24 September 2021 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General, Universities, Colleges, Academies
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Benjamin Franklin College courtyard © Helpfullguy99/cc-by-sa-4.0
Yale University is a
private Ivy League research university in
New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 as the
Collegiate School, it is the
third-oldest institution of
higher education in the United States and one of the nine
Colonial Colleges chartered before the
American Revolution. The Collegiate School was renamed
Yale College in 1718 to honor the school’s largest private benefactor for the first century of its existence,
Elihu Yale.
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13 September 2021 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General
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Riverside and Avondale © Ebyabe/cc-by-sa-3.0
Jacksonville is the most populous city in
Florida, and is the
largest city by area in the
contiguous United States as of 2020. It is the
seat of
Duval County, with which the city government
consolidated in 1968. Consolidation gave Jacksonville its great size and placed most of its metropolitan population within the city limits. As of
2020, Jacksonville’s population is 949,611, making it the
12th most populous city in the U.S., the most populous city in the
Southeast, and the most populous city in the
South outside of the state of
Texas. The
Jacksonville metropolitan area has a
population of 1,523,615 and
is the fourth largest metropolitan area in Florida.
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11 September 2021 | Author/Destination: Knut Wingsch | Rubric: General, Museums, Exhibitions, New York City
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© 9/11 Memorial and Museum
The September 11 attacks, often referred to as 9/11, were a series of four coordinated
terrorist attacks by the
Wahhabi Islamist terrorist group
Al-Qaeda against the
United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.
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30 August 2021 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General, Greater Los Angeles Area
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Wilshire Boulevard in Santa Monica © flickr.com – inazakira/cc-by-sa-2.0
Wilshire Boulevard is a 15.83 miles (25.48 km)
boulevard in the
Los Angeles area of
Southern California, extending from
Ocean Avenue in the city of
Santa Monica east to
Grand Avenue in the
Financial District of
downtown Los Angeles. One of the principal east-west
arterial roads of Los Angeles, it is also one of the major city streets through the city of
Beverly Hills. Wilshire Boulevard runs roughly parallel with
Santa Monica Boulevard from Santa Monica to the west boundary of Beverly Hills. From the east boundary it runs a block south of Sixth Street to its terminus. The boulevard was named after
Henry Gaylord Wilshire (1861-1927), a
landowner,
publisher and
socialist (only in America: A boulevard that stands for income inequality between the poor (homeless camps) and the super rich like no other in the world is named after a socialist. You can’t help but grin).
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28 August 2021 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General, Universities, Colleges, Academies
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Old Queens, the oldest building at Rutgers University in New Brunswick © Zeete/cc-by-sa-4.0
Rutgers University (RU), formally known as
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a
public land-grant research university based in
New Brunswick, New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called
Queen’s College. It is the eighth-oldest college in the
United States, the second-oldest in New Jersey (after
Princeton University), and one of the nine U.S.
colonial colleges that were chartered before the
American Revolution. In 1825, Queen’s College was renamed
Rutgers College in honor of Colonel
Henry Rutgers, whose substantial gift to the school had stabilized its finances during a period of uncertainty. For most of its existence, Rutgers was a
private liberal arts college but it has evolved into a
coeducational public research university after being designated The State University of New Jersey by the
New Jersey Legislature via laws enacted in 1945 and 1956.
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16 August 2021 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General, New York City
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© flickr.com – Tony Hisgett/cc-by-2.0
(also known as the
Beaver Building and the
Cocoa Exchange) is a residential building in the
Financial District of
Manhattan in
New York City. The 15-story building, designed by
Clinton and Russell in the
Renaissance Revival style, was completed in 1904 at the intersection of
Wall,
Pearl, and
Beaver Streets.
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9 August 2021 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: Architecture, General, Universities, Colleges, Academies
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Main Building © Matthew Rice/cc-by-sa-4.0
The University of Notre Dame du Lac, known simply as Notre Dame or ND, is a
private Catholic research university in
Notre Dame, Indiana, outside the city of
South Bend. It was founded in 1842 by
Edward Sorin.
The main campus covers 1,261 acres (510 ha) in a suburban setting; it contains a number of recognizable landmarks, such as the
Golden Dome, the
Word of Life mural (commonly known as
Touchdown Jesus),
Notre Dame Stadium, and the
Basilica.
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30 July 2021 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General
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Culinary Institute of America – Roth Hall and Colavita Center for Italian Food and Wine © Pascal Auricht
Hyde Park is a town in
Dutchess County, New York, bordering the
Hudson River north of
Poughkeepsie. Within the town are the hamlets of
Hyde Park, East Park,
Staatsburg, and
Haviland. The Hudson River defines the west town line, which is the border with
Ulster County. Hyde Park is bordered by the town of
Poughkeepsie to the south,
Rhinebeck to the north, and
Clinton and
Pleasant Valley to the east.
Gilded Age properties can be found throughout the central
Hudson Valley (Mid-Hudson). Here some of the rich and super-rich from the economic heyday of the USA have (summer) residences built to bring sufficient distance between themselves and the mob from
New York City. In parts, it still works today. Hyde Park is known as the hometown of
Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd
president of the United States. His house there, now the
Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, is listed on the U.S.
National Register of Historic Places, as are the homes of
Eleanor Roosevelt,
Isaac Roosevelt, and
Frederick William Vanderbilt, along with
Haviland Middle School (formerly Franklin D. Roosevelt High School). Hyde Park is home to the main campus of
the Culinary Institute of America, a four-year college for culinary and baking and pastry arts, and the
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, the first
presidential library in the United States.
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29 July 2021 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General, Universities, Colleges, Academies
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Sayles Hall © Filetime
Brown University is a
private Ivy League research university in
Providence, Rhode Island. Founded in 1764 as the
College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Brown is the
seventh-oldest institution of
higher education in the United States and one of the nine
colonial colleges chartered before the
American Revolution. Admission is among the most selective in the United States; in 2021, the university reported an acceptance rate of 5.4%.
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