb of Burnage, spending their early years living on Ashburn Avenue. When their parents separated, they moved with their mother and older brother Paul in the early 1980s to a house on Cranwell Drive.

Bee Gees members Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb lived at 51 Keppel Road in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, a suburb of Manchester, for about three years until 1958, before the family emigrated to Australia. During their time in Manchester, the young brothers formed a skiffle group called The Rattlesnakes and performed at local venues, including the Gaumont Cinema near their home.

Calgary International Airport has two Marriott chain hotels located directly on airport. The Calgary Airport Marriott In-Terminal Hotel is inside the International Terminal, and the older Delta Hotels Calgary Airport, which has cheaper rates, is located across the street and connected by a covered pedestrian bridge to the terminals.

Former child actress and US diplomat Shirley Temple Black was interred in the Adobe Creek Mausoleum at Alta Mesa Memorial Park in Palo Alto. She died on February 10th, 2014 aged 85 years old.

Tesla offers weekday guided tours of its Fremont factory to confirmed current owners of Tesla cars, and up to three guests. Tours last approximately 60 minutes and it is recommended that bookings are made some 3 to 5 weeks in advance. Bookings can be made by emailing FactoryTours@tesla.com and the registered owner’s name and car VIN will be required to confirm ownership.

Yes, South San Francisco is a city separate and distinct from the city of San Francisco, and the cities don’t even border one another. Sometimes colloquially called South City, South San Francisco is located in San Mateo County, south of Daly City and Brisbane, and north of San Bruno.

SLAC stands for Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the original name of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park. Stanford University operates SLAC for the U.S. Department of Energy DOE Office of Science and it adopted its current name in 2008 when it shifted from a focus on particle physics to a broader research program including X-ray science, chemistry, materials sciences, and astrophysics.

Chicago’s Sears Tower was renamed Willis Tower in 2009 as part of a lease agreement with a key tenant, global insurance broker Willis Group. The Sears Tower name was officially used between 1973 and 2009, despite the naming rights expiring in 2003, and continues to be widely used colloquially.

Google was initially based out of a garage rented from Susan Wojcicki, along with three rooms inside her house on Santa Margarita Avenue in Menlo Park. Wojcicki eventually became a Google employee and went on to be CEO of the company’s YouTube subsidiary. While the company moved to a bigger office at 165 University Avenue in downtown Palo Alto after five months, Google purchased the Menlo Park house in 2006 to preserve its history.

Nirvana frontman and guitarist Kurt Cobain was found dead at the age of 27 in a room above above the detached garage of his home at 171 Lake Boulevard East in Seattle’s Denny-Blaine neighborhood. A suicide note was found nearby and an investigation concluded he died three days prior on April 5th, 1994 from a self-inflicted shotgun wound to his head. Cobain’s wife, Courteney Love, subsequently had the garage demolished and sold the property, located next to Viretta Park, in 1997.

Classifieds website Craigslist was started in 1995 from founder Craig Newmark’s ground floor apartment at 1010 Cole Street in San Francisco. Craigslist operated from here until 2000 when it moved to offices in the Sunset District.

The Golden State Warriors NBA basketball team plays its home games at the Chase Center arena in San Francisco.

When John Lennon and Yoko Ono moved to New York City in August 1971, they lived at the St Regis Hotel for two months before moving to an apartment at 105 Bank Street in the West Village. The couple rented the apartment from The Lovin’ Spoonful’s drummer-vocalist Joe Butler, and lived there until 1973 when they moved to their apartment in the Dakota building on West 72nd Street.

Singer Amy Winehouse was found dead, aged 27, in the bedroom of her home at 30 Camden Square in London on the afternoon of Saturday 23rd July 2011. The cause of death was said to be alcohol poisoning and the coroner recorded a verdict of death by misadventure.

Actor Orson Bean was struck and killed by a car on the evening of February 7th, 2020 on North Venice Boulevard at Pisani Place in Venice, Los Angeles. The accident occurred outside the Pacific Resident Theatre where 91-year-old Bean and his wife, actor Alley Mills, were members.

The highest point in Calgary is the peak of Top Hill with an elevation of 1,296 metres (or 4,252 feet). Despite its high elevation, the hill, located behind the YMCA at Rocky Ridge in northwest Calgary, only has a prominence of some 24 meters (or 79 feet).