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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 06/28/2009 : 23:07:16
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1. What is the name of this snug little village?
2. Where is it located?
3. What is the primary claim to world fame of this place?
Hint #1: If you know the first answer, you will probably deduce the other two easily and without research.
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Edited by - HalfMooner on 06/29/2009 01:59:07
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 06/29/2009 : 09:09:43 [Permalink]
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It's very green and luxurious.
Small fields, apparently surrounded by short walls.
It might be rural England or Normandy.
If it's Normandy, chances are the village was involved in D-day.
I couldn't find an aerial picture of the place, but it could be 'Saint mére l'église'.
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Chippewa
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USA
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Posted - 06/29/2009 : 12:38:40 [Permalink]
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| I would have said it was THE Village where Patrick McGoohan awoke to become The Prisoner. (But its not because there's no central square and band concert pavilion, nor is it on the coast of Wales. (Portmeirion to be exact.) |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 06/29/2009 : 18:16:41 [Permalink]
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Hint # 2: What's in a name? This hamlet's fame.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 06/29/2009 : 20:22:37 [Permalink]
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| Hint # 3: This village is in the UK. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 06/30/2009 : 01:08:58 [Permalink]
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Okay, Hint # 4: The village is in Wales. That really should lead someone to the answer.
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Hawks
SFN Regular
Canada
1383 Posts |
Posted - 06/30/2009 : 06:25:52 [Permalink]
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Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch
Claim to fame should be pretty easy... |
METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL
It's a small, off-duty czechoslovakian traffic warden! |
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Hawks
SFN Regular
Canada
1383 Posts |
Posted - 06/30/2009 : 06:30:57 [Permalink]
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... it's the longest city name in Wales.
Alledgedly, the longest in the world belongs to "Krungthepmahanakonbowornratanakosinmahintarayudyayamahadiloponoparatanarajthaniburiromudomrajniwesmahasatarnamornpimarnavatarsatitsakattiyavisanukamphrasit" (also known as Bangkok)in Thailand. At least, that is what a website says that the Guiness Book of Records say...
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METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL
It's a small, off-duty czechoslovakian traffic warden! |
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 06/30/2009 : 07:36:22 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Hint # 3: This village is in the UK.
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Initially, I thought about Stonehenge in the Southern UK but the closest village was quite different from that and instead went for the Normandy village as the map seemed more compatible.
But Stonehenge ain't in Wales... so...
Avalon or some other King Arthur related site then?
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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 06/30/2009 : 11:50:33 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Hawks
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch
Claim to fame should be pretty easy...
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You are correct. Congratulations, Hawks!
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