Cities of the World Educational Posters & Prints “W...-”
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Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River. Fortified settlements from the 9th/10th centuries were built on the site of present day Warsaw.

During WWII Warsaw's entire Jewish population – several hundred thousand or some 30% of the city – were herded into the Warsaw Ghetto, where only a few were able to escape or hide from the Nazis.

Notable people associated with Warsaw include: Frederic Chopin, Marie Curie, Samuel Goldwyn, Tamara de Lempicka, Benoit Mandelbrot, Kacimierz Pulaski, Marie Rambert, Wladyslaw Reymont, Irena Sendler, Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Washington, District of Columbia (DC) is the capital of the United States. It is named in honor of George Washington, the first president of the United States.

It was founded July 16, 1790 as a centrally located permanent national capital, on the north bank of the Potomac River. Washington, DC is a planned city, largely by Pierre Charles L'Enfant who arrived in the colonies as a military engineer with Lafayette during the Revolutionary War. The radical layout consisted of circles, crosscross avenues and plentiful parks, and President George Washington chose the site of the presidental residence.

Notable people associated with Washington, DC: US Presidents, Edward Albee, “Billie” Burke, Will Marion Cook, Duke Ellington, Madame Lillian Evanti, Marvin Gaye, Al Gore, Helen Hayes, Marjory Kinnan Rawlings, Chita Rivera, Jean Toomer, John Philip Sousa, Jack Swigert

• “You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog!” ~ Harry S Truman

• Political Process poster series

Weimar, located in central eastern Germany, was a focal point for the German Enlightenment, the Bauhaus movement, and where Germany's first democratic constitution was signed after WWI.

Famous people associated with Weimar: Johann Sebastian Bach, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Walter Gropius, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johannes Itten, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Friedrich Nietzsche, Oskar Schlemmer, Friedrich Schiller.

Wellington, the capital and third most populous urban area of New Zealand, is situated on the southwestern tip of the country's North Island. Wellington's nearly 400,000 residents live between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range.

European settlement began in 1839-1840 and was named for the Duke of Wellington (title from the English town of Wellington), the victor of the 1815 Battle of Waterloo.

Notable people associated with Wellington include Russell Crowe, Jane Campion, Anna Paquine, and Katharine Mansfield.

Windhoek is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Namibia.

Around 1840 a settlement was established, and called Windhoek, by clan known as the Orlam Afrikaners, which consisted of mixed-race descendants from indigenous Africans and slaves from Madagascar, India, and Indonesia.

Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, located at the confluence of the Red River of the North and Assiniboine River, commonly known as “the Forks”. The name is from the Cree language for “muddy waters”.

The Winnipeg area was a trading centre for Aboriginal peoples prior to the arrival of Europeans. The first fort was built there in 1738 by French traders to take advantage of the traditional Native American trading grounds.

Notable people associated with Winnipeg include Métis leader Louis Riel.

Worms, on the Rhine River, is one of the oldest, if not the oldest city, in Germany.

A settlement has existed at the site of Worms since before the Romans built fortifications with a street plan, forum and temples. FYI - the temple to Minerva became the foundation of the cathedral which was destroyed by intense bombing by Allied forces at the end of WWII.

In 1521 a meeting at Worms resulted in the Edict of Worms which condemned the theologian Martin Luther for refusing to recant his religious beliefs.

Notable people associated with Worms include Hanya Holm.

Most Ancient European Towns Network: Argos, Beziers, Cadiz, Colchester, Cork, Evora, Maastricht, Roskilde, Tongeren, Worms.

Wuhan, the most populous city in Central China, lies on the Yangtze River. With a 2010 population of nearly ten million, Wuhan is a political, economic, financial, cultural, educational and transportation center, sometimes referred to as the “Chicago of China”.

In 1911, Sun Yat-sen's followers launched the Wuchang (one the three cities that joined to form Wuhan) Uprising that led to the collapse of the Qing Dynasty.

Würzburg, located on the Main River, was a center of the German Peasants' War (1524-1526) and all of the churches, cathedrals, and other monuments were heavily damaged or destroyed in a bombing firestorm near the end of WWII.

Notable people associated with Würzburg include Waither von der Vogelweide, Albertus Magnus, Mathias Grunewald, Lilli Lehmann, Rilman Riemenschneider, Balthasar Neumann, Wilhelm Röntgen, Werner Heisenberg.