Cities

The longest street in Paris is rue Vaugirard.

During the Great Depression in San Francisco, not a single bank failed.

Los Angeles is located in the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, where geological instability has contributed to the creation of a series of faults that cause approximately 10.000 earthquakes in these areas annually.

The Stuttgart area currently has the highest concentration of scientific, academic, and research organizations in Germany.

Urine was a coveted commodity in ancient Rome.

It is one of the four province-level municipalities of China, along with Beijing, Chongqing, and Tianjin.

Weißbier and Helles are traditional Bavarian beers. Helles is especially popular in Munich.

Later, the city became the full residence of the Prussian royal family.

There are still vineyards in Stuttgart, less than 500 m from the main station.

Near St. Petersburg are numerous tourist and recreational destinations with park and palace complexes of former Russian tsars: Tsarskoye Selo, Peterhof, Pavlovsk, Zelenogorsk, and Gatchina.