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Date: August 17, 2011 08:04PM
I tough it could be interesting for harmonica fans/members to write here something interesting about your country or city.
My country
Latvia is a country in north-east Europe, on the Baltic sea shore, bordering with Estonia, Russia, Belarus and Lithuania.
Capital - RĪGA
Baltic sea is famous because of Amber - Amber from the Baltic Sea has been extensively traded since antiquity and in the main land, from where amber was traded 2000 years ago, the natives called it glaes (referring to its see-through similarity to glass)
NATIONAL FOOD
Rye bread
Rye bread is a type of bread made with various percentages of flour from rye grain. It can be light or dark in color, depending on the type of flour used and the addition of coloring agents, and is typically denser than bread made from wheat flour. It is higher in fiber than many common types of bread and is often darker in color and stronger in flavor.
Baltic Rye
All the countries that hug the Baltic Sea bake bread using rye flour - rye is indigenous to the region. But it is Latvia, on the eastern shore of the Baltic sea, that produces the most delicious highest quality rye bread, as evidenced by top prizes at food exhibitions and by exports to neighboring countries.
Latvian rye bread has been praised in the Gourmet Magazine by its former editor-in-chief Ruth Reichl: "This is powerful stuff that reminds you of why bread is called 'the staff of life.' I am pretty sure you could live on it alone..."
One hundred percent sourdough rye bread is the traditional staple of Latvia, and it is central to Latvian culinary and cultural history. For a thousand years Latvians baked this bread in wood burning ovens reaching 1800 degrees fahrenheit, using 100 percent rye flour, sourdough starter, a hint of caraway and little else.
In Latvia babies teethe on the rye bread. On long voyages Baltic sailors fill the holds of their ships with it- sourdough rye lasts for months. Latvians soak rye bread in milk and eggs to make bread pudding. They serve rye bread croutons fried in garlic and butter as bar snacks. Like rice in Asia, rye bread -- known as "rupjmaize" in Latvian -- is considered holy. It is never wasted. To leave it bottom side up on the counter is considered disrespectful.
The bread itself -- dense, dark, sweet/sour with a hint of caraway -- marries perfectly with the foods of Baltic farms and fisheries: rich butter, herring, smoked meats, fish, and pork sausage.
While the rye breads of Denmark and Sweden are known as the base for those countries' excellent open-faced sandwiches, Latvian rye bread, made without any wheat, is considered the ne plus ultra of rye breads.
Jāņu siers / Summer Solstice Cheese
Latvian caraway cheese. Every Latvian worth his or her salt makes
this cheese for the Summer Solstice festival, which is a night of
singing and dancing and beer drinking and campfire building on June
23, the shortest night of the year, but it's delicious anytime at all,
and you just never knew that it's so easy to make tasty cheese at
home.
Sklandrauši
Sklandrausis is a traditional dish in Latvian cuisine which has a Livonian origin, but it is known by Latvians for many years. It is a sweet pie, made of rye dough and filled with potato and carrot paste and seasoned with a caraway.
WOOD MUSHROOMS
Intrepid tourists who venture to explore the autumn wonders of the Latvian countryside will notice a strange sight as they drive out of town: lines of empty cars - everything from broken-down Ladas to shiny new S-Class Mercedes-Benzes - parked alongside the highway, beside pristine, uninhabited forests. The scene looks like something out of an eerie science-fiction movie, where the city's residents flee from their homes en masse, but are vaporized in their cars before they can get too far out of town. But if you slow down and survey the situation more closely, you may catch a glimpse of the abandoned cars' owners trekking through the forests nearby. The sense of being trapped in a sci-fi film will only intensify, as these creatures do indeed look rather sinister: clad in knee-length rubber boots and faded windbreakers, staring zombie-like at the ground, and seemingly oblivious to one another. Half of them will appear before you wielding tiny knives and clutching wicker baskets, lined with old newspapers; the others will materialize out of the bushes with red-stained fingers and lips, like nightmarish clowns. But have no fear - these would-be phantoms are merely participating in two of Latvia's favorite pastimes: mushroom picking and berry picking. The fruits (and fungi) of their labors will be stored for the chilly months ahead, providing delicious additions to many a meal in the short days and long nights of the coming Latvian winter.
The mushroom season begins in late summer, along with the first rains, and lasts until the first frost. The most popular and certainly the tastiest non-poisonous mushrooms are baravikas, or boletes, and gailenes, or chanterelles.
Conserving these fungi for winter is a relatively simple operation: For the boletes, cut out the pores on the underside of the cap and remove the damaged or wormy areas; chanterelles only need to be cleaned and rinsed. Chop the cleaned mushrooms into pieces and pan-fry in lard, sprinkling a couple tablespoons of salt on top. While frying, the mushrooms will release the moisture they absorbed from the earth; after this liquid boils away, the fungi are ready to be stored, preferably in well-sealed glass containers. Later, the preserved mushrooms can be stewed in heavy cream to make a delicious sauce, served with meat or potatoes.
Though the country's sweetest berries - blueberries, red currants, black currants, and cherries - are gone by late August, autumn is the perfect time to pick two of the more indefatigable fruits: bruklenes, or red bilberries, and dzervenes, or cranberries, which can be found in low-lying bushes throughout the country's forests and, in the case of cranberries, swamps and boggy areas. To conserve cranberries, merely place them in a glass jar filled with water; the fruit's inherent acidity and tough skin will work its own preserving magic. The berries can then be fished from their jars and used to prepare delicious desserts, added as a tangy garnish to cooked meats, or squeezed through a sieve and mixed with water and sugar to make the cranberry drink mors. Like cranberries, red bilberries are a bitter fruit, but are sweetened to perfection by the addition of juicy autumn apples. To make an excellent jar of preserves, stew the bilberries with sliced apples and sugar (about 200 grams to one kilogram) until the apples dissipate. The finished product, also an excellent sauce for meats, is best stored in glass containers, which, as you may have guessed, are incredibly value commodities in Latvia, and are thus "gathered and preserved" throughout the year for use in making these heavenly concoctions.
Of course, berry preserves and canned mushrooms are amply available in supermarkets throughout the year. But while the Latvian capital is still encircled by luscious, untouched forests (a situation that will surely change in the coming years, as warehouses and switch hotels take advantage of the hundreds of square kilometers of untouched space available just outside of Riga), rent a car, drive out to the nearest forest, take a long walk in the woods, and handpick your own ingredients for a few meals that will surely brighten the cold days of the long winter months ahead.
RIGA CENTRAL MARKET
Riga Central Market (Latvian: Rīgas Centrāltirgus) is Europe's largestmarket and bazaar in Riga, Latvia.[ It is one of the most notable structures from 20th century in Latvia and has been included in UNESCO World Heritage Site list together with Old Riga.It was planned from 1922 and built from 1924 to 1930. The main structures of the market are five pavilions constructed by reusing old German Zeppelin hangars and incorporating Neoclassicism and Art Deco styles. The market is 72,300 square metres (778,000 sq ft) wide with more than 3,000 trade stands.
PROFESIONAL LATVIAN HARMONICA PLAYER
Raimonds Macats
JZ Microphones
In 2007 JZ Microphones was established in Riga, Latvia. After twenty years of designing several dozen successful microphones, Mic Designer Juris Zarins decided to redirect his experience and passion for design into his own line of handcrafted recording microphones. JZ Microphones are the combination of open-minded thinking leading to an innovative approach and great experience lending deep understanding of fine microphone construction. JZ Microphones combine all the elements critical to world-class microphone design; patented capsule technology, precision electronics and innovative industrial design.
The JZ Microphones team is dedicated to music creation and the recording process.
We ask you: What is sound? It is not black or white, it is impermanent and often it does not explain anything in particular.
We believe sound is an emotional stream connecting all of us as it inspires our greatest works. As the sound lives in its own world and can be very complicated, our objective is to reduce the physical limitations of delivering it to your recording, keeping its complexity and beauty unaltered, for everyone who loves sound as much we do.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvCXLacM2sU[/video]
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhaIsQtKl4s[/video]
Latvian sauna
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkWUPUnakqo[/video]
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSSSlsqHbJI&feature=related[/video]
History of Latvia - short stop motion clay motion
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcKIeD3RxRQ[/video]
LATVIAN BEER
Anyone who likes beer and is thinking of visiting Latvia may consider to try some of the local brews that Latvia has to offer and let me tell you, there is no shortage of great tasting Latvian beers waiting to be drunk! Beer in Latvian is known as Alus an important word to know!
Hops and barely are the traditional ingredients for Latvian beer and you may find some example such as Honey beers or flavoured beers still being produced today. The Latvian folklore songs document the use of beer and the Latvians love for beer on many occasions and throughout important festivals such as midsummer you can still here people singing these classic Latvian folk songs even today.
Smaller Latvian breweries from across Latvia are also plentiful, so have a look out for them as you travel around this fantastic country.
any questions feel free to ask !
My country
Latvia is a country in north-east Europe, on the Baltic sea shore, bordering with Estonia, Russia, Belarus and Lithuania.
Capital - RĪGA
Baltic sea is famous because of Amber - Amber from the Baltic Sea has been extensively traded since antiquity and in the main land, from where amber was traded 2000 years ago, the natives called it glaes (referring to its see-through similarity to glass)
NATIONAL FOOD
Rye bread
Rye bread is a type of bread made with various percentages of flour from rye grain. It can be light or dark in color, depending on the type of flour used and the addition of coloring agents, and is typically denser than bread made from wheat flour. It is higher in fiber than many common types of bread and is often darker in color and stronger in flavor.
Baltic Rye
All the countries that hug the Baltic Sea bake bread using rye flour - rye is indigenous to the region. But it is Latvia, on the eastern shore of the Baltic sea, that produces the most delicious highest quality rye bread, as evidenced by top prizes at food exhibitions and by exports to neighboring countries.
Latvian rye bread has been praised in the Gourmet Magazine by its former editor-in-chief Ruth Reichl: "This is powerful stuff that reminds you of why bread is called 'the staff of life.' I am pretty sure you could live on it alone..."
One hundred percent sourdough rye bread is the traditional staple of Latvia, and it is central to Latvian culinary and cultural history. For a thousand years Latvians baked this bread in wood burning ovens reaching 1800 degrees fahrenheit, using 100 percent rye flour, sourdough starter, a hint of caraway and little else.
In Latvia babies teethe on the rye bread. On long voyages Baltic sailors fill the holds of their ships with it- sourdough rye lasts for months. Latvians soak rye bread in milk and eggs to make bread pudding. They serve rye bread croutons fried in garlic and butter as bar snacks. Like rice in Asia, rye bread -- known as "rupjmaize" in Latvian -- is considered holy. It is never wasted. To leave it bottom side up on the counter is considered disrespectful.
The bread itself -- dense, dark, sweet/sour with a hint of caraway -- marries perfectly with the foods of Baltic farms and fisheries: rich butter, herring, smoked meats, fish, and pork sausage.
While the rye breads of Denmark and Sweden are known as the base for those countries' excellent open-faced sandwiches, Latvian rye bread, made without any wheat, is considered the ne plus ultra of rye breads.
Jāņu siers / Summer Solstice Cheese
Latvian caraway cheese. Every Latvian worth his or her salt makes
this cheese for the Summer Solstice festival, which is a night of
singing and dancing and beer drinking and campfire building on June
23, the shortest night of the year, but it's delicious anytime at all,
and you just never knew that it's so easy to make tasty cheese at
home.
Sklandrauši
Sklandrausis is a traditional dish in Latvian cuisine which has a Livonian origin, but it is known by Latvians for many years. It is a sweet pie, made of rye dough and filled with potato and carrot paste and seasoned with a caraway.
WOOD MUSHROOMS
Intrepid tourists who venture to explore the autumn wonders of the Latvian countryside will notice a strange sight as they drive out of town: lines of empty cars - everything from broken-down Ladas to shiny new S-Class Mercedes-Benzes - parked alongside the highway, beside pristine, uninhabited forests. The scene looks like something out of an eerie science-fiction movie, where the city's residents flee from their homes en masse, but are vaporized in their cars before they can get too far out of town. But if you slow down and survey the situation more closely, you may catch a glimpse of the abandoned cars' owners trekking through the forests nearby. The sense of being trapped in a sci-fi film will only intensify, as these creatures do indeed look rather sinister: clad in knee-length rubber boots and faded windbreakers, staring zombie-like at the ground, and seemingly oblivious to one another. Half of them will appear before you wielding tiny knives and clutching wicker baskets, lined with old newspapers; the others will materialize out of the bushes with red-stained fingers and lips, like nightmarish clowns. But have no fear - these would-be phantoms are merely participating in two of Latvia's favorite pastimes: mushroom picking and berry picking. The fruits (and fungi) of their labors will be stored for the chilly months ahead, providing delicious additions to many a meal in the short days and long nights of the coming Latvian winter.
The mushroom season begins in late summer, along with the first rains, and lasts until the first frost. The most popular and certainly the tastiest non-poisonous mushrooms are baravikas, or boletes, and gailenes, or chanterelles.
Conserving these fungi for winter is a relatively simple operation: For the boletes, cut out the pores on the underside of the cap and remove the damaged or wormy areas; chanterelles only need to be cleaned and rinsed. Chop the cleaned mushrooms into pieces and pan-fry in lard, sprinkling a couple tablespoons of salt on top. While frying, the mushrooms will release the moisture they absorbed from the earth; after this liquid boils away, the fungi are ready to be stored, preferably in well-sealed glass containers. Later, the preserved mushrooms can be stewed in heavy cream to make a delicious sauce, served with meat or potatoes.
Though the country's sweetest berries - blueberries, red currants, black currants, and cherries - are gone by late August, autumn is the perfect time to pick two of the more indefatigable fruits: bruklenes, or red bilberries, and dzervenes, or cranberries, which can be found in low-lying bushes throughout the country's forests and, in the case of cranberries, swamps and boggy areas. To conserve cranberries, merely place them in a glass jar filled with water; the fruit's inherent acidity and tough skin will work its own preserving magic. The berries can then be fished from their jars and used to prepare delicious desserts, added as a tangy garnish to cooked meats, or squeezed through a sieve and mixed with water and sugar to make the cranberry drink mors. Like cranberries, red bilberries are a bitter fruit, but are sweetened to perfection by the addition of juicy autumn apples. To make an excellent jar of preserves, stew the bilberries with sliced apples and sugar (about 200 grams to one kilogram) until the apples dissipate. The finished product, also an excellent sauce for meats, is best stored in glass containers, which, as you may have guessed, are incredibly value commodities in Latvia, and are thus "gathered and preserved" throughout the year for use in making these heavenly concoctions.
Of course, berry preserves and canned mushrooms are amply available in supermarkets throughout the year. But while the Latvian capital is still encircled by luscious, untouched forests (a situation that will surely change in the coming years, as warehouses and switch hotels take advantage of the hundreds of square kilometers of untouched space available just outside of Riga), rent a car, drive out to the nearest forest, take a long walk in the woods, and handpick your own ingredients for a few meals that will surely brighten the cold days of the long winter months ahead.
RIGA CENTRAL MARKET
Riga Central Market (Latvian: Rīgas Centrāltirgus) is Europe's largestmarket and bazaar in Riga, Latvia.[ It is one of the most notable structures from 20th century in Latvia and has been included in UNESCO World Heritage Site list together with Old Riga.It was planned from 1922 and built from 1924 to 1930. The main structures of the market are five pavilions constructed by reusing old German Zeppelin hangars and incorporating Neoclassicism and Art Deco styles. The market is 72,300 square metres (778,000 sq ft) wide with more than 3,000 trade stands.
PROFESIONAL LATVIAN HARMONICA PLAYER
Raimonds Macats
JZ Microphones
In 2007 JZ Microphones was established in Riga, Latvia. After twenty years of designing several dozen successful microphones, Mic Designer Juris Zarins decided to redirect his experience and passion for design into his own line of handcrafted recording microphones. JZ Microphones are the combination of open-minded thinking leading to an innovative approach and great experience lending deep understanding of fine microphone construction. JZ Microphones combine all the elements critical to world-class microphone design; patented capsule technology, precision electronics and innovative industrial design.
The JZ Microphones team is dedicated to music creation and the recording process.
We ask you: What is sound? It is not black or white, it is impermanent and often it does not explain anything in particular.
We believe sound is an emotional stream connecting all of us as it inspires our greatest works. As the sound lives in its own world and can be very complicated, our objective is to reduce the physical limitations of delivering it to your recording, keeping its complexity and beauty unaltered, for everyone who loves sound as much we do.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvCXLacM2sU[/video]
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhaIsQtKl4s[/video]
Latvian sauna
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkWUPUnakqo[/video]
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSSSlsqHbJI&feature=related[/video]
History of Latvia - short stop motion clay motion
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcKIeD3RxRQ[/video]
LATVIAN BEER
Anyone who likes beer and is thinking of visiting Latvia may consider to try some of the local brews that Latvia has to offer and let me tell you, there is no shortage of great tasting Latvian beers waiting to be drunk! Beer in Latvian is known as Alus an important word to know!
Hops and barely are the traditional ingredients for Latvian beer and you may find some example such as Honey beers or flavoured beers still being produced today. The Latvian folklore songs document the use of beer and the Latvians love for beer on many occasions and throughout important festivals such as midsummer you can still here people singing these classic Latvian folk songs even today.
Smaller Latvian breweries from across Latvia are also plentiful, so have a look out for them as you travel around this fantastic country.
any questions feel free to ask !
Re: About your country or city
Posted by:
gene
(Moderator)
Date: August 18, 2011 01:22AM
Interesting things about my city:
1.
Hmmm...I'll try to think of something.
1.
Hmmm...I'll try to think of something.
Re: About your country or city
Posted by:
djlactose
(Moderator)
Date: August 18, 2011 04:22PM
This post reminds me of a school book report... very cool though I love the idea. I wish I had time to put something together.
Re: About your country or city
Posted by:
bluenose
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Date: August 23, 2011 08:04AM
RIOTS ! and Birmingham City !!!
Re: About your country or city
Posted by:
yukon
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Date: August 23, 2011 08:59AM
OK here is a little about my state.
The State of Pennsylvania is located in the northeastern United States of America, it is bordered by the states of New York, New Jersey, Deleware, Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio and Lake Erie.
Pennsylvania was the crash site of flight 93 (near Shanksville),during the Sept 11,2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, this was the only one of the 4 hijacked planes that did not reach its goal, which was believed to be the US Capitol or the White House. While passengers and crew were attempting to take back control of the plane from the terrorists the plane crashed killing all on board. Learn more here:
[www.nps.gov]
Some key things about our state.
Nickname: Keystone State - During colonial times Pennsylvania was the middle colony of the original 13 colonies. It held the colonies together like the "keystone" in a window or door arch.
Capital: Harrisburg
Background: Pennsylvania was settled in 1643. Philadelphia was our state capital during the Revolutionary War and York was the first capital of the United States.
State name’s meaning: Penn’s Woods (after Admiral William Penn's father)
Motto: Virtue, Liberty and Independence
Important Documents: Several important documents were written in Pennsylvania
The Constitution of the United States
The American Declaration of Independence
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Flower: Mountain Laurel
Tree: Hemlock
Bird: Ruffed Grouse
Animal: Whitetail Deer
Insect: Firefly
Dog: Great Dane
Beverage: Milk
Fish Brook Trout
Fossil: Phacops Rana
Ship: United States Brig Niagara
One of the original 13 colonies, Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn as a haven for his fellow Quakers. Pennsylvania’s capital (at the time), Philadelphia, was the site of the first and second Continental Congresses in 1774 and 1775, the latter of which produced the Declaration of Independence, sparking the American Revolution. After the war, Pennsylvania became the second state, after Delaware, to ratify the U.S. Constitution. In the American Civil War (1861-1865), Pennsylvania was the site of the Battle of Gettysburg, in which Union General George Meade defeated Confederate General Robert E. Lee, bringing an end to the Confederacy's Northern invasion, as well as Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address. Tourists are drawn to Pennsylvania by its monuments to America's revolutionary history, including Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell. Famous Pennsylvanians include patriot and inventor Benjamin Franklin, frontiersman Daniel Boone, painter Mary Cassatt, inventor Robert Fulton and comedian Bill Cosby.
In Pennsylvania we have a groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, that people from around the world come to see every year on February 2, he predicts how many more weeks of winter are left, it is a big event for many people, there are all kinds of festivities leading up to the time that he actually comes out to see if he sees his shadow or not thus determining when spring will arrive. Here is the site to learn more about it.
[groundhog.org]
Here are some facts about our state.
Drake Well Museum in Titusville is on the site where Edwin L. Drake drilled the world's first oil well in 1859 and launched the modern petroleum industry.
When completed in 1882, the Kinzua Railroad Bridge near Mount Jewett was acclaimed "the highest and longest railroad viaduct in the entire world." Rising 301 feet from the valley floor at its center, with a total length of 2100 feet.
The Liberty Tunnel in Pittsburgh opened in 1924. At that time the 5,700 foot facility was the longest artificially ventilated automobile tunnel in the world.
Philadelphia became home to the first computer in 1946.
Little League Baseball's first World Series was held in Williamsport in 1946.
Hershey is considered the Chocolate Capital of the United States.
The first commercial broadcast station in the world was KDKA.
Betsy Ross made the first American flag in Philadelphia
Kennett Square is known as the Mushroom Capital of the World.
Nazareth is the home of Martin guitars. Finger picking good since 1833.
The town of Franklin became a center for worldwide oil production following
Colonel Edwin Drake's discovery of oil in nearby Titusville.
Indiana County is the Christmas Tree capital of the world.
Located in the Grape Coast region of Pennsylvania the city of North East has four thriving wineries and is home to the largest Welch's grape processing plant in the country.
The Pennsylvania State Police was created by an act of the legislation which was signed into law by Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker on May 2, 1905. It was the first uniformed police organization of its kind in the United States.
In July of 2011 Pennsylvania had the second most UFO sightings in the US with 39, California had 54. On December 9, 1965 we had the Kecksburg UFO incident which left many more questions than answers, and all NASA records concerning the investigations were lost or accidently destroyed, this became known as the "Pennsylvania Roswell".
Here is a site with some more interesting facts about our state.
[www.50states.com]
The State of Pennsylvania is located in the northeastern United States of America, it is bordered by the states of New York, New Jersey, Deleware, Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio and Lake Erie.
Pennsylvania was the crash site of flight 93 (near Shanksville),during the Sept 11,2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, this was the only one of the 4 hijacked planes that did not reach its goal, which was believed to be the US Capitol or the White House. While passengers and crew were attempting to take back control of the plane from the terrorists the plane crashed killing all on board. Learn more here:
[www.nps.gov]
Some key things about our state.
Nickname: Keystone State - During colonial times Pennsylvania was the middle colony of the original 13 colonies. It held the colonies together like the "keystone" in a window or door arch.
Capital: Harrisburg
Background: Pennsylvania was settled in 1643. Philadelphia was our state capital during the Revolutionary War and York was the first capital of the United States.
State name’s meaning: Penn’s Woods (after Admiral William Penn's father)
Motto: Virtue, Liberty and Independence
Important Documents: Several important documents were written in Pennsylvania
The Constitution of the United States
The American Declaration of Independence
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Flower: Mountain Laurel
Tree: Hemlock
Bird: Ruffed Grouse
Animal: Whitetail Deer
Insect: Firefly
Dog: Great Dane
Beverage: Milk
Fish Brook Trout
Fossil: Phacops Rana
Ship: United States Brig Niagara
One of the original 13 colonies, Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn as a haven for his fellow Quakers. Pennsylvania’s capital (at the time), Philadelphia, was the site of the first and second Continental Congresses in 1774 and 1775, the latter of which produced the Declaration of Independence, sparking the American Revolution. After the war, Pennsylvania became the second state, after Delaware, to ratify the U.S. Constitution. In the American Civil War (1861-1865), Pennsylvania was the site of the Battle of Gettysburg, in which Union General George Meade defeated Confederate General Robert E. Lee, bringing an end to the Confederacy's Northern invasion, as well as Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address. Tourists are drawn to Pennsylvania by its monuments to America's revolutionary history, including Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell. Famous Pennsylvanians include patriot and inventor Benjamin Franklin, frontiersman Daniel Boone, painter Mary Cassatt, inventor Robert Fulton and comedian Bill Cosby.
In Pennsylvania we have a groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, that people from around the world come to see every year on February 2, he predicts how many more weeks of winter are left, it is a big event for many people, there are all kinds of festivities leading up to the time that he actually comes out to see if he sees his shadow or not thus determining when spring will arrive. Here is the site to learn more about it.
[groundhog.org]
Here are some facts about our state.
Drake Well Museum in Titusville is on the site where Edwin L. Drake drilled the world's first oil well in 1859 and launched the modern petroleum industry.
When completed in 1882, the Kinzua Railroad Bridge near Mount Jewett was acclaimed "the highest and longest railroad viaduct in the entire world." Rising 301 feet from the valley floor at its center, with a total length of 2100 feet.
The Liberty Tunnel in Pittsburgh opened in 1924. At that time the 5,700 foot facility was the longest artificially ventilated automobile tunnel in the world.
Philadelphia became home to the first computer in 1946.
Little League Baseball's first World Series was held in Williamsport in 1946.
Hershey is considered the Chocolate Capital of the United States.
The first commercial broadcast station in the world was KDKA.
Betsy Ross made the first American flag in Philadelphia
Kennett Square is known as the Mushroom Capital of the World.
Nazareth is the home of Martin guitars. Finger picking good since 1833.
The town of Franklin became a center for worldwide oil production following
Colonel Edwin Drake's discovery of oil in nearby Titusville.
Indiana County is the Christmas Tree capital of the world.
Located in the Grape Coast region of Pennsylvania the city of North East has four thriving wineries and is home to the largest Welch's grape processing plant in the country.
The Pennsylvania State Police was created by an act of the legislation which was signed into law by Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker on May 2, 1905. It was the first uniformed police organization of its kind in the United States.
In July of 2011 Pennsylvania had the second most UFO sightings in the US with 39, California had 54. On December 9, 1965 we had the Kecksburg UFO incident which left many more questions than answers, and all NASA records concerning the investigations were lost or accidently destroyed, this became known as the "Pennsylvania Roswell".
Here is a site with some more interesting facts about our state.
[www.50states.com]
Re: About your country or city
Posted by:
djlactose
(Moderator)
Date: August 26, 2011 09:00PM
I have website stats which show where everyone is from, it is a nice mix from around the world.
Re: About your country or city
Posted by:
gene
(Moderator)
Date: August 26, 2011 11:05PM
I'm still thinking. There must be SOMETHING interesting about my city....
Re: About your country or city
Posted by:
cjd
(203.36.176.---)
Date: August 30, 2011 05:41AM
Tooradin, Victoria, Australia.
population of about 1200 but I’ve never counted everyone.
Small coastal village about 80km southeast of Melbourne. Almost the bottom of Australia’s mainland. Average temperature during the day in winter 14C to 16C and in summer a few years ago (Black Saturday) it got to close to 50C but 28C to 35C would be the expected summers day.
Very nice place to live.
And yes, it looks exactly like the picture (when the tide is in)
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/30/2011 05:59AM by cjd.
population of about 1200 but I’ve never counted everyone.
Small coastal village about 80km southeast of Melbourne. Almost the bottom of Australia’s mainland. Average temperature during the day in winter 14C to 16C and in summer a few years ago (Black Saturday) it got to close to 50C but 28C to 35C would be the expected summers day.
Very nice place to live.
And yes, it looks exactly like the picture (when the tide is in)
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/30/2011 05:59AM by cjd.
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