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		<title>Oaxaca: Revolution Meets Bargain Shopping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Famous for: riots, radish art, gourmet grasshoppers
Overview: Oaxaca is one of Mexico's culturally richest and most economically fucked up states. Most Mexicans think of Oaxaca the way we think of Arkansas, but with high-quality handicrafts. Oaxaca's capital city, redundantly named Oaxaca, is a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site owing to its cobblestone streets, Spanish baroque [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenwheel.com/central-america/oaxaca-mexico/</link>
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		<title>The Barcelona Sangria Kicked my Ass</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Overview - Barcelona, properly pronounced Bah-tha-loana in the best sissy voice you can muster, is the capital of Catalonia, on the eastern coast of Spain. It's nestled gorgeously on the Mediterranean, and the temperature rarely drops below 45 degrees Fahrenheit. The city is busting with artists and art enthusiasts, intellectuals and partiers, foodies and junkies, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenwheel.com/europe/barcelona-spain/</link>
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		<title>Winona &#8211; Keg Stands on Latsch Island</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Overview - Winona is a little city carved out by the Mississippi River. It has 25,000 people, three colleges, two coffee shops, and enough bars and churches to kill a team of oxen. The bluffs and Mississippi draw people in from all over Minnesota to hike, hunt, fish and camp. The most recognizable bluff is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenwheel.com/us/winona-mn/</link>
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		<title>St. Paul Molesting Vulcans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Overview - Saint Paul was founded in the 1820's by one-eyed bootlegger Pierre "Pig's Eye" Parrant. Pig's Eye distilled whiskey in a cave, sold it to soldiers, traded it to Indians, and eventually gambled away the entire take. During the 20's, Victorian homes were built, Ice Palaces melted, and the Great Gatsby rose to glory [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenwheel.com/us/st-paul-mn/</link>
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		<title>San Francisco &#8211; Hilly and Full of Freaks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Famous For:
Leather boys, 49ers, 69ers, and sourdough.
Overview:
Hilly and full of freaks, San Francisco has been a bastion for artists, writers, and musicians since the Beats first came here in the Benzedrine and cheap port wine fueled literary explosion of the Fifties. Dirty stinking hippies soon followed with the Sixties drug explosion, and the inevitable punk [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenwheel.com/us/san-francisco-ca/</link>
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		<title>Minneapolis &#8211; Block E is a Cancer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Overview
Minneapolis was founded in 1850 by a group of sadistic Swedes looking for a home as cold and flat as Stockholm. The Swedes took land from the Dakota in exchange for naming rights (Minnehaha) and a promise that some day, we would let them gamble.
During the 1800's the Mill City milled and the Saint Anthony [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenwheel.com/us/minneapolis-mn/</link>
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		<title>Las Vegas Still Lurks in the Shadows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Famous For:
Knee breaking, Frankie, Deano, and Sammy, gambling, boozing, prostitution, fear and loathing.
History:
Las Vegas was originally settled by over zealous Mormon missionaries there to teach the heathen Indians what's what. Unfortunately, for the Mormons at least, the native tribes could have cared less. The Mormons abandoned their fort by 1857. Nothing much exciting happened until [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenwheel.com/us/las-vegas-nv/</link>
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		<title>Singapore Jail Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Overview
The joke goes that Singapore is a fine city-meaning you'll have to part with $500 if caught eating on public transport, $1000 for littering, and even $2000 for engaging in public speaking without a permit. But there's more to this tiny island than just outrageous rules and regulations-only 26 miles long and 14 miles wide, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenwheel.com/asia-pacific-rim/singapore/</link>
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		<title>Natalie Portman Envy in Syosset</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Overview: I come from a town on Long Island's north shore called Syosset. Known for Jewish American princesses, Natalie Portman envy and it's not so secret gambling and coke addictions, Syosset is not only a great place to visit, it's also a great place to live. When the kids in my high school class used [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenwheel.com/us/syosset-ny/</link>
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		<title>LES Troll Museum by Appointment Only</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Famous for: overcrowded tenements, immigrants, landlord negligence, giant rats, sweatshops, protests, synagogues, bars, drugs, pickles, knishes, salami, rapid gentrification, overflowing garbage and noise
Overview: The Lower East Side is a neighborhood in Manhattan. As the name suggests, it is on the lower east side of Manhattan. It is not at the bottom of Manhattan because then [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenwheel.com/us/les-nyc/</link>
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