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Post by lugg on Oct 4, 2019 18:27:01 GMT
Looe - beautiful town in Cornwall a favourite holiday destination for many.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 4, 2019 20:22:44 GMT
The Loop - central business district of Chicago
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Post by mossie on Oct 5, 2019 8:16:43 GMT
Waterloo - little place in Belgium where Napoleon met his comeuppance
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Post by whatagain on Oct 5, 2019 10:09:02 GMT
Do we accept Waterloo when I used it 5 posts ago ? 😇Tertre - not the place in paris but next to where I got married.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 6, 2019 22:08:14 GMT
Do we accept Waterloo when I used it 5 posts ago ? That happens from time to time. It is probably not a punishable offence. Tremé - neighbourhood of New Orleans
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Post by mossie on Oct 7, 2019 7:23:37 GMT
Sorry, I blame my age, memory is a distant dream,
Bremen - major German port
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Post by whatagain on Oct 7, 2019 7:53:24 GMT
Srebrenica. Probably a nice place that joined the long list of places that sum up slaughter.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 7, 2019 10:58:40 GMT
Rennes - city in Brittany
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Post by bjd on Oct 7, 2019 15:18:20 GMT
Enniskillen Town in northern Ireland
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Post by whatagain on Oct 7, 2019 18:08:00 GMT
I knew it sounded ´familiar'. It is home to the inniskillings regiments which fought everywhere.
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Post by whatagain on Oct 7, 2019 18:12:21 GMT
Boulogne Billancourt. Somewhere close to paris.
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Post by lugg on Oct 7, 2019 19:05:41 GMT
Billericay--town in the Borough of Basildon,Essex, UK. The town of Billerica, Massachusetts was established in 1655 by colonists from Billericay and named after their home town in England. ( according to Wiki)
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 7, 2019 20:21:39 GMT
Cayman Islands - Caribbean fiscal paradise. I have actually been there, but not to go to a bank.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 8, 2019 3:07:27 GMT
Manistee -- small city at the mouth of the Manistee River on Lake Michigan, it is the county seat of Manistee County, Michigan
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 8, 2019 4:27:59 GMT
Istanbul - largest city in Turkey
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 8, 2019 5:11:39 GMT
Pakistan -- world's 6th most populous country
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 8, 2019 11:40:55 GMT
Kissimmee (Florida) - town right next to Orlando with tons of motels
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Post by bjd on Oct 9, 2019 5:19:37 GMT
Kisangani city in the DR Congo
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 9, 2019 5:44:21 GMT
Sangatte - location of the first big refugee camp next to Calais
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Post by whatagain on Oct 9, 2019 16:45:29 GMT
Isandlwana where stubborn British soldiers refused to die.
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Post by bjd on Oct 9, 2019 18:20:42 GMT
Gondwana supercontinent that existed from the Neoproterozoic until the Jurassic.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 9, 2019 20:51:42 GMT
London - city which once elected Boris Johnson as mayor
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Post by whatagain on Oct 9, 2019 21:04:01 GMT
Pondicherry. Once a french enclave close madras now Chennai.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 9, 2019 23:23:06 GMT
Cherry Hill -- township in Camden County, NJ
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 10, 2019 4:50:56 GMT
La Roche-sur-Yon - city in western France designed in a pentagonal shape by Napoléon
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 10, 2019 5:38:43 GMT
Rochester -- city on Lake Ontario in the state of New York
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Post by whatagain on Oct 10, 2019 7:09:49 GMT
Terril. Not a specific place but a landmark made by len frim residues of coal from a coal mine they became artificial hills . Now protected by some as they are testament to our glorious past. Do exist in france but they (incorrectly) pronounce the L.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 10, 2019 14:09:00 GMT
When teaching French, my mother used the "Lucifer" system -- when a noun ends in L - C - F - R, you almost always pronounce the letter. If you want to speak French properly.
Fort Sumter - where the first shots of the American Civil War were fired
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Post by whatagain on Oct 10, 2019 16:53:06 GMT
Port au Prince. Capital if Haïti.
Did your mother pronounce the l in fusil ? But I do in babil.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 10, 2019 17:47:02 GMT
Princeton -- municipality in NJ founded before the Revolutionary War, known as the home of Princeton University
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