Dresden (/ˈdrɛzdən/, German: [ˈdʁeːsdn̩] ⓘ; Upper Saxon: Dräsdn; Upper Sorbian: Drježdźany, pronounced [ˈdʁʲɛʒdʒanɨ]) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and it is the second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth largest by area (after Berlin, Hamburg, and Cologne), and the third most populous city in the area of former East Germany, after Berlin and Leipzig. Dresden's urban area comprises the towns of Freital, Pirna, Radebeul, Meissen, Coswig, Radeberg and Heidenau and has around 790,000 inhabitants.

Elmira was the home of Jervis Langdon, Twain's father-in-law and where Sam Clemens married Olivia Langdon.  Susan Crane, Livy's sister lived at Quarry Farm, just outside of Elmira, where the Clemens family spent most of their summers.  Sam moved his family to Elmira in 1895 after their long residence in Europe.  His last visit to the city was kn April of 1903.

Elmira ollege is the home of the Center for Mark Twain Studies and now owns the Quarry Farm home.  All members of the Clemens and Langdon family are buried at Elmira's Woodlawn Cemetery.

The land on which Everett was founded was surrendered to the United States by its original inhabitants under the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliott. Permanent settlement in the area by European descendants started in 1861 when Dennis Brigham built a cabin on a 160-acre claim on the shore of Port Gardner Bay. Over the next several years a handful of settlers moved to the area, but it wasn't until 1890 that plans for platting a town were conceived.

Freeport the capital of Stephenson County is a thriving town on the Pekatonica River at the junction of the Chicago and Galena the Illinois Central and Western Union Railways 121 miles west of Chicago 51 miles south of Galena and 67 miles from Dunleith. It contains a good hotel several handsome churches and three newspaper offices. Present population estimated 8,600. 

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Giza (/ˈɡiːzə/; sometimes spelled Gizah or Jizah; Coptic: ⲅⲓⲍⲁ Giza; Egyptian Arabic: الجيزة‎‎ el-Gīza), is the third-largest city in Egypt. It is located on the west bank of the Nile, 5 km (3 mi) southwest of central Cairo. Along with Cairo Governorate, Shubra El-Kheima, Helwan, 6th October City and Obour, the five form Greater Cairo metropolis.

Gloucester (/ˈɡlɒstər/) is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, in the United States. It sits on Cape Ann and is a part of Massachusetts's North Shore. The population was 29,729 at the 2020 U.S.

Prior to settlement by Europeans or Americans, the area where the city now sits – at the forks of the Red River and Red Lake River – had been an important meeting and trading point for Native Americans. Early French explorers, fur trappers, and traders called the area Les Grandes Fourches meaning "The Grand Forks". By the 1740s, Les Grandes Fourches was an important trading post for French fur trappers. A U.S. post office was established on the site on June 15, 1870, and the name was changed to "Grand Forks".

Grand Tower is a city in Jackson County, Illinois, United States.