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Post by cleglaw on Mar 19, 2007 22:43:47 GMT
Hmm - to easy obviously - made it eight even. Should have asked which is which, maybe...? I'll have to think about something more challenging then. It was a lucky guess. My first thought was the Azores, but there are 9 of them.
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Mar 21, 2007 15:53:39 GMT
More geography and history: The foams of the breakers at this shore gave birth to - What's this island's name?
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Post by cleglaw on Mar 21, 2007 21:10:58 GMT
Niihau
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Mar 21, 2007 23:41:40 GMT
Niihau? - No
think mythology...
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Post by Galadriel on Mar 22, 2007 11:44:27 GMT
It's Cyprus, the island of Aphrodite
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Mar 22, 2007 11:51:29 GMT
YEP! Cyprus it is. Another one: Famous, infamous, romantic and wild that island is. And also the birthplace of a historic person, whose career steps were tied to islands thrice.
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Post by Galadriel on Mar 22, 2007 11:53:50 GMT
Good guess, I love Greek mythology ;D
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Mar 22, 2007 12:01:56 GMT
Well, in the case of the above, mythology will not help...
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Post by cleglaw on Mar 22, 2007 14:39:19 GMT
Looks like the island of the Pointer Sisters:)
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Mar 22, 2007 16:03:37 GMT
;D
I'll expand the question to "What are the other two islands?"
They belong to three different nations and are not geographically related to each other.
The incumbent historic person was a sovereign only part of his life - intermittingly also only of one of the three islands, but not the one he was born on.
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Post by cleglaw on Mar 22, 2007 22:20:54 GMT
Corsica
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Mar 22, 2007 23:53:18 GMT
So far - so correct, Cleglaw. The rest?
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Post by cleglaw on Mar 23, 2007 0:57:19 GMT
Sardinia,Elba. Napoleon
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Mar 23, 2007 10:12:27 GMT
Sardinia is wrong.
Napoleon though is correct.
Corsica, where he was born - Elba, which he reigned 1814/15 during his '1st retirement' - the third is St Helens, where he was finally exiled as prisoner until his death 1821.
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Mar 28, 2007 8:23:33 GMT
Between 1650 - 1500 BC (scientific debate is as to whether between 1650-1600 or 1550-1500 BC^^) a cataclysmic explosion transformed 'the world'... These are the remnants: Where are we?
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Post by cleglaw on Mar 28, 2007 11:34:37 GMT
Atlantis
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Mar 28, 2007 15:39:41 GMT
It has indeed been speculated whether this island, and its doom, was the origin of the Atlantis myth.
But that doesn't give its current name(s), though it may hint towards its geographical location. it has been used as film background due to its spectacular setting - Indy raided the lost arc there, and if I remember correctly, a certain British enthusiast of stirred martinis passed by also...
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Mar 30, 2007 11:38:55 GMT
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Post by cleglaw on Mar 30, 2007 14:08:51 GMT
Thanks. Although I thought Santorini was a pasta dish served at the North Pole.
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Mar 31, 2007 23:36:21 GMT
No, not every *ini is pasta!
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