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Edinburgh………..
Another castle for Queen Elizabeth…
BTW>>>>Yale is not a city, though it controls New Haven, NOT the state.
Growing up in New Haven as a townie, I detest Yale. That’s why I went to Univ of Pa…Ivy league in Philadelphia. 45 years ago there were far more kosher options in Phila than New Haven.
Isn’t Hartford the capital of Ct.?
Apushatayid………….
In the early days of the republic..New Haven and Hartford were co-capitals of CT. The legislature split its term. BUT for almost 200 years it’s Hartford.
Much to popa’s chagrin Yale wields little influence in state politics. It’s the big businesses in lower Fairfield county and Insurance and United Technologies near Hartford that pull the strings.
Since you said Hartford:
Denver, CO
Home of the highest Jewish community in the USA…not drugs, altitude
Rishon LeTziyon, Israel
Chovevei Zion
Nerstrand, Minnesota.
Home to 200 people and about 10x more cows.
Derby, CT
It used to have a shul…with basketball hoops in the auditorium
LOL
May I suggest a clarification. Many of the places posted here are not cities. The place does not have to be a city, but it HAS to be a recognised placename. E.g. ‘The north of Texas’ is not a place, it’s a geographical reference to an area. But North Dakota is a place.
CopyMachine, LOL is not a place.
Yonkers, NY
The City of Gracious Living, fourth most populous city in the state of New York
Lancaster, PA
One of the oldest inland towns in the United States
CopyMachine, you should give a brief tidbit about LOL.
Ramat Rachel, Israel
Kibbutz
LOL land of lakes also known as Minnesota
LOL is surely a place. How dare you assume otherwise?
It is the Land of Laughter.
Tidbit: The people there are always happy.
London, England
London Fog was founded in the 1920’s but didn’t start selling raincoats in the UK until the 90’s.
New York, NY (it hasn’t been said yet)
Home of the UN
Kent is for the town with the falls on the Housatonic river, not the cigarette
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania (as per Geordie, that a place which is not a city is allowed)
Highest mountain in Africa
Orlando, FL
The school there reached it’s goal for saving their building
I think popa’s post put them over the top.
That’s in Alaska, BTW.
Oslo Norway. Famous for having the 2nd best corndogs in europe, right after abuja nigeria – I would love to see popas map and where on the european continent nigeria sits 🙂
Oberviechtach, Germany
Birthplace of Johann Andreas Eisenbarth the subject of the famous 1800s song “Ich bin der Doktor Eisenbarth”
Objection!! Something wrong here.No one responded to Yonkers NY. Do you Americans know something I don’t? Is it not a place?
In case I am overruled, and in the interests of simplicity…
Gibraltar
British Overseas Territory geographically connected to Spain. They say Gibraltarians are more British than the British.
Geordie, you responded to the wrong post.
Thank you your Majesty for that clarification.
btw, when you say Mazel tov Bubby, are you perchance referring to the late dear old Queen Mary?
Rhode Island, USA
Surrounded by water
Durham, England
Land of the Prince Bishops
Newark, NJ
Didn’t there used to be Jews there?
Keresztur, Hungary
Home of a great Tzaddik
No need to apologize, Queen.
Was nice to see we both had our minds in Hungary this morning!
Rotterdam, Holland
Sea port
Manchester, England
Where I am now, home of the Holy Manchester Rosh Yeshiva, HaRav Yehuda Zeev Segal ???????”?
Rotterdam..the Netherlands.
Where my great-great grandparents sailed from in 1868 for America
Amsterdam, Holland
Chacham Zvi
His son-in-law was from Reisha, and also served as Rav of Amsterdam
Queen,
I posted Amsterdam 3 days ago…long before golfer.
This post was Rotterdam, a different city in The Netherlands that begins with R
Following Reisha>>>>>>>>>>
Allentown, PA.
A branch of our family settled and opened a garment factory there in 1924.
Sorry CTL, I missed your Amsterdam – it was on a previous page. But my Rotterdam was right above yours! And yes, we noticed it begins with R. Here’s one that begins with N >>>>
Naples, Italy
There’s one in Florida too.
It gets confusing, Queen, when posts don’t go up immediately, and then when they’re up you find 2 or more posters who followed one post.
I propose adding to the rules that you follow the first post or answer and ignore later ones.
So- AllentowN is followed by your New Orleans and my Naples is ignored.
(Even though serendipitously we both ended with the same letter – S)
Ok Queen, you’re asking me to take the S? >>>>
Sde Boker, Israel
Ranch in the Negev
Manchester, UK.
Like Gateshead Just Bigger & More Narrow minded.
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