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The Las Vegas Raiders NFL football team plays its home games at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada. The team was formerly known as the Oakland Raiders and played at Oakland Coliseum until 2019 before moving to Las Vegas and changing its name to the Las Vegas Raiders. The Allegiant Stadium was purpose-built for the team’s relocation and as a Read more...
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You can walk from Creekside to Whistler Village along the Valley Trail, a year-round paved trail that offers a safer alternative route away from the traffic of Highway 99. The scenic trail begins opposite Evolution in Creekside, passing underneath Highway 99 and continues past Nita Lake, through Lakeside Park, eventually emerging in Whistler Village. The well-signposted trail is approximately 5 Read more...
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San Quentin State Prison is located in the town of San Quentin in Marin County, some 13 miles (or 21 kilometers) north of San Francisco. It is the oldest prison in California and holds only male inmates. The state’s only execution chamber, located at San Quentin, was closed in 2019 following Governor Gavin Newsom’s moratorium on the death penalty in Read more...
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The city of Palo Alto is in Santa Clara County, California. Palo Alto is the sixth most populous city in the County of Santa Clara and is in supervisorial District 5. Read more...
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The Town of Topsail Beach has two beach wheelchairs for use on the beach by members of the public who have difficulty walking in sand. They can be borrowed free of charge, subject to availability, by calling the Topsail Beach Police Department at 910-328-4851. The wheelchairs may be checked out on a daily basis and must be returned to the Read more...
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The nearest hotel to Edmonton International Airport is the Renaissance Edmonton Airport Hotel, which is connected directly to the Domestic Departures Terminal by the skybridge pedestrian walkway. A lower cost alternative, the Fairfield by Marriott Edmonton International Airport hotel, is located just under 3 kilometres (or 2 miles) from YEG airport. A 24-hour complimentary airport shuttle is available for guests. Read more...
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Embarcadero Station is the busiest BART stop as measured by the average number of weekday passengers exiting the station. During February 2020, BART reported that an average of 47,941 people exited the station daily on weekdays, followed closely by 45,090 at nearby Montgomery Street Station. Embarcadero Station is a combined BART and Muni Metro rapid transit underground station on Market Read more...
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All of Stanford’s residence halls are co-ed. In some houses, men and women live on separate floors, while in others they are on the same floor, and there are some houses that offer both options. Roth is a self-operated house on the Row and is the only all-female, non-Greek house on the Stanford campus. Read more...
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The Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco has bars near the lobby entrance and on the second floor. To avoid the lines, you may pre-order drinks and snacks at the bar before a show and they will be ready for pick-up with your name during the intermission. Other than bottled water, drinks may be only taken into the auditorium if you Read more...
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Dogs are permitted at Baker Beach in San Francisco, and are allowed off-leash in some areas provided they are under voice control at all times. Off-leash dogs are allowed on the beach north of Lobos Creek but only if they will respond immediately to commands to return to a leash when called. Dogs must be on a leash at all Read more...
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The depth of water under the Golden Gate Bridge is approximately 377 feet (or 115 meters) at its deepest point. The US Geological Survey, with other research partners, have mapped central San Francisco Bay and its entrance under the Golden Gate Bridge using multibeam echosounders. In 2006, they published a topographical image with indicative depths of the sea floor around Read more...
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Dogs are permitted on all beaches in Brighton between 1st October and 30th April. They must be under control at all times and any fouling must be picked up immediately. At all other times, restrictions are in place and dogs can only go on Brighton’s designated dog-friendly beaches which are usually indicated with signs. Dogs must be on a lead Read more...
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In the early hours of 14th February 2013, Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, at his home on Bushwillow Crescent in the Silver Woods Country Estate gated community, east of Pretoria. Pistorius admitted that he fired shots through a closed door in a bathroom at his home, three of which struck Steenkamp, causing her death, Read more...
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Baker Beach in San Francisco has a clothing-optional area at the very north end of the beach. It is a public beach that attracts mostly clothed visitors, but nude beachgoers frequent the northernmost part nearest the Golden Gate Bridge, so be warned if visiting with children. Read more...
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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg grew up in the village of Dobbs Ferry, New York, some 18 miles (or 29 kilometers) north of New York City. The Zuckerberg family lived in a house on Russell Place, just off Northfield Avenue, from where Mark’s father, Doctor Edward Zuckerberg, operated an adjoining dental clinic. Mark Zuckerberg attended Ardsley High School in nearby Ardsley Read more...
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Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio grew up in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Born Warren Wilhelm Jr in New York City in 1961, he changed his name later in life, adopting his mother’s maiden name, de Blasio. The family lived in Rowayton, Connecticut, for the first few years of his life, before moving to a Victorian house Read more...
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Gracie Mansion, the official residence of New York City’s mayor is located in Carl Schurz Park, at East End Avenue and 88th Street in Manhattan’s Yorkville neighborhood. The house was built by Archibald Gracie in 1799 and first used as a mayoral residence in 1942 by Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia. Only the mayor’s family and visiting public officials may Read more...
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Abe Lebewohl owned the Second Avenue Deli in the East Village and was shot and killed on March 4th, 1996 in a robbery near the NatWest Bank branch at East Fourth Street and Second Avenue in Manhattan. Ukraine-born Lebewohl immigrated to the United States in 1950 and four years later took over a 10-seat diner, transforming it into a landmark Read more...
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The original 7 hills of San Francisco, in order of descending height are: Mount Davidson Twin Peaks Mount Sutro (or Lone Mountain on some lists) Nob Hill Russian Hill Telegraph Hill Rincon Hill San Francisco has many more than seven hills but the list is thought to have been created as an attempt to emulate Rome, the original City of Read more...
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Staten Island is an island, surrounded by water on all sides. One of the five boroughs of New York City, Staten Island is connected by road to Brooklyn via the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, and to the state of New Jersey by three road bridges: the Outerbridge Crossing, Goethals Bridge, and Bayonne Bridge. The Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Railroad Bridge single track Read more...