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  1. #1
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    Vancouver, BC
    - first and foremost and since he's been mentioned in another thread....James Doohan
    - Stanley Park (opened in 1887)
    - Expo '86
    - 2010 Olympics
    Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, champagne in one hand and strawberries in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming WOO HOO - What a Ride!
    --unknown

    Sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see
    --Polar Express

    Until one has loved an animal, part of their soul remains unawakened.




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    I was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania many many years ago.

    Philadelphia is famous for:
    1) The Liberty Bell
    2) The Declaration of Independence
    3) The Constitution
    4) The Betsy Ross House
    5) Rocky Balboa
    6) Soft pretzels and cheese steaks!

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    Dallas, Texas/USA

    in no particular order...just as I think of some...

    1. Dallas Cowboys
    2. JFK assassination (unfortunately)
    3. cattle/wild west/cowboys
    4. location of the Great State Fair of Texas
    5. Southfork, home of J.R. Ewing
    6. DFW airport....one of the biggest and busiest
    7. Site of the annual Red River Rivalry between the University of Oklahoma Sooners and the University of Texas Longhorns
    Shannon, Boomer, and Sooner

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    Van Nuys, California!

    Birthplace of Bill Johnson, Olympian.
    Home to a Budweiser brewery.
    Home to Van Nuys Airport, 3rd largest regional AP in the country.
    Home to rocker Nikki Sixx!

    LOL, I had to stretch things there!

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    Oxford, Massachusetts

    Birthplace of Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross
    Birthplace of Elliot Joslin, pioneer in diabetes treatment

    other than that ...

    Ummmm, had a huge flood-control project that works - the little league field within it has to wait for the waters to recede past home plate many years, but no homes are affected ...

    It's where Dad lives!
    I've Been Frosted

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    Dearborn, Michigan

    -Hometown of Henry Ford.

    -First test drive of an auto (quadracycle) by Henry Ford.

    -Largest community of Arabic people, outside the Middle East.

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    Rock Springs, Wyoming ....

    1. Where Butch Cassidy got his nickname ... he worked in a butcher shop here

    2. Home of the world's largest pronghorn antelope herd and the USA's largest trona deposit (trona is a mineral mined as an additive for glass, fertilizer, laundry soap, etc.)

    3. The location of the Chinese Massacre in the late 1800's, where Chinese immigrants working to build the UP Railroad were chased out of town and their villages burned (whether any were actually killed is debated)

    4. An infamous "60 Minutes" report in the 1970's about the crime rate during a boom we had. Gained us our lovely nicknames of "Sin City" and "Murder of the Month Club". Defending a sheriff accused of murdering an undercover narcotics agent during this time was the start of the now nationally famous "cowboy lawyer" Gerry Spence's career.

    Not particulary flattering things ... but it's all we've got.
    "We give dogs the time we can spare, the space we can spare and the love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made" - M. Facklam

    "We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams."- P.S. Beagle

    "All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king." - J.R.R. Tolkien

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