The Pampas of South America are a grassland biome. They are flat, fertile plains that covers an area of 300,000 sq. miles or 777,000 square kilometers, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Andes Mountains. It is found primarily in Argentina and extends into Uruguay. The word Pampas comes from the Guarani Indian word for level plain.
Lennon's killer reveals motive. John Lennon's murderer Mark Chapman has told a parole board that he killed the legendary Beatle to steal his fame. Chapman, who was denied parole earlier this month, told the hearing that due to his crime he was a bigger nobody than I was before.
Confidence votes 20. On the evening of Monday, December 8, 1980, 40-year-old John Lennon was shot four times in the back (the fifth shot missed) in the entrance hallway of the Dakota, with hollow-point bullets from a Charter Arms .38 revolver, by Mark David Chapman. Lennon had autographed a copy of Double Fantasy for Chapman earlier that same night.