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Talladega is a city in Alabama that is known for the Talladega Speedway and the International Motor Sport Hall of Fame. There are also Talladega National Forest and the highest point in Alabama in nearby Cheaha State Park. I read on the county Web site that the Talladega County Courthouse is the oldest working courthouse in the state.
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Alabaster is a city and southern suburb of Birmingham in Shelby County, Alabama, United States. It has a population of about 27,517. Alabaster was ranked number 85 on Money Magazine's 100 Best Places To Live in 2009. It ranks high on Green space and Schools. Alabaster is a part of Shelby county which is the fastest growing part of the state and among the fastest in US.
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Rochester, Minnesota (pop. 100,000) is the home of the Mayo Clinic. Dr. Charles Mayo's home is on the National Register of Historic Places and is open for tours. Rochester also has "the largest IBM complex under one roof" according to the city Web site. If you go to the city Web site you will find a link to animal control's animals waiting to be adopted.
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Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland
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Kleine Brogel, a municipality of Belgium. It is home to the 10th Tactical Wing, operating F-16 Fighting Falcons.
It has been subject to much political controversy because of U.S. nuclear weapons allegedly being stored in the facility.
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Lockport, Illinois (est. 1830) gets its name from Lock No. 1 of the Illinois and Michigan Canal, which allowed boat transportation from the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River. The I&M Canal was overtaken by the railroads, though. Lockport is also at the point where the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal meets up with the DesPlaines River. Lots of waterway history there.
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Truth or Consequences is a spa city in and the county seat of Sierra County, New Mexico, United States
Originally named Hot Springs, the city changed its name to Truth or Consequences, the title of a popular NBC radio program. In 1950, Ralph Edwards, the host of the radio quiz show Truth or Consequences announced that he would air the program from the first town that renamed itself after the show. Hot Springs, NM won the honor. Ralph Edwards came to the town during the first weekend of May for the next fifty years. This event was called "Fiesta" and included a beauty contest, a parade, and a stage show. The city still celebrates Fiesta each year on the first Saturday of May. The parade generally features area celebrities such as the Hatch Chile Queen. Fiesta also features a dance in Ralph Edwards Park.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Edwards
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Snohomish, WA Dad was stationed in Eastern Washington when he was in the Army, and when I was a kid, his friends from then lived in Snohomish. It's well north of Seattle, closer to Everett, WA. And they have a Trestle and Pass Cam! http://www.ci.snohomish.wa.us/TrestleCam.htm
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Holmen, Wisconsin is a small town known for it's Kornfest.
Nagasaki is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyūshū in Japan. Nagasaki was founded by the Portuguese in the 16th century. It was a center of Portuguese and European influence in the 16th through 19th centuries. Nagasaki became a major Imperial Japanese Navy base during the First Sino-Japanese War and Russo-Japanese War.
During World War II, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki made Nagasaki the second and last city in the world to be subject to nuclear attack.
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Ixtapa is a beach resort on the Pacific Ocean in Mexico. It was developed by the Mexican government as a tourist destination and is also a port for cruise ships (along with the nearby town, Zihuatanejo).
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Aachen- in French Aix-la-Chapelle was the city in which Charlemagne was crowned.
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Natural Bridge is a town in Alabama, United States. With population of around 28 it has been the smallest populated town in Alabama, but the town is notable for the nearby rock arch, also named Natural Bridge. It is the longest natural bridge east of the Rockies, spanning over 127 ft.
Natural Bridge is a hamlet in New York, United States. The population is around 392. The name is derived from a natural rock formation over a river.
Natural Bridge, Virginia is a geological formation in which Cedar Creek (a small tributary of the James River) has carved out a gorge in the mountainous limestone terrain, forming an arch 215 ft high with a span of 90 ft.
The Natural Bridge was a sacred site of the Native American Monacan tribe, who believed it to be the site of a major victory over pursuing Powhatans centuries before the arrival of whites in Virginia. Some believe George Washington came to the site in 1750 as a young surveyor on behalf of Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron. To support claims that Washington surveyed the area, some tour guides claim the initials "G.W." on the wall of the bridge, 23 ft. up, were carved by the future president. Legend also has it that George Washington threw a rock from the bottom of Cedar Creek over the bridge. In 1927, a large stone was found, also engraved "G.W." and bearing a surveyors cross, which historians accepted as proof that he indeed surveyed the bridge.
Thomas Jefferson purchased 157 acres of land including the Natural Bridge from King George III of England for 20 shillings in 1774. He called it "the most Sublime of nature's works". Jefferson built a two-room log cabin, with one room reserved for guests, beginning its use as a retreat. While President, in 1802, he surveyed the place with his own hands. It has been said that Jefferson was able to throw a stone from the ground below the bridge to the top.
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Ekaterinburg is a city in Russia in the Ural Mountain district. NHL goalie Nikolai Khabibulin (former Hawks goalie) is a famous citizen of the city. Ekaterinburg is also a sister city with Prague, which is a sister city with Chicago.
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Garmisch-Partenkirchen is a market town in Bavaria, southern Germany, not far from the border with Austria.
Garmisch and Partenkirchen were separate towns for many centuries, and still maintain quite separate identities.
Partenkirchen originated as the Roman town of Partanum on the trade route from Venice to Augsburg and is first mentioned in the year A.D. 15. Its main street, Ludwigsstrasse, follows the original Roman road.
Garmisch is first mentioned some 800 years later as Germaneskau ("German District"), suggesting that at some point a Teutonic tribe took up settlement in the western end of the valley.
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