What's historical in your area?

[Provost Harrison]

Hey, Edith Nesbit lived in Eltham

[Dauphin]

I think she lived in a lot of places.

[Hueij]

Nothing world-shocking happened here besides a battle over a bridge that made it into a movie... With Laurence Olivier no less.

[DAVOUT]

Dreux, 60 km west of Paris.

The first large battle of the French Wars of Religion occurred at Dreux, on December 19, 1562, resulting in a near-run victory for the Catholic-Royal forces. Total KIA : 8000. This kind of casulties are likely amongst the arguments at the origin of the laicité.

[Dr Strangelove]

Thomas Jefferson's second home, Poplar Forest, is located about 3 miles from my home. I go to a church built on land donated by Mr. Jefferson. The elementary school my kids attended, New London Academy, is the 3rd oldest continually operating primary school in the United States. Unlike its older counterparts, Boston Latin School and Seton Hall New London is a public school, Having been given to the state in the 19th century.

[Cyclotron]

Ah, Marin County, home to some of the richest towns in the US, and my own person as well. We have a wide assortment of streets named after a certain Sir Francis Drake and his ships (Golden Hind Avenue, anyone?). In the scenic town of Larkspur, there is a decidedly ugly modernist statue of how giant-Drake might have looked if he was made out of origami and magically transmuted to bronze. But why the fascination?

It turns out that Drake, hero of the English and hated scourge of the Spanish, landed somewhere on America's Pacific coast, called it "Nova Albion" (we have streets called that, too) and utilized it in his quest to plunder Spanish shipping in the area. It's been theorized that Nova Albion was, in fact, Marin County (or a part thereof), and thus "Drake's Bay" on the western coast of the county was named. Of course, there's still debate as to whether this actually was his landing spot, but that hasn't stopped us from naming everything after Drake that we possibly can without creating too much local confusion ("Oh, you live on Nova Albion Way, I thought you were on Nova Albion Drive").

So here's to Drake, who - wherever he landed - managed to give the Spaniards a hell of a time and form the basis for English claims over North America stretching from Sea to Shining Sea before we Americans ever thought up the phrase.

Did I mention we're related?

[Kuciwalker]

Drake

[Dauphin]

There is a replica of the Golden Hinde by a pub I frequent.

http://www.eyerevolution.co.uk/virtual_tours/london_panoramas/media/qtvr/index.php?location=212

[Drake Tungsten]

Drake

QFT

[Kuciwalker]

He was a Rosbif, you should be

[Drake Tungsten]

I was talking about myself.

[Dauphin]

Drake.

Tungsten filaments.

Drake Tungsten.

[Drake Tungsten]

Drake Tungsten.

doubleplusQFT

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Dauphin
Drake.

Tungsten filaments.

Drake Tungsten.

France

[Dauphin]

No need to be sarcastic.