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Off Topic => Guess The Place Challenge => Topic started by: Payman on October 06, 2009, 05:38:44 PM

Title: GTPC 453
Post by: Payman on October 06, 2009, 05:38:44 PM
(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r70/rockraven113/where70.jpg)


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Title: Re: GTPC 453
Post by: NomisR on October 06, 2009, 05:44:32 PM
Warsaw Poland?
Title: Re: GTPC 453
Post by: Payman on October 06, 2009, 06:19:12 PM
Nope.
Title: Re: GTPC 453
Post by: Byteme on October 07, 2009, 07:26:15 AM
Midland, Texas?     :lol:
Title: Re: GTPC 453
Post by: Payman on October 07, 2009, 08:02:23 AM
Quote from: Byteme on October 07, 2009, 07:26:15 AM
Midland, Texas?     :lol:

Close. Okay not really.
Title: Re: GTPC 453
Post by: NomisR on October 07, 2009, 03:52:49 PM
Somewhere in Masowsze Poland.
Title: Re: GTPC 453
Post by: Payman on October 07, 2009, 04:17:09 PM
Not in Poland.
Title: Re: GTPC 453
Post by: NomisR on October 07, 2009, 04:58:52 PM
Quote from: Payman on October 07, 2009, 04:17:09 PM
Not in Poland.

What??  But that's the Polish flag they're holding and the sign they hold says Masowsze.. :lol:
Title: Re: GTPC 453
Post by: Payman on October 08, 2009, 04:08:51 AM
Quote from: NomisR on October 07, 2009, 04:58:52 PM
What??  But that's the Polish flag they're holding and the sign they hold says Masowsze.. :lol:

Maybe they are from Poland... but they are paying homage somewhere else...
Title: Re: GTPC 453
Post by: Byteme on October 08, 2009, 11:48:27 AM
So we have a memorial with crosses with a path leading up a steep hill to a European looking building.  The start of the path is flanked by statues of two rabbits with enormous upright ears.   the landscape looks distinctly eastern European or Asian.

Odessa?  not the one in Texas?
Title: Re: GTPC 453
Post by: Payman on October 08, 2009, 01:23:51 PM
Quote from: Byteme on October 08, 2009, 11:48:27 AM
So we have a memorial with crosses with a path leading up a steep hill to a European looking building.  The start of the path is flanked by statues of two rabbits with enormous upright ears.   the landscape looks distinctly eastern European or Asian.

Odessa?  not the one in Texas?

No, and I think they're eagles... not rabbits.  :lol:

It's in Europe, and the memorial is there for a reason.
Title: Re: GTPC 453
Post by: Payman on October 13, 2009, 11:29:27 PM
Hint: this is a famous WW2 battle site. Apparently some Polish tourists/veterans are visiting in the picture, so I assume the Poles were participants to some degree... but they were not one of the primary combatants.
Title: Re: GTPC 453
Post by: NomisR on October 14, 2009, 05:19:33 PM
Stalingrad?
Title: Re: GTPC 453
Post by: Payman on October 14, 2009, 06:44:26 PM
No.

Hint: The battle was named for the structure in the background... which was destroyed and later rebuilt.
Title: Re: GTPC 453
Post by: Byteme on October 14, 2009, 08:02:48 PM
Quote from: Payman on October 14, 2009, 06:44:26 PM
No.

Hint: The battle was named for the structure in the background... which was destroyed and later rebuilt.

Monte Cassino?

I didn't know it was rebuilt.
Title: Re: GTPC 453
Post by: Payman on October 14, 2009, 09:21:24 PM
Quote from: Byteme on October 14, 2009, 08:02:48 PM
Monte Cassino?

I didn't know it was rebuilt.

Correct, John! And yeah, it was pretty much obliterated in the battle:

(http://images.google.ca/url?source=imgres&ct=img&q=http://www.aasc.ucla.edu/cab/imgContent/200708070002.jpg&usg=AFQjCNH19RqVyZvX6ILR-I5HNdLTTSid8w)
Title: Re: GTPC 453
Post by: Byteme on October 15, 2009, 06:33:11 AM
Quote from: Payman on October 14, 2009, 09:21:24 PM
Correct, John! And yeah, it was pretty much obliterated in the battle:

(http://images.google.ca/url?source=imgres&ct=img&q=http://www.aasc.ucla.edu/cab/imgContent/200708070002.jpg&usg=AFQjCNH19RqVyZvX6ILR-I5HNdLTTSid8w)

It's hard to imagine anyone could live through the destruction of that place.

I'll put something up this weekend.
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