Des Moines
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Des Moines, French for "of the monks", is the capital city of Iowa. In 2009 it had an estimated population of 200,538.[1] As of August 2007, same sex marriage is legal within the city.[2]
The Life and TImes of the Thunderbolt Kid, Bill Bryson's memoir of growing up in Des Moines, was a 2006 bestseller.