Peter Pedant
DId he ever make an early lost speech ? Someone told me that at one address, the shorthand writers got so involved with the content of Lincoln's speech that they all stopped writing and listened, and...
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Peter Pedant
Does anyone know why the gronant beach is a SSSI - a site of special scientific interest? OH, and we saw two water spouts almost tubing from the sky - low cloud, a bit windy - and the tubes...
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Peter Pedant
what's the difference between a fatherland and a motherland - can you have both ? This is a question from Another Person. I suggested that Germans have a fatherland and everyone else a mother land,...
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Peter Pedant
had a video which was a troupe of young men clad only in bathing costumes and body paint, shimmying down the corniche at Nice - in high summer I think nikita was one of the words in the song. thanks
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Peter Pedant
If you have a data set, one can calculate the confidence interval for the set. but you can also do it for a single data point. If the datum is n say, then the CI is something like 3n Does...
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Peter Pedant
The tee-vee ad has the waitress come in and say, "saucisses et haricots...." - Just before Joanna Lumley says oh dont be so lah-did-ah. But she doesnt say ..... ay tarricoh - with an elision as we...
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Peter Pedant
Atlantic seagulls are different to pacific seagulls - someone a few years ago pointed out that the wrong kind of seagull was calling at the beginning of Desert Island Discs, and a third person chipped...
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Peter Pedant
Has anyone got a link, about water waves and speed of propagation? Having only seen the Severn Bore, I think a tsunami speed of hundreds of miles an hours is on the high size. The videos of the waves...
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Peter Pedant
How do you find the bit-players in Casualty?
Who played the policeman in Saturday's Casualty, who misled Selena? A friend said he played Jez in Coronation Street and I said he was someone else.
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Peter Pedant
The field where they play polo - is it called a maidan? Or do the nobs say 'field' oh and another thing while I here, where does that Cumbrian expression kushti come from? and what does it mean for...
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Peter Pedant
You know the film Zulu which is kinda OK about the 1879 Battle of Isandlwana? Does Sgt Jones VC appear in the film? Who plays him? and the scene he gets his VC for,is that in the film? He is the one...
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Peter Pedant
Kay- jay please go on asking your questions, I rather miss them
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Peter Pedant
Does anyone knows which sort of forest was growing after the last glaciation? Does any still exist and is it possible to go and see it? Is this the same as any Royal Forest before William I or were...
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Peter Pedant
in 1688, at a time when James II was obviously on his way out, a group of people (in favour of William of Orange) conspired in a room with a window in each of the four walls-so they could see if...
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Peter Pedant
Someone was good enough to give the site where you can look up all the music that is used for adverts, to one's hearts content. And I cant find it Oh and does anyone know - the honky tonk music...
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Peter Pedant
You know when you are buying petrol and so on, the subject (lets call him the data subject) is often on video. How can you get hold of a copy of the video? Is the law the data protection act or some...
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Peter Pedant
Whch year was it, that the King of England was able to dine with three other kings, basically because he had got them locked in the tower? One i thought was a King of France and the other the King of...
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Peter Pedant
Which battle was it, where an English force commanded by a Frenchman beat a French force commanded by an Englishman? I reckoned it had to be early eighteen th century, because the French force could...
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Peter Pedant
Hi Boys and Girls Can any one give me an internet reference for the following? Perhaps ter Braak can help, if it is in Nederlands I can get it translated..... Someone fell into one of the grachten...
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