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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...

The tall Coast Douglas-fir tree known as Big Lonely Doug is located some 11 kilometers (or 7 miles) north of Port Renfrew in southwest Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The 1,000-year-old tree can be reached on foot via a short trail off the Edinburgh Main logging road. On the Gordon River Main road from Port Renfrew, a right turn on Read more...

To reach Rockland Breakwater in Rockland, Maine, follow Main Street / US Route 1 north of Rockland, turning onto Waldo Avenue at the ‘Breakwater Lighthouse’ sign, and then right onto Samoset Road, continuing to the end where there is a small parking area. A short trail leads from there through Marie H Reed Breakwater Park to the start of the Read more...

American artist, designer and sculptor Isamu Noguchi’s red Cube sculpture is located at Broadway and Liberty Street in Manhattan’s Financial District. Officially called The Cube, the red 28-foot- (or 8.5-meter-) high steel and aluminium rhombohedron, perched on its corner with a cylindrical hole punched through its center, was installed in the public plaza opposite Zuccotti Park (formerly Liberty Plaza Park) Read more...

The city of Houston, Texas, is named after Sam Houston, an American general and statesman who became the first president of the Republic of Texas in 1837, after the territory’s declaration of independence from Mexico. In 1836, brothers John Kirby Allen and Augustus Chapman Allen purchased the land to establish the townsite that became Houston, naming it after General Houston, Read more...

George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas, was previously called Houston Intercontinental Airport from 1969 until 1997. It was renamed in honor of George H W Bush, the 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993 and also a member of the US House of Representatives representing Texas’s 7th congressional district. He and his wife, Barbara, settled in Read more...

The Q train on the New York City Subway uses the Manhattan Bridge to cross the East River between Lower Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn. Known as the Q Second Avenue/Broadway Express, the service operates at all times between 96th Street on Manhattan’s Upper East Side and Stillwell Avenue in Coney Island, Brooklyn. The immediate stops either side of the Manhattan Read more...

The Navy’s Annual Bay Bridge Run and Walk follows a 4-mile (or 6.4 kilometer) route, starting at 8 am on Park Boulevard between the Hilton San Diego Bayfront and the San Diego Convention Center. The USAT&F-sanctioned route follows Harbor Drive to Cesar E Chavez Parkway before turning east on National Avenue to join the Coronado Bridge, which is closed to Read more...

American actor and comedian Bob Saget was found dead, aged 65, in his hotel room at the Ritz-Carlton Grand Lakes, Orlando, Florida, on 9th January, 2022. Known for his role as single dad Danny Tanner on the sitcom “Full House” in the 1980s and 90s, and later as host of “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” he was in Florida as part Read more...

A weekly market is held in Vrijdagmarkt square in Ghent, Belgium, every Friday morning from 7:30 am, and up to 30 minutes earlier in summer months. The Dutch name Vrijdagmarkt translates as ‘Friday Market’ and it is a weekly tradition that started in 1199 in this large square, one of the oldest in Ghent. Stallholders sell a variety of fresh Read more...

The 2.5 mile- (or 4 kilometer-) long Silver Queen Gondola ride takes approximately 14 minutes from the Gondola Plaza in downtown Aspen to the Sundeck Restaurant at an elevation of 11,210 feet (or 3,417 meters) on Aspen Mountain. Opened in December 1986, with upgraded 6-passenger cabins added in 2006, the Silver Queen Gondola is open both in winter and summer Read more...

Guests may take water into Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View provided it is in a single factory-sealed plastic bottle no bigger than one gallon (or 4 liters), but alcohol or any other beverage is not permitted. Entry with empty aluminium or plastic water bottles is allowed, which can be filled at water refill stations by the main restrooms. Glass containers Read more...