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Ghent was the first city in Europe where the Industrial Revolution arrived.

There are 1 803 statues and 173 museums in the city.

The building where America's Founding Fathers debated and adopted both the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution is the historic Independence Hall.

As early as the beginning of the 13th century, the city belonged to the Hanseatic League (an association of Northern European trading cities from the Middle Ages and the beginning of the modern era).

Maria Szymanowska, a Polish composer, spent the last moments of her life in St. Petersburg.

As a result of the division of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993, Bratislava became the capital of independent Slovakia.

In Copenhagen's harbor, there is a statue of the Little Mermaid by Edvard Eriksen.

Finland’s rapid urbanization occurred later than in other European countries, only in the 1970s.

From the beginning of the 20th century, Ghent had about 15 large hotels, the Valentino cinema hall, where films were screened as early as 1901.

In 1969, California became the birthplace of the Internet.