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Watertown Arsenal

Map showing key locations and events related to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing in the Boston, Cambridge, and Watertown areas of Massachusetts. Numbered markers indicate where the two explosions occurred near the marathon finish line, the fatal shooting of an MIT police officer, a carjacking, a carjacking victim's escape, the death of one suspect after a firefight, and the capture of the second suspect in Watertown. Major roads, the Charles River, and landmarks such as the Massachusetts Institu

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Tower Bridge over the Thames River in London, England. Opened in 1894. Remains an Important Traffic Route with 40,000 Crossings Every Day.

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