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NOTES Hanoi Vietnam

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The sign lists "Orange Juice" (NHƯ HUỲNH), "Pho" (NHƯ PHỞ), and "Nail Box" (GỘI ĐẦU NAIL BOX - note: "Gội đầu" means shampoo/hair wash, though the focus here is juice and nails).

CanTho Vietnam - delicious orange juice!

NUMBER

Roman NUMERALS at University of Toronto sundial

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 NORTH NUNARYUAM

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NICKEL Sudbury ON

P.S. the couple we met last week at Little Canada had a personal relationship with the Big Nickel!! E was from Sudbury and the creator was her uncle.

You can read all about it here.

The Big Nickel, as the world's only numismatic coin park, also featured coin monuments other than the 1951 nickel. Some of these coin monuments were the $20 gold coin monument (featuring the Royal Coat of Arms of Canada), the Kennedy half-dollar coin memorial (featuring an eternal flame), the fantasy copper (Canadian one cent 1965) penny, and the Lincoln coin memorial (1965 American penny). There is no public record of the dismantling or current location of these other numismatic monuments, though pictures still exist.

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NEON

NEON so Tom chose NEON too!

Bonus - taken yesterday on Queen St. W.

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NEBRASKA

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NIGHT

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NAMES St. Louis MO

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NOISE Las Vegas NEVADA 

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NOSE  Alex Bacon Mural Toronto ON

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NEWSPAPER

Will Rogers Claremore OK

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Spotted this week at a subway station!

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Toronto ON

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Mackinac Island Michigan

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NOGGIN cannabis and vape shop in Lewisporte NEWFOUNDLAND

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NEWFIE

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Birds on the roof at King's Landing NEW Brunswick

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N_K_D Toronto ON

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NAILS Bakersfield CA

NUMBER Toronto ON

FRINGE BENEFIT

Part of mural above.

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NACOGDOCHES  Texas

Local promotional literature from the Nacogdoches Convention and Visitors Bureau describes Nacogdoches as "The Oldest Town in Texas". Evidence of settlement at the same site dates back to 10,000 years ago. It is near or on the site of Nevantin, the primary village of the Nacogdoche tribe of Caddo Indians.

Nacogdoches remained a Caddo Indian settlement until the early 19th century. In 1716, Spain established a mission there, Misión Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. That was the first European construction in the area. The "town" of Nacogdoches got started after the French had vacated the region (1760s, following the French and Indian War), and Spanish officials decided that maintaining the mission was too costly. In 1772, they ordered all settlers in the area to move to San Antonio. Some were eager to escape the wilderness, but others had to be forced from their homes by soldiers. It was one of the original European settlements in the region, populated by Adaeseños from Fort Los Adaes.

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T-shirt in St. Regis Montana

NUTS

St. Regis Montana

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NEON Boneyard Las Vegas NV

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We'll take a road trip this round.

The Navajo Nation is a American Indian territory covering about 17,544,500 acres, occupying portions of northeastern Arizona, southeastern Utah, and northwestern New Mexico in the United States. This is the largest land area retained by an indigenous tribe in the United States, with a population of 173,667 as of 2010.

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Nayarit is a small state in western Mexico between the forested mountains of the Sierra Madre Occidental and the Pacific Ocean.

Photo taken on bus going from Puerto Vallarta to Guadalajara in 2016.

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Toronto’s sunset to sunrise celebration is the largest contemporary art event in North America. Since it’s inaugural year in 2006, Nuit Blanche has featured more than 1,400 official art installations created by over 4,900 artists and has generated more than $311 million. According to Ipsos Reid, the event attracted more than 1.2 million in 2018, including over 200,000 out of town visitors. In 2020 it had to go virtual due to Covid. 

Photo taken 2018 Dundas Square.

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NEAT and NUNA

Queen St. West Toronto

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Brought to you by the Letter N from the Neon Museum in Las Vegas.

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NAP Toronto ON

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Honolulu Hawaii Chinatown nightclub and art space thirtyninehotel, which opened in August 2004, closed for good in 2014.

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On the border of Arkansas and Texas.

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24 AND 573 - Toronto ON

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Naughty Neighbour by Nickel Brook.

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John's favourite type of beer, dark or negra.

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Photo was taken in Stirling Scotland.

LAST CALL

This one is all thanks to John, I couldn't believe how hard it was to find a pub/hotel/bar starting with the letter N. 

And to end the evening (and sticking with Number) we can have a Newcastle ale in the Nine Fine Irishmen Pub in New York New York Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

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In 1848, nine fervent Irish nationalists-Thomas Francis Meagher, John Mitchel, Patrick O’Donoghue, Terence Bellew McManus, William O’Brien, Charles Gavan Duffy, John Dillon, Thomas D’Arcy McGee, and Richard O’Gorman-valiantly fought for Irish independence. They lost. Later tried, convicted and sentenced to death, the Nine Fine found themselves ripe for political martyrdom-and the British monarchy knew it.

As a result, their death sentences were commuted and most were exiled all the way to Tasmania-not a nice place to visit or live. This is where their epic tale of redemption begins.

Five of the men, Meagher, Mitchel, O’Donoghue, McManus, and O’Brien were forcefully sent to Satan’s vacationland. The sixth, Duffy-who was tried but acquitted due to lack of evidence-voluntarily made the trip to Tasmania. The other three men-Dillon, McGee and O’Gorman-escaped to America.

As I went to D'Arcy McGee High School in Montreal, I have a particular interest in him.

Thomas D'Arcy Etienne Grace Hughes McGee, (13 April 1825 – 7 April 1868) was an Irish-Canadian politician, Catholic spokesman, journalist, poet, and a Father of Canadian Confederation. The young McGee was a Catholic Irishman who opposed British rule of Ireland, and worked for a peasant revolution to overthrow British rule and secure Irish independence. He escaped arrest and fled to the United States in 1848, where he reversed his political beliefs. He became disgusted with American republicanism and democracy, and became intensely conservative in his politics and in his religious support for the Pope. He moved to Canada in 1857 and worked hard to convince the Irish Catholics to cooperate with the Protestant British (members of the church) in forming a Confederation that would make for a strong Canada in close alliance with Britain. His passion for Confederation garnered him the title: 'Canada's first nationalist'. He fought the Fenians in Canada, who were Irish Catholics that opposed the British and resembled his younger self politically. McGee succeeded in helping create the Canadian Confederation in 1867, but was assassinated by Patrick J. Whelan in 1868.