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The height of Menai Suspension Bridge’s road deck above water at high tide is approximately 30.5 metres (or 100 feet) at centre span. Built by Thomas Telford between 1819 and 1826 across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the Welsh mainland, he designed the bridge height to allow for the passage below of sailing ships of the Read more...

The ornate cast iron gates and railings across the Whitehall and St James’s Park entrances to Downing Street were installed in 1989, at a time when the threat of terrorist attack was high, particularly by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (or IRA). The British Prime Minister’s official London residence at 10 Downing Street, with its iconic black door, is arguably Read more...

Red Deer Regional Airport is located in the hamlet of Springbrook, Alberta, some 6 nautical miles (or 11 kilometers) southwest of the city of Red Deer. Built during World War II as a flight training school for British Commonwealth forces, the base later became Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Penhold. The City of Red Deer operated the airport from 1965, and Read more...

San Francisco International Airport has three domestic terminals, numbered 1 through 3, and one international terminal. Terminal 1, known as Harvey Milk Terminal 1, was formerly called the South Terminal, Terminal 2 was previously the Central Terminal, and Terminal 3 was formerly the North Terminal and is exclusively used by United Airlines domestic flights. San Francisco International Airport departure terminals Read more...

Turin’s Stadio Delle Alpi football and athletics stadium, demolished in 2009, suffered from high running costs and criticism for bad sightlines, seating distance from the pitch, poor acoustics and an atmosphere described as ‘soulless’. Built for the FIFA Italia 1990 World Cup with a theoretical capacity of just over 69,000 spectators, it incorporated an athletics track that encircled the football Read more...

The city of Red Deer, Alberta, was named by early settlers after the Red Deer River on which the city stands. While the river was known by the Cree peoples as Waskasoo Seepee, which translates to ‘Elk River’, it is thought that early British traders adopted the name Red Deer River, mistakenly thinking that elk and the European red deer Read more...

American rapper and singer-songwriter Juice WRLD died on December 8th, 2019, aged 21, after suffering a seizure, induced by drug intoxication, at Chicago Midway International Airport. Juice WRLD, whose real name was Jarad Anthony Higgins, had landed at Midway aboard a private Gulfstream jet from Van Nuys Airport, Los Angeles. On arrival at a private hangar, the airplane, passengers and Read more...

Generally, dogs are not permitted on the beach at Huntington Beach, with the exception of guide dogs, signal dogs or service dogs. However, dogs are allowed on a designated area of beach along Pacific Coast Highway, between 22nd Street and Seapoint Avenue, known as Dog Beach. Dogs may be allowed off leash on the sand, provided they are well behaved Read more...

Bank Street football ground, also known as Bank Lane, was located in the Clayton area of east Manchester on the site where the National Indoor BMX Arena now stands, next to the Manchester Velodrome. Between 1893 and 1910, Bank Street was the home ground of Manchester United Football Club (which was known as Newton Heath Football Club until 1902), before Read more...

American singer Bing Crosby’s last public performance before he died was at the Brighton Centre in Brighton, England, on 10 October 1977. The concert concluded a British tour for the singer, and three days later he flew to Spain. On 14 October 1977, after playing golf at La Moraleja Golf Course in Alcobendas near Madrid, 74-year-old Crosby collapsed and died Read more...

Juventus FC plays at the Allianz Stadium (also called Juventus Stadium) in the Vallette neighborhood in the northwest of the city of Turin, Italy. Juventus moved to the new stadium in 2011, constructed on the site of the club’s former permanent home ground, Stadio delle Alpi, in an area known as Continassa. Despite sharing the old Stadio delle Alpi with Read more...

Saint Joan of Arc Chapel was moved to the Marquette University campus in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during 1964 and 1965 from its previous location on Long Island, New York, after being gifted to the university by Marc and Lillian Rojtman. The Rojtmans acquired it in 1962 as part the Graenan estate in Brookville, Long Island, previously owned by Michael Gavin and Read more...

The Eleanor Rigby statue by musician and entertainer Tommy Steele is located on Stanley Street in Liverpool city centre. The bronze statue depicts a woman in a headscarf, sitting on a stone bench with a shopping bag at her side. On the bench is an open copy of the local Liverpool Echo newspaper on which a small bird has landed, Read more...

New York public radio station WNYC transmitted its AM signal from the WNYC Transmitter Park in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood for over 50 years from 1937 to 1990. When WNYC started broadcasting in 1924, it was owned by the City of New York, and broadcast from a transmitter located on the 25th floor of the Municipal Building in Manhattan. The proliferation Read more...

Narendra Modi Stadium in the Motera neighbourhood of Ahmedabad in Gujarat, India, is the largest cricket ground in the world with a seating capacity of 132,000 (or 1.1 lakh) spectators. Previously known as the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium and the Motera Stadium, the former, smaller stadium was closed and demolished in 2015 and completely rebuilt as the larger capacity present-day Read more...

Bogibeel Bridge connects the districts of Dibrugarh and Dhemaji in Assam in the northeast of India. The dual-deck steel truss bridge over the Brahmaputra river carries National Highway 15 on a three-lane upper road deck, and railway trains on the lower deck. At 4.9 kilometres (or 3.1 miles) long, the Bogibeel Bridge is the longest road-and-rail bridge in India. It Read more...

WFUV radio is located in the basement of Keating Hall on the Rose Hill campus of Fordham University in the Bronx, New York City. The station moved to its present location in 2005, having previously been based on the third floor of Keating Hall since first signing on in 1947. Owned by Fordham University, WFUV is a listener-supported NPR affiliate Read more...

Dulles Airport’s IAD identifier is derived from the initial letters of its name, Dulles International Airport. When Dulles originally opened in 1962 it was given the logical airport code DIA. It changed to IAD in 1967 to avoid confusion and accidental fight routing errors with nearby Washington National Airport (now Reagan National Airport) which uses the code DCA. IATA has Read more...

The iconic section of Lombard Street in San Francisco is the block between Hyde and Leavenworth Streets in the Russian Hill neighborhood. Here, the one-way downhill section snakes its way through a series of eight tight hairpin turns, leading to it being dubbed the Crooked Street. This red-brick-paved section was created in 1922 to make the hill’s steep grade more Read more...

On 30 January 1969, the Beatles performed live on the rooftop of the headquarters of their media company, Apple Corps, at 3 Savile Row in the Mayfair area of central London. Although pre-planned, the daytime concert was unannounced, but soon drew crowds on the street below. Their set lasted 42 minutes before London’s Metropolitan Police attended the property to request Read more...