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Old 07-05-2010, 04:53 PM
 
Location: Long Beach
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Boston:
_The American Revolution
_The Industrial Revolution
_American public education/american higher education too
_public transportation [first American subway]
_Sports

Springfield, MA
_Birthplace of Basketball
_Dr Suess
_the first gasoline powered automobile
_Shay's Rebellion
_for you east coasters---Friendly's Ice Cream.
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Old 07-10-2010, 10:48 AM
 
Location: Newark nj
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Newark
NJPAC, 6TH largest performing art center in USA
Prudential
Ironbound, great food
airport & port, one of the world's busiest
Cory Booker
NJ Devils
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Old 07-10-2010, 11:39 PM
 
Location: california
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Providence: dells lemonade
Providence tv series a few years back..
New England location and feel in some parts, urban city
In other parts.
A mini new york, connecticut and boston all rolled into one.
Italian bakeries
The best dunkin donuts coffee.
Most places in Mass make it too watery.
Home to the oldest mall in the united states, the arcade, which was finally closed down, but the empty building remains as a landmark.
Home to the second oldest zoo in the country and historical area.
Beautiful turn of the century older homes as well as homes dating back to the 1700s.
Unique gothic buildings and designs.
Home to Brown Univesity, RISD and URI.
Blizzard of 78"
Providence has distince neighborhoods and culture side by side within a block...etc..
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Old 07-11-2010, 07:33 AM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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Houston:

Nasa
Skyscrapers
Trees
Arts
Gay Mayor (1st major city to elect gay mayor)
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Old 07-11-2010, 10:24 AM
 
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Default Baltimore

BALTIMORE

1) America's National Anthem (The Star Spangled Banner)
2) Johns Hopkins (The #1 hospital/medical center in the nation)
3) Thurgood Marshall
4) Babe Ruth
5) The Wire
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Old 07-11-2010, 10:30 AM
 
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WASHINGTON

1) America's Flagship
2) GO-GO
3) Life and Death sciences/agencies
4) Black upper middle class
5) Monuments
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Old 07-11-2010, 08:01 PM
 
Location: ADK via WV
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Charleston, West by God Virginia

Anti-Freeze/ Union Carbide
Danial Boone
Shoney's
the actual term "Redneck" and it wasn't used in the same context as today---LOL
George Washington Carver
Jerry West
the model for the Supreme Court Chambers---from WV's state court house
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Old 07-11-2010, 08:07 PM
 
Location: The City
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Charleston, West by God Virginia

Anti-Freeze/ Union Carbide
Danial Boone
Shoney's
the actual term "Redneck" and it wasn't used in the same context as today---LOL
George Washington Carver
Jerry West
the model for the Supreme Court Chambers---from WV's state court house

The NBA logo is modeled after Jerry!
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Old 07-11-2010, 08:29 PM
 
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Rocky
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Old 07-11-2010, 08:57 PM
 
Location: Lower East Side, Milwaukee, WI
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Milwaukee
Germans
beer
bratwursts
Friday night fish fry
tailgating
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