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connoisseurs
Senator
Is there any coherence with health enhancing peanuts?
old slave
FELIS RESPICIENS
A tiny bit late, I know, but the carrier pigeon got swept off course:
What have the Windy Pennines ever done for you?
Well, on March 22nd 1767, the priest in charge of Mill Hill Chapel in Leeds
one Joseph Priestley (yes, that one) did his first experiment which lead to the paper Impregnating Water with Fixed Air.
Fixed Air was the air above a fermenting vat of beer, which was known to kill a mouse if held in it for a few minutes. Priestley suspended a bowl of water above the fermentation vat, and remarked that after a while, the water tasted quite pleasant.
He later refined the method by bubbling the gas produced by dropping oil of vitriol (sulphuric acid) onto chalk through the water.
He thus produced the world's first carbonated drink.
If only he'd known what carnage would result:
What have the Windy Pennines ever done for you?
Well, on March 22nd 1767, the priest in charge of Mill Hill Chapel in Leeds
one Joseph Priestley (yes, that one) did his first experiment which lead to the paper Impregnating Water with Fixed Air.Fixed Air was the air above a fermenting vat of beer, which was known to kill a mouse if held in it for a few minutes. Priestley suspended a bowl of water above the fermentation vat, and remarked that after a while, the water tasted quite pleasant.
He later refined the method by bubbling the gas produced by dropping oil of vitriol (sulphuric acid) onto chalk through the water.
He thus produced the world's first carbonated drink.
If only he'd known what carnage would result:
Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
Great Scientist, Priestley.
#3 Barbara (Barbie) Benton, Hugh Hefner's first long term girlfriend. When he asked the then 18 year old on a date, she replied to the 42 year old Hef, I've never dated anyone over 24. He answered, "Neither have I!"
A clear inspiration for our remarkable Barb.
Indeed a very great Yorkshireman - as a Unitarian, indeed one of the first Unitarians,
he was Minister of Mill Hill Chapel, emphatically not priest.
Frank Petrexa
Tribune
Did Hefner EVER date anyone over 24, even in his 80's. I read that he was stone deaf as a side-effect of viagra. Interesting fixation. He needed another hobby--amateur astronomy or number theory or collecting Groucho Marx memorabilia. Routine gets old. And the "playmates" always seem to have exactly the same look. I think Playboy single-handedly kept a lot of hair dye outfits in business.
Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
Sorry to have missed the remembrance yesterday of the sinking of the Lyttelton–Wellington ferry Wahine on 10 April 1968. New Zealand's worst modern maritime disaster with 53 deaths. Fifty-one people lost their lives that day, another died several weeks later and a 53rd victim died in 1990 from injuries sustained in the wreck.
Gibbs505
SERVORUM DOMITOR
And a young girl was killed in her bed on shore by the storm.
I remember it well, I was living there, in Wellington.
cruxlover
Tribune
And kids as young as 8 in Mexico having false teeth. (At least according to a TV programme I saw recently- All together now
"Yes he saw it on TV, yes he saw it on TV, Yes he saw it on TV so it must be true. (Apologies to "Lock up your daughters"))
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock_Up_Your_Daughters_(musical)
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Naraku
Draconarius
Sadly, the modern version: "It must be true, I saw it posted on Facebook."
old slave
FELIS RESPICIENS
The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, took place on 13 April 1919 when troops of the British Indian Army under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer fired rifles into a crowd of Indians, [from Wiki]
Somewhere between 300 and 1000 died, a curfew was declared and so the wounded were abandoned to their fate.
Apart from it being 100 years ago, why bring it up? Some clamour for Britain to apologise. Why apologise? Because India keeps mentioning it in trade talks.
Somewhere between 300 and 1000 died, a curfew was declared and so the wounded were abandoned to their fate.
Apart from it being 100 years ago, why bring it up? Some clamour for Britain to apologise. Why apologise? Because India keeps mentioning it in trade talks.
Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
Worth remembering by those who assume we are entitled to a peaceful world where every right is held sacred.
Trade Talks? Are we back on Brexit?
Frank Petrexa
Tribune
Yes, it will be interesting to see how it started. I really hope it isn't a terrorist arson, or an arson at all (in America, burning churches is something of a tradition). But, I assume an old building like that is a real fire trap, and no one person probably understands all the nooks and crannies.
malins
Stumbling Seeker
It's way too soon to make any statements on causes and right now all efforts have to focus on putting the fire out. There was renovation work going on, scaffolds all over, so it might have been a stupid accident (they happen).
After this is over, the question will be whether there's going to be a will to rebuild, in order to maintain the cultural tradition (even under normal circumstances you have to constantly replace parts of old cathedrals, their value is not in the question of whether that is all really the same stone that was put there originally ... )
dommmu
Governor
I just turned in the TV to see this happening. The fire still looks pretty bad. The German TV even speculates right now if one of the main towers is on fire, too.
But they say that it looks like there were no casualties or injured. If that turns out to be true, that's probably the best news that could come out from this.
When things like this happen, I am always annoyed by the reporters suddenly turning into experts for ANYTHING. At the station that I have turned in, they are right now even guessing how many litres of water you need to put the fire out. Judging the situation before something official has been announced, that is just disrespectful.
dommmu
Governor
And then there are experts like this guy...
Edit: The expert reporters really have just discussed if uncle Donnie's suggestion could actually work. By the way, the same station just interrupted their broadcast with a beer commercial.
Edit 2: Apparently, the Paris fire department has now officially confirmed that they will not be using planes or helicopters to extinguish the fire, since a sudden massive water drop could endanger the structure of the building. Oh dear.
Edit: The expert reporters really have just discussed if uncle Donnie's suggestion could actually work. By the way, the same station just interrupted their broadcast with a beer commercial.
Edit 2: Apparently, the Paris fire department has now officially confirmed that they will not be using planes or helicopters to extinguish the fire, since a sudden massive water drop could endanger the structure of the building. Oh dear.
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connoisseurs
Senator
For a few seconds I had hope that this is a fakeAnd then there are experts like this guy...
