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Gooch’s Beach has curbside parking from 6 am to 11 pm on Beach Avenue running alongside the beach, with parking permits required between June 15th and September 15th. No parking is allowed between 11 pm and 6 am year round. Kennebunk property owners may obtain resident passes at the Kennebunk Town Hall, the first pass being free of charge. Non Read more...
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The height of the Hoover Dam is 726.4 feet (or 221.4 meters) from the base foundation rock to the roadway on the top of the dam. The arch-gravity concrete dam is located in Black Canyon, about 30 miles southeast of Las Vegas, spanning the Colorado River near the border of the states of Nevada and Arizona. Constructed between 1931 and Read more...
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The NPR member radio station in Chicago, Illinois is WBEZ which broadcasts to the Chicago metropolitan area on FM and HD Radio at 91.5 MHz, and also streams online. The main WBEZ transmitter is located on the east tower of the John Hancock Center in Chicago, with a repeater transmitter, WBEQ, broadcasting at 90.7 MHz in Morris, and relay stations Read more...
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Pop star Michael Jackson died in his rented mansion on North Carolwood Drive in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles on June 25th, 2009, aged 50 years old. He was found unresponsive on a bed at the property by Dr Conrad Murray, his personal physician, who had prescribed or administered various medications to the singer, including the anesthetic propofol. After unsuccessful attempts Read more...
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Stanford University’s Hoover Tower observation platform is open to the public, as are the exhibits of US President Herbert Hoover and his wife Lou Henry Hoover in the tower lobby. An elevator carries visitors to the 14th floor, where there is a 48-bell carillon and the observation platform with 360-degree views out over the Stanford campus. Except during academic holidays, Read more...
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Binghamton University’s WHRW-FM radio studio is located in the Union West basement, beneath the MarketPlace food court. WHRW broadcasts at 90.5 MHz FM from a transmitter atop the Bartle Library tower on campus, and also streams online. Read more...
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The Binghamton Rumble Ponies minor league baseball team plays its home games at the NYSEG Stadium ballpark in downtown Binghamton, New York. The stadium has a seating capacity of 6,012 spectators. Formerly called the Binghamton Municipal Stadium, the ballpark’s naming rights were sold to the New York State Electric and Gas company in 2001. Read more...
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The name of Disney’s Epcot stands for Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. The acronym was coined by Walt Disney as part of his plans for a new self-contained community, a model urban utopia that would be both a company town and visitor attraction showcasing innovative technologies to improve the quality of urban life. His death in 1966 meant that the Read more...
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New York City’s Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed suspension bridge that uses suspension cables and also diagonal cables from both towers to provide additional stiffening. Completed in 1883 to a design by John A. Roebling, the Brooklyn Bridge was the first bridge to use suspension cables made from steel wire. The bridge crosses the East River between Manhattan and Read more...
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In the 1994 movie Forest Gump, the title character, played by actor Tom Hanks, completes his cross-country run on the runway of Marshall Point Lighthouse in Port Clyde, Maine. The lighthouse sits on the southernmost point of the St George peninsula in Mid-Coast Maine. The lighthouse’s museum, open from July to mid-October features exhibits relating to the filming of the Read more...
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Manhattan’s Empire State Building is 1,454 feet (or 443 meters) high to the tip of its rooftop antenna. The 102-story skyscraper has an architectural height of 1,250 feet (or 381 meters). From its completion in 1931, it was the tallest building in the world, until 1970 when it was overtaken by the World Trade Center towers. Read more...
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The Hank Williams Museum is located on Commerce Street at Bibb Street in downtown Montgomery, Alabama. The museum is dedicated to the popular American singer-songwriter and musician, who died in 1953, aged 29 years old. Read more...
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At its center, the height of the Golden Gate Bridge from the water to the underside of the bridge deck averages 220 feet (or 67 meters) at high tide, increasing to 225 feet (or 68.5 meters) at low tide. The bridge towers stand 746 feet (or 227 meters) above the water and 500 feet (152 meters) above the road deck. Read more...
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The largest stadium in the United States is Michigan Stadium, located at the corner of South Main Street and Stadium Boulevard in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with an official capacity of 107,601. Nicknamed The Big House, Michigan Stadium is the home football stadium of the University of Michigan’s Wolverines football team. The stadium saw 115,109 in attendance for the Wolverines’ 41-30 Read more...
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The Subaru dealer in Red Deer, Alberta, is Scott Subaru, located on Gaetz Avenue at Phelan Street. Part of the Scottsville Group, the dealership offers new and pre-owned Subaru cars along with certified repair, service, parts and accessories. Read more...
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ORD is the IATA code for Chicago O’Hare International Airport, which is derived from the airport’s former name, Orchard Douglas airport. The airport originated as an airfield attached to the Douglas Aircraft Co manufacturing facility during World War II, in an area northeast of Chicago called Orchard Place, at which time it was known as Douglas Field. After Douglas vacated Read more...
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If you are moving to a new home in Manhattan, New York City, aim to set up utility accounts at least two weeks before your move-in date. Electricity in Manhattan is supplied by ConEdison and you can move or set up a new service online at coned.com or by phone on 1-800-752-6633. New customers require an ID number from a Read more...
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Times Square in Manhattan was so named in 1904 in anticipation of completing the newly-constructed headquarters of The New York Times newspaper at the convergence of Broadway and 7th Avenue at 43rd Street, an area previously called Longacre Square. With its distinctive narrow wedge-shaped tower, the New York Times Building was a prominent architectural landmark and provided access to the Read more...
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The Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team originated in Brooklyn, New York, where they were known as the Brooklyn Dodgers until 1958 when they relocated to LA. During the Brooklyn era, one of the team’s nicknames was the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers, a reference to Brooklyn’s burgeoning number of electric trolley cars in the 1890s and the tricky business of dodging them Read more...
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Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford lived with his mother and siblings in the Manchester suburbs of Withington and Fallowfield before the family moved to a home on Button Lane on the Northern Moor estate in Wythenshawe when he was 9 years old. He attended Button Lane Primary School and later, Ashton on Mersey School, a specialist sports college in Sale Read more...