Tag: 1000 places to see in the usa and canada before you die
member name: Patricia Schultz, Author of '1000 Places...'
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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September 03, 2008 12:19 PM EDT --
Rome is one of the great Eating Cities of the world. Sure, Paris and San Francisco and Hong Kong serve up some seriously delicious competition. But not only does everything taste (and look) better here, . . .
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