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      <title>TOWNS AND CITIES AROUND THE WORLD  by beata</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Name: Bedzin</p><p>Location:  in the southern Poland</p><p>Population: 58 735</p><p>History:  &nbsp;During the occupation, town’s name was changed into Bendsburg</p><p>Places to go: catle, park, museum, stadium</p><p>Famous for: castle </p><p>Other insetesting things:  the total population of Jews 21 200.</p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Name of the city:  Bydgoszcz</p><p>Location:  North Poland</p><p>Population: 370 000</p><p>History:  The name of the city derives from the names of two brothers  Byd and Gost</p><p>Places to go: Granary, operta Nova, park Myślęciński, </p><p>Famous for: Hall arches and Zawisza stadion on the street Gdańsk</p><p>Other interesting things:  Bydgoszcz is the coat of arms of the city gate with three towers ending in a point, the raised portcullis and wpółotwarte gate. Long ago, the old people say, that in Bydgoszcz all three gates were kept closed and secured.</p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Name of the city: Chicago<br><br>Location: American Midwest, Illinois, USA<br><br>Population: Almost 3 million people.<br><br>History: According to explorers  from the 1600's, the Illinois Indians were the first people to claim a land they named "Chicaugou."<br>It meant powerful, strong or great.<br><br>Places to go: The Chicago Theatre, Willis Tower, Millennium Park.<br><br>Famous for: The Art Institute of Chicago holds the largest collection of Impressionist paintings outside the Louvre in Paris.<br><br>Other interesting things: Chicago is home to the world's largest population of Polish people outside of Warsaw.</p><p>Source<br></p><p><b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/3rzj7gp">http://tinyurl.com/3rzj7gp</a></b></p><p><b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/7oj8tm5">http://tinyurl.com/7oj8tm5</a></b></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2014-09-22 18:58:49 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>NAME OF THE CITY: Barcelona</p><p><span style="font-size: 13px;">LOCATION: north-east shore of Spain, by the Mediterranean Sea</span><br></p><p><span style="font-size: 13px;">POPULATION: 1,620,943 mln</span><br></p><p><span style="font-size: 13px;">HISTORY: Establish by felician in antiquity. The most important place for merchants. Since 1997 divided into ten districts</span><br></p><p>PLACE TO GO: The Liceu Opera House, University of Barcelona,  port Vell, The city hall of Barcelona, Cathedral, National Museum</p><p>FAMOUS FOR: The Camp Nou - the biggest staidum in Europe, club FC Barcelona</p><p>OTHER INTERESTING THINGS: average annual temperature in summer 20°C&nbsp;and in winter 12°C, the entire population of the city is 3.4% of the whole of Spain</p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Name of the city:  Lübeck&nbsp;</p><p>Location : Northern Germany (in Schlewig-Holstein)</p><p>Population: approximately 220,000</p><p>History: Lübeck, the Queen of all the Hanseatic cities, was founded in 1143 as 'the first western city on the Baltic coast'.</p><p>Place to go: </p><h1>Lubeck Landmarks and Monuments,</h1><h3>CITY GATE / HOLSTEN GATE&nbsp;,</h3><h3>DREHBRÜCKE BRIDGE,</h3><h3>TOWN HALL,</h3><h3>HEILIGEN GEIST HOSPITAL</h3>,RIVER TRAVE and more.<div>                                                                         Famous for: many Gothic buildings and also its tasty marzipan, writer Thomas Mann.</div><div>                                                                            Other intersting things : A number of prominent German cities lie close to Lubeck and are full of quality tourist attractions. Many people combine a visit to Lubeck with a trip to nearby&nbsp;Hamburg, where the lively sights around the Alster lakes, Speicherstadt canals and famous St. Pauli district await. Also nearby, both Ahrensburg and Ratzeburg are worth investigating if you have time, where you will discover grand castles, cathedrals and plenty of period architecture.&nbsp;</div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>NAME: Sydney</p><p>LOCATION: New South Wales, Australia&nbsp;</p><p>POPULATION: approximately 4.5 million</p><p>HISTORY: first visited in 1770, Sydney is built around a huge harbour.</p><p>PLACES TO GO:</p><p>-Australian Museum(&nbsp;the oldest museum in Australia)</p><p>-Bondi Beach</p><p>-Queen Victoria Building(a late nineteenth-century building designed by George McRae)</p><p>-Sea Life Sydney Aquarium</p><p>FAMOUS FOR: Sydney Opera House(a multi-venue performing arts centre)</p><p>OTHER INTERESTING THINGS:</p><p>Sydney has the deepest natural harbour in the world (504,00 mega litres of water)</p><p><b>http://tinyurl.com/qd4o8d2 </b></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2014-09-23 07:47:17 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>LILI (new)</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>NAME: Beijing</p><p>LOCATION: Northern in China</p><p>POPULATION: 21,150,000</p><p>HISTORY: Beijing was built over 3,000 years ago. . During 800 years, 34 emperors ruled here, so Beijing is an important city in China.</p><p>PLACES TO GO: National Stadium, Tiananmen,&nbsp;The Temple of Heaven.</p><p>FAMOUS FOR: The Great Wall- one of the greatest wonders of the world. we usually say, one who fails to reach the Great Wall is not a true hero.</p><p>OTHER INTERESTING THINGS: Watermelon Festival is a great day in China. people eat wash&nbsp;and play watermelon on that all day.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2014-09-23 08:29:10 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>DongDong</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>NAME: XiaMen</p><p>Location: Southeast in China</p><p>Population: 3730000</p><p>History: XiaMen was During the early Jin Dynasty, the place was made Tong'an County in 282. During the Song Dynasty (960–1279 AD), the city was a seaport open to foreign trade. Therepublic of Chinabased in&nbsp;TaiWan&nbsp;govern the Jinmen Islands.</p><p>Places to go: Gulangyu Island, Rare marine species Xiamen National Nature Reserve, Xiamen Earthen, Nanputuo Temple,</p><p>Famous for: The Xiamen Earthen, it is the femous house in the XiaMen, it likes a circle, but people live in there.</p><p>Other Interesting Thing: If you want to go to the fantastic holiday in southerst in China, that will be XiaMen. The city XiaMen is  near the sea, and have beautiful landscape。</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2014-09-23 16:25:57 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Charanya Pimsaka&amp;nbsp;</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Name of the city:  Hanoi</p><p>Location: North west of Vietnam </p><p>Population: 3.5million</p><p>History: King Minh Mang had laid the name Hanoi on the capital since 1831</p><p>Place to go: Imperial Citadel of Thang long now is a UNESCO world heritage </p><p>Famous for: Vegetarian food and fresh markets </p><p>Other interesting things: Temple of Literature and Vietnam Ethology museum</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2014-09-23 19:45:50 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Anna Krajewska</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Name of the city: Toruń</p><p>Location:  Northern Poland</p><p>Population: 205,934</p><p>History: The first settlement in the vicinity of Toruń is dated by archaeologists to 1100 BC (Lusatian culture). During early medieval times, in the 7th through 13th centuries, it was the location of an old Slavonic settlement, at a ford in the Vistula river.</p><p>Place to go: Visit Copernicus house, observatory and statue<br>While Torun is inhabited mostly by students, tourists can enjoy themselves as well. They can visit his house and find out about his discoveries at the Planetarium. His statue, located in the Main Square.</p><p>Castle "The Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem"</p><p>Regional Museum<br></p><p>Famous for: Nicolaus Copernicus</p><p>Another reason for Torun’s fame is its delicious<em> pierniki</em>&nbsp;- gingerbreads. Not surprisingly, their popularity has led to their being sold throughout Poland. However, in Torun tourists can make their own 
gingerbreads&nbsp;at the <em>Muzeum Zywego Piernika</em>.<br></p><p>Torun also has a famous motorcycle racetrack where various Grand Prix and European Championships have been held.</p><p>Other interesting thing: Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń</p>]]></description>
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         <title>Aleksander</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Name of the city: Honolulu</p><p>Location: island of Oahu in the Pacific Ocean</p><p>Population: 337.256</p><p>History: in Havaiian language city name,means-protected gulf. <span style="font-size: 13px;">Nearby military port Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 Japanese forces attacked which was the reason that the United States enter into World War II. </span></p><p>Place to go:Waikiki Museum of Art, Queen Emma Summer Palace,Pearl Harbor
<br></p><p>Famous for:  Aloha-Hawaiian word used when we hawe greetings for someone.

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         <title>Amanda (website)</title>
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         <pubDate>2014-09-25 08:22:44 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Name:&nbsp;Berlin</p><p>Location: Germany, Center of Europe</p><p>Population: 3,439,100...more or less now</p><p>History: Berlin was signed by a lot of things that changed as well the world like the Hitler's ages that it was so horrible for the world and for Germany because he killed a lot of innocent people just because they had different colture from him and different aspect but this was just a big part of German's history, we can found also other part like the medieval period, the reform, the Kingston and a lot of history...</p><p>Places to go: you can chose to go for sightseeing and you can admire the Brandeburg Gate, the beautiful cathedral and also a trip on the river Spree but also the most important is the big wall that divided Berlin West from Berlin East. Although you can go to visit the other beautiful cities close to Berlin.</p><p>Famous for:&nbsp;many many museum, the big wall (a big part of this wall is now gone)</p><p>Other interesting things: I think everything is interested in Berlin like the Fernsehturm Tower, Postdamer Platz, Alexanderplatz,&nbsp;</p><table><tbody><tr><th>&nbsp;but you must have a big resistance because you can admire the lager, the train and the prison where Hitler keep the jews and the other people with different aspect and culture...it is not a beautiful scenery but is history and it won't happen again...I hope.

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         <title>Sandra&amp;nbsp;</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>&nbsp;Name: Lebork </p><p>location: north-western Poland</p><p>papolation: 35,069</p><p>History: The town was located on the site of a previous Polish settlement named Lebno&nbsp;</p><p>Places to go: Church of St. James, lake, park Chrobrego</p><p>Famous for: Muzeum, Ratusz , casle krzyzacki , joke </p>]]></description>
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         <title>Ghadir</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>  Name: Palmyra (Tadmur)</p><p>  Location: central of Syria <br></p><p>  Population: 51,323 <br></p><p>  History:* The language of Palmyra was Aramaic.<br> *Although Palmyra was autonomous for much of its history, it came under Roman control for a while before it was declared as a free city again by the emperor Hadrian.<br>*There had been a temple at Palmyra for 2000 years before the  Romans ever saw it.<br></p><p>   Places to go: * The Roman theatre at Palmyra dates back to the second-century<br>*Museum of Palmyra which IS a two storey building consists into two main areas. The interior space contains ancient masterpieces whereas the open air space contains the big sculptures.<br></p><p>  Famous for : it's powerful queen Zenobia who led a famous revolt against the Roman empire.<br><br></p>]]></description>
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