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jar Member (Idle past 419 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
'Tis Camden Yards. Which is where the ball park got its name. It's the biggest enclosed roundhouse ever built and really one of the wonders of the world. As I kid I got to sit in the cab of many an Allegheny, the most powerful, heaviest steam locomotives ever built, while they were turned around. Even got to drive one off and back out into the yard once.
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MangyTiger Member (Idle past 6379 days) Posts: 989 From: Leicester, UK Joined: |
Again I found it on Googlemaps but I don't know what it's called.
My guess would be Fort McHenry but that doesn't line with the little pink bubble for the Fort McHenry National Monument. However, now I zoom in on that bubble (C) it seems to be in the middle of a freeway!? Oops! Wrong Planet
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jar Member (Idle past 419 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
That it is. And the folk on your side of the pond are very familar with it. LOL
When I was growing up it was in pretty run down shape. Sometimes we'd go out there at night and the Dads would tell us ghost stories. What a wonderful place for ghost stories.
The children huddled together in fear, as the old man told tales of ghosts. And deep, within their wide eyes I saw a smile sparkle. Aslan is not a Tame Lion
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MangyTiger Member (Idle past 6379 days) Posts: 989 From: Leicester, UK Joined: |
Actually I'd never heard of it - I got the name by Googling 'Baltimore' and 'fort'!
I suspect very few Brits can tell you anything about the Revolutionary War (we mostly use the War of Independence description over here actually) - the only thing they could name relating to in any way would be the Boston Tea Party. I've always wanted to study it, just never had the time. Oops! Wrong Planet
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jar Member (Idle past 419 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Oops! Wrong war. Ft. McHenry actually was significant during the Stupid War, the War of 1812. That's when you guys were nice enough to teach us about urban renewal.
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MangyTiger Member (Idle past 6379 days) Posts: 989 From: Leicester, UK Joined: |
And the War of 1812 is virtually unheard of over here!
We were too busy fighting Napolean to worry overmuch about some minor spat with the ex-colonials Note to self - add War of 1812 to list of things to learn about... Oops! Wrong Planet
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jar Member (Idle past 419 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
but the War of 1812 was fascinating. Classic stupidity on all sides. The big issue on this side was that you mean folk were impressing our sailors. But two weeks before the US declared war on GB (the mouse that roared) Parliment passed an act outlawing the passage. When war was declared the ships carrying the news were met by US vessels and told to diverted to Canada and Bermuda.
So... on with the War! Aslan is not a Tame Lion
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crashfrog Member (Idle past 1492 days) Posts: 19762 From: Silver Spring, MD Joined: |
Anyone know how to find out when the sat images were taken I googlemapped the apartment and town I used to live in; just north of my apartment I saw the big development project that included a Target and a minimall. The status of construction informed me that that particular image was from October of 2003. Obviously some of the images are newer or older than that; there's no one date for all the images but I doubt many are older than a few years.
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jar Member (Idle past 419 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
one of the neater places I've lived.
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kjsimons Member Posts: 822 From: Orlando,FL Joined: Member Rating: 5.3 |
The Outer Banks, perhaps?
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jar Member (Idle past 419 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
No, not really. Closer to you than they are.
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kjsimons Member Posts: 822 From: Orlando,FL Joined: Member Rating: 5.3 |
Cape Canaveral Air Station then!
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Asgara Member (Idle past 2328 days) Posts: 1783 From: Wisconsin, USA Joined: |
Hilton Head
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jar Member (Idle past 419 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Nope.
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jar Member (Idle past 419 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Yup. I worked for Sea Pines and Charlie and Joe Fraser developing HHI and many of the later projects. He was one of the realy unique people I've been lucky enough to have known and totally changed the way folk viewed development. It wasn't a bad place to live either.
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