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I've long been delighted and impressed that the people who read my journal originate from far and wide. What I'd love is for you to comment below, and tell me which region/country you are from. And I'd love if you could add to that one particular thing that makes your part of the world unique. It might be music, a TV show, a recipe, a landmark, a specific historical fact. Anything you are proud of, whether other people might be aware of it or not.
fluterbev's journalI've long been delighted and impressed that the people who read my journal originate from far and wide. What I'd love is for you to comment below, and tell me which region/country you are from. And I'd love if you could add to that one particular thing that makes your part of the world unique. It might be music, a TV show, a recipe, a landmark, a specific historical fact. Anything you are proud of, whether other people might be aware of it or not.
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I'm not sure if anything makes this area unique, but it *is* less than an hour from Cardiff, if that's any good? :oD
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And as for a landmark? Um...Castro! Golden Gate Bridge! Birthplace of Robert Frost! There's so much good here! (Geographically, that's SF and north of where I am, but unfortunately where I live is very...very dull.)
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Nothing wrong with being form the US, I've got quite a few of you here on LJ -- and SF as well *g*
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man, now I want to come over and shop XD
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We, uhm, have wawa's? And apparently, underneath the pinelands is one of the largest (and purest) aquifers in the country. Or world. I never did pay much attention on those field trips to the forest.
I was too busy attempting to get lost in the woods. *g*
ALSO, the pinelands has plants and animals that are normally only found in the artic. And there's endangered things and whatnot.
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Sounds like a pretty beautiful area, I'd say.
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I was trying to get away from the rest of the class, they were just so LOUD - I love going into the woods, but I prefer walking around by myself, or with one of my younger siblings.
It's peaceful - the quiet surrounds you, and if you hold still for a moment, you can see some awesome wildlife, and maybe see a bald eagle (rare-ish), red tail hawks (all over the place) or once and a while, a blue heron! *g*
Seriously, I was allowed to run around barefoot in the woods during the summer when I was little. *g*
(One part of the pine barrens has a brown bear problem though - about an hour and a half away from where I live).
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The town where I live used to be the capital of Scotland way long before that honour went to Edinburgh. King Robert the Bruce was burried in the Abbey here (although his heart was burried at Melrose Abbey) and the town is also the birth place of Andrew Carnegie.
The thing I'm most proud of about the area I live in, is the people. Even though the town is city sized now, it still retains a lot of the values of a small town, including fairly friendly people, who will go out of their way to help.
Landmarks - well, the Abbey is a big one obviously, and then there's Carnegie Hall (though much smaller than the one in America)
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Once of these days Im going to make it down to Cardiff to fangirl Torchwood. Maybe when Xim comes in the summer. How cool would that be?
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And I agree, you people are a lovely lot -- friendly more often than most other people I've run into.
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I live in Choisy-le-Roi, which is in Val-de-Marne, which is in Ile-de-France, which is in France. Suburb of Paris, to use a reference everyone will recognise :-)
So, Choisy - though it wasn't Choisy-le-Roi yet - was first mentioned in 1176. I can't say anything really interesting happened back then, though.
The city is pretty unspecial now - especially as the Parisian suburb doesn't have the best reputation nowadays - but it wasn't always so; in 1678 Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, duchesse de Montpensier, grandaughter of Henry IV, had a castle built in the town. At the time Choisy-le-Roi was called Choisy-Mademoiselle ['choisy' = 'choose' and 'mademoiselle' = 'miss'].
Then in 1739 Louis XV got the castle, where he sometimes lived when he wanted to hunt and stuff. He decided that Choisy-Mademoiselle was to become Choisy-le-Roi ['roi' meaning 'king']
In 1746 Madame de Pompadour lived in Choisy. And from 1775 to 1780, Marie-Antoinette came to Choisy often for entertainment.
Also, during the Revolution, Danton and Rouget de L'isle - author of La Marseillaise - stayed in Choisy every now and then. At the time, the name changed - for obvious reasons - and became Choisy-sur-Seine for a little while - because the Seine crosses the city.
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Random facts: San Diego has the largest Naval fleet in the world and the two-mile long Coronado Bay bridge is built on floating devices where the center of the bridge can be moved in time of war so that all of the ships docked at the naval base can get out of the harbor.
The city also has an annoying Chicken for a mascot. We're weird like that.
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Well, you didn't choose the mascot, and I think the idea of mascots is that they have to be annoying and strange.
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I think my favorite thing to show people in Nashville is the full-scale replica of the Parthenon (http://www.nashville.gov/parthenon), complete with a 40-foot-tall statue of Athena (http://www.nashville.gov/Parthenon/Athena.htm). Because, you know, the *first* thing people think when they hear "Nashville" is "Greek architecture." :) And the Bicentennial Mall (http://www.tennessee.gov/environment/parks/Bicentennial/historical/index.shtml) with its 18,000 lb floating globe. Also, there are fountains (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jinjifore/652934415/).
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I've grown up in town at the North Sea, called Wilhelmshaven, named after William the Great, King of Prussia. It's Germany's biggest deep water harbour and the navy's main base.
Right now I'm living approx. 140 miles south, in a small town near Bielefeld. This town is known all over the world because of the toffee Werther's Original. The company Storck was founded here, but moved to the neighbour-town Halle/Westphalia, which you may know because of the tennis tournament Gerry Weber Open.
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Now I have an urge for some Riesen or Werther's Echte -- really, not a good thing half past midnight XD
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Good thing I don't really like Werther's Echte. Though some Riesen...
Oh... do you know Dr.Oetker? That's coming from Bielefeld, too. Puddings, pies, ...
Okay, okay, I stop. ;p
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It also has some amazing regional cuisine that no matter what you are told you can't get anywhere else - for example a philly cheesesteak is not a philly cheesesteak if it isn't on an Amaroso roll, and they are a local professional bakery that does not deliver much beyond the immediate region. It does make a difference, and don't let anyone ever tell you different.
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It's frowned upon in formal communication, of course, so I don't think I've ever heard the city itself referred just as Philly in the news or during a political speech or whatnot, but on the other hand I've also never heard a local call the sandwich a Philadelphia Cheesesteak, it's always a Philly Cheesesteak, even on local news programs/radio stations, and with the whole Geno's Steaks sign controversy in the past year they have been talking about Philly cheesesteaks quite a bit in the local news. It was all I heard driving to work the day after the ruling came down that the sign was not discriminatory (Local shop owner put up a sign that read "This is America: when ordering, please speak English". He was accused of violating a city Fair Practice ordinance, and went to court over it. Late last week he won the case and the sign can stay up)
Non locals of course refer to Philadelphia cheesesteaks, but locals, never.
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I went to college up in north jersey for a year and a half, and they tried to claim a minute steak with melted cheese you put on nacho's at a ballpark? Was a Philly Cheesesteak.
I just about cried when I saw it. I. That is not a philly cheesesteak.
And let's not talk about the cheesesteak I purchased when in CO for a week.
*is from South Jersey*
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One of the most historically liberal towns in my neck of the US. We're a dot of blue in an ocean of red. Now a days we're known for our music scene being the most LGBT friendly town around. But we've got a pretty sweet history as well.
We were founded my abolishonist from Massachusetts prior to the Civil War. We were the capital city of Bleeding Kansas & we got burnt to the ground (once by our own County Sheriff).
We're the home of two universities, the Univ of Kansas (go Jayhawks!) & Haskell Indian Nations Univ (longest continuously running IN school in the US).
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Sin City is more than enough to make it special ^_^
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As far as I can tell, it's biggest plus is being almost exactly equidistant from Washington DC, state capital Annapolis and MD's second biggest city (with a killer aquarium) Baltimore.
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