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	White City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		White City (Worcester amusement park), a former amusement park (1905-1960) in Worcester, Massachusetts.
		White City: A Novel, a solo album by Pete Townshend of The Who.
		"The White City" is a nickname for Mérida, Yucatán
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/White_City (175 words)

	White City Stadium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		White City Stadium, built in London, England, for the 1908 Summer Olympics, was the first purpose-built Olympic stadium.
		Upon completion, the stadium had a running track that was 24ft wide and a distance equivalent of three laps to the mile; outside it was a 35ft wide, 660yd long cycle track.
		In the first years of the 21st century there were rumours that a new stadium might be built in the White City area, possibly for Fulham alone or to share with QPR.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/White_City_Stadium (433 words)

	New York City Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture.
		The city is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture, and is one of the world's major global cities with a nearly unrivaled collection of restaurants, museums, galleries, performance venues, media outlets, international corporations, and financial markets.
		Under British rule the City of New York continued to develop, and while there was growing sentiment in the city for greater political independence, the area was decidedly split in its loyalties during the New York Campaign, a series of major early battles during the American Revolutionary War.
	www.launchbase.org /encyclopedia/New_York_City (5688 words)

	Moscow (city) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Moscow (city) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Industrial and commercial city, capital of the Russian Federation and of the Moscow region, and formerly (1922–91) of the USSR; population (1990) 8,801,000.
		The 12th-century Kremlin (‘Citadel’), at the centre of the city on the north bank of the river, is Moscow's main landmark.
		The city is also the hub of the Russian railway system, with nine main terminals, and trunk routes radiating in all directions, most of which are linked, 50–120 km (30–75 mi) outside the city, by a circular line.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Moscow+(city) (1432 words)

	White City Amusement Park (view 1 of 4)
		The controversial White City Amusement Park was constructed in 1907.
		Central Park, as the White City area was originally called, was purchased by James T. Neville, R.C. Stone and Dr. F.W. Diemer in 1907.
		At some point the wooden bleachers of the original park burned and the stadium was rebuilt, with home plate being moved from the southeast corner to the southwest corner of the field.
	thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org /lochist/postcards/white_city_1.cfm (569 words)

	1908 London Olympic Games - London 2012 - 1908 London Olympic Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Prime among them was the venue - the first purpose-built Olympic stadium, at White City, completed in just 10 months and officially opened by King Edward VII on 27 April 1908.
		Another first was that athletes from the 22 countries marched proudly into the stadium behind their national flags.
		But the greatest success was undoubtedly that the host city had, at short notice, staged a Games that set the standard for those to come.
	www.london-2012.co.uk /1908-London-Olympic-Games (392 words)

	The White City Track
		In the final phase of its life as an entertainment complex the land, that had once housed all the wonders of the White City Amusement Park, had one attraction left.
		For a number of years, prior to the final closure, a stadium of significant proportions, for its day, sat behind the gates close to Chester Road.
		However, the days for White City were numbered and the stadium fell into disrepair and closed in 1982 and it was later demolished.
	manchesterhistory.net /whitecity/stock.html (518 words)

	Chicago White Sox - Stadium
		In 1988, he told the city of Chicago to build the team a new ballpark or the franchise would move to St. Petersburg, Florida.
		Initially, reaction was quite positive, and attendance doubled from an AL low 1,045,651 in 1989 to a franchise record 2,002,357 in 1990 in anticipation of the move.
		The symmetrical dimensions of New Comiskey; the clean, sterile, look; and the fact that fans in the upper deck are 60 feet higher than they were in the original ballpark, and must always look down on the action, are constant sources of complaint now.
	www.baseball-statistics.com /Ballparks/ChiWS (1013 words)

	LA21 : : WHITE CITY : : stadium/BBC radio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		When the stadium was completed it was capable of holding 150,000 people.
		In 1927 the stadium was used first used for dog racing.
		Sadly, in 1985 the stadium was demolished and it was bought by the BBC where they built their Radio Headquarters which stands there today.
	www.la21.org.uk /whitecity/stadium.html (248 words)

	London-RIP: Tale of a track (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		There were other greyhound racing venues in London - HARINGEY STADIUM in Green Lanes, now a McDonald's and Sainsbury's was one - but we always went to White City, which to my mind was the biggest and best.
		Along with dog racing, White City Stadium was also used for athletics, I think, and for other purposes - I saw David Cassidy there in the 70s, so I suppose you could say these were musical purposes.
		White City no longer exists and BBC buildings now stand on the former site.
	www.london-rip.com /about15.html (238 words)

	Kauffman Stadium - Kansas City Royals
		Two years later, the Royals replaced the stadium's artificial turf with real grass, and during the decade all of the original orange, yellow and red seats were replaced with blue ones.
		The waterfall and fountains comprise 322-feet and were erected when the stadium was built to reinforce Kansas City’s reputation as “The City of Fountains.” Aesthetically pleasing, the “water spectacular” has defined the Royals’ ballpark for three decades and the view from the upper deck can’t be matched when sitting in the lower bowl.
		Kansas City was a natural choice of host due to its heritage as the birthplace of the Negro Leagues, which were officially organized by Rube Foster in the nearby Paseo YMCA in 1920.
	www.baseballpilgrimages.com /american/kansascity.html (2029 words)

	chicago white sox
		The team was known as Sioux City Cornhuskers and won their first league pennant in 1894 before moving to St. Paul, Minnesota.
		White Stockings signed pitcher and manager Clark Griffith who led the team to the American League's first pennant in 1901.
		From 1952 to 1958 Chicago White Sox stood among the top three teams in the AL but could not compete with the East Coast team, New York Yankees.
	www.geocities.com /whitesox123c (555 words)

	City Pages - White Fight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The effects of redrawn boundaries in the Eighth Ward (one of two districts in the city where fl voters have historically dominated at the polls) are subtle, but still smack of political shenanigans.
		In 1984, Sharon Sayles Belton, an African American, was elected to the Minneapolis City Council from the Eighth.The ward was teetering toward being one of the few areas of Minneapolis where whites were a minority.
		No part of this service may be reproduced in any form without the express written permission of City Pages LLC except that an individual may download and/or forward articles via e-mail to a reasonable number of recipients for personal, non-commercial purposes.
	www.citypages.com /databank/26/1297/article13750.asp (1513 words)

	+ SPEEDWAYPLUS
		White City was almost certainly the only British speedway track to boast a race night ferry service, with fans being rowed from the south bank of the Trent virtually to the doors of the stadium!
		In 1947 a planning application was made to the City Council to build a speedway track on land close to the present ring-road, near the Clifton Bridge over the Trent, on a site later to be occupied by Carlton TV Studios.
		White City survived until 1970 as a greyhound stadium, with the 380-yard speedway track concreted over and used to parade the dogs on wet nights.
	www.speedwayplus.co.uk /nottingham.shtml (1009 words)

	White City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The station was retained however and after 1920 it was opened for occasional events at White City Stadium.
		A fire in 1959 was the catalyst for its permanent closure.
		View of the White City platform site from the northern end of the northbound platform at Shepherd's Bush station.
	www.pendar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /Tube/White_City_station.html (206 words)

	ZWNews.com - linking the world to Zimbabwe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Simmering differences in the Movement for Democratic Change became apparent three weeks ago after 26 members defied party leader Morgan Tsvangirai's call to boycott the upcoming elections to a new upper house of parliament, which critics say is aimed at tightening the ruling Zanu PF party's stranglehold.
		"It is alleged that a group of 20 MDC youths led by the provincial youth secretary for Bulawayo and belonging to Mr Tsvangirai's faction, broke down the northern gate and gained entry into White City Stadium," said Mandipaka, referring to the venue for a meeting to be held by Tsvangirai.
		Tsvangirai launched a campaign last week calling for a boycott of the November 26 senate polls but this was met with defiance by the 26 MDC members who said they were taking part in the election.
	www.zwnews.com /print.cfm?ArticleID=13200 (235 words)

	White City Track (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The track is believed to have opened in July 1953 and was in Chester Road, White City near Old Trafford although the ground was first used for the first speedway meeting in Manchester on 16th June 1928 and was also used for greyhound racing from 1930.
		The stadium closed in 1982 although it is thought that it was not used for athletics after the 1960s.
		In 1984 the location was used for the filming of an episode of the BBC science-fiction series "The Tripods" in 1984 which was broadcast in 1985.
	www.runtrackdir.com /details.asp?track=manchester-wc (275 words)

	Chicago White Sox Stadium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		But unlike all the other new stadiums built in the nineties, New Comiskey does not allow for both these decks and a reasonable height to the upper deck.
		Although accessible to Chicago's elevated rail line, it does not feel connected to the city, and no effort was made to improve the sur¬rounding neighborhood, as was done in Cleveland and Baltimore.
		The only thing that New Comiskey has in common with Yankee Stadium is that the White Sox and Yan¬kees are both in the American League.
	www.rhinotickets.com /mlb/white-sox-stadium.htm (660 words)

	Doyle v White City Stadium 1935 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		D, a minor, was a professional boxer and contracted to fight at White City Stadium.
		He agreed a clause that stated that, if he were disqualified for any reason, he would forfeit his prize money.
		De Francesco v Barnum 1890, where a contract for the employment of a minor was not binding upon her as it was not to her benefit.
	www.droit.univ-paris5.fr /jebrana/FACS/common_law/00410.html (143 words)

	City Stadium, Lynchburg, Va. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Much of the view from City Stadium’s behind-the-plate seats is obscured by an overlapping screen.
		It’s in a nice enough spot, perched atop one of the city’s seven hills, but it faces the wrong way to have an outstanding view.
		The good news is that a substantial renovation of City Stadium took place during the 2003 season.
	home1.gte.net /charliesballparks/stadiums/lynchbg.htm (198 words)

	New York Daily News - City Life - Big Town Songbook: Good for not (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The key event was the marathon, and the athlete touted to win it was Johnny Hayes, a 19-year-old New Yorker who'd trained on days off from his job as assistant superintendent at Bloomingdale's.
		Yet when the U.S. Olympic team arrived in London, they were dismayed to see White City Stadium festooned with hundreds of flags from every other nation in the competition — but not a single American flag.
		And so, on March 11, four days before the Garden rematch, as the city shook with Dorando fever, Baline took his doggerel to Ted Snyder's W. 38th St. publishing house on the chance that some tunesmith might set the words to music.
	www.nydailynews.com /city_life/story/354829p-302464c.html (829 words)

	The Origins of The Marathon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This event was won by Spiridon Louis from Greece in a time of 2hrs 58 mins 50 secs.
		The Marathon distance was standardized in the Olympics of 1908, held at the White City stadium London, as 26 miles 385 yds.
		The finish too was also replanned to be back inside the White City Stadium in front of the Royal Box.
	www.geocities.com /douglass7123/origins.htm (172 words)

	New Kansas City Stadium? - BigSoccer
		I think that it would be a better fit for the wizards to have there own stadium that way they have there own field, practicee facility and offices.
		The KC field was just ugly, especially with the wide swaths of white where the football sidelines are.
		I am sure it was because the ball was crossing one of the Chiefs white lines and not one of the Wizards yellow lines.
	www.bigsoccer.com /forum/showthread.php?t=81664 (1382 words)

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		The 1906 eruption of Vesuvius was one of the most destructive ever recorded for the volcano—ejecting more lava than ever observed before or since and claiming more than 100 lives.
		The centerpiece venue for the 1908 Olympics was the White City Stadium, which held 68,000 spectators yet was completed in a mere 10 months.
		Within the walls of the White City Stadium, numerous Olympic firsts were recorded—some auspicious, some controversial.
	techrepublic.com.com /5102-10881-5796492.html (962 words)

	White City Liner Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		He remarked on the kids we saw going to school: fl and white walking hand in hand; what an irony that White City still bears all the legends of the old Empire: South Africa Road; Canada Way; Australia road.
		So he said, “Yes, it’s called White City.” Apparently there was silence at the end of the phone for a while.
		The White City might not be perfect, but it’s survived the fall of the British Empire.
	www.wdkeller.com /wcln.htm (1578 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Olympics 2004 \| History \| London 1908
		London stepped in to take over and a new stadium was rapidly constructed in ten months at White City.
		This was the first official Olympics to see athletes marched into the stadium behind their respective national flags.
		Italian Dorando Pietri was the first athlete back in the stadium, but collapsed several times before being disqualified when officials helped him across the line.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/low/olympics_2004/history/3054406.stm (250 words)

	eBay - olympic stadium, Postcards Paper, Fan Apparel Souvenirs items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		STADIUM POSTCARD Torino Stadio Olimpico 2006 Olympics 1
		STADIUM POSTCARD Torino Stadio Olimpico 2006 Olympics 2
		Montreal 2004 HR Cafe Olympic Stadium LE 300 pin
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=olympic+stadium&...&krd=1 (462 words)

	Carthalia - London: Franco-British Exhibtion: Palace of Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Built 1908 for the Franco-British Exhibition (27 April - 31 October 1908) that took place at the same time as the 1908 Olympic Games in nearby "White City Stadium".
		The white stucco exhibition buildings (hence the name "White City") were subsequently used by other exhibitions.
		1995 the "White City" was bought by a building society that plans to convert the site into a huge shopping centre.
	www.andreas-praefcke.de /carthalia/uk/uk_london_fbexhibition.htm (96 words)

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