I'm entered for today

 

Got my entry in for the day.
I love that big purse!

The answer to Thursday's location is Beirut! 

(a search for "capital of Lebanon" would have given you the correct answer)

When I was there the city and its waterfront area was one of the most beautiful places on the Mediterranean.  I learned to fall in love with falafels,  hummus, and the "Ancient Histories" professor.  (But that's another story!)

Probably the most memorable thing about my time there was watching the mortar shells fly over the college compound, on the top of the hill, toward the Palestinian Refugee Camp in the valley beyond. 

Whizzzzzzzzz ................. BOOM!       Whizzzzzzzzz .................. BOOM!       Whizz ... WHAM!!!!   

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That one fell a little short and exploded just outside the compound!!!! 

Oh well, just another normal day in the scenic Middle East!

(the unfortunate thing is that in 3 months a thousand years of culture was wiped out ...for what???? ... for bloody hell ... what!!!!!   I still to this day don't know why!)

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We had a total of 12 entries for Thursday!  No wrong LOCATION answers!!  And lots of good number guesses!!!  THANKS EVERYBODY!  (Somebody actually came close to the "magic" number!    )

Question for SATURDAY 31JAN08:  (#3)  (SATURDAY!  Hint...hint...hint!    midnight to midnight .... )

(This one is pretty simple ... just ask David)

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In 1975,  A friend of Loren’s was sent by the US government to SE Asia to design a sewer system and took Loren with him to our “mystery City” which had a ‘stinky’ problem. 

      In the span of over two hundred years, it has been the political, social and economic center for much of South East Asia and Indochina as well.  Its influence in the arts, politics, fashion, education and entertainment as well as being a business, financial and cultural center of Asia has given it the status of a global city.  It is the world's 22nd largest city by population with approximately 8,160,522 registered residents (July 2007), but due to large unregistered influxes of migrants from nations across Asia, the population is estimated at nearly 15 million people.  This has in turn shifted the country from being a rather homogenous population to increasingly a more vibrant mix of Western, Indian and Chinese people. 
      After the fall of Ayutthaya to the Burmese Kingdom in 1767, the newly declared King Taksin established a new capital, which became known as Thonburi. When Taksin's reign ended in 1782, King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke reconstructed the capital on the east bank of the Chao Phraya  river and gave the city a ceremonial name which became shortened to its current official name:  Krung Thep Maha Nakhon.  The full ceremonial name of the city given by King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, and later edited by King Mongkut, is:  Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit. 

Say what?

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WHERE IS HE?


REMEMBER NOT TO POST YOUR ANSWER HERE!!!!


(Remember that you still have until midnight to answer the previous question!  If you are having troubles ... don't worry ... each question contains several clues that you can use, in like a google search, which will lead you right to the correct answer!)

Lol. David didn't know where it was, I knew today's answer  I hope I'm right with my dates, I entered for today

I think I entered for today.. im so confused. 

  I entered for Jan. 31

 

 

Hello,

I entered today.

z.

The answer to Friday's location (#2) is Cyprus! 

(a search for "third largest Mediterranean island " would have given you the correct answer) Everyone got this right!

The US Marines came busting into our College dorm, threw us on trucks which took us to ships waiting at the docks.  So off to Cyprus we went courtesy of the US government!  It's a nice Island but a little too rocky for my taste.  For some reason, once they got us there, they couldn't seem to figure out what to do with us.  It was almost 3 weeks before I got my free plane ride back to the States.  So, being stuck on an island with nothing to do I decided to try out some of the local hooch:  Absinthe!  If you have heard stories about Absinthe containing something that will dope you out ... its all true!     So some of the time I spent there is just a blur --- but I had fun!  Or I think I did ....

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On another topic:  I will start posting the next day's clues in the late evening since some people seem to be confused by the extra time being available.    

Maybe that will make it easier for everybody.

Question for SUNDAY 01FEB09:  (#4)   YEP...THAT IS THE DAY ALL YOU FOLK GO TO CHURCH!  3 hrs from now.

(I've heard that David doesn't know ... so you will just have to goggle this one  )

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In 1976 Loren gets conned into going to Indonesia to teach English in our next “mystery City”.   

     It has a greater population than any other city in Southeast Asia.  It has an area of 255.41 sq miles and a population of 8,489,910.  Currently it is the twelfth largest city in the world.  Its metropolitan area, Jabodetabek, contains more than 23 million people. 
     The old name of the city was Sunda Kelapa.  The earliest record mentioning this area as a capital city can be traced to the Indianized kingdom of Tarumanagara as early as the fourth century.  In AD 39, King Purnawarman established Sunda Pura as a new capital city for the kingdom, located at the northern coast.  The harbor area was renamed Sunda Kelapa as written in a Hindu monk's lontar manuscripts, which are now located at the Bodleian Library of Oxford University in England, and travel records by Prince Bujangga Manik.  By the 14th century, Sunda Kelapa became a major trading port for the kingdom.  The first European fleet, four Portuguese ships from Malacca, arrived in 1513 when the Portuguese were looking for a route for spices, especially black pepper.  In 1619 the Dutch renamed the city "Batavia".  Within Batavia's walls, wealthy Dutch built tall houses and pestilential canals.  Commercial opportunities attracted Indonesian and especially Chinese immigrants, the increasing numbers creating burdens on the city.  Tensions grew as the colonial government tried to restrict Chinese migration through deportations.  On 9 October 1740, 5,000 Chinese were massacred and the following year, Chinese inhabitants were moved to Glodok outside the city walls.  The Koningsplein, now Merdeka Square, was completed in 1818, and Kebayoran Baru was the last Dutch-built residential area.  The Japanese again renamed the city during their World War II occupation of Indonesia.

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WHERE IS HE?


REMEMBER NOT TO POST YOUR ANSWER HERE!!!!


(You still have until midnight PST to answer the previous question!  If you are having troubles ... don't worry ... each question contains several clues that you can use, in like a google search, which will lead you right to the correct answer!)

I'm entered for Sunday!

 

My guess is in.
The city was very close to the city of my birth.
What fun.

I entered for 2/1