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Turnip Princess, Talking Bear and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales

A panoramic view of Regensburg, Germany. (Photo: Karsten Dörre/Wikipedia)

German scholars have discovered a trove of 500 long-lost fairy tales that feature a cast of characters including a turnip princess, a talking bear and a prince who resembles a dung beetle.

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Levantines Lament at Loss of Community in Turkey

A hillside in Izmir is carved with the likeness of Mustafa Kemal "Ataturk" who founded the modern Republic of Turkey in 1923. (Photo: Andrés Mourenza)

The city that we are looking for in the Geo Quiz today has gone through many transformations in its long history and part of what it is today was shaped by the Levantines.

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Welsh Village With a Tongue-Twisting Name

A signboard in Betws-y-Coed village. (Photo: Ulybug/Wikiepdia)

For the Geo Quiz we are looking for a town with a name that is difficult to spell. Many visitors cannot pronounce the town and hence cannot search for it on the internet, which, the local tourism officials say, is a problem.

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Canada’s Chateau Laurier Hotel Granting Amnesty to Guests Who ‘Lifted’ Items

Hotel Chateau Laurier in Ottawa is celebrating is 100th anniversary in 2012. (Photo: D. Gordon E. Robertson/Wikimedia)

To celebrate its 100th anniversary, hotel Chateau Laurier is collecting memorabilia that may have been ‘lifted’ by guests over the years.

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Two Cruise Liners Turned Away from Argentina’s Southern Port

The Star Princess was denied entry into port Ushuaia, Argentina because of the tensions between Britain and Argentina over Falkland Islands. (Photo: Yankeesman312/Wikiepdia)

This port city in Tierra Del Fuego is sometimes called the southernmost city in the world.

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Scottish Lawmaker in a Bar Brawl

Eric Joyce (Photo: Congliti/Wikipedia)

We are looking for a major landmark in London that is at the center of Britain’s political world.

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Ruling on the 1804 Spanish Galleon Sunken Treasure

Odyssey discovered hundreds of silver coin concretions lying on the seabed at the “Black Swan” site. More than 500,000 silver coins, weighing more than 17 tons, were scattered over the site which comprised an area larger than six football fields. (Photo: Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc.)

We are looking for the place off the Spanish coast where a Spanish galleon sank with its treasure in 1804.

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A Community North of Toronto that is Home to Several Music Bands

A street sign in Thornhill, Canada. (Photo: AndroidCat/Wikipedia)

We are looking for a small community near Toronto where Canadian singer Hayden and group The Philosopher Kings come from.

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Video: Extreme Bike Race in Chile

A biker in action in Chile. (Photo: Josefina Bahamondes)

For the Geo Quiz we are looking for a city located about halfway down Chile’s long Pacific Coast that hosts an unusual mountain bike race that follows a very topsy turvy course.

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Home of ‘Best’ Smoked Meat Sandwich

The smoked meat sandwich at Schwartz's deli in Montreal, Canada. (Photo: Steve Dolinsky)

For the Geo Quiz, we are looking for a Canadian city that is home to some of the world’s best smoked-meat sandwiches.

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The Epic Migration of a Songbird

The Northern Wheatear is a tiny songbird that breeds in Arctic Canada and then migrates thousands of kilometres to Africa for winter. (Photo: Rolf Nagel)

For the Geo Quiz, we are looking for one of the breeding grounds in eastern Canada of the Northern Wheatear, the songbird with one of the largest ranges of any songbird in the world.

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A List of Cities Compiled by International Economists

Zurich city at night. (Photo: Andyindia/Wikipedia)

Zurich, Tokyo, Geneva, Osaka Kobe, Oslo are the top five cities of a list compiled by international economists.

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Fast Eddie and an Old Crime Scene in England

Felixstowe (Photo: Martin Pettitt/Flickr)

The Geo Quiz visits an old crime scene in England. The suspect in a 19-year-old crime was just found in Missouri. Where was the bank he allegedly robbed?

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Slideshow: An Underground River in the Philippines

Boats approaching the Underground River cave. (Photo: Mary Kay Magistad)

For today’s Geo Quiz, we were looking for an island that is site of one of the new 7 Wonders of Nature, a river that burrows for five miles through a cave under a mountain.

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A West African Dust Storm

A dust plume spanning hundreds of kilometers blew off the coast of western Africa on February 6, 2012. (Photo: NASA)

For the Geo Quiz, we are not looking for a dry and dusty trade wind that is causing a vast Saharan dust cloud to hover over West Africa.

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