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After my latest road trip, my 763 counties and county equivalents.
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Ken Jennings: bestselling author and Jeopardy! host known for his success and streak as a J! contestant, winning 74 consecutive games, to date the show's longest-ever streak. He is the 2nd-highest-earning American game show contestant, having won money on 5 different programs, including >$4.5M on J!
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San José, capital of Costa Rica: Among Latin American cities, it is noted for its higher quality of life, security, globalization, environmentalism, public service, and recognized institutions. An extreme primate city, its metro population is as much as 40x that of the country's second-largest.
en.wikipedia.orgu/Pupikal — 6 days ago
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Apartheid: 1948-94 S. African institutionalised racial segregation, ensuring that its white minority dominated, followed by Indians, "Coloureds" & black Africans, in that order. Many mixed-race relations were banned & millions were evicted & forced into segregated "tribal homelands" aka bantustans.
en.wikipedia.orgu/Pupikal — 8 days ago
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Guatemala City, capital of Guatemala. Founded by the Spanish after an earthquake destroyed their colonial capital, now called Antigua Guatemala, another earthquake almost obliterated the new city in 1917. Reconstruction created a more modern landscape inspired by, inter alia, Paris and Washington.
en.wikipedia.orgu/Pupikal — 9 days ago
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Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts: Located in Virginia, it offers both natural and cultural resources. It is the only unit of the National Park Service with the consecutive words "National Park" in the name without being one of the 63 Congressionally designated national parks.
en.wikipedia.orgu/Pupikal — 9 days ago
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Quito, capital of Ecuador: officially San Francisco de Quito, its elevation of 2,850m (>9,000 ft) makes it the world's highest official capital. It is named for the Quitu indigenous peoples of the area. In 1978, Quito—along with Kraków—was one of the first two UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Sites.
en.wikipedia.orgu/Pupikal — 12 days ago
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Non-place: a space of transience where humans remain anonymous, as opposed to "places" in their anthropological definition. Places empower identity w/ others; people do not live in non-places, & individuals remain anonymous & lonely. Examples include roadways, hotel rooms, airports & shopping malls.
en.wikipedia.orgu/Pupikal — 14 days ago
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Bogotá, capital Colombia. Conquistadors founded it in 1538 as Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza. Renamed Santafé in 1540, it stayed capital of successive Spanish polities. Upon independence in 1819, it became capital of Gran Colombia, renamed Bogotá by Simón Bolívar in honor of those Spain displaced.
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Mexico City aka CDMX, capital of Mexico: The oldest capital in the Americas, it is the most populous city in N.A. (>9M; ~22M metro) & one of the world's leading cultural & financial centers & an Alpha world city. A constitutional clause prevents it from becoming a state while it remains the capital.
en.wikipedia.orgu/Pupikal — 18 days ago
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"Papa John" Schnatter: In 1984, he founded Papa John's pizza & was a billionaire by 2017. He resigned as CEO in 2018, aggrieved that the NFL (a business partner) had not done enough to stop players from kneeling during the national anthem. He later stepped down as chairman after using a racial slur.
en.wikipedia.orgu/Pupikal — 21 days ago
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Dushanbe, capital of Tajikistan. Dushanbe was the location of a large bazaar that operated every Monday (in Tajiki Persian 'the second day [du] following Saturday [shanbe]') named simply Dushanbe-Bazar. In late 1929, the city was renamed Stalinabad (the city of Stalin), but was reverted late 1961.
en.wikipedia.orgu/Pupikal — 21 days ago
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Thimphu, capital of Bhutan. The country's largest city, it is the fifth highest capital in the world and the highest in Asia, at ~2.5km (8k ft). The ancient capital city of Punakha was replaced by Thimphu as the capital in 1955, and in 1961 it was officially declared so by the 3rd Druk Gyalpo.
en.wikipedia.orgu/Pupikal — 23 days ago
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Familicide: type of murder in which an individual kills multiple of their own close family members in quick succession. In half of cases, the killer commits suicide. "Family annihilators" are a specific type, typically the senior male of the household.
en.wikipedia.orgu/Pupikal — 23 days ago
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Table Rock Lake duck boat accident, 2018: In a lake in the Ozarks near Branson, Missouri, an amphibious tour vehicle sank from high winds with 31 on board, leaving 17 dead, including nine members of one family. Crew had told passengers not to put on life jackets because they would not need them.
en.wikipedia.orgu/Pupikal — 28 days ago
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Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan. Known as Pishpek (until 1926) & then Frunze (to '91), it is a large city of wide boulevards w/ a mix of marble-faced public buildings & Soviet-style apartment blocks. The area near Bishkek is considered one of the possible origins of the Black Death btw 1346 and 1353.
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Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. Located at a crossroads in Asia—roughly halfway btw Istanbul & Hanoi—the city is situated in a strategic location along the trade routes of Central & South Asia & was a key destination on the Silk Road. It was a Mughal capital & became capital of Afghanistan in 1776.
en.wikipedia.orgu/Pupikal — 29 days ago
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Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina. A multicultural Alpha− global city w/ an urban pop of ~17M, it is known for its preserved eclectic European architecture & rich cultural life. Since the 19C, BA has received millions of worldwide immigrants, making it 1 of the most diverse cities of the Americas.
en.wikipedia.orgu/Pupikal — 1 month ago
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Kathmandu, capital of Nepal: The largest city & main governmental, financial, industrial, & cultural center of Nepal, it is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world, dating back to the 2ndC CE. Today, Kathmandu remains the epicenter of Nepal's history, art, culture, & economy.
en.wikipedia.orgu/Pupikal — 1 month ago
Andy Burnham, PM of the UK: A Labour MP, he was previously Mayor of Greater Manchester. He identifies as a socialist with a political ideology called "Manchesterism", which he has characterised as "the end of neo-liberalism" and "business-friendly socialism", rejecting trickle-down economics.
en.wikipedia.orgu/Pupikal — 1 month ago