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• This is Paris
  Paris
  
  Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
   (1959
  1959 in literature
  
  The year 1959 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
  ) (republished 2004)
• This is London
  London
  
  London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
   (1959) (republished 2004)
• This is Rome
  Rome
  
  Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
   (1960
  1960 in literature
  
  The year 1960 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
  ) (scheduled to be republished 2007)
• This is New York
  New York City
  
  The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
   (1960) (republished 2003)
• This is Edinburgh
  Edinburgh
  
  Edinburgh ; is the Capital city of Scotland, a position it has held since 1437. It is the seventh largest city in the United Kingdom and the second largest Scottish City status in the United Kingdom after Glasgow....
   (1961
  1961 in literature
  
  The year 1961 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
  ) (republished 2006)
• This is Munich
  Munich
  
  Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
   (1961)
• This is Venice
  Venice
  
  Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
   (1961) (republished 2005)
• This is San Francisco
  San Francisco, California
  
  The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States, with a 2007 estimated population of 799,183....
   (1962
  1962 in literature
  
  The year 1962 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
  ) (republished 2003)
• This is Israel
  Israel
  
  Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
   (1962)
• This is Cape Canaveral
  Cape Canaveral
  
  Cape Canaveral, from the Spanish language Cabo Ca?averal, is a headlands and bays in Brevard County, Florida, United States, near the center of that state's Atlantic Ocean coast 45 minutes East of Orlando by car....
   (1963
  1963 in literature
  
  The year 1963 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
  ) (later republished as This is Cape Kennedy)
• This is Ireland
  Ireland
  
  Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
   (1964
  1964 in literature
  
  The year 1964 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
  ) (republished 2005)
• This is Hong Kong
  Hong Kong
  
  Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....
   (1965
  1965 in literature
  
  The year 1965 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
  ) (scheduled to be republished 2007)
• This is Greece
  Greece
  
  Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
   (1966
  1966 in literature
  
  The year 1966 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
  )
• This is Texas
  Texas
  
  Texas is a U.S. state located in the South Central United States, nicknamed the Lone Star State. Texas is the second largest U.S. state in both area and population, spanning , and with a growing population of 24.3 million residents....
   (1967
  1967 in literature
  
  The year 1967 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
  ) (republished 2006)
• This is the United Nations
  United Nations
  
  The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
   (1968
  1968 in literature
  
  The year 1968 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
  )
• This is Washington, D.C.
  Washington, D.C.
  
  Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
   (1969
  1969 in literature
  
  The year 1969 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
  )
• This is Australia
  Australia
  
  Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
   (1970
  1970 in literature
  
  The year 1970 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
  )
• This is Historic Britain
  History of the British Isles
  
  The history of the British Isles has witnessed intermittent periods of competition and cooperation between the people that occupy the various parts of Great Britain, Ireland, and the smaller adjacent islands, which together make up the British Isles, as well as with France, Germany, the Low Countries, Denmark, Scandinavia, etc....
   (1974
  1974 in literature
  
  The year 1974 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
  )

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