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02/25/2014 06:39:42 PM · #826 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Awesome. JP, can you do the next one? It's our anniversary and I'm not really "here" :-) |
Certainly. And happy anniversary! |
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02/25/2014 06:39:50 PM · #827 |
Originally posted by alfresco:
Confluence of the Amazon River and the Negro River, near Manaus Brazil? |
it's Amazon river, but it's not Negro River nor Manaus |
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02/25/2014 06:47:20 PM · #828 |
ok, you both are 50% correct. It's the confluence with the Amazon and Tapajós rivers in front of Santarém, Pará
An amazing place, I was there last September.
BTW, happy anniversary Bear
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02/25/2014 06:55:17 PM · #829 |
50-50 it is! Thanks for the info, Lele - it looks like an amazing place :)
Here's my Bearsanniversarysoimposting place (ignore the person, she's not the place):
Message edited by author 2014-02-25 18:57:39. |
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02/25/2014 09:16:13 PM · #830 |
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02/25/2014 09:31:08 PM · #831 |
| Sycamore Tavern, Montpilier, Hanover County, VA ?? |
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02/26/2014 04:22:32 AM · #832 |
Don - close, but no.
Lele - correct US coast, incorrect US State. |
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02/26/2014 06:09:38 AM · #833 |
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02/26/2014 01:15:32 PM · #834 |
Originally posted by alfresco:
50-50 it is! Thanks for the info, Lele - it looks like an amazing place :)
Here's my Bearsanniversarysoimposting place (ignore the person, she's not the place):
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Sycamore tree in Maryland? |
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02/26/2014 01:46:53 PM · #835 |
Originally posted by Lelez:
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I'm jumping the gun here, as I don't think your guess received 100% approval rating, but your photo is of the Desert Botanical Garden in Papago Park, Phoenix/Scottsdale, AZ. I lived about a block from it in the 90s. |
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02/26/2014 02:28:05 PM · #836 |
Originally posted by bohemka:
Originally posted by Lelez:
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I'm jumping the gun here, as I don't think your guess received 100% approval rating, but your photo is of the Desert Botanical Garden in Papago Park, Phoenix/Scottsdale, AZ. I lived about a block from it in the 90s. |
I thought I missed only the state, sorry :(
Yes, you're absolutely correct!
I went there last October and loved the place. I never saw so many kinds of cactus in my whole life. |
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02/26/2014 04:06:28 PM · #837 |
Originally posted by TrollMan:
Sycamore tree in Maryland? |
Two states off.
What's protocol? I think we can just skip mine as Lele has posted and Scott answered correctly.
Mine was Vassar College campus, Poughkeepsie, NY.
To quote Wikipedia: "A designated arboretum, the campus features more than 200 species of trees, a native plant preserve, and a 400-acre (1.6 km2) ecological preserve."
Scott - you're up. |
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02/26/2014 05:13:23 PM · #838 |
| Do you know what kind of tree it is? I'm just curious since I did a lot of googling in an attempt to find it. |
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02/26/2014 05:37:42 PM · #839 |
| Thanks. I'm actually headed out for a while and to not disrupt the flow of the game would like to turn it over to Are or whomever is ready. |
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02/26/2014 07:22:28 PM · #840 |
Originally posted by TrollMan:
Do you know what kind of tree it is? I'm just curious since I did a lot of googling in an attempt to find it. |
I believe it is the London Plane Tree mentioned in the Vassar Encyclopedia:
"For many years, Vassar College was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for the London Plane tree on the library lawn, which sported the longest unsupported branch in the world. The record was held until one year when the Guinness representative showed up early, and noticed that the college had failed to remove the wire support attaching the branch to the tree trunk, as they had done in previous years. This legend is unconfirmed." |
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02/26/2014 07:30:51 PM · #841 |
| Interesting — I just heard something about the Plane tree being a hybrid of European and American species, and that it's the most popularly-planted urban tree in the world ... |
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02/26/2014 07:41:09 PM · #842 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Interesting — I just heard something about the Plane tree being a hybrid of European and American species, and that it's the most popularly-planted urban tree in the world ... |
That is interesting. I had never heard of the London Plane Tree until we had visited the Vassar campus and I had forgotten what the tree in the photo was until Trollman asked and I had to look it up. But then again I'm a rural-ite and our trees came with the land, we didn't have to put in new ones :) |
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02/27/2014 05:43:45 PM · #843 |
We seem to have got off track ... so here's an easy one to get us going again.
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02/27/2014 06:08:17 PM · #844 |
| A oblique view of Half-Dome? |
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02/27/2014 06:28:37 PM · #845 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
A oblique view of Half-Dome? |
winner winner chicken dinner. and now, you are up .... hopefully with something a wee bit more challenging ... :) |
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02/27/2014 07:05:03 PM · #846 |
Challenging? I'm not 100% sure where this is myself, but I'm sure one of you will know!
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02/27/2014 07:14:53 PM · #847 |
| I've never seen a cable-stayed bridge with such narrow fans of the cables... |
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02/27/2014 07:34:18 PM · #848 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
I've never seen a cable-stayed bridge with such narrow fans of the cables... |
I know, usually more like this ... I think that maybe it's an early model ... |
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03/02/2014 10:50:24 AM · #849 |
No one is guessing anymore for GeneralE's image? Then it is time for a new one.
Name the place and describe it's connection with music.
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03/02/2014 11:14:01 AM · #850 |
| Dorinish Island in Ireland, John Lennon's private island he never got to live on? |
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