Sadly, most well-known for a bomb that was, until 9/11, the worst terrorist act on American soil.
But other than that…
Several famous country singers
Parts of the movie (har) Twister
Rednecks
Johnny Bench
James Garner
Shannon Miller
Dayton OH
Machining stuff. Lots of specialty machine shops
Birthplace of the Wright brothers
And birthplace of Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Not to mention Martin Sheen and Rob Lowe
Wright Patterson AFB, which is home of the:
Air Force Museum (lotsa cool planes) and also where they signed the:
Dayton Peace Accord (ended the main shooting part of the Bosnian conflict, but long term results still TBD)
Lots n lots of nudie bars (which were rumored to be well attended by said peace accord attendees)
A nice little Art Museum, which is almost always deserted.
Plus we have a higher crime rate than Cincinnati. Yep, we’re like Cincinati’s smaller, less educated sibling, who can’t seem to stay out of jail. Go Dayton!
I’m moving to Reynoldsburg OH in a month.
Their chamber of commerce website says “Birthplace of the Tomato” (No elaboration. Not sure if this was a one-time event or if they’re know for their placental tomatoes. This will bear investigating. Luckily, they appear to have some sort of “Tomato festival”, where I’m sure such mysteries will be revealed.)
Clarksville, TN/Ft. Campbell
Some chick that lives here was in the first CBS Survivor series
Jimi Hendrix lived here, and shopped at a local music store that is still here.
Charles Schultz lived here while stationed at Ft. Campbell.
‘Blackhawk Down’ guys stationed here
Frank Sutton, from ‘Gomer Pyle’ is buried here
Sheryl Crowes “All I wanna do is have some fun” video was filmed here, in front of our Roxy theater
Some debate about us being the Clarksville in “The last train to Clarksville”
That’s all I can think of for now.
Denver Omelette
Clean air
World class skiing in the environs
et al
NYC:
How much time do you have?
Statue of Liberty
Empire State Building
WTC 
Brooklyn Bridge
Yankees/Mets/Rangers/Knicks
…and Yankee Stadium and MSG (Shea is a dump, so nevermind that)
Central Park
Ellis Island
Bronx Zoo
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art
American Museum of Natural History (see my other thread concerning the last four :D)
Rudy Giuliani
Martin Scorcese
Robert DeNiro
Ray’s Pizza (heck, NY pizza in general rocks, but Ray’s Pizza,Ray’s Original Pizza, Original Ray’s Pizza, etc., are everywhere)
Bagels (see pizza… it’s the water, I hear)
CBGB’s
Carnegie Hall
Radio City Music Hall
Rockefeller Center
The MTA (subways AND elevated trains :D)
Woolworth Building
Flatiron Building
Broadway (the road)
Broadway (the showplace)
MTV
Times Square
NYU
Columbia
St. John’s
Fordham
Jerry Seinfeld (and his TV show)
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
Greenwich Village
Harlem
The Apollo
Coney Island
Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs
Lincoln Center
United Nations
George Washington Bridge (I just checked NY bridges and it shows I’m visitor number one :eek: )
Alexander Hamilton
Peter Stuyvesant
Theodore Roosevelt
NYSE
Wall Street
New York Marathon
East River
Hudson River
The Ramones, Blondie, Talking Heads, New York Dolls, Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, and countless other musicians
Taxi (the show and the checkered cab)
Saturday Night Live
…and that’s just scratching the surface.
Oh, how could I forget the most important one? Me 
I moved out of Rochester, but I still consider it my city (what Rochester thinks of that is anybody’s guess):
· Eastman Kodak
· The International Museum of Photography
· George Eastman
· Frederick Douglass
· Susan B Anthony
· Frank Gannett
· The Hillside Strangler
· Minor League sports
· Bausch & Lomb, Xerox
· Community Rating
· Smugness
Philadelphia:
Cheese Steaks
The Liberty Bell
Benjamin Franklin
Brotherly Love, Quakers
Pretzels
Eagles, Phillies, Sixers, Flyers
The Art Museum Steps, Rocky
Yuengling Beer (America’s oldest brewery, and best imo)
Appleton Wisconsin
The “Birthplace” of Harry Houdini
Paper city USA (we make alot of paper around here)
The EAA Fly In (Ok, its Oshkosh, but its less than a 10 minute drive)
Lawrence University
McCarthyism (unfortinantly)
First hydroelectric plant in the nation (Edison personally oversaw the construction)
First city to have electricity 24 hours a day
#3 for Bars to person ratio in the US (the other two cities ahead of it are also in Wisconsin)
Ya, its kinda boring, but its a nice city
Spanish Fork, Utah
-The canon in the park
-The 5 foot tall miniature lighthouse that commemorates the pioneer something-or-other
-The canyon that’s always on fire for some reason
-A giant white cross on the mountain for no real reason whatsoever
-And last but not least, it holds the record for the most consecutive grocery stores that always have Western Union signs, but no Western Union. And don’t even think about money orders.
Joyfulgirl, moving to a city near you
St Cloud, Minnesota
Known as the Granite City, for its many granite quarries in the area.
And, uh…Superman.
St Cloud, Minnesota
Known as the Granite City, for its many granite quarries in the area.
And, uh…Superman.
Newcastle, UK
Tyne Bridge
Newcastle Brown Ale
The Bigg Market
Geordies (Who have the best accent ever!)
The ‘Blinking Eye’ Bridge
One of the top 10 party cities in the world (There was a survey done a few years back - sorry don’t have the cite)
The Metro
Tonnes more…
Hometown (Mount Laurel, NJ)
“Silicon Valley of the East” says the mayor. Seriously, at least a 20 companies have built offices and moved in since I moved here (7 years ago).
the original Ebenzer’s (great coffee that rivals Starbucks in taste and cost)
Yep, that’s about it.
Rural Route 1 Popcorn, courtesy of Trelay. If you know what those are, you know where I live, and congratulations. K’nuckle, anyone?
Ringo, I don’t know if it’s true or not but Nottingham is known for having it’s women outnumber it’s men by 3 to 1.
Another thing Nottingham is known for (that I forgot to mention in my first post), King Charles I raised his Standard here and started the English Civil War.
Oh, and it’s home of the oldest pub in the England - if not the world - the Old Trip to Jerusalem. http://www.nottspubs.co.uk/pubs/nottinghampubs.html (scroll to the bottom of the page)
and the only royal palace in the US of A.
It’s so tempting that I want to inclue the whole island since techinically they are the same, I wont but I still can say Surfing.
and for Hawaii 5-0
And for our loud flower print button down shirts.
And tourists.
And red as a clam tourists.
And native girls. wink wink
Memphis, TN
Graceland
Beale Street
Da Blues
Peabody Ducks
The Pyramid
Federal Express
Cybal Shepherd (sp? I tried every combo, nothing looks right)
and my personal favorite…Elmwood Cemetery!
Edinburgh;
The Festival (right now)
The Castle
Superb architecture
Burke and Hare (the grave robbers / serial murderers)
Posh schools
Ancient university (attended by Charles Darwin and many other prominent scientists)
Being known as “Auld Reekie” in reference to the amount of smoke in the past
“Human waste” being thrown out of upper storeys to the call of “Gardey Loo!” in the past
Rivalry with Glasgow
Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle and many other writers
David Hume and many other philosophers
Having a small mountain (Arthur’s Seat) in the middle of the city
Mary Queen of Scots
Murrayfield rugby stadium
“The New Town”, built in the 18th Century to a gridplan, like US cities
Streets built on bridges that go over older streets
The first violent incident in the British Civil War
Ghosts and witchhunts
Trainspotting
Osaka, Japan, from whence I get my username, is known for:
The local Osaka Dialect of Japanese “Osaka-ben”
Yakuza, in particular the Yamaguchigumi, Japan’s largest syndicate
Food (one it’s nicknames is the kitchen of Japan), most particularly:
Okonomiyaki, a sort of thick savory pancake, topped with dried seaweed, fish flakes, and good old fashioned traditional Japanese mayonaise
and
Takoyaki, AKA “octopus balls” - small balls of dough with a piece of octopus cooked in the middle
The proverb “Osaka Kuidore, Kyoto Kidore” (Oaska people “fall down” for food, Kyoto people for clothes)
Osaka Castle (currently a rather awful concrete edifice, housing a mediocre museum)
Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a medieval warlord known for reunifying Japan, banning commoners from carrying swords, and invading Korea
Bunraku, Japan’s traditional puppet theater
Comedy, especially Manzai (a for of cross-talk) and the Yoshimoto theater company
Being the traditional merchentile center of Japan
Sakai, the suburb where I live, is known for:
The worlds largest tomb (Emeror Nintoku’s Tomb) which I can see from my window at home.
Being the birth place of the modern Tea Ceremony
Manufacturing knives and bicycles
Baltimore, MD
The Ravens, Ray Lewis
The Orioles, Cal Ripken, Jr., Cal Ripken, Sr., Brooks Robinson, Boog Powell, Jim Palmer, Earl Weaver, Frank Robinson, Eddie Murray
The Inner Harbor
Ft. McHenry
Burial place of Edgar Allen Poe
B&O Railroad Museum
H. L. Mencken
Inspiration for Francis Scott Key’s Star Spangled Banner
USS Constellation
Degroen’s beer
I’m sure there’s more but it’s early and I haven’t had coffee yet. Plus I smell bacon being cooked!