Where is this?

Originally Posted by Guillermo

Skyway Bridge in Tampa Bay.

edited:
I'm sorry. I forgot about not being allowed to win twice in a row.
Please anyother take the turn.

That happens Guillermo, in the heat of the moment.......................


but

where is our

(Sarcophilus harrisii) aka Mike Johns? he didnt do the worst!

[hoytedow]

Congratulations, Guillermo.

Sorry about the fish, Mark. It was just a quick sketch meant to be a mullet.

Cabeza de Vaca did in fact wreck the last of his ships near Tampa, Florida, after which he spent more than a decade as a slave to Los Indios de la North America.

It is interesting how the Cabeza de Vaca family acquired the name. Does anyone other than Guillermo know the answer to that?

This thread is a brilliant forum for demonstrating one's ignorance. Of course I read and caught up with this bit of history. In twenty years ask me something about a cows head or the Narvaez expedition...
Once again, staying awake in class payed off for Guillermo!

[hoytedow]

It was probably more an attack on your memory than your ignorance. I couldn't write a book about all the stuff I've forgotten. Why? Because it's forgotten!

[hoytedow]

Guillermo, if no one else comes up with the answer, please tell them. I believe the Ciudade de Valencia was involved.

The 13th century thing on the moms side - The Christians and Moors. It's in Wiki...or am I missing something?

[Guillermo]

∗ The name Cabeza de Vaca means, literally, “head of a cow.” The King of Castile Alfonso VIII bestowed it upon an ancestor after the most important battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in 1212. This man, the mozarabic Martin Alhaja, was a shepherd who had marked with a cow’s skull a trail trough the mountains named "Puerto del Rey" or "Puerto del Muradal o Almuradiel" at the Despeñaperros Pass, by which the Spanish were enabled to outflank and defeat the Moorish army.

The winning of the christian army in that battle is probably the main reason why Spain is not now a muslim country.

Cheers.

Hmm, at least one gets not sillier here! Thanks Guillermo.

Who does the next? John, I guess, will not be back before Monday.

[hoytedow]

Laude Deus!

[MikeJohns]

I am here in the office helping one of my sons finish an Engineering honours thesis


Built to collect taxes from river traffic. It must have been lucrative to have made it worthwhile. Still in very good condition.

What is the name of the river ?

[Guillermo]

Mevrouw, als met papier
De rijmen dezer bladen
Uw boekerij verladen,
Beveel ze maar aan 't vier.
Dat zij hun lijf en leven
Weêr leevren aan den brand
Is niet onbillijk: want
Die heeft het hen gegeven.

[Guillermo]

Originally Posted by apex1

where is our Sarcophilus harrisii ....

Well, he has popped up, posted a teaser and informed us about the wellbeing and high expectatives of his offspring (congs Mike!), so most probably he will not follow the steps of the species in the attached image...

[MikeJohns]

Ah Guillermo you can probably get your Banjer to that castle.

Mijn vrouw is Hollands and she inherited a share of a farm near here recently.

Thankyou, My offspring are doing well, my eldest son has his honours degree in medicine already some years ago. The younger two will both be engineers and I was sad the eldest became a doctor

Alas unlike you I have no daughters.

There is something of a white elephant hunt to find the elusive Thylacine again still in the wild, lots of blurred photographs from the forests that people claim was such a beast.
In reality they will only be seen again if the scietists have their funding, they have the testicles properly preserved of one which they say they can make the embryo's of a neww race of Thylacine one day.

Originally Posted by Guillermo

Well, he has popped up, posted a teaser and informed us about the wellbeing and high expectatives of his offspring (congs Mike!), so most probably he will not follow the steps of the species in the attached image...

I hope so!


Thanks John for the teaser, uitmuntend, mar jeg praat nederlands dat ware niet fair dan.

[hoytedow]

"Thankyou, My offspring are doing well, my eldest son has his honours degree in medicine already some years ago. The younger two will both be engineers and I was sad the eldest became a doctor"

Don't be sad; think of artificial hearts, artificial knee joints and last but not least, breast implants. All engineering feats developed in part by DOCTORS!