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Post by Loyal Canine on Oct 26, 2006 21:07:03 GMT -5
Hmm...My hometown, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, is known for the Calgary Tower, and it's Mountain scenery...SCENERY SUCKS!!!! Anywho, heres more things...
-Devonian Gardens; Basically, a really big garden...>.> -Dragon City Mall: An asian culturized mall -U of C: University of Calgary -AND! THE CALGARY ZOO! That would be...A zoo maybe? *sarcasm*
My city's pretty boring actually....BLAH TO THAT!
OH! And the Pengrowth Saddledome. It's where all the bands and acts and such come in and do their thing...
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Post by RizaHawkeye18 on Oct 29, 2006 18:15:25 GMT -5
My town is famous for
... Vic Mingnogna
He grew up here.
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Post by Loyal Canine on Oct 29, 2006 18:55:22 GMT -5
AWE! You live in Housten? Err however you spell it.....
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Post by seaweed on Jan 20, 2007 13:30:05 GMT -5
My hometown is Greenville, South Carolina. We are famous for "Shoeless" Joe Jackson (you know from the 'Black Sox' baseball scandal of 1911 that has been made into some famous movies? I can even do a 7 degrees of Travis, linking them if you want!!) Jesse Jackson is from Greenville, SC. For you rock music lovers, Edwin McCain- and for you country music lovers, Aaron Tippin- are both from Greenville SC as well. For you science nerds- Charles Townes, a well renowned physicist and astronomer, and Nobel Prize winner. Not bad for my little home town..
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Post by Mist On Fire on Jan 21, 2007 5:57:14 GMT -5
^wow! Not bad at all!
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Post by pyrofanatic310 on Mar 1, 2007 17:09:58 GMT -5
I've always lived in Fredericksburg, VA. I guess we're famous for like a ton of Civil War battlefields and stuff like that. Nothing really big. I'm only an hour away from D.C. though, I guess that's pretty cool. But anything REALLY cool *cough*cons!*cough* only ever happens like in Richmond or some other big city, so I have to drive a while to get there.
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Post by fallenangel15679 on Mar 3, 2007 16:49:23 GMT -5
Hey hometown isn;t much to brag about so I use the closest recognizable...Greensburg, Pennsylvania which is famous for....drum roll please....*drum roll*...............................................Vic Mignogna!!! ^^ YAY!
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Post by fallenangel15679 on Mar 3, 2007 16:54:45 GMT -5
OH! and I forgot to mention......Ray Luzier...drummer in..well right now the band Army of Anyone...My mom is actually friends with him....uh...Carrie Lynn who is the singer for a band called TANTRUM..they're in Cali right now making their first CD ^^ uh....and...there was singer....gah I can't remember her name!!!>.< oh well she was friends with my Aunt, if I remember I'll post it....I think her last name was Jones...*shrugs*
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Post by litamaxwell1986 on Mar 13, 2007 22:54:18 GMT -5
I was born in San Antonio, TX so I guess the two things I remember is the Alamo and the Riverwalk.
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Post by Mist On Fire on Jul 30, 2007 16:11:10 GMT -5
Just re-read this thread again....LOTS of interesting stories here!!
Time to bump this one back to page one!!! ;D
*gives the thread a kick*
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Post by hohenheim89 on Jul 30, 2007 19:44:41 GMT -5
Well i live in Middletown Ohio and i dont think its famous for anything. But its close to dayton Ohio, and Dayton Ohio is the place where the VERY first mcdonalds was located
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Post by Luraia on Aug 4, 2007 14:17:58 GMT -5
My hometown is Pequot Lakes, Minnesota! We're known for our Bobber shaped water tour, our tourist community, our dozens of lakes (none of them are named Pequot), AND we're also famous for BEANS! yes, beans! Every year thousands of people from the surrounding states and sometimes beyond come here for Bean Hole Days.
Bean Hole Days = two days in the year where Pequot's secret recipe beans are cooked in holes underground. They're cooked in 6 giant culdrons from days of old in a 14 foot long 6 foot deep hole. but the beans aren't very tasty no matter how they cook 'em,...LOL!
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Post by lullebulle on Aug 4, 2007 18:20:11 GMT -5
Hometown: Stockholm! Famous for: Stockholm-syndrome, and probably something else that I can't remember xD Birthplace: A small hole outside of Stockholm xD Famous for: Lots of runestones(3rd most in Sweden), being a really old community (at least 3000 years old), Europe (the band xD) and nazis
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Post by elite8wolf on Oct 8, 2007 9:28:40 GMT -5
My Hometown is Lancaster, Ohio...William Tecumseh Sherman was born there (he was the General who burned down Atlanta during the Civil War), also the dude who Started Forbes Magazine circulated his first newspaper there, R.F. Outcault (who created the first Comic Strip)was born there,and we have a couple pro football players and baseball players...and our main tourist attraction is Mt. Pleasant.
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Post by fdeg4161 on Oct 8, 2007 12:06:18 GMT -5
My hometown is famous for three things: The Alamo, the San Antonio Spurs, and the Riverwalk.
Okay kiddies, time for a history lesson!
Back in 1836 when Texas was still under Mexico's control, some 257 settlers and volunteers from minor political and military outputs had stationed themselves at the Alamo in order to protect it from the Mexican Army. Back in December of 1835 during the siege of Bexar, a small federalist army known as "The Army of the People" that were composed of tejano allies, immigrants, and other volunteers captured the town and took hold at the old mission. Once the battle was over, many of the volunteers left the Alamo to return to their families that left only a select few behind.
The provisional government at the time feared that the centralist force who tried to take Bexar would launch a spring offensive. As it was, there were two main roads lead into Texas from Mexico. The first was the Atascosito Road, which stretched from Matamoros on the Rio Grande northward through San Patricio, Goliad, Victoria, and finally into the heart of Austin's colony. The second was the Old San Antonio Road, a camino real that crossed the Rio Grande at Paso de Francia (the San Antonio Crossing) and wound northeastward through San Antonio de Béxar, Bastrop, Nacogdoches, San Augustine, and across the Sabine River into Louisiana. Two forts blocked these approaches into Texas: Presidio La Bahía (Nuestra Señora de Loreto Presidio) at Goliad and the Alamo at San Antonio. Each installation functioned as a frontier picket guard, ready to alert the Texas settlements of an enemy advance.
The Alamo only had 21 pieces of functioning artillery, however, they lacked even the basic provender and even from then things looked grim. So much so in fact, that Colonel James Clinton Neil, the commander of the Alamo garrison had to send word to the provisional government that without the proper reinforcements, they would fall to the Mexican Army.
Volunteers then, through the next couple of months, began to trickle into San Antonio to help defend the Alamo. Forces were led by figures such as W.B. Travis, Jim Bowie, Sam Houston, and Davey Crockett. Thus by the time the Battle of the Alamo began, they were up to 150 defenders, this is excluding any women, children, and slaves that were also holding up there. Later reinforcements from Goliad added the number up to about 257.
The siege of the Alamo lasted for 13 days until every last defender was dead. It began with Santa Anna sending a courier to demand that the Alamo surrender. Travis replied with a cannonball. Then the battle escalated from there and waged on for the 13 days. The defenders of the Alamo were vastly outnumbered by Santa Anna's army, which was well into the thousands, but the Mexican Army suffered about 600 casualties in lieu of the defenders. All the women, children, and servants that held up in the Alamo were treated by Santa Anna with admirable gallantry by not killing them, allowing them safe passage through his lines, and minor provisions for their journey.
And that boys and girls, was one of several starts of how Texas became a republic and later a state in the union.
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