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Monuments that represent countries.
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SatelliteOfLove
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impirius said:
The Big Peach represents humanity
"Welcome to the beautiful state of South Carolina; on your right you will see a giant orange ass..."
Here's the Château Frontenac, a relic of Quebec City, the oldest city in America, the only city that still today is fortified, like the castles of the middleages.
God with all these toughts, I have the damn cartoon that plays everytime CBC and Radio-Canada begin and end their broadcast, with the instrumental Oh Canada theme in mind. The cartoon has got the CN tower, but it was too early for the Olympic Stadium, which believe it or not, was not like it is today before the mid eighties, the tower was incomplete! :lol
God with all these toughts, I have the damn cartoon that plays everytime CBC and Radio-Canada begin and end their broadcast, with the instrumental Oh Canada theme in mind. The cartoon has got the CN tower, but it was too early for the Olympic Stadium, which believe it or not, was not like it is today before the mid eighties, the tower was incomplete! :lol
Lemurnator
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Israel
The Great Buddha in Kamakura, Japan.
lochnesssnowman
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Edinburgh Castle, Scotland
CurlySaysX
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When i Thikn of Australia, i think of fed. Square.
when i think of france i think of tower.
when i think of france i think of tower.
Hong Kong has three symbols:
The great buddha at the Tian Tan Temple.
Aberdeen - 5000 Boats at the Aberdeen Harbour where people are living and working.
And, of course, the skyscrapers, best viewed from Kowloon (Tsim Tsa Tsui) Promenade or from the Peak
Germany's most famous symbol would be the Brandenburger Tor (Brandenburger Gate) - symbol of German unity
The great buddha at the Tian Tan Temple.
Aberdeen - 5000 Boats at the Aberdeen Harbour where people are living and working.
And, of course, the skyscrapers, best viewed from Kowloon (Tsim Tsa Tsui) Promenade or from the Peak
Germany's most famous symbol would be the Brandenburger Tor (Brandenburger Gate) - symbol of German unity
TheQueen'sOwn
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Parliament Buildings Canada
Society said:Do not get ahead of yourself frenchie.
Hey I meant the oldest city still there today.
And as I am sure people will find matters to complain, I meant the oldest city in North America . America is the continent which contains today, south, center, and North America . America is a continent .
Sometimes people talk about America as a country. This is not true, because the name of that country is the United States of America This is probably caused because the people living in the USA call themselves Americans.
When Quebec city (as opposed to the province, for which the foundation was much, much later) was founded in 1608 by french settle Samuel de Champlain, it was not the oldest city in America. It however safe to say (at least in a figurative way) that it is in some ways the oldest city in the continent of America at that time. In a more practical way, that is still there and strong today.
Of course, this does not includes cities founded by the diverse natives who came from the Bering Detroit in about 58000 BC, including but not limited to: the Inuits, the Aztecs, the Mohawks, the Mayans, the Hurons, etc, etc.
Quebec comes from an Indian dialect and means "where the river gets thinner" (that's where Quebec city is today on the northern border of the St-Lawrence river which, believe it or not, is a 12000 years old river only).
Canada well, I am not sure about these Patrimony minutes and the Robert-Guy Scully Scandal, so that may of may not means "village" or something like that, considering the number of blunders this shameless use of our taxes has spawned (like the discovery of the Great Lakes, amongst many other). Of course that does not includes the things that may or may not be deemed unfair by a Peasoup such as me.
America is a derivative of the first name of an Italian Explorer, whose original name was Amerigo Vespucci.
and God is an American
TheQueen'sOwn
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ConfusingJazz
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Jotaro said:
And St Augustine, Florida means "I am actually 50 years older then Quebec City".
Society said:Easy there. I was just making a seperation joke.
Then do not (nor anyone) make such cheap jokes. And it is sovereignty by the way.
For this is a battle that not one could win, even if I would act as a one-man army. I rated top in canadian and quebecian history. And even if it's true that the french were and still are in some way today the white niggers of america, I make honest efforts to understand the english, that they may have not enough knowledge or biased knowledge of Quebec and/or the french because of the lack of proper history courses in Canada and the media. You can believe me that, altough in a way I deem lesser, french media in Quebec, has it's own shares of faults.
I for one make an effort to know such things as every Province's prime minister to know the politics of my whole country. American politics, and world politics too. I'm sure an insignificant amount of canadian GAFers that do not live in Quebec could know as of this moment without an external source the name of Quebec's PM.
I would also mention the Jacques Cartier bridge (the french explorer who discovered Canada by the way), that relies Longueil to Montreal. For it's design was conceived by some dude named Gustave Eiffel. If you look at the bridge, and at another one of his creations (that is not in America by the way), you will find quite similar design traits.
http://images.google.ca/images?q=pont+jacques+cartier&hl=en
I do not input an image here because I do not know which one is better.
ConfusingJazz
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Jotaro said:And some little city in Gaspesia for which I do not remember the name means "I am the first city in America". Don't take this too literally dude.
Well, you were getting all technical about it, so I wanted to be part of the fun too.
And doing further research, I still can't find this town in Gaspesia...
ConfusingJazz said:
And to say I was meant to explain the metaphore I made in the first place. Frontenac Castle, and the whole Quebec City, is still fortified today, as no other city in North America is. I mean, in the sense of old fortifications around the Crusades' Age, like Carcassonne in France, which was the greatest Castle fortification ever, and if I recall correctly most of it is still there today.
Oh, how about people living in France submit this other than the eternal Eiffel Tower? Or maybe, the Versailles Castle?
edit: maybe you should try looking into the Newfoundlands, I'm sure some village there claims to be the foundation of the first Viking explorations in America.
videogamer
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Jotaro said:And some little city in Gaspesia for which I do not remember the name means "I am the first city in America". Don't take this too literally dude.
Well, that's not taking into account what the Mayans, Anasazi, and others have built.
TheQueen'sOwn
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Jotaro said:
They look like they are going to fall apart
Socreges said:
I bet at least a three digits number of Americans don't.
Socreges said:
Stop trying to assimilate me with your cultural imperialism!
:lol
Socreges said:
I do, but people will always find fault, so I have to explain on things that I may or may not appreciate. And then people will find it too long and/or cocky, so I have to make it shorter. It's a vicious cycle.
Next thread I promise I will just stick to a few words of neutral 1337 speak.
Remember that there is irony in some of these statements I've made. And that my posts are always booby-trapped, but they're just false alarms in the end. So I always have a way to defend myself, but I deem it fair and teasing gently. It's not like if I was a political zealot, I say things nicely and I take time to wrote whole sentences and to read everything in other's posts you know.
Socreges said:
Sorry, I know this and it irritates me as well, the sole reason that I used caps to make some words stand out is that the other style (bold, italic, underscores), really hurt my eyes (non-maligant brain tumor), so I used that as a compromise. If I'd read back my texts with some of those things, that would really make my eyes sore. Sorry for the misunderstanding. That also explains why I make so much typos and I am sometimes redundant, that sometimes some phrases are weirdly built will make people believe that I can't speak english. It is not my first language, but I speak perfectly good english, only now I have those eyes issues. I think I do great however. I try my best to correct typos as much as I can.
(if anyone is searching for that fictuous city in Gaspesia, it was all sarcasm, in reference to that Florida city, where I am quoted as for Quebec city
Foreign Jackass
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When I think of Berlin...
When I think of Munich.
And well, Mount Saint-Michel...
When I think of Munich.
And well, Mount Saint-Michel...
Foreign Jackass
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It's called the 'Frauenkirche', and is the symbol of Munich. It was finished in 1494, and is the second church of Munich.
From Wikipedia :
Unlike most buildings in Munich's old town, the towers of the Frauenkirche (but not the church itself) survived the war intact, making them more than 400 years old. The towers are apparently somewhat unstable, as there are large signs at the tower base warning visitors to keep away from the base of the tower in thunderstorms or high winds. (The Frauenkirche's towers are also the measurement for a new rule which limits the height of new buildings to the same height. This rule was passed by the people of Munich in a referendum ("Bürgerentscheid") against the will of the political parties in the cities parliament ("Stadtrat") who fear that this can harm the city's attractiveness to investors.
I had the pleasure of seeing the effect myself, and it is true that there are several skyscrapers but they are off the limits of the city, which makes it look kinda weird, as there are absolutely no skyscrapers downtown.
While I was in Munich, I also went to Marienplatz, which looks great as well, and to the Deutches Museum, which is probably the biggest museum I've ever went in.
Germany ROCKS.
From Wikipedia :
Unlike most buildings in Munich's old town, the towers of the Frauenkirche (but not the church itself) survived the war intact, making them more than 400 years old. The towers are apparently somewhat unstable, as there are large signs at the tower base warning visitors to keep away from the base of the tower in thunderstorms or high winds. (The Frauenkirche's towers are also the measurement for a new rule which limits the height of new buildings to the same height. This rule was passed by the people of Munich in a referendum ("Bürgerentscheid") against the will of the political parties in the cities parliament ("Stadtrat") who fear that this can harm the city's attractiveness to investors.
I had the pleasure of seeing the effect myself, and it is true that there are several skyscrapers but they are off the limits of the city, which makes it look kinda weird, as there are absolutely no skyscrapers downtown.
While I was in Munich, I also went to Marienplatz, which looks great as well, and to the Deutches Museum, which is probably the biggest museum I've ever went in.
Germany ROCKS.
Foreign Jackass
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And how could I forget Neuschwanstein, perhaps the most impressive castle in the world?
It just looks right out of a fantasy novel/movie. South of Munich.
Again, Germany ROCKS.
It just looks right out of a fantasy novel/movie. South of Munich.
Again, Germany ROCKS.
SatelliteOfLove
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Foreign Jackass said:
Wasn't it Wien that had an ordinance passed that no building could be taller than either St. Stephan's cathedral there, or the Karlskirche? I keep forgetting.
Anyways; Schönbrunn:
Makes me feel sad to realize my ancesters are german and I don't understand a single word of german. And I hate the language.
My uncle has gone to germany too, in order to find who our ancester really was (he was sent in Canada against his will to fight a war for the english against the americans, the Prussians wanted money and so they hired mercenaries, they took random men on the streets). He did not succeeded. Fortunately, my ancester did the right thing: desert, learn french, assimilate itself into Lower-Canada, founded a family, and here I am today, the seventh generation.
I really look like a german: I have blue eyes, and my hair are blond as a bitch still today. :lol
Is it true that if you prove that you have german ancesters, only then you can become a german citizen? My father, uncle, and I, tried to gather that. My uncle had his vacations in germany, and he did learned german in order for that trip. Unfortunately we never found out what the original last name was. It was something like "Tutft" of "Thuft". Of course the english here could not sound that out, so they gave him another name, the one that sounded the most like the original german name.
(for the record, it's the name of a fictious beer brand in some well-known american cartoon
My uncle has gone to germany too, in order to find who our ancester really was (he was sent in Canada against his will to fight a war for the english against the americans, the Prussians wanted money and so they hired mercenaries, they took random men on the streets). He did not succeeded. Fortunately, my ancester did the right thing: desert, learn french, assimilate itself into Lower-Canada, founded a family, and here I am today, the seventh generation.
I really look like a german: I have blue eyes, and my hair are blond as a bitch still today. :lol
Is it true that if you prove that you have german ancesters, only then you can become a german citizen? My father, uncle, and I, tried to gather that. My uncle had his vacations in germany, and he did learned german in order for that trip. Unfortunately we never found out what the original last name was. It was something like "Tutft" of "Thuft". Of course the english here could not sound that out, so they gave him another name, the one that sounded the most like the original german name.
(for the record, it's the name of a fictious beer brand in some well-known american cartoon
ConfusingJazz
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Jotaro said:(if anyone is searching for that fictuous city in Gaspesia, it was all sarcasm, in reference to that Florida city, where I am quoted as for Quebec city
That was mean, I spend all of like...5 minutes searching things about Gaspesia, mostly because I have never heard of Gaspesia (silly american...sorry, United Statian?...no, I will stick with american). Anywho...you just got yourself served
Ollie Pooch
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Rlan said:Pfft. They're all meger efforts in comparison to:
AHAHAHHA
giant crayfish at Kingston! i have my own photos of this somewhere
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Foreign Jackass said:And how could I forget Neuschwanstein, perhaps the most impressive castle in the world?
It just looks right out of a fantasy novel/movie. South of Munich.
Again, Germany ROCKS.
I'm a German and honestly, I'm so ashamed to never have visited Neuschwanstein in my entire life, not even once. I only know it from pictures. You know, half of Japan must have already seen that castle.......
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