Gold, cold, room for the bold; O Canada
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Gold, cold, room for the bold; O Canada
India
Curry
England
Heritage, tea, steak and kidney pie, plum pudding, Yorkshire pudding, Twickenham, blitz, white cliffs, fish & chips...
Mexico
Donkey shows...I'M KIDDING! <cough> Start again...Mexicans, for a start, great food, replete with beans and cheese, the Rio Grande, lots of people shorter than me--which at my height is a real treat--sweet people who tend to be round in the middle, and...<taps chin thoughtfully, glances skyward>...Oh! Bullfighting. Wait, do they have bullfighting in Mexico? Or is that only Spain?
Canyon Lands:
Canyon Lands: sculptured rock-scapes, hiking, arches
Morroco:
Morroco: Marrakech, The Clone (soap opera), belly dance, tapestry.
Argentina:
Argentina: Rainforest, waterfalls, fun people
Austria:
Austria:Sissy-Movie, dancing,Blue Danube
Brazil:
Brazil: nuts, Amazon, Rio, Christ the Redeemer, Olympics 2016, Brasilia, piranha, funky river dolphins
Portugal:
Portugal: Portuguese, codfish, Carnation Revolution, Fernando Pessoa, Camőes, Saramago, fado, Manoel de Oliveira.
Germany:
Germany: Köln, Stuttgart, President Uchtdorf, Schloss Neuschwanstein, Wall, Berlin, war, Kristallnacht, edelweiss, Rhine, Leberwurst, "Ich bin ein Berliner"...
Greenland:
Greenland:ice?
Cuba:
Cuba: As with Brazil, women with legendary boom-boom, which shakes when they walk, setting off seismographs everywhere.
Nunavut:
Nunavut: Not being Canadian I had to look it up... I'll go with: walrus, caribou, whales, snow, cold, frigidly cold, immensely cold, narwhals, Canada, Aurora Borealis, lost frozen explorers, ice, and did I mention - cold. In conversation when Nunavut is brought up in polite conversation (outside of Canada and Canadians) it is often misunderstood as "none of it"
Micronesia:
Micronesia: Handfull of islands; Nauru(Australian? concentration camps for fugitives)
Australia:
Seriously ? whoa!
Australia: MaryD, Delta 40, roos, Ayer's Rock, Great Barrier reef, Alice Springs, Canberra, Sydney Philharmonic (from "Finding Nemo"), koala, echidna, platapi, salties, indigenous rights, AC/DC, Men at Work, Bee Gees, Crocodile Dundee, outback
Antarctica:
Antarctica: whales, seals, penguins, polar bears and ice,ice,ice....
Antarctica: No ants ?
Sorry, forgot the country.:(
Great Britain, of course:
Great Britain is not a country at present. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is at the moment, but after yesterday goodness only knows what will be in ten years' time. (Even citizens aren't clear about the difference between Great Britain, - a geographical concept - the United Kingdom (well, two kingdoms, a principality and a province to be exact), - a political concept - and England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.)
England: Mum, the blitz, Richmond Park, Fawlty Towers, Twickenham...
Ireland:
Ireland: Maria Doyle Kennedy, awesome butter, rain rain oh my god rain, James Nesbitt, the Cranberries, Jacksepticeye
Brazil
Ireland: Joyce, Yeats, whiskey, Guinness, Thin Lizzy, St Patrick's blue.
E: Brazil: Villa-Lobos, football, the Amazon.
Czech republic:
Czech republic: One half, give-or-take (as some politicians might say) of Tzechoslavakia; Frau Gormley (I won't look up her last name spelling this time) - one of my NHS German teachers was from Austria; Vienna; Schönberg; Schubert; Johann Strauss'; sausage
India:
India: Gandhi, Salman Rushdie, Mona Amon, Curry, A passage to India (film), Sari, Nile, Indian dances, Sarong, social tabus, sacred animals
Italy:
Italy: Rome, the Renaissance, Raphael, ravioli, risotto, Ratzinger, Rossini, Romeo & Juliet
Poland:
Poland: Kieslovsky films, Lech Walesa,Danzig, The drummer (film).
Russia:
Russia: Catherine the Great, Potemkin, Fabergé eggs, Kremlin, Siberia, Yakusk, Irkusk, Tunguska & Chelyabinsk meteors, caviar, Urals, Lake Baikal, Moscow, space exploration, Uri Gagarin, Laika, Soyuz, Sputnik, Lunik
South Korea:
South Korea: K-pop, K-film, K-food, K-anything.
Canada:
Canada:Margareth Atwood, Feminine Literature, Michael Ondaatje, multiculturalism, American, British and French influence, a young country still in quest of her identity, adoption of refugees,Toronto, Otawa, Quebec, quebecois, Clopin.
Chile:
Chile: wine (my standard pick with meat is a Cabernet Sauvignon from there), Pinochet, Neruda, Mistral
Portugal:
I guess we had Portugal already but ok: Porto, Porto wine, Florbela Espanca, Tejo, Eça de Queirós, Camilo Castelo Branco, Lisboa, olives.
Spain:
There are only so many countries, and 45 pages of this topic.
Spain: Velázquez, Goya, Almodovar, the Spanish Inquisition, the Armada, amazing midfield football
Lithuania:
That's not a thing.Quote:
Lithuania
Lithuania:EU member,fights for independence from the old Soviet Union, fast growing economy and high human development,Geographic Centre of Europe (Vilnius), Dalia Grybauskaitė,Basketball.
Ukraine:
Dancers!
Tremendous food!
Climate similar to Canada ... my sister country!
Venezuela?
Venezuela: Maduro, oil, Caracas, prayers
Eritrea ?
Stews and flatbreads, exotic landscapes, warm temps
Haiti?
poverty, corruption, hurricanes, witchcraft, AIDS, tons of charity---my goodness what a picture.
finland?
The most heavy metal bands per capita in the entire world; Angry Birds; sumptuous coffee;.....
Ireland?