Place guessing

Malte279 · **Reply #480 on:** January 25, 2009, 06:20:45 PM

I was at the place in 2005 and posted about it in the GOF. The place includes one of the largest Museums over here. It is also the location of THE Oktoberfest.

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #481 on:** February 01, 2009, 08:11:23 PM

Munih, Germany?

Malte279 · **Reply #482 on:** February 02, 2009, 12:35:08 PM

In English it would be spelled Munich I think. The German name would be M¸nchen. You meant the right place. Your turn LBT

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #483 on:** February 02, 2009, 08:07:48 PM

Whoops, that was a typo. My "c", "v", and up arrow key is practically dead.

What Southern California town is in San Diego County, and also one of the first towns to adopt prohibiton? It's name in Spanish means "hidden."

Malte279 · **Reply #484 on:** February 03, 2009, 05:31:24 AM

Escondido?

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #485 on:** February 03, 2009, 09:30:56 PM

Correct! I've been to Grand Avenue there, it's pretty neat.

your turn Malte.

Malte279 · **Reply #486 on:** February 04, 2009, 04:31:41 AM

Off this place the dominance of a power over one of the worlds elements was determined for a long time.

Nick22 · **Reply #487 on:** February 23, 2009, 01:31:17 PM

Gibraltar?

Malte279 · **Reply #488 on:** February 23, 2009, 03:14:38 PM

Good guess. It is not the place I have in mind but you are in every respect very close.

Nick22 · **Reply #489 on:** February 23, 2009, 03:17:50 PM

The Mediterrean Sea? Many Battle were fought here over control of the sea..

Malte279 · **Reply #490 on:** February 23, 2009, 05:19:03 PM

Look on the other side of the Pillars of Hercules, but not to far. You are indeed looking for a place where a battle was fought and your first guess also went in the right direction as you must have been thinking of the power mentioned in the original one.
Now somebody "expects that every man will do his duty" and answer the question

Nick22 · **Reply #491 on:** February 23, 2009, 05:23:39 PM

do you have the battle of Trafalgar in mind?

Malte279 · **Reply #492 on:** February 23, 2009, 07:43:50 PM

And the location would be the cape after which the battle was named. Cape Trafalgar is the place I was asking for.
Your turn Nick

Nick22 · **Reply #493 on:** February 23, 2009, 07:53:34 PM

This is the place where counterfeiters tried to steal Abraham Lincoln's remains in 1876... interesting story which I will tell after the answer is given..

The Chronicler · **Reply #494 on:** February 23, 2009, 08:11:13 PM

Springfield, Illinois

I saw a program on the History Channel about that a week ago. I assume you have seen it as well, to be mentioning that.

Nick22 · **Reply #495 on:** February 23, 2009, 08:19:23 PM

Yes Chronicler. the counterfeiters wanted 200000 dollars and a pardon for one of thier members who had been arrested and imprisoned for counterfeiting money..
They tried to steal the body on election Night, 1876 and there really weren't any laws on the books at the time about stealing a body, just posssessions that the dead might have on them..

Malte279 · **Reply #496 on:** May 08, 2009, 04:58:37 AM

Your turn Chronicler

The Chronicler · **Reply #497 on:** May 08, 2009, 03:44:49 PM

I was aware of that. I just haven't been able to think of a question to ask. I guess I'll go for this one and hope it's not too hard. (I'll offer hints after each guess)

This town/small city was the site of the northernmost conflict in the American Civil War.

Malte279 · **Reply #498 on:** May 08, 2009, 05:00:05 PM

Oh dear, it would be kind of unfair for me to blurt out the answer while I'm working on a university paper on the Civil War and also take a great interest in it in general. I'll wait if someone else posts the answer

Malte279 · **Reply #499 on:** May 15, 2009, 04:29:56 AM

There are several places claiming credit to be the place of the northernmost battle of the civil war and which one we settle on largely depends on what we accept as a "battle".
During a raid the confederate cavalryman John Hunt Morgan surrendered his force near Salineville Ohio, which some claim to be the northernmost battle deserving of the term.
Possibly a saver bet would probably be the skirmish at Sporting Hill near the outskirts of Harrisburg Pennsylvania (it was the farthest members of the Army of Northern Virginia ever got and unless I'm totally mistaken it is further north than Salineville).
However, there was one other action which is held to be the northernmost "battle" of the civil war though it is contested whether or not the event deserves to be called a battle. Confederate raiders from Canada (not wearing uniforms), with the approval of the confederate government, robbed a bank in Saint Albans / Vermont killing one citizen and wounding another while having one of the raiders mortally wounded in return. If one accepts this as a battle Saint Albans in Vermont would be the the northernmost "battlefield" of the Civil War.