Tag: usa
group name: travel
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July 18, 2008 04:29 PM EDT --
Soaring 1,454 feet into the New York sky, the Empire State Building is the most perfect, enduring symbol of the city, a Promethean achievement that rose during the Great Depression. It reigned as the . . .
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September 11, 2008 04:09 PM EDT --
You've got to love this city. Sydney is Australia’s largest, oldest, liveliest and brashest city, and the urban gem of the Southern Hemisphere. The "Emerald City's" young . . .
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June 20, 2008 01:07 PM EDT --
For most of its history, Chicago has trailed New York City in key rankings in America — hence one of the alleged reason behind its nickname "Second City" — but its cultural, gastronomic . . .
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July 10, 2008 10:34 AM EDT --
Even if you've missed the events surrounding Harborfest, there's plenty in Bean Town to get (and keep) your patriotic juices flowing. The Freedom Trail promises a stroll through a young America's . . .
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July 24, 2008 11:33 AM EDT --
On Manhattan’s tony Upper East Side, Fifth Avenue was once lined almost exclusively with millionaires’ mansions, but now it’s home to riches of another kind. Here, fronting Central Park between 82nd and . . .
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July 01, 2008 01:16 PM EDT --
One of America's premier birthday bashes takes place in Boston. The city enjoys the Fourth of July far too much to confine its celebration to one day or one place: Boston Harborfest lasts a full . . .
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July 15, 2008 12:09 PM EDT --
By Patricia Schultz
Author of 1000 Places To See Before You Die
And 1000 Places To See in the USA and Canada Before You Die
This is Metropolis. This is Gotham City. This is the one all the . . .
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November 14, 2007 03:27 PM EST --
Are you aware that Jeff Foxworthy is now picking on Michigan ? Read on.
(pretty funny and accurate)
1. If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through
18 inches of ice and sitting . . .
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June 27, 2008 05:18 PM EDT --
Grant Park is just one piece in the stunning puzzle that is Chicago, a city proud of its green spaces that offset its impressive skyline – one made possible by a remarkable roster of illuminaries . . .
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August 14, 2008 02:04 PM EDT --
In 1826, Scottish scientist James Smithson drew up his will, leaving the equivalent of half a million dollars to the United States “to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, . . .
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January 15, 2009 10:21 AM EST --
The Jackson Burial Plot
Today (December 30, 2008), was another meeting of the Mantua Cemetery Walkers and boy did we visit an incredibly odd cemetery. The Jackson Burial Plot in Pepper Pike, Ohio. . . .
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October 30, 2007 12:59 AM EDT --
J ere my and V ere flew down from Ere mite Mesa (located in Arizona) to this unremarkable area of India which was cov ere d in dust. They w ere ov ere xcited. Yet they w ere ignorant . . .
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November 21, 2006 01:50 PM EST --
Last week my daughter Beth and I drove down to Kentucky to visit my mom. Memphis is only 150 miles from where mom lives so we decided to go down for a day and see Graceland. None of us had ever . . .
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August 04, 2008 02:36 PM EDT --
To the surprise of many visitors the seat of American government is also a beautiful city, a celebration in marble and stone of the ideals on which democracy was founded. Though laid out roughly according . . .
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August 15, 2007 05:21 PM EDT --
Legoland theme parks are at five places in the world..Denmark(Billund),United Kingdom(Windsor),USA(California),Germany( Deutschland),Germany(Berlin).The name 'LEGO' is an abbreviation of the two . . .
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August 22, 2008 11:55 AM EDT --
“Rome welcomes you when you come and forgets you when you go” wrote Federico Fellini. Well, maybe. But in that precious time when you are a guest of one of the world’s most spell-binding cities, every . . .
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August 14, 2006 10:04 AM EDT --
[This came from the web site cited & i think that it is something that we all need to know.]
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January 31, 2007 05:58 PM EST --
It’s Funny, but I actually heard Born to Be Wild three times that first day. I laughed pretty hard the third . . .
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June 06, 2008 08:05 PM EDT --
While visiting Kauai recently, one of the most luxurious hotels in my travel experience became my temporary home for half of my vacation. Occasionally treats such as this cross my path---and I always . . .
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July 01, 2008 02:54 PM EDT --
Hours of waiting in airport security lines, pangs of hunger gnawing at me and sleep deprivation drove me to distraction.
As I rode the escalator up and down in an airport recently, in an . . .
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