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Lyon is located at the confluence of these two rivers
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Rhône
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Saône
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Famous festival that draws 3-4 million visitors each December to Lyon
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Festival of Lights
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The Lumière brothers invented this, the silver screen, in Lyon
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Cinema
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International police organization that is headquartered in Lyon
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Interpol
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Pan-European news outlet headquartered in Lyon
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Euronews
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It is also the HQ of the "International Agency for Research" on this group of diseases
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Cancer
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Lyon is considered France's capital of this luxury fabric, for its history with it
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Silk
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Roman provincial capital where two Roman emperors were born (located within Lyon)
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Lugdunum
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The above was considered the capital of this region of the Roman Empire
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Gaul
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Name one of those Roman emperors born in modern-day Lyon
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Claudius | Caracalla
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Lyon was also the capital of the kingdom of these Germanic tribes
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Burgundians
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Name of the top men's football club of Lyon
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Olympique Lyonnais
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Video game company that was founded in Lyon in 1983
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Atari
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Most famous basilica in Lyon
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Famous sculptor who made a fountain for Lyon, shortly after completing the Statue of Liberty, and named it after himself
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Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
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Nickname of German Nazi, Klaus Barbie, torturer of prisoners of the Gestapo
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Butcher of Lyon
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In the English-speaking world, Lyon is the chief herald of this country
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Scotland
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