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Post by mich64 on Jan 20, 2021 4:50:17 GMT
Greater Sudbury - major industrial city in Ontario. When I was in school, the name was still just Sudbury (We still call it just Sudbury they call it "Greater" Sudbury because they incorporated the towns/villages in the surrounding area when the Province gave cities the opportunity to join with small communities. This was supposed to help each other for tax purposes, provincial transfer money etc. My city and surrounding towns declined, therefore we are not a "Greater" city.)
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Post by bjd on Jan 20, 2021 7:24:25 GMT
They like doing that sort of thing in Ontario, I guess.Toronto used to be Metropolitan Toronto and didn't officially include the suburbs. Now it's all amalgamated and is called the GTA -- Greater Toronto Area.
Burlington The name of 22 towns in the States and 5 in Canada
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Post by lugg on Jan 20, 2021 8:50:44 GMT
Darlington in Durham, NE England. Played an important part in the development of rail travel.
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Post by casimira on Jan 20, 2021 14:13:26 GMT
Bridgehampton- village on Long Island and my birthplace
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 20, 2021 15:30:33 GMT
Lampedusa - Italian island 128km from the coast of Tunisia and one of the migrant hotspots of Europe
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Post by whatagain on Jan 20, 2021 17:22:58 GMT
Lake Champlain. In Quebec i think. I swam in it. Yes i did.
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Post by lugg on Jan 20, 2021 19:26:39 GMT
Champagne - Region of NE France , famous for ... yup you guessed it
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 21, 2021 3:44:12 GMT
Pago Pago - capital of American Samoa
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Post by casimira on Jan 21, 2021 14:58:01 GMT
Santiago- capital and largest city in Chile, South America
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 21, 2021 15:56:45 GMT
Croatia - Balkan member of the EU since 2013
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 21, 2021 18:34:23 GMT
Roanoke Island - site of the first settlers in America. They disappeared without trace.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 22, 2021 5:57:06 GMT
Croatan -- one of four National Forests in North Carolina
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 22, 2021 12:25:58 GMT
Tanganyika - African sovereign state from 1961 to 1964 before merging with Zanzibar to become Tanzania
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Post by bjd on Jan 22, 2021 14:17:38 GMT
Gander airport in Newfoundland, Canada, where we stopped for refuelling while emigrating to Canada
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 22, 2021 15:18:03 GMT
Michigan - American state surrounded by Great Lakes
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 22, 2021 15:19:57 GMT
where we stopped for refuelling while emigrating to Canada If I am not mistaken, you were immigrating to Canada and emigrating from the United Kingdom.
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Post by casimira on Jan 22, 2021 15:40:46 GMT
Chicago-large city in Illinois,US
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Post by bjd on Jan 22, 2021 16:28:01 GMT
where we stopped for refuelling while emigrating to Canada If I am not mistaken, you were immigrating to Canada and emigrating from the United Kingdom. Yes, so it was on the way to Canada, hence "emigrating". Also stopped in Reykjavik, Iceland.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 23, 2021 4:41:28 GMT
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Post by mossie on Jan 23, 2021 7:58:22 GMT
Mount Ararat - where the Ark finally beached
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 23, 2021 8:54:12 GMT
Tarakeswar -- city and a municipality in Indian state of West Bengal
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Post by casimira on Jan 23, 2021 14:45:09 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 23, 2021 16:41:51 GMT
I know Warwick Avenue well and if you are visiting London it’s one of the little gems. The tube station had hardly changed since it was opened in 1915 and is always quiet and still has the original green and yellow tiling. The area has beautiful property built mid 19th century and Warwick Avenue leads up to Little Venice aka Grand Union Canal.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 23, 2021 18:06:12 GMT
Swarthmore (Pennsylvania) - home to one of the first coeducational universities in the United States
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Post by lugg on Jan 23, 2021 20:49:51 GMT
Mordiford - close to my home, famous for its dragon legend and not much else; well apart from its ancient bridge, dating from the 1300s
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 24, 2021 5:29:16 GMT
Bordeaux - port city on the French Atlantic coast
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Post by casimira on Jan 24, 2021 15:09:12 GMT
Breaux Bridge- small city in SW Louisiana also known as the "Crawfish Capitol of the World"
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 24, 2021 17:03:08 GMT
Anyport even has a photo report about Breaux Bridge. Les Baux-de-Provence - tiny village in southern France which was the first to mine bauxite Anyport even has a photo report about Les Baux-de-Provence.
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Post by whatagain on Jan 24, 2021 18:23:29 GMT
Prokhorovka. THE battle of tanks, during operation Zitadelle, close to Kursk in 43.
At that battle, between SS korps inc 1, 2 and 3 Pz SS Div, Germans lost about 50 tanks and destroyed about 500. Kursk was not a tactical victory for the Germans, but not a defeat. But it was a strategic defeat.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 24, 2021 23:54:25 GMT
Horodenka -- small city located in Western Ukraine with a terrible history. In 1941, when the town was part of the Second Polish Republic, the Jewish population was wiped out, first by a pogrom and then, in December, the Nazis took @2600 Jewish townspeople to the forest and shot them. This was half of the population of the town at the time.
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