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Reality TV star Gabe Rygaard was killed in a car accident on US-101 near Port Angeles, Washington on September 16th, 2016, aged 45. Rygaard had previously appeared on seasons two through nine of the History Channel’s reality TV show Ax Men which chronicled the activities of his family-owned logging business. Read more...
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Former NFL offensive lineman Mitch Petrus died from the effects of heat stroke on July 18th, 2019 at Baptist Health Medical Center in North Little Rock, Arkansas, aged 32. The ex New York Giants player was taken ill after working at his family’s repair shop in Lonoke during an extreme heatwave on the same day. Read more...
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The Queens Center Mall is located near Woodhaven Boulevard subway station which is served by: M trains on weekdays until 11 pm R trains at all times except late nights E trains late nights from around 11 pm to 5:30 am Read more...
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59th Street-Columbus Circle subway station in New York City is served by: 1, A and D trains at all times C trains at all times except late nights B trains on weekdays 2 trains late nights Read more...
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The building under the San Francisco side of the Golden Gate Bridge is Fort Point, built by the US Army at the height of the Gold Rush between 1853 and 1861 as part of a defense system to protect the harbor from foreign attack. When it was no longer needed as a defense position, it served as barracks and military Read more...
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You can take an elevator up the Campanile (also known as the Sather Tower) followed by 38 steps to its 200-foot-high observation deck. It offers 360-degree views of the UC Berkeley Campus and, on clear days, as far as Oakland and San Francisco. The tower is open from 10 am daily and admission charges apply except for UC Berkeley students, Read more...
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It is not possible to visit the top of the Chrysler Building as the 77-floor building is leased to business tenants and there is no observation deck. General public access is limited to the lobby area only. Read more...
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The Roundtop Filling Station is a former gas filling station located off the Jacksonville Highway, in Sherwood, Arkansas. It was built in 1936 and owned from 1957 by Wallace David “Happy” Williford until its closure in 1981. It is now preserved as a historic site following restoration completed in 2015. The Roundtop was featured in The Last Ride, a 2010 Read more...
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The Transamerica Pyramid at 600 Montgomery Street in San Francisco with its distinctive pyramid shape is an icon of the city’s skyline. At 853 feet (or 260 meters) high, it is visible from most parts of the city and is the second-tallest building in San Francisco since losing the top spot to the Salesforce Tower in 2017. Read more...
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Patty Hearst was involved in an armed robbery of the Sunset District branch of Hibernia Bank at Noriega and 22nd Avenue in San Francisco on April 15th, 1974. Hearst, the granddaughter of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, participated in the raid with members of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) who, two months prior, had kidnapped her at gunpoint from her Read more...
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Patty Hearst was kidnapped at gunpoint from her apartment at 2603 Benvenue Avenue in Berkeley on the evening of February 4th, 1974 by an urban guerrilla group called The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). Hearst, granddaughter of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, was found in San Francisco 19 months later and arrested for crimes committed with members of the SLA, including Read more...
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Because it was the first school in the University of California system, before the UC system expanded to other California cities, the Berkeley campus was known simply as the University of California and often shortened to Cal. UC Berkeley’s sports teams are called the California Golden Bears and in athletic competition referred to as California or Cal. Read more...
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There is a parking garage at MacArthur BART station just off MacArthur Boulevard in Oakland. Payment is required on weekdays from 4 am to 3 pm but parking is free on weekends and holidays. Parking is full by around 7 am on weekdays. Parking permits can be booked online in advance or the daily parking fee can be paid at Read more...
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Tolls are paid in the westbound direction on Dumbarton Bridge between Fremont and Menlo Park, California. This follows the convention for all the Bay Area’s state-owned bridges that traffic headed towards the San Francisco peninsula pays a toll. Read more...
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The house used as the McCallister family home in the first two Home Alone American Christmas family comedy movies is at 671 Lincoln Avenue in Winnetka, Illinois, some 16 miles (or 26 kilometers) north of downtown Chicago. The iconic private residence was used for exterior scenes, and some interior shots were filmed in the home for the first Home Alone Read more...
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The blue house in French singer Maxime Le Forestier’s song San Francisco is situated at 3841 18th Street in the Mission district. The song, on his 1972 album Mon frère, recalls a time when he lived in the house in 1970 when it was a hippie commune called Hunga Dunga. It was repainted from light green to the original blue Read more...
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St Margaret’s Church, the Victorian-era Gothic style church in Bodelwyddan, near Saint Asaph, North Wales, is known as the Marble Church because of the lavish use of marble on its interior. Designed by John Gibson and completed in 1860, the eye-catching limestone building with its 62 metre tower and spire is a landmark for traffic passing on the A55 road. Read more...
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The Pelican Inn near Muir Beach, California was built in 1978 by English expat Charles Felix in the style of a traditional 16th century British country inn. Architectural features salvaged from old establishments in the UK and US were used to help create its period appearance. Read more...
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The nearest waterfall to Boulder, Colorado, is Boulder Falls, located nine miles west of the city, on Boulder Canyon Drive (Highway 119) between Boulder and Nederland. Open May through October, the 70-foot waterfall in Boulder Canyon is reached on foot along an easy, short trail starting opposite the roadside pull-in parking area. Read more...
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Buddy Holly’s airplane crashed in a field 5 miles north of Clear Lake, Iowa, in the early hours of February 3rd, 1959. He was killed, along with the plane’s other occupants, musicians J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson and Ritchie Valens, and the pilot, Roger Peterson. The crash site is a half mile walk across private farmland on a path that Read more...