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The feral donkeys, or burros, in Custer State Park, South Dakota, are descendants of an abandoned herd that used to carry visitors in the park. They are often called the Begging Burros because they congregate at the roadside and approach vehicles on the Wildlife Loop Trail, having learned that visitors will often feed them snacks. Custer State Park occasionally includes Read more...

KZSU is Stanford University’s radio station, broadcasting to the campus and wider Bay Area on 90.1 MHz FM and streaming online. The station broadcasts a mix of music, sports, news and public affairs programming, including live sports coverage of Stanford games and simulcasts of Palo Alto City Council meetings. Owned by the Board of Trustees of Stanford University, KZSU is Read more...

The main river running through Valladolid, Spain, is the Pisuerga, which flows in a southwesterly direction through the city. A tributary, the Esgueva river, enters Valladolid from the east along a man-made channel and converges with the Pisuerga in the north of the city. The 283-kilometer (or 176-mile) long Pisuerga originates some 145 kilometres (or 90 miles) north of Valladolid Read more...

The Olympic pipeline explosion on June 10th, 1999, was caused by the ignition of gasoline leaking from a petroleum pipeline carrying product from the Cherry Point refinery, after it ruptured at a point where it passed through Whatcom Falls Park in Bellingham, Washington. At around 3:30 pm, a pressure build-up caused a rupture in the 16-inch-diameter steel pipeline, near the Read more...

The main river running through Aspen, Colorado, is the Roaring Fork River. The Roaring Fork originates some 13 miles (or 21 kilometers) east southeast of Aspen at Independence Lake, an alpine lake near Independence Pass in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains. From Aspen, it continues flowing northwest along the Roaring Fork Valley (named after the river) to Glenwood Read more...

The headquarters and main production studios of Spain’s state-owned public broadcaster, Radiotelevisión Española (or RTVE), are located at Prado del Rey in Pozuelo de Alarcón, to the west of Madrid. Opened in 1964, the complex houses the production facilities of RTVE subsidiaries Televisión Española (TVE) and Radio Nacional de España (RNE), along with broadcast archives and corporate offices. TVE’s news Read more...

Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University is a public HBCU located in Tallahasee, Florida, also known as Florida A&M University or shortened to FAMU. The HBCU designation, an acronym for Historically Black Colleges and Universities, is given by the US Department of Education to an accredited college or university established prior to 1964, whose principal mission was, and is, the education Read more...

Bodø/Glimt football club plays its home games at the Aspmyra Stadium in the town of Bodø in Northern Norway. Glimt has played at Aspmyra since the stadium opened in 1966. Over the years it has undergone several upgrades, including new stands, and conversion of the pitch to artificial turf with underheating. The 4,616-seat stadium is also home to the Idrettsklubben Read more...

The tallest building in the city of Stockholm, Sweden, is the Kista Science Tower which has a height of 156 metres (or 511.8 feet) to the tip of its rooftop antenna. The 32-storey three-sided modernist skyscraper, located in the Kista district, some 10 kilometers (or 6.2 miles) northwest of Stockholm city centre, houses commercial offices and is the tallest of Read more...

The Detroit Red Wings NHL ice hockey team plays its home games at Little Caesars Arena in Midtown Detroit, Michigan. They moved to the newly-built arena in 2017, having previously played at Detroit’s Joe Lewis Arena, which was later demolished during 2019 and 2020. The Red Wings played their first regular season game at the new arena on October 5, Read more...

The capital city of Washington state is Olympia. Located some 60 miles (or 100 kilometers) south of Seattle, it is the state’s second-largest city, and home to the Washington State Capitol and the Washington Governor’s Mansion. Olympia became the capital of Washington Territory in 1853 and was incorporated as a town in 1859, and as a city in 1882. Read more...

American indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie were formed in Bellingham, Washington, in 1997, initially as a solo project by singer and guitarist Ben Gibbard while he was a student at the city’s Western Washington University. Gibbard’s first demo cassette of eight songs, titled You Can Play These Songs With Chords, was recorded with fellow WWU student Chris Walla Read more...

The Pittsburgh Steelers NFL football team plays its home games at Heinz Field in the North Shore neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They previously played nearby at the now-demolished Three Rivers Stadium which was shared with the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team. The Steelers moved in 2001 to their newly constructed Heinz Field stadium, which is shared with the Pitt Panthers, the Read more...

The Arizona Cardinals NFL football team plays its home games at the State Farm Stadium (formerly University of Phoenix Stadium) in Glendale, Arizona. The stadium, located some 11.5 miles (or 18.5 kilometers) northwest of downtown Phoenix, has been home to the Cardinals since 2006, having previously played at Arizona State University’s Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe since relocating to Arizona Read more...

The name of Argentina’s capital city, Buenos Aires, comes from the name given to a settlement in the present-day city’s suburb of San Telmo, by Spanish explorer Pedro de Mendoza in 1536: Nuestra Señora Santa María del Buen Ayre (translated to English as Our Lady Saint Mary of the Good Air (or Fair Wind)). By 1541, it was abandoned, but Read more...

The SkyWheel ferris wheel ride on the Boardwalk at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, takes approximately 12 minutes and completes four full revolutions. VIP ticket holders get to stay on the SkyWheel for twice as long and ride in a special four-person glass-bottomed gondola cabin fitted with leather seats. Opened in 2011, the Myrtle Beach SkyWheel observation wheel carries passengers up Read more...

A mass shooting at the King Soopers supermarket on Table Mesa Drive in the south of Boulder, Colorado, on March 22, 2021, resulted in the death of ten people. The gunman, 21-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa of Arvada, Colorado, was armed with a Ruger semi-automatic pistol and a 9 mm handgun, and fired at people in the supermarket’s parking lot Read more...

Rutland Water is a man-made reservoir created in the 1970s by the construction of a clay dam in the Gwash Valley, near Oakham, Rutland, to store water for supply to major towns in the East Midlands region of England. The village of Nether Hambleton and most of Middle Hambleton were lost to the development and submerged by water. Originally called Read more...

Circuito de Jerez hosted the Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix five times from 1986 to 1990, and also staged the European Grand Prix races in 1994 and 1997. From 1991 onwards, the Spanish Grand Prix moved to the new Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Montmeló, near Barcelona, where it continues to be held. The museum at the Jerez circuit features various Read more...

The Humboldt Broncos junior ice hockey team plays its home games at the Elgar Petersen Arena (or EPA) in Humboldt, Saskatchewan, Canada. The Broncos, who play in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League, were founded in 1970 and originally played at the city’s Leo Parker Arena before moving in 1982 to the new Uniplex Arena. In September 2000, the arena was Read more...