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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 20, 2020 15:17:03 GMT
Nashville - Country music and no fields.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 20, 2020 23:34:11 GMT
Asheville -- largest city in western North Carolina
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Post by bjd on Apr 21, 2020 6:05:38 GMT
Villepinte Suburban town near Paris in the area with lots of problems
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 21, 2020 6:08:32 GMT
Aleppo - second largest city of Syria, with more problems than Villepinte
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Post by whatagain on Apr 21, 2020 6:53:49 GMT
Alexandrie. Home to a gigantic tower that hosted a fire. (Phare in french ).
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 21, 2020 6:58:05 GMT
Alexandra Park- North London landmark and home of television transmissions.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 21, 2020 9:45:08 GMT
Texarkana (Texas) - city located on the border with Arkansas
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 21, 2020 17:04:55 GMT
Kanawha -- most populous county in West Virginia & home of Charleston, the state capital. It was also, in 1912--13, the site of the Paint Creek Mine War, a confrontation between striking coal miners and coal operators, which in number of casualties counts among the worst conflicts in American labor union history.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 22, 2020 6:22:54 GMT
Balkans - geographic area in southeastern Europe
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 22, 2020 6:51:16 GMT
(And will be nearly certainly, depending on the virus issues, my home for a few years from next year)
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Post by mossie on Apr 22, 2020 7:03:49 GMT
Alkham - village near Dover
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Post by bjd on Apr 22, 2020 7:59:16 GMT
Hamilton City on Lake Ontario in Canada, used to be known as the Steel City but less industrial now
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Post by lugg on Apr 22, 2020 8:11:49 GMT
Milton Keynes - huge town in Buckinghamshire UK. Its population is significantly higher than that of the whole of my home county.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 22, 2020 11:34:55 GMT
(And will be nearly certainly, depending on the virus issues, my home for a few years from next year) Ah, now we know at last where the next Anyport meet-up will be held!
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 22, 2020 11:36:30 GMT
Eynatten - Belgian village in the tiny German-speaking region
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 22, 2020 13:45:44 GMT
(Easy to get to for some. A lot harder for others.)
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 22, 2020 15:19:37 GMT
Mount Batten -- 600-meter peninsula in Plymouth Sound, Devon, England, site of the earliest trade with Europe yet discovered in Bronze Age Britain
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Post by lugg on Apr 23, 2020 9:32:37 GMT
Battenberg - town in Germany that is linked to the British royal family - Mountbattens
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Post by casimira on Apr 23, 2020 12:48:27 GMT
(Easy to get to for some. A lot harder for others.) Given enough notice, I would make an extra concentrated effort to attend that! North Bergen- township in Hudson County, New Jersey
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 23, 2020 16:20:12 GMT
Göttingen - university city in Lower Saxony
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 23, 2020 17:49:24 GMT
Saint-Gotthard Massif -- mountain range in Switzerland
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Post by mossie on Apr 23, 2020 19:23:00 GMT
Harwich - port and seaside town in Essex. There is another Essex seaside town not far away called Frinton, which was a favourite place for people to retire to. Legend has it that when trains were announced at the London end, the announcer would say "Harwich for the Continent, Frinton for the incontinent
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 23, 2020 19:26:31 GMT
Harwich - port and seaside town in Essex. There is another Essex seaside town not far away called Frinton, which was a favourite place for people to retire to. Legend has it that when trains were announced at the London end, the announcer would say "Harwich for the Continent, Frinton for the incontinent I like Frinton. Go there quite often. Has a fantastic Art Deco saleshop.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 23, 2020 21:29:09 GMT
Charleville-Mézières - city in the French Ardennes, hometown of Arthur Rimbaud
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Post by lugg on Apr 24, 2020 8:44:53 GMT
Charlton Mackrell- one of two villages that make up the Charltons in Somerset.
The Charltons have been home to several of the ancestors of politicians in the United States of America. Henry Adams and Edith Squire were married in the parish church in 1609 and she is thought to be the ancestor of Presidents John Adams, John Quincy Adams and Calvin Coolidge, as well as of Samuel Adams, who also signed the Declaration of Independence, while Presidents Millard Fillmore and William Howard Taft were descendants of her two sisters Ann and Margaret.from Wiki
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 24, 2020 11:48:00 GMT
Arlington (Virginia) - location of the principal military cemetery in the United States and also the Pentagon
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 24, 2020 16:24:15 GMT
Klingon Empire -- official state of the Klingon people. Founded by the legendary Klingon Warrior Kahless the Unforgettable, its base is on the planet Qo'noS
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Post by mossie on Apr 24, 2020 18:59:34 GMT
Rangoon - once the capital city of Burma, nowadays Yangon in Myanmar.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 24, 2020 21:46:52 GMT
Grand Canyon - big meandering crack in the southwestern United States with the Colorado River at the bottom
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 24, 2020 22:38:22 GMT
Many -- parish seat of Sabine Parish, Louisiana
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