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Marquette University’s original Tolkien manuscripts are not on display, but microfilm and selected reproductions are held at the Raynor Library’s Department of Special Collections and University Archives. Non-campus visitors must present a valid photo ID at Raynor’s visitor registration counter. The Raynor Library hosts public showings of the original manuscripts on scheduled dates throughout the year. Each date is limited Read more...
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The name Alcatraz Island originates from a name given to one of the islands in San Francisco Bay during Spanish rule of California, La Isla de los Alcatraces. That translates to ‘The Island of the Gannets’ but it is widely suggested that the original meaning was ‘The Island of the Pelicans’, based on an archaic Spanish word for pelican, alcatraz. Read more...
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The distinct areas of black sand on some San Francisco beaches, such as Ocean Beach and Funston Beach, are mostly iron-rich magnetite crystals. The major source of this black magnetite is the granite rocks of the Sierra Nevada mountains where tiny grains break away through erosion and are carried to the ocean by rivers and deposited on San Francisco beaches Read more...
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American rapper Huey died on June 25th, 2020, aged 32, after being shot outside a residence in Kinloch, Missouri, some 12 miles (or 19 kilometers) northwest of downtown St Louis. He was taken to hospital but reportedly died shortly after arrival. An unidentified 21-year-old man was also injured in the shooting incident but survived. Huey, whose real name was Lawrence Read more...
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Edmonton Oilers ice hockey forward Colby Cave died, aged 25, on April 11th, 2020, at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto. He suffered a stroke after undergoing emergency surgery to remove a colloid cyst that was causing pressure on his brain, and had been placed in a medically-induced coma. The Battleford, Saskatchewan, native joined the Boston Bruins’ organization for the 2014-15 season Read more...
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A complete loop of Thetis Lake can be completed in around 1 hour on foot, assuming ground conditions are good. Located 10 kilometres (or 6.5 miles) west of Victoria, BC, Thetis Lake is split into Upper Thetis Lake and Lower Thetis Lake, connected by a narrow culvert. The 4.8 kilometre (or 3 mile) long main trail encircles both lakes, beginning Read more...
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There are 365 steps leading up to the small Calvary Oratory chapel in Pollensa. The base of the Calvary Steps is located next to Pollensa Town Hall and is found by following the street that runs along the left side of the church on Pollensa town square. In the silent Davallament religious ceremony held on Good Friday each year, a Read more...
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The Wind Harp is located on the Point San Bruno knoll at the center of the Genentech campus on the east side of South San Francisco, formerly the Cabot, Cabot and Forbes Industrial Park. The prominent 92-foot-tall steel sculpture is open to the public and accessed on foot by a short pathway next to Building 28 on DNA Way. Visit Read more...
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Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport is the busiest airport in the United States, both by passenger numbers and aircraft movements. In 2019, Atlanta Airport handled 110.5 million passengers and over 904,000 aircraft movements, averaging some 300,000 passengers and 2,500 airplane arrivals and departures daily. ATL is also currently the busiest passenger airport in the world. Read more...
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American film producer and businessman Steve Bing died on June 22nd, 2020, aged 55, after jumping from the 27th floor of the Ten Thousand apartment building where he lived in the Century City neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. He had his own production company, Shangri-La Entertainment and among his credits are Executive Producer on the 2000 Sylvester Stallone film Get Read more...
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The huge boulder balanced on five smaller rocks near the town of North Salem, New York, is widely thought to have been carried to the area on moving glacial ice during the last ice age and deposited, by chance, on the supporting stones as the ice retreated. Such a geological feature is called a glacial erratic and widely observed around Read more...
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On March 22nd, 2014 at 10:37 am, the deadliest landslide in US history engulfed the community around Steelhead Haven, about 4 miles east of Oso, Washington. A portion of tree-covered hillside above the North Fork Stillaguamish River gave way, sending masses of mud and timber flowing across the river, through the Steelhead Haven neighborhood and onto State Route 530. The Read more...
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The last major volcanic eruption of lava at Mount Baker occurred some 6,700 years ago. However, it is still an active volcano and there have been significant hydrothermal eruptions as recently as 1880. Since the mid 1970s, reheating has been detected along with increased emissions of hot steam and gases from fumaroles, or vent holes, in the mountain’s Sherman Crater, Read more...
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Parking meters in Manhattan, called Muni Meters, cover groups of parking spaces on a street or parking lot rather than separate meters at each spot. The system requires payment by mobile app, or pay and display where the meters dispense receipts after payment indicating the parking time, which must be displayed on the dashboard of the parked car. If a Read more...
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Jane’s Carousel is a restored 1922 carousel with ornate carved horses located in the Empire Fulton Ferry section of the Brooklyn Bridge Park in Dumbo, between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges. Originally installed at Idora Park in Youngstown, Ohio, the carousel was purchased in the 1980s by David Walentas, the real estate developer behind the revitalization of the Dumbo neighborhood, Read more...
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Dumbo is short for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass. This waterfront neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City, as the name suggests, sits beneath Manhattan Bridge, sandwiched between the Brooklyn Bridge and the Vinegar Hill neighborhood. It is thought the acronym was coined in the 1970s and use of the name became more popular from the late 1990s when a Read more...
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Former NFL quarterback Tarvaris Jackson died aged 36 on April 12th, 2020 following a single-vehicle car crash. He was driving a red 2012 Chevrolet Camaro at around 8:50 pm which left the road and struck a tree at Pike Road, some 13 miles east of Montgomery, Alabama. He was taken to a local hospital and later pronounced dead. A former Read more...
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The New York City borough of Brooklyn is named after the town of Breukelen in the Netherlands. In the mid 1600s, Dutch colonists established six settlements in the area of present-day Brooklyn, one of which was called Breuckelen after the Dutch town. After the British gained control of the territory in 1664, the name became anglicized and the six towns Read more...
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The name Canmore is said to be an Anglicised form of the Gaelic Ceann Mór, which broadly translates to great head or hill. Credit for naming the town of Canmore, Alberta in 1884 is given to Donald A. Smith of the Canadian Pacific Railway, who later became Lord Strathcona. A 9th century king in his native Scotland, King Malcolm III, Read more...
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No, drinking alcohol on the beach in Daytona Beach is prohibited in any container. Glass containers and disposable cups are also banned on the beach regardless of beverage. Read more...