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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 5, 2024 12:26:35 GMT
Bastia - major city of Corsica
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 5, 2024 13:52:03 GMT
Basutoland- former British protectorate now part of Lesotho.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 6, 2024 7:18:31 GMT
Sutton -- from Old English 'sūth' and 'tūn', meaning 'south farm', Sutton is a town in the London Borough of Sutton.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 6, 2024 7:58:17 GMT
Uttar Pradesh - Indian state bordering Nepal
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 6, 2024 9:39:20 GMT
Tarporley - large Cheshire village. The name comes grom Old English meaning a peasants wood/clearing.
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Post by onlyMark on Feb 6, 2024 10:38:28 GMT
Sutton -- from Old English 'sūth' and 'tūn', meaning 'south farm', Sutton is a town in the London Borough of Sutton. There's a few Suttons and I know because I spent many years just outside one in the Midlands.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 6, 2024 16:20:53 GMT
Surely that one is on the map with a big star!
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Post by whatagain on Feb 6, 2024 23:01:25 GMT
Pornic small town on the seaside in Brittany. Pornic sounds like swine having sex in french...
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 6, 2024 23:04:29 GMT
And you know this from having the boars on your property?
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 7, 2024 7:57:07 GMT
Porlock - Somerset coastal with a high percentage of old people. 40% in 2017.
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Post by whatagain on Feb 8, 2024 7:35:13 GMT
Lockerbie. Sadly famous.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 8, 2024 9:10:00 GMT
Enfield Lock - train station in North London for the Royal Small Arms factory where they made Mossie‘s gun.
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Post by whatagain on Feb 8, 2024 18:48:10 GMT
Henderson Field. Name given to the airfield captured in Guadalcanal in honor of a pilot shot a few days before. Home to the 'cactus force' that contributed to holding the island.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 8, 2024 19:43:51 GMT
Honfleur - commune in the Calvados region of France. Looks a nice place
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Post by whatagain on Feb 8, 2024 23:05:47 GMT
Fleury-Merogis : biggest prison in Europe, close to Paris. Jacques Mesrine spent time there.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 8, 2024 23:17:00 GMT
Mérida -- capital of the Mexican state of Yucatán
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Post by mossie on Feb 9, 2024 8:08:52 GMT
Hebrides - islands off Scotland
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 9, 2024 8:11:44 GMT
Hebden Bridge - lovely Yorkshire town where it floods regularly.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 9, 2024 16:02:43 GMT
Sheba - legendary south Arabian kingdom with a queen who knew King Solomon
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Post by whatagain on Feb 9, 2024 18:44:34 GMT
Sebastopol. Main city in crimea. Totally destroyed by the Germans in 42. Notably by a certain vin Choltitz who didn’t redo it with Paris in 44.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 9, 2024 22:11:27 GMT
Bass Islands - islands in Lake Erie
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Post by bjd on Feb 10, 2024 7:52:09 GMT
Bass Rock Small island in the Firth of Forth, off North Berwick. It used to have a medieval monastery, now home to over 150,000 gannets and other seabirds.
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Post by mossie on Feb 10, 2024 8:18:25 GMT
Rockall - very small island the Atlantic, as the saying goes "there's f all on Rockall"
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 10, 2024 9:47:15 GMT
Cockermouth - Cumbrian market town. Also prone to flooding.
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Post by whatagain on Feb 10, 2024 15:25:30 GMT
Mariakerke. Seaside town in Belgium now belonging to the city of Oostende.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 10, 2024 16:12:18 GMT
Weston Super Mare - Somerset seaside town. When the tide goes out there’s a vast area of mud beyond the sand.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 10, 2024 22:48:59 GMT
Boston -- capital and most populous city in Massachusetts, USA
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Post by whatagain on Feb 11, 2024 10:12:42 GMT
Bastogne. Very famous belgian city since the battle of the bulge, called la bataille des Ardennes in Belgium.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 11, 2024 12:06:14 GMT
Togo - West African republic
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 11, 2024 13:06:43 GMT
Bogota - capital of Colombia
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