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Vancouver: Things To Do
Vancouver is a water front city in British Columbia, Canada. With a 675,000 residents is the most populated city in B.C. and the third most populated city in all of Canada. Vancouver is extremely ethnically and linguistically diverse. Vancouver has plans to become the greenest city in the world in the future. Vancouver is known for its historic Gastown neighbourhood, its seafood, its parks and its beaches. Vancouver Art Gallery is an art museum in downtown Vancouver adjacent to Robson Square. The museum was opened to the public in 1931 and moved to its current location in 1983. The building was once the provincial courthouse designed in 1905. Museum of…
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Amsterdam: Things To Do
Amsterdam is a picturesque Northern European city full of canals and canal houses. Amsterdam is both the capital and the most populated city in the Netherlands. The population of the city has been steadily growing in recent years with a current population standing just over 900,000. Amsterdam is famously nicknamed “Venice of the North” due to the large amount of canals and subsequent river boats. The Homomonument memorial in the centre of the city commemorating LGBTQ+ people who were persecuted during World War Two. The Homomonument opened on September 5th, 1987, making it the first monument in the world dedicated to LGBTQ+ people who were persecuted and killed by the…
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Luxembourg City: Things To Do
Luxembourg City is a beautiful, extremely walkable European city with a rapidly growing population of just over 115,000 people. Located in the south of the small country of Luxembourg you will find that neither the capital nor the country as a whole is very touristy. All public transportation is free in the country making Luxembourg the first country to do so and as of writing one other country has followed suite, that being another small Euopean country of Malta. Luxembourg City is one of the capitals of the European Union (along with Brussels, Strasbourg and Frankfurt) and is the home of several E.U. institutions. Luxembourg is known as a very…
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New York City: Where Famous Artist, Actors and Intellectuals Died
Leonard Bernstein announced his retirement from conducting on October 9, 1990. He died on October 14 in his New York apartment at The Dakota, 1 West 72nd Street Manhattan, New York of a heart attack brought on by mesothelioma at the age of 72. Montgomery Clift died at 217 East 61st Street, Manhattan, New York City on July 23, 1966 of a heart attack at the age of 45. Greta Garbo died at The Rogosin Institute in New York Hospital on 15 April 1990 as a result of pneumonia and renal failure, at the age of 84. Rita Hayworth died from complications associated with Alzheimer’s disease after falling into a…
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