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.
The demons won out and, when Ono and Lennon returned to the Dakota at 10.50 pm, on Monday 8th December 1980, Chapman shot Lennon four times in the back, in front of his wife, on the steps to the buildingâs main entrance. By 11.15 pm Lennon had died of exsanguination, en route to the Roosevelt Hospital.