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**Efsane 66** · 02-02-2009, 09:29 AM

Is your hometown famous for anything?

Food & drink, events, buildings, clothing, celebrity etc...?

**witnesstheday** · 02-02-2009, 09:46 AM

I live in London... you'd have a hard time narrowing it down. We're famous for greed, chauvinism, supporting genocide, and also I suspect this is the city where Kylie made her first record deal! Doctor who loves this place. The Queen lives here. It has its good and bad side. Right now the bad are suffering - you should see London - you can cut the tension in the air with a knife. The rich are really getting kicked in the ghoulies. This is indeed the epicentre of judgement day. Trust me - all you people living in babylon but outside the epicentre, when what's happening in London catches up with you, you'll suddenly see where I've been coming from.

The crash started here and in New York first. The whole rich district in canary wharf where 100s of 1000s of rich slaves were positioned has drained of tenants and workers - I can get a flat there for 25% of the price it was going for a year ago! 25%!!!! It's like a routing of daleks, really - the daleks are all fleeing. Dunno where they came from, but thank the god of london they're going back.

**Giselle** · 02-02-2009, 01:33 PM

Craig T. Nelson was born here in Spokane and we had the World's Fair back in the 70's.....that's about all I can think of at the moment...

**jv17** · 02-02-2009, 07:29 PM

well my hometown is somehow famous with bars,events and night clubs..there are lots of it here

**juliensimon** · 02-02-2009, 08:07 PM

we burnt Joan of Arc.
now can anyone tell me where I am from?

**KML9870** · 02-02-2009, 09:12 PM

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Originally Posted by juliensimon

we burnt Joan of Arc.
now can anyone tell me where I am from?

Rouen...but don't expect me to pronounce it.

Buffalo is famous for chicken wings, pizza, the Buffalo Bills, the Buffalo Sabres and our winters. We are also right next to Niagara Falls.

**EvcRo** · 02-03-2009, 11:40 AM

I live in Bucharest and some of its greatest points are: the effervescent night life, beautiful girls and its never ending metamorphosis

**rolda hayes** · 02-03-2009, 11:59 AM

Waddesdon Manor. Built by Lord Rothchild....

**wayfarer07** · 02-03-2009, 12:30 PM

I grew up in Joshua Tree, CA, which besides having the same name as the U2 album, is the home of world famous artist Bev Doolittle. It's also got one of the best natural rock climbing paradises in the world right in its back-yard.

**thefandango** · 02-03-2009, 12:48 PM

Porridge...its famous for porridge...

**wickedwicca** · 02-03-2009, 02:43 PM

uuummmhhh..I can't of anything??
oh wait..I think its famous for big trees..yeah I think..
Those trees that has pink flower every summer...CUTE

**Arised** · 02-03-2009, 02:58 PM

Zarorozhskaya Sich

The name Cossack capital - Сѣчъ derived from the word «сѣкти», «высѣкать», near the intended location for Сѣчи trees and shrubs, clearing a place for arranging troops. Letter ѣ (ять) in Ukrainian pronounced «and», in Russian as «e», so when in 1918 the letter ять was removed from the alphabet, the Сѣчъ in Russian became Sich (even earlier, at Sc. correcting spelling the end has been replaced by er er), the Ukrainian Sich (pronounced SICH).

Sich was a military fortification, inside of which stood a church, farm buildings and accommodation - smoking. Later the word was transformed into the concept of total capital of Zaporizhzhya Cossacks, the center of activity and management of all military affairs, the residence of all the principal officers who stood at the head of the grassroots Cossacks.

Often, the word «Sich» use the word «Kosh» and troops Zaporizke sometimes called Zaporizhiyan Cochemé. This word Tartar origin and means the temporary premises at the time of movement. cossacks, using the word «Sich», implied a permanent capital of troops, as implied by the word Kosh parked troops during the campaigns, that is a temporary rate. Hence the signature on the letters «Dan in Koshu Zaporizhzhya Sich», ie Zaporizhya Sich, «Dan with Kosh at Bouger» - that is, the temporary camp at Bouger.

**~kev~** · 02-03-2009, 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Efsane 66

Is your hometown famous for anything?

Food & drink, events, buildings, clothing, celebrity etc...?

Famous for the wrong thing.

On June 7, 1998 James Byrd, Jr. accepted a ride from 3 men, who later beat him up, tied him to the back of a truck and drug him to death.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Byrd_Jr.

General custard also camped next to Sandy Creek that flows through this town.

Jim Bowie passed through here on the way to the Alamo. He also freed his slaves just north of town. He figured that he was going to die at the alamo, so he gave his slaves their freedom.

**juliensimon** · 02-03-2009, 10:12 PM

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Originally Posted by ~kev~

Famous for the wrong thing.

On June 7, 1998 James Byrd, Jr. accepted a ride from 3 men, who later beat him up, tied him to the back of a truck and drug him to death.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Byrd_Jr.

General custard also camped next to Sandy Creek that flows through this town.

Jim Bowie passed through here on the way to the Alamo. He also freed his slaves just north of town. He figured that he was going to die at the alamo, so he gave his slaves their freedom.

you are some mood killer kev!

nice to see you here

**micoblanco** · 02-04-2009, 05:04 AM

Yep my hometown is famous for its delicious delicacies.

yummy

**wayfarer07** · 02-04-2009, 04:28 PM

My hometown (where I grew up, not currently living) is also famous for having incredible wildlife, including the endangered Desert Tortoise, and the endangered Desert Bighorn Sheep.

**DTRBLE95** · 02-10-2009, 08:47 PM

bars, we have like 250 in our county

**ant123** · 02-10-2009, 10:58 PM

In his autobiography 'The moon's a Balloon' David Niven says he spent part of his childhood living at Rose Cottage, Bembridge. There are so many other famous people that come from the Isle of Wight and many Hotels have taken their names such as the Queen Victoria Hotel and King Charles I

**jabo** · 02-13-2009, 05:20 AM

my town is famous for it being a science city.. I think there are only few in the world that has been given this title... my town is Science City of Muñoz... its also popular for the carabaos and the carabao products like milk and pastillas and ice cream.

**amerie** · 06:53 AM

^can you take me there? lol I love ice cream and pastillas

well, my home town is famous for having good delicacies and for its fresh organic food and fruit juices and also made-to-order foods.