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Mirror Lake in Camrose, Alberta, is an artificial lake originally created in 1905 by the Canadian Pacific Railway as a reservoir to supply water for their steam locomotives passing through what was then, a hamlet called Sparling. The lake was created by a dam built across Stoney Creek, where the pedestrian footbridge is located today. Since then, the dam has Read more...
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The Sitting Bull Monument stands on Standing Rock Indian Reservation on the west side of the Missouri River, near Mobridge, South Dakota. Sitting Bull, a translation of his Sioux name, Tatanka Iyotake, was the great Chief of the Hunkpapa Lakota (or Teton Sioux). He was shot and killed on the reservation in December 1890 after the Massacre at Wounded Knee, Read more...
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Cheyenne Frontier Days is held at Frontier Park in Cheyenne, Wyoming, beginning on a Friday, over the last full week of July every year. Described as the world’s largest outdoor rodeo, it attracts some 200,000 visitors annually and features rodeo events in the Frontier Park Arena, tours of the Old Frontier Town, carnival rides, and Indian Village exhibits, along with Read more...
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American rapper DMX died, aged 50, on April 9th, 2021, at White Plains Hospital in White Plains, New York, following a heart attack. The rap artist and actor, whose real name was Earl Simmons and also went by the name Dark Man X, had been on life support at the hospital after suffering a heart attack at his White Plains Read more...
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The name Roodee for Chester Racecourse in Chester, England, is a corruption of its earlier name, Rood eye, thought to mean Island of the Cross. It is derived from a combination of the Saxon word ‘rood’ for ‘cross’, and the Norse ‘eye’, meaning ‘island’. The racecourse sits on the banks of the River Dee and much of it was under Read more...
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Dogs are permitted in Badlands National Park, South Dakota, provided they are on a leash and owners clean up after them. The weather in Badlands National Park can be hot and dry in summer. Additional water should be brought for dogs as there is none available on the hiking trails. Dog owners should consider the increased likelihood of encounters with Read more...
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The feral donkeys, or burros, in Custer State Park, South Dakota, are descendants of an abandoned herd that used to carry visitors in the park. They are often called the Begging Burros because they congregate at the roadside and approach vehicles on the Wildlife Loop Trail, having learned that visitors will often feed them snacks. Custer State Park occasionally includes Read more...
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KZSU is Stanford University’s radio station, broadcasting to the campus and wider Bay Area on 90.1 MHz FM and streaming online. The station broadcasts a mix of music, sports, news and public affairs programming, including live sports coverage of Stanford games and simulcasts of Palo Alto City Council meetings. Owned by the Board of Trustees of Stanford University, KZSU is Read more...
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The main river running through Valladolid, Spain, is the Pisuerga, which flows in a southwesterly direction through the city. A tributary, the Esgueva river, enters Valladolid from the east along a man-made channel and converges with the Pisuerga in the north of the city. The 283-kilometer (or 176-mile) long Pisuerga originates some 145 kilometres (or 90 miles) north of Valladolid Read more...
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The Olympic pipeline explosion on June 10th, 1999, was caused by the ignition of gasoline leaking from a petroleum pipeline carrying product from the Cherry Point refinery, after it ruptured at a point where it passed through Whatcom Falls Park in Bellingham, Washington. At around 3:30 pm, a pressure build-up caused a rupture in the 16-inch-diameter steel pipeline, near the Read more...
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The main river running through Aspen, Colorado, is the Roaring Fork River. The Roaring Fork originates some 13 miles (or 21 kilometers) east southeast of Aspen at Independence Lake, an alpine lake near Independence Pass in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains. From Aspen, it continues flowing northwest along the Roaring Fork Valley (named after the river) to Glenwood Read more...
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The headquarters and main production studios of Spain’s state-owned public broadcaster, Radiotelevisión Española (or RTVE), are located at Prado del Rey in Pozuelo de Alarcón, to the west of Madrid. Opened in 1964, the complex houses the production facilities of RTVE subsidiaries Televisión Española (TVE) and Radio Nacional de España (RNE), along with broadcast archives and corporate offices. TVE’s news Read more...
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Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University is a public HBCU located in Tallahasee, Florida, also known as Florida A&M University or shortened to FAMU. The HBCU designation, an acronym for Historically Black Colleges and Universities, is given by the US Department of Education to an accredited college or university established prior to 1964, whose principal mission was, and is, the education Read more...
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Bodø/Glimt football club plays its home games at the Aspmyra Stadium in the town of Bodø in Northern Norway. Glimt has played at Aspmyra since the stadium opened in 1966. Over the years it has undergone several upgrades, including new stands, and conversion of the pitch to artificial turf with underheating. The 4,616-seat stadium is also home to the Idrettsklubben Read more...
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The tallest building in the city of Stockholm, Sweden, is the Kista Science Tower which has a height of 156 metres (or 511.8 feet) to the tip of its rooftop antenna. The 32-storey three-sided modernist skyscraper, located in the Kista district, some 10 kilometers (or 6.2 miles) northwest of Stockholm city centre, houses commercial offices and is the tallest of Read more...
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The Detroit Red Wings NHL ice hockey team plays its home games at Little Caesars Arena in Midtown Detroit, Michigan. They moved to the newly-built arena in 2017, having previously played at Detroit’s Joe Lewis Arena, which was later demolished during 2019 and 2020. The Red Wings played their first regular season game at the new arena on October 5, Read more...
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The capital city of Washington state is Olympia. Located some 60 miles (or 100 kilometers) south of Seattle, it is the state’s second-largest city, and home to the Washington State Capitol and the Washington Governor’s Mansion. Olympia became the capital of Washington Territory in 1853 and was incorporated as a town in 1859, and as a city in 1882. Read more...
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American indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie formed in Bellingham, Washington, in 1997, initially as a solo project by singer and guitarist Ben Gibbard while he was a student at the city’s Western Washington University. Gibbard’s first demo cassette of eight songs, titled You Can Play These Songs With Chords, was recorded with fellow WWU student Chris Walla and Read more...
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The Pittsburgh Steelers NFL football team plays its home games at Heinz Field in the North Shore neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They previously played nearby at the now-demolished Three Rivers Stadium which was shared with the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team. The Steelers moved in 2001 to their newly constructed Heinz Field stadium, which is shared with the Pitt Panthers, the Read more...
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The Arizona Cardinals NFL football team plays its home games at the State Farm Stadium (formerly University of Phoenix Stadium) in Glendale, Arizona. The stadium, located some 11.5 miles (or 18.5 kilometers) northwest of downtown Phoenix, has been home to the Cardinals since 2006, having previously played at Arizona State University’s Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe since relocating to Arizona Read more...