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U.S. News and World Reports named Cedar City, Utah, where I live, one of the top 10 outdoorsy places to retire. What is your town known for?
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Ticonderoga, NY is known for being the site of major battles in the French and Indian war (the Seven Years War) and the American Revolution, and is the site of Fort Ticonderoga (the only fort in the continental United States to never be successfully held).
Ticonderoga is also known for being the former site of a pencil factory, the former site of a paper mill, the former site of a graphite mine, and the current site of the only Wal-Mart in a twenty mile radius. The town also has one of the highest poverty rates in the surrounding four counties.
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Marikina is the shoe capital of the Philippines. It holds the guinness world record for the largest pair of shoes.
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When ever you see Timothy Veigh being walked out the court house that's Perry Oklahoma. My friend's dad is the county Judge and another of my friends dad is one of the officers who is escorting timothy to the car. We are also know for our high school wrestling. Most individual state champions, most state team titles, second and third longest streaks for team titles. Also third ring of hell. Happy times.
My town was founded in 1630. It is a popular destination for tourists, this year especially our Quebecois friends.
"Bienvenue! Voulez-vous un tchotchkie pour votre maison, madame? "
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Ridge, Ny is known as the "Gateway to the Pine Barrens"
Also parts of Ridge used to be part of Camp Upton, which was used to train soldiers for WWI. Irving Berlin, the composer, and Alvin York, the most highly decorated soldier of the American army in World War I, were processed at Camp Upton.
To this day you can still find relics in the woods from Camp Upton and there are trenches through out the woods that were used for training for trench warfare.
Here is a Sat image of Ridge, I lived to the east of William Floyd Pkwy, south off of Middle Country rd.
That big circle is the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), which until the Large Hadron Collider opened was the largest collider in the world. RHIC is part of Brookhaven National Laboratory, where many of my friends work, and where me and friends used to sneak into *Including RHIC when it was being built* as kids.
I was born in Joliette in quebec ,the town is known for 2 thing;it's music festival and it's here that they held the archery competition for the 76 olympics.
Shelton, CT is the home of the only Wiffle Ball factory in the world and is the town of its birth. The nearby town of Stratford is the home of Sikorsky Aircraft, manufacturer of the Black Hawk helicopter.
Shelton also has a champion little league team this year, from what I'm told.
Holland, Michigan is mainly famous for two things; wooden shoes and the Tulip Time Festival. Maybe Hope College too, if you want. According to Wikipedia, we were in CNN Money's top 5 places to retire in 2006.
Let's face it, I'm just shocked this place has a Wikipedia page in the first place.
I was born in San Rafael, California.
The Coast Miwok Native Americans once lived there. The Grateful Dead hatched there, I think. George Lucas and Skywalker Ranch work wonders there.
Speaking of San Rafael wonders... me, glorious meeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
The University of Michigan. And the stupid art fair. It's something of a toss-up which screws up local traffic more, football or art fair.
The unincorporated area.
A little patch of land between the cities of San Leandro and San Lorenzo which neither will claim.
The larger metropolitan area is known for bears, a big orange bridge, trolley cars, Alcatraz Island, and a big earthquake in 1906.
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That big circle is the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), which until the Large Hadron Collider opened was the largest collider in the world. RHIC is part of Brookhaven National Laboratory, where many of my friends work, and where me and friends used to sneak into *Including RHIC when it was being built* as kids.
I wonder if this is how I got my Superpowers? ;-)
Saskatoon is the city of bridges. We have seven bridges, two rail and five traffic, for a population of ~230,000. The city has been working on plans for another traffic bridge for a while now.
If I remember correctly we are the violent crime capital, murder capital and sexual assault capital of Canada at the moment (per capita). Some years we lose the titles, but its usually to Regina, about an hour and a half away.
But really, its a good place to live.
Roswell, NM is the alleged cash site...er, crash site, of a downed military weather balloon.
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I was born in San Rafael, California.
The Coast Miwok Native Americans once lived there. The Grateful Dead hatched there, I think. George Lucas and Skywalker Ranch work wonders there.
Speaking of San Rafael wonders... me, glorious meeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Sweet. I attended 4th-6th grade at Hamilton Elementery in Novato.
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Gainesville, Fl is where I grew up.
Florida Gators and Tom Petty.
I live in Dallas, Tx now. Cowboys, man. Cowboys.
Texas Instruments.
I drive by Parkland Hospital every day on the way home from work. It's where they took President Kennedy. I work with a Doctor that works over there; he says the surgical room they had him in is just totally closed off; like everybody just walked out of there and left everything in stasis. The room isn't used any more.
Everybody here puts jalapenos on everything, and that's only barely an overstatement. I knew a girl here who puts salt on watermelon.
Everybody has waaaaaaaaay nicer cars than anywhere else I've ever been, I don't know if they can afford them or not. I don't see a lot of cowboy hats, though. More Cowboys jerseys than cowboy hats.
There's a really nice art museum, and they had real Van Gogh's there. It's the nicest art museum I've ever seen besides the New York Museum of Art, but I saw that in second grade, and all I remember is the room full of armor. I was too young to truly appreciate the place.
Our biggest claim to fame in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada is being the home of the Blackberry.
We were voted the world's Most Intelligent Community by the ICF in 2007.
Prior to this, we also figured prominently in a financing scam for RIM Park development that was supposed to be $112 million over 30 years but really was over $227 million. Apparently our treasurer and city leaders had a problem with math. Go figure :/
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It's the nicest art museum I've ever seen besides the New York Museum of Art, but I saw that in second grade, and all I remember is the room full of armor. I was too young to truly appreciate the place.
Trust me... the NY Met *Metropolitan Museum of Art* is one of the best in the world.
The history of art there is amazing.
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Darwin, NT, Australis
Once Known for the Brewery that produced very large bottles of Beer (2 litre).
One of the greatest Chinese Chefs was born here - he went to work at some very upmarket restraunt in Hong Kong.
It was popular with Arms Dealers after ww2 (they used to ship second hand millitary weapons onto "Boats" straight off the beach).
In 1526 Islamic settlers built a port and a Large white Mosque on the low gravel spur that marks it's harbour mouth - that got taken out by a Tidal wave and some heavy Cyclones and the Islamic populace perished or left <ignored by the "Captain Cook found it all" faction>.
The British shelled the port because the Populace tried to lynch the Town Clerk and were rioting.
The Japanese bombed it.
An explorer plotted an overland route to here.
Opium was imported through Darwin until well into the fifties and sold to the natives by numerous Asian Merchants in trade for stuff.
Carletonville, South Africa.
Alcoholism.
Child abuse.
Family murder-suicides.
Mining accidents.
Losing a hospital in a sinkhole.
Richest gold mines in the world.
Carletonville has uranium too. It just pales next to the gold....
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Yeah; I gotta go back. I couldn't appreciate it then.Yeah, I can't remember the name of the resturant, but there was this place with the only all you can eat Mexican buffet I have ever seen.
Oh, I was talking about the NY Met Museum of Art; sorry we posted roughly the same time....nothing against Alabama or nothing.
Dallas is pretty well-covered, but we did give the world 7-Eleven, Chili's, La Madeleine's, and Stevie Ray Vaughn.
EDIT: And Neiman-Marcus! And arguabley the Margarita. Sheesh.
RPG Superstar 2011 Top 32
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Lodi, California - wine, grapes, Creedence Clearwater Revival's bus broke down here and they wrote a song about it, and the FBI/CIA supposedly caught an Al-Qaeda cell operating here.
I'm originally from Santa Maria, California - the place where they invented Tri-Tip, and the site of the Michael Jackson child molestation trial.
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Eugene, OR - birthplace of Nike. The original Taco Time. The only college team with a Disney mascot. Oregon's first and second public colleges (the University of Oregon was 2nd, Columbia College didn't last). Animal House was filmed here. Really good brewpubs. All the fun that comes from mixing hippies and loggers.
There is probably more :)
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Delaware City, Delaware. Home of Fort Delaware on Pea Patch Island is a state park and our claim to fame here. The Union used the island as a prison to house captured Confederates and sympathizers during the Civil War. At one time it housed around 40,000 prisoners and over 2900 died because of the notoriously bad conditions. It is supposedly haunted by many different spirits and was the focus of a Ghost Hunters investigation. They concluded that it was indeed haunted. It is a fun place to visit if you are into that type of stuff and has the staff dressed in period gear and speaking in character. Fun stuff...
We also host one of the best firework displays I have ever seen at our Delaware City Day celebration.
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My hometown, Thornhill, Ontario, Canada is also the hometown of two of the artists of the group of seven, a group of well known Canadian painters from the 1920s. It also is home to the Shouldice Hernia Centre.
Edit: Also the hometown of Hayden Christensen (Anakin from Star Wars 2 and 3) and a film (Dawn of the Dead, I think) was partially filmed here.
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My home town, Moab, Utah, was known as the uranium capital of the world. Then in the mid-eighties, the uranium business went bust and about ever other house on the street was empty because so many people left to work in the mines in Nevada. I can't say that I blame them considering that the options to stay there were to work for $3.35 an hour in a restaurant, a hotel or a super market.
Now, it is known for mountain biking, tourism, and housing so expensive that most of the locals (who work in the town's hotels and restaurants) can't afford to get by. It is also known for alcoholism, inbreeding and crystal meth addition too.
Our biggest claim to fame in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada is being the home of the Blackberry.
We were voted the world's Most Intelligent Community by the ICF in 2007.
Prior to this, we also figured prominently in a financing scam for RIM Park development that was supposed to be $112 million over 30 years but really was over $227 million. Apparently our treasurer and city leaders had a problem with math. Go figure :/
You also have the University of Waterloo, which is a well-respected university.
You also have the University of Waterloo, which is a well-respected university.Our biggest claim to fame in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada is being the home of the Blackberry.
We were voted the world's Most Intelligent Community by the ICF in 2007.
Prior to this, we also figured prominently in a financing scam for RIM Park development that was supposed to be $112 million over 30 years but really was over $227 million. Apparently our treasurer and city leaders had a problem with math. Go figure :/
True. I forgot Oktoberfest too, which is well-respected beer drinking. :)
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Holland, Michigan is mainly famous for two things; wooden shoes and the Tulip Time Festival. Maybe Hope College too, if you want. According to Wikipedia, we were in CNN Money's top 5 places to retire in 2006.
Let's face it, I'm just shocked this place has a Wikipedia page in the first place.
BWHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Says the man living in Grandville.
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Oslo, the capital of Norway, hosted the 1952 Winter Olympics and houses these strange buildings. Geographically, it is the largest city in Europe; however, most of the acreage is either water or woods. During the 1990s, we were quite famous for Satanist-inspired murders and arsons. It is, without a doubt, the nicest place in the world.
Currently, I live in Tucson, Arizona, hometown of the Arizona Wildcats, which boasts the lowest graduation rates of any NCAA Division I athletics program. I also think the scientists that invented the artificial heart did so at the University of Arizona. It is also a nice town.
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In Arese was the productive site of Alfa Romeo, one of the greatest car factories in Italy, now killed by FIAT CEO Cesare Romiti so he could have a retirement plan of 60 million euro (he used it to aquire another company, which he made collapse as he did with FIAT and Alfa Romeo).
By the way, Arese is also full of green areas. :-)