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The Minnesota Wild NHL ice hockey team plays its home games at the Xcel Energy Center in downtown St Paul, Minnesota. Built on the site of the demolished St Paul Civic Center, the arena opened on September 29, 2000, when the Minnesota Wild played their first ever game, in a preseason 3-1 win against the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. They Read more...
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The probable cause of the Florida International University pedestrian bridge collapse on March 15th, 2018, was load and capacity calculation errors by the bridge designers, according to a National Transportation Safety Board investigation. The partially-constructed elevated foot bridge was being installed to improve pedestrian access across Southwest 8th Street, an eight-lane highway separating the FIU campus in University Park, a Read more...
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Bridgeport is the most populous city in Connecticut, notable for its links to circus impresario PT Barnum, being the home of Beardsley Zoo, and as the birthplace of the Subway restaurant chain and the Frisbie Pie Company. Phileas T Barnum was elected as mayor of Bridgeport in 1875, overseeing a period of improvements in city infrastructure and services, including the Read more...
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Vinegar Hill in Brooklyn, New York City, is named after the Battle of Vinegar Hill, a major clash between the United Irishmen and British forces that took place in Ireland during the Irish Rebellion of 1798. The neighborhood was named by John Jackson who was developing his land holdings on this stretch of the East River waterfront in the early Read more...
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US rapper Young Dolph was killed in a drive by shooting in Memphis, Tennessee, on November 17th, 2021. The 36-year-old musician was shot dead shortly before 1 pm at Makeda’s Homemade Butter Cookies shop near Memphis International Airport. Young Dolph, whose real name was Adolph Robert Thornton Jr, had been targeted in previous shootings in 2017 in Charlotte, South Carolina, Read more...
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John F Kennedy International Airport was officially called New York International Airport-Anderson Field, after it opened in 1948, but was more commonly known as Idlewild Airport. The airport in Queens, New York, was developed on land once occupied by the Idlewild Beach Golf Course, leading to it being referred to as Idlewild, and even used IDL as the FAA and Read more...
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The suggested dress code for Tavern on the Green restaurant in New York City is smart casual. Jacket and tie are not required for men and smart dark jeans may be worn, but sleeveless shirts are not permitted. Sports and athletic wear is not acceptable attire for the main restaurant although patrons in such clothing are allowed in the Tavern Read more...
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New York’s WPIX TV, known as PIX11, is located in the News Building at 42nd Street and 2nd Avenue in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Midtown Manhattan. WPIX was once the TV broadcast subsidiary of the New York Daily News newspaper, and the building housed the Daily News operations until 1995, but PIX 11, by then under separate ownership, remained Read more...
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BMW of Manhattan is located on West 57th Street at 11th Avenue with a street-level showroom in the building known as the BMW Building, previously occupied by Ford Motor Company until 1997. The dealership offers new and pre-owned BMW cars and is also home to BMW of Manhattan Motorrad, the authorized BMW Motorcycle Centre for New York City, carrying an Read more...
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The Edge observation deck on Level 100 of New York’s 30 Hudson Yards skyscraper is 1,131 feet (or 345 meters) above the ground. The cantilevered outdoor platform extends up to 80 feet (or 24 meters) from the building and offers views across Manhattan and the Hudson River, and visitors can stand on a glass floor panel looking straight down to Read more...
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EWR is the IATA code for Newark Liberty International Airport, located 3 miles (or 4.8 kilometers) south of downtown Newark, New Jersey, and 9 miles (or 14 kilometers) west of Manhattan. Although it is in the state of New Jersey, its proximity to New York City makes it is one of the three major airports serving the New York metropolitan Read more...
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The possession or consumption of alcohol is prohibited on Colorado State University’s campus in Fort Collins, including residence halls, with exceptions for university facilities licensed to sell alcohol and events authorized to serve alcohol by CSU’s Office of Risk Management. On campus, the Ramskeller Pub in the Lory Student Center serves alcohol to over-21s and has its own microbrewery on Read more...
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The New York City Marathon starts from Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island, near the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. The 26.2-mile (or 42.2-kilometer) marathon route passes through all five boroughs of New York City before finishing in Manhattan’s Central Park. It is usually held annually on the first Sunday in November and is the world’s largest marathon by participation. Read more...
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Port Clyde is a picturesque fishing village on mid-coast Maine’s St George peninsula that has become a haven for artists and writers, and the nearby Marshall Point Lighthouse featured in the 1994 movie Forrest Gump. Once an important port for the fishing, granite and lumber industries, the main economic activity in Port Clyde now is tourism and lobster fishing. The Read more...
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Father Francis Patrick Duffy was a Canadian-American Catholic priest and military chaplain, recognized for his service during World War I on the Western Front in France. Duffy served on the battlefield as part of the Rainbow Division, helping to recover many injured soldiers, and became the most decorated cleric in the US Army. He was later pastor of Manhattan’s Holy Read more...
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The Columbine High School shooting occurred on April 20, 1999, in Columbine, near the city of Littleton, Colorado, United States. Two twelfth grade students at Columbine, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, entered the school with multiple firearms and shot dead 12 students and one teacher. More than 20 others were injured in what was the worst high school shooting in US history at the Read more...
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American businesswoman, writer, and media personality Martha Stewart’s childhood home is on Elm Place in Nutley, New Jersey. Born Martha Helen Kostyra in 1941, she moved with her family from Jersey City to Nutley when she was three years old and attended Yantacaw School before graduating from Nutley High School in 1959. Martha Stewart was inducted into the Nutley Hall Read more...
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American actor and musician River Phoenix died, aged 23, in the early hours of October 31st, 1993, at The Viper Room nightclub on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California. He stopped at the club on the evening before his death to perform with the band P, and reportedly became unwell after taking cocaine and heroin at the venue. He Read more...
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A person who is a long-time resident or native of New Orleans is called a New Orleanian. It is the commonly used demonym for someone from New Orleans, Louisiana. Read more...
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WNUR is the student radio station of Northwestern University, broadcasting to Chicago, Illinois, and its northern suburbs at 89.3 MHz FM and HD1, and streaming online. The station has studios on the university’s Evanston campus in the Barbara and Garry Marshall Studio Wing of John J Louis Hall, with its broadcast transmitter located on Nathaniel Leverone Hall. Listener-supported WNUR is Read more...