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I thought 'Saginaw' would be a dead giveaway, but maybe that's my age showing. Who the hell ever heard of Saginaw unless they were a local except in S&G's tune?
- Stettin and Trieste, politically
"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an "iron curtain" has descended across the Continent."
So said Winston Churchill in a famous speech given in Fulton, Missouri on March 5th, 1946, which marked the beginning of the Cold War. - Pittsburgh and Saginaw, musically
"Let us be lovers we'll marry our fortunes together"
"I've got some real estate here in my bag"
So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner pies
And we walked off to look for America
"Kathy," I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh
"Michigan seems like a dream to me now"
It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
I've gone to look for America
-- Simon and Garfunkel, America - London and Paris, in literature
London and Paris are the two cities of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. - Philadephia and Kyoto, historically
Philadelphia was, for a time, the capital of the United States. And Kyoto was an earlier capital of Japan.
I thought 'Saginaw' would be a dead giveaway, but maybe that's my age showing. Who the hell ever heard of Saginaw unless they were a local except in S&G's tune?