by Joyce Bruck; Ocean Ridge, FL
After spending eight days in the Sultanate of Oman, I traveled on to spend six days in Dubai. The airport in Dubai was so big, it reminded me of Miami International, including the long lines at Passport Control.
October’s photo. . . stumped our readers! For the first time in 2005, no one at all sent in a guess for our “Where in the World?” entry by press time.
Quick, before you read the answer, take a guess!
The photo is the Norman Castle Tower in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, England.
Summertime, and the livin’ is. . . royal! Or so it must have been for King Carol I of Romania and his Queen, Elizabeth, at the site depicted in June’s photo.
It’s Peles Castle in Sinaia, completed in 1883 as the royal family’s summer residence (and King Carol’s permanent home — he’s buried there).
Teach a man to fish. . . and he’ll never leave Hungary.
December’s photograph is the Fisherman’s Bastion on Castle Hill in Budapest, Hungary.
Seventy-two readers submitted answers and 56 were correct.
The winners of the drawing are Mr. and Mrs. THOMAS L. RUSSELL of Raleigh, North Carolina.
October’s photograph shows part of the Reunification Monument in Yaounde, the capital city of Cameroon.
Congratulations to RON WYMAN of North St. Paul, Minnesota, who sent in the only correct answer.
We thank George Aneiro of Washington, D.C., for sending in the picture.
“You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. . .”*
Fifteen of our readers knew that September’s photo depicted the Monument to General Antonio Maceo in the Plaza de la Revolución, Santiago de la Cuba, Cuba.
Quite a few of the 136 readers who correctly identified March’s picture didn’t particularly admire the building, the Parliament Palace in Bucharest, Romania. It was built by dictator Nicolai Ceausescu as the “Casa Poporului” and “Victory of Socialism Center” in the 1980s and was unfinished at the time of his death.
The picture in the July issue shows the Independence Monument in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
This lotus-shaped stupa, built in the Khmer style, was built at the intersection of Norodom and Sihanouk boulevards in 1958 to celebrate Cambodia’s winning its independence from France in 1953.
One man’s home… became another man’s castle.
The subject of December’s photo, Stokesay Castle, located near Craven Arms in southern Shropshire, England, is the oldest extant fortified manor house in England. Built by wealthy wool merchant Laurence of Ludlow in the 1280s, the house wasn’t referred to as a “castle” until the 16th century.
Originally built out of temporary materials for the Portuguese World’s Fair in 1940, the subject of June’s photo, the Monument to the Discoveries, was recast in concrete in 1960 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the death of Prince Henry the Navigator (the guy at the top holding a small sailing ship).