Seattle
A city in the U.S. state of Washington, and the largest city in the northwestern United States. It is bordered on the east by Lake Washington and on the west by the Pacific Ocean's Puget Sound. The city area is 218 square kilometers. Population of about 510,000 people. Built on seven hills, surrounded by mountains and water. Warm and humid maritime climate, the average temperature in January 2 ℃, July 24 ℃. The average annual precipitation is 810 millimeters. The forests are dense. Rich in natural resources.
Founded in 1851, the city was established in 1869, and the Panama Canal was opened to traffic in 1914, and the canal connecting Puget Sound and Lake Washington was completed in 1917, prompting the rapid development of the city. After World War II, it became a developed industrial city.
For the United States, one of the aircraft manufacturing centers, Boeing Aircraft Company headquarters location, known as Boeing City. Industry to aerospace, machine building, wood processing, and shipbuilding, aluminum refining, finance, insurance, electronics and other sectors. It is also an important fishing base. Famous natural harbor, the gateway to Alaska and the Far East from the continental United States. The main import and export center of the United States to the Far East, and more than 70 countries in the world have shipping transactions. Transportation center of the northwestern United States, an important railroad, highway and aviation hub. Fort Loudoun and Cape Sander Naval Air Station and the University of Washington, Seattle University and other colleges and universities. One of the famous architectural complex "21st Century Exhibition" Seattle Center built a 185-meter high, called the "Cosmic Needle" mattock tower, is the city's symbol.
Seattle is the largest city in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, located between Puget Sound and Lake Washington in Washington State, about 180 kilometers from the U.S.-Canada border. It is located in King County and is the county seat of King County. Seattle is not the state capital of Washington. Washington's state capital is the City of Olympia, south of Seattle.
Seattle, named after an Indian chief of the same name, has an estimated population of 569,101, with a total population of about 3.7 million (2003) for the entire metropolitan area. It is sometimes referred to as the "Rainy City," "Gateway to Alaska," and "Airplane City" (a name derived from Boeing's local influence). Its official nickname is Emerald City. Its citizens have a reputation for consuming a lot of coffee.
Foundation
The earliest and most predominantly white settlers in the Seattle area arrived on November 13, 1851, and in April 1852 they moved their settlement to Elliott Bay. The first map of the city was drawn on May 23, 1853. It was a town from 1865 to 1867 and officially a city from 1869.
Seattle got its name from Chief Sealth, a chief of the Duwamish and Soguamish tribes.
Major events
Seattle's major events include the Great Fire of 1889 (which destroyed the central business district but killed no one), the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of 1909 (today's University of Washington was built on the site of that year's exposition), the Seattle General Strike of 1919 (the first U.S. General Strike), and the 21st Century Exposition in 1962, The 1990 Friendship Games and the 1999 World Trade Organization General Assembly were forced to close by protests from the anti-globalization movement.A major earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale struck the Seattle area in February 2001, but caused limited damage.
Economic history
Seattle has experienced times of growth and depression. As a headquarters city for large companies during its downturns some even thought it would keep shrinking. But it has generally always managed to rebuild its infrastructure during those times.
The first big development was the growth of the wood industry in the early days of the city's founding.The Gold Rush of the late 1800s also brought a small, short-lived development to Seattle.
Shipbuilding in the early 20th century also brought prosperity to Seattle. After World War II Seattle's economy benefited from the Boeing boom brought on by the growth of the commercial airline industry.The aviation bust of the late 1960s and early 1970s forced many people out of Seattle. Two local realtors posted a sign that read, "Trouble the last person to leave Seattle, turn out the lights."
Seattle was Boeing's corporate headquarters until 2001, when Boeing said it intended to move its headquarters, along with its future Boeing 787 (Dreamliner) production line, out of Washington state. Many cities competed to become Boeing's headquarters and new production center by offering low taxes, but in the end Boeing moved its headquarters to Chicago, but the Boeing 787 production line remained in the greater Seattle area. Seattle is still home to Boeing Civil Airplanes, some Boeing factories and the Boeing Employees Credit Union.
Recent growth has come mainly from Microsoft and other software, Internet and communications companies such as Amazon.com, RealNetworks and AT&T Wireless. Even the local Starbucks headquarters has invested in many Internet and software companies. This new development ended in early 2001, but many of these companies remain quite strong.
Population
The 2000 U.S. Census showed Seattle had 563,374 residents. The entire Puget Sound metropolitan area has a population of about 3.7 million people, and about 73.4% are white, which is the highest white composition of any northern metropolitan area in the U.S. 4.7% of the people report being of multiple ethnic origins, which is one of the highest in the United States. 13.71 percent are Asian, 8.44 percent are African, 1.1 percent are Native American, 0.5 percent are Pacific Native, and 6.84 percent are from other non-white ethnic groups.
Many legal and illegal immigrants have come to Seattle in the last decade or so. The foreign population increased by 40 percent from the 1990 to 2000 census. Although only 5.28 percent of the population was Hispanic in the 2000 census, the Hispanic population is one of the fastest-growing of any group in Washington. It is estimated to have grown by 10 percent from 2000 to 2002 alone.
About 1.25 percent are estimated to be homeless, 14 percent of whom are youth.
In 2005 Men's Fitness magazine called Seattle the fittest city in America.
Landmarks
Seattle's most distinctive landmark is the Space Needle, built for the 1962 21st Century Exposition, whose surrounding fairgrounds were transformed into the Seattle Center, which remains the site of many important civic and artistic events.
Other notable landmarks include Smith Tower, Pike Place Market, the EMP (Experience Music Project), the new Seattle Central Library, and the Bank of America Tower. (EMP; Experience Music Project), the new Seattle Central Library, and the Bank of America Tower, the fourth tallest skyscraper west of the Mississippi River and 12th tallest in the United States.
Annual cultural events and exhibitions
Seattle's most notable cultural events include the 24-day Seattle International Film Festival, the Northwest Folklife Festival on Memorial Day weekend, and the Summer Ocean Festival. Seattle International Film Festival, Northwest Folklife Festival on Memorial Day weekend, Seafair in the summer, Bite of Seattle, and Bumbershoot on Labor Day weekend. Hundreds of thousands of people usually attend these festivals. Two parades, the Marijuana Festival and the Independence Day parade, also always draw large crowds.
Dozens of Seattle's downtowns host one or more street festivals each year, and many hold an annual parade or race. The largest street festivals include hundreds of stalls, entertainers and many stages with hundreds of thousands of people in attendance, while the smallest, with a dozen stalls and entertainers, are similar to markets in larger neighborhoods.
Other important events are several Indian organizations of the Runway Dance, a Greek festival and many ethnic festivals of different nationalities.
Like many other large cities, Seattle has many other small-scale events, such as book fairs, special film festivals, and an annual two-day, month-long bicycle race from Seattle to Portland with 8,000 participants.
Performing arts
Seattle is a center for the performing arts. The Seattle Symphony Orchestra has a history of hundreds of years and is one of the most widely published symphony orchestras in the world. The Seattle Opera and the Pacific Northwest Ballet are also very well known. Seattle Opera is especially known for its stagings of William Richard Wagner, and the Pacific Northwest Ballet School is one of the three most prestigious ballet schools in the United States.
Seattle also has about 20 theaters.
Seattle is also very diverse and active in popular and contemporary music.
Museums and art collections
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Seattle's best-known building, circa 1893The Henry Art Gallery, opened in 1927, was Washington's first museum. The Seattle Art Museum opened in 1933. The Frye Art Museum, the Center on Contemporary Art and the Seattle Asian Art Museum also house art collections.
The Museum Of History & Industry and the Burke Museum Of Natural History And Culture, the Klondike Gold Rush Museum, the Roundwood House Museum, and the Klondike Museum are also home to art collections. Museum, the Log House Museum, and the Coast Guard Museum Northwest collect regional history. The Center for Wooden Boats, Northwest Seaport Maritime Heritage Center, Seattle Metropolitan Police Museum and the Museum of Flight are among the many museums in the area. (The Museum of Flight, Odyssey Maritime Discovery Center, and Puget Sound Vessel Traffic Service focus on industrial technology. The Nordic Heritage Museum and the Wing Luke Asian Museum focus on ethnic heritage.
Other Cultural Facilities
Established in 1889, the Woodland Park Zoo in Washington, one of the oldest zoos on the West Coast, was a pioneer in the invention of the nature-based zoo, and the Seattle Aquarium opened in 1977.
Media
Seattle's most important newspapers are the Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, both of which share their advertising and business divisions. Important weekly newspapers are the Seattle Weekly and the Stranger, both of which are free weeklies. The former is the unofficial newspaper of the Seattle area, often reporting on the darker side of the country or the city of Seattle that the official newspapers cannot. The latter is aimed at an alternative audience and covers off-the-wall stories such as homosexuality.
Seattle also has many television and radio stations.
Sports
Seattle's first modern professional team was the Seattle Supersonics (basketball), which was joined in 1969 by the Seattle Pilots (baseball). Both teams' names are associated with the local airplane industry. The Pilots moved to Milwaukee a year later.The football team, the Seattle Seahawks, was formed in 1976, and the baseball team, the Seattle Mariners, was formed in 1977.
The first team to win a national championship for Seattle was the hockey team Seattle Metropolitan, which won the U.S. title with 1917.
Other professional teams are:
Seattle Storm (women's basketball)
Seattle Thunderbirds (ice hockey)
Seattle Sounders, soccer
Also the University of Washington, Seattle University, and Seattle Pacific University have teams (e.g., football and basketball).
Education
The average level of education for Seattle residents is higher than the average for the U.S. Thirty-six percent of the population has a master's degree or higher, and 93% have graduated from a college or university. In addition to schools Seattle has strong adult classes and home schooling.
As in most other major U.S. cities Seattle's publicly funded schools are often a cause for debate. Although Seattle's schools eliminated the practice of racial segregation without a court ruling, it is not easy to achieve racial composition parity in every school in a city where all races are divided. Some schools do better than others, but that varies with where you live, what parents do for their children, and what the schools do.
In addition to publicly funded schools, Seattle has a number of private schools: four Catholic, one Protestant and six non-religious.
Seattle's main university is the University of Washington, which, with more than 40,000 students, is the largest in the northwestern U.S. There are also Seattle University (a Jesuit university) and Seattle Pacific University (a Protestant university) in the city. In addition Seattle has a number of smaller colleges and universities in the arts, business, and psychology.
Government and Politics
Seattle's mayor and nine other city council members are elected annually, as is the city attorney. All of these positions are not amateurish.
Seattle provides more infrastructure such as drinking water, wastewater and electricity than many other U.S. cities, and billing and management are handled by the city. But trash and recycling are handled by private companies.
As in most other U.S. cities and counties, legal agencies handle most criminal behavior. Seattle's city courts deal mainly with trivial matters such as wrongful parking fines. The city of Seattle has its own jail.In 2004 there were 24 murders in the city a***, the lowest number since 1965. Crime has dropped 42 percent since 1994, to about seven crimes per 1,000 residents. The crime rate for auto theft has increased by 44 percent.
Seattle's politics are more left of center than the U.S. average, but there are some conservative downtowns. Most elections are won by the Democratic Party of the United States and the Green Party.
Official nicknames, city flower, motto, and city song
Seattle's nickname since 1869 has been "The Queen City", and in 1981 the city officially elected a new nickname. the winner announced in 1982 was "The Emerald City". The winner, announced in 1982, was "The Emerald City". The winner, announced in 1982, was "The Emerald City," which depicts the lushness caused by the rainy weather around Seattle. Seattle's other title, "City of Airplanes," is not an official nickname.
The dahlia has been Seattle's city flower since 1913, its city song since 1909 has been "Seattle, the Incomparable City," its motto since 1942 has been "City of Flowers," and 48 years later it added "City of Flowers" to its motto for the Friendship Games, 48 years later, it added the motto "Friendship City".
Sister cities
Seattle is a sister city to Chongqing in China and Kaohsiung in Taiwan.
Infrastructure
Transportation
Seattle's primary mode of transportation is the automobile. Its downtown and some urban areas still respond to past railroad and highway development. Seattle does not have a subway, but there is a large and very convenient network of bus****es and ferries.
Extensions are currently only about a mile and a half to about ten miles; between West Seattle and Ballard; the Seattle Monorail, after four successful elections, failed miserably in its fifth re-election in December 2005. Seattle's dream of building a monorail was officially over.
But Sound Transit will begin running Light Rail between Sea-Tac Internatioanl Airport and downtown Seattle in 2009. The voter-approved Sound Transit Authority currently operates a number of express bus lines and a Commuter Train that connects Everett-Seattle-Tacoma.
Street layout
Seattle is organized in a square format with east-west and north-south alignments except in the downtown business districts, where the streets follow a coastal alignment. Where the two alignments meet they often create unusual angles, often confusing to outsiders unfamiliar with Seattle.
Medical centers and hospitals
The Health Collaborative is a pioneer in health management in the United States. The University of Washington is among the top medical research centers in the United States. Seattle itself was a pioneer in establishing ambulance corps in the United States.
Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center is the pediatric medical center for Washington, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho. Harborview Medical Center, a county public ****hospital, is the only Level I trauma hospital in these four states and the only Level I medical center for adults and children in Washington State. A Level I medical center means that emergency physicians, nurses and surgeons must be on-site at the emergency center and be able to get to a patient within five minutes of the emergency. It shares the same physician staff as the University of Washington Medical Center.
Facilities
Water and electricity in Seattle are provided by public **** facilities. The private Puget Sound Energy provides natural gas, Seattle Steam provides steam, Cuesta provides telephone service, and Comcast provides cable television.
Economy
Corporations
Five of the top 500 U.S. corporations in 2004*** were headquartered in Seattle: Washington Mutual Bank (#103), insurance company Safeco Corporation (#103), apparel retailer Notts Roma Corporation (286), Amazon.com (342) and Starbucks (425).
Although Boeing moved its headquarters to Chicago in 2001, it remains the most important employer in Seattle, and even in Washington state, besides the military. The greater Seattle area is also its primary commercial airliner production center. The Boeing 737 and 757 are assembled in the City of Renton, and the Boeing 747, 767, 777, and future 787 are assembled in the City of Everett.
There are also headquarters for other major companies in cities near Seattle, such as retailer Costco (listed as No. 29), which is headquartered in the City of Issaquah. Issaquah, Microsoft (#46) and AT&T Wireless (#120) were headquartered in the City of Redmond before being absorbed by Cingular in 2004. Forest products company Weyerhaeuser (#95) is in the City of Federal Way, and tractor manufacturer Parsa (#250) is in the City of Bellevue.
Seattle intends to get a leg up by attracting bio-engineering firms, an idea supported by the public ****.
Geography and climate
Geography
Seattle is located between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, with the Olympic Mountains bordering the Sound to the west, Lake Washington to the east, Lake Sammamish to the east, Issaquah Highland and Tiger Mountain, and Cascades to the south. Mountain, and finally the Cascade Range.
The city of Seattle is built on hilly terrain, with some of the highest parts of the city directly near downtown. The terrain near downtown has been altered in many ways through various terrain modification projects.
Seattle is rich in rivers, forests, lakes, and fields. Today a canal close to the center of Seattle connects Lake Washington to Puget Sound. There are many opportunities for sailing, skiing, biking, camping and hiking in and around Seattle throughout the year.
The Seattle Fault is an active geologic fault that passes directly under downtown Seattle and continues to cause earthquakes. In the one hundred and fifty years since recorded history began, Seattle has received four major earthquakes: December 14, 1872 (magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale), April 13, 1949 (magnitude 7.1), April 29, 1965 (magnitude 6.5), and February 28, 2001 (magnitude 6.8)
Seattle's geographic location is 47°37'35 "N, 122°19'59 "W. As per the US Census Bureau data Seattle has an area of 369.2 square kilometers, of which 217.2 square kilometers is land and 152 square kilometers is water. That means 41.16% of the area is water.
Climate
Seattle's climate is mild, with moderate temperatures due to the oceanic factor, and protection from storms from the mountains to the west. It receives between 890 and 970 millimeters of rainfall per year, giving it the name of the Rainy City, which is less than some U.S. cities on the East Coast (e.g., New York 1,200 millimeters), but its number of cloudy days is an average of 226 per year, which is more than that of New York (132). Because Seattle is located behind the Olympic Mountains, most rainfall is light or drizzly. Seattle's climate and temperatures are about the same as those of Vancouver, a nearby large Canadian city.
Annual rainfall averages 3,600 millimeters in Olympic National Park, 130 kilometers west, and 1,320 millimeters in Olympic, Washington's capital, to the south. Occasional snow falls in Seattle, but rarely stays for long. The sunny climate generally lasts from mid-July to mid-September, starting later and ending earlier than Portland to the south.
Seattle's precipitation decreases during El Ni?o years, not only making it difficult for surrounding ski resorts in the winter, but also causing water shortages in the summer.
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This is not Venice, but everywhere you can see the Blue Lagoon; this is not Vegas, but you can dream of gold; this is not the Champs Elysees in Paris, the coffee-scented romantic atmosphere is not the least bit diminished; this is precisely the most lively city in the northwest of the United States - Seattle.
When I think of Seattle, I can't find a more suitable word to describe it than romantic. The romantic image of the city, once made famous by the movie "Sleepless in Seattle," has not been taken as a call for sightseeing, and there are no related products or movie posters to be found downtown. However, Seattle exudes a flavor of romance, a natural presence that is not packaged by the media or hyped up as a commercial culture.
Tracing the history of Seattle, only a short 150 years, and most of the information records are originated from the pioneer square (Pioneer Square), a group of immigrants, in 1851 AD from New York City to Seattle, in the vicinity of Pioneer Square landing camp, this group of people are regarded as Seattle's pioneers, and therefore there are a lot of streets are named after them as a memorial, such as Denny's Square, and the streets are named after them, such as Denny's Square. The group is regarded as Seattle's pioneers, and as such, there are many streets named in their honor, such as Denny, Yesler, Bell, Boren, and many others. Seattle is located in Puget Sound, Washington, with a total coastline and lakeshore length of 80 kilometers. The area **** has 218 square kilometers and a population of 540,000, while 113 miles (182 kilometers) from the U.S.-Canada border.
The Indians, who inhabited North America since time immemorial, lived by hunting and fishing, and led a self-sufficient tribal life in the deep forests and wildernesses, are the original inhabitants of this place, except that their history is not recorded in the General History of the United States. Seattle's pioneers, respecting the Duwamish people who had long inhabited the Elliott Bay area, named the settlers' new land directly after Chief Sealth, which, due to some colloquial miscommunication, eventually became Seattle, the city's name.
And the main attractions, the most popular city sightseeing and entertainment spots include the Seattle Center and the Space Needle, Pike Place Market, Pathfinder Plaza, the famous Nordstorm department store, Starbucks Coffee and so on. Drinking coffee is a natural part of life for the people of Seattle, just like sunshine, air, flowers and water, it is one of the things that naturally exists in everyday life without having to go into details. Nonetheless, when you walk into Seattle, you can't help but fall in love with the streets full of Espresso. From Starbucks Coffee, an international chain, to The Seattle's Best Coffee, named directly after Seattle, to Torrefazione Italia, a raging invasion from Italy, and Tully's Coffee, favored by the Japanese media, the four well-known brands have their own style of espresso in the romantic coffee city of Seattle. In Seattle, the romantic city of coffee, each of these four famous brands has its own style and character, occupying every street, as well as important shopping malls, shopping centers, or airports and stations. In addition, there are also many individual cafes hiding in unknown street corners in various neighborhoods, or Espresso bars that often appear in the streets and alleys. In Seattle, on average, you will see a word like Cafe every 100 meters, and there are so many coffee shops that tourists are dumbfounded by the number of them. For the word Seattle, people can be very comfortable nestled in a cafe to meditate, can hold a small umbrella to casually walk on the street to twist their waist and swing their hips. Seattle has such a deep sense of style that it's up to you to define it.
Orlando:
The United States is dotted with charming small towns, but the most memorable is the small tourist town of Orlando.
It is a famous small city in Central Florida, with a metropolitan population of only 180,000, but receives a total of more than 25 million tourists each year. Here has the world's largest Disneyland with Los Angeles Disney, the launch of the space shuttle, spacecraft and other spacecraft of the U.S. Space Science Center, the largest U.S. territory, "Sea World", and the cost of 1 billion U.S. dollars, the cohesion of sound and light and other high-tech rides of the essence of the "Future World", showing China, the world, the world, the world, the world, the world, the world, the world, the world, the world, the world, the world. World", showing China, Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Norway, Canada, Mexico, Morocco and the former United States of America's architecture and social culture of the "Window on the World".
Disney World in Orlando is a vast amusement park with the latest electric rides and 13.5 million visitors a year. Here there is a full of western style and adventurous big snow mountain flying car, tourists ride on a luxury excursion train, through the primitive west of the wilderness, rushed through the mysterious cave, along the way through the 1849 gold rush town, into a gold mine tunnel, earthquake and landslide came one after another, the tourists shocked, the geyser and suddenly to the high altitude of the spray of water vapor, the scene is spectacular. Disney World, there are classic trains and carriages, Robinson tree house, haunted house of horror, the U.S. Presidential Palace, Mickey Mouse World, Snow White, submarine undersea wonders, 360-degree stereoscopic film, the capsule landed on the moon, strange vitality of the electrical display, the Oriental Airplane roaming the world, Pete's Airships, high-altitude colorful fireworks, and so on, a variety of different colors.
With Disney is the "future world". This is a science fiction-themed amusement center, covering an area of 105 hectares, divided into two parts: Future World and Window of the World. There are six buildings and eight pavilions in Future World: Planet Express, Energy Pavilion, Earth Pavilion, Power World, Fantasy World, Undersea Journey, Computer Wonders and Future World. Visitors take the sightseeing train from the prehistoric era into the 21st century, as if into a group of electron beams, flying through the time tunnel, into outer space, enjoy the joy of traveling in space. Visitors can also take the stage train to arrive at the Flood World and see how fossil fuels are formed, the rumbling sound of a volcanic eruption and the flaming lava that smells like magma, and the electric primitive dinosaurs that have sounds and smells that feel realistic. Fantasy world with high-tech means to show the ever-changing world of light, a variety of optical introduction, is extremely vivid science education.
To Orlando, absolutely can not forget to the famous Cape Canaveral Kennedy Space Center tour. Whenever the space shuttle to launch the eve of liftoff, there will be hundreds of thousands of tourists crowded into this place, camping near the launch base, waiting to witness the launch spectacle. NASA has a visitor center in the Arrival Corridor and the Air Force Space Museum, which displays much of the history of space flight. During the tour program, visitors can see the lunar landing vehicle, various spacecraft and rocket exhibition halls, rocket assembly plants, rocket launch pads, space shuttle launch pads, space charge stations, rocket liftoff simulation rooms, and more. In the face of these great creations of mankind into space, everyone almost can not contain the excitement of the heart, but the "Columbia" shuttle explosion, so that this magnificent space center overshadowed the color of sadness.
Orlando's landscape is stunning. Walking on its streets, you can see everywhere a huge huge Uncle Sam, mermaids, cellos and other shaped light box signs. Colorful luxury tourist hotels, some roofs built rockery, dangerous rocks, some roofs green trees, like gardens, some facades like ancient castles, elegant style, some of the lobby is brilliant, rich in modern grandeur.
The beauty of Orlando, the beauty of its colorful, novelty, dynamic, and that pleasant warmth. Orlando is small, but there is a big world in a small town.