Yellowstone National Park, USA
God rest you merry, gentlemen,
Let nothing you dismay.
Remember Christ our Savior
Was born on Christmas Day
To save us all from Satan's pow'r
When we were gone astray.
Zanzibar, visited first by Vasco Da Gama in 1499 AD on his way to India.
Albina, Moldova
God rest you merry, gentlemen,
Let nothing you dismay.
Remember Christ our Savior
Was born on Christmas Day
To save us all from Satan's pow'r
When we were gone astray.
Broome, WA. 75 years ago, today, (3 March 1942) Japanese Zeros bombed Broome, noted for a thriving pearling industry. Dutch East Indies aircraft, fleeing the Japanese invasion there, were trying to evacuate their women and children to the relative safety of Australia. More than 80 people, mostly women and children, died in the onslaught.
Cranford, New Jersey
God rest you merry, gentlemen,
Let nothing you dismay.
Remember Christ our Savior
Was born on Christmas Day
To save us all from Satan's pow'r
When we were gone astray.
Dunfermline, Scotland. It used to be the Royal burgh of Scotland at the time of Malcolm Canmore up to Robert the Bruce.
Ellis Island, NY
Falkirk, Scotland
God rest you merry, gentlemen,
Let nothing you dismay.
Remember Christ our Savior
Was born on Christmas Day
To save us all from Satan's pow'r
When we were gone astray.
Galapagos Islands, famous for now extinct giant tortoises
Hannibal, Missouri, USA
God rest you merry, gentlemen,
Let nothing you dismay.
Remember Christ our Savior
Was born on Christmas Day
To save us all from Satan's pow'r
When we were gone astray.
Irian Jaya, the Western half of New Guinea, which is now a province of Indonesia. The Eastern half is called Papua Niugini
Jamnagar, Gujarat, India
God rest you merry, gentlemen,
Let nothing you dismay.
Remember Christ our Savior
Was born on Christmas Day
To save us all from Satan's pow'r
When we were gone astray.
Khorasan or Khwarezmia, a medieval country in Central Asia, around Samarkand and Bokhara, along the ancient Silk Road from Istanbul to Beijing, which was overthrown by the Mongol hordes.
Loas
God rest you merry, gentlemen,
Let nothing you dismay.
Remember Christ our Savior
Was born on Christmas Day
To save us all from Satan's pow'r
When we were gone astray.
Missoula, Montana
But all night, Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes.