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Looooove the idea! Count us in. There is a lot of it all over Europe but we bet that many Eurpean families brought their hraldry to the new world too. Truly international category!

I'd love to help out with this one. We have family living in Shasta, California. When they were younger, they used to go to a bar that is now at the bottom of Lake Shasta. I think this could work like other historical locations: 1. Take a picture of what the place looks like now. 2. Provide information of what it was like earlier (either from a ...

Team Sieni:Interesting to consider who the indigenous people of the British Isles might be.  We've had Celts, Picts, Gaels, Romans, Danes and miscellaneous Vikings, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Normans (basically Viking via France) ... (And that's just off the top of my relatively ignorant head) You listed them in the right order. I don't remember

I have a lot of Native American friends and I know the last thing they want is more attention drawn to their sacred sites. As intriguing as the idea is, I think we should respect Native American believes and leave this one alone.

Just checking in: Where are we with this category? I really want this one going off the ground :-)

Good point about the time zones! I didn't think that one through.

I like the idea. It could work in the same way as the ''Newspaper Article Location'' - post the article (either internet link or scan), provide the coordinates and at least one original picture taken at the coordinates. Since NatGeo has a lot of foreign language editions this could be a truly international category open to readers from Albania to ...

I agree on the great lines. However, most of these are in very remote areas, which is why I would include the the 45 degree latitude line (I even have a picture of that one.) I would not include border crossings, since there is already a category for those. However,  to have some longitude lines too, I suggest including the ...

> a distinction may need to be made between flags and banners. I tried to find a clear cut definition, but couldn't. In my book, if it is more than twice as long as it is high, it is a banner, not a flag. Example: 6ft high and 9ft long (the most common 2:3 ratio) = flag. 10 ft high and 10 ft long (like the flag of Switzerland) = flag.  3 ...

I got temporarely arested last year for ''suspicious behaviour around a govenment building'' when I took a picture of our local court house. A policeman escorted me to the security officer of the court house, who dismissed the matter with the wise words ''this is a free country.'' Just imagine what the young officer would have done had I told ...

> Factories making VAX clones in Eastern Bloc? Hey, I love the idea! And as far as the Eastern Block goes - we had one of the first computer networks in the world - long before Al Gore invented the internet. And as a young student at the East German Marine Academy, I was an integral part of it! In 1982, we got two desk-sized computers to ...

The M... actually stands for both, my old home town Monterey (1994-2005) and my new (since 2005) home town Manteca. Both towns do that kind of thing every years and since these are the only two US-american towns I have lived in, my sample is a little small. However, I don't believe that these are the only two towns in America, doing this survey. ...

> I disagree here... each Boy Scout Troop, VFW Post etc have a distinct flag... at least it has a different number, city and state listed where as each McDonalds flag is the same no matter were you are. My bad! I agree, if the flags are different, they deserve different entries. Generally speaking, everything that hasn't been logged yet, should

When I walked into my favorite grocery store last night, I noticed a sticker ''Voted best of M... 2009''. I know, many towns have local newspapers that do those annual surveys for everything from the best pizza place to the best barber shop. And usually they also hand out little plaques or diplomas. This would be a chance to put some hard working ...