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Courtenay
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Alnwick, a town with medieval origins in Northumberland, north-east England. (Pronounced "Annick", to rhyme with "panic". I'm guessing that if a state of lawlessness broke out there, it would be Alnwick-y. Grin

"Now you are a lioness," said Aslan. "And now all Narnia will be renewed."
(Prince Caspian)

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Posted : September 27, 2024 9:23 pm
waggawerewolf27
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Keswick, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. 

@Courtenay: Pronounced "Annick", to rhyme with "panic"...

If Alnwick rhymes with "panic", would both Alnwick & panic rhyme with Keswick, I humbly ask?

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Narnian.In.the.North
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Karlstad, Minnesota, USA

"I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia." ~ Puddleglum, The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis

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Posted : October 2, 2024 2:06 pm
Courtenay
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Posted by: @waggawerewolf27

Keswick, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. 

@Courtenay: Pronounced "Annick", to rhyme with "panic"...

If Alnwick rhymes with "panic", would both Alnwick & panic rhyme with Keswick, I humbly ask?

Er, no, not unless Keswick is pronounced "Kannick". Hmmm   Over here where the original Keswick is, it's pronounced "Kezzick". How the one in Adelaide is pronounced, I don't know. But back to the game... 

Didsbury, a suburb of Manchester, England. 

"Now you are a lioness," said Aslan. "And now all Narnia will be renewed."
(Prince Caspian)

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coracle
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Yarmouth,  a town on the East Coast of England.

There, shining in the sunrise, larger than they had seen him before, shaking his mane (for it had apparently grown again) stood Aslan himself.
"...when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards."

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Posted : October 2, 2024 10:33 pm
waggawerewolf27
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Hyderabad, India

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coracle
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Dorset, a county in southwest England .

There, shining in the sunrise, larger than they had seen him before, shaking his mane (for it had apparently grown again) stood Aslan himself.
"...when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards."

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Posted : October 5, 2024 1:34 pm
waggawerewolf27
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Traralgon, Victoria, a place in Australia I have definitely visited with my father, in 1963, I think it was.

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Posted : October 6, 2024 6:34 am
Courtenay
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Posted by: @waggawerewolf27

Traralgon, Victoria, a place in Australia I have definitely visited with my father, in 1963, I think it was.

I've got an auntie who lives there! Grin  

Narrabri, New South Wales, Australia, a town I know I have also visited (passing through on family trips by car up to Queensland in both 1989 and 1990).

"Now you are a lioness," said Aslan. "And now all Narnia will be renewed."
(Prince Caspian)

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coracle
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Inner Hebrides, a group of islands in Scotland 

(my apologies for messing up the flow earlier! )

There, shining in the sunrise, larger than they had seen him before, shaking his mane (for it had apparently grown again) stood Aslan himself.
"...when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards."

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Posted : October 6, 2024 2:23 pm
waggawerewolf27
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Sorrento, Victoria, near where on 9th October 1803, a settlement was founded, by Lieutenant Governor David Collins, who took 2 ships, the HMS Calcutta, with convicts and their guards, including an ancestor of mine, a sergeant in the Royal Marines. Whilst the second ship, the Ocean, had free settlers. A man passed away on their arrival, & his widow and 4-year-old daughter were left to fend for themselves. Convicts escaped, into surrounding bushland, whilst others fell sick. By February 20th, 1804, Collins packed up his settlement. Still in the Calcutta but now accompanied by the Lady Nelson, they went to Van Diemen's Land to found the now city of Hobart, where the sergeant married the widowed lady, on 18/3/1804, and thus became an ancestor of mine. 

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Posted : October 7, 2024 5:48 am
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@waggawerewolf27 Fascinating family history! (And by the way, if anyone remembers the hit song Sorrento Moon by Tina Arena in the early 1990s, I recall she admitted in an interview that it's really referring to Sorrento in Victoria (where she comes from), not Sorrento in Italy. Giggle )

Oahu, the most populated island in the archipelago of Hawaii. 

"Now you are a lioness," said Aslan. "And now all Narnia will be renewed."
(Prince Caspian)

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Posted : October 7, 2024 10:39 am
Narnian.In.the.North
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Upsala, a small town in Central Minnesota, USA

"I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia." ~ Puddleglum, The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis

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Posted : October 9, 2024 10:47 am
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where in the Rijksmuseum, you might find Dirk Hartog's original pewter plate, from 25th October, 1616, nailed up on the eponymous island in the mess of peninsulas & islands that make up Shark Bay. Willem de Vlamingh, who found Rottnest Island, & the Swan River, about 1697, found the plate, rewrote Hartog's inscription on a new pewter plate, adding notes of his own. He took the Hartog plate back to Amsterdam, and I've seen his own Vlamingh plate, now in the National Maritime Museum at Freemantle, outside Perth (WA)

@Courtenay:(And by the way, if anyone remembers the hit song Sorrento Moon by Tina Arena in the early 1990s...)

"Torna a Surriento" or "Come back to Sorrento" is the name of an old Neapolitan song, one of Dean Martin's repertoire. That one was definitely the Italian town, but the settlement at Sorrento, Victoria, on the Mornington Peninsula was definitely revisited eventually, when in 1835, John Batman planned to settle the Port Phillip city now called Melbourne (or Naarm), but which he wanted to call Batmania, at first. 

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Posted : October 10, 2024 3:51 am
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Manhattan, the island part of New York City 

There, shining in the sunrise, larger than they had seen him before, shaking his mane (for it had apparently grown again) stood Aslan himself.
"...when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards."

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