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I have exactly forty three minutes of battery time left...

My new cable won't be here till the end of the week. I really can't spend time browsing around on LJ (I'm having to work with a pen, on paper! O:! Like it's the Middle Ages or something... *g*)

So I'm taking a leaf out of

fluterbev's book; that is to say, copying this word-for word from her fabuouls meme:

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.

Please. Entertain me! I am so very bored!

Meep! 39 minutes and falling...

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I'm British, but for the past 18 years I've lived in Turkey, so I guess I'm 'from' here now! I live on the south east coast. As to what makes this part unique..hmm.. we have a historical landmark here called 'Maiden Castle' which is a castle built out at sea. Legend has it that a King was told in a prophecy that a snake would bite and killl his daughhter, so he had a castle built at sea for her because there are no sea snakes in Turkey. One day a merchant came calling with a basket of fruit, inside the basket was, of course, a snake and the girl was bitten and died.
Used as a summer disco now, floodlit at night it looks incredible. Here's a link to a photo if you're *really* bored..*g*:
http://www.anatolia.luwo.be/index.htm?Kizkalesi.htm&1

I am from Houston, Texas. Born and raised. Home to Johnson Space Center, and the site of the Battle of San Jacinto. For those of you who don't know Texas history, The Battle of San Jacinto was the decisive battle where the Mexican General Santa Anna's army was beaten once and for all, and Texas won her independence. The battle cry at San Jacinto was, "Remember the Alamo" and "Remember Goliad."

As an interesting aside when the Texians attacked, Santa Anna was literally caught with his pants down in his tent, entertaining a young lady of mixed anglo and black heritage. The song "The Yellow Rose of Texas" was written as a tribute to her, but the original lyrics were no where near as nice and sanitized as they are now:)

I'm originally from Maine in the USA. We're known for our lobsters and our reluctance to pronounced our "R"s -- e.g. "cah" is "car".

I live in California now though for -- wow -- 17 years. Specifically, in the San Francisco Bay Area.

I live in New Jersey, in the US. From my living room window I have a perfect view of midtown Manhattan, dominated by the Empire State Building. It will never stop making me boggle.

(Pen and paper -- yeouch! ::hugs you::)

For the meme -- hmm. Not gonna repeat what I already said on

fluterbev's and

starwatcher307's posts. So...

Grew up in southern Illinois; pretty countryside -- mix of prairie and the far northeastern fringes of the Ozark Mountains' foothills. Very German area in ancestry (a *lot* of sausage :-)), very farm, very small town, but also a lot of coal mining in the area (usually strip mines). Very windy. Pretty close to the Mississippi River.

Savannah -- hmm. There's a Bamboo Farm here that grows all kinds of bamboo (including timber bamboo, which I like to visit and just stand next to, with my hand wrapped around it, and feel weirdly and completely at peace). You can often see dolphins when you're at the beach, and sometimes see them in the tidal creeks. (I've seen a shark in a tidal river, too -- the fin only, because the water's too muddy to see below the surface.) The architecture downtown is truly astonishing, and hard to enjoy because of the number of cars (parked, and being driven), tour buses, trollies, horse-drawn carriages, girl scouts (pilgrimages to the Juliette Gordon Low house), and tourists in search of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil...

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.

"very bored!???
Not! This your friend here of Brazil not will leave you like this.
The song down is for cheer you:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BmDqff8gcE&feature=related
As they say this way is for move the skeleton!
Well what can I do for leave you happier?
Want an hug?
Well I think that know already everything about myself.
I am of the city of São Paulo, Still do not it dominate the English, love, love to read fictions.

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I'm Australian, and live in Brisbane which is the capital of Queensland, the most north-eastern mailnland state.
Australia has animals which aren't found anywhere else in the world - kangaroos, koalas, wombats etc.
Most of the country's population is crowded onto the coastal strip where you find man-made wonders such as the Sydney Harbour Bridge (at its time,the longest single-span bridge in the world) and the Sydney Opera House.
The further away from the coast you go, the hotter and dryer it becomes. In the heart of Australia you find Ayers Rock, or Uluru to give it its Aboriginal name, which is the largest monolith in the world.

Asutralia is also home to a weird collection of Big Things which grace our roadsides near tourist attractions; The Big Prawn at Ballina, The Big Banana at Coffs Harbour, The Big Pineapple at Nambour to name a few; huge fibreglass replications of objects for which the areas are famous.

The Big Banana

The Big Prawn

A guide to the Big Things can be found here: http://www.richardandjo.com/bigthings.html

I'm from New York City, and we have every kind of food in the world here. Some of it might be expensive or hard to find, but if people eat it, we've got it. I love my ~~food~~ city. :-)

I live near a tiny (300 people) town an hour east of Perth, Western Australia, near the Goldfields Pipeline which supplies water to towns more than 500km inland. Wikipedia says it "may be the longest water mains in the world." Fortunately it doesn't actually cross my property!

i live in Bear Waller Holler, Kentucky, about five miles from the Tennessee line, United States of America. A holler is a narrow valley between two ridges. I already talked about how the area was known for moonshine, in

fluterbev's lj, so I'll mention about the caves in the are area. I live about an hour and a half from Mammoth Cave, which is huge and is a national park. There are caves all over the area, some small and some larger. There's a small one I can see from my front porch, across the creek and halfway up the hill. There's on on top of the ridge, a small one, that years ago, I was lowered into to take a look. Heres a link about Mammoth Cave, if you are really, really bored.
http://www.terragalleria.com/parks/np.mammoth-cave.all.html
Laurie

Okay, very very cool you can see a cave from your front porch!

And -- while I have never been *lowered* into a cave ::eyes you admiringly:: -- there are quite a few caves in the Ozarks and we went on tours of some of the bigger ones, and I think some of the mountain landscape there (and even the moonshine history, since I've seen decaying old stills) is sorta related to your scenery. So looking at the (beautiful; I love Terragalleria) photos of Mammoth Cave was sort of like Old Home Week, and I could feel that damp chilly cave air. I'm glad you posted that link. ::waxes nostalgic::

I'm so sorry you're bored and will cross my fingers for you that the new cable will arrive sooner.

Since your request came last and thus first on my f-list browsing today, you'll get the original. Depending on time I'll later probably just cut and paste from this (though, who knows, I might feel bored, too, and get inventive).

I live in Germany, in a very old town called Goslar. Nobody I ever tell about it knows it but from the hordes of tourists we get every year and the fact that someone at UNESCO once found our old (and really very pretty, even if I do say so myself) town center worthy of being marked a "world cultural heritage", I suppose it's not that unheard of. We have crooked little streets, lined by crooked little half-timbered houses, some panelled with slate, some with wood, some of which are so small I wouldn't move in there even if I were just by myself, let alone had a husband or family, which I suppose the people who built them 500+ years ago had. Parking is a bitch of course, but that's why I live in walking distance from the town center on a foothill of the Harz (mid-height mountain range somewhere in the middle of Germany, south of Hannover) which is (very originally) called "stone mountain" (Steinberg). And (apart from the medival, pretty town center) the Harz, with its wooded, old mountains, national park, more little lakes than I can count and great mountain biking and trekking routes is really what I like best about my home (that's only been my home now for a little more than four years.)

ETA:

Turns out I had some more to tell at L.'s and Bev.'s journals. Here are the links in case you're interested:

http://starwatcher307.livejournal.com/256422.html?thread=1534886#t1534886

http://fluterbev.livejournal.com/497616.html?thread=6183120#t6183120

Oh, wow, Skye! It's so cool to see your town -- thanks for posting the link! I'm bookmarking to look at more of it later (I've already spent about six years' worth of time this evening, wrestling with LJ slowness, so I've got to be firm and go be productive for a bit now). But the photo of the Market Square just makes me whimper with the wish I could walk around it in person. *So* beautiful. I'm totally looking forward to looking at more of the photos and also the other info you posted.

Just wow!

... c&p from Bev's lj - too darn lazy to write something new.

i'm currently living in New Orleans, Louisiana, but as a military brat i was 1) born in Germany and 2) brought up in the St Louis area.

things about NOLA: mardi gras, jazz festivals, french quarter, katrina. i don't know a whole lot about the local dishes - i'm not a cook and not into cajun cuisine, which is the local ethnic food here.

one thing i'm proud of/ love: my military bratness and heritage. it's so cool that in some ways, my 'family' is 3million people strong, plus all their dependents. we're bound together by similar experiences, stresses, and foods. like SOS (known as shit on a shingle): chipped beef in gravy, over toast. total comfort food. mom used to make it with cream of mushroom soup, and alas, i can't have that anymore as i'm lactose intolerant.

one oddball fact about the american military: we all seem to have an understanding of a kind of pidgin german. at least, this holds true for everyone in the military that *i've* ever met. i was thinking about this the other day, when i realized i could tell anyone who'd been in the military Das ist streng verboten! , and they'd know exactly what i meant, and exactly what kind of emphasis i meant. good times.

-bs

Sorry I'm late to the party.

I'm in Virginia, in the US. Hmmmm, I'm about 40 miles west of Washington, DC. Is that close enough of a landmark? If not, we also have the lovely Luray Caverns about an hour from here in the Blue Ridge Mountains. http://www.luraycaverns.com/

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