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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 18, 2024 14:38:01 GMT
Boscastle - beautiful Cornish seaside village.
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Post by bjd on Jul 19, 2024 13:52:21 GMT
Bosworth Field Location of one of the last battles of the War of the Roses, on August 22, 1485
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 19, 2024 15:48:11 GMT
Oswaldtwistle- Lancashire town very industrial in it’s day.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 22, 2024 16:47:45 GMT
Alderney - one of the smaller Channel Islands, attached to Guernsey. Called Aurigny by the French.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 22, 2024 17:21:26 GMT
Derbyshire - county in the East Midlands, England.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 23, 2024 18:06:19 GMT
Abyssinia -- country located in eastern Africa, today known as Ethiopia
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 25, 2024 3:48:37 GMT
Niagara - great waterfalls of the Canada/USA border
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 25, 2024 9:58:41 GMT
Gary - city in Indiana. Michael Jackson born there,
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 25, 2024 13:59:02 GMT
Hoggar - mountain range in the Algerian Sahara
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Post by whatagain on Jul 25, 2024 15:25:35 GMT
Lake of Garda. Where I was last week and visited Sirmione.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 25, 2024 16:15:45 GMT
Garforth - Leeds town which holds the weather record for the latest date for -10c. April 28 1908.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 26, 2024 3:02:17 GMT
Firth of Forth -- estuary, or firth, of several Scottish rivers including the River Forth. This is one of my favorite geographic names. ![](https://s20.postimg.cc/8rvcev1wt/smiley.png)
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 26, 2024 7:06:13 GMT
North Korea - not a place for a holiday
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 26, 2024 17:27:28 GMT
Moorea - beautiful island next to Tahiti which I regret never having visited because I have been to Tahiti twice.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 26, 2024 18:03:17 GMT
Moose Jaw - great name! 4th largest city in Saskatchewan.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 29, 2024 6:36:57 GMT
Rose Hill - neighbourhood in Manhattan NYC
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 29, 2024 14:39:37 GMT
Ross and Cromarty - area in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 30, 2024 15:49:11 GMT
Croatia - member of the EU
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 30, 2024 16:06:40 GMT
Roanoke - attempt at the first colony in N America in the 16th century but 5 years later no sign of it.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 30, 2024 17:24:23 GMT
Nokogiri - mountain in Honshu, Japan, the western side plunging into Tokyo Bay
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 30, 2024 18:45:32 GMT
Knokke - Belgian town. Maybe old Whatsisface lives there.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 30, 2024 22:47:54 GMT
Fort Knox -- unofficial name of the United States Bullion Depository, a fortified vault building located next to the United States Army post of Fort Knox, Kentucky. Protected by the United States Mint Police, it is used to store a large portion of the United States' gold reserves as well as other precious items belonging to or in custody of the federal government.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 31, 2024 1:39:10 GMT
Knokke-Le-Zoute - Flemish Belgian resort on the North Sea
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 31, 2024 7:00:50 GMT
Route 66 - the famous Trans American route.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 31, 2024 13:50:27 GMT
Roubaix - industrial city in ruins on the French northern coast. But at least it is served by the Lille metro and trams.
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Post by whatagain on Jul 31, 2024 17:49:02 GMT
Aix en Provence. Charming small city in southern France.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 31, 2024 18:18:49 GMT
Dovercourt - Essex seaside town where Hi de Hi was filmed (who remembers it?)
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 3, 2024 12:39:12 GMT
Coutances - town in Normandy, destroyed in 1944 but they spared the cathedral
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 3, 2024 15:30:57 GMT
Nancy -- historic city which is the prefecture of the northeastern French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle
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Post by whatagain on Aug 3, 2024 17:49:43 GMT
France. Good wine good food good cheese great language great history. But most of all they have great neighbours.
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