Whats a cool fact about your town? Options

[mouse_3k]

vienna, VA. its stupid and nothing cool bout it besides the fact tht the police is up everyone's asses and will pull u ova even at 5mph ova the limit...bastards

[edit] just remembered, in one episode of Nip Tuck Vienna,VA was mentioned when christian, Sean, and Julia was lookin online to find the records of Ava to prove she was a man...

[x_curse_of_the_c...]

so i decided to look up my town and this is what i got.



-As of 2004, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 19,992

Famous people-

• Jason Elam - National Football League kicker
• Carolyn Murphy - internationally acclaimed model
• Danny Wuerffel - Heisman Trophy Winner, quarterback
• Jason Mellott - Acclaimed Producer

-The economy of is driven by two primary factors: the military, and prostitution.



-For example, the 'Mother of All Bombs' (MOAB) was first tested at Eglin AFB on March 11, 2003.





Edit:so i decided to look up where my mom lived when she was a teenager in huntsville, alabama. i was born around there. and look at all the famous people.




Notable Residents/Famous Natives

• Tallulah Bankhead, famous actress
• William B. Bankhead, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1936-1940; father of Tallulah Bankhead. The local Bankhead Parkway is named in his honor.
• Bo Bice, American Idol Runner-Up
• David B. Birney, Union Army general and son of James G. Birney.
• James G. Birney, Southern abolitionist leader and presidential candidate of the Liberty Party (anti-slavery) in 1840 and 1845.
• William Birney, Union Army general and son of James G. Birney.
• Kyndel Brown, WNBA Most Valuable Player, 2000
• Stewart Cink, PGA Tour Golfer
• Thomas Turpin Crittenden, Union Army general.
• Howard Cross, All American Tight End for the University Of Alabama and New York Giants.
• Kenneth Darby, star running back for the University of Alabama
• Dr. Jan Davis, former Astronaut; among crew on three Space Shuttle missions in 1992,1994 and 1997.
• Erik DeBolt, International Pop Star
• Bobby Eaton, professional wrestler
• Russel Erskine, chairman of the Studebaker Corp.
• Andrew Jackson Hamilton, appointed Union military governor of Texas (with rank of general) by Abraham Lincoln (1862) and appointed Reconstruction governor of Texas by Andrew Johnson (1865-66).
• Cully Hamner, comic book artist.
• Darrell C. Hazelrig, Filmmaker
• John S. Hendricks, founder and chairman of the Discovery Channel.
• Alex Hice, Olympic Water Polo gold medalist, 2004
• Homer Hickam, Author
• Margaret Hoelzer, 2004 Olympic swimmer
• Jimmy Key, former MLB All-Star pitcher with the Toronto Blue Jays and New York Yankees.
• Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery, respectfully dubbed the "dean of the Civil Rights Movement" by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a Huntsville native, and co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Mark McGwire, Major League slugger, got his start with the Huntsville Stars.
• Jimmy Means, NASCAR driver
• John Hunt Morgan, general in the army of the Confederate States of America.
• Edward Asbury O'Neal, governor of Alabama 1882-86. Appointed general in the army of the Confederate States of America, but commission never delivered.
• Chris O'Neil, 1986 Goodwill Games gold medalist in Swimming
• C.N. Parker, author of the controversial The Whipping of the Juggalos
• John Piersma, 1996 Olympic Swimmer.
• David M. Pope, musician, producer, writer.
• Brian Reynolds, game developer best known for designing Sid Meier's Civilization II
• Bryan Shelton, professional tennis player
• Mark Spencer, Creator of the open source Gaim instant messenger, and the Asterisk open source PBX
• John Stallworth, former Pittsburgh Steelers player and 2002 inductee into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
• Nick Torres, Cassino (band)
• Dr.Wernher von Braun, German rocket scientist
• Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder.
• Leroy Pope Walker, first Secretary of War of the Confederate States of America and briefly a brigadier general in the Confederate Army.
• Jones M. Withers, major general in the army of the Confederate States of America.

[kimmytree]

Hahaah. I looked stuff up, and I realized that I totally forgot about some things. I knew about Publix, but I had no clue that there were Hindus around here.

- home of one of the first Hindu temples in the US
- home of Publix headquarters (major grocery store in southeast - first location was here)
- first Red Lobster was opened here

[x-klutzibabi-x]

My city is known as the "Air Capital" of the U.S.

Pizza Hut, White Castle, Coleman, and Koch industeries began here.

A scene from the movie "Elizabethtown" was shot here.

And the BTK killings happened in this city.

[31miracles]

Lancaster, PA

people pronounce it wrong

amish land, site of the amish school shooting

[minioligo]

ATL fools

Georgia Aquarium, The Varsity, Coca Cola, CNN, Cartoon Network, Boomerang, The Weather Channel, TBS, Home Depot, Bellsouth, Delta, Hartsfield-Jackson Airport (busiest airport in the world), blahbalhbalhalh.

Tons of rap/hip-hop artists & celebrities, but eh I don't think you needed me to tell you that one.

[lanbexx]

the most bicycle friendly town in the entire world. Platinum award.

[iDecay]

Uh, the original inhabitants here were Shoshone Indians, later renamed the Gabrielino Indians by the Spaniards.

[IWGP]

Well my town is probably the most boring town of all.

[EddieV]

That my love was born there <3

[datass]

Well, my city never sleeps

[nezumi]

Mine does all the time...

[breakingdawn]

My town has the best ice cream in Connecticut. Seriously. They have all the awards. And we also have the second best ice cream. That is strange.

[DarkImpressions]

Umm well I live in Memphis currentl and I dont like it but I guess a cool fact would be that Elvis used to live here and Umm Im getting ready to move to South Carolina with all my family and umm i dont know any cool facts about there but I love it there

[smoke]

I have no idea. My town is really small. I think part of some movie was filmed near here. Maybe? Haha. I'm not sure. I'll have to look into it because I can't remember.

[mznikki]

so in addition to what i said..i'm adding on.. i looked it up haha =]

+The TV show Ed filmed some scenes in my town.

+In October 2005, many scenes of prominent locations in town were shot for the film World Trade Center, starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Oliver Stone

+This town is probably famous among video gamers, mainly because it is the headquarters of the game developer Imagineering, once a developer of console games. In every game they had produced, the following message always appears in the title screen and in the instruction booklet: "Developed by Imagineering Inc., my town". This blatant advertising practice of displaying their hometown in their games is considered a very rare practice among game developers and is probably why this town become famous among video gamers.

+Unlike most suburban towns whose names have little or nothing to do with reality, the town i live in was actually settled around an enormous rock left by retreating glaciers in a small valley (glen). From a 1985 The New York Times article, My town "is named for a 570-ton boulder, believed to have been deposited by a glacier, that stands at the northern end of Rock Road*, the town's main street. Called Pamackapuka, or Stone from Heaven, by the Delaware Indians, it served as a base for Indian signal fires and later as a trail marker for colonists."

oh and the guy holding the record for teaching over 5,000 days of school straight (he taught summer school and teaches in 2 colleges along with my high school) teaches in my town. its kinda gross..he'd come to school sick, he never missed a day of school.. i didn't like him though he never taught me anything.

[Mikael]

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[kynacolada]

Uhh Snoop Dogg used to live near my city

[moninja]

*was wiki'ed*

Everett is home to Boeing's assembly plant for the 747, 767, 787, and 777 in the largest building in the world by volume at 116.5 million cubic feet (13.3 million cubic meters).

pretty cool.

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Crime rates

In 2004, Everett had 62 rapes, which works out to 63.4 rapes per 100,000 people. The national average rate for 2004 was 32.2 rapes per 100,000 people.

Everett also had a typically high car theft rate in 2004 as the rest of the Puget Sound region, with 1709.9 per 100,000 population.[1]

The murder rate in 2004 was 3.1 per 100,000, lower than Seattle's 4.2 per 100,000 and the national average of 5.5 per 100,000.[2]

[koreansaga510]

We have a Nevada Day.. We got all these casinos and stuff, too.

[Anna-x-chan]

In Elkridge Maryland, theres a place called 'ghost road' and its said if your in a car and go by there your car stops and you hear weird noises. I'm going there for Halloween. The history on it was there was a lady driving by on Halloween night and some guy shot her.

[Puddles]

The music video for "Super Hyphy" a song by Bay Area rapper Keak Da Sneak was filmed at Bowditch Middle School. R&B singer Keyshia Cole was also featured in the music video.

My school :] haha my friends were in the videooo

[misoshiru]

My town...was built by the college I'm at.

[tabbyradburn]

Got lots.
We have a sign that's like the Hollywood sign.
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO
THE INDUSTRIAL CITY

Pretty awesome. :]

We also have some of the best teen directors/editors in the state here. My high school is also the only one in the area that has video announcements that are live and ran by the students only.

[Siena Jade]

Toronto

-tallest free-standing structure in the world (CN Tower)
-the world's largest film festival open to the public (Toronto International Film Festival)
-the most multicultural city in the world
-University of Toronto is consistently ranked as the best in Canada and in the top 20 worldwide
-Yonge Street was previously considered to be the longest street in the world
-Toronto Blue Jays and Toronto Raptors are currently Canada's only MLB and NBA franchises

and uh...yay for the TTC :]