Month: March 2014

Originally the Église Saint-Étienne-le-Vieux dates from the 10th century and is an official French protected monument. It lies very close to the well known l’Abbaye-aux-Hommes.

In 1944 it was destroyed by bombing, either by the allies or the Germans, depending on the source you are reading. But anyhow it was never rebuilt.

Those who bombed the place

• hhgygy
• Sandworm
• Phil Ower
• Paul Voestermans
• Felix Bossert
• steve willis
• rob de wolff
• Mike Jack
• Garfield
• Cloudspotter
• RicardPG

– Hint –

• Eloy Cano
• ndrqu
• DannyS
• mehmet durmus
• Gillian B
• Ann K.
• krenek
• Walter_V_R

Partially destroyed in 1944 and never rebuilt.

First of all: apologies that I did not make it yesterday, but here is this weeks’ contest. It is about the church in the centre of the picture.

And a warm thank you to all who wrote me some nice lines.

Due to family circumstances there will be no contest this week.
Next contest will be published on Friday 21 March.

Mr. Yoshikuni Kamichika visited The Netherlands in 1979 and was impressed by the Dutch water engineering skills. He was looking for a suitable development project for a location in the Omura bay and decided upon a Dutch Theme Park, named ‘Huis ten Bosch‘

To ensure that the buildings looked genuine, he imported the building bricks from The Netherlands

Those who looked in the right part of the world:

• Mike Jack
• hhgygy
• Sandworm
• Paul Voestermans
• Phil Ower
• RicardPG
• Cloudspotter
• krenek
• Walter_V_R
• Lighthouse
• Garfield

– Hint –

• steve willis
• Eloy Cano
• Ann K.
• DannyS
• Ozgur ONGOCMEN
• rob de wolff

Whut? Dutch style houses and windmills in this part of the world? Are you kidding me?

The largest solar power plant in the world was constructed in the Mojave desert in California, USA.
It is the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility and it formally opened on February 13 this year.

In total it consist of three concentric circles of mirrors, focussed to beam up to three towers with steam turbines.
It should produce some 377 MW per annum.

Those who did not look into the sun

• hhgygy
• Cloudspotter
• Ann K.
• Phil Ower
• Walter_V_R
• LawnBoy
• Lighthouse
• Paul Voestermans
• steve willis
• Mike Jack
• DannyS
• Jesus Rodriguez
• Sandworm
• RicardPG
• krenek
• Paul Borger
• Elrober
• David Kozina
• Jill K
• Garfield
• Paul1547
• mehmet durmus
• Eloy Cano
• Paul Franson
• Ozgur ONGOCMEN
• Chris Nason

– Hint –

• Andy McConnell
• Skip
• ACG
• Ashwini Agrawal
• donaaronio
• Ludwig
• Rosella
• Bill Close

Not quite focused in this picture, but went into service three weeks ago