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Title: where and what?
Post by: TightEnd on May 25, 2017, 08:56:30 AM
someone posts an image

guess where in the world and what it is or what it represents?

over/under on images before it peters out:10. surprise me


where and what is this?

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAqBvNOXYAASMoL.jpg)


Title: Re: where and what?
Post by: booder on May 25, 2017, 10:38:16 AM
Is it Vietnams Military History Museum ?


Title: Re: where and what?
Post by: hector62 on May 25, 2017, 10:48:58 AM
I am going to guess outside NATO HQ.


Title: Re: where and what?
Post by: TightEnd on May 25, 2017, 11:12:00 AM
not vietnam.  could be said to be along the right lines

not outside NATO


Title: Re: where and what?
Post by: hector62 on May 25, 2017, 11:17:52 AM
Must be somewhere in North Korea then.


Title: Re: where and what?
Post by: TightEnd on May 25, 2017, 11:18:44 AM
Must be somewhere in North Korea then.

very close.


Title: Re: where and what?
Post by: Doobs on May 25, 2017, 11:25:43 AM
Must be somewhere in North Korea then.

very close.

South Kore then.

Are these T34 tanks?  Sure I had an airfix model very like them.


Title: Re: where and what?
Post by: Graham C on May 25, 2017, 11:39:32 AM
The text on the globe looks like it's written in English. Not sure if that's relevant

A UN building somewhere?


Title: Re: where and what?
Post by: TightEnd on May 25, 2017, 11:46:02 AM
it is An art installation at the Peace Dam in South Korea, near to the Demilitarised Zone that separates North and South Korea


up to someone else to put an image up,old or new. a place, object or person....

and we'll go from there


Title: Re: where and what?
Post by: AndrewT on May 25, 2017, 12:11:20 PM
Wrong thread Tighty - the Tanks on the Lawn thread is here

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=67568.0


Title: Re: where and what?
Post by: dakky on May 26, 2017, 04:44:53 PM
Guessing this is easier but I had never seen it before

(http://i67.tinypic.com/21jpon4.jpg)


Title: Re: where and what?
Post by: Doobs on May 26, 2017, 04:59:32 PM
Guessing this is easier but I had never seen it before

(http://i67.tinypic.com/21jpon4.jpg)

It is from a world expo somewhere I think.  No idra where, just recognise it.  Guessing Canada?


Title: Re: where and what?
Post by: tikay on May 26, 2017, 05:09:02 PM
Guessing this is easier but I had never seen it before

(http://i67.tinypic.com/21jpon4.jpg)

It is from a world expo somewhere I think.  No idra where, just recognise it.  Guessing Canada?


This one is much easier - my generation, too.

Expo58, in Brussels.

It represents a model of an atom. I think.




Title: Re: where and what?
Post by: The Camel on May 26, 2017, 05:31:19 PM
(http://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Bill3.jpg)

What is quite easy, where is less simple...


Title: Re: where and what?
Post by: Doobs on May 26, 2017, 05:46:11 PM
(http://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Bill3.jpg)

What is quite easy, where is less simple...

Is that Jersey?  Not sure what it is called.  Les Landes? 


Title: Re: where and what?
Post by: The Camel on May 26, 2017, 06:38:02 PM
(http://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Bill3.jpg)

What is quite easy, where is less simple...

Is that Jersey?  Not sure what it is called.  Les Landes? 

Bingo.

Most amazing racecourse I've been to by far. Thoroughly recommended.


Title: Re: where and what?
Post by: TightEnd on May 28, 2017, 03:24:43 PM
day trip.

where?

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DA64URRWAAEgFq-.jpg)


Title: Re: where and what?
Post by: Longines on May 28, 2017, 04:23:26 PM
Goulder Croquet Open?


Title: Re: where and what?
Post by: TightEnd on May 29, 2017, 08:13:09 AM
it was here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrumpton_Hall


Title: Re: where and what?
Post by: tikay on May 29, 2017, 11:45:43 AM
it was here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrumpton_Hall

I had a bit of a read-up on Thrumpton Hall, the current owner & occupant in particular - a young lady (a year younger than me) named Miranda Seymour.

She is an author & literary critic, &, I would guess, a bit of a character.

She has written a dozen or more books, but the title of one in particular amused me;

A Brief History of Thyme