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Justin Bieber
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Justin Drew Bieber is a Canadian singer and songwriter. After a talent manager discovered him through his YouTube videos covering songs in 2008 and signed to RBMG, Bieber released his debut EP, My World and it was certified Platinum in the U. S. He became the first artist to have seven songs from a record chart on the Billboard Hot 100. Bieber released his first full-length studio album, My World 2.0 and it debuted at or near number one in several countries, was certified triple Platinum in the U. S. and contained his single Baby. He released his studio album, Under the Mistletoe, in November 2011. Bieber released his studio album, Believe, in 2012. His fourth studio album Purpose was released in November 2015, spawning three number one singles, What Do You Mean and his U. S. album and singles sales total 44.7 million. He has sold an estimated 100 million records, making him one of the world’s best-selling music artists, Bieber has won numerous awards, including the American Music Award for Artist of the Year in 2010 and 2012. In his career, he has won one Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording for the song Where Are Ü Now at the 2016 ceremony. He has been listed four times by Forbes magazine among the top ten most powerful celebrities in the world in 2011,2012, Bieber also became the first artist to surpass 10 billion total video views on Vevo. Bieber was born on March 1,1994, in London, Ontario, at St Josephs Hospital and he is the only child of Jeremy Jack Bieber and Patricia Pattie Mallette. Pattie raised her son with the help of her mother, Diane and his mother is of French-Canadian descent, his paternal great-grandfather was of German ancestry, and his other roots are English, Scottish and Irish. He has also claimed that he has some undetermined Aboriginal Canadian ancestry, through Jeremy, Bieber has two younger half-siblings, Jazmyn and Jaxon. Pattie worked a series of low-paying office jobs, raising Bieber as a mother in low-income housing. Bieber has maintained contact with his father, Bieber attended a French-language immersion elementary school in Stratford, the Jeanne Sauvé Catholic School. Growing up, he learned to play the piano, drums, guitar and he graduated from high school in Stratford, Ontario, the St. Michael Catholic Secondary School in 2012 with a 4.0 GPA. In early 2007, aged 12, Bieber sang Ne-Yos So Sick for a singing competition in Stratford and was placed second. Mallette posted a video of the performance on YouTube for their family and she continued to upload videos of Bieber singing covers of various R&B songs, and Biebers popularity on the site grew
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Bieber at the 2012 NRJ Music Awards
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Bieber in 2010, displaying his earlier haircut.
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Bieber performing during his
Believe Tour in October 2012.
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Bieber performing in
Zürich, 2011
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Believe (Justin Bieber album)
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Believe is the third studio album by Canadian singer Justin Bieber, released on June 15,2012, by Island Records. As executive producers, mentor Usher and manager Scooter Braun enlisted collaborators including Darkchild, Hit-Boy, Diplo, upon its release, Believe received generally favorable reviews from music critics, who appreciated its progression from Biebers earlier works. Internationally, the record enjoyed similar success and it debuted atop the Canadian Albums Chart, where it eventually attained double-platinum recognition. The album additionally debuted at one on the UK Albums Chart. According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, Believe was the sixth global best-selling album of 2012 with sales of three million copies, five singles were released from Believe, several of which became international successes. Its lead single Boyfriend peaked at two on the US Billboard Hot 100, and reached number one on the Canadian Hot 100. Follow-ups As Long as You Love Me and Beauty and a Beat performed moderately worldwide, right Here received little promotion, consequentially peaking in the lower end of the Billboard Hot 100, while the final single All Around the World performed moderately in most markets. The project was promoted through the Believe Tour in 2012 and 2013. The remix album Believe Acoustic was released in January 2013, on March 2,2012, Bieber appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show to announce that the first single from his upcoming album would be called Boyfriend, it was released on March 26,2012. The song was written by Bieber and Mike Posner, and produced by Posner, Bieber also invited his fans to participate in one of the creative decisions for the Boyfriend single. Two potential cover arts were published on Biebers website, and fans were encouraged to vote for which one they preferred, the cover with the most votes became the official cover for the single. Bieber announced via Twitter that the first single off his third studio album. On March 1,2012, Bieber appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show to announce that the first single from his album, Believe. The song was written by Bieber and Mike Posner, and produced by Posner, Boyfriend reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100. It also reached the top ten in countries worldwide. Top 40/Mainstream and Rhythmic radio on July 10,2012, Beauty and a Beat, is the third single off Believe. It was released on November 13,2012 and features vocals from rapper Nicki Minaj and it has so far peaked at 5 in the US. Right Here featuring Drake was released as the fourth U. S. single, Rhythmic radio on February 5,2013
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My World Tour
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The My World Tour was the debut concert tour by Canadian recording artist Justin Bieber. It is Biebers first concert tour which supports his two-part debut album My World, the tour was officially announced on March 16,2010, a week before My World 2.0 was released. Rising Sony recording artist Jasmine Villegas joined the tour as opening act for the second leg, the first leg of the tour is estimated to have grossed $35.6 million post inflation. The tour made a total of $53,341,886 worldwide, the tour was officially announced on March 16,2010, a week before the release of his second studio album, My World 2.0. In an interview with the Houston Chronicle, when asked about what fans could expect on the tour, Bieber stated, there are going to be some cool tricks, some electronic things that havent been seen before, for sure. All concerts were filmed for venue projection because of the audience in back rows. The concert in New York City, United States on August 31,2010 was filmed with different cameras and lots of angles for Biebers 3D movie, the October 8,2011 concert in São Paulo, Brazil was filmed with different cameras and angles professionally. Later, this concert was broadcast on television in Brazil but some songs are skipped, Justin Bieber, News, Tickets for My World Tour
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Promotional poster for the tour
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Concert tour
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A concert is a live music performance in front of an audience. A recital is a concert by a soloist or small group which follows a program, a recitalist is a musician who gives frequent recitals. The invention of the piano recital has been attributed to Franz Liszt. The performance may be by a musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, choir. Indoor concerts held in the largest venues are sometimes called arena concerts or amphitheatre concerts, informal names for a concert include show and gig. Regardless of the venue, musicians perform on a stage. Concerts often require live event support with professional audio equipment, before recorded music, concerts provided the main opportunity to hear musicians play. The nature of a concert varies by musical genre, individual performers, concerts by a small jazz combo or small bluegrass band may have the same order of program, mood, and volume—but vary in music and dress. In a similar way, a musician, band, or genre of music might attract concert attendees with similar dress, hairstyle. For example, concert goers in the 1960s often had hair, sandals. Regular attendees to a concert venue might also have a style that comprises that venues scene. Other Types of concerts, To plan or arrange by mutual agreement, some performers or groups put on very elaborate and expensive shows. To create a memorable and exciting atmosphere and increase the spectacle, some singers, especially popular music, augment concert sound with pre-recorded accompaniment, back-up dancers, and even broadcast vocal tracks of the singers own voice. Activities during these concerts can include dancing, sing-alongs, and moshing, concerts involving a greater number of artists, especially those that last for multiple days, are known as festivals. Unlike other concerts, which remain in a single genre of music or work of a particular artist, festivals often cover a broad scope of music. Due to their size, festivals are almost exclusively held outdoors, new platforms for festivals are becoming increasingly popular such as Jam Cruise, which is a festival held on a cruise ship, as well as Mayan Holidaze, which is a destination festival held in Tulum. Often concert tours are named, to differentiate different tours by the same artist, different segments of longer concert tours are known as legs. In the largest concert tours it is becoming common for different legs to employ separate touring production crews and equipment
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classical music concert in the
Rod Laver Arena,
Melbourne,
Australia, 2005
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Concert, by Italian
baroque artist
Bernardo Strozzi
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Concert of Joler Gan Band, Bangabndhu International Conference Centre (BICC)
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A
Girl Scout passing out printed programs at a Municipal Band concert in
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
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Australasia
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Australasia, a region of Oceania, comprises Australia, New Zealand, the island of New Guinea, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. Charles de Brosses coined the term in Histoire des navigations aux terres australes and he derived it from the Latin for south of Asia and differentiated the area from Polynesia and the southeast Pacific. The bulk of Australasia sits on the Indo-Australian Plate, together with India, physiographically, Australasia includes New Zealand, Australia, and Melanesia, New Guinea and neighbouring islands north and east of Australia in the Pacific Ocean. The designation is applied to all the lands and islands of the Pacific Ocean lying between the equator and latitude 47° south. Most of Australasia lies on the portion of the Indo-Australian Plate, flanked by the Indian Ocean to the west. Sometimes the term encompasses the island of New Guinea. Many organisations whose names include the prefix Australasian Society of, limit their scope of operation to just Australia and New Zealand. In the past, Australasia has been used as a name for combined Australia/New Zealand sporting teams, examples include tennis between 1905 and 1915, when New Zealand and Australia combined to compete in the Davis Cup international tournament, and at the Olympic Games of 1908 and 1912. From an ecological perspective the Australasia ecozone forms a region with a common geologic and evolutionary history. In this context, Australasia is limited to Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, New Caledonia, the Wallace Line marks the biological divide from the Indomalaya ecozone of tropical Asia – Borneo and Bali lie on the western, Asian side. These three land masses have been separated from other continents, and from one another, for millions of years, all of Australasia shares the Antarctic flora, although the northern, tropical islands also share many plants with Southeast Asia. Mainland Australia, New Guinea and Tasmania are separated from one another by shallow continental shelves and they share a similar fauna which includes marsupial and monotreme mammals and ratite birds. Eucalypts are the predominant trees in much of Australia and New Guinea, New Zealand has no extant native land mammals aside from bats, but also had ratite birds, including the kiwi and the extinct moa. Media related to Australasia at Wikimedia Commons
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Wallace Line separates Australasian and
Southeast Asian fauna.
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Aoraki / Mount Cook in the
Southern Alps of
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South Africa
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South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa, is the southernmost country in Africa. South Africa is the 25th-largest country in the world by land area and it is the southernmost country on the mainland of the Old World or the Eastern Hemisphere. About 80 percent of South Africans are of Sub-Saharan African ancestry, divided among a variety of ethnic groups speaking different Bantu languages, the remaining population consists of Africas largest communities of European, Asian, and multiracial ancestry. South Africa is a multiethnic society encompassing a variety of cultures, languages. Its pluralistic makeup is reflected in the recognition of 11 official languages. The country is one of the few in Africa never to have had a coup détat, however, the vast majority of black South Africans were not enfranchised until 1994. During the 20th century, the black majority sought to recover its rights from the dominant white minority, with this struggle playing a role in the countrys recent history. The National Party imposed apartheid in 1948, institutionalising previous racial segregation, since 1994, all ethnic and linguistic groups have held political representation in the countrys democracy, which comprises a parliamentary republic and nine provinces. South Africa is often referred to as the Rainbow Nation to describe the multicultural diversity. The World Bank classifies South Africa as an economy. Its economy is the second-largest in Africa, and the 34th-largest in the world, in terms of purchasing power parity, South Africa has the seventh-highest per capita income in Africa. However, poverty and inequality remain widespread, with about a quarter of the population unemployed, nevertheless, South Africa has been identified as a middle power in international affairs, and maintains significant regional influence. The name South Africa is derived from the geographic location at the southern tip of Africa. Upon formation the country was named the Union of South Africa in English, since 1961 the long form name in English has been the Republic of South Africa. In Dutch the country was named Republiek van Zuid-Afrika, replaced in 1983 by the Afrikaans Republiek van Suid-Afrika, since 1994 the Republic has had an official name in each of its 11 official languages. Mzansi, derived from the Xhosa noun umzantsi meaning south, is a name for South Africa. South Africa contains some of the oldest archaeological and human fossil sites in the world, extensive fossil remains have been recovered from a series of caves in Gauteng Province. The area is a UNESCO World Heritage site and has termed the Cradle of Humankind
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Mapungubwe Hill, the site of the former capital of the
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Arrival of
Jan van Riebeeck, the first European to settle in South Africa, with
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Depiction of a
Zulu attack on a Boer camp in February 1838
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Long Beach Arena
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The Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center is a convention center located in Long Beach, California. Built on the site of the Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, the venue is composed of the Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach Arena. The auditorium was demolished in 1975 to make way for the convention center, Pacific Room – an event space within the Long Beach Arena. A flying steel truss system converts the arena floor into a space for receptions. For concerts, the venue can seat 2, 990–4,890 and it was originally known as the Pacific Ballroom. Long Beach Performing Arts Center Terrace Theater Center Theater Seaside Ballroom Long Beach Arena was the first building to be completed in the complex. Capacities are as follows,11,200 for hockey,13,609 for basketball and either 4,550,9,200 or 13,500 for concerts, depending on the seating arrangement. The arena has hosted entertainment and professional and college sporting events. For trade shows, the arena features 46,000 square feet of space, hanging from the arenas 77 foot high ceiling is a center-hung scoreboard with four White Way Mega Color Animation Screens. There is an 11 by 15 foot SACO Smartvision LED Wall located on the end of the arena. The Kings played in Long Beach for the first half of their expansion season while The Forum was being completed, in the 1970s, the arena hosted several games of the Los Angeles Sharks, of the WHA and regular appearances of the Los Angeles Thunderbirds roller derby team. The Grateful Dead played the arena on December 15th,1972, in 1980–81 the arena was also home to the California Surf of the North American Soccer League for one season of indoor soccer. The arena was home to the former Long Beach Ice Dogs team, the Ice Dogs ceased operations of the team in 2007. The Eagles performed during a concert for California Senator Alan Cranston on July 31,1980. Tempers boiled over as Glenn Frey and Don Felder spent the entire show telling each other about the beating each planned to administer backstage, only three more songs until I kick your ass, pal, Frey recalls Felder telling him near the end of the bands set. Felder recalls Frey making a threat to him during Best of My Love. Were out there singing ‘Best of My Love, but inside both of us are thinking, As soon as this is over, Im gonna kill him , recalled Frey. The animosity purportedly developed as a result of Felders response of Youre welcome – I guess to Senator Cranston as he was thanking the band for doing the benefit for his reelection
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Exterior of venue showcasing the Wyland Whaling Wall
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The Wyland Whaling Wall 33, "Planet Ocean", on the exterior of the arena
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Wyland's signature on Long Beach Arena.
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Long Beach, California
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Long Beach is the 36th most populous city in the United States and the 7th most populous in California. It is located on the Pacific Coast of the United States, as of 2010, its population was 462,257. Long Beach is the second largest city in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the Port of Long Beach is the second busiest container port in the United States and is among the worlds largest shipping ports. The city also maintains a progressively declining oil industry with minor wells located both directly beneath the city as well as offshore, manufacturing sectors include those in aircraft, automotive parts, electronic equipment, audiovisual equipment, petrochemicals, precision metals and home furnishings. Long Beach lies in the corner of Los Angeles County. Downtown Long Beach is approximately 22 miles south of Downtown Los Angeles, indigenous people have lived in coastal Southern California for over 10,000 years, and several successive cultures have inhabited the present-day area of Long Beach. By the 16th-century arrival of Spanish explorers, the dominant group were the Tongva people and they had at least three major settlements within the present-day city. Tevaaxaanga was a settlement near the Los Angeles River, while Ahwaanga and Povuunga were coastal villages. Along with other Tongva villages, they were forced to relocate in the century due to missionization, political change. In 1784 the Spanish Empires King Carlos III granted Rancho Los Nietos to Spanish soldier Manuel Nieto, the Rancho Los Cerritos and Rancho Los Alamitos were divided from this territory. The boundary between the two ran through the center of Signal Hill on a southwest to northeast diagonal. A portion of western Long Beach was originally part of the Rancho San Pedro and its boundaries were in dispute for years, due to flooding changing the Los Angeles River boundary, between the ranchos of Juan Jose Dominguez and Manuel Nieto. In 1843 Jonathan Temple bought Rancho Los Cerritos, having arrived in California in 1827 from New England and he built what is now known as the Los Cerritos Ranch House, a still-standing adobe which is a National Historic Landmark. Temple created a cattle ranch and prospered, becoming the wealthiest man in Los Angeles County. Both Temple and his house played important local roles in the Mexican–American War. On an island in the San Pedro Bay, Mormon pioneers made an attempt to establish a colony. Two years previous Flint, Bixby & Co had also purchased along with Northern California associate James Irvine, to manage Rancho Los Cerritos, the company selected Lewellyns brother Jotham Bixby, the Father of Long Beach. Three years later Bixby bought into the property and would form the Bixby Land Company
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Images from top, left to right: Long Beach skyline from Bluff Park,
RMS Queen Mary,
Aquarium of the Pacific Blue Cavern exhibit, Hanjin Terminal at
Port of Long Beach,
Villa Riviera,
Metro Blue Line, Long Beach Lighthouse
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Long Beach boardwalk, 1907
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Oil field in Long Beach, 1920
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Glendale, Arizona
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Glendale /ˈɡlɛndeɪl/ is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, located about nine miles northwest from Downtown Phoenix. According to the 2010 census, the population of the city is 226,721, in the late 1800s what is now known as Glendale, Arizona, was all desert. He completed the canal, which would bring water to the desert land, Murphy was deep in debt, since he had agreed to be paid in Arizona Canal Company stock and bonds and land instead of cash. In 1887, Murphy formed the Arizona Improvement Company and his objective was to sell the land and water rights south of the canal. Murphy had to raise capital from out of state sources in order to meet payroll, Murphy decided to refer to this land as Glendale. In 1891, Burgess Hadsell worked with Murphy to bring 70 Brethren, soon settlers, attracted by the towns ban on alcoholic beverages, continued to arrive. In 1895, Murphy platted the town site and amended the plat to include a town park. It was bounded by Lamar Road on the south, 55th Avenue on the east, Myrtle Avenue on the north, the construction of a railroad from Prescott to Phoenix was made possible with an exchange of the right-of-way made by Murphy along Grand Avenue. The railroad allowed Glendale settlers to transport goods to the north, the construction and commercial applications of the Beet Sugar Factory in 1906, also contributed to the growth of Glendale. Though the operations of the factory lasted until 1913, it played an important role in the increase of immigrant and migrant settlers in the city. City Attorney Craig Tindall resigned his city post in 2013 upon request of the mayor, Tindall was subsequently the subject of an ethics complaint regarding his purported conflict of interest between his work for IceArizona and his Glendale post. He was still receiving city severance pay at the time IceArizona hired him, the complaint was filed by former city councilmember Phil Lieberman. After Tindall resigned from the City of Glendale, a press release announced that he had joined the well-known Phoenix law firm Fennemore Craig, Glendale is located at 33°32′19″N 112°11′11″W. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 55.8 square miles. As of the census of 2000, there were 218,812 people,75,700 households, the population density was 3,929.5 people per square mile. There were 79,667 housing units at a density of 1,430.7 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 75. 54% White,4. 70% Black or African American,1. 45% Native American,2. 74% Asian,0. 13% Pacific Islander,11. 97% from other races, and 3. 47% from two or more races. 24. 84% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,21. 3% of all households were made up of individuals and 5. 8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older
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Downtown Glendale, Arizona as viewed from the intersections of Glendale Ave. and 58th Ave.
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William John Murphy - Founder of Glendale
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Downtown Glendale with Glendale Glitters around Christmas
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Jobing.com Arena
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Gila River Arena is a sports and entertainment arena in Glendale, Arizona. It is located about 12.5 miles northwest of downtown Phoenix, the Arizona Coyotes of the National Hockey League has been the primary tenant since the building opened on December 26,2003. It sits on the side of West Maryland Avenue across from University of Phoenix Stadium. The venue anchors the City of Glendales Westgate Entertainment District just east of Arizona Loop 101, the now-defunct Arizona Sting also had played four National Lacrosse League seasons at the arena until their 13–11 loss to the Rochester Knighthawks in the 2007 Champions Cup game. Negotiations on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement originally delayed the start of the 2008 NLL season and they eventually ceased operations in 2009. Completed at a construction cost of US$220 million, it seats 17,125 for hockey and lacrosse,18,300 for basketball, the arena has 3,075 club seats and 87 luxury suites. It also features an integrated video, scoring and advertising system from Daktronics. The arenas construction broke ground on April 3,2002 and the Coyotes moved into the arena in late 2003, martin/Martin Consulting Engineers provided structural engineering for the arena. After relocating from Winnipeg on July 1,1996, the team had spent its first 7½ seasons at America West Arena in downtown Phoenix, the AWA was not an old arena but it was primarily designed for NBA basketball. It was quickly retrofitted for hockey, however, the arena floor was just barely large enough to fit a regulation hockey rink, and several seats had badly obstructed views. As a result, before the second season in Phoenix, its hockey capacity had to be cut down from over 18,000 seats to just over 16. A small section of seats on the lower level actually hung over the boards, when the Coyotes were sold to a partnership led by Steve Ellman, that group committed to building a new arena in suburban Glendale. The first NHL game was held the evening, as the Coyotes dropped a 3–1 decision to the Nashville Predators on December 27,2003. The arena was scheduled to receive the 2006 National Hockey League All-Star Game. The Coyotes current owners, IceArizona, are interested in getting an All-Star Game in Glendale. The Arizona Sting did not play after the 2007 season and fully ceased operations in 2009, since 2004, the PBRs Built Ford Tough Series bull riding tour has hosted an annual event at this venue. However, the qualified for the 2010 Stanley Cup playoffs. They played the Red Wings and lost the series 4–3, the 2010–2011 Coyotes season ended at Jobing. com Arena with a 4-game sweep of the Coyotes by the Detroit Red Wings
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Gila River Arena
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Gila River Arena before a Coyotes game; from south end, looking north
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Beauty and a Beat
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Beauty and a Beat is a song by Canadian singer Justin Bieber from his third studio album Believe. It features Trinidadian rapper Nicki Minaj, who co-wrote it with Savan Kotecha, Max Martin and it was also produced by the latter two with a heavy drum machine and rushing synthesizers. Lyrically, it speaks about Bieber wanting to take his love interest to a club and it is the only song from Believe that Bieber did not co-write. The song became the official single from the album. Following the release of Believe, Beauty and a Beat debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 at 72 due to digital downloads. After the release of the music video, it re-entered the Hot 100 at number 72. It also debuted on the Canadian Hot 100 at 47, Beauty and a Beat was originally written by Anton Zaslavski for his debut album, Clarity. Zaslavski, however, felt the song did not quite fit his new style, so he, Max Martin, Savan Kotecha. Maraj, known by her stage-name Nicki Minaj, provides guest vocals on the track, Bieber later spoke upon the collaboration with Minaj, saying, I wanted a female rapper and I think that she is the best choice. I felt she just fit on the song perfectly, an album of remixes was released on December 11,2012. Beauty and a Beat is an uptempo EDM and electropop song that lasts 3 minutes and 48 seconds, with the chord progression of F–Dm7–Am–Gsus, the song is written in the key of A minor in common time. The song moves at a tempo of 128 beats per minute, the song contains elements of R&B. Sarah Deen of Metro described it as a dance track. Beauty and a Beat contains fast-paced drum beats and an acid house break down, Biebers then-girlfriend Selena Gomez is referenced in the song during Minajs rap, Justin Bieber/You know Im gonna hit em with the ether/Buns out, wiener/But I gotta keep an eye out for Selener. Jason Lipshutz noted the rhyme between wiener and her given name, the song was met with mixed reports. Many contemporary critics praised Biebers attempt to reach an audience not usually interested in his music, while others criticized its lyrics, andy Gill of The Independent listed the song in his Download category during an album review for Believe. Laura Sassano commented on the song upon its leak, saying, The new song continues Justins quest to grow up, becca Longmire of Entertainmentwise felt that the song was impressive, she also noted the vibes of R&B and compared this with Biebers previous single Baby. The video premiered on Vevo on October 12,2012 and it opens by stating that in October 2012,3 hours of personal footage was stolen from Justin
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Guest vocals are provided by rapper
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Tacoma Dome
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The Tacoma Dome is an indoor arena located in Tacoma, Washington, United States, approximately 30 miles south of Seattle. Upon winning a design competition, local architects McGranahan and Messenger completed the Tacoma Dome for $44 million. The arena seats 17,100 for basketball,530 feet in diameter and 152 feet tall, and able to seat 23,000, it is the largest arena with a wooden dome in the world when measured by volume. Unlike most other arenas of its size, the arena contains little in the way of fixed seating so as to maximize the flexibility of the seating arrangements and it can host American football, albeit with seating reduced to 10,000. The Domes first event was a concert by British musician David Bowie as part of his Serious Moonlight Tour on August 11,1983, the Dome also hosted the NCAA Womens Division I Basketball Championship in back-to-back years. The Tacoma Dome hosted National Hockey League preseason exhibition games in 1983,1984,1988,1992, michael Jackson was scheduled to perform three concerts on October 31 and November 1 and 2,1988, during his Bad Tour. Although all the sold out, the concerts were cancelled because of the performers serious health problems. Also in the Domes first year, Billy Graham hosted one of his crusades and he returned to the Tacoma Dome in 1991. In both crusades Graham averaged 30,000 spectators every night, the Professional Bull Riders hosted a Built Ford Tough Series bull riding event at the Dome annually between 2003 and 2009. World Championship Wrestling held their Spring Stampede pay-per-view at the Dome on April 11,1999, diamond Dallas Page defeated WCW World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair, Hollywood Hogan and Sting in a Four Corners match to win the title. On February 2,2016, the Tacoma Dome started new security procedures for entering the venue at the sold-out AC/DC concert. The new enhancements included metal detector wands at each entrance, a bag size restriction, the prohibition of backpacks, in November 2016, the City of Tacoma approved a two-year, $21.3 million renovation project. The Tacoma Dome is also known for its controversial neon art, in 1984 the Stephen Antonakos piece displayed inside the Dome was the subject of intense debate over public funding of artworks for public works projects. Tacoma Dome Shanaman Sports Museum of Tacoma-Pierce County
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Tacoma, Washington
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Tacoma is a mid-sized urban port city in and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. The city is on Washingtons Puget Sound,32 miles southwest of Seattle,31 miles northeast of the capital, Olympia. The population was 198,397, according to the 2010 census, Tacoma is the second-largest city in the Puget Sound area and the third largest in the state. Tacoma also serves as the center of activity for the South Sound region. Tacoma adopted its name after the nearby Mount Rainier, originally called Takhoma or Tahoma and it is locally known as the City of Destiny because the area was chosen to be the western terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad in the late 19th century. The decision of the railroad was influenced by Tacomas neighboring deep-water harbor, by connecting the bay with the railroad, Tacomas motto became When rails meet sails. Today, Commencement Bay serves the Port of Tacoma, a center of trade on the Pacific Coast. Like most central cities, Tacoma suffered a decline in the mid-20th century as a result of suburbanization. Neighborhoods such as the 6th Avenue District have become revitalized, tacoma-Pierce County has been named one of the most livable areas in the United States. In 2006, Tacoma was listed as one of the most walkable cities in the country and that same year, the womens magazine Self named Tacoma the Most Sexually Healthy City in the United States. In contrast, Tacoma was also ranked as the most stressed-out city in the country in a 2004 survey, Tacoma gained notoriety in 1940 for the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which earned the nickname Galloping Gertie. The city of Tacoma and surrounding areas were inhabited for thousands of years by American Indians, predominantly the Puyallup people, mcCarver, who named his project Tacoma City, derived from the indigenous name for the mountain. Tacoma was incorporated on November 12,1875, following the merger of Old Tacoma, the transcontinental link was effected in 1887, but the railroad built its depot on New Tacoma, two miles south of the Carr-McCarver development. The two communities together and joined. The population grew from 1,098 in 1880 to 36,006 in 1890, rudyard Kipling visited Tacoma in 1889 and said it was literally staggering under a boom of the boomiest. George Francis Train was a resident for a few years in the late 19th century, in 1890, he staged a global circumnavigation starting and ending in Tacoma to promote the city. A plaque in downtown Tacoma marks the start and finish line, in November 1885, white citizens led by then-mayor Jacob Weisbach expelled several hundred Chinese residents peacefully living in the city. The next day two Chinese settlements were burned to the ground, the discovery of gold in the Klondike in 1898 led Tacomas prominence in the region to be eclipsed by the booming development of Seattle
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View from
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The Commencement Bay Land and Improvement Co. played a major role in the city's early growth.
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Twitter
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Twitter is an online news and social networking service where users post and interact with messages, tweets, restricted to 140 characters. Registered users can post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them, users access Twitter through its website interface, SMS or a mobile device app. Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco, California, United States, Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams and launched in July. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, in 2012, more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion search queries per day. In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites and has described as the SMS of the Internet. As of 2016, Twitter had more than 319 million monthly active users. On the day of the 2016 U. S. presidential election, Twitter proved to be the largest source of breaking news, Twitters origins lie in a daylong brainstorming session held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo. Jack Dorsey, then a student at New York University. The original project name for the service was twttr, an idea that Williams later ascribed to Noah Glass, inspired by Flickr. The developers initially considered 10958 as a code, but later changed it to 40404 for ease of use. Work on the project started on March 21,2006, when Dorsey published the first Twitter message at 9,50 PM Pacific Standard Time, Dorsey has explained the origin of the Twitter title. we came across the word twitter, and it was just perfect. The definition was a short burst of inconsequential information, and chirps from birds, and thats exactly what the product was. The first Twitter prototype, developed by Dorsey and contractor Florian Weber, was used as a service for Odeo employees. Williams fired Glass, who was silent about his part in Twitters startup until 2011, Twitter spun off into its own company in April 2007. Williams provided insight into the ambiguity that defined this early period in a 2013 interview, With Twitter and they called it a social network, they called it microblogging, but it was hard to define, because it didnt replace anything. There was this path of discovery with something like that, where over time you figure out what it is, Twitter actually changed from what we thought it was in the beginning, which we described as status updates and a social utility. It is that, in part, but the insight we eventually came to was Twitter was really more of an information network than it is a social network, the tipping point for Twitters popularity was the 2007 South by Southwest Interactive conference. During the event, Twitter usage increased from 20,000 tweets per day to 60,000, the Twitter people cleverly placed two 60-inch plasma screens in the conference hallways, exclusively streaming Twitter messages, remarked Newsweeks Steven Levy
Twitter
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A blueprint sketch, c. 2006, by
Jack Dorsey, envisioning an
SMS -based
social network.
Twitter
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Twitter's homepage as of August 2015 (only in select countries)
Twitter
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Jack Dorsey, a co-founder and the chairman of Twitter, in 2009
Twitter
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Twitter's San Francisco, California headquarters, as seen from a corner on Market Street
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Vevo
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Vevo hosts music videos from both Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment syndicated on YouTube and its website, with Google and Vevo sharing advertising and similar benefits. EMI also licensed its library of videos for Vevo shortly before its launch, originally, Warner Music Group was reported to be considering hosting its content on the service after it launched, but formed an alliance with rival MTV Networks. The concept for Vevo was described as being a service for music videos. The sites other revenue sources include a store and referral links to purchase viewed songs on Amazon Music. UMG acquired the domain name vevo. com on November 20,2008, SME reached a deal to add its content to the site in June 2009. The site went live on December 8,2009, and that month became the number one most visited music site in the United States. In June 2012, Vevo launched its Certified awards, which honors artists with at least 100 million views on Vevo, on March 12,2013, Vevo launched Vevo TV, an advertising-supported internet television channel running 24 hours a day, featuring blocks of music videos and specials. The channel is available to viewers in North America and Germany. Vevo has planned launches in other countries, after revamping its website, Vevo TV later branched off into three separate networks, Hits, Flow, and Nashville. Vevo shut down the service during the first half of 2016 as part of a site wide redesign, during the run of the service, its schedule and programming was heavily repetitive. Many videos would play twice within an hour and a majority of the videos shown were current, programming shows such as the Top10Now and Vevo Lift would air several times per day. Since the service has been shut down, its apps that havent been updated just play the Top10Now in an infinite loop. Vevo is available in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Nepal, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The website was scheduled to go worldwide in 2010, but as of January 1,2017, Vevos official blog cited licensing issues for the delay in the worldwide rollout. Most of Vevos videos on YouTube are viewable by users in other countries, the Vevo service in the United Kingdom and Ireland was launched on April 26,2011. On April 16,2012, Vevo was launched in Australia, on August 14,2012, Brazil became the first Latin American country to have the service. It was expected to be launched in six more European and Latin American countries in 2012, Vevo launched in Spain, Italy, and France on November 15,2012. Vevo launched in the Netherlands on April 3,2013, and on May 17,2013, in September 29,2013, Vevo updated its iOS application that now includes launching in Germany
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24-Hour Vevo Record
Vevo
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Primary businesses
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Belieber
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Justin Drew Bieber is a Canadian singer and songwriter. After a talent manager discovered him through his YouTube videos covering songs in 2008 and signed to RBMG, Bieber released his debut EP, My World and it was certified Platinum in the U. S. He became the first artist to have seven songs from a record chart on the Billboard Hot 100. Bieber released his first full-length studio album, My World 2.0 and it debuted at or near number one in several countries, was certified triple Platinum in the U. S. and contained his single Baby. He released his studio album, Under the Mistletoe, in November 2011. Bieber released his studio album, Believe, in 2012. His fourth studio album Purpose was released in November 2015, spawning three number one singles, What Do You Mean and his U. S. album and singles sales total 44.7 million. He has sold an estimated 100 million records, making him one of the world’s best-selling music artists, Bieber has won numerous awards, including the American Music Award for Artist of the Year in 2010 and 2012. In his career, he has won one Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording for the song Where Are Ü Now at the 2016 ceremony. He has been listed four times by Forbes magazine among the top ten most powerful celebrities in the world in 2011,2012, Bieber also became the first artist to surpass 10 billion total video views on Vevo. Bieber was born on March 1,1994, in London, Ontario, at St Josephs Hospital and he is the only child of Jeremy Jack Bieber and Patricia Pattie Mallette. Pattie raised her son with the help of her mother, Diane and his mother is of French-Canadian descent, his paternal great-grandfather was of German ancestry, and his other roots are English, Scottish and Irish. He has also claimed that he has some undetermined Aboriginal Canadian ancestry, through Jeremy, Bieber has two younger half-siblings, Jazmyn and Jaxon. Pattie worked a series of low-paying office jobs, raising Bieber as a mother in low-income housing. Bieber has maintained contact with his father, Bieber attended a French-language immersion elementary school in Stratford, the Jeanne Sauvé Catholic School. Growing up, he learned to play the piano, drums, guitar and he graduated from high school in Stratford, Ontario, the St. Michael Catholic Secondary School in 2012 with a 4.0 GPA. In early 2007, aged 12, Bieber sang Ne-Yos So Sick for a singing competition in Stratford and was placed second. Mallette posted a video of the performance on YouTube for their family and she continued to upload videos of Bieber singing covers of various R&B songs, and Biebers popularity on the site grew
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Bieber at the 2012 NRJ Music Awards
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Bieber in 2010, displaying his earlier haircut.
Belieber
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Bieber performing during his
Believe Tour in October 2012.
Belieber
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Bieber performing in
Zürich, 2011
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Stratford, Ontario
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Stratford is a city on the Avon River in Perth County in southwestern Ontario, Canada, with a population of 31,465 in 2016 in a land area of 28.28 square kilometers. Stratford is the seat of Perth County which was settled by English, Irish, Scottish and German immigrants, in almost equal numbers, starting in the 1820s but primarily in the 1830s and 1840s. Most became farmers, and even today, the area around Stratford is known for mixed farming, dairying, when the area which is now Stratford was first settled in 1832, the townsite and the river were named after Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Stratford was incorporated as a town in 1859 and as a city in 1886, the first mayor was John Corry Wilson Daly and the current mayor is Dan Mathieson. The swan has become a symbol of the city, each year twenty-four white swans are released into the Avon River. In 1832, the development of an area called Little Thames as the centre for the eastern Huron Tract began. By 1834 a tavern, sawmill and grist mill had opened, the Smiths Canadian Gazetteer of 1846 describes Stratford as follows, Stratford contains about 200 inhabitants. Post Office, post three times a-week, settlement was slow until the early 1850s when the railway arrived. Furniture manufacturing and railway locomotive repairs were the most important parts of the economy by the twentieth century. In 1933 a general strike, started by the workers and led by the Communist Workers Unity League. The Grand Trunk Railway locomotive repair shops were the major employer for many years,1832 - Thomas Mercer Jones, an agent of the Canada Company, names the village Stratford and renames the portion of the Thames River running through it the Avon River. The first sawmill, hotel and gristmill are opened,1834, The community has a tavern, sawmill and grist mill, in 1835 the first post office opens. 1849 - The Perth County News is Stratfords first weekly newspaper,1853 - Perth County is created, with Stratford as its county seat. 1854 - Stratford is incorporated as a village,1856 - Stratford becomes a railway town with the arrival of the Grand Trunk and Buffalo-Lake Huron railways. 1859 - Stratford is incorporated as a town,1864 - The 17-year-old American telegraph operator Thomas Edison briefly lived at 19 Grange Street. 1871, A major railway repair yard opens and helps accelerate the population growth,1885 - Stratford is incorporated as a city with a population of 9000. 1887 - The second and current Perth County Court House opens, it is praised for its High Victorian architecture, with several Queen Anne features,1898 The massive red brick town hall, in the Victorian Picturesque style, with a prominent clock tower, is completed. 1903 - The first public library opens, built with $15,000 of financial assistance from American steel magnate Andrew Carnegie,1908 - The Stratford Normal School opens to train teachers, from 1953 on, it is called the Stratford Teachers College
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City Hall
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Ontario Street in the summertime.
Stratford, Ontario
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Statue of
William Shakespeare.
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Variety (magazine)
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Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation. The last daily printed edition was put out on March 19,2013, Variety originally reported on theater and vaudeville. Variety has been published since December 16,1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering vaudeville with its headquarters in New York City, on January 19,1907, Variety published what is considered the first film review in history. In 1933, Sime Silverman launched Daily Variety, based in Hollywood, Sime Silverman had passed on the editorship of the Weekly Variety to Abel Green as his replacement in 1931, he remained as publisher until his death in 1933 soon after launching the Daily. His son Sidne Silverman, known as Skigie, succeeded him as publisher of both publications, both Sidne and his wife, stage actress Marie Saxon, died of tuberculosis. Their only son Syd Silverman, born 1932, was the heir to what was then Variety Inc. Young Syds legal guardian Harold Erichs oversaw Variety Inc. until 1956, after that date Syd Silverman was publisher of both the Weekly Variety in New York and the Daily Variety in Hollywood, until the sale of both papers in 1987 to the Cahners Corp. In L. A. the Daily was edited by Tom Pryor from 1959 until 1988, for twenty years its editor-in-chief was Peter Bart, originally only of the weekly New York edition, with Michael Silverman running the Daily in Hollywood. Bart had worked previously at Paramount Pictures and The New York Times, in April 2009, Bart moved to the position of vice president and editorial director, characterized online as Boffo No More, Bart Up and Out at Variety. From mid 2009 to 2013, Timothy M. Gray oversaw the publication as Editor-in-Chief, after over 30 years of various reporter, in October 2014, Eller and Wallenstein were upped to Co-Editors in Chief, with Littleton continuing to oversee the trades television coverage. This dissemination comes in the form of columns, news stories, images, video, Cahners Publishing purchased Variety from the Silverman family in 1987. On December 7,1988, Barts predecessor, Roger Watkins, proposed, upon its launch, the new-look Variety measured one inch shorter with a washed-out color on the front. In October 2012, Reed Business Information, the periodicals owner, PMC is the owner of Deadline. com, which since the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike has been considered Varietys largest competitor in online showbiz news. In October,2012, Jay Penske announced that the paywall would come down, the print publication would stay. A significant portion of the advertising revenue comes during the film-award season leading up to the Academy Awards. During this Awards Season, large numbers of colorful, full-page For Your Consideration advertisements inflate the size of Variety to double or triple its usual page count, paid circulation for the weekly Variety magazine in 2013 was 40,000. Each copy of each Variety issue is read by an average of three people, with a total readership of 120,000. Variety. com has 17 million unique monthly visitors, Variety is a weekly entertainment publication with a broad coverage of movies, television, theater, music and technology, written for entertainment executives
Variety (magazine)
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The Variety Building in December 2008.
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The Hollywood Reporter
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Headquartered in Los Angeles, THR is part of the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group, a group of properties that includes Billboard and SpinMedia. It is owned by Eldridge Industries, a company owned by an executive of its previous owner. Under Janice Min, a faltering THR was relaunched in 2010 as a weekly print magazine with a revamped, continuously updated website, as well as mobile. THR was founded in 1930 by William R, billy Wilkerson as Hollywoods first daily entertainment trade newspaper. The first edition appeared on September 3,1930, and featured Wilkersons front-page Tradeviews column, the newspaper appeared Monday to Saturday for the first 10 years, except for a brief period, then Monday to Friday from 1940. Wilkerson ran the THR until his death in September 1962, although his final column appeared 18 months prior, from the late 1930s, Wilkerson used THR to push the view that the industry was a communist stronghold. In particular, he opposed the screenplay writers trade union, the Screen Writers Guild, in 1946 the Guild considered creating an American Authors Authority to hold copyright for writers, instead of ownership passing to the studios. Wilkerson devoted his Tradeviews column to the issue on July 29,1946 and he went to confession before publishing it, knowing the damage it would cause, but was apparently encouraged by the priest to go ahead with it. The column contained the first industry names, including Dalton Trumbo and Howard Koch, on became the Hollywood blacklist. Eight of the 11 people Wilkerson named were among the Hollywood Ten who were blacklisted after hearings in 1947 by the House Un-American Activities Committee. In 1997 THR reporter David Robb wrote a story about the newspapers involvement, for the blacklists 65th anniversary in 2012, the THR published a lengthy investigative piece about Wilkersons role, by reporters Gary Baum and Daniel Miller. The same edition carried an apology from Wilkersons son, W. R. Wilkerson III and he wrote that his father had been motivated by revenge for his thwarted ambition to own a studio. Wilkersons wife, Tichi Wilkerson Kassel, took over as publisher and she sold the paper on April 11,1988, to Affiliated Publications, parent company of Billboard Publications, for $26.7 million. Robert J. Dowling became THR president in 1988 and editor-in-chief, Dowling brought in Alex Ben Block as editor in 1990, and editorial quality of both news and specials steadily improved. Block and Teri Ritzer dampened much of the coverage and cronyism that had infected the paper under Wilkerson. After Block left, former editor at Variety, Anita Busch, was brought in as editor between 1999 and 2001. Busch was credited with making the paper competitive with Variety, tony Uphoff assumed the publisher position in November 2005. Uphoff was replaced in October 2006 by John Kilcullen, the publisher of Billboard, Kilcullen was a defendant in Billboards infamous dildo lawsuit, in which he was accused of race discrimination and sexual harassment
The Hollywood Reporter
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Dwayne Johnson on the June 2014 cover
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San Francisco Chronicle
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It was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young. The paper is owned by the Hearst Corporation, which bought it from the de Young family in 2000. The paper benefited from the growth of San Francisco and was the largest circulation newspaper on the West Coast of the United States by 1880. Like many other newspapers, it has experienced a fall in circulation in the early 21st century. The newspaper publishes two web sites, SFGate, which has a mixture of news and web features. Between World War II and 1971, new editor Scott Josephine Newhall took a bold, the newspaper grew in circulation to become the citys largest, overtaking the rival San Francisco Examiner. The demise of other San Francisco dailies through the late 1950s and early 1960s left the Examiner, from 1965 on the two papers shared a single classified-advertising operation. This arrangement stayed in place until the Hearst Corporation took full control of the Chronicle, beginning in the early 1990s, the Chronicle started to face competition beyond the borders of San Francisco. The Chronicle launched five zoned sections to appear in the Friday edition of the paper, the sections covered San Francisco, and four different suburban areas. They each featured a unique columnist, enterprise pieces and local news specific to the community, the newspaper added 40 full-time staff positions to work in the suburban bureaus. The de Young family controlled the paper, via the Chronicle Publishing Company, until July 27,2000, following the sale, the Hearst Corporation transferred the Examiner to the Fang family, publisher of the San Francisco Independent and AsianWeek, along with a $66-million subsidy. Under the new owners, the Examiner became a free tabloid, in 1949, the de Young family founded KRON-TV, the Bay Areas third television station. Until the mid-1960s, the station, operated from the basement of the Chronicle Building, KRON moved to studios at 1001 Van Ness Avenue. The frequent bold-faced, all-capital-letter headlines typical of the Chronicles front page were eliminated, editor Ward Bushees note heralded the issue as the start of a new era for the Chronicle. On July 6,2009, the paper unveiled some alterations to the new design that included yet newer section fronts and wider use of color photographs and graphics. In a special section publisher Frank J. Vega described new, the newer look was accompanied by a reduction in size of the broadsheet. On November 9,2009, the Chronicle became the first newspaper in the nation to print on high-quality glossy paper, the high-gloss paper is used for some section fronts and inside pages. As of 2013 the publisher of the Chronicle is Jeffrey Johnson, audrey Cooper was named editor-in-chief in January 2015 and is the first woman to hold the position
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San Francisco Chronicle cover, April 22, 1906
San Francisco Chronicle
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The
Old Chronicle Building following the
1906 earthquake and fire
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Bill German,left, the Chronicle 's editor emeritus and Page One Editor Jack Breibart in the newsroom, March 1994
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San Francisco Chronicle CEO John Sias announces the sale of the San Francisco Chronicle to the Hearst Corporation August 6, 1999.
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Justin Timberlake
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Justin Randall Timberlake is an American singer-songwriter, actor and record producer. Born and raised in Tennessee, he appeared on the television shows Star Search, in the late 1990s, Timberlake rose to prominence as one of the two lead vocalists and youngest member of NSYNC, which eventually became one of the best-selling boy bands of all time. With his first two albums exceeding sales of 10 million copies worldwide, he was established as one of the most commercially successful singers of the decade, furthermore, he produced records and collaborated with other artists. For his live performances, including the concert tour for the albums, he began performing with his band The Tennessee Kids, composed by instrumentalists. Timberlake voiced the character in DreamWorks Animations Trolls, which soundtrack includes his fifth Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping single. Among numerous awards and accolades, Timberlake has won ten Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2007 and 2013. His other ventures include record label Tennman Records, fashion label William Rast, Timberlake was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the son of Lynn Harless and Charles Randall Timberlake, a Baptist church choir director. Timberlake grew up in Shelby Forest, a community between Memphis and Millington. He has two half-brothers, Jonathan and Stephen, from Charles second marriage to Lisa Perry and his half-sister Laura Katherine died shortly after birth on May 12,1997, and is mentioned in his acknowledgments in the album NSYNC as My Angel in Heaven. He was inspired to become a performer by Janet Jackson, saying She didnt just stand there and sing her song, fascinated by her energy, at the age of 11, Timberlake appeared on the television show Star Search, performing country music songs as Justin Randall. Timberlake then recruited Chasez to be in a singing group, organized by boy band manager Lou Pearlman. The boy band NSYNC formed in 1995, and began their career in 1996 in Europe, Timberlake and Chasez served as its two lead singers. In 1998, the rose to prominence in the United States with the release of their self-titled debut studio album. Their second album No Strings Attached sold 2.4 million copies in the first week, nSYNCs third album Celebrity was also financially successful. Upon the completion of the Celebrity Tour, the group went into hiatus in 2002, in late 1999, Timberlake appeared in the Disney Channel movie Model Behavior. He played Jason Sharpe, a model who falls in love with a waitress after mistaking her for another model and it was released on March 12,2000. The rise of his own stardom and the decline in the popularity of boy bands led to the dissolution of NSYNC. Band member Lance Bass was openly critical of Timberlakes actions in his memoir Out of Sync and his debut solo studio album Justified was released in November and debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 439,000 copies, fewer than previous N Sync releases
Justin Timberlake
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Timberlake at the
Cannes Film Festival, May 2013
Justin Timberlake
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Timberlake in London on his
Justified World Tour, December 2003
Justin Timberlake
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Timberlake performing at a concert in
St. Paul, Minnesota in January 2007 during the
FutureSex/LoveShow
Justin Timberlake
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Timberlake (left) with
Andrew Garfield (right) at an event for
The Social Network in Madrid, October 2010
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Calgary Herald
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The Calgary Herald is a daily newspaper published in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It was first published in 1883 as The Calgary Herald, Mining and Ranche Advocate and it is owned by the Postmedia Network. It started as a paper with 150 copies of only four pages created on a handpress that arrived 11 days earlier on the first train to Calgary. When Hugh St. Quentin Cayley became editor 26 November 1884 the Herald moved out of the tent, Cayley quickly became partner and editor. At that time, Braden and Armour found that westerners wanted more updated information about the growing Riel Rebellion in the Northwest Territories, one year later, the Calgary Herald went daily. To meet demand, a new press was purchased that could print up to 400 papers an hour, the paper was still experiencing growing pains and financial uncertainty in 1894, when J. J. Young took over the paper, saving it from near bankruptcy. During those early years, the newspaper was not so much published as improvised, eventually the publishers name was changed to Herald Publishing Company Limited and began publishing the Calgary Daily Herald, a daily version of the newspaper, on 2 July 1885. From February 1890 to August 1893 and December 1894 to September 1895, publication of the daily paper was suspended between 21 September 1893 and 13 December 1894. It was not until fall 1983 that it was published seven days a week, the Calgary Daily Heralds name was changed to the Calgary Herald in February 1939, and continued to be published as an afternoon paper until April 1985. Since then it has delivered in the mornings. In January 1908, the Southam Company purchased a majority interest in the Calgary Herald, in 1996 the paper was sold to the Hollinger Corporation under Conrad Black. In November 2000, the Herald became part of Southam Newspapers, in July 2000, CanWest Global made Canadian media history with its $3. By 2003, Southam was fully absorbed into CanWest Global Communications, by 2003, Izzy Asper had built CanWest Global into a profitable media powerhouse with annual revenues in excess of $2 billion and net earnings of $90 million. Canwest entered bankruptcy protection in late 2009. and announced Tuesday 13 July 2010 that its newspaper subsidiary has successfully emerged from creditor protection with new owners Postmedia, Postmedia purchased the Calgary Herald from Canwest in 2010. Postmedia backed by a New York hedge fund holds some of Canadas largest daily newspapers including the Post, Vancouver Sun, Calgary Herald and Ottawa Citizen. By October 2011 Postmedia had cut about 500 full-time jobs across the newspapers it owns to deal with the debt it inherited with the 2010 purchase. CEP union spokesman Peter Murdoch said, This is hardly of net benefit to Canadians, by 2011 the Calgary Herald newsroom was remodelled to enable teams to work on Herald’s websites, social media platforms such as Twitter as advertising revenue migrated from printed to digital media. The Calgary Herald— like Postmedias 45 other metropolitan and community— was struggling financially, Postmedias print circulation and advertising sales which accounted for 90 percent of its revenue declined, their debt load was heavy and they were forced to aggressively cut costs
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Political Cartoon of
Alexander Grant MacKay moving from Ontario to Alberta, Calgary Herald, May 26, 1912
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Memorex
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Memorex is a consumer electronics brand specializing in disk recordable media for CD and DVD drives, flash memory, computer accessories and other electronics. It began as a computer tape producer and expanded to become a major IBM plug compatible peripheral supplier and it was broken up and ceased to exist after the 1990s other than as a brand. Established in 1961 in Silicon Valley, Memorex started by selling computer tapes, the company then expanded into disk drives and other peripheral equipment for IBM mainframes. In the commercials she would sing a note that shattered a glass while being recorded to a Memorex audio cassette, the tape was played back and the recording also broke the glass, asking Is it live, or is it Memorex. This would become the slogan which was used in a series of advertisements released through 1970s and 1980s. In 1982 Memorex was bought by Burroughs, over the next six years, Burroughs and its successor Unisys shut down, sold off or spun out the various parts of Memorex. The computer media, communications and IBM end user sales and service organization were spun out as Memorex International, in 1988 Memorex acquired the Telex Corporation becoming Memorex Telex NV, a corporation based in the Netherlands, which survived as an entity until the middle 1990s. As late as 2006, several pieces existed as subsidiaries of other companies, over time the Memorex consumer brand has been owned by Tandy, Handy Holdings, Imation and as of 2016 Digital Products International. Today, Memorex is a brand for electronics and accessories such as portable audio players, iPod accessories, flat panel TVs, Blu-ray Disc players, flash drives. These products are manufactured for the Memorex brand by a variety of manufacturers, for example, CD-Rs have been made by CMC Magnetics of Taiwan, Ritek of Taiwan. Memorex storage products are sold and supported by PNY Technologies, while its products are sold. 1961 - Memorex is founded by Laurence L. Spitters, Arnold T. Challman, Donald F. Eldridge,1962 - Memorex is one of the early independent companies to ship computer tape. May 1965 - Memorex IPOs at $25 and closes at $32,1966 - Memorex is first independent company to ship a disk pack. Jan 1988 - Memorex-Telex merger Dec 1988 - Unisys mainly shuts down large disk business and spins off service and repair as Sequel. Nov 1993 - Tandy sells Memorex consumer brand to Hanny Holdings of Hong Kong Oct 1996 - The U. S. operations of Memorex Telex NV filed for bankruptcy, Memorex History at Computer History Museum website
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MRX V brand Memorex magnetic tape
Memorex
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Memorex
Mini-Disc
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All Around the World (Justin Bieber song)
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All Around the World is a song by Canadian recording artist Justin Bieber, from his third studio album, Believe. It was written by Bieber, Sir Nolan and Nasri of The Messengers in collaboration with Ludacris and this was the second collaboration between Bieber and Ludacris, having previously collaborated on Baby. It was first released on June 4,2012, as a single from the album. The song was released as the international single, and the fifth. The Eurodance track features a similar instrumentation to songs by Britney Spears, Chris Brown, lyrically, it features Bieber singing to his love interest that all around the world, people want to be loved. All Around the World received mostly positive reviews music critics. The song had success worldwide, reaching the top ten in several countries, such as Belgium, Canada. Bieber promoted the song through performances and a music video. In late 2011, Bieber confirmed to radio network Capital FM that he was recording material for his studio album. He later spoke to MTV News and revealed that Believe would surprise people in different ways, All Around the World was written and produced by The Messengers and Nolan Lambroza, while Bieber and Ludacris wrote additional lyrics. On May 25,2012, a version of the track leaked online. The same day, the track was released on iTunes Store through The Island Def Jam Music Group, the song was later released as the fourth international single, and the fifth and final US single on February 26,2013. It is an Eurodance song, which incorporates heavy elements in its instrumentation and is similar to previous works by producer David Guetta. Contemporary critics compared the track to Britney Spears Till the World Ends, lyrically, Bieber sings for his love interest and says that all around the world, people want to be loved. The track opens with he singing, Youre beautiful, beautiful/You should know it/I think its time, think its time/That you show it, lines that were compared to One Directions What Makes You Beautiful. As the track follows, Bieber encourages girls to release their inner beauty, Light it up, so explosive/Why you acting so shy, All Around the World received mostly positive reviews from music critics. Jocelyn Vena also of MTV stated that the song could have recorded by Usher. Entertainment Weekly columnist Ray Rahman gave All Around the World a positive review, and stated, the vocal swagger of Chris Brown
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"All Around the World"
All Around the World (Justin Bieber song)
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Bieber performing "All Around the World" during his
Believe Tour in October 2012.
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One Time (song)
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One Time is the debut single of Canadian recording artist Justin Bieber. It is the first single released from his debut EP, My World and it was first solicited to mainstream and rhythmic radio on May 18,2009. It was released via download in the United States and Canada on July 7,2009. An acoustic version of the song, called the My Heart Edition was released to iTunes on December 22,2009, the song, moderately paced with R&B, pop, and hip-hop influences, is an ode to young love. The song received positive reviews critics, commending its production, vocals. The song was a success, reaching the top twenty in Canada, US, Germany, United Kingdom, France and New Zealand. The single has been certified Platinum in Canada and the United States, the accompanying music video portrays Bieber at a house party, and features his mentor, Usher and hometown friend, Ryan Butler. As of March 2017, the video had been viewed over 510 million times on the video-sharing website YouTube, Bieber performed the song in a number of live appearances including The Dome, The Next Star, and Dick Clarks New Years Rockin Eve with Ryan Seacrest. Before they produced and wrote Biebers debut they had penned several hits, including Beyoncés Single Ladies, Mariah Careys Obsessed, Fabolouss Throw It In the Bag, One Time was produced by Stewart and production duo The Movement, while Harrell provided vocal recording and production. The Movement also received writing credits for the song as did Thabiso Nkhereanye, Bieber recorded the song at RedZones Triangle Sound Studios in Savannah, Georgia a few hours away from Biebers then current home of Atlanta, Georgia. Bieber also recorded some of the track at The Boom Boom Room in Burbank, mixing was done in Atlanta at Silent Sound Studios by Jaycen-Joshua Fowler and Dave Pensado. One Time is described to be in a slow groove. Washington Post called the track, along with Love Me modest club tracks, about. com described it as a solid midtempo beat. The song is composed in the key of C♯ minor, the song is moderately paced, and the introduction and outro are sung in a sing-and-tell format with Bieber repetitively voicing the line Me plus you/Imma tell you one time. Bieber goes into the middle eight the backing is not as much indistinguishable from the rest of the song, however Lamb criticized the song for being too generic, and that Bieber had little room to show his voice. Billboards Michael Menachem called the song a pop song that also taps into a prevalent teen hip-hop aesthetic. He also compared Bieber to Brown on the track, and said that brings to mind vocal debut on Run It. in 2005. Unlike Lamb, Menachem said the song gave Biebers vocals plenty of room to shine as he breaks into the chorus
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Bieber featured in front of the gray-azure backdrop and in the pool scene with Usher in the video.
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Bieber performing an acoustic rendition of "One Time" at the
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Eenie Meenie
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Eenie Meenie is a song by American singer Sean Kingston and Canadian singer Justin Bieber. The song was written by Kingston, Bieber, Carlos Battey, Steven Battey, Benny Blanco, Marcos Palacios and Ernest Clark, and was produced by Blanco. It was originally released as the first single from Kingstons third studio album Back 2 Life on March 23,2010, however, it is included on Biebers My World 2.0. The song, a number with Kingstons reggae influences and Biebers R&B vocals, is lyrically about an indecisive lover. The song reached the top ten in the United Kingdom and New Zealand, and the top twenty in Australia, Canada, Ireland, the accompanying music video features Kingston and Bieber at a pool party at a condo, being pursued by the same girl. The song premiered on March 4,2010, on Ryan Seacrests website and it is a dance-pop song, with R&B, and reggae fusion influences, written in the key of B♭ minor, with a vocal range from the tone of F♯4 to the note of A5. It moves at 120 beats per minute and is set in common time, the song features a prominent synthesized back beat, followed by verses from both singers, then a rap interlude, while utilizing the childrens rhyme Eenie Meenie Miny Moe. Kyle Anderson of MTV said that Eenie Meenie melds Sean Kingstons island-inflected dance-pop with Biebers sweet tween R&B, a reviewer of DJBooth said, The record’s crown jewel, of course, is the chorus, which will worm its way into your head whether you like it or not. Although he called the song catchy, Chris Richards of The Washington Post said Kingston hogs the mike on the song, rudy Klapper of Sputnikmusic wrote about the lyrics, on the album review, that those are disturbing, but at the same time unintentionally hilarious. She also criticized the production, Theres not much to say about the kind of producer who thinks the use of the term shorty with an elementary school gimmick is a good idea. Luke ONeil from The Boston Globe noted Sultry reggaeton is repackaged here for the set with Sean Kingstons Eenie Meenie. Shorty was never sung so literally, in the United States Eeenie Meenie entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number thirty on April 7,2010, where it was the highest debut of the week. The next week it dropped three places, and stayed there for additional week. On the Billboard issue dated May 15,2010, the single reached its peaked, at number fifteen, as of February 2011, the single was sold 1,238,000 times. It re-entered at number forty-five on April 25,2010, and reached its peak at number eleven on May 30,2010, later it was certified as gold by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The song appeared in the UK Singles Chart on May 22,2010, the next week Eenie Meenie rose to number seventeen and peaked at number nine in the next two weeks. In Ireland, it debuted at number forty-one in the Irish Singles Chart on April 15,2010, in the Canadian Hot 100 Eenie Meenie debuted and peaked at number fourteen, becoming the highest debut of the week. But in the issue, the single became the biggest drop
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Kingston and Bieber at a party on the balcony of a condominium in the video.
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Somebody to Love (Justin Bieber song)
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Somebody to Love is a song performed by Canadian recording artist Justin Bieber. The song served as the single from his album, My World 2.0. It was written by Heather Bright and The Stereotypes, and produced by the latter, the song was originally recorded as a demo by Biebers mentor, R&B singer, Usher, for his sixth studio album, Raymond v. Raymond. After things went stale with Ushers label, The Stereotypes were encouraged to give the song to Bieber, the song is an upbeat pop song, which also derives from R&B genre, while making use of Eurodisco influences. It impacted US mainstream and rhythmic radio on April 20,2010, the remix of the song featuring Usher was featured on Biebers first compilation album My Worlds, The Collection and his second remix album Never Say Never, The Remixes. Usher re-recorded featured vocals for the remix of the song. A variation of the track with different production done by Benny Blanco, features Usher on lead vocals. It is included on the release of Raymond v. Raymond. In Japan, the song was released dually with Never Say Never as a double A-side single, the song received positive reviews, with critics complimenting the tracks dance feel, and the lyrical content. Somebody to Love became Biebers third consecutive top ten hit in Canada and it also reached the top twenty in Germany, New Zealand and Australia. The accompanying music video for the remix, directed by Dave Meyers, was intended to rely solely on choreography. It features appearances from several dance crews, such as Beat Freaks, according to critics, the video makes allusions to previous dance-heavy clips by Usher and Chris Brown. Bieber performed the song at a number of venues, including the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, in a Q&A with Rap-Up, Jonathan Yip of The Stereotypes confirmed that record was originally made for Usher, but things did not go through right with his label. According to Yip, Perez Hilton was the one who recommended the song for Bieber, and after that the producers agreed. Yip said that Ushers label, Jive Records wasnt sure what they wanted to do with the record for Usher, so they contacted Biebers manager, Scooter Braun, and Bieber was able to record the track. On the remix, Jonathan Yip commented, Ushers now back on the record, on the remix, the Versus version of the song was produced by Benny Blanco. Somebody to Love is a pop song, Biebers R&B vocals are blended throughout the song. The song also integrates elements of Euro disco, set it common time, the song is written in the key of C minor, and Biebers vocals span from the low note of G3 to high note of C5
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US Remix cover
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Bieber performing
jerkin' -esque choreography with dancers and in a scene with a
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Die in Your Arms
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Die in Your Arms is a song by Canadian recording artist Justin Bieber, from his third studio album, Believe. The pop song samples Michael Jacksons Weve Got a Good Thing Going, and lyrically, features Bieber singing about an all-consuming passion and the affection that he feels for his love interest. Die in Your Arms received mostly positive reviews music critics. The song has charted in countries such as Australia, Canada, Netherlands, New Zealand, United Kingdom. In late 2011, Bieber confirmed to radio network Capital FM that he was recording material for his studio album. He later spoke to MTV News and revealed that Believe would surprise people in different ways, the track samples Michael Jacksons Weve Got a Good Thing Going, written by Alphonso Mizell, Berry Gordy Jr. Deke Richards, Freddie Perren. Die in Your Arms was released as a single to iTunes Store on May 29,2012 through The Island Def Jam Music Group. The pop track incorporates hip hop beats, finger snaps and melodic piano chords in its instrumentation and is similar to tracks by Jackson 5. Lyrically, Die in Your Arms is a song about an all-consuming passion and the affection that Bieber feels for his love interest. During the songs chorus, the states, If I could just die in your arms /I wouldn’t mind / Because every time you touch me / I just die in your arms / It just feels so right. Jason Lipshutz of Billboard deemed it as a more classically arranged pop offering when compared to Biebers previous single Boyfriend. Leah Collins of the National Post described the song as a Baby 2.0, adding that like Baby, Die in Your Arms received mostly positive reviews from music critics. Jon Dolan of Rolling Stone described it as the sound of Bieber rounding third base, while Sarah Deen of Metro deemed it as a laidback pop song, Antoniette Bueno of The Insider noted that the song was written for his female fan base. Bueno added that Bieber also sounds a lot more like his younger self in this practically guaranteed hit. Rich Juzwiak of Gawker praised Die in Your Arms, and commented, there is an in-your-ear-not-your-mouth joke to be made, but I will refrain because, ugh, I just died in your arms this year, Bieber. Tanar Anitai of MTV compared the style to the ones of Duffy, Amy Winehouse, Mark Ronson. Rolling Stone named the track the 45th best song of 2012, following its release on iTunes Store, Die in Your Arms reached number three on the stores chart, just behind Carly Rae Jepsens Call Me Maybe and Gotyes Somebody That I Used to Know. After a full week of sales, the track sold a total of 185,000 digital downloads in the United States, the following week, it plummeted 75 positions to number 92, the third biggest drop in the history of the chart
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Never Say Never (Justin Bieber song)
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Never Say Never is a song by Canadian recording artist Justin Bieber. The song is used as the song for The Karate Kid. It was originally a demo with sexual lyrics performed by American singer Travis Garland, it was written and produced by The Messengers. However, for reasons, Bieber was tapped to record the song for the film. He re-wrote the song with The Messengers, Rambert, Smith, the song contains R&B and pop elements while merging hip-hop. The song was released for download in the United States on June 8,2010. The song was included as an acoustic track on the remix album My Worlds Acoustic. To promote Biebers 3D concert film of the name, the song was released as the lead single. Never Say Never peaked within the top twenty in Canada, Norway and its accompanying music video, directed by Honey, features Smith and Bieber in a recording studio playing around and dancing, and is intercut with scenes from the film. He has notably performed the song on Today and on his My World Tour, Smith joined Bieber during the tours stop at Madison Square Garden to perform the song for scenes in Justin Bieber, Never Say Never. A demo of the song, Sexy Together was originally recorded by Mike Chilton, reportedly the song was re-written by its original writers Adam Messinger, Nasri, Omarr Rambert, and his vocal producer Kuk Harrell, while Smith added lines. Carina Adly MacKenzie of Zap2it preferred Bieber and Smiths version, commenting, youd think that a song about sex would be more interesting than a song about little kids doing karate. The song was confirmed when the listing for the soundtrack was revealed. It was released on iTunes in the United States on June 8,2010, Never Say Never is a pop-R&B which includes hip hop. It is composed in the key of A minor with vocals spanning from the low-note of G3 to the high-note of C6, the song follows in the chord progression of Am–C–G–D Bieber provides lead vocals in the song while Smith provides the backing with rap interludes. Idolator thought the song as a version of Eminems Lose Yourself. Smiths lines reference his father, and puns in the phrase and he also makes reference to his lineage by saying Born from two stars so the moons where I land. As he is the son of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, Smith also makes references to Luke Skywalker and Kobe Bryant in his lines. is sure to stand out as the films flagship anthem
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One Less Lonely Girl
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One Less Lonely Girl is a song by Canadian recording artist Justin Bieber. The song was written and produced by Biebers mentor, Usher, as well as Ezekiel Lewis, Balewa Muhammad of The Clutch, the song was positively received, with critics commending the songs delivery and comparing it to pop-R&B songs by Chris Brown and Rihanna. It was a success in the United States and Canada, Biebers highest peaks in the countries at sixteen and ten, respectively and it also charted in the Belgium tip chart and in Germany within the top thirty, and also charted in Austria, Australia, and United Kingdom. The music video features Bieber attracted to a girl he sees in the laundromat, Bieber has performed the song in a number of live appearances including the Fearless Tour, The Next Star, and Dick Clarks New Years Rockin Eve with Ryan Seacrest. A remix of I Love College by label mate, Asher Roth, One Less Lonely Girl was released digitally on the iTunes Store on October 6,2009. Crystal Bell of Billboard gave the song a positive review stating much as he did on his debut single, One Time. Im gonna put you first, Ill show you what youre worth/If you let me inside your world, the stump speech is hard to resist, especially when set to an arrangement that follows the lineage of hit midtempo ballads With You, and Irreplaceable. Although the lyrics are generic, Biebers smooth delivery is right on point, jon Caramanica of The New York Times called the song along with Down to Earth, uncomplicatedly beautiful and earnest. Andy Kellman of Allmusic listed the song as one of his tracks from the album. In the U. S. the single had 113,000 downloads in its first week, Bieber scored the second highest debut of the week, only being surpassed by 3 by Britney Spears. Due to the impact of radio in the U. S. the song entered at thirty-six on the Billboard Pop Songs on the week ending December 12,2009. It dropped the week on the Hot 100, but rose to thirty-two on the Pop Songs. The single peaked at twenty-one on the pop chart, due to increased airplay and digital sales of My World, on the week ending January 9,2010, the song rose thirty positions from sixty to thirty on the Hot 100. As of February 2011, the single has sold over 1,025,000 digital copies in the United States, the song debuted at number ten on the Canadian Hot 100 on the issue dated October 24,2009. It debuted in Austria at number fifty-four, where it peaked and it debuted on the Belgian Tip Chart in Flanders at number twenty-five, where it peaked, and remained for two weeks. It debuted in Germany at number twenty-two, where it peaked, the song also peaked at eighty-two in Australia and sixty-two in the United Kingdom. The video premiered on perezhilton. com on October 9,2009 and it later premiered on Biebers official site and YouTube on October 13,2009, Biebers mother, Pattie Mallette, makes a cameo during the flower stand scene in the music video. While filming the video, Bieber joked and said, It’s like the biggest town I’ve ever been in
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Bieber wearing the green sweatshirt and posting signs for his scavenger hunt in the "One Less Lonely Girl" video
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As Long As You Love Me (Justin Bieber song)
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As Long as You Love Me is a song by Canadian recording artist Justin Bieber, from his third studio album, Believe. The track features American rapper Big Sean and it was written by both artists with Nasri Atweh, and was produced by Rodney Darkchild Jerkins and Andre Lindal. It was first released on June 11,2012, as a single from the album. On Billboards Rhythmic Airplay Chart, the reached number one. It peaked at six on the Billboard Hot 100. The song has sold 2,240,000 copies in the US as December 2012, the music video features actor Michael Madsen. In late 2011, Bieber confirmed to radio network Capital FM that he was recording material for his studio album. He later spoke to MTV News and revealed that Believe would surprise people in different ways, Im not going to try to conform to what people want me to be or go out there and start partying, have people see me with alcohol. I want to do it at my own pace, I dont want to start singing about things like sex, drugs and swearing. Im into love, and maybe Ill get more into making love when Im older, I want to be someone who is respected by everybody. After releasing Boyfriend as the single, Bieber announced that he will release promotional singles to promote Believe. The first promotional single Die in Your Arms was released to iTunes on May 29,2012, the second All Around The World was released on iTunes on June 4,2012. As Long as You Love Me was released on June 11,2012, as the third, the cover art for As Long as You Love Me shows Bieber perched on a wooden stool, holding an acoustic guitar. Sia Nicole of Idolator expressed dissatisfaction with the cover, saying It’s false advertising for the high-fidelity track that has nary a strum within earshot. As Long as You Love Me was written by Bieber, Nasri Atweh, the song is officially written in the key of C minor. It is heavily influenced by dubstep, with vocal loops complemented by a booming beat, as the song continues, it builds and builds to a rave-ready drop. Lyrically, it tells listeners that true love can defy all circumstances, as long as you love me/ We could be starving/ We could be homeless/ We could be broke, Bieber sings over a staccato beat and handclaps, with an undercurrent of a swirling-sounding synth. As long as you love me/ Ill be your platinum/ Ill be your silver/ Ill be your gold, Big Sean drops a rap exalting a lady love, too
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Boyfriend (Justin Bieber song)
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Boyfriend is a song by Canadian recording artist Justin Bieber, taken from his third studio album Believe. Bieber explained that the track would surprise people in different ways, a snippet of Boyfriend was previewed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on March 1,2012, Biebers 18th birthday. The song was announced as a single on the same day, the cover art was revealed on March 19,2012. Musically, Boyfriend is a R&B influenced song that features pop beats reminiscent of American record producer Pharrell Williams, the instrumentation is kept in a lower sound to highlight Biebers vocals. However, critics dismissed the lyrics as immature and silly, Boyfriend was a commercial success, debuting at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 after selling a total of 521,000 digital units of the single. The song is the debut digital sales week in the United States and has also charted at number 9 on the Pop Songs component chart. It also debuted at one in Canada and number two in the United Kingdom. As part of promotion for the song, Bieber performed Boyfriend in a number of appearances, including at the second-season finale of The Voice. The rapping duo Ying Yang Twins also released a version of the track with new verses added. Another remix of Boyfriend features 2 Chainz, Mac Miller and Asher Roth, in late 2011, Bieber confirmed to radio network Capital FM that he was recording material for his third studio album, which was originally going to be released in early 2012. He later spoke to MTV News and revealed that Believe would surprise people in different ways, Boyfriend was written by Bieber, Michael Posner, Mason D. Levy and Mat Musto. During an interview with radio DJ Bootleg Kev, Posner revealed that he was impressed with Biebers work ethic, at first I didnt know what to expect because hes super young, but dude can write. Posner said that people would flip over the beat and that radio stations would want to play the song, Levy also commented on the track, and described it as definitely edgier, its more grown-up, its more developed and its sexier. Prior to the release, it had been previewed by several industry insiders, including radio host Mick Lee of WZFT. On March 1,2012, Bieber was featured as a guest on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and he said, My big announcement is that on March 26, my first single is coming out and its called Boyfriend. The song, its basically Im talking to girl, if I was your boyfriend. We wrote it, and the verses Im talking/ rapping and then on the hook Im singing, Bieber also previewed the songs introduction on the show. Through his Twitter account, the released a poll in which fans were allowed to choose between two artworks for the single
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Baby (Justin Bieber song)
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Baby is a song by Canadian recording artist Justin Bieber. It was released as the single from the latter half of Biebers debut album. It was available for download on January 18,2010. The song received airplay directly after release, officially impacting mainstream, the song is uptempo R&B, blending together dance-pop and hip-hop elements, while using influences of doo-wop music. The song has received reviews from critics who complimented the songs effective lyrics and chorus, and commended Ludacris part. The accompanying music video takes place in a mall/bowling-alley setting, the video features several cameos such as Drake, Lil Twist and Tinashe, in which Bieber chases after a girl. As of May 2013, the song has sold 3.9 million digital downloads in the United States, the official music video is the eighteenth most-viewed video all-time on YouTube, and is also, as of 2017, the YouTube video with the most dislikes. It had been the most-viewed from July 12,2010 until November 24,2012, Bieber performed the song several times, including Saturday Night Live, and the ninth season of American Idol. Bieber also performed a rendition of the remix version with Drake at the 2010 Juno Awards. The official remix in the United Kingdom features British hip-hop artist Chipmunk, when asked how the collaboration initially came about, Bieber said, both live in Atlanta. I met him a year prior to this and we figured it was a collaboration for him. Bieber first premiered the song performing on MuchMusic on December 28,2009, a few days before the release of the single, Bieber posted an acoustic version of the song to his YouTube with his guitarist Dan Kanterr, similar to the way he did with Favorite Girl. Billboard said that, Bieber delivers his characteristically clean vocals with conviction, My first love broke my heart for the first time / and Im like, baby, baby, baby, I thought youd always be mine. Also in a review of the acoustic version Bill Lamb of About. com said that I think the vocals here will convince some that Justin Bieber really does have the vocal chops. The song is upbeat, featuring Biebers R&B vocals over a backdrop containing a dance infused beat, full of keyboard. The song is composed in the key of E♭ major with Biebers vocal range spanning from the low-note of G3 to the high-note of C5. Lyrically, Biebers lines explain his distress over his lost love, the chorus features the distinct and repetitive baby, baby, baby, ohhhh hook. A famous section of the song plays Baby, Baby baby oh and it is the catchphrase of the song that identifies the song
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Bieber in front of a backdrop with Ludacris and in a scene with Villegas
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Carly Rae Jepsen
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Carly Rae Jepsen is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actress. In 2007, she placed third in Canadian Idol season fives competition, Jepsen independently released her debut album, Tug of War, in 2008. In 2011, she released the single Call Me Maybe, which was followed in 2012 by her debut EP, Curiosity, Call Me Maybe reached number one in 18 countries during 2012 and was the years best-selling single worldwide. Jepsens third album, Emotion, was released in 2015, the album was heavily influenced by songs from the 1980s and received critical acclaim. Its lead single I Really Like You reached the top 5 in the United Kingdom, as of May 2015, Jepsen has sold over 20 million records worldwide. Jepsen was born in Mission, British Columbia, the daughter of Alexandra and Larry Jepsen and she attended Heritage Park Secondary School in Mission, where she pursued her early passion for musical theatre by appearing in student productions of Annie, Grease, and The Wiz. She studied musical theatre at the Canadian College of Performing Arts in Victoria, after graduating from school, Jepsen held several minimum wage jobs, and worked as a barista and a bartender. She placed third in the show and was part of the Canadian Idol Top 3 concert tour, after the conclusion of the tour, Jepsen returned to British Columbia to focus on writing, recording and completing her band. Her demo recording attracted the attention of music manager Jonathan Simkin, Jepsen struck an independent record deal with MapleMusic Recordings and distribution via Fontana North. In June 2008, Jepsen released her single and another single. Jepsens debut album, Tug of War, was released in September 2008 through MapleCore/Fontana North, the album was produced in its entirety by Ryan Stewart and includes the song Sweet Talker, which Jepsen previously performed at her first Canadian Idol audition. Tug of War was re-released via Jonathan Simkins label 604 Records, with distribution from Universal Music Group, and has since sold 10,000 copies in Canada according to Nielsen SoundScan. The title track Tug of War was released the month as the album and received radio airplay in Canada, followed by the singles Bucket and Sour Candy. The former two singles reached the top 40 on the Canadian Hot 100 chart, in early 2009, Jepsen toured western Canada with Marianas Trench and Shiloh. She then went on a tour with Marianas Trench, The New Cities. Jepsen began recording material for her album in 2011 with Josh Ramsay, Ryan Stewart. The release of Jepsens second album was postponed to allow Call Me Maybe to spread in popularity, although 604 Records issued a six-track EP, Curiosity, Call Me Maybe peaked at number one on the Canadian Hot 100, making Jepsen the fourth Canadian artist to top the chart. In the United States, the single spent nine weeks at one on the Billboard Hot 100
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Jepsen performing at the 2012
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Usher (entertainer)
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Usher Raymond IV is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor. Born in Dallas, Texas but raised and lived in Chattanooga, Tennessee until moving to Atlanta, at the age of 12, his mother put him in local singing competitions, before catching the attention of a music A&R from LaFace Records. In 1994 he released his debut album, Usher. 8701 produced the number-one singles U Remind Me and U Got It Bad and it sold 8 million copies worldwide and won his first two Grammy Awards as Best Male R&B Vocal Performance in 2002 and 2003. Confessions established him as one of the musical artists of the 2000s decade. Bolstered by its four consecutive Billboard Hot 100 number one singles, Burn, Confessions Part II, and My Boo, it has been certified Diamond by the RIAA. Here I Stand and Raymond v. Raymond, debuted atop of the Billboard 200, the EP, Versus, also produced the Hot 100 top-five single DJ Got Us Fallin in Love. Looking 4 Myself, also debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart, Raymond v. Raymond and Looking 4 Myself received Grammy Awards for R&B singles There Goes My Baby and Climax. Hard II Love peaked at five of the Billboard 200 albums chart. Usher has sold 23.8 million albums and 38.2 million digital songs in the United States, to date, his worldwide sales stand at 43 million albums and 75 million records overall, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Usher has won awards and accolades including 18 Billboard Music Awards and 8 Grammy Awards. Billboard also placed him at number 6 on their list of Top 50 R&B/Hip-Hop Artists of the Past 25 Years, Usher has attained 9 US Hot 100 number-one singles. Considered an icon and sex symbol, he was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame, in 2008, he started his own record label Raymond-Braun Media Group, a joint venture with talent manager Scooter Braun that includes Canadian singer Justin Bieber. Usher was born in Dallas, Texas, the son of Jonetta Patton, from Tennessee, Usher spent the majority of his young life in Chattanooga, his father left the family when Usher was a year old. Usher grew up with his mother, then-stepfather, and half-brother, while in Atlanta, Usher attended North Springs High School. At age 10, Usher joined an R&B local quintet called the NuBeginnings, Usher recorded 10 songs with the group in 1991, and the ensuing album, Nubeginning Featuring Usher Raymond IV, was only made available regionally and by mail order. However, Patton took him out because, according to her, the album was re-released nationally in April 2002 by Hip-O Records. At age 13, Usher would meet A. J, alexander at local talent show in Atlanta
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Usher during the Division 1 launch party, 2010
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Usher performing in 2010
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Jaden Smith
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Jaden Christopher Syre Smith is an American actor and rapper. He is the son of Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith, Jaden Smiths first movie role was with his father in the 2006 film The Pursuit of Happyness. He also acted in the 2008 remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still and he was also in the 2013 film After Earth with his father. Smith was born July 8,1998 in Malibu, California and he has an older half-brother, Trey Smith, and a younger sister, Willow Smith. Smith and his siblings are youth ambassadors for Project Zambi, which assistance in conjunction with Hasbro for Zambian children orphaned by AIDS. Smith made his role debut in the 2006 film The Pursuit of Happyness as Christopher. For his role, Smith won the award for Breakthrough Performance at the 2007 MTV Movie Awards, Smith next appeared as Jacob in the 2008 Scott Derrickson science fiction film, The Day the Earth Stood Still, a remake of the 1951 classic of the same name. In 2010, along with Jackie Chan, Smith starred in The Karate Kid, in May 2013, Will Smith and Jaden starred together, playing father and son, in After Earth. In 2014, it was announced that Smith will return for the sequel Karate Kid 2 with Jackie Chan, the movie will be directed by Breck Eisner, produced by James Lassiter and Will Smith and written by Zak Penn. Smith rapped alongside Canadian singer Justin Bieber in the song Never Say Never, on October 1,2012, Jaden released his first mixtape, The Cool Cafe. Smith started his own brand called MSFTSrep. The clothes range from hoodies and T-shirts to trousers and vests, in May 2013 Smith collaborated with a Korean designer, Choi Bum Suk, to create a pop-up store in which customers can buy clothes with their collaborated logos. In April 2014, Smith was cast in the film The Good Lord Bird, Smith plays Henry Shackleford, a young slave living in Kansas Territory in 1857 who encounters abolitionist John Brown. Smith was in a relationship with Stella Hudgens, the sister of actress and singer Vanessa Hudgens. Smiths father, Will, revealed that his son sought a ruling, with the consent of his parents. From the time Jaden was five or six we would sit him down, however, Smith and his father appeared together on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on May 15,2013, and Smith said, The thing that people dont get is everything at his house is free. So I can get anything and everything at his house, so Im going to be there for 20,30 more years and he says that as soon as I have a movie thats bigger than one of his movies I can get my own house. A November 2013 media report indicated that Smith was dating reality television personality, Jenner wrote in social media in July 2013, Although we cant remember exactly when we met, I couldnt be more grateful that we did
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Smith at the Nobel Peace Prize concert in 2009
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New Jersey
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New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania, New Jersey is the fourth-smallest state but the 11th-most populous and the most densely populated of the 50 United States. New Jersey lies entirely within the statistical areas of New York City. New Jersey was inhabited by Native Americans for more than 2,800 years, in the early 17th century, the Dutch and the Swedes made the first European settlements. New Jersey was the site of decisive battles during the American Revolutionary War in the 18th century. In the 19th century, factories in cities such as Camden, Paterson, Newark, Trenton, around 180 million years ago, during the Jurassic Period, New Jersey bordered North Africa. The pressure of the collision between North America and Africa gave rise to the Appalachian Mountains, around 18,000 years ago, the Ice Age resulted in glaciers that reached New Jersey. As the glaciers retreated, they left behind Lake Passaic, as well as rivers, swamps. New Jersey was originally settled by Native Americans, with the Lenni-Lenape being dominant at the time of contact, scheyichbi is the Lenape name for the land that is now New Jersey. The Lenape society was divided into clans that were based upon common female ancestors. These clans were organized into three distinct phratries identified by their animal sign, Turtle, Turkey, and Wolf and they first encountered the Dutch in the early 17th century, and their primary relationship with the Europeans was through fur trade. The Dutch became the first Europeans to lay claim to lands in New Jersey, the Dutch colony of New Netherland consisted of parts of modern Middle Atlantic states. Although the European principle of ownership was not recognized by the Lenape. The first to do so was Michiel Pauw who established a patronship called Pavonia in 1630 along the North River which eventually became the Bergen, peter Minuits purchase of lands along the Delaware River established the colony of New Sweden. During the English Civil War, the Channel Island of Jersey remained loyal to the British Crown and it was from the Royal Square in St. Helier that Charles II of England was proclaimed King in 1649, following the execution of his father, Charles I. The North American lands were divided by Charles II, who gave his brother, the Duke of York, the region between New England and Maryland as a proprietary colony. James then granted the land between the Hudson River and the Delaware River to two friends who had remained loyal through the English Civil War, Sir George Carteret and Lord Berkeley of Stratton, the area was named the Province of New Jersey. Since the states inception, New Jersey has been characterized by ethnic, New England Congregationalists settled alongside Scots Presbyterians and Dutch Reformed migrants
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The New Jersey Botanical Garden at Skylands in
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Washington Crossing the Delaware during the
New York and New Jersey campaign, winter 1777
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George Washington rallying his troops at the
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Phish (album)
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Phish is a self-produced album released by the American rock band Phish on cassette in 1986. The album was widely circulated among Phish fans for more than a decade before being released in 1998. The album was created from four-track recordings over a period of three years and includes a number of musicians performing on various songs. Only Alumni Blues, AC/DC Bag, Slave To The Traffic Light, the remaining tracks were recorded separately by various members and blended together to create the finished album. The White Tape includes a version of the Phish epic You Enjoy Myself. The album also contains avant-garde experimental pieces, instrumental passages, electronic noises, some songs were further developed and figure heavily in the bands live performances, while a few have rarely been heard since. All instruments and vocals on Fuck Your Face, NO2, He Ent to the Bog, all instruments and vocals on Run Like an Antelope and And So to Bed are recorded solely by Trey Anastasio. The Divided Sky, Ingest and Fluffs Travels are performed by Anastasio, Phish lyricist Tom Marshall, aftermath has Anastasio and Roger Holloway on guitar. Slave to the Traffic Light has Tom Marshall on keyboards and Pete Cottone on drums, in addition to being released on CD, this album was made available on June 7,2006, as a download in FLAC and MP3 formats at LivePhish. com. Vinyl White Tape - Record Store Day
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Farmhouse (album)
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Farmhouse is the eighth official studio album by the American rock band Phish. The tracks were recorded at The Barn, frontman Trey Anastasios studio in Chittenden County, the album was released on May 16,2000, by Elektra Records. Farmhouse was the last Phish studio album before their split in October 2000. Songwriting for Farmhouse was a joint effort between Trey Anastasio and Phish lyricist Tom Marshall, with contributions from Tony Markellis, Russ Lawton, all of the songs were already part of Phishs live concert song rotation before being recorded for the album, some dating back to 1997. Rolling Stone gave Farmhouse only 2.5 Stars, stating that on the album the band walks a line between mellow and torpid with songs that are going to need a lot of live resuscitation. Heavy Things became Phishs biggest single to date, and was a hit on Adult Top 40 radio and on the Radio & Records pop 100 chart. The song was performed for live broadcast during the set of Phishs New Years Eve 2000 show at Big Cypress as part of ABCs coverage of New Year’s festivities around the globe. The song First Tube was nominated for a Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance, early incarnations of several tracks from the album can be heard on the 2000 release Trampled by Lambs and Pecked by the Dove, a collection of song sketches recorded by Anastasio and Marshall. Farmhouse had the highest-ever first week sales for a Phish record, the album was certified gold by RIAA on January 30,2006. In February 2009, the album was available as a download in FLAC. All songs written and composed by Trey Anastasio, Tom Marshall, except where noted
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Drake (entertainer)
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Aubrey Drake Graham is a Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor. Drake initially gained recognition as an actor on the teen television series Degrassi. Intent on pursuing a career as a rapper, he departed the series in 2007 following the release of his debut mixtape and he released two further independent projects, Comeback Season and So Far Gone, before signing to Lil Waynes Young Money Entertainment in June 2009. Drake released his studio album Thank Me Later in 2010. They were followed by two mixtapes, with the trap-influenced If Youre Reading This Its Too Late, and a collaboration with Future for What a Time to Be Alive, in 2015. The former was certified platinum in the U. S. Drake released his fourth album, Views, in 2016. The dancehall-influenced Views sat atop the Billboard 200 for ten nonconsecutive weeks and its single One Dance topped the chart in several countries, including the U. S. the UK and Canada, where it became his first number-one single as the lead artist. This saw Drake leading the Billboard Hot 100 and the Billboard 200 simultaneously for eight weeks and it achieved quadruple platinum status in the U. S. and earned over 1 million album-equivalent units in the first week of its release. The single Hotline Bling secured him his second and third Grammy win, for Best Rap/Sung Performance and Best Rap Song, Drake released the critically acclaimed multi-genre More Life in 2017. More Life, described by Drake as a playlist, was his seventh number one on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Drake owns several Billboard chart records and he has the most charted songs among solo artists in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, the most simultaneously charted Hot 100 songs in a single week and the most Hot 100 debuts in a week. Drake also has the most number one singles on the Hot Rap Songs, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, alongside his Grammy Award wins, Drake has won three Juno Awards and six BET Awards. Drake has developed other ventures, including his OVO Sound record label with longtime collaborator Noah 40 Shebib, Drake acts as a producer, producing under the pseudonym of Champagne Papi. Using the OVO moniker, Drake has his own clothing line and he is also currently acting as the global ambassador for NBA franchise, the Toronto Raptors. Aubrey Drake Graham was born on October 24,1986, in Toronto and his father, Dennis Graham, is an African American and a practicing Catholic from Memphis, Tennessee, and worked as a drummer, performing alongside country musician Jerry Lee Lewis. Bass guitarist Larry Graham and the late songwriter Teenie Hodges are his paternal uncles, Drakes mother, Sandi Graham, is a white Jewish Canadian who worked as an English teacher and florist. Drake attended a Jewish day school, and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony, Drakes parents divorced when he was five years old. After the divorce, he and his mother remained in Toronto, as a child, he witnessed his fathers arrest while visiting him in Memphis
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Drake in 2011
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Forest Hill Collegiate Institute, where Drake attended high school.
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Drake performing at the
Fox Theater in 2010
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All That Matters (Justin Bieber song)
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All That Matters is a song by Canadian recording artist Justin Bieber. It is the single from his second compilation album Journals. It was released on October 14,2013, the song is the second in Biebers series Music Mondays, the first being Heartbreaker, which was released on October 7. Bieber released a new single every week for 10 weeks from October 7 to December 9,2013, the music video for All That Matters, directed by Colin Tilley, was released on December 2,2013. Model Cailin Russo starred in the music video, in an interview in December 2013, Bieber confirmed he wrote the song when he was in a happy place in his relationship with Selena Gomez, until they separated in early 2013. Bieber officially performed the song with Ariana Grande at The Honeymoon Tour, Bieber later performed the song at the 2015 Wango Tango
All That Matters (Justin Bieber song)
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Native Americans meeting with Europeans, 1764
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The signing of the
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The
Declaration of Independence: the
Committee of Five presenting their draft to the
Second Continental Congress in 1776
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Cody Simpson
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Cody Robert Simpson is an Australian singer, songwriter, musician, dancer and actor from Gold Coast, Queensland, who was previously signed to US record label Atlantic Records. He owns a record label called Coast House Records, Simpson was born on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, to Brad and Angie Simpson. He has two siblings, Tom and Alli. Simpson has won two medals at the Queensland Swimming Championships. Simpson trained at the Miami Swimming Club under coach Ken Nixon, Simpsons mother Angie worked as a volunteer at the club. He was subsequently discovered on YouTube by Shawn Campbell, Simpsons rise to recognition was featured on The 7.30 Report in December 2009. He released his single, iYiYi, on 15 May 2010. The music video for Simpsons second single, Summertime, was released on 20 September 2010, Simpson relocated to Los Angeles in June 2010 with his family to record his songs with Atlantic Records Shawn Campbell. That same month, Simpson appeared on Sunrise, on 22 June 2010, it was announced that Simpson would participate in the Camplified 2010 Tour, along with other artists, touring across the United States. The tour began on 5 July 2010 and ended on 14 August 2010, other tours that year included a middle school tour that took place from October–November 2010 and covered 9 U. S states. An EP,4 U was released on 21 December 2010, the EP included five tracks in total, four of them being previously unreleased. Simpson recorded a remake of the song I Want Candy by The Strangeloves as the theme song for the Easter-themed live-action/CGI-animated film Hop. In May 2011, Simpson was egged during a performance at Westfield Miranda in Sydney. He then started the Waiting 4U tour with American singer Greyson Chance on April 9 in Ivins, the tour ended on May 18,2011, in Portland, Oregon. Coast to Coast was released on 20 September 2011 by Alantic Records and it reached number 12 on Billboard 200 selling 24,000 copies. On 23 April 2011, Simpson released the single On My Mind on 23 May 2011, on 5 August 2011, he performed on The Today Show. On 6 August 2011 Simpson started his Coast to Coast Mall Tour in Lake Grove and he played nine dates around the United States and finished it in Orange, California on 18 September 2011. On 22 September, it was announced that Cody Simpson hired Justin Biebers manager, Scooter Braun as his manager, in December 2011, The Wish Factory released a Cody Simpson doll in two formats
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Simpson at the
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Simpson performing at the Nevada Wild Fest outside the Rio in Las Vegas, Nevada 25 October 2012.
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Simpson performing in
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Las Vegas
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The city anchors the Las Vegas Valley metropolitan area and is the largest city within the greater Mojave Desert. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city known primarily for its gambling, shopping, fine dining, entertainment and it is the leading financial, commercial, and cultural center for Nevada. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World and it is a top three destination in the United States for business conventions and a global leader in the hospitality industry, claiming more AAA Five Diamond hotels than any city in the world. Today, Las Vegas annually ranks as one of the worlds most visited tourist destinations. The citys tolerance for numerous forms of adult entertainment earned it the title of Sin City, and has made Las Vegas a popular setting for literature, films, television programs, Las Vegas was settled in 1905 and officially incorporated in 1911. At the close of the 20th century, it was the most populated American city founded within that century, population growth has accelerated since the 1960s, and between 1990 and 2000 the population nearly doubled, increasing by 85. 2%. Rapid growth has continued into the 21st century, and according to a 2013 estimate, perhaps the earliest visitors to the Las Vegas area were nomadic Paleo-Indians, who traveled there 10,000 years ago, leaving behind petroglyphs. Anasazi and Paiute tribes followed at least 2,000 years ago, a young Mexican scout named Rafael Rivera is credited as the first non-Native American to encounter the valley, in 1829. Trader Antonio Armijo led a 60-man party along the Spanish Trail to Los Angeles, the area was named Las Vegas, which is Spanish for the meadows, as it featured abundant wild grasses, as well as desert spring waters for westward travelers. The year 1844 marked the arrival of John C, frémont, whose writings helped lure pioneers to the area. Downtown Las Vegas Fremont Street is named after him, eleven years later members of the LDS Church chose Las Vegas as the site to build a fort halfway between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, where they would travel to gather supplies. The fort was abandoned several years afterward, the remainder of this Old Mormon Fort can still be seen at the intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard and Washington Avenue. Las Vegas was founded as a city in 1905, when 110 acres of adjacent to the Union Pacific Railroad tracks were auctioned in what would become the downtown area. In 1911, Las Vegas was incorporated as a city,1931 was a pivotal year for Las Vegas. At that time, Nevada legalized casino gambling and reduced residency requirements for divorce to six weeks and this year also witnessed the beginning of construction on nearby Hoover Dam. The influx of workers and their families helped Las Vegas avoid economic calamity during the Great Depression. The construction work was completed in 1935, in 1941, the Las Vegas Army Air Corps Gunnery School was established. Currently known as Nellis Air Force Base, it is home to the team called the Thunderbirds
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In order from top left, clockwise: 1.
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Las Vegas industrial district looking North away from the
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Moapa wearing traditional Paiute basket hats with Paiute cradleboard and rabbit robe
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Golden Nugget and
Pioneer Club along
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Astronaut photograph of Las Vegas at night
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MGM Grand Garden Arena
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The MGM Grand Garden Arena is a multi-purpose arena located within the MGM Grand Las Vegas on the Las Vegas Strip. From 1996 to 2000, it hosted wrestlings WCW Halloween Havoc PPV event, the UWF television event Blackjack Brawl was held at the venue in 1994. As of May 2015, the arena has held 35 Ultimate Fighting Championship events, on September 7,1996, Bruce Seldon vs. Mike Tyson was held here, later that night, rapper Tupac Shakur was shot in a drive-by attack. He eventually succumbed to his injuries six days later, on May 2,2015 Floyd Mayweather Jr defended his world title in a highly anticipated match against fellow superstar Manny Pacquiao. The fight went the distance and Floyd Money Mayweather Jr retained his title, the faces of the sold out crowd were fashion and entertainment icons such as hip-hop artist Jay-Z, UFC fighter Ronda Rousey and former NBA basketball player Michael Jordan. In 1994, the Las Vegas Dustdevils an indoor team in the Continental Indoor Soccer League played one season at the arena. It also previously served through 2015 as the home for select Los Angeles Kings games against the Colorado Avalanche, Phoenix Coyotes and San Jose Sharks. During the 1990s, the served as the site for the WAC womens volleyball tournament. The Professional Bull Riders held its annual World Finals event at the MGM Arena from 1994 to 1998 before moving to the Thomas & Mack Center in 1999 and then to T-Mobile Arena in 2016. On March 13,2012, it was announced that the Pac-12 Mens Basketball Tournament would take place at the arena from at least 2013 through 2016, the MGM Grand Main Event features two four-team brackets, with each team playing two games in Las Vegas. Opening round games are played on campus, the arena has hosted many editions of WCW Monday Nitro. On October 4,2014, MGM GGA held an NHL preseason game between the Colorado Avalanche and the Los Angeles Kings, on October 24,2014, MGM GGA held an NBA preseason game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Sacramento Kings
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MGM Grand Garden Arena
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
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Staples Center
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Staples Center is a multi-purpose sports arena in Downtown Los Angeles. Live development, it is located next to the Los Angeles Convention Center complex along Figueroa Street, opening on October 17,1999, it is one of the major sporting facilities in the Greater Los Angeles Area. It is owned and operated by the L. A. Arena Company, Staples Center is also host to over 250 events and nearly 4 million guests each year. The Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park will host both the Los Angeles Chargers and Los Angeles Rams beginning in 2019, Staples Center measures 950,000 square feet of total space, with a 94-foot by 200-foot arena floor. The arena seats up to 19,067 for basketball,18,340 for ice hockey, two-thirds of the arenas seating, including 2,500 club seats, are in the lower bowl. There are also 160 luxury suites, including 15 event suites, the arenas attendance record is held by the fight between World WBA Welterweight Champion, Antonio Margarito and Shane Mosley with a crowd of 20,820 set on January 25,2009. Star Plaza Outside the arena at the Star Plaza are statues of Wayne Gretzky and Magic Johnson, a third statue of boxer Oscar De La Hoya was unveiled outside Staples Center on December 1,2008. On April 20,2010 a fourth statue of the long time Lakers broadcaster Chick Hearn. A fifth statue of the Laker legend Jerry West dribbling was unveiled on February 17,2011, a sixth statue of Lakers player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was unveiled on November 16,2012. A seventh statue of former Kings Hall of Fame left wing Luc Robitaille was unveiled on March 7,2015, the Los Angeles Lakers announced that they will honor Shaquille ONeal with a statue that was unveiled on March 24,2017. Construction broke ground in 1998 and Staples Center opened a year later and it was financed privately at a cost of US$375 million and is named for the office-supply company Staples, Inc. which was one of the centers corporate sponsors that paid for naming rights. The arena opened on October 17,1999, with a Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band concert as its inaugural event. Staples Center was named Best New Major Concert Venue for 1999, on October 21,2009, Staples Center celebrated its 10th anniversary. To commemorate the occasion, the official web site nominated 25 of the arenas greatest moments from its first ten years with fans voting on the top ten. The venue opened in 1999 as the home of the Los Angeles Clippers and Los Angeles Lakers of the NBA, the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA joined in 2001, while the Los Angeles D-Fenders of the NBA D-League joined in 2006. It became home to the Los Angeles Avengers of the Arena Football League in 2000 until the teams discontinuation in 2008. Since its opening day, the Staples Center has hosted seven NBA Finals series with the Lakers, of the teams five NBA championships since moving to the venue, the Lakers have celebrated their 2000 and 2010 victories at Staples Center with series-winning victories at home. Prior to the 2006–07 NBA season, the lighting inside Staples Center was modified for Lakers games, the lights were focused only on the court itself, reminiscent of the Lakers early years at The Forum
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Staples Center during a Lakers game prior to the installation of the new scoreboard, and after the implementation of a new lighting system.
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The Staples Center in June 2002.
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Staples Center before a Clippers game, featuring the new hanging scoreboard.
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Fresno, California
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Fresno (/ˈfrɛznoʊ/ FREZ-no is a city in California, United States, and the county seat of Fresno County. It covers about 112 square miles in the center of the San Joaquin Valley, named for the abundant ash trees lining the San Joaquin River, Fresno was founded in 1872 as a railway station of the Central Pacific Railroad before it was incorporated in 1885. The population of Fresno proper soared in the half of the 20th century. It was here in Fresno in 1958 that Bank of America first launched the BankAmericard credit card, Fresno is near the geographical center of California. It lies approximately 220 miles northeast of Los Angeles,170 miles south of the capital, Sacramento. Yosemite National Park is about 60 miles to the north, Kings Canyon National Park is 60 miles to the east, the county of Fresno was formed in 1856 after the California Gold Rush. It was named for the abundant ash trees lining the San Joaquin River, Millerton, then on the banks of the free-flowing San Joaquin River and close to Fort Miller, became the county seat after becoming a focal point for settlers. Other early county settlements included Firebaughs Ferry, Scottsburg and Elkhorn Springs, the San Joaquin River flooded on December 24,1867, inundating Millerton. Flooding also destroyed the town of Scottsburg on the nearby Kings River that winter, rebuilt on higher ground, Scottsburg was renamed Centerville. In 1867, Anthony McQeen Easterby purchased land bounded by the present Chestnut, Belmont, Clovis and California avenues, unable to grow wheat for lack of water, he hired sheep man Moses J. Church in 1871 to create an irrigation system. Building new canals and purchasing existing ditches, Church then formed the Fresno Canal and Irrigation Company, in 1872, the Central Pacific Railroad established a station near Easterbys—by now a hugely productive wheat farm—for its new Southern Pacific line. Soon there was a store around the station and the store grew the town of Fresno Station, many Millerton residents, drawn by the convenience of the railroad and worried about flooding, moved to the new community. Fresno became a city in 1885. By 1931 the Fresno Traction Company operated 47 streetcars over 49 miles of track, in 1877, William Helm made Fresno his home with a five-acre tract of land at the corner of Fresno and R streets. Helm was the largest individual sheep grower in Fresno County, in carrying his wool to market at Stockton, he used three wagons, each drawn by ten mules, and spent twelve days in making the round trip. Two years after the station was established, county residents voted to move the county seat from Millerton to Fresno, when the Friant Dam was completed in 1944, the site of Millerton became inundated by the waters of Millerton Lake. In extreme droughts, when the reservoir shrinks, ruins of the county seat can still be observed. In the nineteenth century, with so much wooden construction and in the absence of sophisticated firefighting resources, fires often ravaged American frontier towns, the greatest of Fresnos early-day fires, in 1882, destroyed an entire block of the city
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An 1897 photo of K Street High School, which was replaced by
Fresno High School in 1896. The school later became Emerson Elementary School and was demolished ca. 1930.
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Downtown Fresno
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One of the earliest buildings in Fresno, the
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Downtown Fresno looking east from Chuckchansi Park
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Save Mart Center
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Save Mart Center at Fresno State is a multi-purpose arena, on the campus of the California State University, Fresno, located in Fresno, California. An open house was held for community on November 5,2003 and it is also a concert destination, with its first performance featuring opera tenor Andrea Bocelli. The facility includes 32 revenue-generating suites and eight party suites, located on the concourse level. Seating capacities are approximately 15,596 for basketball,14,224 for hockey,8,000 for half-house concerts,15,500 for end-stage concerts, the arenas main exterior landmark is the 37 m Larry A. Shehadey Clock Tower. 13 stories in-all, it was named for the founder of Producers Dairy Foods, a Fresno-based dairy company, the lobby at the arenas southeast entrance is named after Shehadey’s late wife, Elayne Shehadey. The majority of the funding for the facility came from two sources, Save Mart Supermarkets paid US$40 million for 20 years naming rights, and the Pepsi Bottling Group paid a similar sum for exclusive, indefinite beverage dispensing rights. Total construction costs exceeded US$100 million and when completed, represented the largest privately funded complex of any university in the United States, the Bronze Bulldog at the Shehadey Lobby. Created by the Visalia-based art foundry, EMI, the massive bronze statue has dimensions of 3 m high,2 m wide,3 m long, weighing 1,905 kg. Statue onlookers will see engraved on its mounted plaque, Nine time capsule boxes were placed in the base of the massive Bulldog statue early in 2004. The contents of capsules were chosen to represent all aspects of Fresno State University, including the Bulldog Foundation, administration, alumni, students, the capsules are scheduled to be opened in early 2054. Save Mart Centers display cases, located on the upper and main concourses, exhibits equipment, additionally, the display case in the northwest corner spotlights the academic success of Fresno State’s student athletes. The Bulldog Walkway is a permanent, on-campus tribute to the California State University, Fresno alumni, graduates, expected to eventually be extended throughout the campus, the walkway consists of personalized tiles and bricks intended to leave a lasting impression to those who use it. The Bulldog Shop souvenir store is located on the arenas northeast lobby and it will only be open to sell Fresno State merchandise and apparel during university events. The arena has played host to music festivals, including The Winter Jam Tour, The Road Show Tour, The Vans Warped Tour. Also, on Feb 17th,2004, a SmackDown show featuring a newly crowned WWE Champion Eddie Guerrero, had his ceremony at Save Mart Center. The first athletic event held at Save Mart Center took place when the Rainbow Wahine of Hawaii took on the Fresno State Bulldogs in womens NCAA volleyball in October 2003, Save Mart Centers first arena football game was held on July 19,2008. The Central Valley Coyotes defeated the Boise Burn 55-50, both teams were members of the now defunct af2, the former developmental league for the Arena Football League. Save Mart Center has hosted five NBA preseason games since the arena has opened, the first game was in 2003-2004 when the Los Angeles Lakers hosted the Sacramento Kings, the Lakers defeated the Kings 105-80
Save Mart Center
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Save Mart Center at Fresno State
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Oakland, California
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Oakland /ˈoʊklənd/ is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. The city was incorporated in 1852, Oaklands territory covers what was once a mosaic of California coastal terrace prairie, oak woodland, and north coastal scrub. Its land served as a resource when its hillside oak and redwood timber were logged to build San Francisco. In the late 1860s, Oakland was selected as the terminal of the Transcontinental Railroad. Following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, many San Francisco citizens moved to Oakland, enlarging the citys population, increasing its housing stock and it continued to grow in the 20th century with its busy port, shipyards, and a thriving automobile manufacturing industry. Oakland is known for its sustainability practices, including a top-ranking for usage of electricity from renewable resources, in addition, due to a steady influx of immigrants during the 20th century, along with thousands of African-American war-industry workers who relocated from the Deep South during the 1940s. Oakland is the most ethnically diverse city in the country. The earliest known inhabitants were the Huchiun Indians, who lived there for thousands of years, the Huchiun belonged to a linguistic grouping later called the Ohlone. In Oakland, they were concentrated around Lake Merritt and Temescal Creek, in 1772, the area that later became Oakland was claimed, with the rest of California, by Spanish settlers for the King of Spain. In the early 19th century, the Spanish crown granted the East Bay area to Luis María Peralta for his Rancho San Antonio, the grant was confirmed by the successor Mexican republic upon its independence from Spain. Upon his death in 1842, Peralta divided his land among his four sons, Most of Oakland fell within the shares given to Antonio Maria and Vicente. The portion of the parcel that is now Oakland was called encinal—Spanish for oak grove—due to the oak forest that covered the area. In 1851, three men—Horace Carpentier, Edson Adams, and Andrew Moon—began developing what is now downtown Oakland, on May 4,1852, the Town of Oakland incorporated. Two years later, on March 25,1854, Oakland re-incorporated as the City of Oakland, with Horace Carpentier elected the first mayor, the city and its environs quickly grew with the railroads, becoming a major rail terminal in the late 1860s and 1870s. In 1868, the Central Pacific constructed the Oakland Long Wharf at Oakland Point, a number of horsecar and cable car lines were constructed in Oakland during the latter half of the 19th century. The first electric streetcar set out from Oakland to Berkeley in 1891, at the time of incorporation, Oakland consisted of the territory that lay south of todays major intersection of San Pablo Avenue, Broadway, and Fourteenth Street. The city gradually annexed farmlands and settlements to the east and the north, Oaklands rise to industrial prominence, and its subsequent need for a seaport, led to the digging of a shipping and tidal channel in 1902. This resulted in the town of Alameda being made an island
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Oakland skyline, with the old eastern span of the
San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge in background
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1857 Map of Oakland
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One day's output of 1917
Chevrolet automobiles at their major
West Coast plant, now the location of
Eastmont Town Center
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In 1924, the
Tribune Tower was completed; in 1976, it was restored and declared an Oakland landmark.
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Oracle Arena
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Oracle Arena is an indoor arena located in Oakland, California, United States, that is the home of the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association. The arena opened in 1966 and is the oldest arena in the NBA, from its opening until 1996 it was known as the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena. After a major renovation completed in 1997, the arena was renamed The Arena in Oakland until 2005 and it is often referred to as the Oakland Coliseum Arena as it is located adjacent to the Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum. Oracle Arena seats 19,596 fans for basketball and 17,200 for ice hockey, the arena has been the home to the Golden State Warriors since 1971, except the one-year hiatus while the arena was undergoing renovations. It had been used by the Warriors intermittently as early as 1966, the California Golden Bears of the Pac-10 played the 1997–98 and 1998–99 seasons at the arena while their primary home, Harmon Gym, was being renovated into Haas Pavilion. For some years before then, the Bears played occasional games against popular non-conference opponents at the arena, the arenas first tenants were the California Seals of the Western Hockey League, who moved across the bay from the Cow Palace in 1966. The owners of the San Francisco Seals had been awarded a franchise in the National Hockey League on the condition they move out the Cow Palace. The team changed its name from San Francisco Seals to California Seals in order to draw fans from both San Francisco and Oakland. The Seals franchise continued to play at the arena after having transferred to the NHL, the Coliseum also hosted the American Basketball Associations Oakland Oaks, a charter member of the new ABA in 1967. The Oaks signed San Francisco Warriors star Rick Barry away from the rival National Basketball Association in 1968, the team was owned by entertainer Pat Boone and also had stars Larry Brown and Doug Moe on its roster. Brown and Barry are in the Basketball Hall of Fame, after a 22–56 record in their first season, the Oaks went 60–18 during the regular season in 1968–69. The Oaks then defeated the Denver Rockets, New Orleans Buccaneers, however, the team was plagued by poor attendance and Boone sold the team following their ABA Championship. They were relocated to Washington and became the Washington Caps, the Bay Bombers as well as the Golden Bay Earthquakes of the original MISL during the 1982–83 season and the Oakland Skates, a professional roller hockey team, all played there from 1993 to 1995. Over the years, the arena became increasingly outdated, lacking the luxuries of newer ones, with just over 15,000 seats, it was one of the smallest arenas in the league. The original arenas external walls, roof and foundation remained intact, the renovation began in mid-1996 and was completed in time for the Warriors to return in the fall of 1997. Included in the renovation was a new LED centerhung scoreboard and 360-degree fascia display, the new configuration seats 19,596 for basketball and 17,200 for ice hockey. On October 20,2006, the Golden State Warriors and the Oracle Corporation announced a 10-year agreement in which the Oakland Arena would be known as The Oracle, the O, as it is often referred to, will continue to be managed by Oakland–Alameda County Authority and SMG. The JPA approved the deal at its November 10 meeting, a formal press conference of the agreement was held on October 30
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A record-breaking crowd watching the Warriors in the 2007 NBA Playoffs.
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An interior view of Oracle Arena.
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Portland, Oregon
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Portland is a port and the largest city in the U. S. state of Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County. It is in the Willamette Valley region of the Pacific Northwest, at the confluence of the Willamette, the city covers 145 square miles and had an estimated population of 632,309 in 2015, making it the 26th most populous city in the United States. Approximately 2,389,228 people live in the Portland metropolitan statistical area and its Combined Statistical Area ranks 17th with a population of 3,022,178. Roughly 60% of Oregons population resides within the Portland metropolitan area, named after Portland, Maine, the Oregon settlement began to be populated in the 1830s near the end of the Oregon Trail. Its water access provided convenient transportation of goods, and the industry was a major force in the citys early economy. At the turn of the 20th century, the city had a reputation as one of the most dangerous cities in the world. After the citys economy experienced a boom during World War II. Beginning in the 1960s, Portland became noted for its liberal political values, and the city has earned a reputation as a bastion of counterculture. According to a 2009 Pew Research Center study, Portland ranks as the eighth most popular American city, the city operates with a commission-based government guided by a mayor and four commissioners as well as Metro, the only directly elected metropolitan planning organization in the United States. The city government is notable for its planning and investment in public transportation. Its climate is marked by warm, dry summers and cool and this climate is ideal for growing roses, and Portland has been called the City of Roses for over a century. Keep Portland Weird is a slogan for the city. During the prehistoric period, the land that would become Portland was flooded after the collapse of glacial dams from Lake Missoula and these massive floods occurred during the last ice age and filled the Willamette Valley with 300 to 400 feet of water. The Chinook people occupying the land which would become Portland were first documented by Meriwether Lewis, before its European settlement, the Portland Basin of the lower Columbia River and Willamette River valleys had been one of the most densely populated regions on the Pacific Coast. Large numbers of settlers began arriving in the Willamette Valley in the 1830s via the Oregon Trail. In the early 1840s a new settlement began emerging ten miles from the mouth of the Willamette River and this community was initially referred to as Stumptown and The Clearing because of the many trees cut down to allow for its growth. In 1843 William Overton saw potential in the new settlement but lacked the funds to file a land claim. For 25 cents Overton agreed to half of the 640-acre site with Asa Lovejoy of Boston
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Clockwise: View of Portland with
Mount St. Helens in background; downtown cityscape;
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall;
Pioneer Courthouse;
Mt. Tabor Reservoir; Skyline Memorial Gardens
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Pioneer Courthouse, 1886
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Portland waterfront in 1898
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Rose Garden Arena
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Moda Center, formerly known as the Rose Garden, is the primary indoor sports arena in Portland, Oregon, United States. It is suitable for indoor events of all sorts, including basketball, ice hockey, rodeos, circuses, conventions, ice shows, concerts. The arena has a capacity of 19,393 spectators when configured for basketball and it is equipped with state-of-the-art acoustics and other amenities. The arena is owned by Vulcan Inc. a holding owned by Paul Allen. The primary tenant is the Portland Trail Blazers NBA franchise, also owned by Allen, the other major tenant of the building today is the major junior hockey franchise Portland Winterhawks of the Western Hockey League, which splits its schedule with the Memorial Coliseum next door. In addition, Moda Center is a venue for concerts. Construction began in 1993, and the arena opened on October 12,1995, Allen would later repurchase the arena from the creditors in 2007. When the name was selected, the remainder of the former grounds were given the name Rose Quarter. In August 2013, the Trail Blazers announced a 10-year deal with Moda Health, the renaming spurred a public outcry and petition by fans and Portlanders who preferred the old name. Portland mayor Charlie Hales initially expressed concern about the name, calling it a head scratcher, Moda Center is a precast concrete-framed structure with a roof made up of skeletal steel. The arena structure encloses a total of over 785,000 square feet, on eight levels, the building height is 140 feet, from the event floor to the pinnacle of the saddle-shaped roof. The arena includes a 60-by-40-foot permanent stage, and a 200-by-85-foot ice rink, the building is composed of over 48,000 cubic yards of concrete, and over 9,700 short tons of steel. The building, designed by architecture firm Ellerbe Becket, has been criticized by some in Portlands architectural community, a survey of local architects and planners was conducted by the Portland Tribune, and subsequently Moda Center was listed among the five ugliest buildings in the city. The arena has a total of over 14,000 permanent seats arranged in two bowls, an additional 1540 permanent seats are found in the arenas 70 skyboxes. Over 4,200 portable seats may or may not be installed, when configured for basketball, the arena has a capacity of 19,393, and can accommodate a total of up to 20,796 patrons with standing room. Prior to the 1998 NBA season the capacity was reduced to 19,980 from the original 21,485 spectators, when configured for hockey or lacrosse, capacity decreases to 17,544. The arena supports numerous other configurations for such as concerts, monster trucks. The seating below the suites, known as the bowl, is further divided into the 100 and 200 levels
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Moda Center
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Inside of Moda Center (then called the Rose Garden), circa 2001
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An exterior shot of the arena
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Vancouver
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Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2016 census recorded 631,486 people in the city, the Greater Vancouver area had 2,463,431 versus 2,313,328 in 2011, making it the third largest metropolitan area in Canada. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada with over 5,400 people per square kilometre. With over 250,000 residents, Vancouver municipality is the fourth most densely populated city in North America behind New York City, San Francisco, and Mexico City according to the 2011 census. In that census, Vancouver was one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada, Vancouver is classed as a Beta global city. In 2014, following thirty years in California, the annual TED conference made Vancouver its indefinite home, several matches of the 2015 FIFA Womens World Cup were played in Vancouver, including the final at BC Place Stadium. From that first enterprise, other stores and some hotels quickly appeared along the waterfront to the west, Gastown became formally laid out as a registered townsite dubbed Granville, B. I. As of 2014, Port Metro Vancouver is the third largest port by tonnage in the Americas, 27th in the world, the busiest and largest in Canada, and the most diversified port in North America. While forestry remains its largest industry, Vancouver is well known as an urban centre surrounded by nature, archaeological records indicate the presence of Aboriginal people in the Vancouver area from 8,000 to 10,000 years ago. The city is located in the territories of the Squamish, Musqueam. They had villages in various parts of present-day Vancouver, such as Stanley Park, False Creek, Kitsilano, Point Grey, the city takes its name from George Vancouver, who explored the inner harbour of Burrard Inlet in 1792 and gave various places British names. The explorer and North West Company trader Simon Fraser and his became the first known Europeans to set foot on the site of the present-day city. In 1808, they travelled from the east down the Fraser River, perhaps as far as Point Grey. The Fraser Gold Rush of 1858 brought over 25,000 men, mainly from California, to nearby New Westminster on the Fraser River, on their way to the Fraser Canyon, a sawmill established at Moodyville in 1863, began the citys long relationship with logging. It was quickly followed by mills owned by Captain Edward Stamp on the shore of the inlet. This mill, known as the Hastings Mill, became the nucleus around which Vancouver formed, the mills central role in the city waned after the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the 1880s. It nevertheless remained important to the economy until it closed in the 1920s. The settlement which came to be called Gastown grew up quickly around the original makeshift tavern established by Gassy Jack Deighton in 1867 on the edge of the Hastings Mill property
Vancouver
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Clockwise from top: Downtown Vancouver as seen from the southern shore of False Creek, The
University of British Columbia,
Lions Gate Bridge, a view from the
Granville Street Bridge,
Burrard Bridge, The Millennium Gate (
Chinatown), and
totem poles in
Stanley Park
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A portrait of the first Vancouver City Council meeting after the 1886 fire. The tent shown was on the east side of the 100 block Carrall.
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Panorama of Vancouver, 1898
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Kitsilano Beach is one of Vancouver's many beaches
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Rogers Arena
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Rogers Arena is an indoor sports arena located at 800 Griffiths Way in the downtown area of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is home to the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League, the name of the arena temporarily became Canada Hockey Place during the Olympics. It was previously home to the Vancouver Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association from 1995 to 2001, the Grizzlies spent six seasons in Vancouver before relocating to Memphis, Tennessee, for the 2001–02 season. The arena was home to the Vancouver Ravens of the National Lacrosse League from 2002 to 2004. The operations of the team have since been suspended, attempts were made to revive the team in 2007 and again in 2008. The employees of the arena belong to a trade union, in 2007, they chose to change their union affiliation from UNITE HERE – Local 40 to the Christian Labour Association of Canada. After many months of struggle the British Columbia Labour Relations Board declared the choice of a new union. The employee group includes hosts, housekeeping, security and various event staff at the venue, uNITE-HERE local 40 still represents food service workers in the arena, employed by Aramark. The stadiums event technical employees are provided through Riggit Services Inc, in mid-2006 the arena was upgraded with a ProAd LED ribbon board encircling the upper bowl and shortly thereafter with a $5 million Daktronics ProStar LED scoreboard. The original Mitsubishi Mark IV displays needed to be removed since the supply of replacement parts was not large enough to keep them operating throughout the 2006–2007 hockey season. The new LED scoreboard is built around four widescreen video displays that were the largest in the NHL until Bell Centres upgrades two years later, measuring 4.13 by 7.3 metres they are capable of displaying images in 4.4 trillion colours. The corners hold 1. 67-by-4. 13-metre displays with two ring displays each capping the top and bottom, the entire scoreboard weighs 22 tonnes, 2% less than the one it replaced. The normally three-week assembly period was completed in one week. The arena received further upgrades in October 2008 but this time it was in the audio department, the 13-year-old Bose sound system was replaced with a newer, more powerful one. As with the system, the designers used audio modeling software to verify that the designs clarity. The system consists of L-Acoustics speakers and amplified controllers and is mixed through a Soundcraft Vi6 digital console, the console and controllers are linked through a redundant fibre network allowing the console to be moved to various places around the building within minutes. Suspended from the roof are 78 full-range line source cabinets,12 woofers,16 subwoofers and 6 full-range cabinets in the scoreboard for additional on-ice coverage and these are driven by 23 LA8 amplifiers providing 165,600 watts of available power at 4 ohms. It is the largest L-Acoustics installation in North America, the speaker breakdown is as follows
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The scoreboard and ring displays during the Canucks 2007 playoffs game.
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Another look of the jumbotron scoreboard in Rogers Arena.
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Calgary
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Calgary is a city in the Canadian province of Alberta. It is situated at the confluence of the Bow River and the Elbow River in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, the city anchors the south end of what Statistics Canada defines as the Calgary–Edmonton Corridor. The city had a population of 1,239,220 in 2016, making it Albertas largest city, also in 2016, Calgary had a metropolitan population of 1,392,609, making it the fourth-largest census metropolitan area in Canada. The Calgary CMA is home to the second-highest number of head offices in Canada among the countrys 800 largest corporations. In 1988, Calgary became the first Canadian city to host the Winter Olympic Games, Calgary was named after Calgary on the Isle of Mull, Scotland. In turn, the name originates from a compound of kald and gart, similar Old Norse words, meaning cold and garden, alternatively, the name might be Gaelic Cala ghearraidh, meaning beach of the meadow, or Gaelic for either clear running water or bay farm. The Calgary area was inhabited by people whose presence has been traced back at least 11,000 years. Before the arrival of Europeans, the area was inhabited by the Blackfoot, Blood, Peigan, in 1787, cartographer David Thompson spent the winter with a band of Peigan encamped along the Bow River. He was a Hudsons Bay Company trader and the first recorded European to visit the area, John Glenn was the first documented European settler in the Calgary area, in 1873. The site became a post of the North-West Mounted Police, the NWMP detachment was assigned in 1875 to protect the western plains from US whisky traders, and to protect the fur trade. Originally named Fort Brisebois, after NWMP officer Éphrem-A, Brisebois, it was renamed Fort Calgary in 1876 by Colonel James Macleod. When the Canadian Pacific Railway reached the area in 1883, over a century later, the Canadian Pacific Railway headquarters moved to Calgary from Montreal in 1996. Calgary was officially incorporated as a town in 1884, and elected its first mayor, in 1894, it was incorporated as The City of Calgary in what was then the North-West Territories. The Calgary Police Service was established in 1885 and assumed municipal, local duties from the NWMP, the Calgary Fire of 1886 occurred on November 7,1886. Fourteen buildings were destroyed with losses estimated at $103,200, although no one was killed or injured, city officials drafted a law requiring all large downtown buildings to be built with Paskapoo sandstone, to prevent this from happening again. After the arrival of the railway, the Dominion Government started leasing grazing land at minimal cost, as a result of this policy, large ranching operations were established in the outlying country near Calgary. Already a transportation and distribution hub, Calgary quickly became the centre of Canadas cattle marketing and meatpacking industries. By the late 19th century, the Hudsons Bay Company expanded into the interior and established posts along rivers that later developed into the cities of Winnipeg, Calgary
Calgary
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From top left:
Scotiabank Saddledome and
Downtown Calgary,
SAIT Polytechnic,
Calgary Stampede,
Canada Olympic Park,
Lougheed House,
Stephen Avenue,
Calgary Zoo
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Calgary as it appeared circa 1885
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Downtown Calgary in 2010.
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Ice fog is common over ice-free currents of the
Bow River when temperatures drop to −17 °C (1 °F).
Hoar frost forms on vegetation. January 9, 2015 −20 °C (−4 °F), 10:00 am
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Scotiabank Saddledome
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Scotiabank Saddledome is a multi-use indoor arena in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The facility also hosts concerts, conferences and other sporting championships and it underwent a major renovation in 1994–95 and sold its naming rights, during which its original name of Olympic Saddledome was changed to Canadian Airlines Saddledome. The facility was given the name Pengrowth Saddledome in 2000, after Pengrowth Management Ltd. signed a ten-year agreement and it adopted its current name in October 2010 as Scotiabank signed on as title sponsor. The Saddledome is owned by the City of Calgary who leased it to the Saddledome Foundation and it is currently managed by the Calgary Flames. The Saddledome was damaged during the 2013 Alberta floods but was repaired and reopened in time for the 2013–14 NHL season, Calgary had been served for 30 years by the Stampede Corral when the Calgary Flames arrived in 1980. With a total capacity of 8,700, the Corral was the largest arena in Canada west of Toronto in 1950, but had fallen below major league standards by the 1970s. The Corral was deemed insufficient for the National Hockey League in 1977, Calgarys bid to host the 1988 Winter Olympics, coupled with the arrival of the Flames, drove the need to build a new arena. City Council debated the merits of several locations for the citys new Olympic Coliseum, two other sites, one on the west end of downtown, and a late bid by several businessmen pushing to build the arena in the northern suburb of Airdrie were also considered. The Victoria Park Community Association fought the bid to build the arena in their neighborhood, City Council voted on March 3,1981 to build the proposed 20,000 seat arena on the Stampede grounds, immediately east of the Corral and south of Victoria Park. In a bid to end the battle, Mayor Ralph Klein asked the government in July 1981 to take over the land designated for the arena to bypass the appeals process. The province supported the city amidst protests by community associations and invoked rarely used powers to overrule planning regulations, the following day, on July 29,1981, builders began construction of the arena. The facility was designed by Graham McCourt Architects, while they set out to design a unique building, the idea of a western theme never occurred to Barry Graham or his team. When the design was unveiled, the roof was immediately referred to as being saddle-shaped, of 1,270 entries submitted in a contest to name the arena,735 involved the word Saddle. The winning name in the contest, Olympic Saddledome, was drawn from a hat filled with several similar saddle-themed names, as of 2008, the Saddledome was still reported as the world record holder for the longest spanning hyperbolic paraboloid concrete shell. The Saddledome was featured on the cover of Time Magazine on September 27,1987, for an article discussing the city of Calgary and the upcoming 1988 Olympics. The location of the Saddledome within Stampede Park allows for access to Calgarys C-Train light rail transit system via the Victoria Park/Stampede station that stands parallel to Macleod Trail. The C-Train station, BMO Centre, Stampede Corral and Saddledome are all connected via a Plus 15 pedestrian skyway, direct vehicle access is gained from the north via 5th Street East or Olympic Way. The arena was initially projected to cost $60 million to build, attempts to fast track construction resulted in a $16 million cost overrun, resulting in a final cost of $97.7 million and an eight-month delay in its completion
Scotiabank Saddledome
Scotiabank Saddledome
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The Saddledome's location within Stampede Park, as seen from the
Calgary Tower.
Scotiabank Saddledome
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The Saddledome and
Calgary skyline at night
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Inside the Saddledome during a
Calgary Roughnecks game
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Edmonton
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Edmonton /ˈɛdməntən/ is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta. Edmonton is on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Capital Region, the city anchors the north end of what Statistics Canada defines as the Calgary–Edmonton Corridor. The city had a population of 932,546 in 2016, making it Albertas second-largest city, also in 2016, Edmonton had a metropolitan population of 1,321,426, making it the sixth-largest census metropolitan area in Canada. Edmonton is North Americas northernmost city with a population over one million. A resident of Edmonton is known as an Edmontonian, Edmontons historic growth has been facilitated through the absorption of five adjacent urban municipalities and a series of annexations ending in 1982. Known as the Gateway to the North, the city is a point for large-scale oil sands projects occurring in northern Alberta. Edmonton is a cultural, governmental and educational centre and it hosts a year-round slate of festivals, reflected in the nickname Canadas Festival City. It is home to North Americas largest mall, West Edmonton Mall, in 1754, Anthony Henday, an explorer for the Hudsons Bay Company, may have been the first European to enter the Edmonton area. By 1795, Fort Edmonton was established on the north bank as a major trading post for the Hudsons Bay Company. The new forts name was suggested by John Peter Pruden after Edmonton, London, the home town of both the HBC deputy governor Sir James Winter Lake, and Pruden. In 1876, Treaty 6, which includes what is now Edmonton, was signed between the Aboriginal peoples in Canada and Queen Victoria as Queen of Canada, as part of the Numbered Treaties of Canada. The agreement includes the Plains and Woods Cree, Assiniboine, and other governments of First Nations at Fort Carlton, Fort Pitt. The area covered by the treaty represents most of the area of the current provinces of Saskatchewan. The arrival of the CPR and the C&E Railway helped bring settlers and entrepreneurs from eastern Canada, Europe, U. S. the Edmonton areas fertile soil and cheap land attracted settlers, further establishing Edmonton as a major regional commercial and agricultural centre. Some people participating in the Klondike Gold Rush passed through South Edmonton/Strathcona in 1897, in November 1905, the Canadian Northern Railway arrived in Edmonton, accelerating growth. During the early 1900s, Edmontons rapid growth led to speculation in real estate, in 1912, Edmonton amalgamated with the City of Strathcona, south of the North Saskatchewan River, as a result, the city extended south of the North Saskatchewan River for the first time. Just prior to World War I, the boom ended, many impoverished families moved to subsistence farms outside the city, while others fled to greener pastures in other provinces. Recruitment to the Canadian army during the war contributed to the drop in population
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From top left:
Downtown Edmonton,
Fort Edmonton Park,
Legislature Building,
Law Courts,
Rexall Place,
High Level Bridge,
Muttart Conservatory
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Jasper Avenue in Edmonton, ca.1907
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Panorama of Edmonton's downtown skyline.
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Streambed in Hawrelak Park
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Rexall Place
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Northlands Coliseum, or simply the Coliseum, is an indoor arena located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, situated on the north side of Northlands. It was home to the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League, the arena opened in 1974, and was later known as Edmonton Coliseum, Skyreach Centre, and Rexall Place. The arena hosted the 1981 and 1984 Canada Cup hockey tournaments, the final NHL game was played at Rexall Place on April 6,2016. Northlands Coliseum is expected to continue operating as a concert venue, housing the World Hockey Association Oilers, Northlands Coliseum opened on November 10,1974, named after the nonprofit organization that still owns the arena today. The Katz Group later purchased the Oilers and the Oil Kings, when the naming rights expired on August 31,2016, the name reverted back to Northlands Coliseum. The arena was used to host games in the 1981 and 1984 Canada Cup hockey tournaments, the arena was one of the venues for the 2012 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. The venue was the site of several Commonwealth Games sports in 1978 and it also hosted the World Wrestling Entertainment 2004 Backlash pay per view, and the CHL Top Prospects Game in 2008. Annual events include the Canadian Finals Rodeo and the Christian Conference, before the 2007-08 season started, the Oilers dressing room was renovated for $3.5 million. The room is wider with a new room, lounge, bar, video room. The Oilers last game at the Coliseum was April 6,2016, the Oilers won 6-2, the last NHL goal was scored by Oiler Leon Draisaitl. After the game, many former and current Edmonton Oilers gathered at centre ice for a ceremony for the arena. The official capacity for hockey is currently 16,839, which is less than the 17,100 the arena held before the 2001–02 NHL season. It was one of three NHL arenas not capable of seating more than 17,000 fans in its configuration. When it opened, the capacity was 15,423, and this was increased to 17,498 in 1982 and to 17,503 in 1986. The arena underwent a renovation in 1994 in which the seating capacity was reduced to make way for 52 luxury suites. 15 more suites were added in 2001, the arena can also be noisy, as noise levels have reached 119 dB during playoff games. Northlands Coliseum was the first NHL arena in Canada to have a scoreboard with an electronic messageboard. This was replaced in 1987 by a scoreboard with a colour matrix screen
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North face of Rexall Place
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Rexall Place, then known as "Skyreach Centre", seen in 2001.
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Rexall Place at night
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Landmarks
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Saskatoon
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Saskatoon is the largest city in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The City of Saskatoon has estimated its population to be 265,300 as of the end of 2016, the Rural Municipality of Corman Park No. 344, the most populous municipality in Saskatchewan, surrounds the city and contains many of the developments associated with it. Saskatoon is named after the berry of the name, which is native to the region. The city has a significant Indigenous population and several urban Reserves and it is known for its diverse and vibrant culture and its eight river crossings that give it the nicknames Paris of the Prairies and Bridge City. Historic neighbourhoods of Saskatoon include Nutana and Riversdale, which were separate towns before amalgamating with the town of Saskatoon, Sutherland, the rail town the city annexed in 1956 that lies beyond the University lands, is now another historic neighbourhood. The name Saskatoon comes from the Cree inanimate noun misâskwatômina saskatoon berries, in 1882, the Toronto-based Temperance Colonization Society was granted 21 sections of land straddling the South Saskatchewan River, between what is now Warman and Dundurn. The aim of the group was to escape the liquor trade in that city, the following year settlers, led by John Neilson Lake, arrived on the site of what is now Saskatoon and established the first permanent settlement. The settlers travelled by railway from Ontario to Moose Jaw and then completed the leg via horse-drawn cart as the railway had yet to be completed to Saskatoon. In 1885 the Northwest Rebellion affected the community in a variety of ways. Chief Whitecap and Charles Trottier passed through the present day University campus on their way to join Louis Riels armed forces at Batoche, Saskatchewan. Following the fighting at the Battle of Fish Creek, and the Battle of Batoche, a few died in care and were buried in the Pioneer Cemetery near the Exhibition Grounds. A town charter for the west side of the river was obtained in 1903, in 1906 Saskatoon became a city with a population of 4,500, which included the communities of Saskatoon, Riversdale and Nutana. In 1955 Montgomery Place and in 1956 the neighbouring town of Sutherland were annexed by the fast-growing City of Saskatoon, the economy of Saskatoon has been associated with potash, oil and agriculture, resulting in the moniker POW City. Various grains, livestock, oil and gas, potash, uranium, gold, diamond, coal, the worlds largest publicly traded uranium company, Cameco, and the worlds largest potash producer, PotashCorp, have corporate headquarters in Saskatoon. Saskatoon is also the new home of BHP Billitons Diamonds and Specialty Products business unit, nearly two-thirds of the worlds recoverable potash reserves are in the Saskatoon region. Saskatoon is also home to the Canadian Light Source, Canadas national synchrotron facility, saskatoon’s digital media scene is growing with start-up tech companies such as Noodlecake, OneStory, Point2, Vendasta Technologies, and Zu. Another of Saskatoons nicknames, Hub City, refers to its central location within Canada for distribution
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From Left to Right-Downtown Saskatoon featuring the
South Saskatchewan River,
The Delta Bessborough, Saskatoon Fireworks Festival,
Broadway Avenue,
Wanuskewin Heritage Park,
The University of Saskatchewan,
The Saskatoon Berry, The Saskatoon skyline featuring the
Broadway Bridge
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Barr Colonists in 1903
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Innovation Place with the Canadian Light Source synchrotron in the foreground.
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Saskatoon skyline and the
South Saskatchewan River
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Credit Union Centre
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SaskTel Centre is an arena located in the Agriplace Industrial Park, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Situated near the northern entrance, the facility opened in February 1988 with a seating capacity of around 7,800. It was expanded to 11,330 for the World Junior Hockey Championships in 1990, more additional permanent seating was added in 2008 and 2009. The current capacity is now 15,190 for hockey and it is the home venue of the Saskatoon Blades of the Western Hockey League and the Saskatchewan Rush of the National Lacrosse League. In 1982, Bill Hunter, a sports promoter, attempted to purchase the St. Louis Blues NHL team. Part of his plan included building an 18, 000-seat arena, despite Hunters best efforts, the NHL rejected his offer and Hunters plans to relocate an NHL team and build a new arena collapsed. The site eventually chosen for SaskTel Centre was initially, and still is, at the time of construction, there were very few businesses and services located in the immediate area. As of 2016, the area has expanded, but the lack of fan amenities that most would find in other cities, such as nearby bars and restaurants. A Motel 6 was the first hotel to be built near the arena, a second hotel was constructed in the early 2010s. Plans to build interchanges on the two access routes into the facility were announced soon after the arena opened. However, these never developed, with the city and province instead opting to install a set of traffic lights at Marquis Drive. Near-sighted planning on behalf of the city at the time of construction has led to traffic severely backing up after large-scale events in recent years. In the early 2000s, Saunders Avenue, a street leading into the lot of Credit Union Centre, was renamed Bill Hunter Avenue in honour of Bill Hunter. This was considered ironic by many Saskatonians, given Hunter lobbied for the facility to be built in another location near the old Saskatoon Arena, the city then transferred the Saunders name to a new street in the River Landing redevelopment area—running through the former site of the Saskatoon Arena. In 2008-2009, the arena was renovated for the 2010 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, there were 2,981 seats added to the upper deck at the west end of the arena increasing the capacity of the arena at more than 15,000. The cost of the expansion was pegged at C$6.7 million, c$2 million was requested as a loan from the city of Saskatoon and C$3 million from a provincial grant. Hockey Canada may have contributed about C$500,000. The expansion also includes extra washrooms and concessions, by May 2011, Ice Edge Holdings had abandoned its plan to purchase the team
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SaskTel Centre
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The interior of SaskTel Centre prior to a Saskatoon Blades game.
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Winnipeg
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Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is located near the centre of North America and is 110 kilometres from the U. S. border. It is also the place of the confluence of the Red, the city is named after the nearby Lake Winnipeg, the name comes from the Western Cree words for muddy water. The region was a centre for aboriginal peoples long before the arrival of Europeans. French traders built the first fort on the site in 1738, a settlement was later founded by the Selkirk settlers of the Red River Colony in 1812, the nucleus of which was incorporated as the City of Winnipeg in 1873. As of 2011, Winnipeg is the seventh most populated municipality in Canada, being located very far inland, the local climate is extremely seasonal even by Canadian standards with average January lows of around −21 °C and average July highs of 26 °C. Known as the Gateway to the West, Winnipeg is a railway, Winnipeg was the first Canadian host of the Pan American Games. It is home to professional sports franchises, including the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, the Winnipeg Jets, Manitoba Moose. Winnipeg lies at the confluence of the Assiniboine and the Red River of the North and this point was at the crossroads of canoe routes travelled by First Nations before European contact. Winnipeg is named after nearby Lake Winnipeg, the name is a transcription of the Western Cree words for muddy or brackish water. Estimates of the date of first settlement in this area are varied, in 1805, Canadian colonists observed First Nations peoples engaged in farming activity along the Red River. The practice quickly expanded, driven by the demand by traders for provisions, the rivers provided an extensive transportation network linking northern First Peoples with those to the south along the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. The Ojibwe made some of the first maps on birch bark, sieur de La Vérendrye built the first fur trading post on the site in 1738, called Fort Rouge. French trading continued at this site for decades before the arrival of the British Hudsons Bay Company after France ceded the territory following its defeat in the Seven Years War. Many French and later British men who were trappers married First Nations women, their mixed-race children hunted, traded and they gradually developed as an ethnicity known as the Métis because of sharing a traditional culture. Lord Selkirk was involved with the first permanent settlement, the purchase of land from the Hudsons Bay Company, the North West Company built Fort Gibraltar in 1809, and the Hudsons Bay Company built Fort Douglas in 1812, both in the area of present-day Winnipeg. The two companies competed fiercely over trade, the Métis and Lord Selkirks settlers fought at the Battle of Seven Oaks in 1816. In 1821, the Hudsons Bay and North West Companies merged, Fort Gibraltar was renamed Fort Garry in 1822 and became the leading post in the region for the Hudsons Bay Company
Winnipeg
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Clockwise from top:
Downtown featuring the
Canadian Museum for Human Rights,
Investors Group Field,
Saint Boniface and the
Esplanade Riel bridge, Wesley Hall at the
University of Winnipeg,
Manitoba Legislative Building.
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Winnipeg's old City Hall in 1887
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The Winnipeg General Strike, 21 June 1919
Winnipeg
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River walkway near
The Forks, with
St. Boniface Cathedral in the background
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MTS Centre
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The MTS Centre is an indoor sports arena and entertainment venue located at 300 Portage Avenue in downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The arena is the home of the Winnipeg Jets of the National Hockey League and the Jets American Hockey League affiliate, the MTS Centre stands on the former Eatons site and is owned and operated by True North Sports & Entertainment. The 440,000 square feet building was constructed at a cost of $133.5 million CAD and it opened on November 16,2004, replacing the since-demolished Winnipeg Arena. It has a capacity of 15,294 for hockey and 16,345 for concerts, originally known as the True North Centre during its planning and construction stages, its naming rights are owned by Bell MTS. With the bankruptcy of the iconic Eatons retailer, the store that was originally constructed in Winnipeg was emptied in late 2001. The MTS Centre officially opened on November 16,2004, replacing the aging Winnipeg Arena, in an effort to recognize the stores history, red bricks were incorporated into the design of the arena façade, evoking the memory of the Eaton’s store that had once graced Portage Avenue. An original store window and Tyndall stone surround is mounted in the concourse to house a collection of Eatons memorabilia. In addition, two war memorials were incorporated into the building, the Timothy Eaton statue that was once a main feature of the store is also housed in the MTS Centre, near the spot where it stood in the Eatons building. The AHLs Manitoba Moose were the arenas first tenant, from its opening in 2004 to 2011, the team relocated to St. Johns prior to the 2011–12 AHL season to make way for the arrival of the Winnipeg Jets. The Moose returned to the MTS Centre for the 2015–16 season, only the lower bowl, which has a capacity of 8,812, is used for the majority of Moose home games. The arena hosted the AHL All-Star Classic on February 1,2006, in which Team Canada defeated Team PlanetUSA, from 1972 to 1996, the original Winnipeg Jets played home games out of the now-demolished Winnipeg Arena. Facing mounting financial troubles, the relocated to Arizona after the 1995–96 NHL season. The idea of Winnipeg one day returning to the NHL gained momentum after the MTS Centre opened, david Thomson and Mark Chipman were floated as potential owners of an NHL team, although many questions were raised about the MTS Centres potential suitability as an NHL venue. The arenas capacity was well below that of the next-smallest NHL arena at that time, the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Chipman stated that the arenas current size was sufficient for an NHL team due to the unique economics of the local market. On May 19,2011, The Globe and Mail reported that Mark Chipman and True North were finalizing the purchase of the Atlanta Thrashers, further improvements were made over the next few years, including concourse expansion and the installation of a new high-definition scoreboard. A total of 278 premium seats were added to the level in 2015. Prior to the return of the Jets, the MTS Centre hosted a number of NHL preseason games, the first was held on September 17,2006 between the Edmonton Oilers and the Phoenix Coyotes, in front of a sold-out crowd, which the Oilers won 5–0. In international hockey, the MTS Centre hosted the 2007 IIHF Womens World Championship, which was won by the host country
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MTS Centre
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The Winnipeg Jets celebrate their first regulation win in Winnipeg at the MTS Centre on October 17, 2011.
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A
Manitoba Moose game
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Minneapolis
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Minneapolis is the county seat of Hennepin County, and the larger of the Twin Cities, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States. As of 2015, Minneapolis is the largest city in the state of Minnesota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul anchor the second-largest economic center in the Midwest, after Chicago. Minneapolis lies on both banks of the Mississippi River, just north of the confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Saint Paul. It was once the worlds flour milling capital and a hub for timber, the city and surrounding region is the primary business center between Chicago and Seattle, with Minneapolis proper containing Americas fifth-highest concentration of Fortune 500 companies. As an integral link to the economy, Minneapolis is categorized as a global city. Noted for its music and performing arts scenes, Minneapolis is home to both the award-winning Guthrie Theater and the historic First Avenue nightclub. The name Minneapolis is attributed to Charles Hoag, the citys first schoolteacher, who combined mni, a Dakota Sioux word for water, and polis, Dakota Sioux had long been the regions sole residents when French explorers arrived around 1680. For a time relations were based on fur trading, gradually more European-American settlers arrived, competing for game and other resources with the Dakota. In the early 19th century, the United States acquired this territory from France, fort Snelling was built in 1819 by the United States Army, and it attracted traders, settlers and merchants, spurring growth in the area. The United States government pressed the Mdewakanton band of the Dakota to sell their land, the Minnesota Territorial Legislature authorized present-day Minneapolis as a town in 1856 on the Mississippis west bank. Minneapolis incorporated as a city in 1867, the rail service began between Minneapolis and Chicago. It later joined with the city of St. Anthony in 1872. Minneapolis developed around Saint Anthony Falls, the highest waterfall on the Mississippi River, forests in northern Minnesota were a valuable resource for the lumber industry, which operated seventeen sawmills on power from the waterfall. By 1871, the west river bank had twenty-three businesses, including mills, woolen mills, iron works, a railroad machine shop, and mills for cotton, paper, sashes. Due to the hazards of milling, six local sources of artificial limbs were competing in the prosthetics business by the 1890s. The farmers of the Great Plains grew grain that was shipped by rail to the citys thirty-four flour mills, a father of modern milling in America and founder of what became General Mills, Cadwallader C. Some ideas were developed by William Dixon Gray and some acquired through industrial espionage from the Hungarians by William de la Barre, pillsbury Company across the river were barely a step behind, hiring Washburn employees to immediately use the new methods. The hard red spring wheat that grows in Minnesota became valuable, not until later did consumers discover the value in the bran that Minneapolis
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Clockwise from top:
Downtown Minneapolis,
Downtown,
TCF Bank Stadium, the
Guthrie Theater,
Minnehaha Falls, and
First Avenue and 7th St Entry nightclub
Minneapolis
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Taoyateduta was among the 121
Sioux leaders who from 1837 to 1851 ceded what is now Minneapolis.
Minneapolis
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Loading
flour,
Pillsbury, 1939
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Mississippi riverfront and
Saint Anthony Falls in 1915. At left,
Pillsbury, power plants and the
Stone Arch Bridge. Today the
Minnesota Historical Society 's Mill City Museum is in the
Washburn "A" Mill, across the river just to the left of the falls. At center left are
Northwestern Consolidated mills. The tall building is
Minneapolis City Hall. In the right foreground are
Nicollet Island and the
Hennepin Avenue Bridge.
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Target Center
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Target Center is a multi-purpose arena located in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. Target Center hosts major family shows, concerts, sporting events, graduations, Target Corporation is the original and current naming rights partner of the arena. Seating over 20,000 for a concert, it contains 702 club seats and 68 suites, the center is home to the NBAs Minnesota Timberwolves and the WNBAs Minnesota Lynx. The facility has hosted the LFLs Minnesota Valkyrie, the RHIs Minnesota Arctic Blast. Original Timberwolves owners Marv Wolfenson and Harvey Ratner built, owned and operated the arena for five years beginning in 1990, the venue was managed by Ogden Entertainment after the city of Minneapolis purchased the arena in 1995. Glen Taylor acquired the Timberwolves in 1994 and the Lynx in 1999, in 2000, SFX took over the contract. The management was changed in May 2004 from Clear Channel to Midwest Entertainment Group, on May 2,2007 AEG Facilities assumed the management contract of Target Center. The city of Minneapolis owns the arena and AEG Facilities manages day-to-day operations, Target Center was once one of three NBA arenas with parquet floors, including TD Garden in Boston, and Amway Arena in Orlando—the floor was replaced prior to the 2008 NBA season. Target Center is the first arena to have a green roof and it was unveiled on September 15,2009. In February 2011, the Timberwolves and the city of Minneapolis introduced a $155 million proposal to remodel the Target Center. Plans included shifting the entrance to the corner of 6th Street and First Avenue. The plan was approved in 2012 by the Minnesota Legislature, as part of the bill authorized a new stadium for the Minnesota Vikings. On April 3,2015, the Minneapolis City Council gave the approval for renovation plans for Target Center. The total cost will be $128.9 million, which upgrade the exterior, seats, technology and loading bays. The city will contribute $74 million, glen Taylor, owner of the Timberwolves and Lynx, will pay a total of $49 million, AEG will contribute $5.9 million. As a result, the Timberwolves lease will run until 2035, in 1999, Target Center hosted the Peoples Celebration inaugural event for Gov. Jesse Ventura. The event drew 14,000 people, and included performances by Jonny Lang, Warren Zevon, the Professional Bull Riders held a Built Ford Tough Series event at Target Center during the 2003 and 2006 seasons. It hosted the 1994 NBA All-Star Game, the 1995 NCAA Womens Final Four, the Target Center held the memorable UFC championship UFC87, Seek and Destroy in August 2008, which featured the Welterweight title match where Georges St-Pierre defeated Jon Fitch
Target Center
Target Center
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The interior before a Timberwolves game
Target Center
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The Target Center hosting a
Rage Against the Machine concert.
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Milwaukee
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Milwaukee is the largest city in the state of Wisconsin and the fifth-largest city in the Midwestern United States. The county seat of Milwaukee County, it is on Lake Michigans western shore, Milwaukees estimated population in 2015 was 600,155. Milwaukee is the cultural and economic center of the Milwaukee–Racine–Waukesha Metropolitan Area with an estimated population of 2,046,692 as of 2015. Ranked by estimated 2014 population, Milwaukee is the 31st largest city in the United States, the first Europeans to pass through the area were French Catholic missionaries and fur traders. In 1818, the French Canadian explorer Solomon Juneau settled in the area, large numbers of German immigrants helped increase the citys population during the 1840s, with Poles and other immigrants arriving in the following decades. Known for its traditions, Milwaukee is currently experiencing its largest construction boom since the 1960s. In addition, many new skyscrapers, condos, lofts and apartments have been built in neighborhoods on and near the lakefront, the word Milwaukee may come from the Potawatomi language minwaking, or Ojibwe language ominowakiing, Gathering place. The first recorded inhabitants of the Milwaukee area are the Menominee, Fox, Mascouten, Sauk, Potawatomi, Ojibwe, many of these people had lived around Green Bay before migrating to the Milwaukee area around the time of European contact. In the second half of the 18th century, the Indians at Milwaukee played a role in all the wars on the American continent. During the French and Indian War, a group of Ojibwas, in the American Revolutionary War, the Indians around Milwaukee were some of the few Indians who remained loyal to the American cause throughout the Revolution. After American independence, the Indians fought the United States in the Northwest Indian War as part of the Council of Three Fires, during the War of 1812, Indians held a council in Milwaukee in June 1812, which resulted in their decision to attack Chicago. This resulted in the Battle of Fort Dearborn on August 15,1812, the War of 1812 did not end well for the Indians, and after the Black Hawk War in 1832, the Indians in Milwaukee signed their final treaty with the United States in Chicago in 1833. This paved the way for American settlement, Europeans had arrived in the Milwaukee area prior to the 1833 Treaty of Chicago. French missionaries and traders first passed through the area in the late 17th and 18th centuries, alexis Laframboise, in 1785, coming from Michilimackinac settled a trading post, therefore, he is the first European descent resident of the Milwaukee region. Early explorers called the Milwaukee River and surrounding lands various names, Melleorki, Milwacky, Mahn-a-waukie, Milwarck, for many years, printed records gave the name as Milwaukie. One story of Milwaukees name says, ne day during the thirties of the last century a newspaper calmly changed the name to Milwaukee, the spelling Milwaukie lives on in Milwaukie, Oregon, named after the Wisconsin city in 1847, before the current spelling was universally accepted. Milwaukee has three founding fathers, Solomon Juneau, Byron Kilbourn, and George H. Walker, Solomon Juneau was the first of the three to come to the area, in 1818. He was not the first European settler but founded a town called Juneaus Side, or Juneautown, in competition with Juneau, Byron Kilbourn established Kilbourntown west of the Milwaukee River and made sure the streets running toward the river did not join with those on the east side
Milwaukee
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Clockwise from top left:
Milwaukee skyline and
Lake Michigan,
Milwaukee Art Museum,
Milwaukee Central Library,
Allen-Bradley Clock Tower, Marquette Hall at
Marquette University,
Milwaukee City Hall,
Miller Park, and the
Basilica of St. Josaphat.
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Statue of
Solomon Juneau, who helped establish the city of Milwaukee
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Illustrated map of Milwaukee in 1872
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Milwaukee's
Lake Front Depot in 1898
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BMO Harris Bradley Center
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The Bradley Center is an indoor arena located on the northwest corner of North 4th and West State Streets in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. It is home to the Milwaukee Bucks of the NBA and the Marquette University mens basketball team, the arena opened on October 1,1988, with an exhibition hockey game between the Chicago Blackhawks and the Edmonton Oilers. At $90 million, it was meant to be a replacement of its current cross-street neighbor, The MECCA. The MECCA, during much of its operating as an NBA facility, had the leagues smallest seating capacity. The donation from the Pettits did not include provision for the buildings long-term capital needs or annual operating expenses, while the facility is self-sufficient, in recent years its tenants have been at a disadvantage compared with other NBA teams due to the arrangement. For several years, former Bucks owner and former U. S, senator Herb Kohl proposed constructing a new, state-of-the-art downtown arena, but the community reaction to the idea of a publicly funded arena was mostly negative. In 2009, Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle included a provision in the capital budget seeking $5 million in state bonding support to renovate the Bradley Center. The Bradley Centers board of directors told state officials that the building needs $23 million in renovations, so they reportedly agreed to raise the remaining $18 million on their own. Unlike many other NBA and NHL scoreboards, the panel also has an LED screen. On September 18,2013, then-deputy NBA commissioner Adam Silver toured the arena, Silver said that the building was a few thousand square feet short of NBA standards, and also lacked numerous amenities. The NBA issued a mandate requiring the Bucks to relocate, or be close to completion of a new facility by 2017, on April 16,2014, Bucks owner Herb Kohl announced an agreement to sell the franchise to New York City hedge-fund investors Marc Lasry and Wesley Edens. The deal included provisions for $100 million each from Kohl and the new group, for a total of $200 million. On August 12,2015, Governor Walker signed the spending plan at Wisconsin State Fair Park in West Allis. The arenas icemaking plant and HVAC buildings were demolished and the cooling facilities moved to a smaller facility away from the construction site. As the arena will no longer host regular hockey games, it only need to create ice for Disney on Ice performances in 2017 and 2018. Other modifications include a new loading dock and trash disposal facilities on the east side of the structure, the arena hosted the NCAA Frozen Four finals in 1993,1997 and 2006 and the Great Midwest Conference mens basketball tournament in 1995. The BMO Harris Bradley Center also played host to the first UFC event in Wisconsin, UFC Live, UFC164 was also held at the arena on August 31,2013. The Bradley Center was a host site for second and third-round games in the 2014 NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament, shortly thereafter, WWEs ratings fell and they began using the smaller MECCA for shows
BMO Harris Bradley Center
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BMO Harris Bradley Center logo
BMO Harris Bradley Center
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BMO Harris Bradley Center
BMO Harris Bradley Center
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Southeast entrance.
BMO Harris Bradley Center
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The arena set up for a
Milwaukee Bucks game in 2005.
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Rosemont, Illinois
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Rosemont is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, located immediately northwest of Chicago. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 4,202, the village was incorporated in 1956, though it had been settled long before that. The residential sections of Rosemont are a community, as a result of the 1995 decision by residents to enclose the residential portions of the city. According to the 2010 census, Rosemont has an area of 1.79 square miles. As of the 2000 census, there were 4,224 people,1,692 households, the population density was 2,423.6 per square mile. There were 1,745 housing units at a density of 1,001.2 per square mile. The racial makeup of the village was 79. 24% White,1. 35% African American,0. 88% Native American,4. 40% Asian,0. 02% Pacific Islander,11. 55% from other races, and 2. 56% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 35. 35% of the population, Rosemont was tied for first place in 2000 with Bowdon, Georgia as the place in the United States with the highest percentage of people reporting Bulgarian ancestry. The percentage of people so reporting in 2000 was 2. 7%,35. 0% of all households were made up of individuals and 13. 4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.50 and the family size was 3.31. In the village, the population was out with 24. 4% under the age of 18,10. 4% from 18 to 24,35. 7% from 25 to 44,18. 4% from 45 to 64. The median age was 32 years, for every 100 females there were 110.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 111.2 males, the median income for a household in the village was $34,663, and the median income for a family was $44,939. Males had an income of $30,066 versus $30,015 for females. The per capita income for the village was $19,781, about 10. 6% of families and 14. 9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 23. 6% of those under age 18 and 10. 6% of those age 65 or over. Rosemont is positioned between OHare International Airport and the rest of the City of Chicago, due to its location, much of the village is occupied by large hotels and office buildings. According to Colliers Bennett & Kahnweiler, the Rosemont/OHare office market encompassed approximately 13,500,000 square feet of total inventory in 2008, additionally, Rosemont operates several visitor related-forums. Among these are the Donald E, the village is the sponsor of the Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps
Rosemont, Illinois
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River Road in Rosemont
Rosemont, Illinois
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Major city
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Allstate Arena
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Allstate Arena is a multi-purpose arena in Rosemont, Illinois, United States. It is home to the Chicago Wolves of the American Hockey League, the DePaul Blue Demons mens basketball team from DePaul University, and it is located near the intersection of Mannheim Road and Interstate 90, adjacent to the city limits of Chicago and OHare International Airport. The facility opened in 1980 as Rosemont Horizon and seats 18,211 for basketball and 17,500 for ice hockey. The Village of Rosemont issued $19 million in bonds to finance the cost of the arena with exclusive contracts with Araserv, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and MFG International. On August 13,1979, the roof of the Rosemont Horizon collapsed, killing five construction workers. The collapse was featured in the Engineering Disasters episode of Modern Marvels and it was also intended to be the home of the WHAs Chicago Cougars, but the team folded in 1975, three years before construction on the arena started. The first concert held at the Horizon was Fleetwood Mac on May 15,1980, the Rosemont Horizon was featured in many music videos, including the 1985 music video Big City Nights by Scorpions. Insurance company Allstate signed a 10-year contract worth more than $10 million on June 9,1999, to acquire naming rights to the arena and renovate it. On December 14,2003, the floor at the Allstate Arena was named Ray and Marge Meyer Court in honor of Basketball Hall of Famer Ray Meyer, Meyer coached DePauls mens team for 42 seasons and is the schools all-time winningest coach. Allstate Arena is primarily known as the home of DePaul University mens basketball since the programs 74–56 win over Gonzaga on December 1,1980, the Blue Demons previously played on campus at Alumni Hall. That gym has since replaced with McGrath-Phillips Arena, the home to the womens basketball program. The building hosted the NCAA basketball tournament three times, the 1987 and 1993 Midwest Regional first and second-round games, and the 2005 Chicago Regional Finals, the Arena Football League also has a long history with Allstate Arena. The Horizon hosted an arena football test game in 1987 and the Chicago Bruisers were an original Arena Football League team when the league began in 1987, the Bruisers played from 1987 to 1989, and hosted ArenaBowl II in Rosemont, losing to the Detroit Drive, 24-13. In 2001, Arena Football returned to the arena with the Chicago Rush, the Rush increased its home attendance each year from 2001 to 2008, and from 2004 to 2008 averaged between 14,000 and 16,000 fans per game. The Rushs highest home attendance is 16,391 on June 23,2007 against the Kansas City Brigade, after the AFL restructured in 2009, the Rush returned to the Arena Football League. The Allstate Arena is also the venue when WWE visits Chicago. It is one of two venues to host WrestleMania three times, namely the second segment of WrestleMania II in 1986, WrestleMania 13 in 1997, wrestlemania 22 is also notable for being the last WrestleMania to date to be held in a smaller arena. Due to the rapid growth in popularity, from WrestleMania 23 at Detroits Ford Field
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Kansas City, Missouri
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Kansas City is the largest city in Missouri and the sixth largest city in the Midwest. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the city had an population of 475,378 in 2015. It is the city of the Kansas City metropolitan area. Kansas City was founded in the 1830s as a Missouri River port at its confluence with the Kansas River coming in from the west, on June 1,1850 the town of Kansas was incorporated, shortly after came the establishment of the Kansas Territory. Confusion between the two ensued and the name Kansas City was assigned to them soon thereafter. Most of the city lies within Jackson County, but portions spill into Clay, Cass, along with Independence, it serves as one of the two county seats for Jackson County. Major suburbs include the Missouri cities of Independence and Lees Summit and the Kansas cities of Overland Park, Olathe, and Kansas City. The city is composed of neighborhoods, including the River Market District in the north, the 18th and Vine District in the east. Kansas City is also known for its cuisine, its craft breweries, Kansas City, Missouri was officially incorporated as a town on June 1,1850, and as a city on March 28,1853. The territory straddling the border between Missouri and Kansas at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers was considered a place to build settlements. The Antioch Christian Church, Dr. James Compton House, the first documented European visitor to Kansas City was Étienne de Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont, who was also the first European to explore the lower Missouri River. Criticized for his response to the Native American attack on Fort Détroit, Bourgmont lived with a Native American wife in a village about 90 miles east near Brunswick, Missouri, where he illegally traded furs. In the documents, he describes the junction of the Grande Riv des Cansez and Missouri River, French cartographer Guillaume Delisle used the descriptions to make the areas first reasonably accurate map. The Spanish took over the region in the Treaty of Paris in 1763, the French continued their fur trade under Spanish license. After the 1804 Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark visited the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers, in 1831, a group of Mormons from New York settled in what would become the city. They built the first school within Kansas Citys current boundaries, but were forced out by mob violence in 1833, in 1833 John McCoy established West Port along the Santa Fe Trail,3 miles away from the river. In 1834 McCoy established Westport Landing on a bend in the Missouri to serve as a point for West Port. Soon after, the Kansas Town Company, a group of investors, began to settle the area, in 1850, the landing area was incorporated as the Town of Kansas
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From top left: the
Liberty Memorial, the
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Kansas City skyline, the
Country Club Plaza,
Arrowhead Stadium, and
Kauffman Stadium
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Kansas City Pioneer Square monument in Westport features
Pony Express founder
Alexander Majors, Westport/Kansas City founder
John Calvin McCoy and Mountainman
Jim Bridger who owned Chouteau's Store.
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Walnut Street, Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, 1906.
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Kansas City satellite map
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Sprint Center
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Sprint Center is a large, multi-use indoor arena in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The building is at 14th Street and Grand Boulevard, on the east side of the Power & Light District, the arenas naming rights partner is the telecommunications company Sprint, whose headquarters is in nearby Overland Park, Kansas. Sprint Center opened on October 10,2007, and a concert by Elton John three days later was the arenas first event, the arena seats more than 19,000 people and has 72 suites. Sprint Center has effectively replaced Kemper Arena, which was built in 1974, additionally, the College Basketball Experience, which includes the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame, is connected to and directly north of Sprint Center. Sprint Center has hosted the Big 12 Mens Basketball Tournament in 2008, the arena also was the home of the former Kansas City Command of the Arena Football League. Ground was broken for the arena on June 24,2005, the final design, by the Downtown Arena Design Team, was selected in August 2005. The construction manager responsible for the project was M. A. Mortenson Company, based out of Minneapolis. The complete exterior glass facade system, all metal panels for the adjacent buildings, hong Kong to Architectural Wall Systems, the Des Moines, Iowa based glazing contractor who installed the building envelope. In total there are approximately 13,000 m² of double insulated glass and 5,000 m² painted aluminum curtain wall panels, in addition there are roughly 200 tons of system profiles and accessories. All of the 2,404 individual glass units on the building were produced sequentially and completely assembled prior to shipping. The 5,000,000 lbs of rebar used in construction was detailed, farbricated and supplied by The Carter-Waters Corporation of Kansas City. The arena also features a work of art, The Moons, by artist Chris Doyle. The Big 12 Conference Mens Basketball Tournament was held at Sprint Center in 2008, after returning to Oklahoma City in 2009, the Sprint Center again hosted the tournament in 2010 and 2011. It is scheduled to be the tournament host site through 2020, the arena also houses the College Basketball Experience and the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame, which is at 1301 Grand Boulevard and connected to Sprint Center. The arenas exterior is made of glass, and the interior has state-of-the-art technology with a 360-degree LED video screen and this facility allows Kansas City to draw most concerts touring the United States. There has been speculation of an NBA or NHL team relocating to Sprint Center, Sprint Center opened on time and on budget on October 10,2007 at 10,10 am. A tour lasted from 10,10 am –10,10 pm for those who wanted to see it to grab a ticket at the box office. UMB Bank is the only ATM in the new arena because it is a Sprint Center Founding Partner along with Farmland, The University of Kansas Hospital, QuikTrip, and Olevia
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Sprint Center entrance from Grand Boulevard in 2008.
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Sprint Center and Power & Light District looking from the convention center in 2011.
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St. Louis
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St. Louis is an independent city and major U. S. port in the state of Missouri, built along the western bank of the Mississippi River, on the border with Illinois. Prior to European settlement, the area was a regional center of Native American Mississippian culture. The city of St. Louis was founded in 1764 by French fur traders Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau, in 1764, following Frances defeat in the Seven Years War, the area was ceded to Spain and retroceded back to France in 1800. In 1803, the United States acquired the territory as part of the Louisiana Purchase, during the 19th century, St. Louis developed as a major port on the Mississippi River. In the 1870 Census, St. Louis was ranked as the 4th-largest city in the United States and it separated from St. Louis County in 1877, becoming an independent city and limiting its own political boundaries. In 1904, it hosted the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the Summer Olympics, the economy of metro St. Louis relies on service, manufacturing, trade, transportation of goods, and tourism. This city has become known for its growing medical, pharmaceutical. St. Louis has 2 professional sports teams, the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball, the city is commonly identified with the 630-foot tall Gateway Arch in Downtown St. Louis. The area that would become St. Louis was a center of the Native American Mississippian culture and their major regional center was at Cahokia Mounds, active from 900 AD to 1500 AD. Due to numerous major earthworks within St. Louis boundaries, the city was nicknamed as the Mound City and these mounds were mostly demolished during the citys development. Historic Native American tribes in the area included the Siouan-speaking Osage people, whose territory extended west, European exploration of the area was first recorded in 1673, when French explorers Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette traveled through the Mississippi River valley. Five years later, La Salle claimed the region for France as part of La Louisiane. The earliest European settlements in the area were built in Illinois Country on the east side of the Mississippi River during the 1690s and early 1700s at Cahokia, Kaskaskia, migrants from the French villages on the opposite side of the Mississippi River founded Ste. In early 1764, after France lost the 7 Years War, Pierre Laclède, the early French families built the citys economy on the fur trade with the Osage, as well as with more distant tribes along the Missouri River. The Chouteau brothers gained a monopoly from Spain on the fur trade with Santa Fe, French colonists used African slaves as domestic servants and workers in the city. In 1780 during the American Revolutionary War, St. Louis was attacked by British forces, mostly Native American allies, the founding of St. Louis began in 1763. Pierre Laclede led an expedition to set up a fur-trading post farther up the Mississippi River, before then, Laclede had been a very successful merchant. For this reason, he and his trading partner Gilbert Antoine de St. Maxent were offered monopolies for six years of the fur trading in that area
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From top left:
Forest Park Jewel Box,
MetroLink at
Lambert-St. Louis International Airport,
Apotheosis of St. Louis at the
Saint Louis Art Museum, The
Gateway Arch and the St. Louis skyline,
Busch Stadium, and the
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An illustrated map by F. Graf; Saint Louis in 1896.
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South Broadway after a May 27, 1896, tornado
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Westward view of St. Louis skyline, September 2008.
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Scottrade Center
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Scottrade Center is a 19, 150-seat arena located in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, United States. It is the home of the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League, the arena opened in 1994 and was known as Kiel Center until 2000 and Savvis Center from 2000 to 2006. The current name comes from financial firm Scottrade, based in St. Louis, with the announced acquisition of Scottrade by TD Ameritrade, it is anticipated the arena will be renamed TD Ameritrade Center in late 2017. Besides ice hockey, the features a range of programming, including professional wrestling, concerts, ice shows, family shows. It hosts approximately 175 events per year, drawing nearly 2 million guests annually, for the first quarter 2006, Scottrade Center ranked second among arenas in the United States and fourth worldwide in tickets sold. Industry trade publication Pollstar ranks Scottrade Center among the top ten worldwide in tickets sold to non-team events. The largest crowd to attend an event at the arena was 22,612, the building is operated by SLB Acquisition Holdings LLC, owner of the St. Louis Blues, under its chairman, Tom Stillman. Kiel Center opened in 1994 to replace Kiel Auditorium, where the Saint Louis University college basketball team had played, the building is currently known as Scottrade Center, after naming rights were sold in September 2006 to Scottrade. The Kiel name still exists on the parking structure and the building cornerstone. Signs for the nearby MetroLink stop have been changed to read Civic Center, in June 2009, the St. Louis Board of Aldermen voted 25-1 to subsidize the renovation and reopening of the Opera House under the direction of its new owners, Sports Capital Partners. The subsidies were funded by bonds and state/federal historic tax credits. On July 12,2010, it was announced that the name of the house would be changed to the Peabody Opera House. On October 1,2011, the Peabody Opera House opened for the first time since the $79 million renovation, Blues management decried its former naming-rights deal with tech company SAVVIS, as much of the compensation was in Savvis shares, then riding high. However, when the bubble burst, the team was left with nearly worthless shares. In September 2006, Scottrade founder Rodger O. Riney announced a partnership with the St. Louis Blues hockey club, the new name of the arena, Scottrade Center, was revealed in a joint press conference. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but were described as long-term, both Scottrade and the Blues said the agreement was equitable to both parties. Most of the signage and other promotions were changed to Scottrade Center prior to the first home game of the Blues on October 12,2006. In Fall 2006, an integrated LED scoring, video and advertising system from Daktronics in Brookings, South Dakota was installed in the arena, the centerhung display is made up of 12 different video displays and four 15 feet -long ribbon displays
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Dallas
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Dallas is a major city in the U. S. state of Texas. It is the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the citys population ranks ninth in the U. S. and third in Texas after Houston and San Antonio. The citys prominence arose from its importance as a center for the oil and cotton industries. The bulk of the city is in Dallas County, of which it is the county seat, however, sections of the city are located in Collin, Denton, Kaufman, and Rockwall counties. According to the 2010 United States Census, the city had a population of 1,197,816, the United States Census Bureaus estimate for the citys population increased to 1,300,092 as of July 1,2015. In 2016 DFW ascended to the one spot in the nation in year-over-year population growth. In 2014, the metropolitan economy surpassed Washington, D. C. to become the fifth largest in the U. S. with a 2014 real GDP over $504 billion, as such, the metropolitan areas economy is the 10th largest in the world. As of January 2017, the job count has increased to 3,558,200 jobs. The citys economy is based on banking, commerce, telecommunications, technology, energy, healthcare and medical research. The city is home to the third-largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies in the nation. Located in North Texas, Dallas is the core of the largest metropolitan area in the South. Dallas and nearby Fort Worth were developed due to the construction of railroad lines through the area allowing access to cotton, cattle. Later, France also claimed the area but never established much settlement, the area remained under Spanish rule until 1821, when Mexico declared independence from Spain, and the area was considered part of the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas. In 1836, the Republic of Texas, with majority Anglo-American settlers, in 1839, Warren Angus Ferris surveyed the area around present-day Dallas. John Neely Bryan established a permanent settlement near the Trinity River named Dallas in 1841, the origin of the name is uncertain. The Republic of Texas was annexed by the United States in 1845, Dallas was formally incorporated as a city on February 2,1856. With construction of railroads, Dallas became a business and trading center and it became an industrial city, attracting workers from Texas, the South and the Midwest. The Praetorian Building of 15 stories, built in 1909, was the first skyscraper west of the Mississippi and it marked the prominence of Dallas as a city
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Top to bottom, left to right:
Downtown Dallas skyline,
Old Red Museum,
NorthPark Center,
Dallas City Hall,
Dallas Museum of Art,
Winspear Opera House,
Perot Museum of Nature and Science,
State Fair of Texas at
Fair Park,
Dallas Union Station, the
Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden, and the
American Airlines Center
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Elm Street at night, January 1942
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President and Mrs.
Kennedy arrive at Dallas, November 22, 1963
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Santa Fe Terminal Complex on Commerce St, built in 1924.
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American Airlines Center
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The American Airlines Center is a multi-purpose arena, located in the Victory Park neighborhood, near downtown Dallas, Texas. The venue serves as the home to the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association, the arena is also used for concerts and other live entertainment. It opened in 2001 at a cost of $420 million, by 1998, the Dallas Mavericks, then owned by H. Ross Perot, Jr. and the Dallas Stars were indicating their desire for a new facility to replace the dated Reunion Arena. The new arena was to be built just north of Woodall Rodgers Freeway near Interstate 35E on the site of an old power plant, on March 18,1999, American Airlines announced that it would be acquiring the naming rights for the arena for US$195 million. American Airlines is headquartered in Fort Worth and is based at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, the first event occurred the next day with an Eagles concert. On the next night, the hosted the last show of Michael Flatleys Feet of Flames tour. The first sporting event took place on August 19,2001, principal design work was carried out by David M. Schwarz Architectural Services of Washington D. C. American Airlines Center was designed to be the heart of a new urban, the facility itself features a conservative, traditional design with sweeping brick façades and smooth arches, and has been graced with a number of awards. The interior includes retractable seating, public art and a state-of-the-art technological arena, because of the Quonset hut-like appearance of its roof and the fact that American Airlines holds the naming rights some fans have come to refer to it as The Hangar. On the south side of the arena AT&T Plaza serves as the entrance into the facility. The plaza provides a space with fountains flanked by retail. With several high-definition video displays from Daktronics mounted on the side of the arena and office buildings, after the Dallas Desperados played their first season in the AAC, they moved to nearby Reunion Arena and played there for their second season. For their third season, they moved back to the AAC, the AAC hosted the Big 12 Basketball Tournament in 2003,2004 &2006. The PBR hosted a Built Ford Tough Series bull riding event at the AAC, annually, between 2005 &2009. American Airlines Center, as well as American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida, hosted the 2006 NBA Finals and this was both teams first appearance in the Finals. Because American Airlines held the rights to both venues in the final, the series was nicknamed by some as the American Airlines series, hosted the 55th National Hockey League All-Star Game on January 24,2007. Co-hosted the 2011 NBA Finals with American Airlines Arena in Miami and it was both teams second appearance in the Finals, and this time the Mavericks won in 6 games. On Saturday June 18,2011, it played host to Strikeforce, UFC103 was held at the Center on September 19,2009
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Athena Tacha, ground-plan of AT&T Plaza with star fountains, in front of American Airlines Center (2,000 sq ft (190 m 2), 40,000 sq ft (3,700 m 2), in collaboration with SWA)
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American Airlines Center-Mavericks Victory Party for NBA Championship 2011.
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Inside American Airlines Center during a Stars game.
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Houston
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Houston is the most populous city in the state of Texas and the fourth-most populous city in the United States. With a census-estimated 2014 population of 2.239 million within an area of 667 square miles, it also is the largest city in the southern United States and the seat of Harris County. Located in Southeast Texas near the Gulf of Mexico, it is the city of Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land. Houston was founded on August 28,1836, near the banks of Buffalo Bayou and incorporated as a city on June 5,1837. The city was named after former General Sam Houston, who was president of the Republic of Texas and had commanded, the burgeoning port and railroad industry, combined with oil discovery in 1901, has induced continual surges in the citys population. Houstons economy has an industrial base in energy, manufacturing, aeronautics. Leading in health care sectors and building equipment, Houston has more Fortune 500 headquarters within its city limits than any city except for New York City. The Port of Houston ranks first in the United States in international waterborne tonnage handled, the city has a population from various ethnic and religious backgrounds and a large and growing international community. Houston is the most diverse city in Texas and has described as the most diverse in the United States. It is home to cultural institutions and exhibits, which attract more than 7 million visitors a year to the Museum District. Houston has a visual and performing arts scene in the Theater District. In August 1836, two real estate entrepreneurs from New York, Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen, purchased 6,642 acres of land along Buffalo Bayou with the intent of founding a city. The Allen brothers decided to name the city after Sam Houston, the general at the Battle of San Jacinto. The great majority of slaves in Texas came with their owners from the slave states. Sizable numbers, however, came through the slave trade. New Orleans was the center of trade in the Deep South. Thousands of enslaved African Americans lived near the city before the Civil War, many of them near the city worked on sugar and cotton plantations, while most of those in the city limits had domestic and artisan jobs. Houston was granted incorporation on June 5,1837, with James S. Holman becoming its first mayor, in the same year, Houston became the county seat of Harrisburg County and the temporary capital of the Republic of Texas
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Clockwise from top: Sam Houston monument,
Downtown Houston,
Houston Ship Channel,
The Galleria,
University of Houston, and the
Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center.
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Sam Houston
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Houston, c. 1873
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Union Station, Houston, Texas (postcard, c. 1911)
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Toyota Center
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Toyota Center is an indoor arena located in downtown Houston, Texas. It is named after the Japanese automobile manufacturer Toyota, the arena is home to the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association, the principal users of the building, and the former home of the Houston Aeros of the American Hockey League. Rockets owner Leslie Alexander first began to request a new arena in 1995, and attempted to release the Rockets from their lease at The Summit, however, he was denied by arena owner Chuck Watson, then-owner of the Aeros, who also wanted control of a new arena. The two sides agreed to control over an arena in a deal signed in 1997. It was not until the city and the Rockets signed an agreement in 2001, excluding the Aeros. Construction began in July 2001, and the new arena was opened in October 2003. The total costs were $235 million, with the city of Houston paying the majority, Toyota paid US$100 million for the naming rights. In May 1995, several Texas sports teams, including the Houston Rockets, as the negotiations continued into 1996, a panel appointed by Houston mayor Bob Lanier reported that building a new arena was essential to keep pro sports in Houston. After Watson rejected a contract buyout proposal of $30 million, the Rockets filed a challenge against their lease. After both parties agreed to the terms, a bill that increased taxes to pay for a new arena was signed into law in July. In January 1999, recently elected mayor Lee Brown guaranteed a referendum on the issue before the end of the year. After several months negotiating with the Harris County-Houston Sports Authority, the Rockets finalized a deal to pay half of the costs. The deal was approved by Brown and the Houston City Council, on November 3, the results of the referendum were announced, and the arena proposal was rejected by 54% of voters. Alexander said we never thought we would lose and that they were devastated by the loss, after the vote, NBA commissioner David Stern said if theres not a new building. I think its certain that the team will be relocated. Although the Rockets continued to negotiate with Louisville, Kentucky, a plan for the arena in Houston was released in June. A final agreement was proposed on July 6, and both the Rockets and mayor Brown agreed to the terms, after the city council approved the deal, the proposal was placed on the November referendum ballot. On November 8, the arena was approved by 66% of voters, morris Architects, designed the 750, 000-square-foot building, and Hunt Construction was contracted to build the arena. A building formerly owned by Houston Lighting and Power Company was demolished to make way for the arena, a groundbreaking ceremony was held on July 31,2001, and construction continued for 26 months
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Exterior view of the Toyota Center
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The interior of the arena during a Rockets game, prior to 2012.
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Inside the Toyota Center, with the new scoreboard, 2013.
