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]
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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 😀 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 😀
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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]Rüsselsheim,[/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] 😀
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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 ü – ö – ä – ß 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 😀
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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]34°32’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; 35°00’N 81°14’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]
· 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]
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[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 – 3,505· 58% Alaska Native · 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 16, 2006 at 7:21 pm
Altus is in the foothills of the Ozark Mts. not far from the Arkansas River… It is our “Wine Country” with at least 3 wineries in the area… I can think of two of them (not sure if I can spell the second one…*S*): Post Winery and Weidecker Winery… We have toured both of them and partook of their samples… **S**
Aimee
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AnonymousJuly 21, 2006 at 2:32 pm
[B]Lampang[/B], Northern Thailand, one of the few stops on the only north-south train route from Bangkok to Chiangmai. Took a songtao, a converted truck with benches, to nearby Chae Hom to visit Brit, another Peace Corps volunteer. Carol left her purse with money and passport on the songtao. Next day the driver somehow found Brit’s house and returned the purse. Fortunately, Brit was the only “farang” in the village and everybody knew her.
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AnonymousJuly 21, 2006 at 5:21 pm
[B]Rong Maet[/B], Northern Thailand, about 50 miles south of the infamous Golden Triangle, where Burma, Laos and Thailand touch.
[B]Scott[/B], we all had to start over. All the data from the old forum got lost after the hacker attack earlier this year.
Here a link to the chatroom. Unfortunately, you have to register again to get in. (link deleted by Administrator)
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AnonymousJuly 21, 2006 at 11:02 pm
[B]Nakhon Sawan[/B], Thailand. We visited a model school there. As a surprise the Thai teachers took our group to a late afternoon picnic outside of town. Like every night, at exactly 6 p.m. huge swarms of millions of bats came out of several caves in the mountainside for their nightly hunt for food. Nearby we saw troups of monkeys at a Buddhist forest monastery.
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AnonymousJuly 23, 2006 at 9:43 am
[B]Doi Mae Salong[/B], Northern Thailand, almost in walking distance of the Burmese border. Doi means mountain. Spent a weekend there with our daughter and husband. She was doing part of her tropical medicine internship at a hospital nearby. One of the few places in Thailand where we encountered monkeys roaming freely.
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AnonymousJuly 23, 2006 at 9:06 pm
[B]Na Lao[/B], Thailand. Small village one hour north of Bangkok. Lived there in 2001 with a Thai host family for three months. Will be visiting them again in January.
[COLOR=”RoyalBlue”]Hey Dave, cool places you are coming up.with [/COLOR]:D
[COLOR=”Red”]How in the world did you manage to get that big picture to come up with your post??? [/COLOR]
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AnonymousJuly 26, 2006 at 10:42 am
[B]Huai Khrai[/B], Northern Thailand, only 10 miles to the Burmese border. We came through there on our way to the Thai-Burmese border crossing to have our visa renewed. We were only allowed to stay on the Burmese side for four hours, not allowed to venture past the Burmese border town of Tachilek. Cost for the 4 hour permit was $5.
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AnonymousJuly 26, 2006 at 2:48 pm
[IMG]http://victorianvilla.com/sims-mitchell/local///tightsq/name/01-image.gif[/IMG]
The Pittsylvania Tribune in September 1874 had this advertisement which read: “Parkers’ Hair Balsom solves your hair problems — solves falling hair, grey hair, promotes new growth. It is highly perfumed, not a dye. 50 cents per bottle. Get it at W. H. Colbert General Store at Tightsqueeze.” -
AnonymousJuly 26, 2006 at 6:10 pm
[B]E — Erewan[/B], Russia. Erewan is also the name of famous waterfalls in Thailand. During a visit there I injured my foot resulting in an infection that would not go away for weeks. I suspect that this infection resulted in my CIDP. Only a few weeks later I noticed the first symptoms, numbness in my feet.
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AnonymousJuly 27, 2006 at 5:57 pm
[B]X — Xainza[/B], Tibet. Always wanted to visit Tibet but Nepal was the closest we came. It was during the rainy season and we didn’t see much of the Himalayas except from the airplane.
Picture shows famous Tibetan stupa in Tibetan refuge settlement near Kathmandu. There is actually a wonderful huge Tibetan stupa in the Rocky Mountains, only 1 hour drive from where we live. Well worth a visit.
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AnonymousJuly 28, 2006 at 9:02 pm
[SIZE=4][COLOR=red][B][IMG]http://www.villagenet.co.uk/sevensisters/villages/upperdickerpic1.jpg[/IMG] [/B][/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=4][COLOR=red][B]Upper Dicker[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE][COLOR=red][B][SIZE=4],Sussex, UK,[/SIZE][/B] is a small village north west of Eastbourne . It seems to have been created around the priory of Michelham[/COLOR]
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AnonymousJuly 29, 2006 at 8:11 pm
[COLOR=red][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=4]Noxapater, Mississ[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=4]ippi[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=red][B]Time Zone:[/B] Central
(Standard Time: GMT -6 hours, DST: GMT -5 hours)[/COLOR]
[COLOR=red][B]Coordinates:[/B] Latitude 32.99 & Longitude -89.07[/COLOR][COLOR=red]Noxapater is a small town (about 2.6 square kilometers) located in east-central Mississippi. The town was incorporated in 1911, and its current population is about 441 folks (according to the 1990 census). [/COLOR]
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[IMG]http://www.noxapater.com/images/sm-noxapatersign2.jpg[/IMG]
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AnonymousJuly 31, 2006 at 7:37 pm
[QUOTE=FiremanDave]Intercourse, PA[/QUOTE]
Hey, I posted that before. My oldest son lives there and we’ve been there many times. 🙂
It’s difficult to take good photos of the black carriages, the only transportation acceptable to the Amish. Having pictures taken is against their religion. Here is one we took – not very good, though.[IMG]http://www.bluemarble.de/forum/Intercourse.jpg[/IMG]
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AnonymousAugust 6, 2006 at 2:00 pm
[COLOR=red][B]Knockemstiff, Ohio[/B][/COLOR]
[SIZE=4][COLOR=red]Knockemstiff is a true ghost town; there’s no main street, no side streets–nothing. It’s located roughly near a rural intersection[/COLOR][/SIZE](Link deleted by Administrator)
[B]A Typical Knockemstiff House [/B]
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AnonymousAugust 6, 2006 at 3:51 pm
[COLOR=red][B]NEEDMORE, TEXAS[/B] (Terry County). Needmore is at the intersection of U.S. Highway 385 and Farm Road 211, eleven miles northwest of Brownfield and four miles south of the Hockley county line in north central Terry County. Early settlers included the Beasley, Green, Brock, and Gibson families. [/COLOR]
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AnonymousAugust 15, 2006 at 12:41 pm
[SIZE=4][COLOR=red]Hardup, Utah[/COLOR][/SIZE]
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[CENTER][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2][COLOR=red][B]Location: 41.89612N 113.15123W[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2][COLOR=red][B]Elevation: 5,040′[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] -
AnonymousAugust 15, 2006 at 11:42 pm
[B]Jügesheim[/B], Germany. A small place only 1/2 hour away from my hometown. The fascinating book “12 Kaiserhofstrasse” tells the true story of a Jewish family hiding out there successfully during WWII. The main character took – in spite of the great danger – the body of his mother to Frankfurt to have her buried there. They went with the horse-drawn hearse through my hometown. It was made into a movie in Germany. I have a recording off TV.
Well, this really belongs to another thread about books.
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AnonymousAugust 18, 2006 at 9:41 pm
[SIZE=3][COLOR=red]Euren, Wisconsin[/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE=3][COLOR=red]The latitude of Euren is 44.618N. The longitude is -87.602W. Elevation is 751 feet[/COLOR][/SIZE]
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AnonymousAugust 22, 2006 at 3:41 pm
[COLOR=red]Ocean Township, NJ[/COLOR]
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AnonymousAugust 23, 2006 at 2:34 pm
[COLOR=red]Xico, Mexico[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#ff0000][/COLOR][COLOR=red][B]Xico[/B] (HEE-ko), city (1990 pop. 12,417) and township, [IMG]http://images.allrefer.com/reference/images/gazetteer/circbul.gif[/IMG] Xico municipio, Veracruz, E Mexico, at SE foot of Cofre de Perote, 10 mi/16 km SSW of Xalapa Enriquez; 19°25’N 97°00’W. Orange growing. Also spelled Jico; formerly called Xicochimalco.[/COLOR]
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AnonymousAugust 24, 2006 at 12:24 pm
[COLOR=red]Yazoo City, Mississippi[/COLOR]
[COLOR=red][U][B]Yazoo City[/B] (YAH-zoo), city (1990 pop. 12,427), [IMG]http://images.allrefer.com/reference/images/gazetteer/circbul.gif[/IMG] Yazoo co., W central Miss., 39 mi/63 km NNW of Jackson, on the Yazoo R.; 32°51’N 90°24’W. It is a trade, processing, and industrial center in a cotton, [/U][/COLOR]
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AnonymousSeptember 2, 2006 at 11:55 pm
[COLOR=red]Ozumba de Alzate, Mexico[/COLOR]
[COLOR=red][B]Ozumba de Alzate[/B] (o-ZOOM-bah dai ahl-SAH-te), town Ozumba municipio, Mexico, central Mexico, at W foot of Popocatepetl, and part of the Zona Metropolitana de la Ciudad de Mexico, 35 mi/56 km SE of [/COLOR][FONT=MS Reference Sans Serif,Verdana][COLOR=red][FONT=MS Reference Sans Serif,Verdana]Mexico City[/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT][COLOR=red]; 19°03’N 98°48’W[/COLOR]
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AnonymousSeptember 11, 2006 at 10:30 am
[B]Ketchikan[/B], Alaska’s “first city,” is 500 miles north of Seattle. Ketchikan is where many cruise ships dock and its historic downtown area, nestled between ocean and mountains, is crowded with tourists in the summer. The town sits atop steep hills and is supported on wooden pilings, with numerous boardwalks, staircases and totem poles. Dozens of canneries have made it the “salmon capital of the world.”
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AnonymousOctober 4, 2006 at 10:23 am
[B]Udonthani[/B], Eastern Thailand, in the province by the same name. It is only 56 km south of Vientiane, the capital of Laos. Udon Thani is probably best known for its archaeological wonders, paramount among them the hamlet of the Ban Chiang where the world’s first Bronze Age civilisation is believed to have flourished more than 5,000 years ago.
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AnonymousOctober 7, 2006 at 8:34 pm
[B]UThong[/B], Thailand, small town 1 hour north of Bangkok. In 2001, we had to bike there every week from our village for Peace Corps training. I always arrived there totally trenched and had to change clothes. That also is the place where I got a lot of shots one of which probably started my CIDP.
[QUOTE=Allaug]Narvik – Norway
(Where did Jfitzen get G from? – Arendal ends in an L).[/QUOTE]
Maybe a senior moment???:D Narvik sounds familiar from WWII stories.
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AnonymousOctober 23, 2006 at 6:10 pm
[B][COLOR=”Red”]Dustdemon[/COLOR][/B][IMG] http://www.bluemarble.de/forum/1.gif%5B/IMG%5D
you are supposed to pick up the last letter from the last post as the starting letter of your city 😀
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AnonymousOctober 28, 2006 at 11:22 am
[B]Solukhumbu[/B], eastern Nepal
KIT, the picture of the Golden Triangle and incline brings back memories for me too. Pittsburgh was my first home in the US for 12 years. Boy, did I have a hard time at first pronouncing Monogahela and Youghiogheny, the two rivers joining at the point.
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AnonymousOctober 30, 2006 at 9:49 pm
[B]Estes Park[/B], Colorado – in a valley of the Rocky Mountains, herds of elk, sometimes hundred or more, can be observed during mating season – Estes Park is only about an hour from where we live.
Hey Jfitzen and Vicki, what are you doing in my state 😀
[IMG]http://www.bluemarble.de/forum/Elk.jpg[/IMG]
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AnonymousOctober 31, 2006 at 10:14 am
[B]San Lois[/B]., Colorado, in the Rockies
[QUOTE=vls][COLOR=”Purple”]Hey norb, wish I was living in your state! I LOVE Colorado and I have family in Henderson. Is that anywhere near you? Vicki[/COLOR][/QUOTE]
Vicki, Henderson is just a few miles northeast of Denver. We are about an hour north but spend several days in Denver every week babysitting our granddaughter. We love Colorado, too.
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AnonymousNovember 6, 2006 at 9:46 pm
[COLOR=red]Zwingle, Iowa[/COLOR]
[B][COLOR=red]Zwingle[/COLOR][/B][COLOR=red][SIZE=2][B]52079[/B][/SIZE] [/COLOR]
[LEFT][SIZE=2][COLOR=red]Zwingle, Iowa, is a village of 94 people located 13 miles south of Dubuque, Iowa, and 15 miles north of Maquoketa on newly completed four lane Highway 61. The community have half on each side of the Jackson/Dubuque County line. Residents are part of the Jackson County labor force that is valued by regional industries. Promoting growth in housing is of primary interest to the community because of its ideal location on Highway 61; centrally located between Maquoketa & Dubuque. Several small businesses are located in Zwingle.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/LEFT] -
AnonymousNovember 7, 2006 at 4:45 pm
[B]Amherst[/B], Burma, also called Kyaikkami, on the coast of the Andaman Sea, in the former independent Mon state, now taken over by the military regime. We had two young Mon refugees in our class in Thailand. Aie Son and Seik now live in the Kanchanaburi province in Thailand and are doing well.
[IMG]http://www.bluemarble.de/forum/Mon_Students.jpg[/IMG]
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AnonymousNovember 9, 2006 at 11:00 am
[B]Ydby[/B], Hurup Thy, Jylland, Denmark
[B]Norb[/B], so you have been to Denmark both on the map and in real life 😀
I have been in Germany several times, but I especially like my trip to the Emil Nolde museum in Seebüll (bei Neukirchen / Nordfriesland)[IMG]http://www.dentist.dk/nolde/storpix/3770.jpg[/IMG]
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AnonymousNovember 12, 2006 at 3:22 pm
Dubois, Pennsylvania……I was going to say Denver but that is not in Pennsylvania and it seems I don’t get out much! LOL
Dubois is in North Central Pennsylvania Beautiful forrests in that area! Lots of pine trees…..some our the largest Christmas Tree farms around here are in that area! 😀
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AnonymousNovember 17, 2006 at 6:13 pm
[B]Durango[/B], Colorado, in the Rockies, home of the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railway. Years ago, we drove on the million dollar highway with our camper coming from New Mexico. We had to break hard and for a long time going down steep hills ad soon noticed a pungent smell. We got scared because we thought our brakes were giving out and stopped in Durango to check. There we realized that the strong smell came from the steam engine waiting to take off.
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AnonymousNovember 19, 2006 at 2:52 pm
Hermitage, Pennsylvania
Small town South of Lake Erie in Mercer County. Today’s Weather Forecast for November 19, 2006 A chance of rain and snow showers. No snow accumulation. Highs in the upper 30s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 40 percent. Mostly farm country and I don’t have a picture of anything I have done while visiting Hermitage.
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AnonymousNovember 19, 2006 at 4:36 pm
[B]Emerald Isle[/B], North Carolina, a small place on the island by the same name off the south-east coast, right next to a place where we used to camp almost every year in the sixties and seventies. The picture shows two of my children at the Atlantic beach. They are now in their 40ies
[IMG]http://www.bluemarble.de/forum/beach.jpg[/IMG]
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AnonymousNovember 24, 2006 at 10:59 am
[B]Manteo[/B], North Carolina, the lost colony. Carol and I got married there 29 years ago by the justice of the peace with a barefooted beach comber as witness who happened to be there.:D 10 years later we got “married” again in a church in Bavaria. Church weddings in Germany are not legal. Couples generally do it twice on the same day, first in the courthouse, then in church.
[B]Victoria,[/B]How do you pronounce it? As in sekwim?
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AnonymousNovember 28, 2006 at 10:37 pm
Dravosburg, Pennsylvania Allegheny County South of Pittsburgh on the Monongahela River. Populations just over 2,000 people. Weather Forecast: Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph not bad for the end of November! FRIDAY – Rain with snow likely. Breezy and much cooler with highs in the mid 40s. Temperature falling into the mid 30s in the afternoon. Brrrrrrr
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AnonymousNovember 30, 2006 at 8:27 am
Oil City, Pennsylvania Venango County Northwestern Pennsylvania on the Allegheny River.
[IMG]http://www.oilcity.org/DWTemps/template1/images/Our-Image/oc-north-side-air.jpg[/IMG]
After the first oil wells were drilled nearby in the 1850’s, Oil City became the headquarters for the Pennzoil, Quaker State, and Wolf’s Head motor oil companies. Oil City is located at the confluence of the Allegheny River and Oil Creek at 41°25′42″N, 79°42′26″W (41.428280, -79.707327)GR1.
It is beautiful there in the Autumn. Nice place to visit at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains!
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AnonymousDecember 1, 2006 at 1:48 pm
[B]Loveland[/B], Colorado, on Valentine’s day people pay for signs posted all along the main road with love greetings. We come through there many times on our trips to Denver to babysit our granddaughter unless we take I-25
[B]Val[/B], very funny, glad I didn’t say it aloud :=)
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AnonymousDecember 6, 2006 at 1:32 pm
[FONT=Georgia][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkorchid]To the memory of Marge, who started this thread…[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
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AnonymousDecember 7, 2006 at 5:40 pm
Doha, Qatar
Norb, have you been to Højer Sluice – the thing to see in Højer and visited by 200,000-300,000 turists every year. The land behind the sluice is in danger, especially if more of Greenland’s ice is melting due to polution and climate changes. In fact, Denmark will be under water if the climate changes continues. I have been there several times, and the land is very flat.
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AnonymousDecember 7, 2006 at 6:35 pm
[B]Niebüll[/B], northern Germany, here cars are being loaded onto a train transporting them across the Hindenburg dam to the Sylt island.
[QUOTE=Ninus] Norb, have you been to Højer Sluice – [/QUOTE]
No, I havn’t, but I am well aware of where we are headed unless the world community and esp. the US does something about CO2 pollution. Many coastal areas will be under water, parts of Manhattan, the Netherlands and many others. Have you seen Al Gore’s “An inconvenient Truth”? It is an eye-opener. I just converted a copy to the European PAL video standard because Carol wants to take it to Thailand in 4 weeks to use with her teaching. Let me know via PM if you want a copy – same goes for Allaug.
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AnonymousDecember 29, 2006 at 4:07 pm
[B]Unalaska[/B], Alaska Aleutean Islands
Val, yes, and this second blizzard ain’t over yet – we’ve had more snow these past 10 days than during the entire last year 😮 No, not sad, kind of exciting, really – except for the poor people stranded and the garbage piling up
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AnonymousJanuary 4, 2007 at 8:56 am
Mildmay, ON, CA
Farming community North West of here. Mennonite country. Some still farm without electricity. We still get the horse and buggys coming through this city of 300,000. Unfortunately, there are several accidents per year involving loss of life and dead horses.
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AnonymousMarch 4, 2007 at 9:30 am
[B]Rüsselsheim[/B], Germany, home of Opel automobile manufacturing
[QUOTE=Allaug]I’m impressed that you know about Notodden Blues Festival, Norb! BTW, my friend Ellen’s son used to play guitar with Notodden Blues Band.[/QUOTE]
Should I give away my secret? I found Notodden on the map program I have here on my laptop. Then I googled the name to get more information about it. We both love open air folk festivals but havn’t been to any for a very long time. -
AnonymousMarch 5, 2007 at 8:14 am
[QUOTE=Jim C]OK Norb, you caught me. The only thing worse than my spelling is my typing. It should have been KASSEL, Sorry ’bout that :rolleyes:[/QUOTE]
No problem, 😀 having grown up in Germany, Kasse just didn’t sound right. I know what you mean about typing. My fingers seem to have a mind of their own, more now than ever before with 2 months between IVIG’s. Time to get back on a schedule again.[B]Erbach[/B], Germany
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AnonymousMarch 17, 2007 at 2:19 pm
[COLOR=red]Inman Mills, SC[/COLOR]
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[IMG]http://www.sconfire.com/patches/spartanburg_inmancommunity.JPG[/IMG]
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