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  2. Nicknames of San Francisco - Wikipedia

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    The City by the Bay – refers to San Francisco Bay [3] The City of Love – as seen in Cool, Gray City of Love by Gary Kamiya [13] and in the lyrics of "San Francisco" by German eurodance group Cascada [14] The City that Knows How [15] The Golden City – in reference to the California Gold Rush and golden brown grass on hillsides in the dry ...

  3. Ashgabat - Wikipedia

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    Ashgabat ( Turkmen: Aşgabat) [ a][ b] is the capital and the largest city of Turkmenistan. It lies between the Karakum Desert and the Kopetdag mountain range in Central Asia, approximately 50 km (30 mi) away from the Iran-Turkmenistan border. The city has a population of 1,030,063 (2022 census).

  4. Summer of Love - Wikipedia

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    The prelude to the Summer of Love was a celebration known as the Human Be-In at Golden Gate Park on January 14, 1967, [ 8] which was produced and organized by artist Michael Bowen. [ 9][ 10][ 11] It was at this event that Timothy Leary voiced his phrase, "turn on, tune in, drop out". [ 12] This phrase helped shape the entire hippie ...

  5. What are the origins of some famous city nicknames? - AOL

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    New York City is, of course, "the Big Apple." Paris is the "City of Love." Los Angeles is the "City of Angels." ... The whole area would be destroyed during World War II, but somehow the "Sin City ...

  6. List of largest cities - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese municipality of Chongqing, which is the largest city proper in the world by population, comprises a huge administrative area of 82,403 km 2, around the size of Austria. However, more than 70% of its 30-million population are agricultural workers living in a rural setting .

  7. Petra - Wikipedia

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    The city is one of the New 7 Wonders of the World and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. [6] The area around Petra has been inhabited from as early as 7000 BC, [7] and was settled by the Nabataeans, a nomadic Arab people, in the 4th century BC. Petra would later become the capital city of the Nabataean Kingdom in the second century BC.

  8. Who Rules the World (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Who Rules the World ( Chinese: 且试天下; pinyin: Qiě Shì Tiānxià ), is a 2022 Chinese streaming television series starring Yang Yang and Zhao Lusi. It is based on the wuxia romance novel Let's Try The World by Qing Lengyue. [ 2] It depicts the adventurous love story of Hei Fengxi and Bai Fengxi.

  9. The City of Love - Wikipedia

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    The City of Love (2007) is a novel by Rimi B. Chatterjee set in 16th-century Asia against the background of the spice trade, piracy and the rise of various mystical religious cults. It traces the lives of four characters all of whom are in search of spiritual and material fulfilment embodied in the idea of the 'city of love'.