Geography Game
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AnonymousJune 7, 2006 at 11:47 pm
Brookie started a international geographic game a long time ago, and we had great fun with it.
We start with a city name
[SIZE=”4″]Yonkers, New York, U.S.A.[/SIZE]
and the next person posts a name starting with the last letter of the previous city
[SIZE=”4″]Santiago, Chile [/SIZE]
and so forthRegards,
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AnonymousJune 11, 2006 at 11:37 am
I didn’t quite finish but I was there from approx. 9/87-5/91. I lived off campus and went part-time for some of that. I was/am a Business Admin/Computer Science Major.
Jerimy
[quote=angel2ndclass22699]Grand Rapids, Michigan
jer what year did you graduate from emu? my husbands niece went there also.[/quote]
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AnonymousJune 15, 2006 at 9:49 pm
[B]Uthong[/B], Thailand. About one hour north of Bangkok. That’s where my CIDP first started and where a good part of our Peace Corps training took part in 2001, in 95 F heat and 90 some percent humidity.
Maybe I can help driving Marge crazy again in 2006. There are lots more cities in Thailand I know of ๐ and Germany for that matter. -
AnonymousJune 16, 2006 at 6:33 pm
[B]Ulm[/B]. Germany
[QUOTE=soapy]sturzelbronn germany[/QUOTE]
Hey Soapy, you made this up while you were in the tavern after a few drinks, right? It sounds German but weird. I looked it up but couldn’t find it in my German references :confused: I googled it just now, there is a Sturzelbronn in France in the Lorraine area on the Mosel river, used to be German before WWII Guess we have to let it go ๐
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AnonymousJune 16, 2006 at 7:00 pm
Mulheim, Germany
*Thought Norb was senile*
dang it Norb. I didn’t expect u too sober up and catch me. [I]you are right[/I]. I was using google earth. One minite I was in germany, then france. Busy day.
I remember u where there like 27 years or so right?
Really, I was just ckin to see if you was paying attention.:cool:
[QUOTE=norb][B]Ulm[/B]. GermanyHey Soapy, you made this up while you were in the tavern after a few drinks, right? It sounds German but weird.[B][I] I looked it up but couldn’t find it in my German references :confused: I googled it just now, there is a Sturzelbronn in France[/I][/B] in the Lorraine area on the Mosel river, used to be German before WWII Guess we have to let it go :D[/QUOTE]
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AnonymousJune 16, 2006 at 11:10 pm
[B]Yakimah[/B], Washington, came through there on our road trip in 2000
Hey Saopy,I mean Soaopy ehg Soapy. , maybe I am senile but weird German names catch my limited attention. What’s your name again? Seifig? I mean soapig>ifiig? sORRY ABOUT MY TYPING. ITS THE cIDP
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AnonymousJune 17, 2006 at 3:43 pm
[B]Ettal[/B], Germany – Bavaria. Has monastery where the monks make two of the most delicious herbal liqueurs, one looks green, the other yellow
Soapy, I’m trying, I’m trying but you guys move too fast for me.
“Slow down you move too fast you’ve got to make the morning last”
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AnonymousJune 18, 2006 at 6:43 pm
[B]Rรผsselsheim,[/B] Germany, home of Opel car maker, not very far from my home town
Wow, that is cool, Soapy, I never tried tilting with Google Earth
whoops, Marge, I picked up the “R” from Soapy’s post. The “Bad” belongs in front of the name. It should be [b]Bad Salzgitter.[/b] Are you paying attention, Soapy, too many drinks, eh?
Hope this doesn’t [QUOTE][B]annoy the post-menopausal Italian-American woman from NY/NJ on steroids[/B][/QUOTE] ๐
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AnonymousJune 18, 2006 at 11:54 pm
h–>Hamm, Germany
NOrb! I din’t know this game was so hard! Jeez It was listed on google earth as i published it. when I searched it the other way it lists it both ways.. I do remember everything started with Bad that had that in it, now that I thought about it some. that was almost 30yrs ago.. Jeez.. ok so thats twice u got me.. Do I have to crawl around the world on the 3rd one? heee haww
I bet those hills full of grapefields in that valley Norb. Gives me the runs just thinking about that new wine and those fest evils…and yeah that tilt was cool.. -1 mistake fer that? yeah…maybe I should move to another country, I’m still trying to figure out how u make those special characters in the name..*scratches his head and looks at Norb in awe* wat about karlsbad? eh? weeee -
AnonymousJune 19, 2006 at 3:41 am
[QUOTE=soapy]h–>Hamm, Germany
NOrb! I din’t know this game was so hard! Jeez It was listed on google earth as i published it. when I searched it the other way it lists it both ways.. I do remember everything started with Bad that had that in it, now that I thought about it some. that was almost 30yrs ago.. Jeez.. ok so thats twice u got me.. Do I have to crawl around the world on the 3rd one? heee haww
I bet those hills full of grapefields in that valley Norb. Gives me the runs just thinking about that new wine and those fest evils…and yeah that tilt was cool.. -1 mistake fer that? yeah…maybe I should move to another country, I’m still trying to figure out how u make those special characters in the name..*scratches his head and looks at Norb in awe* wat about karlsbad? eh? weeee[/QUOTE]M–Maidenhead, England, U.K. — where I met with members of Her Majesty’s VAT administration staff
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AnonymousJune 19, 2006 at 9:45 am
[B]Kanchanaburi[/B], Thailand. Bridge over the river Kwai (ever seen that movie?), Japanese built death railway here in WWII. Kanchanaburi was our first adventure trip finding our own way as part of our training. When you talk to a Thai make sure you use the right intonation for Kwai, otherwise it means “penis”. Our young Thai teacher was too embarrassed to tell me. She whispered it in Carol’s ear.
Soapy, I installed German to get the รผ – รถ – รค – ร since I correspond with friends in Germany
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AnonymousJune 19, 2006 at 5:36 pm
[B]Aachen[/B], Germany – where Germany, Belgium and Holland meet. German emperors were crowned here.
[QUOTE=Brandy][B]By the way some of the prettiest blue sapphires come from Kanchanaburi[/QUOTE]
I didn’t know that. We only had half a day there to explore. Had to return that same evening.
[B]Marge[/B] I think you grabbed the only city in Germany starting with an X ๐
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AnonymousJune 19, 2006 at 8:46 pm
[B]Ulm[/B], Germany – used for a tongue twister: in Ulm um Ulm um Ulm herum
[B]Brandy[/B], we are still debating whether or not to go back to Thailand early next year to teach refugees again for a couple of months but I don’t now how my CIDP is going to behave??? :confused: The NGO director keeps bugging us to come back. If we do perhaps we could look for your sapphire. It’s unlikely that we’ll go back to Kanchanaburi, though. It would be Chiangmai which was our “home” for two years. I remember one big gem stone store on Tapae road, the main shopping road in CM.
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AnonymousJune 19, 2006 at 8:48 pm
[B]Ulm[/B], Germany – used for a tongue breaker: in Ulm um Ulm um Ulm herum
[B]Brandy[/B], we are still debating whether or not to go back to Thailand early next year to teach refugees again for a couple of months but I don’t now how my CIDP is going to behave??? :confused: The NGO director keeps bugging us to come back. If we do perhaps we could look for your sapphire. It’s unlikely that we’ll go back to Kanchanaburi, though. It would be Chiangmai which was our home for two years.
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AnonymousJune 19, 2006 at 9:46 pm
[B]Dresden[/B], Germany -the most destroyed city during WWII
[B]Brandy[/B] purple in Thai is sii muang or in Thai script see below .. and sapphire is nin-sii-kaam which is confusing nin = dark precious stone, sii = color, a prefix used for the different colors, kaam = ? still looking..
BTW, Carol is just telling me that the precious stones in Kanchanaburi most likely come from Burma. Burma is known for gem stone mining. We saw lots when we went to Tachilek, Burma to have our visa renewed. This is NE of Chiangmai. -
AnonymousJune 19, 2006 at 10:00 pm
[COLOR=red]Kershaw, South Carolina[/COLOR]
[COLOR=red]Kershaw[/COLOR]
[COLOR=red]Pronunciation[/COLOR]
[COLOR=red]kuhr-SHAW[/COLOR]
[COLOR=red]Place Status (Type)[/COLOR]
[COLOR=red]town[/COLOR]
[COLOR=red]Population [/COLOR]
[COLOR=red]1,814 (1990) [/COLOR]
[COLOR=red]Location [/COLOR]
[COLOR=red]Lancaster County, South Carolina (SC), United States, North America [/COLOR]
[COLOR=red]Latitude[/COLOR]
[COLOR=red]34ยฐ32’N[/COLOR]
[COLOR=red]Longitude[/COLOR]
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AnonymousJune 20, 2006 at 11:10 am
Uranium City, Saskatchewan
Uranium City is a settlement in north-western Saskatchewan, Canada. It is on the northern shores of Lake Athabasca near the border of the Northwest Territories. In 1952, the provincial government decided to establish a town to service the mines in the Beaverlodge uranium area. In 1982 ts population approached5,000. The closure of the mines in 1983 led to economic collapse, with most residents of the town leaving. It was later designated as a northern settlement and now has a remaining population of less than 2100. -
AnonymousJune 21, 2006 at 6:01 pm
K — [B]KrungThepMahanakhonAmonRattanakosinMahintharaAyuthayaMahadilokPhopNoppharat RatchathaniBuriromUdomratchaniwetMahasathanAmonPimanAwatanSathitkkathattiya WitsanukamPrasit[/b],Thailand. The longest city name in the world according to the Guiness Book of Records. Thais call it Krung Thep for short. We call it Bangkok.
Translated it means:
[i]The city of angels, the great city, the residence of the Emerald Buddha, the impregnable city (of Ayutthaya) of God Indra, the grand capital of the world endowed with nine precious gems, the happy city, abounding in an enormous Royal Palace that resembles the heavenly abode where reigns the reincarnated god, a city given by Indra and built by Vishnukarn
[/i]There is a cool song using all these words by a famous Thai rock group Assanee Wasan. I love it. If anyone is interested, I can e-mail the mp3 file to you
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AnonymousJune 23, 2006 at 9:32 pm
[COLOR=red]York, South Carolina[/COLOR]
[COLOR=red][B]York[/B] , city (1990 pop. 6,709), [IMG]http://images.allrefer.com/reference/images/gazetteer/circbul.gif[/IMG] York co., N S.C., 13 mi/21 km WNW of Rock Hill; 35ยฐ00’N 81ยฐ14’W. RR junction; processing center for agr. area; mfg. (computers, clothing, metal finishing, printing[/COLOR][COLOR=red], textiles), agr. (cotton, peaches, grain, soybeans, sorghum; livestock, poultry; dairying). York Co. Historical Center here. State parks and reservoirs surround city. Settled in 1750s.[/COLOR]
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AnonymousJune 24, 2006 at 7:57 pm
[COLOR=red]Abbeville, SC[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#ff0000]Abbeville is a city in Abbeville County, South Carolina.
It is the county seat. The community is in the Eastern Standard time zone.
The latitude of Abbeville is 34.178N. The longitude is -82.379W.
The estimated population, in 2003, was 5,786.
The community was named by a Huguenot settler, after his home city
Settled in the 1730’s by Patrick Calhoun, father of Vice President John C. CalhounKnown as “the cradle and the grave of the Confederacy” because the secession meeting occurred here, and Jefferson Davis held his final cabinet meeting here in 1865
[B]Crime:[/B] The number of violent crimes recorded by the FBI in 2003 was 143. The number of murders and homicides was 0. The violent crime rate was 24.3 per 1,000 people.
[B]Filming location[/B] for 1991 movie, “Sleeping with the Enemy”
[B]Well-known residents have included:[/B]
ยท John C. Calhoun, congressman, political leader and statesman [B]Historic sites and museums:[/B] Abbeville County Museum, Burt-Stark House Museum, Poliakoff Collection of Western Art
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AnonymousJuly 2, 2006 at 9:09 pm
[COLOR=red]Anchrorage, AK[/COLOR]
[COLOR=red][/COLOR]
[COLOR=red]Anchorage is the largest city in the state of Alaska, composing more than two-fifths (42-percent) of the state’s population. Anchorage is located in south central Alaska and is about as far north as Stockholm, Sweden or St. Petersburg, Russia and as far west as Hawaii. It lies 290 miles northeast of Kodiak Island, 130 miles south of Mount McKinley, and it is on the upper branches of the Cook Inlet, the northernmost reach of the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered on the east by Chugach Mountain State Park. Anchorage stretches from Portage Glacier to Eklutna, encompassing 1,955 square miles – about the size of the state of Delaware. Because of the location of mountain ranges it is only possible to drive north or south out of Anchorage[/COLOR] -
AnonymousJuly 2, 2006 at 11:03 pm
[SIZE=4][COLOR=red]Nome, AK[/COLOR][/SIZE]
[COLOR=red][B]POPULATION[/B]
[B][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=+0]Within City Limits:[/SIZE][/FONT][/B][/COLOR][COLOR=red]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=+0]2000 – 3,505ยท 58% Alaska Native ยท 42% Non-Native[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=+0][B]Seward Peninsula:[/B]2000 – 9,196[/SIZE][/FONT]
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[IMG]http://www.nomealaska.org/vc/image/nome1-leslie.jpg[/IMG][/COLOR] -
AnonymousJuly 3, 2006 at 10:30 am
Macks Inn, Idaho
Just for Marge and Ali:
Top 20 cities in Idaho.
Blackfoot
Boise
Burley
Caldwell
Coeur d Alene
Gooding
Idaho Falls
Kellogg
Ketchum
Montpelier
Nampa
Pocatello
Preston
Rexburg
Rigby
Rupert
Saint Anthony
Sandpoint
Soda Springs
Twin FallsI hope you win on Jeopardy… Gald I was able to help!
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AnonymousJuly 3, 2006 at 2:45 pm
N = Neville Island, Pennsylvania
Oh now all I have to do is get on Jepardy! I know what the photo of Nome look like. I think we should have to enclude the picture of the city we list too! Idaho will be my strong topic…I am sure to be one of their top winners of all time! The clincher will be the other players will not know what GBS stand for!
KIT
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AnonymousJuly 8, 2006 at 11:30 am
Mena has a beautiful lodge at Queen Wilhelmina State Park… She was the queen of Holland at the time and a lot of the investors in the railroad that MADE the city were Dutch… The park is located on beautiful Talimena Drive that runs along the ridge of Rich Mountain, one of the Ouachita Mountains (they are unusual because they run east and west), into Oklahoma…
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AnonymousJuly 12, 2006 at 3:31 pm
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