The City Presents: Except for few wide avenues, the city presents a netwo of narrow winding streets. The houses are brick with roofs of red tiles; the older buil ings reflect architectural influences from Russ The city has adequate hotels, many garages, large jute mill, and many smaller industrii Most of the city people speak modern Persia but Gilaki, a local dialect, is widely used in t vicinity.
Selzach, a suburb of Solothurn, presents a quadrennial Passion Pky (1956, 1960, etc.).
2. Folk Pageantry Zurich, the biggest Swiss city, stages the biggest event of folk pageantry. It is called the Sechselauten (literally "Six O'clock Ringing") and occurs about the 20th of April. It really is the city's salute to spring, and as such it includes a guild parade, a children's parade, and, as climax, the Burning of the Boogg, who is Old Man Winter, mourned by none except skiing enthusiasts. A clangor of bells and bursts of fire¬works add their touches of excitement to the general hilarity.See Also Largest City:The population in 1966 was 5,780,845. The capital is Quebec (1966 population, 166,984; metropolitan area, 413,397). The largest city is Montreal (city, 1,222,255; metropolitan area, 2,436,817), which is (after Paris) the world's largest French-speaking city. Other important cities are Ville de Laval (196,088), Verdun (76,832), Sherbrooke (75,690), St. Michel (71,446), Hull (60,176), St.-Laurent (59,749), and Trois-Rivieres (57,540). The name Quebec is derived from that of Quebec City, having been extended from the city to the province in 1867, when the Canadian Confederation was formed.
The average annual rainfall approximately 32 inches.third largest city in the state, Rochester : center of a metropolitan area which includes Monroe County and which has a population 9) of 582,983. Variously known as the ver City, the Kodak City, and the Home of uality Products, it is also the commercial hub if the rich agricultural Genesee country, so that Rochester's service area has a total of approxi-aately a million people.
On The Other Hand See Viva City:No one remem¬bered Chips, the monotonous young pedagogue, or even Chips, the husband of the beautiful, viva city¬cious Kathie, who died two years after they were married. When World War I began, he was known as a kindly, eccentric former master with a joke for every occasion. The novel ends 15 years after the war, with the aged Chips having one of the new boys to tea. Chips dies in his sleep diat night.
QUEZALTENANGO, ka-sal-ta-nan'go, Guatemala, city, capital of a department of the same name, the second city of the republic in size and in importance, 80 miles west of Guate¬mala City, at an altitude of 7,500 feet above sea level. It has a considerable domestic trade and manufactures of cotton and woolen textiles. A railway about 50 miles long connects Quezal-tenango with Champerico on the Pacific coast. The city was founded in 1524 by Spaniards, on the site of a native city; there are numerous interesting antiquities in the neighborhood. An earthquake destroyed the town in 1902, but it was rebuilt. Pop. 30,125.
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