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« Reply #2670 on Jun 17, 2011, 6:46pm » | ![[Quote]](http://images.proboards.com/buttons/quote.gif "[Quote]") |
Mostar (Bosnia-Herzegovina) - the largest and most important city in Herzegovina. The destruction of the bridge of Mostar was one of the most symbolic events of the recent Balkan wars (1993), and its reconstruction was of huge symbolic importance.
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« Reply #2671 on Jun 18, 2011, 8:22pm » | |
Tarentaise -- one of the six valleys of Savoy
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« Reply #2672 on Jun 19, 2011, 5:46pm » | |
Barents Sea (Norway, Russia) -- part of the Arctic Ocean and a repository of fossil fuel.
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« Reply #2673 on Jun 19, 2011, 9:13pm » | |
The Irish Sea - predictably that stormy strip of water dividing Ireland from England with the Isle of Man somewhere near the middle.
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« Reply #2674 on Jun 20, 2011, 6:50pm » | |
Ris Orangis (France) -- an ugly suburb south of Paris. The first town to elect a mayor in 1790.
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« Reply #2675 on Jun 20, 2011, 11:36pm » | |
Rangiroa, French Polynesia
Part of the Palliser group, it is the largest atoll in the Tuamotus and one of the largest in the world.
The atoll of Rangiroa is also known for it vineyards, which are unique in the world. The vines grow on the edge of a lagoon beside coconuts, and produce two harvests per year.
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« Reply #2676 on Jul 2, 2011, 11:38pm » | |
Gironde, the French département of which Bordeaux is the préfecture. Gironde is the largest département of metropolitan France (but only #2 after French Guiana, which has the particularity of making France a country that shares borders with Brazil and Surinam, which extremely few people -- including the French -- realize).
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« Reply #2677 on Jul 3, 2011, 11:02pm » | |
Rondebosch -- one of the southern suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa, it is home to the main campus of the University of Cape Town.
In 1657, the first group of Dutch East India Company employees gained "free burgher" (free citizen) status and were granted land along the river in the area now known as Rondebosch.
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« Reply #2678 on Jul 9, 2011, 8:26pm » | |
Schifflange - LU
southern Luxembourg town
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« Reply #2679 on Jul 10, 2011, 2:55am » | |
Languedoc --
Languedoc was a former province of France, now continued in the modern-day régions of Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées in the south of France, and whose capital city was Toulouse, now in Midi-Pyrénées. It had an area of approximately 42,700 km² (16,490 sq. miles).
Historically, the region was called the county of Toulouse, a county independent from the kings of France. The county of Toulouse was made up of what would later be called Languedoc, but it also included the province of Quercy (now département of Lot and northern half of the département of Tarn-et-Garonne) and the province of Rouergue (now département of Aveyron), both to the northwest of Languedoc.
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« Reply #2680 on Jul 11, 2011, 8:48pm » | |
Anguilla
British overseas territory of the Caribbean, part of the British Leeward Islands, population 13,600. Anyport received an internet visit from Anguilla on April 25, 2011.
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« Reply #2681 on Jul 12, 2011, 3:25am » | |
Anglesey - Island off the coast of North Wales. Used to vacation there as a kid.
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« Reply #2682 on Jul 12, 2011, 4:17am » | |
Seychelles - Indian Ocean republic and archipelago of 115 islands. It has the smallest population of any African country.
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« Reply #2683 on Jul 12, 2011, 7:28pm » | |
Ellis Island is known best as the historical gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States. This site was the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 to 1954. The island was greatly expanded with landfill between 1892 and 1934. Before that, the much smaller original island was the site of Fort Gibson and later a naval magazine. It became part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument in 1965, and since 1990, hosts a museum of immigration run by the National Park Service. A 1998 United States Supreme Court decision found most of the island to be part of New Jersey.
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« Reply #2684 on Jul 12, 2011, 8:22pm » | |
Lisbon - capital of Portugal. The city is older than Paris, London or Rome.
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« Reply #2685 on Jul 12, 2011, 11:19pm » | |
Bonneville Salt Flats is a densely-packed salt pan of 40 square miles (104 km²) in northwestern Utah that is a remnant of the Pleistocene Lake Bonneville. It is part of the Great Salt Lake Desert.
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« Reply #2686 on Jul 13, 2011, 8:51am » | |
Diller (Nebraska, USA)
From the fabulous Diller website:
WELCOME to the Community of Diller, Nebraska. Diller is a small village located in Jefferson County in Southeast, Nebraska. With a population of about 300, we feel that Diller has a lot to offer for a small community. From our school to our to our fine businesses not to mention the friendly people, we feel that Diller is a great place to raise a family.
We will remain mystified by the missing item between "school" and "businesses", if it exists.
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« Reply #2687 on Jul 13, 2011, 3:56pm » | |
Dillon, Montana began its early days as an important shipping point from Utah to the gold fields of Montana. The Utah and Northern Railroad reached Dillon in the fall of 1880, but the town was named for the president of the Union Pacific Railroad, Sidney V. Dillon. The rich agriculturally valley was a welcomed place for Sheep ranching that was introduced in 1869. At one time Dillon was the largest wool shipping point in Montana. The first cattle were brought to the valley in 1865 and they, too, have played a major role in Dillon's development. The area was central to early Montana mining camps and settlements. Bannack, Montana's first territorial capital and now a well-preserved ghost town, is nearby.
Today, Dillon has a population of about 4,000 people.
(Funny they forget to mention the University of Montana - Western campus in this promotional blurb)
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« Reply #2688 on Jul 14, 2011, 1:45am » | |
Jul 13, 2011, 8:51am, kerouac2 wrote:| From our school to our to our fine businesses |
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The reason they mention the school as first & most important is because that's where the diller-a-dollar, a 10 o'clock scholar received his education.
Fillongley, England -- village in the North Warwickshire district of the county of Warwickshire.
Isaac Pearson, the uncle of the Victorian novelist George Eliot, is buried in the graveyard of the 12th century church there.
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« Reply #2689 on Jul 16, 2011, 8:42pm » | |
Glendale (California, USA)
A suburb of Los Angeles, home of the famous Forest Lawn Cemetery where countless Hollywood celebrites are buried and also home to lots of poker clubs where countless Hollywood celebrites lose vast amounts of money.
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« Reply #2690 on Jul 17, 2011, 12:29am » | |
Lendava (Slovenia)
Town & municipality near the border crossing with Hungary at the extreme northeastern end of Slovenia.
Lendava was a district in the Kingdom of Hungary until 1918. It was returned to Hungary again from 1941 to 1945. Today it is the center of the Hungarian minority in Slovenia and Hungarian is one of the official languages of the municipality, along with Slovene.
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« Reply #2691 on Jul 17, 2011, 4:51pm » | |
Davos, Switzerland, of skiing fame, and one of Europe's oldest resorts.
Originally Davos was a health resort. Its high altitude and long hours of sunshine eased the suffering of tuberculosis patients from around the world. Robert Louis Stevenson completed Treasure Island while resident at a Davos sanatorium in 1882 and Thomas Mann, the great German writer and Nobel Prize winner in Literature in 1929, spent time in Davos in 1911 where his wife was in a sanatorium. His stay inspired him to write his novel The Magic Mountain, which was published in 1924.
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« Reply #2692 on Jul 17, 2011, 8:19pm » | |
Vosges (France) - mountain chain that separates Alsace from Lorraine, and also the name of one of the 100 French départements (counties). My grandmother hailed from the Vosges and told of being forced to speak French in school rather than the Vosges dialect, which has now pretty much died out. I know how to say blueberry, church and fingernail in Vosgian, so I guess it is not very useful.
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« Reply #2693 on Jul 18, 2011, 1:59am » | |
Vostok Station (within the Australian Antarctic Territory)
Russian Antarctic research station. It is at the southern Pole of Cold, with the lowest reliably measured natural temperature on Earth of −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F). Research includes ice core drilling and magnetometry.
Vostok is located near the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility and the South Geomagnetic Pole, making it one of the optimal places to observe changes in the Earth's magnetosphere. Other studies include actinometry, geophysics, medicine and climatology.
Pretty interesting! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_Station
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« Reply #2694 on Jul 21, 2011, 5:37am » | |
Tokyo (Japan) -- literally "Eastern Capital." Population 13,000,000.
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« Reply #2695 on Aug 5, 2011, 4:27pm » | |
Kyoto - (Japan) City in the centre of the island of Honshu. Formerly the imperial capital of Japan.
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« Reply #2696 on Aug 5, 2011, 5:28pm » | |
Motown -- nickname of Detroit, Michigan, former automobile (motor) capital of the world.
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« Reply #2697 on Aug 23, 2011, 2:43am » | |
Kumamoto, Japan, sister city to Missoula, Montana.
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« Reply #2698 on Aug 23, 2011, 6:43am » | |
Mammoth, ski resort in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California
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« Reply #2699 on Aug 25, 2011, 4:32am » | |
Gotham -- nickname of New York City, New York, USA
Origins of "Gotham":
Gotham is Anglo-Saxon for “goat-town” and the name was originally held by a village in England’s Nottinghamshire. The legend goes that in the 1200’s King John wanted to build a castle near the village of Gotham. However the villagers did not want the King’s retinue living so close by – nor did they want to pay the increased taxes that the castle would call for. So to deter King John the residents decided to act insane. Their tactics worked and King John left the village alone. In 1550 the tales of these villagers’ antics was published in the book The Merrie Tales of the Mad Men of Gotham, establishing Gotham as a place of deception, lunacy, and twisted cleverness.
The name Gotham was first applied to New York City on February 13, 1807 by Washington Irving. the Irving wrote a letter in a magazine describing New Yorkers as 'the good citizens of the wonder loving city of Gotham', noting that 'One of the most tickling, dear, mischievous pleasures of this life is to laugh in one's sleeve - to sit snug in a corner unnoticed and unknown and hear the wise men of Gotham”. It is presumed that Irving viewed the citizens of New York as wise fools similar to the citizens of the English Gotham.
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