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The Seattle Seahawks NFL football team plays its home games at Lumen Field (formerly CenturyLink Field) in Seattle’s SoDo neighborhood. The stadium has been the home field of the Seahawks since it opened in 2002 and it is shared with the Seattle Sounders FC MLS soccer team. Lumen Field is considered one of the loudest stadiums in the NFL, having Read more...

A person who is a long-time resident or native of Seattle is called a Seattleite. It is the commonly used demonym for someone from Seattle. Read more...

Seattle’s Space Needle is 184 meters (or 604 feet) high. Read more...

Seattle’s NHL expansion ice hockey team is named the Seattle Kraken after a feared, mythical, tentacled sea monster from Scandinavian folklore. The name was selected for the city’s new ice hockey franchise in a nod to Seattle’s maritime history and its coastal location in the Pacific Northwest, where giant Pacific octopus are known to dwell. The new team’s name, colors, Read more...

The KEXP radio studios are located on the Seattle Center campus on 1st Avenue North between Harrison and Republican in the Uptown Arts District. The site features the KEXP Gathering Space, a community hub and public hangout where you can listen to music, with performance spaces, an on-site coffee shop and the Light in the Attic record store. Free station Read more...

Martial artist and actor Bruce Lee is buried in Lot 276 of the Lake View Cemetery in Seattle, Washington. He died in Hong Kong of a cerebral edema on July 20th, 1973, aged 32, and his funeral was held in Seattle on July 25th, 1973. The red-colored headstone features Lee’s photograph and the engraved epitaph describes him as ‘FOUNDER OF Read more...

Nirvana frontman and guitarist Kurt Cobain was found dead at the age of 27 in a room above the detached garage of his home at 171 Lake Boulevard East in Seattle’s Denny-Blaine neighborhood. A suicide note was found nearby and an investigation concluded he died three days prior on April 5th, 1994 from a self-inflicted shotgun wound to his head. Read more...

The Seattle Seahawks have won one Super Bowl, the 2013 season Super Bowl 47 against the Denver Broncos, which had a final score of 43–8. The game was played on February 2nd, 2014 at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The Seahawks have made a total of three Super Bowl appearances. Read more...

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...

Snoqualmie Casino does not have a hotel. There is a Hampton Inn five minutes away in Snoqualmie, and motels in nearby North Bend. Read more...

The first Tacoma Narrows Bridge had the same location as the present day westbound bridge spanning the Tacoma Narrows strait of Puget Sound between Tacoma and Gig Harbour, Washington. Aerodynamic factors caused a substantial collapse of the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge in November 1940, just four months after opening. The new bridge, opened in October 1950, was a complete replacement, Read more...

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...

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...

Chambers Bay Golf Course is a municipal public golf course, owned by Pierce County, located in University Place, southwest of Tacoma, Washington. Opened in June 2007 on the site of a former sand and gravel mine overlooking Puget Sound, Chambers Bay hosted the 2010 US Amateur and 2015 US Open Championships. The 18-hole championship golf course was designed by Robert Read more...

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...

On March 22nd, 2014 at 10:37 am, the deadliest landslide in US history engulfed the community around Steelhead Haven, about 4 miles east of Oso, Washington. A portion of tree-covered hillside above the North Fork Stillaguamish River gave way, sending masses of mud and timber flowing across the river, through the Steelhead Haven neighborhood and onto State Route 530. The Read more...

Reality TV star Gabe Rygaard was killed in a car accident on US-101 near Port Angeles, Washington on September 16th, 2016, aged 45. Rygaard had previously appeared on seasons two through nine of the History Channel’s reality TV show Ax Men which chronicled the activities of his family-owned logging business. Read more...

John Lennon’s 1965 Rolls-Royce Phantom V Touring Limousine is held by the Royal BC Museum in Victoria, British Columbia, and periodically displayed in the museum’s glass lobby, particularly in winter months. Coinciding with the 1967 release of The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album, Lennon had his black Rolls-Royce repainted yellow with psychedelic patterns and floral motifs inspired Read more...

The capital city of British Columbia is Victoria on Vancouver Island. Originally the capital of the Colony of Vancouver Island, Victoria was designated the capital of the united Colony of British Columbia in 1868 following the 1866 political amalgamation of the island with the mainland. The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia is based in Victoria’s Parliament Buildings, which were completed Read more...

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...