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It Happened Here brings a city's past to life by providing descriptions of the most interesting events that have taken place at or near a user's location. The initial cities offered are New York, NY, Los Angeles, CA, San Francisco, CA, Boston, MA, Chicago, IL, Philadelphia, PA, New Orleans, LA, London, UK, Washington, DC and Dallas, TX.
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Hundreds of events are presented in list or map view by distance from your current location. Hundreds more are excluded for not being interesting enough. We don't clutter up the app with unedited user-generated content or unfiltered feeds -- all events are manually researched and written by us.
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Customizable settings allow you to surface only highly rated events from some categories, while surfacing all events from other favorite categories.
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Descriptions of the events are concise for easy consumption on a mobile device.
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Links to Web sites that provide more information about the event are always provided should you want to learn more about any given event.
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In most cases, photos related to the event are provided.
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Share your local knowledge by submitting your own event for editorial review, leaving comments about an event, or providing a 1-5 star rating.
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Seamlessly share your presence at an interesting location via Twitter or Facebook.
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Sample: "I'm at the place where "Deep Throat" and Washington Post reporters held secret 2:00 a.m. meetings per ItHappenedHere.com"