One of San Francisco's last cable cars

Clam Chowder! Mmmm!

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May 18th 2007
Well our entry into the United States was as unpleasant as we had envisaged, but for completely different reasons to the ones we were expecting. Our flight was from the Cook Islands, into Los Angeles, with a connecting flight to San Francisco. We had assumed that the security increases at airport immergration, put in place after September 11th, would be our main obstical, but we were greeted by a ... 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