1. Denver Colorado serves as a major hub for United Airlines, is the headquarters for Frontier Airlines, and is the fastest-growing focus city for Southwest Airlines.
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1. Denver Colorado serves as a major hub for United Airlines, is the headquarters for Frontier Airlines, and is the fastest-growing focus city for Southwest Airlines.
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5. In 1972, 1981, and 2008, Denver Colorado played host to the Libertarian Party of the United States National Convention.
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6. Denver Colorado hosted the 2008 Democratic National Convention, which was the centennial of the city's first hosting of the landmark 1908 convention.
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10. Denver Colorado continues to grow its park system with the development of many new parks along the Platte River through the city, and with Central Park and Bluff Lake Nature Center in the Stapleton neighborhood redevelopment.
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11. Denver Colorado owns the mountain on which the Winter Park Resort ski area operates in Grand County, 67 miles west of Denver.
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13. Denver Colorado submitted the winning bid to host the 1976 Winter Olympics but subsequently withdrew, giving it the dubious distinction of being the only city to back out after having won its bid to host the Olympics.
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19. Denver Colorado has numerous art districts around the city, including Denver's Art District on Santa Fe and the River North Art District.
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20. Denver Colorado has many nationally recognized museums, including a new wing for the Denver Art Museum by world-renowned architect Daniel Libeskind, the second largest Performing Arts Center in the nation after Lincoln Center in New York City and bustling neighborhoods such as LoDo, filled with art galleries, restaurants, bars and clubs.
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22. Denver Colorado is in 149th place in terms of the cost of doing business in the United States.
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23. In fact, Denver Colorado has received three of the top 10 costliest hailstorms in United States history, which occurred on July 11, 1990; July 20, 2009; and May 8, 2017 respectively.
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29. Denver Colorado has hosted the Democratic National Convention twice, in 1908 and again in 2008, taking the opportunity to promote the city's status on the national, political, and socioeconomic stage.
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31. Denver Colorado explored a potential bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics, but no bid was submitted.
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32. In 1970, Denver Colorado was selected to host the 1976 Winter Olympics to coincide with Colorado's centennial celebration, but in November 1972, Colorado voters struck down ballot initiatives allocating public funds to pay for the high costs of the games, which were subsequently moved to Innsbruck, Austria.
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33. Denver Colorado is the most populous city within a 500-mile radius and the second-most populous city in the Mountain West after Phoenix, Arizona.
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