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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 3, 2023 20:39:30 GMT
Dandenong - suburb of Melbourne (pronounced Mairlbun).
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 3, 2023 21:17:28 GMT
Reno (Nevada) - calls itself the "biggest little city in the world"
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 4, 2023 12:34:37 GMT
Rennes - city in Brittany
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 4, 2023 17:52:26 GMT
Cévennes - sparsely populated mountain region in south central France that sometimes causes intense weird meteorological conditions throughout the area, generally involving torrential rains and flooding
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 4, 2023 23:40:33 GMT
Vincennes -- the oldest European town in Indiana, Vincennes was officially established in 1732 as a second French fur trading post in this area. The Compagnie des Indes commissioned a French officer, François-Marie Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes, to build a post along the Wabash River to discourage local nations from trading with the English. He placed it near the meeting points of the Wabash and White rivers, and the overland Buffalo Trace. Vincennes, who had lived with his father among the Miami tribe, persuaded the Piankeshaw to establish a village at his trading post. He also encouraged Canadien settlers to move there, and started his own family to increase the village population. Because the Wabash post was so remote, however, Vincennes had a hard time getting trade supplies from Louisiana for the native nations, who were also being courted by English traders. The boundary between the French colonies of Louisiana and Canada, although inexact in the first years of the settlement, was decreed in 1745 to run between Fort Ouiatenon (below the site of modern-day Lafayette, Indiana) and Vincennes. In 1736, during the French war with the Chickasaw nation, Vincennes was captured and burned at the stake near the present-day town of Fulton, Mississippi. His settlement on the Wabash was renamed Poste Vincennes in his honor. Louisiana Governor Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, next appointed Louis Groston de Saint-Ange de Bellerive to command Poste Vincennes. As the French colonists pushed north from Louisiana and south from Canada, however, the American colonists to the east continued to push west. In addition, British traders lured away many of Indians who had traded with the Canadiens. This competition escalated in the Ohio Country until 1754 and the eruption of the French and Indian War (the North American theater of the Seven Years' War between Britain and France.)
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 5, 2023 5:37:04 GMT
Incheon - port city of South Korea
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Post by mossie on Dec 5, 2023 8:09:06 GMT
Chesham - pleasant little town in Bucks
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 5, 2023 12:27:51 GMT
Sure about that bixa?
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 5, 2023 12:28:38 GMT
Cheshunt - used to be a pleasant little town in Herts.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 5, 2023 20:19:28 GMT
Bitche - city in Moselle which always seems to elicit some snickers in English
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 6, 2023 5:19:49 GMT
Gitche Gumee -- another name for Lake Superior, it comes from the Ojibwe and loosely means "great sea". It is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area and the third-largest by volume, holding 10% of the world's surface fresh water. Located in central North America, it is the northernmost and westernmost of the Great Lakes of North America, straddling the Canada–United States border with the Canadian province of Ontario to the north and east and the U.S. states of Minnesota to the west and Michigan to the south. Part of the western end is in the state of Wisconsin.
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 6, 2023 9:44:42 GMT
Chernobyl- area with a lot of history.
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Post by whatagain on Dec 6, 2023 15:41:20 GMT
Cherkassy. City in Ukraine where a complete German army was trapped in 1944. They managed to escape losing all their heavy equipment. Tactical success strategic disaster.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 6, 2023 16:30:45 GMT
Kassel - city in northern Hesse known for its contemporary art
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 6, 2023 16:47:14 GMT
Selsey Bill - headland on the Sussex coast, south of England.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 6, 2023 17:22:41 GMT
Seychelles - island country in the Indian Ocean
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 6, 2023 18:00:57 GMT
Helvellyn - third highest mountain in England in the Lake district.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 7, 2023 4:22:09 GMT
Courchevel - Alpine ski resort
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Post by bjd on Dec 7, 2023 7:01:36 GMT
Courmayeur Italian ski resort near Mont Blanc
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 7, 2023 9:19:29 GMT
Tours - French university town
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Post by mossie on Dec 7, 2023 15:33:08 GMT
Le Touquet - seaside resort in North France, with the alternative name of Paris Plage
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 7, 2023 16:01:42 GMT
Quetta - capital of the Pakistani province of Balouchistan
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 7, 2023 17:37:54 GMT
Queensland- Australian state.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 8, 2023 4:46:08 GMT
Ensenada -- a port city on the Pacific coast of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula
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Post by mossie on Dec 8, 2023 8:11:43 GMT
Senegal - West African country
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Post by whatagain on Dec 8, 2023 10:28:25 GMT
Senne. River that flows under Bruxelles.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 8, 2023 14:30:50 GMT
Kennebunkport (Maine) - touristy town where the Bush family ha a holiday residence
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Post by whatagain on Dec 8, 2023 18:01:24 GMT
Bunker hill. A hill close to Boston where the Brits frontally attacked militia troops of the rebels in 1775. The Brits won but got their nose bloodied.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 9, 2023 16:05:44 GMT
Kerala - state in southern India with a population of only 39 million
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Post by casimira on Dec 9, 2023 16:11:35 GMT
Ocala- city in Florida, USA
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