What does wikipedia say about where you live?

[Feather Grass 312]

So what does wikipedia say about the town / city / village you live?

 

Here is the town where I live = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desborough

Edited June 26, 2014 by Feather Grass

[LZRD WZRD 1,929]

I'm reppin Martinez, California (pretty meh tbh )

 

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martinez,_California

 

However, we got a lot of famous people from here:

 

Joe DiMaggio

John Muir

Norv Turner

Stan Van Gundy

Jeff Van Gundy

Tug McGraw

 

Not bad for a town of 35,000

Edited June 27, 2014 by LZRD WZRD

[Jeric 46,835]

I'm reppin Martinez, California (pretty meh tbh )

 

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martinez,_California

 

 

However, we got a lot of famous people from here:

 

Joe DiMaggio

John Muir

Norv Turner

Stan Van Gundy

Jeff Van Gundy

Tug McGraw

 

Not bad for a town of 35,000

As in the Philadelphia Phillies Tug McGraw?

 

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagobah

 

That's my home ... otherwise known as Florida

Edited June 27, 2014 by Jeric

[LZRD WZRD 1,929]

As in the Philadelphia Phillies Tug McGraw?

 

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagobah

 

That's my home ... otherwise known as Florida

Eeeyup

[SCS 7,443]

 

 

While the planetary mass remains uncertain, with a range between 2 and 8 Earth masses, the radius and orbital period of COROT-7b are well constrained from COROT photometry: it orbits very close to its star (1/23rd the distance from the Sun to Mercury[15]) with an orbital period of 20 hours, 29 minutes, and 9.7 seconds and its radius is measured as 1.58 Earth radii.[16] The planet had the shortest orbit ever seen in any planet, extrasolar or otherwise, at the time of discovery.[17]

COROT-7b has a maximum surface temperature between 1800 to 2600 °C (3300 to 4700 degrees Fahrenheit).[2] Due to the high temperature, it may be covered in lava.[3] The composition and density of the planet, though weakly constrained, make COROT-7b a probably rocky planet, like Earth. It could belong to a class of planets that are thought to contain up to 40% water (in the form of ice and/or vapor) in addition to rock.[2] However, the fact that it formed so close to its parent star may mean that it is depleted of volatiles.[18] A strong possibility exists that the planet's rotation is tidally locked to the orbital period, so that temperatures and geologic conditions on the sides of the planet facing towards and away from the star may be dramatically different. Theoretical work suggests that CoRoT-7b could be a chthonian planet (the remains of a Neptune-like planet from which much of the initial mass has been removed due to close proximity to its parent star).[19][20] Other researchers dispute this, and conclude COROT-7b was always a rocky planet and not the eroded core of a gas or ice giant,[21] due to the young age of the star system.

Any departure from circularity of its orbit (due to the influence of host star and neighboring planets) could generate intense volcanic activity similar to that of Io, via tidal heating.[22]

A detailed study of the extreme properties of COROT-7b has been published,[23] concluding that, despite the mass uncertainty, the planet is Earth-like in composition. The extreme proximity to the star should prevent the formation of a significant atmosphere, with the dayside hemisphere as hot as the tungsten filament of an incandescent bulb, resulting in the formation of a lava ocean. The researchers propose to name this new class of planets, COROT-7b being the first of them, "lava-ocean planets".

 
(I don't want to share my actual IRL location )

Pretty safe and everything

[A Canadian Fritter 187]

I didn't even know there was a Wikipedia page about Cambell River but here it is:http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell_River,_British_Columbia

[~*bacon princess*~ 278]

Apparently people used to raise alpacas in Lysterfield.

[Dr. Frasier Crane 319]

I live in Wigan, a town in Greater Manchester.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigan

 

It was featured in a book by George Orwell about the state of poverty in Wigan. I didn't even know this and I've read quite a few of his books.

Also home to The Verve, a band that formed at the same college I'm going to.

There's some pretty dark history there as well, but I want to stay on the positives here!

[Concerto Dusk 240]

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Britain,_Connecticut

 

 

I live in a town that i refer to scumpit usa

[Theautisticrebel 290]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Washington,_Kentucky

[Trot Shuffle 3,597]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro,_North_Carolina

The article is much larger than I thought.

The most interesting thing here was the sister cities section. I had no idea those relations existed for this city, interesting. 

Theres also a dedicated timeline with the more major events that took place here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Greensboro,_North_Carolina

 

 

[Lunaholic 892]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espoo