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The Hanover Oktoberfest is a fair that takes place every year at the end of September or at the beginning of October. [53] It usually lasts 17 days and features 140 rides and booths, two large beer tents seating more than a thousand people each, and numerous stands, beer gardens and five small beer tents offering food and refreshments.
The Oktoberfest fairground (Theresienwiese) in Munich, aerial view. The Oktoberfest is known as the largest Volksfest (folk festival) in the world. [50] In 1999, there were six and a half million visitors [51] to the 42-hectare Theresienwiese; 72% of visitors are from Bavaria.
Boldt Castle is a major landmark and tourist attraction in the Thousand Islands region of the U.S. state of New York. Open to guests seasonally between mid-May and mid-October, it is located on Heart Island in the Saint Lawrence River. Heart Island is part of the Town of Alexandria, in Jefferson County.
BOSSIER, La. (KTAL/KMSS) — It’s Veteran’s Day on Monday, November 11. Here are all the restaurant deals, discounts, and freebies nationwide. According to Military.com, participating stores ...
In 1875, Thousand Island Park was founded by Rev. J.F. Dayan, as a Methodist summer, Chautauqua-like community. [6] The main purpose was to enable families to secure pleasant lots for cottages or tents where they could spend a portion of the summer in a beautiful, cool, and salubrious place with religious purposes being secondary.
The Thousand Islands archipelago is at the outlet of Lake Ontario at the head of the Saint Lawrence River.The region is bisected by the Canada–United States border and covers portions of Jefferson and St. Lawrence counties in the U.S. state of New York, in addition to parts of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville and Frontenac County in the Canadian province of Ontario.
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Grindstone Island is the fourth largest of the islands in the Thousand Islands region, measuring about 5 miles (8.0 km) long and 3 miles (4.8 km) wide at its widest point. The northern part of the island is near the Canada–United States border. The island is in the western part of the St. Lawrence river valley, and is located between ...