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The city of Lompoc, California, is notable for its proximity to the Vandenberg Space Force Base, vast fields of colorful summer flowers, its restored Spanish mission, local wineries and the murals painted on its downtown buildings. La Purisima Mission is a faithfully-restored Spanish Catholic mission dating back to 1813 that is considered to be the most complete example of a Read more...
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The Sixth Street Viaduct bridge between the Boyle Heights neighborhood and the Arts District in downtown Los Angeles, California, was demolished in 2016 because of concern about its ability to withstand a major earthquake event. Constructed in 1932, the condition of the iconic arched concrete bridge over the Los Angeles River was deteriorating because of an alkali-silica reaction caused by Read more...
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Donner Lake water temperature varies from winter lows in February of around 40°F, to 72°F in summer, (or 4.5°C to 22.2°C). Located just west of Truckee, California, Donner Lake is at its warmest in August, ranging between 65 and 72 °F (or 18.3 and 22.2°C), although these water temperatures are still considered cold and swimmers should be mindful of the Read more...
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Washington Dulles International Airport is named after John Foster Dulles, the United States Secretary of State under President Dwight D Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. The airport was under construction when John Foster Dulles died in 1959, and US Senator Homer Capehart introduced a bill to posthumously name it in his honor. The airport, located some 26 miles (or 42 Read more...
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For the TigerTown Shopping Center in Opelika, Alabama, on Interstate 85 take Exit #58 for US-280 West toward Opelika. From the exit ramp, turn on to Gateway Drive towards Opelika. The TigerTown Shopping Center is located adjacent to the intersection. The million-square-foot outdoor shopping mall opened in 2004 and is anchored by retailers such as Kroger, Home Depot, Target, and Read more...
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Fox Island, Washington was given its present name in 1841 by Lieutenant Charles Wilkes, commander of the United States Exploring Expedition, after the expedition’s assistant surgeon, Lieutenant John Laurence Fox. Long before white settlers arrived at Fox Island in the mid-19th century, Native Americans had used the island seasonally, calling it Bu-ta-u or Bu Teu. Read more...
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The bridge to Fox Island, Washington, crosses the Hale Passage between the island and mainland at Artondale on the Kitsap Peninsula. Opened on August 28th, 1954, the 1,950-foot-long bridge replaced a ferry service across the channel and provides the only road access on to and off Fox Island, with an estimated average of 6,800 vehicles crossing daily. The bridge is Read more...
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The Washington Capitals NHL ice hockey team plays its home games at Capital One Arena (formerly Verizon Center) in the Penn Quarter neighborhood of Washington, DC. They moved to the newly-built arena in 1997, having previously played at the now-demolished Capital Centre in the Washington suburb of Landover, Maryland. The Capitals played their first game at the new arena on Read more...
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Stanford University’s athletic teams are named the Cardinal after the teams’ main color, cardinal red. Reference to the Cardinal started around Stanford football team’s victory over Cal in the first Big Game on March 19th, 1892. Later, Stanford adopted the name Indians in 1930 along with a depiction of a native American as a mascot, often in stylized cartoon form. Read more...
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Train services on the New York City subway carry a white number or letter in a colored circle or diamond, called a bullet, identifying the route that the train service takes along the various lines. Those lines are grouped by color denoting that at some point on their route they share a common section of track, but they do not Read more...
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Leavenworth, Washington, was a former logging town in decline when, in 1962, a committee of local business people and residents sought to revitalize the community by remodeling the downtown area in the style of a traditional Bavarian village, with the aim of turning around its fortunes with tourism income. While Leavenworth had no real historical connections to Germany, its location Read more...
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The New Orleans Saints NFL football team plays its home games at Caesars Superdome (formerly Mercedes-Benz Superdome) in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana. The Superdome has been home to the Saints since 1975, having previously played for eight seasons at Tulane University’s now-demolished Tulane Stadium. The Saints played their first regular-season game of the 1975 NFL season Read more...
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, or WHOI, is an American private, non-profit marine science research facility that undertakes studies of the physical, chemical, and biological features of the ocean environment. It was established in 1930 on Cape Cod, in the village of Woods Hole near Falmouth, Massachusetts, from where it operates laboratories, oceangoing research vessels, and runs marine science post-doctoral research Read more...
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The New York Islanders NHL ice hockey team plays its home games at UBS Arena in Elmont, New York, some 20 miles (or 32 kilometers) east of Manhattan. Situated next to the Belmont Park horse racing facility, the newly-built arena opened in November 2021 and the Islanders played their inaugural home game there against the Calgary Flames. Previously, they played Read more...
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WNYU-FM is a student-run college radio station owned by New York University, broadcasting to the New York metropolitan area on FM at 89.1 MHz between 4 pm and 1 am weekdays and streaming online 24 hours a day. The station shares the 89.1 FM frequency with WFDU, Farleigh Dickinson University’s radio station, under a shared-time agreement with the FCC, which Read more...
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Actor Michael K Williams was found dead, aged 54, in his penthouse apartment at the Schaefer Landing North condo building in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on September 6th, 2021. The cause of his death was determined to be accidental overdose of fentanyl-laced heroin and he had previously spoken in interviews about his history of drug use. Williams, a native of Brooklyn, rose Read more...
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The American city of Vancouver, Washington, is not named after the Canadian city of Vancouver, British Columbia. However, both cities are named after British naval officer Captain George Vancouver who led the expedition between 1791 and 1795 to chart North America’s northwestern Pacific Coast regions. The American city is older than its Canadian counterpart, having been incorporated as the city Read more...
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The Fox affiliate television station in New Orleans, Louisiana, is WVUE, broadcasting on virtual channel 8. Branded as Fox 8, WVUE broadcasts from studios on Norman C Francis Parkway (formerly Jefferson Davis Parkway) in the Gert Town neighborhood of New Orleans, via a transmitter located some 9 miles to the east at 601 Magistrate Street in Chalmette, Louisiana. Read more...
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The Tampa Bay Lightning NHL ice hockey team plays its home games at the Amalie Arena (formerly Tampa Bay Times Forum) in the Channelside District of Downtown Tampa, Florida. The Lightning moved to the newly-built arena, initially named the Ice Palace, in 1996. In their inaugural ice hockey game at the arena, they beat the New York Rangers by 5-2. Read more...
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Dinosaur Park in Rapid City, South Dakota, has large sculptures of six dinosaurs, representing an Apatosaurus, Tyrannosaurus rex, Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Edmontosaurus, and a Protoceratops, along with a non-mammalian synapsid known as a Dimetrodon, all created by sculptor Emmet Sullivan. The hilltop park was created as a tourist attraction in 1936 by the city of Rapid City and the Works Progress Read more...