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Carnegie Hall in New York Cityd in 1891 with Tchaikovsky as guest conductor.
In 1925, the Motel Inn in San Luis Obispo, California, was the first motel toin the United States. Cathedral of St. John the Divine in NYC is the world's largest Gothic cathedral. The Titanic was scheduled to arrive in NYC at Chelsea Piers on April 16, 1912 at the conclusion of her maiden voyage. The first U.S. zoo was built in Philadelphia, PA, in 1876. The country's oldest municipal golf course,d in 1895, is in Van Cortlandt Park in Bronx, New York. The largest item on any menu in the world is the roast camel, sometimes served at Middle Eastern wedding feasts. The Panorama of the City of New York in the Queens Museum of Art is the world's largest architectural model. J.P. Morgan's Manhattan apartment on the 31st floor at 14 Wall Street is now home to a popular French restaurant. The vintage date on a bottle of wine indicates the year the grapes were picked, not the year of bottling. The Brooklyn Children's Museum is the world's first museum for kids. The largest US city, covering 3,108 square miles in area is Juneau, Alaska. The vaults of the Federal Reserve Bank on Maiden Lane in NYC store more than one-quarter of the world's gold bullion. In 1905, Gennaro Lombardid the very first pizzeria in the U.S. in New York City.
One-quarter of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year.
25 percent of the world's population live in severe poverty. Over 500 million people are living in what the World Bank has called "absolute poverty". More than 840 million adults are illiterate -- 538 million of them are women. Around 2 million children died as a result of armed conflict in the last decade. In developing countries 160 million pre-school children are underweight. 1.2 billion people live without access to safe drinking water. 110 million landmines lie undetonated in 68 countries around the world. 842 million people across the world are hungry. Hunger and malnutrition claims 25,000 lives every day and one life every 5 seconds. Six million children under age 5 die from hunger every year. To satisfy the world's sanitation and food requirements would cost only $13 billion -- this is the same amount the U.S. and European Union spend on perfume each year. Since the epidemic began, 25 million people have died from AIDS, which has caused more than 13 million children to lose either their mother or both parents. Currently, 42 million people are living with HIV/AIDS in the world. The assets of the world's three richest men are more than the combined GNP of all the least developed countries on the planet. Since you've entered this site at least 200 people have died of starvation. ___________________________________ Did you know that each time you send us a request to find an event site or service, we'll make a donation to charities that help others in need? These organizations are helping to cure life-threatening diseases, eliminate hunger and poverty, provide disaster relief, and address other critical issues affecting the world's population. To learn more about our unique charitable donation program called "Source For Life", click here.
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