Originally Posted by Vegechan
Cecilia Brauer Playing the Armonica. Wow....look at her go!
Cecilia Brauer Playing the Armonica. Wow....look at her go!
Last edited by Assertn; Mon, 04-24-2006 at 07:25 PM.
10/4/04 - 8/20/07
(This isn't exaclty my town, but close enough) I believe the most interesting thing here is Waverly Hills Sanatorium; or, the Tuberculosis hospital.
http://www.prairieghosts.com/waverly_tb.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waverly_Hills_Sanatorium
http://ghostsagogo.com/waverly.html
Basically, the hospital was a place to quarentine all those who had or possibly had TB. At one point, the death toll was so great that getting rid of the bodies was very difficult. So they built a giant (100 ft I believe) body chute to throw the dead bodies (and sometimes the still-living) into to hold until a train came by and picked them up. The chute was named the Death Tunnel (which, coincidentally, is the name of the recent DVD released based on Waverly). Room 502 in Waverly is supposed to be the most haunted room, on account of a nurse hanging herself in the room. In actuallity though, the entire place is equally haunted.
The show "Ghost Hunters" (shown on Sci-Fi) recently did a segment on Waverly. Now, the goal of the Ghost Hunters is not to say something is haunted... but to say that something is NOT haunted. They use many technological means and personal and logical reasoning to support the fact that a place is not haunted. They've maybe only labeled 3 or 4 places as haunted. After going through Waverly, and having everyone experience a paranormal encounter, they rated Waverly as among the top haunted sites in the world. They straight-up agreed that that place was definitely haunted.
Tours are held every Halloween through Waverly. A local band (Incursion) actually named themselves after a room in Waverly (previously Incursion 502) but dropped the 502 due to too much confusion. Anyways, I thought it was real interesting that I live 30 minutes away from this site... and it's ranked among the top haunted places in the world. Pretty freaky.
Well, as you might all now, I live in Montréal.
It is the second largest city in Canada and the largest city in Québec. Also, its the second biggest french city in the world. Plus, it hosts Juste pour Rire (Just for Laughs) comedy festival, the Montreal Jazz Festival, the Formula One Canadian Grand Prix, the Montreal World Film Festival, and many others.Expo 67 was there and so was the summer olympics in 1976 (that was where the romanian girl named Nadia Comaneci got 7perfect 10s and won three gold medals in gymnastic). It is the city where like 95% of the population loves hockey. In fact, it also has the oldest canadian hockey team which is the most successful clubs in all of North American sports history, the Canadiens.
The food... and more food.
Kurt Cobain was born and raised in Aberdeen, WA <<where i lived up til about a year and a third ago....
I'm official.
I grew up in Miami, but during Highschool my parents moved us to a pointless little town on the West Virginia / Virginia border. Nothing happens here ever. No battles were ever fought here; no one famous was born here; nothing important ever will happen here.
But at least its better than some places in West Virginia. There are some seriously god-awful backwards places around here.
"Samsonlonghair - The Defender of the Oppressed And Shunned!" -Kraco
Speaking of Ye Olde Battles one funny event took place in this town. During the Crimean war the brave English Navy sailed here and burnt down large quantities of tar, which was the major export of this city back then, during the sailing ship era. Too bad much of the tar had actually already been bought by the English themselves and was just waiting for to be shipped to England. So, in short, they came here and destroyed their own wares...
I love Montreal. I used to go there every year when I was little for 9 years straight. I don't remember much except for this really good steak I had.
The only slightly interesting (at least to me, anyway) thing about the place I used to live was that the road right by me was 21 mile: the same 21 mile that's 13 miles north of 8 mile, the movie with Eminem. I dunno...I think it's slightly interesting at least.
10/4/04 - 8/20/07
My town has a lot of interesting things but I loved the chunnin exam we had last year (mixing real life with anime is bad nope?). What really is interesting is that here we have a terrorist group (well not only in my city but it has made a few terrorist acts here) but it only targets certain politics and writers. So like 60% of the ppl dont give a shit about it, they care but somehow they are used to it so they dont do a fuss about it.
My town has two universities on the same street and within 500 m of each other, thus University Avenue.
I am glad that you liked Montréal! Did you ever tried poutine? It is really delicious. If you ever come back there, make sure you buy it from La belle province, they have the best one ever!I love Montreal. I used to go there every year when I was little for 9 years straight. I don't remember much except for this really good steak I had.
Talking about history, I also forgot to mention that Montréal is the only city in Canada that was invaded by the army since it had a terrorist group that wanted the independence of Québec in 1970 (october crisis).
Anyone who eats gravy on chili fries is a fat ass. A FAT ASS!!
"They call it 'The American Dream' because you have to be asleep to believe it" - George Carlin
Don't know what you're talking about, poutine is the shit.
...except Burger King's. Don't ever order poutine from Burger King.
Hey!!!!!!!!!!!!
if you eat poutine once in a while, you wont become a fat ass. If you eat it every day, its normal you become fat!
Its common sense. I eat poutine once per week, and I am not fat.
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