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American guitarist and singer-songwriter Jimi Hendrix is buried at Greenwood Cemetery in Renton, Washington. He died in London, England, on September 18th, 1970, at the age of 27. Hendrix, whose birth name was Johnny Allen Hendrix, was interred on October 1st, 1970, in the cemetery where his mother, Lucille, was buried. In 2002, his casket was exhumed and he was Read more...
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The 2018 season Super Bowl 53 was played at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia, on February 3rd, 2019, between the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Rams. The Patriots won, defeating the Rams 13–3, giving them their sixth Super Bowl championship win in eleven Super Bowl appearances. Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman was named Super Bowl MVP. Pop group Read more...
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The NPR member radio station in Albany, New York, is WAMC/Northeast Public Radio which broadcasts to the Albany Capital District of New York on AM at 1400 KHz, on FM and HD Radio at 90.3 MHz, and also streams online. WAMC’s main FM transmitter is on Mount Greylock in North Adams, Massachusetts, on land leased from the Massachusetts Department of Read more...
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American television host and comedian Jimmy Fallon spent most of his childhood in Saugerties, New York, where he lived with his parents and older sister, Gloria, in a house on Overbaugh Street. Fallon’s family moved to Saugerties shortly after his birth in Brooklyn, New York, and he attended St Mary of the Snow Catholic elementary school and later, Saugerties High Read more...
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A person who is a long-time resident or native of Boise is called a Boisean. It is the commonly used demonym for someone from Boise, Idaho. Read more...
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The city of Eugene, Oregon, is named after Eugene Franklin Skinner, one of the area’s first white settlers in 1846. Skinner built a cabin in an elevated location on the west bank of the Willamette River, still known today as Skinner Butte, where he operated a trading post, and had it registered as a post office in 1850. 1851 saw Read more...
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Auburn University uses private cleaning crews to remove the toilet paper hanging from the trees at Toomer’s Corner after the Auburn fans’ tradition of ‘rolling’ to celebrate a win by the university’s sports teams. After a team victory, two live oak trees standing at the intersection of Magnolia Avenue and College Street have long been a gathering point on campus Read more...
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Idora Park amusement park in Youngstown, Ohio, closed in September 1984. The once-flourishing attraction was opened as Terminal Park in 1899 by the Youngstown Park and Falls Street Railway Company to encourage use of their streetcar services on weekends and holidays. Later named Idora Park, it was known as ‘Youngstown’s Million Dollar Playground’. It remained popular longer than many other Read more...
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The Indianapolis Colts NFL football team plays its home games at Lucas Oil Stadium in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. The Colts moved to the newly constructed stadium in 2008, which has a retractable roof and a capacity of 67,000 for football games. The Lucas Oil Stadium is located opposite the site of the team’s former home stadium, the RCA Dome, which Read more...
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Golfer Jack Nicklaus holds the record for the most Masters Tournament victories, winning six times at Augusta National Golf Club in 1963, 1965, 1966, 1972, 1975 and 1986. His record is followed by Tiger Woods, with five Masters wins in 1997, 2001, 2002, 2005 and 2019. Jack Nicklaus’s victory in 1986 made him the oldest Masters winner in history at Read more...
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The capital city of Maine is Augusta. Maine separated from Massachusetts in 1820, and the city of Portland was the new state’s first capital, before centrally-located Augusta was chosen as the new capital in 1827. Maine’s state legislature continued meeting in Portland until the new Maine State House in Augusta was completed in 1832. Read more...
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The Masters golf tournament is played at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, usually during the first full week of April each year. One of the four annual men’s major golf championships, the invitational tournament is an official money event on the PGA Tour, European Tour, and Japan Golf Tour. Except for three years during World War II, The Read more...
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The dress code at Gramercy Tavern in Manhattan is business casual. Jackets for men are optional, but collared shirts would be appropriate, especially in the more formal setting of the Dining Room. Smart jeans can be worn, particularly in the walk-in Tavern area, where the atmosphere is a little more casual. It is advisable that overly casual attire such as Read more...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...