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Where is the smallest park by area?
Technically Mill Ends Park in Portland, Oregon, USA. It is a circle 2 feet (0.6 m) across. It was named an official city park in 1976, and is operated by Portland Parks & Recreation.
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Can someone please tell me if this flight ticket is actually genuine
This boarding pass is fake. Many details are off, but the most glaring red flag is that flight UA2704 last flew on August 31st from Philadephia to Chicago. It did not fly on September 27th, and it ...
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Longest uninhabited road segments
There are some very remote roads in northern Quebec.
The James Bay Road (Route de la Baie James) is one option.
Located in northeastern Canada, in the province of Quebec, the James Bay Road runs ...
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Can someone please tell me if this flight ticket is actually genuine
It’s a decent fake, but still relatively obvious to anybody who knows what to look for.
First and foremost, the story is impossible. If the individual could not fly due to COVID, they would not have ...
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Longest uninhabited road segments
A good contender should be Russian Р-297 Amur, from Chita to the Svobodnyi fork. It's 1400 km of road accompanied by Transsib, but it is barely inhabited and barely traversable. Maybe it got better in ...
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Where is the smallest park by area?
I nominate Tjoffsans Tivoli in Malmö, Sweden. It is an amusement park for mice (also known as amousement park) created by Anonymouse MMX. It's not owned by any government, but it's public and maybe it ...
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Can someone please tell me if this flight ticket is actually genuine
A fake, but a decent one. It's likely a photo of real boarding pass with some details photo-shopped.
Some pointers here
Typically international itineraries have INTL in big letters printed on the top ...
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Longest uninhabited road segments
On questions where all answers are nearly equally good it is hard to pick the "winner" for the "accept". So, I'm accepting the most upvoted answer.
Also, as I promised, here is a ...
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Longest uninhabited road segments
There are some roads in northern Saskatchewan that would be in the same league as well. SK 905 from Sucker River to Points North Landing, SK is 433 km of gravel with no towns en route, although there ...
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Longest uninhabited road segments
National Route 40 (Argentina)
It's 5.194 km long, it's highest point is at 5.000 m and the lowest at sea level
I don't know exactly the longest uninhabited sections, but traveling south from Perito ...
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Longest uninhabited road segments
To reach the community of Kwadacha/Ware, British Columbia, Canada, one must drive nearly 450 km. Although that's not a huge distance, it's all on poorly maintained logging roads. Openstreetmap ...
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Can someone please tell me if this flight ticket is actually genuine
To add to the previous answers, which analyze the details on the pass itself:
Based on the story you provide, this is fake. A boarding pass can be issued in two ways:
If the passenger uses online ...
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Where is the smallest park by area?
The other answers show non-official parks or "novelty" parks that you cannot actually fit a person into.
Hence, I nominate Jack Early Park, San Francisco, CA. It has a flight of stairs leading up to ...
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Where is the smallest park by area?
Of course, in Japan everything is smaller. This one is 0.25 square metres, complete with bench. However, it's not technically a park, but a road feature, so it doesn't qualify for the Guinness Book of ...
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Longest uninhabited road segments
Happy Valley-Goose Bay, or Labrador City. Two years ago I planned a drive (by car -- still crazy) for a team of people from Montreal, Canada to Happy Valley-Goose Bay (Canada). There is a barren ...
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Cheapest destination for a white Christmas starting from Sydney?
Snow and ice can be found all year round in New Zealand:
The Fox glacier is a year round ice spectacular and one of the must do when visiting the South Island of New Zealand. Snow falls at the very ...
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Longest uninhabited road segments
How about Fairbanks to Prudhoe bay including all 666km of the Dalton Highway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_Highway
It doesn't quite qualify as "uninhabited" as it has three towns along the ...
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Where is the smallest park by area?
While not the smallest park in the world, the smallest park in the UK is Prince's Park in Burntwood, Staffordshire.
Photo © Geoff Pick via Wikipedia Commons, CC-BY-SA
Google Street View link
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Longest uninhabited road segments
The U.K. can’t compete with countries like Canada, Russia etc in terms of scale, however the North Coast 500 - a 500 mile route around the north coast of Scotland - has been named one of the top ...
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What's my travel style?
This question is rather vague, but it sounds like you enjoy experiential travel, where you visit a place and try to involve yourself in local experiences. For me, that tends to produce greater lasting ...
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Are US citizens allowed to fly anywhere outside the 50 states without a passport?
US, Canadian, and Mexican citizens can fly between the US and Canada on their NEXUS card. http://www.nexus.gc.ca/prog/nexus/menu-eng.html
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Snowfall at sea level closest to the equator?
Taiwan in January 2016 received snow near sea level, at 300-400 meters altitude, during the historical cold wave of that month. It is at 23°N.
Hanoi futher south but slightly inland, also got snow in ...
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Where is the smallest park by area?
I nominate the small corner lot at North Pacific Avenue and Mission Street, Santa Cruz, California. I concede it is not named as a "Park," and doesn't appear in the City's list of parks, but it is ...
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Where is the smallest park by area?
I bet that the Heemskerk Lunet 10 does make a good chance as the smallest 'national park like' park, as it is a rather small bit of ground owned by Noordhollands Landschap.
Here is a link to it on ...
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France is not the main destination for my trip; could it be a reason of rejection for Schengen visa?
It's not up to you to combine the two trips and apply for a single visa for both, what you are supposed to do is to apply for a visa for the first trip from the Dutch consulate and, after your return, ...
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Are US citizens allowed to fly anywhere outside the 50 states without a passport?
US and Canadian citizens can use a NEXUS card to fly between the US and Canada.
In addition, a few Caribbean countries (such as St Lucia and - for Canadians - Bonaire/St Eustatius/Saba) let these ...
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Is there just one "Exit immigration" or do I choose a line/booth depending on my destination?
At the airport I use the queue is divided into 'Selected passports' and 'All passports'. And as far as I remember the 'selected passports' used to be Schengen countries only but is now wider and uses ...
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COVID-19 find out what destinations a particular airline is serving
Flightradar can give you good historic information about flight history. From there you can see if the airline has stopped some flights or is running a reduced service.
The most reliable source is, ...
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Where can I visit something similar to Kowloon Walled City?
I guess that the place that can better fit in the kind of experience you are looking for are the cage houses in Mong Kok
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