-Hey, Im doing this 'Where in the World' contest from concierge.com. And July's question is located here: http://www.concierge.com/cntraveler/contestsquizzes/whereareyou/july2011
the description of the image is as follows (its also on the link too)
'A great deal of capital and industry went into erecting the fluid and lofty structure before you鈥攊n celebration of an event that never happened. You haven't entered the twilight zone; rather, this shiny aluminum exhibition hall was spawned to chronicle the paramount geo-political state of affairs during the last half of the last century. In effect, this institution memorializes the fact that global stasis remained just so; that things didn't get worse; that we didn't go MAD.
Opened four years ago, the center belongs to a larger museum devoted to military aviation. The architectural conceit is to portray countervailing forces in the international realm: A pair of 400-foot-long curvilinear triangles are poised in opposition as they rise 100 feet to form a seam at the top. Its 66,000 square feet are crammed with paratroop carriers, refueling tankers, and bombers, and jet fighters hang from the rafters. Since temperatures and humidity are regulated via low-energy ventilation, the designers have earned the right to trumpet their environmental cred.
You are touring this nation's most rural county. Yet at every turn there are riveting (perhaps literally) sites from the early days of the Industrial Revolution. You'll be gobsmacked by the exquisite little cast-iron bridge that spans the country's longest river. And how apropos that a seminal naturalist who deeply pondered issues of survival came from here.
As you tour the exhibition displays, a bleak Churchillian turn of phrase and perhaps even a fancy French word for relaxation in mind, consider that this lustrous museum was founded so that younger generations (for whom Thor and Vulcan might just be video games) would never forget this perilous age. Indeed, recent spontaneous political uprisings could well be the last gasp of the world order established in those dark old days. Welcome to the twilight of the gods.
Where are you, anyhow?'
What I got out of this was:
It is a military aviation museum, somewhere in a country with recent political uprising. There are remnants of the industrial revolution, including an iron-cast bridge that spans the country's longest river. This is one of the newest and biggest aviation museums there is.
I searched wikipedia, and found a list of all the major aerospace museums, and click on ones from countries with recent political uprising (turkey, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Lebanon) but to no avail.
There is a really famous iron cast bridge that spans Englands longest river, which is called the Severn river. After clicking on every English Aerospace museum, the closest museum is the Duxford museum but alas, it does not look the same as this one.
I am stumped, can anyone help out?IF I KNEW THE ANSWER WHY WOULD I POST IT -- BUT NEVER THE LESS; YOU'RE NOT LOOKING FOR AREAS OF RECENT POLITICAL UNREST.. AND THE LONGEST RIVER COMPLETELY IN ENGLAND MAY BE THE THAMES-- ALTOUGH THE CAST IRON BRIDGE IS ACROSS THE SEVERN --SO YOU'RE PART RIGHT I THINK
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