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Wrigley Field
Ellis Island
The Brooklyn Bridge
And, on a different note: The Mall of America
Ellis Island
The Brooklyn Bridge
And, on a different note: The Mall of America
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"I have as much authority as the pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it." — George Carlin -
DanS is annoyed by the guy. Thus, he spoke the truth.Originally posted by DanS
There's no law against retards hosting TV shows.(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
(")_(") "Starting the fire from within."Comment
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The Sears Tower, tallest building in the world!Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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And one of the ugliest!Originally posted by chegitz guevara
The Sears Tower, tallest building in the world!
Stick with the Empire State building, whose architecture is relatively uninfluenced by hideous European modernism.
Or, better yet, America's most beautiful skyscraper, The Chrysler Building!
"I have as much authority as the pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it." — George CarlinComment
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Wrong.Originally posted by chegitz guevara
The Sears Tower, tallest building in the world!12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
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Ok.Originally posted by
Smiley
This list of 25 may not make for great postcards but will give one a good idea of what this country is all about, good and bad.
Good ideaSubsistence farming in the Appalachia
More with the Wal Mart trolls, what did Sam Walton ever do to you?a Walmart Supercenter
main street of adjacent small town
Besides, the newer Supercenters aren't what you're looking for - an older supercenter or a remaining regular sized Wal Marts are more dull and better for the mood you want to create with your propoganda.
Both of them ugly disasters...I've never seen the exurban tract homes in Phoenix or really any big scale suburban development although I've driven by some suburban development or something in Arkansas...Conway, Bentonville, and Bryant...I think the whole idea creates a terribly ugly place.Exurban tract homes in Phoenix
Cabrini Green housing project, Chicago
Why not a football stadium or baseball field?SoHo, New York City
a NASCAR raceway
Anyone seen space05us?Miami Beach
Barrow, Alaska
They have two butt ugly churches in Camden, one looks like a warehouse and was actually built that way but the other occupies an emptied Family Dollar or something so it's not near as bad.Storefront church in any major city
At what date? And to symbolize what?New Orleansmeet the new boss, same as the old bossComment
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White House/Washington Monument/Lincoln Memorial
Mount Rushmore
St. Louis Arch
Golden Gate Bridge
Hoover Dam
New York Skyline
Hollywood Sign
Grand Canyon
Las Vegas Skyline
Those are the big ones, we can go into other things like the suburban shopping mall, the suburbs themselves, UGLY AZZ PARKING LOTS, freeways, etc.We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham LincolnComment
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PS THE MIAMI HEAT DANCERSWe the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham LincolnComment
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nm"In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed. But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
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Ground zero
The Vietnam wallIs God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God? - EpicurusComment
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Definitely.Originally posted by alva
The Vietnam wall"I have as much authority as the pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it." — George CarlinComment
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Lincoln Presidential Museum (Springfield, Illinois)
Heritage Trail (scenic trail for bikers/hikers in part of Dubuque County, Iowa)
Yellowstone National Park
Walt Disney World
Gay Pride in Chicago
Dubuque Mississippi River Museum (Dubuque, Iowa)
Ground Zero Memorial
Vietnam Wall
Confederate POW Cemetery (Rock Island, Illinois)
Golden Gate Bridge
any part of Key West Islands
visit any small town in any part of midwest to get a feel of rural America (the good, the bad, the ugly) that is often overlooked with emphasis on only urban culture of America
St. Louis Arch
Hoover Dam
visit at least one battlefield park commemorating an American Revolution battle fought in Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Virginia or elsewhere
ditto with a Civil War battlefield park (then after doing both, appreciate what the presenters get right, and laugh at what they get wrong, or leave out altogether)
drive along at LEAST part of historic route 66
Niagra Falls
visit an Amerindian reservation
downtown New York City (American urban culture, with the good, the bad, and the ugly)
I kinda broke the rules of the thread -- some of the places I mentioend are not iconic in that they are famous, but I think by visiting all of these places I mentioned, you get a more mosaic, variegated view of United States.A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.Comment
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noniconic places to visit
13th avenue, Brooklyn, NY on a Sunday. Try the felafel, go to a Jewish book store, buy a fur hat.
All the pizza places within a mile of Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The New York Public Library.
The Staten Island Ferry.
Kennebunkport, Maine.
Cape May, New Jersey, on a summer weekend.
The Archaeology Museum at the University of Pennsylvania.
Canaan Valley ski resort, West Virginia
Big Meadows, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia
The Uptown section of Chicago.
The Loop "el" in downtown Chicago.
Market Street, San Francisco.
Venice Beach, California.
Saguaro National whatever, Tuscon, AZ"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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When you say Tucson, I think first of Tombstone, then the nuclear missile silos. :shrug:One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.Comment
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Proud to say I've actually been there.Originally posted by joncha
Corn Palace
Mitchell, South Dakota
Along with Wall Drug (no affiliation with WalMart), in Wall South Dakota.
Can't beat the Corn Palace, though. At least not in the US. The giant easter egg in Vegreville, Alberta gives it a run for it's money."The French caused the war [Persian Gulf war, 1991]" - Ned
"you people who bash Bush have no appreciation for one of the great presidents in our history." - Ned
"I wish I had gay sex in the boy scouts" - DissidentComment
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