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The Dallas Stars NHL ice hockey team plays its home games at American Airlines Center in the Victory Park neighborhood in downtown Dallas, Texas. The Stars relocated here from the Reunion Arena where they played until 2001. American Airlines Center is also the home arena of the Dallas Mavericks NBA basketball team. Read more...
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The Notorious B.I.G., also known as Biggie Smalls, was killed, aged 24, in a drive-by shooting at the intersection of Fairfax Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles in the early hours of March 9th, 1997. The Brooklyn-born rapper, whose real name was Christopher Wallace, had just left a music industry event at the Petersen Motor Museum at around 12:30 Read more...
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Socialite Nancy Pfister was found dead, aged 57, at her home on West Buttermilk Road in Aspen, Colorado, on February 26th, 2014. She had been bludgeoned to death with a hammer and her body left covered in bedding in a bedroom closet with a plastic bag over her head and electrical cord wrapped around her neck. Police investigating the death Read more...
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The Iowa State Fair is held annually on the Iowa State Fairgrounds at East 30th and East University in Des Moines. It is one of the largest and oldest agricultural fairs in the United States and has been held at the current site since 1886. The Fair runs for around 11 days in August every year and traditionally ends two Read more...
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The Camfield pub is located next to Optus Stadium in the Perth suburb of Burswood. Claiming to be Australia’s largest pub, The Camfield has five bars, 175 beer taps, an onsite microbrewery, and a large beer garden. Burswood railway station is the closest station on non-event days, and on game or event days, Perth Stadium station is open for both Read more...
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The Capitol Records Tower in Hollywood, Los Angeles, is built in the Googie architectural style. Located near the intersection of Hollywood and Vine, the distinctive white tower designed by Louis Naidorf was completed in 1956 and its cylindrical shape with window awnings on each level and a spike emerging from the top resembles a stack of records on a turntable. Read more...
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The four ski mountains in Aspen are: Aspen Mountain Also known as Ajax, Aspen Mountain rises above the town of Aspen and is known for its steep glades, moguls and challenging terrain suited to intermediate and expert skiers. Snowmass Snowmass is the largest mountain of the four and although part of the same resort group, it is located in Snowmass Read more...
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Use of the name Ajax for Aspen Mountain became common in the latter half of the 20th century, after the development of Aspen into a skiing resort started. Geologic maps from Aspen’s period as a silver-mining town in the late 1800s denote the point on Aspen Mountain where the original octagonal 1946 Sundeck later stood, as Ajax Hill. The name Read more...
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The Boulder Creek Path is an easy 5.5-mile (or 9 kilometer) paved urban walking and biking trail running east to west alongside Boulder Creek through Boulder, Colorado. At its eastern end, Boulder Creek Path starts near 55th and Pearl Parkway, and runs to Boulder Canyon at its western end, with plenty of trail access points on the route. Along the Read more...
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Cars are allowed on Lombard Street in San Francisco although the iconic ‘crooked’ section is one-way only, downhill between Hyde and Leavenworth streets. To drive down the famous zigzag section you will need to approach from the west on Lombard Street, or alternatively head north on Hyde Street and turn right at Lombard Street to access the top of the Read more...
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Stanford University is nicknamed The Farm because it was founded by Leland and Jane Stanford on the land of their Palo Alto stock farm. When the Stanfords’ only child, Leland Stanford Junior, died of typhoid fever at the age 15 years in 1884, they established the university in his memory. The Founding Grant of Endowment from the Stanfords was issued Read more...
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City of Calgary parking tickets can be paid by the following methods: Online at calgaryparking.com using a credit or debit card, parking tag number and licence plate number. By mail with a cheque or money order payable to The City of Calgary, posted with the parking ticket or reminder to: The City of Calgary, PO Box 2580 Station M, Calgary, Read more...
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Curb colors in Oakland, California, indicate the following parking restrictions: Red curbs: no stopping, standing or parking at any time. Yellow curbs: between 7 am and 6 pm, stopping restricted to loading and unloading of passengers and materials for no more than 3 minutes unless the vehicle has commercial plates. Yellow curb restrictions do not apply on Sundays and parking Read more...
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Pfeiffer Beach at Big Sur, California, has distinctive areas of purple sand, which are mostly grains of reddish-purple manganese garnet crystals. Garnet is a commonly-found mineral in beach sand, but usually at relatively low quantities. Pfeiffer Beach is notable because of the abundance of garnet minerals in the sand which give it a distinctive purple color. These garnets likely originated Read more...
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Pensacola Beach has white sand because it is mostly composed of grains of quartz crystals. The fine sugar-white sand at Pensacola is typical of many beaches along Florida’s Gulf. The quartz originated further north in the rocks of the Appalachian Mountains and over many thousands of years, little fragments broke away through erosion and were carried by rivers down to Read more...
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MTA operates the following subway trains across the Manhattan Bridge: B Sixth Avenue Express on weekdays only, at all times except late nights. D Sixth Avenue Express at all times. N Broadway Express at all times except late nights. Q Second Avenue/Broadway Express/Brighton Local at all times. For B and D trains, the stops on either side of the Manhattan Read more...
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You can walk across the Bear Mountain Bridge along pedestrian footpaths on both sides of the bridge, which have interpretive panels at various points. Ceremonially named the Purple Heart Veterans Memorial Bridge, the Bear Mountain Bridge carries the Appalachian Trail over the Hudson River between Bear Mountain State Park and Cortland, New York. Roadside parking is available at the eastern Read more...
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PSV is the abbreviation of the Dutch name of sports club Philips Sport Vereniging, which translates in English to Philips Sports Union. PSV was founded in 1913 as a sports club for employees of Philips, when it was a lamp-making business and before it grew into a multi-national electronics conglomerate. The club is involved in several sports but is probably Read more...
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ABC Broadcast Center is located on Front and Vallejo Streets in North Beach, San Francisco, where the studios of KGO-TV, ABC’s owned and operated local television station, branded as ABC 7, is based. San Francisco channel KRON 4 also leases working and studio space in the same building, but as a competing TV station, their facilities are completely separate from Read more...
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The main parking lot for upper Kaaterskill Falls is on Laurel House Road, reached by taking North Lake Road off Route 23A in the village of Haines Falls. From there, a wide, flat trail leads to the upper viewing platform less than half a mile away. The trail continues down to the foot of the upper falls and onwards to Read more...