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Can you tell me what city this is?

Posted on 04/02/2017 8:30:30 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler



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To: Two Kids' Dad
Interesting that the Best Western Tuushin Hotel, 25 floors high and 358 ft tall, has a direct line of sight to the Chinese Embassy ...
161 posted on 04/02/2017 12:16:53 PM PDT by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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To: Two Kids' Dad

Do we have the answer yet?


162 posted on 04/02/2017 12:17:13 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (9/11/2001 and 9/11/2012: NEVER FORGET.)
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To: Fresh Wind
"Japan is right hand drive."

Sure about that? Spent time in Okinawa and we drove left-hand side (so did almost everyone else).

163 posted on 04/02/2017 12:25:17 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: Husker24
I thought you said it wasn’t Ulaanbaatar

I did not dispute your post.

164 posted on 04/02/2017 12:52:55 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies Tell me where is sanity?)
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To: Post5203

Mountains are not high enough


165 posted on 04/02/2017 12:59:06 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: Steely Tom

saw somewhere after the place was ID’d its the coldest Capital on earth.

Yikes


166 posted on 04/02/2017 1:10:26 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: Psalm 73

Yes, you are correct, but being something of a car nut, I was thinking in terms of the cars, not the roads.

Cars in Japan, the UK, and many former British colonies are right hand drive and they are driven on the left. Cars in the US and most of the world are left hand drive and they are driven on the right.


167 posted on 04/02/2017 1:42:12 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: Psalm 73

Okinawa switched to RHD sometime in late 1976 or 1977.

At midnight one night. I was there. Quite interesting for a few days!

BTW, look at the ornate designs on the square building in the foreground. Looks Islamic to me.

I’d guess one of the “-stans”.


168 posted on 04/02/2017 2:42:25 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: Jeff Chandler

The absence of commercial signage says Pyongyang.


169 posted on 04/02/2017 2:57:54 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: Psalm 73

Japan is LHD and 100vac..


170 posted on 04/02/2017 3:32:29 PM PDT by Neidermeyer (Show me a peaceful Muslim and I will show you a heretic to the Koran.)
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To: Neidermeyer
"Japan is LHD"

That's what I said. I think the other reply to me was his "right-hand drive" comment meant the steering wheel is on the right side of the car, which means you would drive on the left side of the road.

Took me a couple hours of driving around the base before I ventured out on public roads for the first time - very odd feeling.

171 posted on 04/02/2017 3:56:03 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: gaijin
Modern era, non-China Central Asian republic, possibly Kazakhstan.

Some of the answers given in this thread are so idiotic it doesn’t seem like Free Republic.

You're right. It's almost what FreeRepublic used to be like.

When Freepers had a sense of humor.

172 posted on 04/02/2017 4:54:31 PM PDT by BfloGuy ( Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

It’s too upscale to be Bratislava.


173 posted on 04/02/2017 11:41:27 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Jeff Chandler

“I was challenged to identify it and I knew where to find knowledgeable people.”

Still too many hold-overs at the CIA?

Trump: “Those guys sure went downhill in the last 8 years. Too much time spying on me I guess. So does anybody else know how we can figure out where this is?”

Pence: “Well I know a guy that knows a guy that is pretty bright - I’ll give him a call.”


174 posted on 04/03/2017 12:02:32 AM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
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To: JPJones

Ten years or so ago when I had a blog on a site called Xanga, one of the other bloggers put up a very high res old photo of a city scene with a streetcar and labeled it as an old San Francisco scene. She wanted to know what decade it was from. I recognized the street in the picture and, generically, the tram, too and the buildings. It was a picture from sometime in the ten years after the War in Istanbul. I was a child there in the fifties and I remembered that particular street. I didn’t know the name of it, hell, I was less then 10 years old at the time, but I remember riding with my dad in his embassy provided jeep on that street with that particular curve on probably multiple occasions. I believe the pic was pre 1955 because one of those buildings collapsed in an earthquake in that year- it was a small tremor but most of those multistory buildings, the newer ones, at least, had no steel in the concrete, no rebar.


175 posted on 04/03/2017 2:59:33 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: Jeff Chandler

We don’t get many Ulan Bator threads here on FR. That said there is a Canadian tv series called Don’t Drive Here which goes to various places around the world with um difficult traffic conditions and explores them and how to negotiate your way around. They did one for Ulan Bator. Tons of vehicles since the USSR collapsed but the roads are less than adequate.


176 posted on 04/03/2017 3:47:40 AM PDT by xp38
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