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07-07-2002, 10:54 PM
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First battle of the Civil War was fought in Fort Sumter in Charleston.
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07-08-2002, 02:03 PM
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my county:
home of the beatles (and about 100 other bands) oldest chinatown in europe main european port in the slave trade home of the inventor of the modern, flushable toilet http://www.netphoria.org/wwwboard/biggrin.gif |
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07-08-2002, 02:04 PM
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07-08-2002, 02:39 PM
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07-08-2002, 03:33 PM
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07-08-2002, 04:26 PM
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Anyway, I'll go with my birthplace of Eugene, Oregon: OREGON TRAIL, BABY! (sorry, Stearnsie - I had to do it!) University of Oregon, which is having a resurgence in the quality of their athletic department. Not that I'll root for them. birthplace of Harold Reynolds nearby Springfield was the site of one of the '98 school shootings lumber and flannel (3rd to only Canada and Seattle) California: Famed for having a lottery system that allows the majority of winners to be Mexican or white trash. If I move to Santee or Lakeside, I may have a chance! |
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07-08-2002, 04:31 PM
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Other people born in Eugene/Springfield, Oregon:
Danny Ainge uh... I guess that's all! |
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07-08-2002, 04:43 PM
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Central FL.. lightning capital of the world.
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07-08-2002, 05:11 PM
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Pennsylvania - named after william penn
philadelphia is where the constition was signed. will smith, jim croce, and hall and oats are from. Plus alot more. |
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07-08-2002, 05:15 PM
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Elgin, IL
The Elgin Watch Factory. Elgin Baylor was named after one of those watches. Heh. |
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07-08-2002, 05:28 PM
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uhhh gilroy, 20 mins away is the "garlic capital of the world"
that place is smelly, specially once the season is over and the fields start rotting. yuk. |
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07-08-2002, 05:30 PM
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kankakee,IL - voted worst place to live in north america by the places rated almanac. david letterman had our mayor on the show and gave us two gazebos to try and brighten up the town because of our worst place to live status. when letterman's crew delivered the gazebos they got ticketed for parking in front of a fire hydrant.
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07-08-2002, 07:15 PM
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Illinois
-birthplace of former prez Ronald Reagan -home of an early Mormon settlement(Nauvoo) -poet Carl Sandburg from here Chicago -Smashing Pumpkins from here -had one of the worst fires in U.S. history(1871) -one of the most famous architectual cities in the U.S. -Ernest Hemingway born in nearby Oak Park -3rd largest city in country |
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07-08-2002, 07:19 PM
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NEW MEXICO
all sorts of stupid movies filmed weed is unspokenly legal deepsky is from here that one guy from that one movie is from somewhere in new mexico 49th/48th in the country w/ worst education. indians chili capital of the world. rio grande ALBUQUERQUE Doogie howzer lives here Oprah owns a house here the balloon fiesta is supposedly the biggest hot air convention in the world. coolest mayor ever. |
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07-09-2002, 12:50 AM
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NM Carlsbad Caverns Los Alamos Roswell Trinity Site: First Atomic Bomb Ted Turner owns lots of land. Demi Moore was born here. ALBUQUERQUE The Pit Possibly the Albuquerque Isotopes The Shins The coolest mayor ever. Oh, and you spelled chile like a stupid Texan. |
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07-09-2002, 01:47 AM
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Warwickshire/West Midlands, England
Birthplace of Shakespeare Kenilworth Castle Warwick Castle Coventry Cathedral |
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07-09-2002, 01:52 AM
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yay saskatchewan!
home of: wheat grain elevators farmers and.... stuff! |
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07-09-2002, 02:01 AM
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Louisiana
49th in most teen pregnancys -I am 99% sure anyway- some of the worst roads and some other shit :\ |
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07-09-2002, 02:12 AM
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oh and joni mitchell was born here. she even went to my high school!
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07-09-2002, 12:48 PM
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having spawned Frank Sinatra certainly might.... walt whitman, count basie, jack nicholson, norman mailer, paul robeson, amiri baraka, william carlos williams, eva marie saint, dorothy parker, charles addams, sarah vaughan, allen ginsburg, paul auster. einstein settled here, and died here. glenn danzig alone makes up for it. We're somewhat blasé about celebrities out here because, in fact, most people from New Jersey are celebrities. I could just say the words "Frank Sinatra" and leave it at that, but the truth is that most of the movie stars, the really significant ones, Susan Sarandon, John Travolta, Michael Douglas, Kevin Spacey (who grew up about two blocks from where I write this), Tom Cruise (who grew up about a mile from here), Bruce Willis, Kirsten Dunst (about half a mile from Cruise's house), Elizabeth Shue (who went to the high school right outside my window), Ray Liotta, Robert Wuhl, Linda Fiorentino, Danny DeVito (who waited on tables two towns over), Whitney Houston (whose mom directs a church choir in Newark), Jason Alexander (who went to Livingston High right down the road) and, oh, maybe a couple of dozen others are from New Jersey. Other celebrity types like Bruce and Bon Jovi and Lauryn Hill (who shops at my Rite Aid) and most significant athletes, current or retired (such as Yogi Berra, who has a museum not far from me), are either from or live in New Jersey. And though it isn't widely known, nearly all truly great American literature was written by writers from New Jersey. (I refer not so much to our greatest man of letters, Edmund Wilson, or our greatest living poet, W. S. Merwin, or even Philip Roth, but to Mark Leyner, whose "The Tetherballs of Bougainville" will dominate next century's best-of lists the way "Ulysses" and "Lolita" did the last one.) But I digress. My point is that we are not so impressed by celebrities as the provincials in Manhattan because we grew up with it. ... Out here, Tom Cruise is more likely to run into the old high school chum who knew him before the plastic surgery. (salon.com) etc etc. ------------------ what she asked of me at the end of the day, caligula would have blushed. |
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07-09-2002, 12:56 PM
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07-09-2002, 01:02 PM
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07-09-2002, 01:27 PM
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------------------ http://www.toolcity.net/~burt/images/pimp3a.jpg My anti-drug is non-consensual sex with minors. AIM: Mista Saki |
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07-09-2002, 11:42 PM
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Home is the place where hell froze over AKA northeastern Pennsylvania. It is known for its highly concentrated funeral home population and a place that sells more alcohol than any other place in the state. Best of all, I'm legally not allowed to enjoy any of it.
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