Description
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City
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Nicknamed the Mile High City because its official elevation is exactly one mile (5280 feet)
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Denver
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The busiest port in both passenger traffic and cruise lines
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Miami
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Founded on the Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by Puritan settlers from England
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Boston
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The location of the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929, when Al Capone sent men to gun down members of a rival gang
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Chicago
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The number one beer producing city in the world for many years
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Milwaukee
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The most remote city of its size in the world
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Honolulu
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Since reaching a peak of 1.85 million at the 1950 census, its population has declined by more than 60 percent
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Detroit
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It stands on the Rio Grande across the Mexico-United States border from Ciudad Juárez
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El Paso
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Named after King Louis XVI of France
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Louisville
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The second-largest music production center (after New York) in the United States
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Nashville
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Located at the confluence of the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio rivers
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Pittsburgh
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The largest inland metropolitan area in the U.S. that lacks any navigable link to the sea
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Dallas
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The most famous historic resident was Abraham Lincoln, who lived in the city from 1837 until 1861
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Springfield
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In 1770, the city's 11,000 inhabitants - half slaves - made it the 4th-largest port after Boston, New York, and Philadelphia
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Charleston
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Famous residents have included writers Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Hamilton, Frederick Douglass, Ogden Nash, and H. L. Mencken
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Baltimore
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Almost entirely burned to the ground in General William T. Sherman's famous March to the Sea
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Atlanta
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The largest city within the greater Mojave Desert
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Las Vegas
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An important city in U.S. presidential politics; as the state's capital, it is the site of the first caucuses of the presidential primary cycle
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Des Moines
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Known for its cool summers, fog, and steep rolling hills
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San Francisco
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The cultural center of the Valley of the Sun
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Phoenix
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