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This capital city, the world's southernmost, is named for a general who defeated Napoleon in a major battle.
According to Islamic belief, the prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven from this city.
On June 14, 1940, the German army marched into this capital, which had been declared an ‘open city’.
In 1984, this city hosted the Winter Olympics, marking the first time the Winter Olympics were held in a communist state.
Historic areas of this capital city were devastated by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake on April 25, 2015.
This city’s name combines the names of two older cities on either side of a river, joined by bridge in 1849 and united as a single city in 1873.
Residents of this capital city are known as 'Porteños'.
In this city in 1974, Muhammad Ali won the world heavyweight boxing title in a match called the 'Rumble in the Jungle'.
Although not in the country of that name, this capital is located on the peninsula named 'Cape Verde' (or 'Cap-Vert').
This city was called 'Jerusalem of the North' by Napoleon, who in 1812 found a large and vibrant Jewish population there.
There are more U.S. citizens living in this city than in any other city outside the United States.
A 2012 study by the marketing firm Semiocast found this to be the most Twitter-active city, with 2.4% of the world’s tweets originating there.
The George Washington House in this city commemorates a visit the future U.S. president made when he was 19 years old.
Giuseppe Verdi’s opera 'Aida' premiered in 1871 in this city.
Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, Spanish galleons carried trade goods between this city and Acapulco, Mexico.
In 1889, three German warships faced three U.S. warships in this city’s harbor, in a standoff that ended when a cyclone destroyed all six ships.
In this city in 1972, Bobby Fischer won the world chess championship in a contest called the 'Match of the Century'.
In the 1930s, this city was known as 'Little Rome'; the city’s 1939 census showed that 53,000 of its 98,000 inhabitants in that year were Italian.
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