It would be interesting to learn where everyone was born.

I'll start by saying that I was born in a very small town in South Dakota,
called Aberdeen. The current population is around 24,000.

Ironically, my birthplace happens to be a few miles from where
the plane that the famous golfer, Payne Stewart, and 5 other
passengers/pilots, ended up crashing (in 1999). The plane had
been going on autopilot for quite some time (all occupants were
already dead) until it finally went down just miles otuside of Aberdeen.

If you're interested in the story: http://www.airsafe.com/stewart.htm

born in a small town in Northern California, Cloverdale. Population 9,000.

Claims to fame of Cloverdale:

Host the Citrus fair every year, (its a carnival like thing in northern Cal)
Place where Polly Class was found. (only 3 miles from my house)

Remember about five years ago, when the two high schoolers hacked into the pentagon computers? well, they were in my high school in cloverdale at the time. I knew them too...

but the town is overall a little dot of nothing exciting on the northern tip of the major wine country.

I was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in a hospital that no longer exists.

Four years later, Dennis Kucinich set the Cuyahoga River on fire to protest my birth!! (just kidding...)

I was born in the Landour Community Hospital in Mussoorie, U.P., India in 1969. At the age of two days I was brought home from the hospital on the back of my father's motorcycle, which must be a record or something!

All my childhood memories are of India, and if circumstances allowed it, I would move there in a second. The richness and depth of India often serve to remind me of the fundamental spiritual paucity of the United States.

Like the bumper sticker on my car in MA says:
"I wasn't born a Texan, but I got there as soon as I could."
If you must know, I was born in Queen, NY and moved to TX around 2 years old.

I was born at Shaw AFB, in Sumter, SC. I only stayed in Sumter for two weeks, and moved to N Ft Myers, Florida.

I gave birth to my first child in the exact same hospital 28 years later. Not unusual, except for the fact that I had moved 25 times and lived in 6 different states, another country, and 15 different cities during the time in between. Three years later, I had my second child in the exact same town my mother was born (it would have been the same hospital, except she was born at home)...in Italy.

I was born in Oceanside, Long Island at Nassau Community Hospital where my mother had to delay her delivery as her OBGYN was at a party in Manhattan. I hope he didn't drink too much. So thanks to her doctor I share my birthday with Mike.

Saint Louis, Mo., the Gateway to the West.

Born in Manchester Ct raised in Tolland CT
Tolland has no claim to fame other than being a once beautiful quiet town that now is buried under Condos and strip malls. Ya know progress.
The pond where I learned to swim is now private property but somebody back home keeps vandalizing their gates.
Whomever that is back home More Power to You brother

I was born in Central London. The hospital I was born in is no longer a hospital but now a lush swank hotel. My sister now lives only blocks away from where we all lived together long long ago.

I think most everyone here has a general idea about what London is famous for.

Mrs Pigpen that is actually so bizarre how you have been able to connect your children's births to you and your mother like that...what coincidences!

My kids were born in Phoenix AZ USA and Männedorf CH

Glossop Terrace Maternity Hosipital, in Cardiff (where I was born in 1967) was merged into the Cardiff Royal Infirmary several years later. It closed altogether as part of a review of health provision in the city about five or six years ago.

Cardiff was a quiet port with an old castle, a cathedral, and very little else until the industrial revolution made large-scale coal mining in the South Wales valleys possible, at which point the town grew very rapidly to become the largest and most populous place in Wales. For the latter half of the 19th century, it was the world's largest coal port, exporting high-quality anthracite coal for steel and electricity production and home heating.

It became the capital city of Wales, taking over from Merthyr Tydfil, in the early 1950s.

The most topical current celebrity from Cardiff that I can think of is Charlotte Church, the singer.

Isnt Catherine Zeta Jones Welsh? As is the best super middleweight in the world Joe Calzaghe.

I was born in Springfield, Illinois. Most of the people in Springfield swear this is the Springfield of Simpsons fame and I tend to believe its the same Springfield. I mean Shelbyville, the power plant, Evergreen Terrace and the fact that the Simpsons come from the Kentucky hills just south of Illinois. It has to be Springfield. Anyway Springfields claim to fame is pretty much Abraham Lincoln (born in Kentucky) but lived/loved in Springfield. The hospital I was born in still exists.

Born in Baltimore, Maryland. Grew up in Arbutus, Maryland. Moved to Ohio in 1981.

I was born in Washington Twp, NJ. I grew up in Franklinville, NJ.

My hometown is just down the road from the only rodeo in NJ - Cowtown is the longest running regular (May through September) Saturday night rodeo in the entire United States. I've dated my share of bullriders...hehe (you gotta hit the Barnyard on saturday nights after the rodeo - GREAT TIMES.)




I was born in 1981! I moved to Maryland last year.

I'm in Springfield, MA and they all swear that this is the home of the Simpsons. There has been numerous connections which I fail to remember at the moment. I think the writers do it on purpose to keep us guessing. I'll tell you what, there is no doubt where "king of the Hill" takes place. Yup.

I spent my adolescent years in Springfield, Mo. People from Springfield, Mo are not concerned about the location of a town in a cartoon series. Abe Lincoln was overrated.

No Your overrated ....kidding. Yeah he was overrated but he was still one of the best 5 presidents the US ever had. His deeds are exagerated his stance on slavery as well but he was a fine president.

The visible power plant in Springfield Ill. Evergreen Terrace is a street the street to gangs its in a bad part of town which I thought was part of the gag. The comic store..the old owner of the comic store. The Air Force base. The neighboring town of Shelbyville lake Springfield and lake Shelbyville both exist. I mean does Springfield Mass have a rival town called Shelbyville? Sprinfield IL does.

But what about this?

In March, Hoeveler sliced 10 years off Noriega's original 40-year sentence,
meaning he is due for release on Dec. 10, 2007. He would be 71.

Other infamous prisoners who have been treated at the Missouri facility's 237-acre
campus include porn publisher Larry Flint, Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard and
Egyptian Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, who was convicted of terror charges.

Robert Stroud, the Birdman of Alcatraz, died there.

Look at all the famous people who have resided in Springfield, Mo., and I have yet to mention Brad Pitt and Kathleen Turner.

Yes they are both Welsh, although I think they are from Swansea. As different from Cardiff as Chicago is to Springfield, even though both are in Illinois.

Also Welsh are Anthony Hopkins (by birth, although he has taken US citizenship now), Tom Jones, Rhys Ifans (the scruffy one in Notting Hill), and were Richard Burton, David Lloyd George (UK prime Minister during WW1), and Kings Henry VII (the one who kills Richard III in the Shakespeare plays), and Henry V of England (who had a whole play to himself).

These are just the ones I can remember off the to of my head - there are many more famous Welsh people, living and dead (at least one died at the Alamo, but I don't remember his name) . I didn't list any of them in my last post, because I was talking about my birthplace, Cardiff, and not Wales as a whole.

Wales has a native population of about two and a half million, and Cardiff has around 400,000 of them. Many Americans I've spoken to (IRL as well as here) consistently underestimate this, often by an order of magnitude or more, much as they do the total UK population. (The whole UK (England Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland) has about 60 million people in a space rather smaller than Illinois. )

Which is odd to me, as a very large minority (possibly a slight overall majority) of white Americans claim roots in the UK, yet seem to know few facts about it. Irish, Italian or German Americans I've spoken to seem to have a much more accurate grasp of modern Ireland, Italy or Germany. I guess this is because of the more recent influx from these countries, at least in part.

I arrived in the USA for a vacation on 1 March 2003 - St David's Day (patron saint of Wales). I was vaguely surprised and a little disappointed that nobody seemed aware of this (and that the St Patrick's Day celebrations already seemed to have started, but then I was in Boston). A look at the phone book revealed plenty of Prices and Pritchards and Lloyds and Davieses and Llewellyns and Parrys - all Welsh surnames. There seemed to be almost half as many of these as there were of obviously Irish names (O'Anythings and so on), so I was surprised that nobody at all seemed aware of the significance of the date. (Except the Irish barman in the pub I went to, which was good for a few free beers, so I'm not complaining!).

I was born in Princeton, New Jersey. It had no impact on my application status at the local college. I clearly did better than my brother who was born in Pearth Amboy, NJ.

Wow! I lived in Princeton at one point...Small world.

CP

I was born in Chicago in a Hospital that no longer exists.
Grew up in Chi-town but moved to burbs when I graduated H.S.
Still live in the great State of Illinois.

Born in Kingsville, Texas, at the Naval station. Moved to Alaska 18 months later! Go there to visit my bio dad every once in a while.

I was born in Orange, California in the great county of Orange. Yes, I have seen the movie. No, I don't know those guys. And to anyone who has seen 'The O.C.' on Fox, THAT IS NOTHING LIKE THE REAL ORANGE COUNTY. They film it in Malibu, near Los Angeles. Orange County is home to 'Little Saigon' which is the largest population of Vietnamese outside of Vietnam. We're home to Disneyland, Knotts Berry Farm, the Anaheim Mighty Ducks (of which I have been a fan of since day one!), perrenial contenders for the NCAA national champs the Cal State Fullerton Titans (I knew some folks whos kids were on the '95 natl title squad), were home to some of the worst freeways and freeway interchanges (anyone in Cali knows when to avoid the 91, the 22 and the Crush) and we have some of the best educational systems around. My old high school (before we moved, boo-hoo) had such noted alumni as Richard Nixon, Lou Fender, pro-athletes, and judges (cant remember if they were state or fed supreme court) I plan on going to school back there and teaching there. Come on by. Don't believe that crap on Fox!

Born and raised in the Queen City of the Iron Range: Virginia, Minnesota! Home of the largest fake floating loon in the whole world! Very near to the deepest open pit iron ore mine in the whole entire world! Once had the largest white pine mill in the world! Only 30 miles from Hibbing where Bob Dylan (Zimmerman) grew up and left as soon as he could.

I imagine a bunch of famous people changed their names and left as soon as they could. I just left. Great place to visit or pass on through on your way to somewhere else. Some folks really like it there. I think it's an acquired taste where you tolerate mosquitos and cold winters for fishing and hunting.

My big confession is that I never understood the point of ice fishing. Here you have a home freezer full of walleyes that will never get eaten, and there you are on a balmy minus 10 degree day bothering the living fish in the lake. I just don't get it.

I liked hunting roughed grouse (partridge to us, but think of that name and build an image of a beat-up little chicken complaining about everything).

Titus – 5 years ago I was fortunate enough to pull a 10 week stint in Orange County, actually stayed in corporate housing in Newport Beach (I know, tough duty!).

Was there in March and April when everything was green (quite the contrast when I’ve been there in the summer months) and I described it to my friends as the Corporate Disney Land. Everything was so clean and manicured (I was actually working in Irvine).

Still my favorite Italian restaurant: Dolce Ristorante on the West Coast Highway
And one of my favorite all time golf courses – Strawberry Farms

I fell in love with the area but then after I was offered several jobs and started investigating housing I was floored by the sticker shock. WOW!

And you’re right, it’s nothing like what is portrayed on tv.

I was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife.

This is a very ancient burgh, with a history dating back to the middle ages. It's nickname is the 'Lang Toun', meaning Long Town, and it is twinned with Ingolstadt in Germany.

Around 350,000 people stay in Fife, the second largest council region in Scotland after the City of Glasgow, and I'd guess about 50,000 people stay in Kirkcaldy. It was famous for making linoleum.

The most famous resident of Kirkcaldy was the economist, Adam Smith who was born there around 1723

I was born in Edinburgh. It has a castle in the centre & the worlds largest cultural festival every summer. Of all the places I have lived, it's definitely the best.

The centre of Edinburgh is considered one of the prettiest city centres in the world. It's very nice, but there isn't a lot of work in Scotland, so I had to move to London last month

Springfield was indeed a choice name for the any-town idea of the show, I drive past a small town in Fife called Springfield on my way to Dundee every week! There isn't a power plant though.

Also forgot to note and can no longer edit, that Fife is most famous for being the home of St Andrews, which is about 20 miles north of where I stay now (small town called Buckhaven). It would seem we are obsessed with golf, there are courses all over the place (a driving range in Buckhaven and two 18 hole courses in a neighbouring town, Leven) but personally I can't stand it.

Fifers have a strong sense of identity, a general feeling that we are different from everyone else in the country. This could be because our region is a peninsula so we are in a way seperated from the other regions to the north and south. We are even called the Kingdom of Fife, which is somethign I have yet to understand. I have a feeling it's got more to do with the fact that one of our largest towns, Dunfermline, is the former capital of Scotland (and burial place of Robert the Bruces heart) than us striving to be different.

Oh and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, as also born in Kirkcaldy, and will soon be moving back to this constituency, making him my MP

I was born in the city of Århus, in 1969 in the St Anne's clinic.

Århus has a population of circa 320,000 people which means it is the second largest city in Denmark (the largest being København). It is sometimes refered to as the smallest major city in Europe, but more often it is refered to as the City of Smiles, because people from Århus have a reputation of being less sophisticated and more welcoming than other Danes. Sometimes it is also refered to as the The Girls City, because the female population of Århus is very pretty but very 'vocal'.

The most famous citizen of Århus was Ole Rømer (1644-1710) who was the first person to calculate the speed of light. he did so by measuring Io, a moon of Jupiter in its phases.
http://www.what-is-the-speed-of-light.com/...d-of-light.html

Unfortunatly the moons of Jupiter are not easy to see, or measure with a home made telescope, so Ole's sums were slightly wrong. He was close enough to qualify though, and so has become our most famous citizen.

Our next most famous 'citizen' is even older than Ole Rømer, and is commonly refered to as the Grauballe man. This is a ancient corpse that was dug up out of a peat bog where he was perfectly preserved, (though some what tanned) and he currenlty resides in a glass box in the Moesgaard museum.

I was born in the United States and - Oh, my God! - over half the people who have posted here were also born in the United States!! Small world or what???


More specifically, I was born in Franklinville, Pennsylvania - population 84. If anyone else here is from Franklinville, PA, I know you - I know your family, I know your pets, I know what kind of wallpaper you have in your bathroom - and I left there over thirty years ago...

Franklinville was originally an Indian settlement, called Oligonunk, a Lenape name meaning "The Place of the Cave". Oligonunk was a "sleeping place" - a crossroads on several Indian trails used as a rest stop by several tribes, including Algonkian and Iroquois tribes. The cave, from which the town got its original name, was also used as a winter shelter (due to its constant temperature), notably by the Mohawks.

In the late eighteenth century, Franklinville was the site of one of several woollen mills on Spruce Creek in Franklin Township and the original settlers were either millworkers or foundrymen at nearby charcoal-iron forges.

From 1816 to 1820, the cave was used by the highwayman, David "Robber" Lewis and his men as a hideout - and possible store for their plunder. Lewis considered himself "an equalizer", robbing from wealthy landowners and merchants and assisting poor farmers and laborers facing hard times, foreclosure, or bankruptcy. He was occasionally referred to as "The Robin Hood of Pennsylvania" - and childhood tales of his exploits may have had a formative influence on my politics.

The cave, now a tourist attraction called Indian Caverns, was developed as a show cave and opened to public tours in 1928 - by my grandfather.

I was born on the bayou.
I was born under a bad sign.
I was born a ramblin' man.
I was born in a crossfire hurricane.
I was born on the 4th of July.
I was born in the USA.
I was born in East LA.
I was born in a small town.
In the town where I was born there lived a man who sailed the seas.

Actually, I was born in Cook County, Illinois. Since you'd like some interesting facts, you should know that Cook County is the 2nd largest county in the country, with a population of about 5.4 million people. The economy of the county is the 19th largest in the world, ahead of Taiwan, Switzerland, and Russia. It has the largest unified court system in the world, handling 74 million filings per year. There are 22 elected officials, 99 different county departments, and the county has nearly 27,000 employees. There are 517 different taxing districts there, and 1.9 million pieces of land on the tax rolls. They maintain 578 miles of roads so everyone can get around.

Is that what you wanted?

Mike

Me?

Imogene Iowa.

Try finding that on a map.

Population, last time I checked, was 87

More people live on my block, then in my hometown.

I was born Mt. Kisco, New York and lived until I was 8 in nearby Chappaqua, New York where the Clinton's currently live. Chappaqua is a very Jewish and very rich New York City suburb with around 10,000 residents of which 91% are white. Not exactly a melting pot although there were two pacific islanders but they may have left.

I was born in Hackensack, New Jersey. A small city located near Jersey City and Newark. Am I and Eeyore the only Jersey Guys here?

CP

Toronto had (at around 1960) the largest Italian population outside Italy.

Toronto HAS the second largest Jewish population outside Israel.

Toronto (along with Montreal) is estimated to be the longest continually habitated place on earth.

Toronto sits at the rim of the Lake Toronto lakebed, the remains of the great glaciel lake that covered all five the Great Lakes and the surrounding land.

Toronto is the one and only place that can lay claim to calling me a registered municipal taxpayer.

Wow, I'm pretty boring.

I was born is Salt Lake City and I'm still here (what's wrong with me?)

Salt Lake City has been fairly well know recently for hosting the 2002 Winter Olympic Games and for the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping.

Salt Lake City was founded by Mormons (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints), although there were Native Americans and a handful of others here first.

We are famous for polygamy, fantastic mountains, serene deserts, weird drinking laws, a really salty lake, and nuclear waste and fallout -- fallout from the Nevada Test Site and more and more people are looking to dump their waste here, not wanting it in their own backyard --too bad too, since we don't use nuclear power here-- it's a constant struggle to fight being the nation's dump.

Salt Lake City is not a boring place, whatever you might read. At first it might be difficult to find things to do, but once you get to know your way around there's enough to keep you busy every day of the week.

Politically Utah is very boring -- a lot of people here just vote straight ticket Republican regardless of the person running, and most of the Democrats we do have are very conservative, since that's the only way to get voted in. The only place to get elected in this state as a true liberal is the city of Salt Lake, mostly due to the smaller percentage of Mormons living in the city versus the outlying areas and rural towns. It does make this an interesting place to be a Green in!

I am not sure I am a Jersey guy, CP. I have always said that NJ is a good place to be FROM.

Sure its got the beaches, but California still captured my heart.

BTW, I teacher at my school gave a devotional yesterday morning that had an extended recording from a graduation speech, which had these to bits of advice that I found to be interesting

Live in NY City once and leave before you get too hard
Live in Northern California once and leave before you get too soft.

I was Born , raised an still live In a small town in Northern Wisconsin
Called "Amberg" the population is around 800

Its was know by the native Americans as "Gods Country"
It's 30 miles to the nearest stop an go lights
If you have ever seen the sitcom "Northern Exposure" that show kinda depicts this area lol!
That said I love it here!

I'm a native and current inhabitant of Austin, Texas. I guess our motto pretty much sums it up: "Keep Austin Weird." The town has always been a haven of independent thought within the huge flat state of Texas. Downtown is a mixture of high-tech company highrises, hippy juice parlors, seedy frat bars, and infinite small live music joints. It's perfect here, unless it's may through october, in which you gotta find some shelter or water, because the temperature is hotter than these debates.

Wow, this thread hasn't been posted to in a while....
I was born and raised in St. Petersburg - the city built on 44 islands (hence 308 bridges, including 22 drawbridges!), the cultural capital of Russia, home of the Hermitage Museum and White Nights.
Now living and working in Connecticut, United States.

English Horn, Strasveetyeh! (that's "hello" in Russian)..
I took two years of it in high school.

St. Petersberg sounds like an interesting place. Thank you for
sharing.

I have an interesting tid-bit to share. My oldest son was born
in a Catholic Hospital (to a Jewish father and non-Catholic me )
on Jan. 21, 1998. That was also close, if not on the day that
the Monica Lewinsky/Bill CLinton scandal broke....So, as
I was confined to the house, with a newborn, I got to watch
Monica, in her black beret, hugging the president, over and
over and over and over....

i was born in kent - so called garden of england.. anyway i wasn't raised there, i was raised in kingston upon hull.. which is in the grim north of england.. ppl who live in england refer to it as a quaint fishing village, but it has been a city for 700 years.. and we do more than fish here too.. lol

hull.. is the river that flows through the city, hull prolly most recognisable for the humber bridge, which spans the humber.. (feeds into the river hull) which until recently was the largest single span suspension bridge in the world. kingston upon hull is commonly called "hull" although its proper name is kingston, from kings town.

anyway.. famous ppl who've come from 'ere include..

William Wilberforce - Politician.
Wilberforce was born in Hull in 1759. He attended St John's College, Cambridge. While he was there he became friends with William Pitt who was later to become Britain's youngest ever Prime Minister. Wilberforce was elected in the parliamentary election in Hull in 1779 and served in Parliament until 1825. Wilberforce became interested in social reform after converting to the Evangelical Christianity. He was encouraged by Lady Middleton to use his power to bring an end to the slave trade and in 1789 he gave his first speech against the trade. Wilberforce & Lord Grenville campaigned in the House of Commons until the Abolition of the Slave Trade bill became law on March 25 1807. British captains who were caught by the British navy were fined £100 for each slave found on board but their captains managed to reduce fines by having the slaves thrown over board. Wilberforce died on July 29 1833. Although trading in slaves was now illegal existing slaves were not freed until Parliament passed the Slavery Abolition Act one month after Wilberforce's death. His seventeenth century family home and birthplace is now home to a historical museum with displays and paintings telling the story of the slave trade.

John Prescott
Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and Deputy Prime Minister.

Amy Johnson - Female pilot.
Daughter of a fish merchant - the world's most famous female pilot was born in Kingston upon Hull, England in 1903. Amy set off alone on May 5th 1930 aged twenty-six from Croydon on a nineteen day journey to Darwin in a single engined Gypsy Moth plane she called Jason. Making her the first solo female pilot to fly from Britain to Australia. She was the first female ground engineer to be licensed by the Air Ministry and was awarded the C.B.E for her achievements in aviation.

Philip Larkin
Larkin was a Poet and Librarian at Hull University

Maureen Lipman
Born May 10 1946 in Hull, England. Daughter of a Jewish tailor she was pushed into the acting world by her mother. She studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She made her acting debut in 1969 in The Knack. She played Beatie in the British Telecom advertisements. Was in Up The Junction in 1967. In 1979 she played alongside Simon Williams in the ITV comedy series Agony. She has written several books including How Was it For You? and Lip Reading. Maureen was awarded the CBE by the Queen in 1999.

Tom Courtney
Hull born actor and Hull City supporter. Star of Billy Liar and Dr Zhivago.

a number of pop groups including

Everything But The Girl
Studied at the University in Hull and took their name from a furniture shop of the same name on Beverley Road

Beautiful South (The) - Lived down Grafton Street in Hull.

Housemartins (The) - Folk/Pop Group.
Singer Paul Heaton, Guitarist Stan Cullimore, Drummer Hugh Whitaker and Bassist Ted Key and later Norman Cook (AKA Fatboy Slim). Paul Heaton placed the following in the small ads; "Trombonist seeks street musicians around the city". His first reply was from Stan Cullimore - a math's student at the Hull University who had played in several bands on Hull's pub circuit. This was the beginning of The Housemartins. Later Hull bassist Ted Key and Hull drummer Hugh Whittaker joined the band. They big break came from the BBC's The Old Grey Whistle Test then from Radio One DJ John Peel who invited them to play a session on his show in July 1985. Ted Key was later replaced by Norman Cook. The Housemartins had a number three hit with Happy Hour then when they released their debut album called London 0 Hull 4 this also went to number three selling one million copies worldwide. Their most successful single was an a cappella style version of Isley Jasper's Caravan of Love which went to number one. They won the Best British Newcomer award at the Brit Awards in 1987. In the same year Hugh Whittaker left the band and was replaced by Dave Hemmingway. The desire to move in different directions - Paul Heaton wanted to move into jazz-pop and Norman Cook wanted to explore dance music - resulted in the band breaking up in 1988.

Mick Ronson
Born in Hull, England on May 26 1946. He played in a number of Hull bands - his first at the age of seventeen was called the Mariners others were The King Bees, The Cresters, Voice, Wanted and then the Rats who appeared on TV's Thank Your Lucky Stars. Mick returned to Hull were he worked as a council gardener. Founded the band Ronno with Mick Ronson and Mick Woodmansey in 1968. He later became the lead guitarist of David Bowie's group The Spiders from Mars after being introduced to Bowie by Tony Visconti and Bowie's then drummer John Cambridge. Scored many of Bowie's tracks and played on five of his albums between 1969 and 1973, played on and co-wrote Lou Reed's transformer. Embarked on a solo career with Tony DeFries as his manager and RCA as his record label. Released his Slaughter on 10th Avenue album in 1974. Joined Mott the Hoople in September 1974. Joined Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue and in 1976 performed on his live album Hard Rain. Ronson played with Bowie again in 1983 on the Song Jean Genie at the Serious Moonlight Concert. Continued to collaborate with Ian Hunter (of Mot the Hoople) and released a joint Album YUI Orta. Produced Morrissey's album Your Arsenal in 1992. In 1993 he played on Cream's I Feel Free track on Bowie's Black Tie White Noise album. Was diagnosed as having inoperable liver cancer in 1991 and died at the age of 46 in April 1993 while working on his last solo album Heaven and Hull which includes the live All The Young Dudes from Ronson, Bowie and Queen's performance at the Freddy Mercury Tribute Concert.
"The Spiders From Mars... sort of got me the kind of fame I had in the early Seventies. The lead guitarist for that band was Mick Ronson and unfortunately, tragically, he succumbed to cancer 3 or 4 days ago... and in his passing I want to say that of all the early seventies guitar players Mick was probably one of the most influential and profound and I miss him a lot" - Bowie on the Arsenio Show (1993).

Trevor Bolder
Trevor was born in Hull, England on June 9th 1950. Founded the band Ronno with Mick Ronson and Mick Woodmansey in 1968. He became a member of Bowie's Spiders from Mars in the early seventies. He joined the re-formed The Spiders from Mars in 1975 and released an unsuccessful album of the same name with Mick Woodmansey, Mike Garson, Dave Black taking Ronson's place on lead guitar, and Pete McDonald on vocals. Joined Uriah Heep then in 1981 joined Wishbone Ash returning to Uriah Heep in 1983.
In a unanimous verdict by the Hull City Council Technical Services Committee in November 1994, a new road in a development at Greatfield Estate will be called Ronson Close. The road is in the same estate where Mick grew up.
In 1997 The Mick Ronson Memorial Concert II was held in Hull marking the opening of the Mick Ronson Memorial Stage in Queen's Gardens, Hull.

Mick Woodmansey
Mick "Woody" Woodmansey was born in Driffield, England. A member of Bowie's Spiders from Mars in the early seventies Woody played on Dana Gillispie's album Weren't Born as a Man and Joined Mick Ronson's band with Mike Garson and Andy Dunbar. He joined the re-formed The Spiders from Mars in 1975 and released an album of the same name with Trevor Bolder, Mike Garson, Dave Black taking Ronson's place on lead guitar, and Pete McDonald on vocals. In 1976 he formed a band called Woody Woodmansey's U-boat. The album of the same name includes lots of references to Bowie.

Isaac & James Reckitt
Reckitt Benckiser founders.. started and ran their business from Hull.. their products include finish, brasso, harpic.. etc

The basis for the english civil war started in Hull.

I was born in California Hospital in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. The hospital has changed ownership many times, but still exists. It was founded in 1887 and by 1902, it was the largest and best-equipped physician-owned hospital west of Chicago. Years later it was rebuilt and was the first fireproof hospital in Los Angeles. They established the first emergency Aviation Hospital in Dominguez back in 1910. In 1933 doctors used the first X-ray machine in the US at California Hospital – they were involved in many “firsts”.

And, jenreiautter, don’t worry; you’re not the only one who stayed close to home. I’ve lived within 40 miles of LA my entire life.

Since I’m sure everyone is familiar with Los Angeles, I tried to find some weird/unusual items about my birth city to share:

Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" (The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angeles of Porciuncula). Boy, now that's a mouthful!

The first motion picture theater opened in Los Angeles on April 2, 1902.

LA is home to Angel’s Flight, the “shortest railway in the world”. It's a funicular that was designed to take people up and down Bunker Hill. Sadly, after a long absence and restoration, Angel’s Flight was closed again when an accident caused one death and several injuries a few years ago. In the movie “Who Framed Roger Rabbit", Judge Doom's plan to bring freeways to LA and ruin the existing Pacific & Electric Red Car electric trolley system was a reference to a real-life corporate conspiracy to "doom" Los Angeles’ excellent trolley system and encourage automobile use, orchestrated by General Motors, Firestone, and Standard Oil of California. Looks like ol’ Judge Doom succeeded in real life, if not the movies!

And I found this interesting tidbit:
So, we invented orange juice!

One of the Goodyear blimps is stationed here...and suffered a crash in late 2003 (minor injuries to crew).

Fargo Street has a 33% grade, steeper than any San Francisco street.

My old employer, Lockheed's factories were camoflaged to look like residential neighborhoods during WWII Lockheed-WWII What it looked like underneath

Several politicians were born in LA:
Bruce Babbitt
John William Gardner
Barry Goldwater
Jack Kemp
General Patton
Adlai Stevenson
Earl Warren
Henry Waxman

Goofy laws:

• It is illegal for a man to beat his wife with a strap wider than 2 inches without her consent.
• Toads may not be licked.
• Peacocks have the right of way to cross any street, including driveways. (in Arcadia)
• It is illegal to drive more than two thousand sheep down Hollywood Boulevard at one time.

And even with all the traffic, smog, overcrowding and crass commercialism, I still love LA!

I was born in Ashgabad, captital of former Soviet republic of Turkmenistan, now independant state ruled by a dictator suffering from acute narcissistic personality cult buildin himself palaces and golden statues of himself but having no weapons or significant control over anything, largely ignored by world community (although he did manage to tensen his relationship with Russia over Russian prosecution).
Ashgabad is about 500,000 in size, located between desert and mountain range, less than 50 miles from Iran and 300 miles from Afghan border, give or take. Ashgabad is famous for it's hand-weaven rugs, among best in the world, and, in the nearby locale, watermelons and melons.

I was born in Long Beach, California in the same hospital my mother was born in.

I was Born in Red Bank New Jersey and Raised in Belford (Middletown), in Monmouth County, New Jersey.

I Chased a woman to Kansas City, Discovered she was not for me and found my wife after a long self-destructive run of partying.

My wife was from St. Louis and she wanted to go back. Since there wasn't alot holding me in KC (though I love that town) I was all for it.

Now I live in Overland, MO. an old suburb of St. Louis with my In-Laws right next door and I couldn't be happier.

Billings, Montana.

Anyone who knows where that is gets extra credit. Anyone who's been there gets my sympathies (actually, I think its a pretty neat place---if you like the outdoors, you can't beat Montana).



UJ....just had to ask....I would think Baghdad would qualify...cradle of civilization...so logic would indicate that would have to be the longest continually habited place....I'm guessing the Indian tribes predate that?

Denver, Colorado. (pronounced: ca-la-rad-a not ca-lo-rad-o )

I don't know many interesting facts about denver. I know we hav a mint. the capitol dome used to be coated with gold from my great grandpa's mine (the dixie) (two samples can be seen at http://www.themineralgallery.com/goldroom.htm - #8 an #13)

Mckay Dee hospital in Ogden, Utah.

P.S. No, I'm not mormon (always get asked)