Did You Know About Shimonoseki City?

Shimonoseki is a city on the island of Honshu in Yamaguchi district in the southern part.

Shimonoseki produce a lot of fish and also a city of industry (machinery, steel) which has a close relationship with the major industrial city of Kitakyushu in the northern tip of the island of Kyushu.

Shimonoseki city is also a historic city. In 1863 bombed by American ships, France, Britain, the Netherlands, to be opened as an international trading port.

In this city also signed a peace treaty that ended August 17, 1895 Japan-China war.

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How did Tombstone get its name?

Located in Cochise County in southern Arizona, the city of Tombstone is probably the most famous and most glamorized mining town in all of North America. According to legend, prospectors Ed Schieffelin and his brother Al were warned not to venture into the Apache-inhabited Mule Mountains because they would only "find their tombstones." Thus, with a touch of the macabre, the Schieffelins named their first silver strike claim Tombstone, and it became the name of the town.

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Is Los Angeles moving?

Using satellite-surveying techniques, scientists have determined that Los Angeles, California is moving east. At a rate estimated to be about one-fifth of an inch per year, the city is moving closer to the San Gabriel Mountains.

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