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Discover America like Never Before

Discover America like Never Before

This is a guest post from Rose Marlo who can be found at: 

https://www.estavisas.org.uk

Discover America like Never Before

It being one of the most diverse and largest countries in the entire world, U.S.A. is home to an amazing lot of tourist attractions ranging from the natural wonders in Alaska, Yellowstone to the skyscrapers of Chicago and New York City and the sunny and sandy beaches of Florida, California and Hawaii. With such a huge range of tourist destinations, it is a hard task to just highlight a few of them. But here are the top tourist attractions in America.

Grand Canyon

This is one of the greatest tourist attraction sites in the United States. It is located in the vast Arizona region. It has been curved by the Colorado River over several millions of years. It has a depth of 1 mile, (1.6km) and is 277 miles (446km) long. Its colorful and vast size makes it very famous.

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Manhattan

What do you think of mostly when you see New York City? Which pictures of New York do you have in your album? Manhattan is what many people crave for when they see the picture of New York. It is one of the five boroughs of New York. It is an area full of skyscrapers that is full of activities to do. Here, you will take pictures of the Statute of Liberty, climb the Empire State building to the top, take a stroll in the Central Park, visit the museum, and window shop in the famous 5th Avenue street.

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White House

Located in Washington DC, the White House is the official residence as well of office of the President of the USA. Built between the year 1792 and 1800, the White House was first used by President John Adams. This fortress has been a key tourist attraction site but its access was regulated following the 9/11 attack. Today, you can only tour the white in groups of more than 10 and a request period of more than six months in advance.

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Niagara Falls

Located on the border of the province of Ontario and the state of New York, Niagara Falls easily passes for the most amazing natural feature in the whole of North America continent. It is comprised of three falls, the American Falls, the Horseshoe Falls and the Veil Falls. The Horseshoe Falls is situated on the Canadian side while the other two are situated in New York. These falls are a major tourist destination with 14 million visitor annually.

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Golden Gate Bridge

This all famous bridge is a suspension bridge that joins San Francisco and the Marin County. Completed in 1937, it became the longest suspension bridge in the world and has today become a renowned symbol of San Francisco.

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Yellowstone

Yellowstone National Park goes into history as the world’s first national park set up in 1872 to conserve the large number of hot springs, geysers, thermal areas as well as wildlife and the natural mother nature of the region. This park alone is home to half of the geothermal features in the world. It contains approximately 10,000 hot springs and geysers as well as grizzly bears, black bears, elk, deer, wolves and bison.

Old Faithful, a geyser in Yellowstone National Park

Old Faithful, a geyser in Yellowstone National Park

These are just a drop of attractions in the United States. If you want to explore America like you have never before, you only need to get yourself a U.S.A visa. Once in the U.S. get esta application and hit the road running. You will have the chance to discover America like never before.

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Anniversary of the First U.S. Speeding Ticket in 1899

First U.S. speeder caught on this date in 1899

By Antony Ingram

Published May 20, 2013

High Gear Media

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    Electric Vehicle Company taxis in NYC (NYPL)

Speeding is big business. There’s no money to be made from it as an individual of course, unless you subscribe to the theory “time is money”.

But the U.S. Census Bureau estimates 100,000 Americans are ticketed for speeding every day, at an average cost of $150 per ticket–$5.5 billion a year in revenue.

There’ll only ever be one “first” speeding offense though, and you might be surprised to learn that it was for an electric car.

It was also a taxi driver, which you’ll be less surprised about. And a taxi driver in New York at that. “Get outta here,” you shout at the computer screen, reaching for the Ritalin.

Way back on May 20, 1899, taxi driver Jacob German was caught doing a heady 12 mph down Lexington Street in Manhattan. Caught both figureatively and literally, as a bicycle-mounted police officer clocked Mr German at the illegal speed and set off in pursuit.

Today I Found Out says the limit at the time was a more sedate 8 mph, or 4 mph around corners. Perhaps, as many electric drivers today have discovered, the relative silence of electric running leads to rather higher speeds than you’re expecting.

Reports seem to suggest the reckless Mr German didn’t receive a paper ticket though–that honor going to a Mr Myers of Dayton, Ohio in 1904, according to Ohio History Central–and instead spent some time behind bars.

Mr German drove for the Electric Vehicle Company, which ran taxis throughout New York. In fact, electric taxis were incredibly common back in 1899–Today I Found Out also reveals that 90 percent of NYC taxis were electric back in those days.

The period holds other significance for electric cars, too. Just one year earlier the first land-speed record was set by Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat in an electric car.

We can’t imagine what that police officer would have thought of Gaston’s 39.24 mph speed, though…

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/05/20/first-us-speeder-caught-on-this-date-in-18/?intcmp=features#ixzz2Ttrjfhpo

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