Nashville, Tennessee. USA. History, Economy, Climate
Nashville is a city in Davidson County and the capital of the Americanstate of Tennessee. It is usually called the Country Music Capital of the World or more often Music City, USA. Nashville is quickly becoming a fun and enjoyable American city. The New York Times gave Nashville the moniker of the it city. Located in northern Middle Tennessee, Nashville is the main core of the largest metropolitan area in Tennessee.
LOCATION
Nashville lies on the Cumberland River in the northwestern portion of the Nashville Basin.It is surrounded by the Cumberland Highlands and is bordered by the Cumberland Plateau to the east.
HISTORY
Nashville was founded in 1779. Nashville named for Francis Nash, a general of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, It grew rapidly because of its excellent location on the Cumberland River port and railroad center. It was incorporated in 1806 and became the county seat of Davidson County. Nashville was named the capital of Tennessee in 1843.
In 1806, Nashville was incorporated as a city and In 1843 became the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee.
POPULATION
The city's population ranks 24th in the U.S.
EDUCATION
Nashville is home to numerous colleges and universities such as Tennessee State University, Vanderbilt University, Belmont University, Fisk University, and Lipscomb University.
CLIMATE
Nashville sits in the middle of a geographic region known as the Nashville Basin. The Nashville Basin is characterized by rich, fertile farm country and high natural wildlife diversity.
Nashville has cool, relatively short winters and hot, humid summers, with long spells of spring and autumn in between. Winter temperatures commonly hover slightly above freezing, and a fair amount of light snow generally falls throughout the months of December to February
Summers are hot, with temperatures around 90*F (32 °C) during the day.
COMMUNICATION
Nashville International Airport (BNA), Is about five miles from downtown. As of 2015 it is the largest airport in the state of Tennessee and the 30th busiest in the United States. The most inexpensive way to travel to and from the Nashville International Airport and downtown Nashville is to ride the Nashville MTA's Route 18 Airport/Elm Hill bus.
GOVERNMENT
The city is governed by a mayor, a vice-mayor, and a 40-member metropolitan council. Nashville is home to the Tennessee Supreme Court's courthouse for Middle Tennessee.
ECONOMY
As the home of country music, Nashville has become a major music recording and production center. The Big Four record labels, as well as numerous independent labels, have offices in Nashville, mostly in the Music Row area. Nashville has been the headquarters of guitar company Gibson since 1984. Since the 1960s, Nashville has been the second-largest music production center (after New York) in the United States.
Since the 1970s, the city has experienced tremendous growth, particularly during the economic boom of the 1990s.
The automotive industry is also becoming important for the Middle Tennessee region. Dell, Nissan, GM Motors, Bridgestone, UBS Financial Services, HCA, Community Health Services, Lyft, Google, and Microsoft have all moved some operations to or near the city.
Although Nashville is renowned as a music recording center and tourist destination, its largest industry is health care. Nashville is home to more than 300 health care companies, including Hospital Corporation of America, the world's largest private operator of hospitals.
TOURISM
Nashville is drawing the most tourists from out of the country out of any city in the United States. Nashville has been the home of the world-famous Grand Ole Opry since 1925. The Opry has been located in the Grand Ole Opry House in eastern Nashville since 1974. From 1974 to 1997 the Opry House was part of a theme park called Opryland USA.
Nashville also has a great bar scene. If you like to drink, you can go Honky-tonking, also known as bar-hopping. Recently Nashville has been called a top ten destination to visit in magazines such as Lonely Planet, New York Times, Conde Nast, and Travel and Leisure, and is quickly developing into a fun and cosmopolitan city.
Driving Downtown - San Diego 4K - USA
Driving Downtown - San Deigo California USA - Episode 49.
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San Diego is a major city in California, United States. It is in San Diego County, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, approximately 120 miles (190 km) south of Los Angeles and immediately adjacent to the border with Mexico.
With an estimated population of 1,394,928 as of July 1, 2015, San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest in California. It is part of the San Diego–Tijuana conurbation, the second-largest transborder agglomeration between the US and a bordering country after Detroit–Windsor, with a population of 4,922,723 people. San Diego has been called the birthplace of California. It is known for its mild year-round climate, natural deep-water harbor, extensive beaches, long association with the United States Navy, and recent emergence as a healthcare and biotechnology development center.
Historically home to the Kumeyaay people, San Diego was the first site visited by Europeans on what is now the West Coast of the United States. Upon landing in San Diego Bay in 1542, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo claimed the area for Spain, forming the basis for the settlement of Alta California 200 years later. The Presidio and Mission San Diego de Alcalá, founded in 1769, formed the first European settlement in what is now California. In 1821, San Diego became part of the newly independent Mexico, which reformed as the First Mexican Republic two years later. In 1850, California became part of the United States following the Mexican–American War and the admission of California to the union.
The city is the seat of San Diego County and is the economic center of the region as well as the San Diego–Tijuana metropolitan area. San Diego's main economic engines are military and defense-related activities, tourism, international trade, and manufacturing. The presence of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), with the affiliated UCSD Medical Center, has helped make the area a center of research in biotechnology.
Tourism
Tourism is a major industry owing to the city's climate, beaches, and tourist attractions such as Balboa Park, Belmont amusement park, San Diego Zoo, San Diego Zoo Safari Park, and SeaWorld San Diego. San Diego's Spanish and Mexican heritage is reflected in many historic sites across the city, such as Mission San Diego de Alcala and Old Town San Diego State Historic Park. Also, the local craft brewing industry attracts an increasing number of visitors for beer tours and the annual San Diego Beer Week in November; San Diego has been called America's Craft Beer Capital.
San Diego County hosted more than 32 million visitors in 2012; collectively they spent an estimated $8 billion. The visitor industry provides employment for more than 160,000 people.
San Diego's cruise ship industry used to be the second-largest in California. Numerous cruise lines operate out of San Diego. However, cruise ship business has been in decline since 2008, when the Port hosted over 250 ship calls and more than 900,000 passengers. By 2011 the number of ship calls had fallen to 103 (estimated).
Local sight-seeing cruises are offered in San Diego Bay and Mission Bay, as well as whale-watching cruises to observe the migration of gray whales, peaking in mid-January. Sport fishing is another popular tourist attraction; San Diego is home to Southern California's biggest sport fishing fleet.
Amazing 50 Day Road Trip Across the USA and Canada
Eight months ago we had an idea... An idea that would take us on a journey across America... This summer we decided to make that idea a reality.
After eight months of planning, many hours of mapping routes and making reservations, and a final three days of intense packing, sorting and repacking; we embarked on our 50 days, 10,000 mile road trip through 38 states and Eastern Canada.
So here we are two years later, finally posting the video. We had an incredible time and would do it again in a heartbeat. If you enjoyed the video give it thumbs up and tell us what you thought in the comments below.
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Song: Sun
Artist: Thomas Bergensen
Here's our list of stops
1. Davis Mountains State Park, Texas
2. Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas
3. Albuquerque, New Mexico
4. Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona
5. Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
6. Zion National Park, Utah
7. The Hoover Dam, Nevada
8. Forestiere Underground Garden, California
9. Yosemite National Park, California
10. San Francisco, California
11. Crater Lake, Oregon
12. Spokane, Washington
13. Glacier National Park, Montana
14. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
15. Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
16. Mount Rushmore, South Dakota
17. Badlands National Park, South Dakota
18. Fargo, North Dakota,
19. Bemidji & Grand Rapids, Minnesota
20. Chicago, Illinois
21. Michigan City, Illinois
22. Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio
23. Niagara Falls, ON, Canada
24. Toronto, ON, Canada
25. Thousand Islands National Park, ON, Canada - Still not sure if this place exist..
26. Grafton Notch State Park, Maine
27. Portland, Maine
28. Time Square, New York
29. Houstontown, Pennsylvania
30. Washington, DC
31. Belmont, North Carolina
32. Jacksonville, Florida
33. Gulf Shores Beach, Alabama
34. San Antonio, Texas
Thanks for reading this far! You guys are awesome! Like super Awesome!! By the way did you see that shot of Simba in the video?
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Morning Walk - Lake Michigan & Grant Park / Millennium Park – Chicago Illinois
Grant Park is a large urban park (319 acres or 1.29 km²) in the Loop community area of Chicago. Located in Chicago's central business district, the park's most notable features are Millennium Park, Buckingham Fountain, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum Campus. Originally known as Lake Park, and dating from the city's founding, it was renamed in 1901 to honor Ulysses S. Grant. The park's area has been expanded several times through land reclamation, and was the focus of several disputes in the late 1800s and early 1900s over open space use. It is bordered on the north by Randolph Street, on the south by Roosevelt Road and McFetridge Drive, on the west by Michigan Avenue and on the east by Lake Michigan. The park contains performance venues, gardens, art work, sporting, and harbor facilities. It hosts public gatherings, and several large annual events.
The park is often called Chicago's front yard. It is governed by the Chicago Park District.
Millennium Park is a public park located in the Loop community area of Chicago in Illinois, US, and originally intended to celebrate the millennium. It is a prominent civic center near the city's Lake Michigan shoreline that covers a 24.5-acre (99,000 m2) section of northwestern Grant Park. The area was previously occupied by parkland, Illinois Central rail yards, and parking lots.[1] The park, which is bounded by Michigan Avenue, Randolph Street, Columbus Drive and East Monroe Drive, features a variety of public art. As of 2009, Millennium Park trailed only Navy Pier as a Chicago tourist attraction.[2]
Planning of the park began in October 1997. Construction began in October 1998, and Millennium Park was opened in a ceremony on July 16, 2004, four years behind schedule. The three-day opening celebrations were attended by some 300,000 people and included an inaugural concert by the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus. The park has received awards for its accessibility and green design.[3] Millennium Park has free admission,[4] and features the Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Cloud Gate, the Crown Fountain, the Lurie Garden, and various other attractions. The park is connected by the BP Pedestrian Bridge and the Nichols Bridgeway to other parts of Grant Park. Because the park sits atop a parking garage and the commuter rail Millennium Station, it is considered the world's largest rooftop garden.
Some observers consider Millennium Park to be the city's most important project since the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.[4][5] It far exceeded its originally proposed budget of $150 million. The final cost of $475 million was borne by Chicago taxpayers and private donors. The city paid $270 million; private donors paid the rest,[6] and assumed roughly half of the financial responsibility for the cost overruns.[7] The construction delays and cost overruns were attributed to poor planning, many design changes, and cronyism. Many critics have praised the completed park.
Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America and the only one located entirely within the United States. The other four Great Lakes are shared by the U.S. and Canada. It is the second-largest of the Great Lakes by volume[1] and the third-largest by surface area, after Lake Superior and Lake Huron (and is slightly smaller than the U.S. state of West Virginia). To the east, its basin is conjoined with that of Lake Huron through the wide Straits of Mackinac, giving it the same surface elevation as its easterly counterpart; the two are technically a single lake.[4] Lake Michigan is shared, from west to east, by the U.S. states of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. The word Michigan originally referred to the lake itself, and is believed to come from the Ojibwa word mishigami meaning great water.[5] Lake Michigan is also the only one of the five Great Lakes not to share a shoreline with the Canadian province of Ontario, the only province in Canada that borders the Great Lakes.
Things to Do in Chicago | 8/5/2014 | Concierge Picks | Chicago Travel
Hello! I’m Anthony Gates, concierge at the JW Marriott Chicago, and this week’s concierge correspondent. I have your Concierge Picks for the week of August 5th through August 11th.
Celebrate the stories, images, heritage, and history of the Black experience in the United States and around the world with the 20th annual Black Harvest Film Festival at the Gene Siskel Film Center. The month-long festival will feature provocative films that tell stories, spark lively discussions, and address issues relating to the experiences from the Black communities. A number of films are made by Chicago directors and many will be present for post-show Q&As. One of the many highlights of the festival is a tribute to Chaz Ebert and the late Roger Ebert for their work in advancing minority and independent filmmaking, an effort which Chaz tirelessly continues in Roger’s honor. See one of the many screenings during this entertaining and thought provoking festival from August 1st through August 28th.
Black Harvest Film Festival at the Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N. State Street, Chicago, IL
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Northalsted Market Days in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood is the Midwest's largest two-day street festival, with over 150,000 visitors from Chicagoland and far beyond. Experience four city blocks with three music stages where more than 40 top-name local and national music acts perform, nearly 300 food and arts and crafts vendors from across the country, and tons of LGBT friendly fun. So, visit Northalsted Market Days in Boystown, this Saturday and Sunday to see why Lakeview is one of the city's most popular year-round dining and nightlife destinations.
Northhalsted Market Days
Halsted between Belmont and Addison Sts., Chicago, IL
Finally, I am happy to announce the revamp of Spiaggia Chicago, now thoroughly modernized, remodeled and outfitted with the latest in caviar-delivery devices. The dining room is decorated with white porcelain floors, a 1,700-bottle wine cellar, and a laid-back front bar conveniently outfitted with power outlets. The menu is the same yet entirely different; Chef/partner/founder/pasta genius Tony Mantuano still has that gnocchi swimming in ricotta cream, but also serves caviar on inflated balloons of mozzarella and Bee’s Knees cocktails served from honey jars. There’s even a new no-reservations “come as you are” lounge. Spiaggia is located at the northern tip of the Magnificent Mile, at Oak Street. See your Concierge for reservations.
Spiaggia
980 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL
spiaggiarestaurant.com
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