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wright-patterson air force base
from safe area goražde, joe sacco posted in comic books by pete_nice
At several points during Joe Sacco's "cartoon journalism" graphic novel, Safe Area Goražde, he references the ongoing Dayton Accords that war-weary Bosnians watched on TV.
The Dayton Accords (or the Dayton Agreements) were negotiations held between the various actors of the 3.5 year war in the Balkans. The meetings were held at Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton, and the signatories included:
Slobodan Milošević
Alija Izetbegović
Franjo Tuđman
Bill Clinton
Jacques Chirac
John Major
Helmut Kohl
Viktor Chernomyrdin
view full location details...not the friends fountain
from unbreakable kimmy schmidt posted in television by chewing_the_scenery
It's not the Friends fountain. People think it is, but the real one's in a studio lot in Burbank. It looks totally different.
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from friends posted in television by chewing_the_scenery
You'll find the fountain from the opening credits of Friends on this Warner Brothers studio lot, not in Central Park as is sometimes believed.
view full location details...the macefield house
from edith macefield posted in literature by pete_nice
Edith Masefield was living in this small cottage in the fishing village of Ballard (near Seattle) when she was offered $1 million from developers to tear down her home to make room for a Lifetime Fitness and Trader Joe's. She refused the offer, and the "mixed-usage" commercial building engulfed the rest of the block, but her house defiantly remained.
As William Yardley at the New York Times put it: Ms. Macefield’s refusal to sell her house made the news more than once. In a city knotted over its shifting identity, she seemed a familiar face, old Seattle, vulnerable but resistant to the march of gentrification and blandness.
Edith Masefield spoke English, French, German and Italian. She was the cousin of Benny Goodman, and she played the clarinet and sax. She self-published a book that was 1,138 pages long called Where Yesterday Began un
view full location details...burlington mall
from paul blart: mall cop posted in movies by pete_nice
The Burlington Mall is the main filming location for the 2008 Kevin James vehicle, Paul Blart, Mall Cop.
While I haven't seen this movie, from the trailers I've gathered this is where Kevin James murdered funny. With a ham sandwich.
Luckily, the second installment of the franchise is arriving in April 2015.
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