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Coasting

How illegal / foolish is it to coast? Maybe not so bad now that car brakes are so effective and gearboxes synchromeshed? I get 64mpg from my 1.9 diesel, and drive up to 70 mph on M ways and accelerate...
16:38 Fri 29th Sep 20069 answers, last by pagey 13:33 Sat 30th Sep 2006
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Annuals which bees will like

I usually grow doubles, e.g, French Marigolds which bees get no nectar or pollen from. Any suggestions please, for readily obtainable annual PLANTS which they will visit?
16:33 Fri 29th Sep 20062 answers, last by allotment10 22:19 Fri 29th Sep 2006
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Upstairs Downstairs televised ITV3 20 September

I just missed the part of the scene at Herne Bay where Mrs Bridges and Mr Lyons the eel merchant had some kind of confrontion. What caused it?
23:45 Wed 20th Sep 20061 answer, last by stevie-p 09:27 Thu 21st Sep 2006
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Antiques website

Can anybody please point me to a website where a question about an antique item (not about its value) will be seen by serious enthusiasts?
19:20 Tue 19th Sep 20062 answers, last by Segilla 21:28 Wed 20th Sep 2006
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Archaeologist - Rawlinson?

Penguin pb of many years ago, Digging up the Past(?), gave histories of several, Leonard Woolley etc, digging in Mesopotamia, Assyria etc. Rawlinson(?). lost a barge laden with finds in one of the...
23:29 Sat 16th Sep 20061 answer, last by Octavius 12:55 Mon 18th Sep 2006
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Zeugma

Anyone who saw the last-minute excavations in Turkey before the site was flooded may well have thought this was one of the saddest archaological events ever recorded. Although appreciating that there...
23:02 Sat 16th Sep 2006
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Revising a view of history

**If** the resolve of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan and their ability to outspend its weaponry resulted in the collapse of the USSR, it might have been considered that it was 'A Good Thing'....
22:46 Sat 16th Sep 20063 answers, last by Segilla 00:42 Tue 19th Sep 2006
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Marches before collapse of the Berlin Wall

I recall Brian Redhead asking on the BBC why East Germans assembled on *Mondays* (I think it was), but he never got an explanation.
22:32 Sat 16th Sep 20061 answer, last by Xollob 11:57 Mon 18th Sep 2006
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Biomass

I'm finding hard to understand how it's possible to grow elephant grass, willow or whatever in sufficient quantity to make it worthwhile to burn in power stations. The physical size of such material...
22:27 Sat 16th Sep 20061 answer, last by boink 18:03 Sun 17th Sep 2006
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Lead - acid batteries

Traditionally these worked and gave off O2 and H20 How does the sealed (car) battery work?
17:35 Thu 07th Sep 20063 answers, last by Jay70 13:52 Fri 08th Sep 2006
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Rugs made with rags.

Evey time I see one of these I turn it over and find the rag has been pulled / sewn through hessian or whatever. My grandmother, bn 1880 in London, who went into service in Tunbridge Wells, Kent used...
16:52 Fri 01st Sep 20064 answers, last by joeNsmith 12:55 Tue 28th Apr 2015
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Trojan horse virus found on my computer

Seeking assurance that provided only https sites are used to give CC details etc, then the chance of my accounts being raided and / or identity stolen are at a minimum. Presumably, the villains who...
10:22 Mon 28th Aug 20062 answers, last by Segilla 16:42 Fri 01st Sep 2006
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Quick baking yeast

The aroma when baking is good but my wholemeal bread made in a machine lacks flavour even though made with the very best flour I can get. Is this because of the this type of yeast (from Tesco)?
23:13 Thu 24th Aug 20064 answers, last by Segilla 20:12 Wed 13th Dec 2006
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Dangerous Book for Boys

Can someone please suggest the upper age limit for this book, please.
21:16 Wed 23rd Aug 20064 answers, last by samuel23 19:38 Thu 24th Aug 2006
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Dangerous Book for Boys

Can anyone suggest the upper age limit for this book please?
21:14 Wed 23rd Aug 20063 answers, last by dee5 19:33 Fri 25th Aug 2006
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Effect of buying and selling shares within 30 days

I'd appreciate a simple explanation please. Buy shares 1 June and make a profit of ?200 by selling 6 August. But what is the arithmetic if share sold at a profit of ?200 a fews days after buying?
17:28 Wed 23rd Aug 20065 answers, last by BigMac 16:50 Fri 25th Aug 2006
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Anne and her Grandfather

Why does this phrase keep coming to mind? Was it a book, a book's chapter, a period drama? Does it chime with a memory of a 19C TV drama series of an old man and little girk wandering East London,...
22:28 Fri 18th Aug 20061 answer, last by yinyang 15:08 Sat 19th Aug 2006
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Red Indian initiation ceremony?

Wanted. Name of film in which a (Canadian?) Red indian is hauled up by ropes passed thro his pectoral muscles. I seem to recall the practise is banned, but allowed for the purposes of this film.
10:01 Tue 01st Aug 20062 answers, last by maxximus 11:17 Tue 01st Aug 2006
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Enhancing music recorded pre ffrr, hi fi etc

The visual images on the remastered 'The Adventures of Robin Hood' on DVD are excellent, but it seems that nothing was done to upgrade the sound track. What were the possibilities here, technically,...
09:50 Fri 14th Jul 2006
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The setting sun in San Diego, south California, USA

I'm trying to understand tne following description of the progress of the sun towards sunset. "Our house faces southwest. Right now (1 July), the sun is setting far to the north in the west, so our...
00:14 Thu 13th Jul 20068 answers, last by heathfield 13:33 Fri 14th Jul 2006

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