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Chapter 13 You send the idol and I take the stage

Dear Xiaowen: On the 21st, I received letters from you and grandma on the 5th or 6th, telling me that you had a great time in New York.New York's nickname is "Gotham" Gotham, and Gotham is called "Gotham" in the UK. It is a village where fools live.The earliest people who lived in New York were said to be stupid but not penis, so New York was called Gotham, and New Yorkers were also called "Gothamite". There is an English idiom called "wise man of Gotham", It means fool.The official name of New Yorkers is New Yorker, translated into Chinese, it happens to be "New Yorker", my mother is New Yorker, Liu Gu and the others are also New Yorkers, and there is a famous magazine called The new Yorker.

New York is divided into five districts. Queens, where Liu Gu lives, is the largest (Queen is sometimes Queen, sometimes Queen). The Le Guardia Airport you go to is in Queens. La Guardia is the former mayor of New York , for eleven years.There is another Kennedy International Airport, The John F. Kennedy International Airport, which is nine times larger than LeGuardian International Airport, and it is also in Queens. Going southwest from Queens is Brooklyn, Brooklyn.There are three suspension bridges from Brooklyn to Manhattan. The Brooklyn Bridge you are walking on has a history of 90 years and is the oldest. It cost 15 million US dollars. The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, from Brooklyn to (Richmond District) Staten Island, is 4,260 feet long. It is the longest suspension bridge in the world, worth 325 million U.S. dollars, and has a nine-year history.Wo Ruo Zha Nao was an Italian pirate five hundred years ago. He went to New York and was later hanged.

Manhattan only accounts for one-eleventh of New York, only 31 square miles in size.It was bought by the Dutch from the Indians three hundred and fifty years ago, using beads, cloth, etc., and the total cost was less than twenty-four dollars.Now the island and the house together are worth 30 billion US dollars.The Statue of Liberty, which can be seen from the southernmost Battery Park, was sent by France 88 years ago, and what France sent was only the statue, worth 250,000 US dollars.The Americans paid for the pedestal under their feet and spent another 280,000 yuan, making a total of 530,000 yuan.It can cover half of the Crystal Building in Taipei.

The United States spent 341 billion in World War II, and could buy eleven Manhattans. You said that wars cost more money! There is a cocktail called Manhattans, which is sweet with a small cherry floating on top. dad Before noon on December 23, 1973
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