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- 15 years ago
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The Canadian National Vimy Memorial, in France. I think its also called the Vimy Ridge memorial... You're too good - I was just looking at Normandy war memorials and was at the Pointe du Hoc looking at American ones! You're all pretty dang good...I used this on FB because almost all of my American ...
- 15 years ago
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The Canadian National Vimy Memorial, in France. I think its also called the Vimy Ridge memorial... :shock: OH MY GOSH :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :!: :!: :!: :!: The Canadian Vimy Ridge Memorial. :: LEADERBOARD :: libera36: 4 whitetail1985: 3 Yorkie: 3 kthomp: 2 tcernt: 1 tcliffy: 1 :: NEXT :: ...
- 15 years ago
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British Library, London Now this is going to sound feeble, but I thought of the British Library and the pictures I saw were of a 19th Century building! Nothing like that! When did this heap of crap come along! LOL this is its new home: the building was constructed in 1997 and is the largest new pub...
- 15 years ago
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:: NEXT :: http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y134/kelsie_jackson/11.jpg Clue: I maintain a lonely watch over a patch of land men died upon who had never seen it, for a country they were not citizens of, against a nation their own homeland had no dispute with, to liberate a land they had no connexion...
- 15 years ago
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The Brecon Beacons National Park.... Brecon Beacons, Wales. Fires burned at the peaks of the Beacons warned the Welsh of the approach of English armies in ancient times; today, the Beacons are part of a chain of similar peaks across the country that are set alight when the nation celebrates a great...
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- 15 years ago
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Are we supposed to identify the hill?!?! :( :D :D all right, all right: this is tricky--VERY tricky... two points to the person who guesses correctly. Yes, the 'landmark' consists of the hills (and there are more hills); these are somewhere in Britain (but not Middlesex); they served as a warning s...
- 15 years ago
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- 15 years ago
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The Cathedral of Brasília, in Brazil. :shock: :shock: :shock: :!: :!: :!: :!: The Cathedral of Brasilia it is--compare with the bizarre-looking Roman Catholic cathedral in Liverpool... :: LEADERBOARD :: whitetail1985: 3 Yorkie: 2 Libera36: 2 tcernt: 1 tcliffy: 1 :: NEXT :: http://i4.photobucket.com...
- 15 years ago
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Not sure what good it would do though because as far as I can tell all the politicians over here are either stupid, liars or thieves and usually all three :( Not any better here either. Do some research on Washington, DC politics and you will end up disgusted. And this includes the current administ...
- 15 years ago
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British Library, London :shock: well I'll be a monkey's uncle ( there's an 'Americanism' for you!)... The British Library, Bloomsbury, London: the second-largest library on earth and one of seven National Depository Libraries in the United Kingdom...where Heaven and earth meet, as far as the histor...
- 15 years ago
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- 15 years ago
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Another stab - could it be a Cathedral built in the English Gothic style but built in another country? Say America? Say Washington D.C? That woman in the photo doesn't look English so it got me thinking........ 8) Go on, give me a point :wink: ;) oh OK! I think you know it's... Washington National ...
- 15 years ago
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The Parliament House in Canberra, Australia. Oh, and BTW, that has to be the ugliest seat of government, ever. It reminds me of the Vietnam Veterans memorial in Washington, which is sorta supposed to be depressing. Was the Australian Parliament House designed by somone nostalgic for the good old da...
- 15 years ago
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