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    Alphabetical places names (word game)

    Here I am going to start a word game about Alphabetical places names. It all starts with the Letter A and then so on. So I am going to start with A then next poster has to write the place name starting with B. You can also share the details about the place too.
    A for Alaska:
    Alaska
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    Broken arrow: When a group of Creek Indians established a settlement near what is now our city, they called it "Broken Arrow." Broken Arrow is the name of the place where many of those same Creeks had lived when they were in Alabama - before moving west on the Trail of Tears.

    While many Americans think of the term "broken arrow" as meaning an act of peace by Native Americans a few hundred years ago, the Creeks who got that name did so because they broke branches of trees to make their arrows, rather than cutting them.

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      C is for Chesapeake Bay

      The Chesapeake (the Bay proper, and its tital tributary system) is the largest estuary in the US and the Bay proper is about 200 miles long and ranges between 4 and 30 miles wide. Its also remarkably shallow--the average depth is 21 feet and a person that is 6 foot tall could wade through some 700,000 acres of the Bay (though there are some toughs that get up to 174 feet deep and are thought to be ancient riverbeds). The Bay has more shoreline than the entire West Coast of the US...almost 12,000 miles of it. Its full of 18 trillion gallons of water, and includes six states (and the District of Columbia), 17 million people, and 2,700 different wildlife species--including dolphins, several whales, a number of nesting sea turtle species, horseshoe crabs (my favorite animal), and more. The biggest threats to the Chesapeake is development of shoreline riparian zones and forested watershed areas because it increases pollution into the Bay while decreasing the natural flora and fauna that clean the Bay--particularly sea grass and oysters...because this area is so populated, storm water runoff (including pet waste), as well as ag and industrial pollution are also problematic. Also, invasive species are a problem--invasive grasses and algae that smother native species and invasive shellfish and fish, as well as several land plants and animals.


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        Durango

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          Ebbw Vale. To quote Wiki, it is a town at the head of the valley formed by the Ebbw Fawr tributary of the Ebbw River in Wales. It is the largest town and the administrative centre of Blaenau Gwent county borough. The Ebbw Vale and Brynmawr conurbation has a population of roughly 33,000. It held an amazing garden festival (complete with dragon) in 1992.

          Oh, and for the letter F there's Froncysyllte , which is a village up near Wrexham. Famed for its Male Voice Choir... and luckily for us, perhaps, known popularly as just 'Fron.'
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            Fontana.

            It's a city in California, in San Bernardino County, heart of the 'Inland Empire'. It's mostly flat and hot and windy.

            But, it's home to the largest library in SBC, the Fontana Lewis Library & Technology Center. It's the size of a small college, modern but comfortable, and has free wi-fi.

            I, uh, have a wishlist of libraries to visit.
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              Gibraltar, no I don't know of it purely because of UK military forces there. Why would you think that?
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                Hawker!!!

                Tiny little town in outback south Australia, known as the 'hub of the flinders'!

                And I mean tiny. Currently about 200 people, with 30 kids in the school (reception to year 12).

                Major industry is tourism, a lot of things close in the summer because it's too hot for tourists.

                Nearest town to Wilpena Pound (fantastic geological feature of the Flinders Ranges).

                Also my home town. Come and visit!
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                Since the day you were born
                Revolting with anger
                While it smiled like it was cute
                That everything was shit.
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