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Post by whatagain on Jul 24, 2023 10:21:54 GMT
Afghanistan. Poor country inhabitated by mostly uneducated people who fight in tribes any invaders.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 24, 2023 15:48:16 GMT
(That is a rather limited Western view but not entirely wrong.)
Hangzhou - prosperous city in northern China
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Post by whatagain on Jul 24, 2023 16:37:07 GMT
Palembang. City of Indonesia more than 1000 years old.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 30, 2023 12:16:25 GMT
Palestine - country in the Levant living mostly under Israeli occupation
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 1, 2023 6:08:55 GMT
Alexandria -- 2nd largest city in Egypt & the largest city on the Mediterranean coast, it was founded in c. 331 BC by Alexander the Great. Called the "Bride of the Mediterranean" internationally, Alexandria is a popular tourist destination & an important industrial center due to its natural gas and oil pipelines from Suez. The city extends about 40 km (25 mi) along the northern coast of Egypt, and is the 4-largest city in the Arab world & the 9th-largest city in Africa. (Wikipedia)
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 1, 2023 8:31:41 GMT
(I was gobsmacked by the endless corniche when I went to Alexandria.)
Xanadu - Kublai Khan's capital city in China, in 1256
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 1, 2023 23:53:40 GMT
Good catch! (although now the poem is an earworm)
Nador -- coastal city in northeastern Morocco which is separated from the Mediterranean Sea by a salt lagoon. It was founded in the 19th century by local Berber tribes.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 2, 2023 5:11:26 GMT
Dormans - French town in the Marne valley, destroyed by 3 different battles in WW2
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Post by whatagain on Aug 10, 2023 22:12:02 GMT
Kilimanjaro. Big mountain.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 14, 2023 3:13:30 GMT
Killarney -- town in southwestern Ireland which was heavily involved in the Irish War of Independence.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 14, 2023 8:50:19 GMT
Marne - land of battles during the Great War
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Post by whatagain on Aug 14, 2023 16:37:23 GMT
Le Morne Rouge. Town close tomSaint Pierre In Martinique. Morne means boring but has a less known geographical signification. Something like a dead volcano. I think.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 14, 2023 21:06:38 GMT
Moravia - a region of Czechia, often associated with Bohemia
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Post by whatagain on Aug 14, 2023 22:25:31 GMT
Pavia. City south of Milan. A Roman emperor slaughtered a lot of barbarians there some time ago and Francois 1st was defeated and captured by Charles V of Spain in 1600 something marking the last French attempt to rule Lombardia.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 16, 2023 14:01:45 GMT
Viana do Castelo - coastal city of northern Portugal
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Post by tod2 on Aug 24, 2023 9:38:01 GMT
Steynsrus Is a small farming town in the Free State province of South Africa that was founded in 1910 and named after the last president of the Orange Free State, Martinus Theunis Steyn.
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Post by whatagain on Aug 24, 2023 19:30:14 GMT
Belarus. Seems worse than Russia. If at all possible.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 25, 2023 1:58:48 GMT
Bellagio -- historic commune on Lake Como in Lombardy, Italy known for its beauty.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 25, 2023 2:39:53 GMT
Saginaw (Michigan) - lumber city before becoming an industrial city
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Post by whatagain on Aug 25, 2023 15:57:42 GMT
Agincourt. Wrong English spelling for Azincourt à town in NE of France where Edward proved again that the English archers where vastly superior to heavy warriors.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 25, 2023 18:40:40 GMT
Incheon - major seaport of South Korea
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Post by whatagain on Aug 25, 2023 20:29:03 GMT
Also a masterstike if Mc Arthur landing there and cutting the supply lines of North Korea.
Binche. Home to the Gilles who dance and throw oranges at carnival.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 26, 2023 4:43:43 GMT
Chennai - huge city in southern India, formerly called Madras
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Post by whatagain on Aug 26, 2023 10:36:50 GMT
Been there. Ugly.
Serre Chevalier nice low village now a ski resort in the Alps.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 28, 2023 5:39:56 GMT
Cheverny - Loire valley château on which Hergé based Moulinsart/Marlinspike
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Post by whatagain on Aug 29, 2023 9:26:05 GMT
Evere. Belgian town at the outskirts of Brussels hosting NATO.
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Post by tod2 on Aug 29, 2023 11:31:57 GMT
Verkeerdevlei Is a small town in the Free State province of South Africa. The name in Afrikaans means ‘wrong marsh’, the name probably refers to an east-west flow of water in an area where the direction is normally west-east.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 29, 2023 11:44:01 GMT
Devil's Tower (Wyoming) - volcanic butte that was the first national monument of the United States in 1906. It attracted aliens in Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977.
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Post by whatagain on Aug 29, 2023 13:55:56 GMT
Villers la Ville. Belgian Abbey razed by the French revolutionaries.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 29, 2023 14:26:04 GMT
Slavonia - region of northeastern Croatia
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