702 résultats pour "city"
- Kansas City (Missouri).
- Oklahoma City.
- City of Sydney
- Dublin (city, Ireland) - geography.
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New York City - geographie.
Zu Beginn des Nordamerikanischen Unabhängigkeitskrieges (1776-1783) wurde die Stadt nach der Schlacht von Long Island von britischen Truppen besetzt, blieb aberZentrum des Widerstands gegen die Kolonialherrschaft. 1779 wurde New York Hauptstadt des gleichnamigen Bundesstaates. Nach der Fertigstellung des Erie-Kanals 1825 erfuhr New York als nunmehr wichtigste Hafenstadt an der nordamerikanischen Ostküste einen weiteren Wachstumsschub undwurde zu einem wichtigen Handels-, Finanz- und Industriezen...
- Kansas City (Kansas).
- Saint John (city, New Brunswick) - Geography.
- Kansas City.
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- ATLANTIC CITY
- Carson City.
- Steve REICH, city life
- Saint John (city, New Brunswick) - geography.
- New York City Ballet - danse.
- Encyclopedia of Philosophy: THE CITY OF GOD AND THE MYSTERY OF GRACE OF AUGUSTINE ?
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Vatican City Facts and Figures.
Voting qualificationsLimited to cardinals under 80 years old ConstitutionApostolic Constitution of 1967, effective 1 March 1968 Armed forcesTotal number of military personnel Not available Military expenditures as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) Not available ECONOMYGross domestic product (GDP, in U.S.$) Not available GDP per capita (U.S.$) Not available GDP by economic sectorAgriculture, forestry, fishing Not available Industry Not available Services Not available Employ...
- Martin Scorsese Martin Scorsese, born in 1942, American motion-picture director, whose best films have reflected the Italian American experience of his childhood in New York City's Little Italy neighborhood.
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- Le Stade de White-City (sport).
- New York City Ballet.
- city tour
- King Kong (motion picture) King Kong (motion picture, 1933), film about an enormous ape who kidnaps a young woman and terrorizes New York City.
- Etats-Unis. Chicago, Marina city buildings.
- États-Unis. Salt Lake City, le Capitole.
- FAT CITY
- DESPERADO CITY
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Henry Miller
Natif de New York City, Miller passa son enfance à Brooklyn.
Natif de New York City, Miller passa son enfance à Brooklyn. Il exerça plusieurs métiers avant d'entrer à la Western Union, qu'il quitta pour se consacrer à l'écriture. Vendeur de poésie au porte à porte, il ouvrit un bar clandestin durant la période de la prohibition. En 1930, il s'embarqua pour la France et se fixa à Paris, où il vécut une vie de bohème et de débauche. Il mettait à l'épreuve le rêve américain de liberté totale, s'affranchissant lui-même de toute moralité en couchant avec les f...
- Mycenae Greek An ancient city of Greece situated in Argos, in the northern Peloponnesus.
- Etude d’image du film Bruce Willis dans Sin City réalisé par Frank Miller et Robert Rodriguez en 2005 :
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Ernest Hemingway
Enfant de Chicago, Hemingway acheva sa scolarité en 1917, puis il partit à
Kansas City où il trouva un emploi de reporter au Star.
Enfant de Chicago, Hemingway acheva sa scolarité en 1917, puis il partit à Kansas City où il trouva un emploi de reporter au Star. Lors de l'entrée en guerre des États-Unis, Hemingway, réformé de l'armée pour une ancienne blessure à l' œ il, s'engagea sous les ordres de la Croix Rouge. Chauffeur d'ambulance, il fut gravement blessé en Italie et rapatrié. Après son rétablissement, il épousa la première de ses quatre femmes et repartit pour l'Europe, où il travailla comme correspondant pour le S...
- THE SIXTH BOROUGH "Once upon a time, New York City had a sixth borough.
- Parker (Charles Christopher, dit Charlie), 1920-1955, né à Kansas City, saxophoniste et chef d'orchestre américain.
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Saskatoon - geography.
The principal tourist attraction is Wanuskewin Heritage Park, just north of the city. The park has 19 archaeological sites representing more than 5,000 years of indigenousculture of the northern plains. The city is home to the Saskatoon Blades, an ice hockey team in the Western Hockey League. Annual events in the city include theShakespeare on the Saskatchewan Festival, the SaskTel Jazz Festival, Winterfest, and the ethnic celebrations of Folkfest. IV ECONOMY Saskatoon’s economy has fluctuated...
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Windsor (Ontario) - geography.
IV ECONOMY Casino WindsorCasino Windsor, in Windsor, Ontario, opened in 1998. The hotel and casino provide an important boost to the economy of the city bycreating many new jobs and by attracting tourist traffic to the region.Richard Sheinwald/AP/Wide World Photos Windsor has been a base of American automobile companies from the beginning of the 20th century and it remains a major center of auto industry employment andmanufacturing. The Ford Motor Company built an auto manufacturing plant in Wi...
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Saskatoon - Geography.
were suspended after being charged with dumping two indigenous men at the outskirts of the city in the middle of the winter. They froze to death. The city requested aspecial Royal Canadian Mounted Police task force to investigate the matter. VII HISTORY Indigenous peoples inhabited the Saskatoon area for more than 5,000 years before white settlers arrived. The original settlement was designed in 1882 to be theadministrative center of a temperance colony led by Ontario Methodists. The city grew...
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Beijing - geography.
Shoe Factory in BeijingWorkers assemble shoes at a state-owned factory in Beijing, where rapid industrial development has extended into the city’s outlyingareas in recent years. Beijing is China’s second largest industrial center, after Shanghai.Goh Chaihin/AFP As the nation’s capital and political center, the particular economic role of Beijing has been a topic of considerable debate and controversy. The Communist government hasdesignated Beijing as an appropriate center for industrial, commerc...
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Super Bowl Winners
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XLI 2/4/2007 Indianapolis Colts, AFCChicago Bears, NFC 2917Tony DungyLovie Smith Miami Gardens, FL XLII 2/3/2008 New York Giants, NFCNew England Patriots, AFC 1714Tom CoughlinBill Belichick Glendale, AZ Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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Cincinnati - geography.
building is the library of the Cincinnati Historical Society. Eden Park is the location of the Cincinnati Art Museum, which contains among its many collections a number ofpaintings by American and European masters. The birthplace and early home of the 27th president of the United States is preserved at the William Howard Taft NationalHistoric Site. Closer to downtown is the Taft Museum. Located in the Taft family’s home, it has an outstanding art collection assembled by Charles P. and Annie Taft...
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Tampa - geography.
tennis. V ECONOMY Since 1980 metropolitan Tampa has become the foremost banking, commercial, and services center in the western part of the Florida Peninsula. The city is home to manyhigh-technology companies including biomedical and information technology firms and manufacturers of medical products. Large new office complexes have been built nearBrandon along interstates 75 and 4 in the eastern suburbs and most importantly at Westshore adjacent to Tampa International Airport in the west; downt...
- John Winthrop: "A City Upon a Hill" In 1629 English attorney and Puritan John Winthrop was chosen by the Massachusetts Bay Company, an English trading firm, to govern its colony in New England.
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Jacksonville (Florida) - geography.
Jacksonville is a center for business, manufacturing, finance, insurance, culture, and medicine in northeastern Florida and nearby Georgia. It is also a major deepwater portof entry that has long been the home of important United States Navy facilities, including the Mayport Naval Station and the Jacksonville Naval Air Station. The IntracoastalWaterway passes through the city. Jacksonville is Florida’s most industrialized city. Drawing on the raw materials produced by the region’s farms, forests...
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Jerusalem - geography.
There are many other artifacts in the city, tied to various periods of history; those of Canaanite, Israelite, Greek, Roman, Arab, Crusader, and Ottoman origin areamong the more prominent. Modern attractions include the Israel Museum (completed in 1965), which houses the Shrine of the Book, where the Dead Sea Scrolls areexhibited; the Rockefeller Museum (opened in 1938), which contains archaeological finds; the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum; the Museum of Biblical Archaeology; theMuseum of Islamic...
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Cincinnati - geography.
and managed the Reds. The University of Cincinnati men’s basketball team enjoyed considerable success in the 1990s. IV ECONOMY Cincinnati, from its earliest beginnings, has functioned as a major port on the Ohio River. Distribution of raw materials as well as manufactured goods is one of the city’schief economic activities. Although Cincinnati remains one of the world’s leading centers for the distribution of bituminous (soft) coal, this trade is gradually declining. Coal from Kentucky and W...
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Cairo (Egypt) - geography.
Prize-winning author and Cairo native Naguib Mahfouz, whose fiction has provided a chronicle of the city. VI POINTS OF INTEREST The pyramids of Egypt, which served as tombs for the ancient pharaohs, and the statue of the Sphinx, which dates from about 2500 BC and is probably the country's most famous monument, are located just west of Cairo in the suburb of Giza. Depite the desert background usually depicted in photographs, the pyramids areextremely close to Cairo and are likely to be affecte...
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Winnipeg - geography.
city of the province. The city is also the site of the University of Winnipeg.Tom McHugh/Photo Researchers, Inc. Winnipeg grew up around the district called The Forks, at the river junction. For many years this historic site was covered by railroad yards, but in recent years it has beenredeveloped as a heritage park and recreation center. Winnipeg also has an impressive collection of pre-1914 buildings, especially in the Exchange District, with itswarehouses and office blocks. Old Market Square,...
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Lima (Peru) - geography.
Market in Lima, PeruShoppers and workers mingle in an outdoor market in Lima, Peru.M. Mcintyre/Hutchison Library On the city’s margins, however, vast squatter settlements have mushroomed, as large numbers of rural Peruvians have migrated to the city seeking a better life. More thanone-third of Lima’s population is estimated to live in such settlements, known as pueblos jovenes (young towns) or barriadas (shantytowns). Often these squatter settlements have developed relatively close to wealth...
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Minneapolis - geography.
into a ten-block shopping center, known as Nicollet Mall, reserved for pedestrians and public transportation; at one end is Gateway Center, a complex that includes severalhigh-rise government and office buildings. Pedestrians may also cross from building to building using skyways, glass-enclosed bridges that cross many downtown streets.The Mall of America, the largest retail and entertainment complex in the United States, is in nearby Bloomington. V EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS Weisman...
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Tampa - geography.
The Port of Tampa is the country’s deepwater port closest to the Panama Canal and is among the nation’s busiest; products passing through the port include cement,citrus fruits, coal, petroleum, ammonia, phosphate, and sulfur. The port also is home to a shrimp fleet and is increasingly a port of departure for cruise ships. A number of highways and expressways link Tampa to the rest of the metropolitan region and the state. Interstate 4 leads inland toward Orlando and forms the axis ofthe eastern...
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New Orleans - geography.
D Metropolitan Region The New Orleans metropolitan region covers 8,800 sq km (3,400 sq mi) and includes the counties—known in Louisiana as parishes— of Orleans, Jefferson, Saint Bernard, Saint Charles, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Tammany, Saint James, and Plaquemines. At the center is the city of New Orleans, which is coextensive withOrleans Parish. It has a land area of 468 sq km (181 sq mi). Extending from this base are numerous suburban towns in the surrounding parishes. Metairie, Harahan...
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Cairo (Egypt) - geography.
of the city's oldest architectural monuments can be found. Old Cairo is the home of Cairo's Coptic Christian community, and the site of the Coptic Museum and a number ofCoptic churches. The irrigation of Cairo's desert periphery has allowed for the development of suburbs, such as Heliopolis, located to the northeast. Other modern suburbs are interspersedwith recently created migrant neighborhoods that accommodate the city's growing population. Industrial areas further crowd the city, restricting...
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Athens (Greece) - geography.
expected to further develop the city’s tourism industry. Athens serves as the hub of Greece’s national transportation network. The Greek railway system is centered in Athens, and ferries sail to the rest of the country from theport at Piraeus. The urban area itself in Athens is served by taxis and public buses that must contend with heavily congested traffic. The major part of the city’s metrosubway, Attiko Metro (Athens Metro), was completed in 2000 and serves the heart of Athens; extensions to...
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Milwaukee - geography.
Milwaukee Museum of ArtThe Quadracci Pavilion, a dynamic addition to the Milwaukee Museum of Art in Wisconsin, opened in 2001. Designed by Spanisharchitect Santiago Calatrava, it features a 27-m (90-ft) high entrance hall enclosed by a sunscreen that can be raised or lowered. It isthe first building in the United States to be designed by Calatrava, who came to international attention after designing a breathtakingbridge for Expo '92, a world’s fair held in Seville, Spain, in 1992.Joseph Sohm; Vi...