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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 15, 2023 20:57:02 GMT
Donostia - Basque name of the Spanish city of San Sebastian near the French border
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Post by whatagain on Oct 16, 2023 17:19:44 GMT
Ostia. Old Roman port close to Rome.
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Post by mossie on Oct 16, 2023 18:24:21 GMT
Boston - town in Lincolnshire which gave its name to one in America
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 17, 2023 3:21:19 GMT
Tonbridge -- market town in Kent, England on the River Medway where the UK's first speeding fine was issued in 1896. It was incurred by Mr. Walter Arnold of East Peckham, who was fined one shilling for speeding at 8 miles per hour (13 km/h) in a 2 mph (3 km/h) zone in Paddock Wood, in his Karl Benz powered car. Mr. Arnold was apprehended by a policeman who had given chase on his bicycle.
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Post by whatagain on Oct 17, 2023 7:20:09 GMT
Brignolles. Town in the Var. I think I made a report on it.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 17, 2023 9:02:42 GMT
Riga - capital of Latvia
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Post by whatagain on Oct 17, 2023 13:44:47 GMT
Taiga. Forest in artic zaventem ne.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 17, 2023 13:57:09 GMT
Taizé - location of a "Christian" community in central France which draws in thousands of young people in search of spiritual guidance. Will they drink the Kool-Aid some day?
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Post by whatagain on Oct 20, 2023 9:24:18 GMT
Belize. Country south of Mexico.
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Post by bjd on Oct 20, 2023 9:40:28 GMT
Belo Horizonte city in Brazil
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 20, 2023 13:10:56 GMT
Orinoco - huge river draining Venezuela and Colombia
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 21, 2023 4:59:55 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 21, 2023 13:53:27 GMT
Rillieux-la-Pape - suburb of Lyon
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Post by whatagain on Oct 21, 2023 18:28:00 GMT
Villedieu les poêles. Some small place in Dordogne.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 21, 2023 19:27:04 GMT
La Chaise-Dieu - village near Le Puy-en-Velay, very small but which I believe has a major music festival in the former Benedictine abbey in the summer
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Post by mossie on Oct 22, 2023 7:13:24 GMT
Chatham - seaside town in Kent, once home to a major dockyard
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Post by whatagain on Oct 22, 2023 14:34:49 GMT
Champagne. Region in France.
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Post by bjd on Oct 24, 2023 11:01:11 GMT
The Hamptons Area of Long Island, New York
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Post by whatagain on Oct 24, 2023 18:23:49 GMT
Barrière de Champlon. Place in the Belgian Ardennes.
A culminating hill at 400ish meters. Called barriere because there was a place where local taxes were collected to go through the place.
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 7, 2023 18:31:39 GMT
Sion - lovely town in the Swiss Valais region
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 8, 2023 7:04:10 GMT
Sioux Falls -- county seat of Minnehaha County & most populous city (at a whopping 202,078 people) in South Dakota
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Post by mossie on Nov 8, 2023 7:54:36 GMT
Fallujah - city in Iraq on the River Euphrates. Incidentally The Euphrates and Tigris form a Y through Iraq and this area is called the 'Cradle of civilisation'. What they don't tell you is that the leg of the Y is called Shatt el Arab, because they is what every Arab has done in it
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 8, 2023 8:03:53 GMT
Is there really a Minnehaha county?!
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Post by whatagain on Nov 8, 2023 9:51:38 GMT
Halle. Where traffic jams usually start going into Bruxelles from the south.
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 8, 2023 13:22:01 GMT
Valhalla - where Viking warriors go to heaven to be serviced by valkyries, same as good Muslims and all those virgins
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Post by bjd on Nov 12, 2023 7:24:57 GMT
Val de Marne One of the departments around Paris
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Post by mossie on Nov 12, 2023 8:07:05 GMT
Demerara - a region in Guyana, lends its name to a sugar
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 12, 2023 8:37:07 GMT
Rarotonga - most populous of the Cook Islands in the Pacific
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Post by whatagain on Nov 12, 2023 12:19:56 GMT
Congo (democratic republic of) formerly Zaïre which means river in Swahili and before that Congo Belge.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 12, 2023 14:35:48 GMT
Connecticut -- US state where Igor Sikorsky made an untethered flight of the first practical helicopter on May 13, 1940
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