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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 08/16/2009 : 23:30:39
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This was once a stately city, now abandoned.
1. By what name is it best known to English speakers?
2. Where is it?
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bngbuck
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 08/17/2009 : 10:19:55 [Permalink]
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Mooner.....
I think I have an idea, but you sternly told me not to guess (man, that ruse didn't work) so I'd have to do the google-wiki-guessy-quicky thing.
I'm out of here (USA) for a week and a half today, and in a hurry to catch a plane, so I won't be able to do this one! Podcat, Randy & Simon all seem to have generated interest! May the best man win!
Hope I don't miss too many of your creations while I'm gone -- they seem to be getting harder with practice. That Dembski deal was a real head-thumper!
I'll see if I can get a shot of where I'm going and give YOU at crack at solving one of these brain-wrackers!!
Bill |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 08/17/2009 : 10:26:59 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by bngbuck
Mooner.....
I think I have an idea, but you sternly told me not to guess (man, that ruse didn't work) so I'd have to do the google-wiki-guessy-quicky thing.
I'm out of here (USA) for a week and a half today, and in a hurry to catch a plane, so I won't be able to do this one! Podcat, Randy & Simon all seem to have generated interest! May the best man win!
Hope I don't miss too many of your creations while I'm gone -- they seem to be getting harder with practice. That Dembski deal was a real head-thumper!
I'll see if I can get a shot of where I'm going and give YOU at crack at solving one of these brain-wrackers!!
Bill
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Have a fine trip, Bill. I'm sure the other players will appreciate you being out of action. I will appreciate the break, anyway!
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R.Wreck
SFN Regular
USA
1191 Posts |
Posted - 08/17/2009 : 15:52:44 [Permalink]
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Wild guess:
Pripyat
Ukraine |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 08/17/2009 : 16:08:29 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by R.Wreck
Wild guess:
Pripyat
Ukraine
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It's not, sorry.
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 08/17/2009 : 21:18:21 [Permalink]
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Looks like an ancient fortified city with three layers of fortifications.
Doesn't seem that big. More a big fortress than an actual city or an ancient city from the bronze iron age.
Maybe Middle-Eastern, although an ancient Greek city, with the big square shape being the Acropolis, might fit too.
Could be a small Roman city too, I guess, like Venta Icenorum, even if it seems a bit small. The squarishness certainly would fit, and the central structure could be a forum/marketplace of the basilica... |
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 - 08/17/2009 : 22:14:26 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Simon
Looks like an ancient fortified city with three layers of fortifications.
Doesn't seem that big. More a big fortress than an actual city or an ancient city from the bronze iron age.
Maybe Middle-Eastern, although an ancient Greek city, with the big square shape being the Acropolis, might fit too.
Could be a small Roman city too, I guess, like Venta Icenorum, even if it seems a bit small. The squarishness certainly would fit, and the central structure could be a forum/marketplace of the basilica...
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Not very close.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 08/18/2009 : 01:36:40 [Permalink]
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Hint # 1: This city has an important place in Western poetry.
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 08/18/2009 : 04:15:52 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Hint # 1: This city has an important place in Western poetry. |
Then it must be Nantucket. |
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moakley
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 08/18/2009 : 04:29:34 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Originally posted by HalfMooner
Hint # 1: This city has an important place in Western poetry. |
Then it must be Nantucket.
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 That's got to be right.
edited: Or at least worth mooner points |
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tw101356
Skeptic Friend
USA
333 Posts |
Posted - 08/18/2009 : 06:03:35 [Permalink]
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I do decree, sittin' there on the banks of the sacred river Alph, it sure looks like a top-notch spot for a stately pleasure dome.
Due to Coleridge, we know it as Xanadu. It's located in the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia about 17 miles NW of Duolun. |
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Dave W.
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USA
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 08/18/2009 : 08:06:09 [Permalink]
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Good job!
*Grumble; way younger than I thought too... Why didn't I thought about Easter civilizations? Grumble, grumble* |
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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tw101356
Skeptic Friend
USA
333 Posts |
Posted - 08/18/2009 : 08:54:54 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Simon
Good job!
*Grumble; way younger than I thought too... Why didn't I thought about Easter civilizations? Grumble, grumble*
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Thank you.
I first thought it was of Roman origin, but it didn't look quite right. Romans would not have built the inner fortifications up against the outer wall, and would have had corner bastions to maximize the field of fire from ballistas. (Rectangular wall first, then add gatehouses, then add corner bastions, then additional wall bastions. Just didn't look Roman-style.)
Could not be an old population center that grew to this size because those evolve in an irregular fashion. Had to be a planned city created out of nothing by an intelligent designer. The terrain looked arid as well.
Thought about it for a bit, then reread Halfmooner's original post and subsequent hint.
..."stately"...poetry....lightbulb...Xanadu!
Then another 30 minutes locating it. That took a while because some jerk marketer from Porlock Credit Repair kept calling on the phone and interrupting me.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 08/18/2009 : 14:36:45 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Originally posted by HalfMooner
Hint # 1: This city has an important place in Western poetry. |
Then it must be Nantucket.
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Oh, that's a good one! No, but one point for humor.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 08/18/2009 : 14:38:49 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by tw101356
I do decree, sittin' there on the banks of the sacred river Alph, it sure looks like a top-notch spot for a stately pleasure dome.
Due to Coleridge, we know it as Xanadu. It's located in the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia about 17 miles NW of Duolun.
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We have a winner for two points! Congrats, tw101356!
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What on Earth?: Dead City
