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Lamar, Missouri is home tp Stilabower Observatory, one of the few community owned astronomical observatories in the nation. The free facility is designed so it is accessible to handicapped persons and small children.

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Wymore, Nebraska, is the Welsh Capital of the Great Plains and home of the Welsh Heritage Center,Legend has it that Welsh settlers were attracted to the region because the rolling hills and nearby Blue River reminded then of Home

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Wahpeton North Dakota is home to Wahpper, the world's largest carfish. The 5,000-pound fish statue is 40 feet long and 12 feet tall and calls attention to excellent fishing in the Red River.

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North Bend, Ohio has ties to two U.S. presidents. William Henry Harrison, the nation's ninth president (1841), was buried in a tomb on Mount Nebo in 1841. His grandson, Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president (1889-1893), was born in the town in1833.

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Highmore, South Dakota didn't have any competition to be the country seat of Hyde County. it's the only town in the county, although the settlements of Holabird, Stephan and Mac's Corner are listed on some state maps.

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A statue of Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli, the leather-jacketed biker played by Henry Winkler in television's Happy Days, will be erected in Milwaukee, where the 1970s sitcom was set. Local groups raised $85,000 for the "Bronze the Fonz" project.

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The first radio broadcast of the Indianapolis 500 was in 1924 by Chicago-based and Chicago Tribune-owned WGN (World's Greatest Newspaper) Radio, formerly called WDAP Radio.

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Born in 1910, John Wooden played basketball at Martinsville High School and led the team to the Indiana state title in 1927. Wooden, who went on to win 10 NCAA basketball chanpionships as coach at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the 1960s and 1970s, was the first person to be inducted into the National Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach.

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Marc Anderessen, co-founder of the Netscape Internet web browser, was born in 1971 in Cedar Falls, Iowa and helped write Mosaic, the first Internet browser. Netscape's successful initial public offering in 1995 made him an multimillionaire.

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The Rock Chalk Chant used by fans of the University of Kansas in Lawrence since the late 1880s was called the greatest college cheer by President Theodore Roosevelt. The words are simple--"Rock Chalk, Jayhawk, KU"--but the cadence has been compared to a Gregorian chant. "Rock chalk" refers to the region's limestone rocks.

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It always smells like Thanksgiving at Goggler's Resturant in Gaylord, Michigan which is famous for its oven-rosed turkey and dressing dinners served year-round.

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For 50 years, Ed Kruger of Wyloff, Minnesota saved everything-magazines,matchbooks, junk mail, his gallstone and dead cat--and upon his death in 1989 willed his entire collection to the town. Ed's Museum is an autobiography of one man's life.

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Bailed as the world's largest, a pencil weighing about 22,000 pounds and measuring 76 feet long at City Museum in St. louis. The pencil has a 250-pound eraser and 4,000 pounds of lead.

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Established as the state cemetery in 1869, Wyuka cenetery in Lincoln,Nebraska features a "park Design" with curing roads extensive plantings, a pond and statuary art.

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The Fargo Kiwanis Club stacked up a world's largest pancake feed. pancake grillers flipped and served 34,818, flapjacks to thousands of people during the Pancake Karnival.

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Adopted in 1975, the stae's oficial insect is the ladybug, or Lady bird beetle, which can be found in all 88 counties of Ohio. The resolution calling for the official symbol noted that ladybugs and Ohioans share similar traits, including friendliness, hardiness,beauty and charm.

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Toby Flint, 17, of Brookings, South Dakota was honored with a 2008 Prudential Spirit of Community Award for designing and bulding a picnic and fishing area for a city park.

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if incoming freshman this fall at Ripon College,Wisconsin don't bring a car to campus the college will give them a free mountain bicycle, helmet and lock, valued at $400. The bike giveaway is designed to encourage good health and to help with the problem of overcrowded camous parking lots.

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Lincoln, Illinois is home to the railsplitter Covered Wagon, the world's largest covered wagon, measuring 40 feet long and 24 feet tall. Seated on the wagon is a statue of Abraham lincoln reading a law book. david bentley of Pawnee built the oak wagon in 2001.