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Jude Andrew · Post by **Jude Andrew** » 14 years ago

whitetail1985 wrote:Like Russia I have been considered to be in "Eurasia"

I was bought then donated to a church and was ran as an orphanage

Is it in Armenia??

whitetail1985 · Post by **whitetail1985** » 14 years ago

I am on an island off the coast of Istanbul, Turkey

libera36 · Post by **libera36** » 14 years ago

The orphanage on Prinkipo (Büyükada) Island?? It was a former Greek orphanage.

Jude Andrew · Post by **Jude Andrew** » 14 years ago

whitetail1985 wrote:I am on an island off the coast of Istanbul, Turkey

OMG !! that was soooo difficult

... out of curiosity; where did you come up with this random selection??

This is the Orphanage on the prince Buyukada island of the coast of Istanbul. It is the world’s largest wooden structure and has lain completely abandoned since 1962. It was built in 1898 by a French company and was destined for use as a luxury hotel and casino, but the then Sultan Abdulhamid II did not grant the licence. It was then bought over by the Turkish banker of Greek origins Zafiris, who donated it to the Ecumenical Patriarchate to transform it into an Orthodox orphanage and school. The donation received the Sultan’s blessing who sanctioned the move by giving formal ownership to the Patriarchate in a donation act of 150 gold lires for charity. The orphanage was used as such from 1903 to 1962, when the last student completed his final studies.

whitetail1985 · Post by **whitetail1985** » 14 years ago

Jude Andrew wrote: OMG !! that was soooo difficult ... out of curiosity; where did you come up with this random selection??

All I will say is that I found it on the internet

I have never been there.

This one should be a little easier

I am no Heathrow or LAX but I do have a very big title

DrewE · Post by **DrewE** » 14 years ago

whitetail1985 wrote:This one should be a little easier

I am no Heathrow or LAX but I do have a very big title

At first, I thought the Sydney Opera House, but that's not it...especially since the clue suggests an airport, not a cultural center. Maybe CDG (in Paris)? although it doesn't look quite right to me for that.

(Regarding airports and arts centers--I guess there's no reason why you couldn't have an airport that's the epicenter of culture, but it doesn't seem to happen. Douglas Adams wrote a wonderful critique of airport architecture to start off "The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul":

Douglas Adams wrote:It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression "as pretty as an airport".

Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort. This ugliness arises because airports are full of people who are tired, cross, and have just discovered that their luggage has landed in Murmansk (Murmansk airport is the only known exception to this otherwise infallible rule), and architects on the whole tried to reflect this in their designs.

They have sought to highlight the tiredness and crossness motif with brutal shapes and nerve-jangling colours, to make effortless the business of separating the traveller for ever from his or her luggage or loved ones, to confuse the traveller with arrows that appear to point at the windows, distant tie racks, or the current position of Ursa Minor in the night sky, and whenever possible to expose the plumbing on the grounds that it is functional, and conceal the location of the departure gates, presumably on the grounds that they are not.

libera36 · Post by **libera36** » 14 years ago

King Fahd International Airport?

whitetail1985 · Post by **whitetail1985** » 14 years ago

libera36 wrote:King Fahd International Airport?

Correct

Dammam King Fahd International Airport is located 20 kilometers (about 12 miles) northwest of Dammam (Saudi Arabia). It is the largest airport in the world in terms of land area (780 km²), thus making it larger than the nearby country of Bahrain.

whitetail1985 · Post by **whitetail1985** » 14 years ago

Last one for me till I get a good list going again

I might be able to see some world class Futbol matches next summer

Jude Andrew · Post by **Jude Andrew** » 14 years ago

whitetail1985 wrote:Last one for me till I get a good list going again

I might be able to see some world class Futbol matches next summer

Is this somewhere in South Africa? ... Jo'burg or Capetown maybe....

libera36 · Post by **libera36** » 14 years ago

The Voortrekker Monument!

Here's one from me:

I am probably one of the best known hills in Southern England!

kthomp · Post by **kthomp** » 14 years ago

looks like Dartmoor, my brother said it looks like the hill he chased a sheep down :\

Jude Andrew · Post by **Jude Andrew** » 14 years ago

Is it Salisbury Plain ??

libera36 · Post by **libera36** » 14 years ago

Nope and nope

Its from a book!

Jude Andrew · Post by **Jude Andrew** » 14 years ago

libera36 wrote:Nope and nope Its from a book!

Chiltern Hills? or maybe the Mendips??