Ballechin House

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Ballechin House was a Georgian estate home near Grandtully, Perthshire, Scotland. It was built in 1806, on the site of an old manor house which had been owned by the Stuart family since the 15th century. The Stuart family are an illegitimate branch of the royal house of Stewart, descending from a son of King James II.

Balete Drive

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Balete Drive is a street located in New Manila, Quezon City, Philippines. It is known for apparitions of a white lady and haunted houses which were built during the Spanish Era (1800s). New Manila has an abundance of balete trees, which, according to legend, is a favorite spot of wandering spirits and other paranormal beings.

Andrew Bayne Memorial Library

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Established May 1914
Location 34 N Balph Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15202

The Andrew Bayne Memorial Library is a public library in Bellevue, a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the United States. The library sits on a four-acre (1.6 ha) parcel of land donated to Bellevue borough in 1912 by the daughters of Allegheny County sheriff Andrew Bayne, and houses approximately 14,000 print volumes.

American Shakespeare Theatre

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The American Shakespeare Theatre was a theater company based in Stratford, Connecticut, United States. It was formed in 1955 by Lawrence Langner, Lincoln Kirstein, and Joseph Verner Reed. Plays were produced at the Festival Theatre in Stratford from 1955 until the company ceased operations in the mid-1980s. The company focused on American interpretations of William Shakespeare’s plays, but occasionally produced plays by other playwrights. It was the home of the American Shakespeare Festival.

Alcatraz Island

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History
The first Spaniard to discover the island was Juan Manuel de Ayala in 1775, who charted San Francisco Bay and named the island “La Isla de los Alcatraces,” which translates as “The Island of the Pelicans,” from the archaic Spanish alcatraz, “pelican”, a word which was borrowed originally from Arabic: القطرس al-qaṭrās, meaning sea eagle.

A616 road

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The A616 is a road which links Newark-on-Trent to the M1 motorway at Junction 30, then reappears at Junction 35A, then goes onto Huddersfield.

50 Berkeley Square

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50 Berkeley Square is a reportedly haunted townhouse at Berkeley Square in Mayfair, a district in the City of Westminster, on the West End of London. In the 1900s it became known as “The Most Haunted House in London.”