OK, Maybe this should be elsewhere, but it is somewhat historical - only one ever built. Who made it, when and an estimate for what the original was sold for and what the cost was when it was resold......
No guesses (or points) for who made a similar design and went bankrupt several years later......
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"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things" - Yma o Hyd.
PeteC wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2020 2:04 pm
In modern terms isn't the use of shire meant to mean the suburbs rather than the city?
Nope, don't think so.
I've heard people say Aberdeen meaning "in town", and Aberdeenshire meaning where they live out in the countryside.
"Aberdeenshire is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland. It takes its name from the County of Aberdeen which has substantially different boundaries. The Aberdeenshire council area includes all of the area of the historic counties of Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire, as well as part of Banffshire."
I have the answers to pharvey's car question, but I had to use google so as there is no beer at stake I'll do the honorable thing and hold fire for now...
dtaai-maai wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 10:34 pm
I have the answers to pharvey's car question, but I had to use google so as there is no beer at stake I'll do the honorable thing and hold fire for now...
Mate - if you're in HH in September, we could well have a beer!! That said, avoiding the floods, I may well be opp North!
"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things" - Yma o Hyd.
A question and a quiz at the same time I guess. I have no idea what the answer is.
Westminster Abbey says that the below is on the tombs of both Elizabeth I and Mary I. The lion has its tongue out, why? Perhaps there is no hidden reason or meaning and just something artists of the time did?
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Interesting. It's all about heraldry. The above picture is a lion rampant (up on 2 legs), a lion passant is a lion walking on all 4 legs. There is also a lion couchant (I think), which is lying down. It's all in French, of course. This much I already knew. Looking at google images, most lions (and dragons, etc.) are depicted in profile, with their heads pointing in the same direction as their bodies. They all have their tongues out, I don't think there's a particular reason for this other than perhaps to signify strength/aggression/roaring? Sometimes, however, the head is turned, as in the above image. As far as I can see, this is a lion rampant guardant.
Why, you ask... Excellent question, and I have absolutely no idea!
I wonder if the adjective "rampant" came from that? I don't quite see how it would though, but I guess if rampant can also mean unrestrained, unbridled etc., it could have.
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The “Spanish Flu” epidemic of 1918-19 killed tens of millions worldwide. In Philadelphia, a public health campaign during the epidemic saw heavy fines or imprisonment for people caught spitting on the sidewalks. (Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries)
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Source
The transatlantic slave trade might seem like something from a distant and barbaric era - but a historian has found evidence its last survivor was alive in living memory.
Hannah Durkin, at the University of Newcastle, had previously identified the last surviving slave captured in Africa in the 19th Century and brought to United States as a woman called Redoshi Smith, who died in 1937.
But she has now discovered that another former slave, Matilda McCrear, had lived three years later.
Matilda died in Selma, Alabama, in January 1940, at the age 83 - and her rebellious life story was the last living link with slaves abducted from Africa....... (continued at link)
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(You should have asked the audience...)
