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The Milky Way Galaxy - A spiral galaxy containing between two and four hundred billion stars, one of which is our very own Sun

Oklahoma, USA - This is also the only state in the US to have chosen as its state song the theme from a Broadway musical

Yarmouth Castle, Isle of Wight, UK - This unassuming bastion of defence was the last of the Tudor castles built on the Island

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New Year fireworks over London
Talking Point: 2011
How the blazes was 2010 for you? Will 2011 be even better/worse? It's our reflective/predictive end of/new year Talking Point.
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