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A well known phrase

What is the origin of the saying, 'to know something like the back of your own hand'?
13:11 Thu 30th Jul 20095 answers, last by Quizmonster 11:51 Mon 03rd Aug 2009
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I need a word

A homophone is defined as a word that has two or more different spellings but is pronounced the same, eg their/there, four/fore/for, scent/sent, conquer/conker. What is a word that is pronounced in...
13:05 Thu 30th Jul 20092 answers, last by Mikkanjazza 13:29 Thu 30th Jul 2009
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military pensions

If a man was a soldier (NCO) from age 16 for 9 years, finishing his service in 1960 but dying before reaching retirement age, and was married while in the army, could his widow expect a military...
21:33 Thu 11th Oct 20071 answer, last by Calvert7 15:20 Fri 16th Nov 2007
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Charging of laptop batteries

If you damage the mains input of your laptop, the repair cost is greater than the value of the computer. Yet everything else continues to work. I have an ADVENT laptop, the battery has six contacts....
17:27 Thu 27th Sep 20071 answer, last by neildownx 19:35 Thu 27th Sep 2007
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Recharging laptop batteries

My laptop computer (Advent 7601M) is apparently unusable because the mains power input socket has been damaged. I am told that a repair is uneconomic. Yet the rest of the computer is perfectly sound,...
14:19 Thu 23rd Aug 2007
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The back of my hand

Arthur C Clarke in his book '3001' has someone expressing surprise that no-one can explain the origin of the expression 'to know something like I know the back of my hand'. I doubt if I could...
17:31 Sun 11th Feb 20072 answers, last by Nether Edge 18:27 Mon 12th Feb 2007
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Diodorus Siculus

Can anyone provide me with the complete quotation from Diodorus Siculus, allegedly describing Britain, Stonehenge and the people who used it. And in the original Greek would be even better!
17:25 Sun 11th Feb 20072 answers, last by Octavius 15:49 Thu 15th Mar 2007
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where are the iron railings?

During the last war, railings were ripped up from all over Britain. I have heard that it was found to be useless for turning into tanks, ships, aeroplanes armaments etc: is this true, and if so, what...
21:33 Thu 10th Aug 20069 answers, last by luckyeight 19:53 Sun 13th Aug 2006
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eagle and child

Can anyone shed any light on the story that an eagle picked up a child in North Italy , May 1959, and deposited it, still alive, on a mountain top? This was supposed to have happened near the town on...
11:46 Thu 10th Aug 20065 answers, last by dot.hawkes 20:12 Thu 10th Aug 2006
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burial of traitors

Is it true that the effigy of an attainted knight is placed on the 'wrong' side of his wife ie on her left?
09:57 Thu 10th Aug 20062 answers, last by hiflier 10:28 Fri 11th Aug 2006
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who said it?

'Try everything once except folk dancing and incest'. Only one person could have come up with this saying the first time round, yet at least five well known people are supposed to have done so,...
22:24 Tue 11th Jul 20067 answers, last by jno 14:11 Wed 12th Jul 2006
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same place, different spelling

The authority running the London district of Harringay spells itself Haringey Council. Why the difference?
16:13 Sat 08th Jul 20062 answers, last by Drusilla1S 18:24 Sat 08th Jul 2006
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Sicilian autostrade/motorways

Drive between Catania and Palermo on the dual-carriageway autostrada and you cannot but be impressed by its construction - much of the road is on stilts about 20 feet above the ground. It has been...
13:41 Mon 03rd Jul 20062 answers, last by SteveD 13:40 Tue 04th Jul 2006
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what's the joke

This is bugging me. I heard a really good joke the other day, but now I can only recall the punchline. It's to do with some guys (aliens?) in a car park, and ends up with one of them exclaiming...
17:54 Thu 06th Apr 20067 answers, last by lankeela 13:50 Mon 10th Apr 2006
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Midwich cuckoos

Many years ago I read this book. I also saw the film. I was sure that at the end of the book the 'cuckoos' removed themselves from the neighbourhood by the simple (to them) expedient of making their...
17:15 Thu 06th Apr 20062 answers, last by hiflier 19:08 Sat 08th Apr 2006
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history

when was the last armed rising on british soil?
18:53 Sun 12th Mar 20066 answers, last by mike b 05:53 Tue 14th Mar 2006

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