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MG Midget
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The MG Midget is a small two-seater sports car that was produced by MG from 1961 to 1979. It revived a name that had used on earlier models such as the MG M-type, MG D-type, MG J-type. The first version announced at the end of June 1961 was essentially a more expensive badge-engineered version of the MkII Austin-Healey Sprite. Many existing MG enthusiast and buyers turned to the Sprite to provide a modern low-cost sports car, mechanically the car was identical to its Austin-Healey counterpart, retaining the rear suspension using quarter-elliptic leaf springs and trailing arms from the Frogeye. The engine was a 948 cc A-Series with twin SU carburettors producing 46 hp at 5500 rpm and 53 lb·ft at 3000 rpm, brakes were 7-inch drums all round. A hard top, heater, radio and luggage rack were available as factory-fitted extras. In October 1962 the engine was increased to 1098 cc, raising the output to 56 hp at 5500 rpm and 62 lb·ft at 3250 rpm, the doors had no external handles or locks and the windows were sliding Perspex side-screens. A heater was an optional extra, production was 16,080 of the small-engined version and 9601 of the 1098. A car with the 948 cc engine was tested by the British magazine The Motor in 1962 and had a top speed of 87.9 mph, a fuel consumption of 40.2 miles per imperial gallon was recorded. The test car cost £689 including taxes on the UK market, externally the main changes were to the doors, which gained wind-up windows, swivelling quarter lights, external handles and separate locks. The windscreen also gained a slight curvature and was retained in a substantial frame. The hood, though modified, continued to have a frame that had to be erected before the cover was put on. The rear springs were replaced by more conventional semi-elliptic types which gave a better ride, the engine block was strengthened and larger main bearings were fitted, increasing the power to 59 hp at 5750 rpm and torque to 65 lb·ft at 3500 rpm. A total of 26,601 were made, the engine now grew to 1275 cc using the development seen on the Mini-Cooper S. Enthusiasts were disappointed that this was a version of the 76 bhp at 5800 rpm Cooper S engine. A reduced compression ratio of 8.8,1 was used instead of the 9.75,1 employed on the Cooper S engine. The detuned engine was used for reasons of model range placement – with the Cooper S spec engine, the hydraulic system gained a separate master cylinder for the clutch. The hood was now attached to the car, with an improved mechanism making it much easier to use
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Tony Stewart
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Anthony Wayne Tony Stewart is an American former professional stock car racing driver and NASCAR team owner. He is a three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion as a driver, in 2011 Stewart had an ownership interest in the team. He won again as an owner with Kevin Harvicks title in 2014, throughout his racing career, Stewart has won racing titles in Indy, midget, sprint, and USAC Silver Crown cars. He is the driver in history to win a championship in both IndyCar and NASCAR. He last competed full-time in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, driving the No.14 Chevrolet SS for his own team, Stewart-Haas Racing, under crew chief Mike Bugarewicz. From 1999 to 2008, he drove the No.20 Joe Gibbs Racing car, while driving for car owner Joe Gibbs, Stewart won two Cup Series championships in 2002 and 2005. In 2011, Stewart became the first owner-driver since Alan Kulwicki to win the Cup Series championship, which ended Jimmie Johnsons streak of consecutive championships at five. Stewart is the driver to win the Cup Series championship under the old points system and the chase playoff format. He is also the first driver in the Cup Series to win the championship by virtue of a tie breaker. The Stewart-Haas owned No.4 car driven by Kevin Harvick won the Cup in 2014, giving Stewart his first win as solely an owner, Stewart was born in Columbus, Indiana, on May 20,1971, attended Columbus North High School and graduated in 1989. Stewart has a younger sister Natalie who has two children, Emma and Will and his father Nelson Stewart is still single but his mother Pamela Marshall remarried when Tony was still in high school. He grew up racing go karts and was very early. Stewart was the USAC Rookie of the Year in 1991, USAC National Midget Series Champion in 1994 and 1995, and USAC Silver Crown Series champion in 1995. In 1995, Stewart became the first driver to win USACs version of the Triple Crown and his winning the Hut Hundred and 4-Crown Nationals were the highlights of the year. When he was not racing IndyCars, he raced stock cars, in 1996, Stewart made his NASCAR Busch Series debut, driving for car owner Harry Rainer. In nine races, he had a best finish of 16th place and he had more success in a one-time ride in the Craftsman Truck Series with Mueller Brothers racing, where he finished 10th. Stewart was poised to improve his Indy Racing League standing in 1997 and he failed to finish the first three races of a ten race schedule, but recovered to come in second at Phoenix. At that years Indy 500, Stewarts car was enough to enable him to win his first IRL race
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Chili Bowl (race)
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The Chili Bowl Midget Nationals is an indoor midget car racing event. It takes place at the Tulsa Expo Center in January, two weeks after Christmas, NASCAR calls it the biggest Midget race of the year. It is nicknamed the Super Bowl of midget racing, the inaugural Chili Bowl is organized by Lanny Edwards and partner Emmett Hahn It was named after a local company who sponsored the first event. The race has hosted at the Tulsa Expo Center since it was founded in 1987. The 1994 event featured a battle for the lead between Jones brothers, P. J. and Page and eventual winner Andy Hillenburg from nearby Broken Arrow. The inaugural 1987 event consisted of 52 midgets competing in the 2-day event, the event now consists of four days of qualifiers for the Saturday night A-main event. One quarter of the drivers compete in each qualifying nights event, each qualifying night has heat races, dash-type events, and a 25 lap feature. Drivers who finish poorly in their event in their qualifying night start deep in final night qualifying events and have to finish high in many events to make the A-main field. A driver who started in the lowest J event would have to high in I, H, G, F, E, D, C. The Top 4 finishers in the qualifying nights feature event plus the top 4 finishers the two Saturday night B-main events progress into the 24 car feature field, the cable channel Speed Channel has televised the event in the United States. The 2008 Saturday night main event was televised on HBO On Demand and it featured a record 286 entries. The National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame uses the event to induct its next class of members, the event is held at the Tulsa Expo Center, the home of The Golden Driller. It accommodates hundreds of cars, bleachers for 15,000 fans. The clay which once covered the adjacent fairgrounds is used for the event, the quarter mile indoor track is not affected by adverse weather or drying from the wind or sun. Drivers in other series who come from a midget car background frequently race in the event. The 2007 competitors included NASCAR drivers Tony Stewart, Justin Allgaier, J. J. Yeley, A. J. J. Foyt IV, Tom Bigelow and Billy Boat, drivers in 2008 came from 29 American states, Canada, and Australia. USAC Triple Crown winner Dave Darland said, Youve got guys all over the world. New Zealand, Australia, NASCAR, NHRA, Indy Cars -- you know, theres just all sorts of different competition there, the A-Main feature is a 55 lap event
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Angell Park Speedway
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Angell Park Speedway has a 1/3 mile dirt racetrack located in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. The track has been run by the fire department since 1903. Racing occurs every Sunday approximately Memorial Day until Labor Day, special racing events and the weather may alter the schedule. The races were sanctioned by the Badger Midget Auto Racing Association, some events are co-sanctioned by the United States Automobile Club. BMARA sanctions several midget car events at other nearby tracks, the World of Outlaws held their first sprint car races at the track in August 2016. In addition to the racetrack, the facility features the National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame, a pavilion, the park was built by the Sun Prairie community on September 18,2007 and was dedicated on October 7,2007. The project was led by Sun Prairie residents Rebecca Ketelson and Anita Holcomb, leathers and Associates was the project architect. The track is known for its midget car races, which began racing in 1936. As of the 2008 season, it is the track in the United States to host weekly midget car races. The track was closed between 1942 and 1945, since all racing in the United States was halted during World War II, night racing at Angell Park began May 29,1949. With the lights installed, Kelly Peters of Lake Forest, IL set fast time, won his heat and captured the first feature race run under the lights. From that point forward, weekly Sunday night racing has been held at the facility except for a few shortened seasons for minor contract disputes in the late 1960s, the Angell Park Speedway board and the sanctioning body BMARA had a fall out before the 2010 season. The track ran its own sanction during May 2010, at the end of the month weekly track operation halted for the 2010 season except for special events. Some midget car drivers come from New Zealand and Australia during their countrys winter to race during the United States summer between May and September, the 2008 season featured Michael Pickens from Auckland, New Zealand and Matt Smith from Newcastle, Australia. Official website BMARA official website list of BMARA champions
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Multi-cylinder engine
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For multiple-cylinder steam engines, see Compound steam engine and Triple-expansion steam engine A multi-cylinder engine is a reciprocating internal combustion engine with multiple cylinders. It can be either a 2-stroke or 4-stroke engine, and can be either Diesel or spark-ignition, the cylinders and the crankshaft which is driven by and co-ordinates the motion of the pistons can be configured in a wide variety of ways. Typically, the more cylinders an engine has, the higher the RPMs it can attain for a displacement and technology level, at a cost of increased friction losses. Peak torque is reduced, but the total horsepower is increased due to the higher RPMs attained. Although there are 1,3 and 5-cylinder engines, almost all other engines are built with even numbers of cylinders. Another form of internal combustion engine is the radial engine. Twin-row or multi-row radials are also built, which is two or more single-row radials connected front-to-back and driving a common crankshaft. In this twin row, or multi-row configuration, the number of cylinders will be an even number. For example, a single row radial such as the Wright Cyclone has 9 cylinders. The twin row Wright Twin Cyclone is based on this engine, configurations of two-cylinder engines include, Straight-twin engine, or parallel twin with two cylinders in parallel sharing a crankshaft. V-twin engine, or V2 engine, two cylinders in V configuration, sharing a crankshaft, flat-twin engine, a flat engine with 2 opposed cylinders on the same crankshaft angled 180° to each other. Configurations of three-cylinder engines include, Straight-three engine, also called the inline-triple, inline-3, or I-3 engine, v3 engine, seen on some two-stroke racing motorcycles. W engine with three cylinders, such as the Anzani 3-cylinder fan engines, configurations of four-cylinder engines include, the most common 4-cylinder engine Inline-four engine, an engine with 4 cylinders in a straight line. V4 engine, an engine with 4 cylinders arranged in a V configuration, flat-four engine, a flat engine with 4 cylinders horizontally opposed to each other at 180° apart. Square four engine, two banks of 2 cylinders, each driving a single crankshaft and geared to an output shaft. Configurations of five-cylinder engines include, Straight-five engine, an engine with 5 cylinders in a straight line, vR5 engine, an engine with 5 cylinders staggered slightly, allowing cylinder bore centerlines to be closer together, reducing overall engine length. Configurations of six-cylinder engines include, V6 engine, a V engine with six cylinders, vR6 engine, a compromise between a V6 and straight-6 engine, shorter than a straight-6 and narrower than a V-6. Straight-six engine, an engine with six cylinders aligned in a straight line, flat-six engine, a flat engine with two banks of 3 cylinders horizontally opposed at 180° apart
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Roll cage
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There are many different roll cage designs depending on the application, hence different racing organizations have differing specifications and regulations. They also help to stiffen the chassis, which is desirable in racing applications, a roll bar is a single bar behind the driver that provides moderate roll-over protection. Due to the lack of a top, some modern convertibles utilize a strong windscreen frame acting as a roll bar. Also, a roll hoop may be placed behind both headrests, which is essentially a roll bar spanning the width of a passengers shoulders. A newer form of protection, pioneered on the Mercedes-Benz R129 in 1989, is deployable roll hoops that are normally hidden within the body of a car. When sensors detect an imminent rollover, the roll hoops quickly extend, cars that have a deployable rollover protection system include the Peugeot 307 CC, Volvo C70, Mercedes-Benz SL500, and Jaguar XK. Roll bars are also used historically on row crop tractors, roll over protection structure Active rollover protection
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Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Tulsa /ˈtʌlsə/ is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 47th-most populous city in the United States. As of July 2015, the population was 403,505 and it is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area, a region with 981,005 residents in the MSA and 1,151,172 in the CSA. The city serves as the county seat of Tulsa County, the most densely populated county in Oklahoma, with urban development extending into Osage, Rogers, Tulsa was settled between 1828 and 1836 by the Lochapoka Band of Creek Native American tribe. For most of the 20th century, the city held the nickname Oil Capital of the World, once heavily dependent on the oil industry, Tulsa experienced economic downturn. Subsequent diversification efforts created a base in the energy, finance, aviation, telecommunications. The Tulsa Port of Catoosa, at the head of the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System, is the most inland port in the U. S. with access to international waterways. Two institutions of education within the city have sports teams at the NCAA Division I level, Oral Roberts University. It is situated on the Arkansas River at the foothills of the Ozark Mountains in northeast Oklahoma, the city has been called one of Americas most livable large cities by Partners for Livable Communities, Forbes, and Relocate America. FDi Magazine in 2009 ranked the city no.8 in the U. S. for cities of the future, in 2012, Tulsa was ranked among the top 50 best cities in the United States by BusinessWeek. People from Tulsa are called Tulsans, the area where Tulsa now exists was considered Indian Territory when it was first formally settled by the Lochapoka and Creek tribes in 1836. They established a settlement under the Creek Council Oak Tree at the present day intersection of Cheyenne Avenue. This area and this tree reminded Chief Tukabahchi and his group of trail of tear survivors of the bend in the river and their previous Creek Council Oak Tree back in the Talisi. They named their new settlement Tallasi, meaning old town in the Creek language, the area around Tulsa was also settled by members of the other so-called Five Civilized Tribes who had relocated to Oklahoma from the Southern United States. Most of modern Tulsa is located in the Creek Nation, with parts located in the Cherokee Nation, although Oklahoma was not yet a state during the Civil War, the Tulsa area did see its share of fighting. The Battle of Chusto-Talasah took place on the side of Tulsa. After the War, the tribes signed Reconstruction treaties with the government that in some cases required substantial land concessions. On January 18,1898, Tulsa was officially incorporated and elected its first mayor, Tulsa was a small town near the banks of the Arkansas River in 1901 when its first oil well, named Sue Bland No. Much of the oil was discovered on land whose mineral rights were owned by members of the Osage Nation under a system of headrights
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Board track racing
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Board track racing was a type of motorsport popular in the United States during the 1910s and 1920s. Competition was conducted on circular or oval race courses with surfaces composed of wooden planks and this type of track was first used for motorcycle competition, wherein they were called motordromes, before being adapted for use by various different types of racing cars. The majority of the American national championship races were contested at venues during the 1920s. Board tracks proliferated in part because they were inexpensive to construct, many of the tracks survived for as little as three years before being abandoned. With the onset of the Great Depression in the early 1930s, the first board track for motor racing was the circular Los Angeles Motordrome, built in 1910 in the area that would later become the citys Playa del Rey district. Based on the technology as European velodromes used for bicycle racing. In some cases, such as the track at Culver City, longer tracks were later built – some up to 2 miles long by 1915 - and lap speeds exceeding 100 miles per hour became commonplace. 5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Racing on these tracks often drew crowds of paying spectators. In 1915, a crowd of 80,000 was reported in Chicago, relatively small and isolated Tacoma had turned out 35,000 to see a race the year before. To attract both competitors and fans, race promoters offered what were considered sensational amounts of prize money - a total purse of $25,000 was not unusual around the time of World War I. After World War I, the Automobile Association of Americas Contest Board resumed and re-organized the National Championship system. From the beginning of the 1920 season to the end of 1931, the AAA sanctioned a total of 123 championship racing events on 24 different race tracks, and 82 of those races were run on wooden surfaces. The first track in Playa del Rey was banked at a 3,1 pitch, according to Pillsbury, a correctly engineered track could be driven without steering input from the driver – the car would steer itself, simply due to the track geometry. The effects of changes were higher cornering speeds and higher G-forces on drivers. Gaston Chevrolet, winner of the 1920 Indianapolis 500, perished that same autumn, on November 25,1920, in a Thanksgiving Day race at Beverly Hills. Even when the cars did not crash, racing on a track was exceedingly dangerous due to flying wood splinters and debris. In one oral history taken from a driver, he told a tale of wooden shards driven into the faces of drivers and riding mechanics, cars were fitted with anti-splinter devices to protect their radiators. Other protective devices hadnt been invented yet, drivers often were ejected from their cars and would fall tens of feet
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Cycle sport
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Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of racing including road bicycle racing, time trialling, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX. Non-racing cycling sports include cycling, cycle polo, freestyle BMX. The Union Cycliste Internationale is the governing body for cycling. The International Human Powered Vehicle Association is the body for human-powered vehicles that imposes far fewer restrictions on their design than does the UCI. The UltraMarathon Cycling Association is the body for many ultra-distance cycling races. Bicycle racing is recognised as an Olympic sport, bicycle races are popular all over the world, especially in Europe. The countries most devoted to bicycle racing include Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, other countries with international standing include Australia, Luxembourg, the United Kingdom and the United States. The first bicycle race is held to have been a 1,200 meter race on the 31 May 1868 at the Parc de Saint-Cloud. It was won by expatriate Englishman James Moore who rode a bicycle with iron tires. The machine is now on display at the museum in Ely, Cambridgeshire, road bicycle racing involve both team and individual competition, and races are contested in various ways. They range from the road race, criterium, and time trial to multi-stage events like the Tour de France. The races typically take place from spring through to autumn, many riders from the northern hemisphere spend the winter in countries such as Australia, to compete or train. The longest one-day road race sanctioned by USA Cycling is Lotoja which covers the 206 miles from Logan, Utah to Jackson, criteriums are races based on circuits typically less than a mile in length and sometimes run for a set time rather than a specific distance. Criteriums are the most popular form of racing in North America. In Belgium, kermesses are popular, single-day events of usually over 120 km, as well as road races in which all riders start simultaneously, individual time trial and team time trial events are also held on road-based courses. Track cycling encompasses races that take place on banked tracks or velodromes, events are quite diverse and can range from individual and team pursuits, two-man sprints, to various group and mass start races. Competitors use track bicycles which do not have brakes or freewheels, cyclo-cross originated as a sport for road racers during the off season, to vary their training during the cold months
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Sun Prairie, Wisconsin
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Sun Prairie is a city in Dane County in the U. S. state of Wisconsin. A suburb of Madison, it is part of the Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area, the citys population was 29,441 at the 2010 U. S. Census. It is the second most populous city in Dane County after Madison, Sun Prairie became widely known for Jimmy the Groundhog when the rodent bit the mayors ear during the citys 2015 Groundhog Day celebration. President Martin Van Buren commissioned a party of 45 men, including Augustus A. Bird, the group of men left Milwaukee on May 26,1837, and traveled for days in the rain. On June 9, the group emerged at the edge of the prairie and with the sun shining for the first time in days, Charles Bird returned to the area two years later and became the first settler. The Town of Sun Prairie was created on February 2,1846, the village of Sun Prairie, which grew from that town, was incorporated in an act of the Wisconsin legislature on March 6,1868. Sun Prairie was incorporated as a city in 1958, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 12.25 square miles, of which,12.23 square miles is land and 0.02 square miles is water. The Yahara River Valley encompasses part of the city of Sun Prairie and this area contains deep glacial deposits created by the last Wisconsin Glaciation. The eastern part of Dane County, known as the drumlin and marsh physiographic area, the deposits found in this area include general glacial deposits and marsh deposits, and consist of many small drumlins interspersed with shallow glacial deposits having poorly defined drainage. The general soils associations in the Sun Prairie area include the Dodge-St. Charles-McHenry, Plano-Ringwood-Griswold, the Dodge-St. Charles-McHenry soils are found in the eastern, southern, and central portions of Sun Prairie. This association has a landscape, which is mostly sloping to sloping with some areas on benches. The Dodge, St. Charles and McHenry soils are gently sloping to mostly sloping, the Sable soils in this association are nearly level and poorly drained. Most of the soils in this association have moderate permeability and an available water capacity. Most also have slight to moderate limitations for urban uses and farming, the landscape of the city consists mostly of gently rolling hills and plains. The elevation of the city averages about 984 feet above sea level. Sun Prairie has, in recent years, developed a number of traditional neighborhood developments, often referred to as new urbanism, these neighborhoods focus on the pedestrian and the appearance of city streets. While these developments have sought to address the problems and concerns associated with suburban development and urban sprawl, many occupy former farmland. In the Köppen climate classification, Sun Prairie is in the warm summer continental climate zone
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Madison, Wisconsin
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Madison is the capital of the U. S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County. As of July 1,2015, Madisons estimated population of 248,951 made it the second largest city in Wisconsin, after Milwaukee, and the 84th largest in the United States. The city forms the core of the United States Census Bureaus Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Dane County and neighboring Iowa, Green, the Madison Metropolitan Statistical Areas 2010 population was 568,593. When the Wisconsin Territory was created in 1836 the territorial legislature convened in Belmont, One of the legislatures tasks was to select a permanent location for the territorys capital. Doty lobbied aggressively for Madison as the new capital, offering buffalo robes to the freezing legislators and he had James Slaughter plat two cities in the area, Madison and The City of Four Lakes, near present-day Middleton. Doty named the city Madison for James Madison, the fourth President of the U. S. who had died on June 28,1836 and he named the streets for the other 39 signers of the U. S. Constitution. Being named for the founding father James Madison, who had just died. The cornerstone for the Wisconsin capitol was laid in 1837, on October 9,1839, Kintzing Prichett registered the plat of Madison at the registrars office of the then-territorial Dane County. Madison was incorporated as a village in 1846, with a population of 626, when Wisconsin became a state in 1848, Madison remained the capital, and the following year it became the site of the University of Wisconsin. The Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad connected to Madison in 1854, Madison incorporated as a city in 1856, with a population of 6,863, leaving the unincorporated remainder as a separate Town of Madison. The original capitol was replaced in 1863 and the capitol burned in 1904. The current capitol was built between 1906 and 1917, during the Civil War, Madison served as a center of the Union Army in Wisconsin. Camp Randall, on the west side of Madison, was built and used as a camp, a military hospital. After the war ended, the Camp Randall site was absorbed into the University of Wisconsin, in 2004 the last vestige of active military training on the site was removed when the stadium renovation replaced a firing range used for ROTC training. The City of Madison continued annexations from the Town of Madison almost from the date of the citys incorporation, Madison is located in the center of Dane County in south-central Wisconsin,77 miles west of Milwaukee and 122 miles northwest of Chicago. The city completely surrounds the smaller Town of Madison, the City of Monona, Madison shares borders with its largest suburb, Sun Prairie, and three other suburbs, Middleton, McFarland and Fitchburg. The citys boundaries also approach the city of Verona, and the villages of Cottage Grove, DeForest, and Waunakee. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 94.03 square miles
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Melbourne
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Melbourne is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania. The name Melbourne refers to an urban agglomeration spanning 9,900 km2, the metropolis is located on the large natural bay of Port Phillip and expands into the hinterlands towards the Dandenong and Macedon mountain ranges, Mornington Peninsula and Yarra Valley. It has a population of 4,641,636 as of 2016, and its inhabitants are called Melburnians. Founded by free settlers from the British Crown colony of Van Diemens Land on 30 August 1835, in what was then the colony of New South Wales, it was incorporated as a Crown settlement in 1837. It was named Melbourne by the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Richard Bourke, in honour of the British Prime Minister of the day, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne. It was officially declared a city by Queen Victoria, to whom Lord Melbourne was close, in 1847, during the Victorian gold rush of the 1850s, it was transformed into one of the worlds largest and wealthiest cities. After the federation of Australia in 1901, it served as the interim seat of government until 1927. It is a financial centre in the Asia-Pacific region. It is recognised as a UNESCO City of Literature and a centre for street art, music. It was the host city of the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 2006 Commonwealth Games, the main passenger airport serving the metropolis and the state is Melbourne Airport, the second busiest in Australia. The Port of Melbourne is Australias busiest seaport for containerised and general cargo, Melbourne has an extensive transport network. The main metropolitan train terminus is Flinders Street Station, and the regional train. Melbourne is also home to Australias most extensive network and has the worlds largest urban tram network. Before the arrival of settlers, humans had occupied the area for an estimated 31,000 to 40,000 years. At the time of European settlement, it was inhabited by under 2000 hunter-gatherers from three indigenous tribes, the Wurundjeri, Boonwurrung and Wathaurong. The area was an important meeting place for the clans of the Kulin nation alliance and it would be 30 years before another settlement was attempted. Batman selected a site on the bank of the Yarra River. Batman then returned to Launceston in Tasmania, in early August 1835 a different group of settlers, including John Pascoe Fawkner, left Launceston on the ship Enterprize
