Omaha, Nebraska - Gateway to the West
The largest city in the state of Nebraska, United States, is Omaha, located on the Missouri river. Omaha is also the county seat of Douglas County. In the 1800, Omaha, because of its central location as a transportation hub, received its nickname “Gateway to the West”. Today, Omaha is regarded as one of the top livable cities in the United States. Omaha is the home to five Fortune 500 companies and is regarded as a hi-tech haven too. If you are planning to visit Omaha, or even if you have be read
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Siniša Boljanović had never blogged when he volunteered to report on Serbian blogs for Global Voices in 2007. He read an article about Global Voices in a Serbian online magazine and was so hooked on the idea of contributing, he taught himself to write in English and to use Wordpress for the first time in spite of one additional obstacle: Siniša is blind. Among the topics he has blogged about in the past year are, atrocities of war in his region, the arrest of Radovan Karadžić, human rights, Se read
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