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Columbia College in New York is Columbia University’s traditional undergraduate liberal arts college. It is situated on the Morningside Heights campus in Manhattan. Founded in 1754 as King’s College, Columbia College is the oldest school within Columbia University.

From age 5 to 23, John Lennon’s childhood home was his Aunt Mimi’s house, Mendips, on Menlove Avenue, in Woolton, Liverpool. Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono purchased the 1930s semi-detatched property in 2002 and donated it to the National Trust, after which it was restored to its 1950s appearance and opened to the public for tours. A blue plaque on the house reads: JOHN LENNON 1940–1980 Musician and Songwriter lived here 1945–1963

The Sand Ladder steps from the north end of Baker Beach emerge on the California Coastal Trail that runs along side Lincoln Boulevard. Heading north on this trail for approximately 1 mile will lead to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.

A person who is a long-time resident or native of Seattle is called a Seattleite.

A cast stone sculpture of British nurse Florence Nightingale stands outside Laguna Honda Hospital in Twin Peaks, San Francisco. Nightingale is widely credited as being one of the pioneers of modern nursing. A plaque on the statue reads: In memory of Florence Nightingale, ‘The Founder of Professional Nursing’. Designed and created by the late David Edstrom. Dedicated National Hospital Day, May 12, 1939

Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton has a house in Colorado on Daybreak Ridge Road in Bachelor Gulch, a gated community near Beaver Creek.

OGC Nice is Olympique Gymnaste Club Nice, a professional football club based in Nice, France, playing in the French Ligue 1 league.

The two peaks of Twin Peaks are the North peak, known as Eureka Peak, and the taller South peak, which is called Noe Peak. Standing at 922 feet, Noe Peak is the second tallest hill in San Francisco after Mount Davidson.

The first Tacoma Narrows Bridge had the same location as the present day westbound bridge spanning the Tacoma Narrows strait of Puget Sound between Tacoma and Gig Harbour, Washington. Aerodynamic factors caused a substantial collapse of the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge in November 1940, just four months after opening. The new bridge, opened in October 1950, was a complete replacement, only utilizing the original bridge’s concrete piers and cable anchorages. In 1997, a third bridge was built alongside the existing bridge to carry SR 16 eastbound traffic to Tacoma.

LA Lakers basketball player Kobe Bryant attended Lower Merion High School in Ardmore near Philadelphia, where he joined the varsity basketball team as a freshman, earning a total of 2,883 points between 1992 and 1996. He spent much of his childhood in Italy, where his father, former basketball player Joe Bryant, played professional basketball after retiring from the NBA, before returning to the United States in 1991.

Former LA Lakers basketball star Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash on January 26th, 2020 on a hillside near Las Virgenes Road and Willow Glen Street in Calabasas, California. The 41-year-old NBA Champion was a passenger in a Sikorsky S-76B which crashed in foggy conditions, killing all nine persons on board, including Bryant’s 13-year-old daughter Gianna.

The Statue of Liberty was erected in New York in 1886 and dedicated on October 28th, 1886 by President Grover Cleveland. Sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi started fabricating the Statue of Liberty in France in 1875 and completed the work in July 1884. In 1885, the statue was shipped in sections to New York and assembled on a purpose-built granite pedestal on Liberty Island in 1886.

There are open air parking lots surrounding North Berkeley BART station. Permit lots are permit parking only between 4 am and 10 am, after which they operate as normal daily fee parking lots. Payment or permit is required in Fee parking lots on weekdays from 4 am to 3 pm and is free on weekends and holidays. The lots are full by around 8 am on weekdays. Parking permits should be booked online in advance and the daily parking fee can be paid at the Addfare / Parking Validation machine in the station using your stall number.

Sutro Tower is a prominent three-pronged TV and radio antenna tower in San Francisco. Located near Mount Sutro on one of the city’s highest points, the red and white metal tower was San Francisco’s tallest structure from completion in 1973 until the Salesforce Tower was finished in 2017.

The lighthouse on Alcatraz Island is still operational with its light beacon rotating once every five seconds as a navigational aid for shipping in San Francisco Bay. It has been automated since November 22nd, 1963, the same year the island’s penitentiary closed.

In San Francisco, street parking at a broken or inoperable parking meter is permitted for the posted time limit or 4 hours, whichever is shorter.

Prepayment can be made at San Francisco street parking meters before their designated operating time from 4:30 am, except at Port meters near the waterfront. Most San Francisco parking meters operate from 9 am to 6 pm Monday through Saturday. The prepaid time begins when the meter starts operating and parking prior to that is free of charge.

Spokane parking meters are free between 7 pm and 8 am, and all day on Sundays and federal holidays.

Chicago has a 24 hour Starbucks Coffee at Piper’s Alley near the corner of North Avenue and Wells Street in Old Town.

YouTube’s headquarters are located at 901 Cherry Avenue in San Bruno, California. The Google-owned video-sharing platform moved into the offices in 2008. They were the former corporate headquarters of The Gap, Inc.