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André in Zuid-Afrika
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| Elaine wrote: | | André in Zuid-Afrika wrote: | What is "It's a Wonderful Life"?  |
It's a wonderful little gem of a movie starring Jimmy Stewart as a down-on-his-luck businessman who contemplates suicide. So an angel enters his life and shows him what life would be like if he had never existed. They show it every Christmas season here. |
Of course! I've seen it.
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Deborah
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| Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 4:06 am Post subject: |
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| Elaine wrote: | | Deborah wrote: | | Except for the one time I tried to watch it about a year ago (and couldn't finish it), no. |
Did it make your tooth ache? |
I don't really know -- the insulin shock was overwhelming. |
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Deborah
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| Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 4:10 am Post subject: |
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| Deborah wrote: | | Elaine wrote: | | Oh! Salzburg. ?? |
Yes!! Salt City, Austria. |
Oops! I should have said Salt Castle, Austria. (But Salt City sounds better.) |
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Julian
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| Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 9:01 am Post subject: |
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Deborah & Fab:
Palermo and Malta (were you thinking of Valletta?) are good guesses but I'm afraid both of you have veered a little too far east.  |
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fab
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| Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 9:14 am Post subject: |
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| Gibraltar ? This could explain to have at same time mediterranean, Spanish and English look ? |
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Benjamin [inactive]
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| Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 9:49 am Post subject: |
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| I've been to Gibraltar twice and I don't immediately recognise it, but you could be right. Gibraltar is a very strange place, by the way — I'd never seen so much British patriotism before I went there. It really is quite disturbing, lol. |
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Julian
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| Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 10:00 am Post subject: |
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| fab wrote: | | Gibraltar ? This could explain to have at same time mediterranean, Spanish and English look ? |
You're getting warmer. But I don't think the English had anything to do with it's history. |
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Deborah
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| Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 10:55 am Post subject: |
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| Tenerife? Or one specific town on Tenerife? |
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Julian
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| Deborah wrote: | | Tenerife? Or one specific town on Tenerife? |
No. It's Melilla, Spain, on the North African coast.
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Deborah
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 6:09 am Post subject: |
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I never knew Spain extended to the Africa. Good one, Julian!
Here's another place I've been -- it's the capitol:
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Loic
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 7:07 am Post subject: |
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Is it Istanbul? I am just stabbing in the dark here.
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Deborah
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 10:50 am Post subject: |
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| loic wrote: | | Is it Istanbul? I am just stabbing in the dark here. |
It's not Istanbul, but the city was attacked and probably dominated for a time by the Turks, at some point(s) in its history. Its history, by the way, is a long one -- about 1500 or 1600 years.
Here's more:
Here's a nice painting from 1839:
Folkloric dance troupe:
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fab
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Maybe somewhere in the Caucasian region. Armenia, Azerbaidjan ? |
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Deborah
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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| fab wrote: | | Maybe somewhere in the Caucasian region. Armenia, Azerbaidjan ? |
That's the right region (the Caucasus, that is). |
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Julian
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| Deborah wrote: | | fab wrote: | | Maybe somewhere in the Caucasian region. Armenia, Azerbaidjan ? |
That's the right region (the Caucasus, that is). |
Well, I know you've been to Russia, so I'm guessing you've also been to Georgia ...  Tbilisi? |
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Deborah
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Julian wrote: | | Deborah wrote: | | fab wrote: | | Maybe somewhere in the Caucasian region. Armenia, Azerbaidjan ? |
That's the right region (the Caucasus, that is). |
Well, I know you've been to Russia, so I'm guessing you've also been to Georgia ... Tbilisi? |
Bingo! Beautiful თბილისი (Tbilisi), capitol of საკარტველო (Sakartvelo/Georgia).
I don't know whether the above transliterations into კართული (Kartuli/Georgian) are correct, but I figured them out using this transliteration website:
http://ncnever.free.fr/translit/
(I know that the spelling of Tbilisi is correct, though, since I found the word on some website.) |
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Deborah
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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| I just looked at a Wikipedia article on the Georgian language, which shows the same spelling for "Kartuli" in Georgian that I had, so I assume my transliteration of Sakartvelo (Georgia) was also correct. |
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patriccke
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| Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:05 am Post subject: |
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| Julian wrote: | | No. It's Melilla, Spain, on the North African coast. |
Great choice! I had never seen any pic of the city although my grand-parents lived there for quite a while |
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Elaine
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 3:32 am Post subject: |
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| Deborah wrote: | Folkloric dance troupe:
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I love that outfit! I'd get all Isadora Duncan with that on.
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fab
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A new one :
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