The last green bench

The last suviving example of benches that were once placed throughout St. Petersburg. The elderly used them to rest while strolling downtown. The newspaper is the Evening Independent.

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The City of Sunshine

March 24th 2011
St. Petersburg likes to call itself the Sunshine City. It gets quite a lot. In 1910, the St. Petersburg Evening Independent newspaper instituted a famous offer that the paper would be free if it rained that day. In their seventy six years of publishing, t ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more

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