America The Beautiful

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Originally Posted by Renovatio

Hey. I was just browsing the place and I think its great youre so proud of you're country - but I just gotta say that, while no single person invented the computer we brits had the first working computer to find out where shells were falling from and to crack the enigma codes. British sci-fi author Arthur C Clarke came up with the concept of satelites. And we had a hand in inventing the lightbulb.

Rule Brittania!

Congrats, thanks, and welcome!

If I remember rightly, It was Polish code breakers that managed to break Enigma, at Bletchley Park, in England.

[JayDee]

America The Beautiful

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I would like to see a thread for something like (AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL) if not for our great country then just because...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL

Have you ever spent the later afternoon watching the purple shadows deepen in the Arizona desert, or seen a herd of elk plow their way through waist deep snow on a cold Colorado dawn?

Did you ever watch the sun go down in Hawaii or see the stormy waves break over the rock bound coast of Maine, or have you ever seen an eagle fly up out of the mists of Alaska or a big October moon hanging full over the still Dakota badlands?

Have you ever tasted the gumbo in New Orleans, the barbecue in Carolina or the chicken wings in Buffalo? Have you ever had Brunswick stew in Macon or cornbread in Birmingham or brisket slow cooked over hill country mesquite wood?

Did you ever drink water from a gurgling branch in Utah or stand on the mountain above El Paso Del Norte and see the lights twinkling clear over into Mexico?

Did you ever jingle horses in the predawn stillness of a perfect Texas day and watch their shod hooves kicking up sparks on the volcanic rock or tended a trot line on a foggy Carolina morning, or heard the distant song of a lovesick whippoorwill in the pristine Tennessee late night?

Have you seen the faces on Mount Rushmore or stood at the Vietnam monument? Have you ever crossed the mighty Mississippi or been to the Daddy of ‘Em All in Cheyenne, Wyoming or seen the mighty Vols run out on the football field on a chilly autumn afternoon?

Did you ever see the Chicago skyline from Lakeshore Drive at night or the New England foliage in the fall or the summer beauty of the Shenandoah valley or Indiana covered with new snow?

Did you ever see a herd of wild horses running free across the empty spaces of Nevada or caught a walleyed pike out of a cold Wisconsin stream, or marveled at the tall ships docked in the harbor at Baltimore?

Did you ever see the early morning dew sparkling on the bluegrass or the wind stir the wheat fields on a hot Kansas afternoon or drove the lonely stretches of old Route 66?

Have you ever heard the church bells peal their call to worship on a early Sunday in some small town in the deep South, or passed through the redwood forests as the sun was going down?

Have you ever been to Boise or Baxley or Beaufort or Billings? Have you ever passed through Sanford or Suffolk or San Angelo? Have you seen the falls at Niagara, the ice palace in St. Paul or the gateway to the west?

This then is America, the land God blesses with everything and no Eiffel Tower, no Taj Mahal, no Alps, nor Andes, no native hut, nor royal palace can rival her awesome beauty, her diverse population, her monolithic majesty. America the free, America the mighty, America the beautiful.

God Bless America

So, back on thread.

I'm a Brit who has lived in the States and have done a number of the things you mentioned.
I miss the US so much- you have such a wealth of riches.
Get off your butts and enjoy !

[JayDee]

Favourite plce- Big Bend National Park, TX. Go there in the Spring, and the desert smells like a perfumery!

I went through that list and remembered I had done a few myself. But a few moments from my memory.

Crater Lake, Oregon - standing and looking up at the sky wondering if it would snow. It did.

Walking into a bar in New Orleans, sober as a judge, hadn't had a drink all day and breaking the very fragile empty glass the bartender had put in front of me. To this day I have no idea how I did it.

Going into a bank in Virginia and having the lady who served me ask me where I was from and then wishing me a happy visit (it was my first visit) to her country.

Sitting in the bar that's right on the beach in San Diego with a friend and waiting to see if we could see the green flash of the sun when it disappeared behind the horizon (we didn't so we just ordered more beer).

Watching the planes at the US Naval station through the big picture window of my friend's place at Point Loma.

Driving through the desert national parks in the south-west and wondering if they'd filmed any espisodes of "The Cisco Kid" or "The Lone Ranger" there because some of those big rock arches looked very familiar.

Visiting the Alamo.

Heaps more, more happy memories than negative memories I'm very glad to say.

The diversity of the US is amazing to the visitor, that's why when I hear people talk about "American" culture or the American "way of life" in my country I'm pretty sure they know about America from tv or film and not from visiting.

[Samantha Cline]

I Love America. I'm a History Buff! As a matter of fact I am going to be interviewing a Veteran from World War 2 On Monday. There Interview will be Posted on the Internet. I am so Excited! [/i][/i]

[guppy]

there is nothing more beautiful than the site of a soft quiet snowstorm moving over the mountains of wyoming. see heards of antelope running through the valleys.

the landscape of new mexico. the site of all the paper lanterns lit up at night when you pass the gorgeious adobe houses in the hills.

the site of the indian reservations in new mexico.

the old forts in florida built along the beaches. it is a walk back in time.

the site of the sunrise in the keys. the sun peeking up over the water. the sunsets are just as breathtaking.

the thunderstorms that move in around houston at night. watching the lightning flash over and over is awe inspiring. the power almost humbling but very beautiful

going into the okeefenokee swamp by boat. right in the middle of it you can imagine you are the only person on the planet such is the quietness and majesty of the swamp.

god bless america and all its diversity.....