He is in his sixties, and he speaks with old-world charm and an easily-shared enthusiasm for his town.
With the 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics coming to town, Twitter will be quickly over run with Brazilians.
For all its glorious history on the field, including a run of six American League pennants and three World Championships between 1966 and 1983, Baltimore has always been an iffy baseball town at best.
But for the longest sled run in the Alps -- and, reputedly, the world -- head to the Jungfrau region of Switzerland and the touristy town of Grindelwald to hurl yourself 15km down the Big Pintenfritz.
The Cognac organisers, undeterred by the fact that whisky rather than cognac is the usual tipple of screen heroes and villains, invented the world's first thriller film festival to market the drink and the town that shares its name.
In 1997, UNESCO declared the entire town a World Heritage Site, and in 2009, the first boutique hotel, Jing's Residence, opened, mixing ancient and modern styles within a former silk merchant's mansion.
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About 60 oil paintings, murals and sketches gathered together from Moscow, St Petersburg and Paris focus on the eight years Chagall spent in his home town of Vitebsk in Russia during World War 1, the Bolshevik Revolution and its aftermath.
Consider Jamshedpur, the home of Tata Steel and perhaps the world's most successful company town.
The game will kick off a few hours before the start of the "90 Minutes for Mandela" match between an Africa XI and a Rest of the World XI at Cape Town's Newlands Stadium.
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The Chicago district of Pullman was voted the world's most perfect town at the 1896 Prague International Hygienic and Pharmaceutical Exposition.
The Great Lakes chemical corporation, formerly known as Octel, has been in the town for 50 years, and is one of the world's leading producer of certain speciality chemicals for applications like water treatment.
Though the picturesque town of Banff and surrounding Banff National Park beckon with world-class skiing, mineral hot springs and countless other nature activities, it's tempting to stay put in the castle, so numerous and luxurious are its offerings.
There is the best land based whale watching anywhere, and plenty of opportunities to get out on the water, including diving with Great White sharks, something people come from all around the world to do and can easily be done as a day activity in Cape Town (though cage diving remains controversial).
And when Qaddafi and his forces started going city to city, town by town, to brutalize men, women and children, the world refused to stand idly by.
The town calls itself the "Leap Year Capital of the World" and expects 100 or more people with Feb. 29 birthdays to attend its quadrennial Leap Year Day celebration, says Jerry Brown, a pastor and store manager there.
To hear the environmental stalwarts tell the story of the future, natural gas is supposed to be our bridge fuel to a bright new world of renewable energy, with solar panels on every roof and windmills in every town.
And I sometimes use it to talk to people across town or the world.
On the back of the furore surrounding the incident, Fifa met at Cape Town to consider goal-line technology and extra referees at the World Cup.
These clerics who were once rather isolated in their little seminary town are now, they have the whole world open to them, and they have this sort of brain trust there.
Disney has cleverly (or callously depending on how you look at it) moved the action from the small American town of Radiator Springs to countries around the world like England, Italy and Japan as McQueen embarks on an international race.
And the scene out here is any Saturday night in any town in the world, actually.
That means Old Trafford, Anfield and the Emirates Stadium will be in high demand before the Rugby World Cup comes to town.
Under the Dome tells the story of a small New England town that is suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by an enormous transparent dome.
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On this day, 45 years ago, hundreds of brave men and women gathered in the small town of Selma, Alabama to announce to the world that they, too, sang America.
In addition, PNC is currently building the greenest skyrise in the world in steel town, The Tower at PNC Plaza, that will be certified LEED Platinum and is slated to open in 2015.
He somehow managed to get some porno magazines, which the military had forbidden in those days, and later, during the World Cup, he gathered all his savings and bought a color TV, the first one in town.
To see that formula in action, I ride up the road to the town of Hanover, where Hypertherm Inc makes equipment used around the world to cut steel and aluminium.
The Serb, who beat Federer in the final of the world number one's home-town event in Basle on Sunday, looked a little jaded and appeared in trouble at 2-5 in the second set.
While Cars Land shifts California Adventure into the fast lane, only time will tell if it will save the town (as Lightning McQueen did for Radiator Springs) and turn Disneyland into the world-class destination it aspires to be.
Soaked in history and riddled with historic buildings, the university town of Cambridge exudes a dreamy air of Old World sophistication.
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