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Transistor battery longevity

Does volume have any effect on a battery's life?
05:53 Wed 08th Feb 20062 answers, last by dynamicduo 13:00 Wed 08th Feb 2006
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Film title

Here's another poser for you experts. Almost sure to be American, B&W, probably c 50 year old. perhaps set in S America or a hot country; It opened in a club committee room where secret voting was...
05:50 Wed 08th Feb 20064 answers, last by spaced 18:04 Wed 08th Feb 2006
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Query about sound

Why is it that when I'm in my car listening to the radio at an acceptable level, when the car is stationary with engine turned off, the sound is uncomfortably loud?
19:00 Wed 01st Feb 200611 answers, last by DirtyHabit 23:15 Fri 03rd Feb 2006
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Delays in delivery of e-mails via Outlook Express

This past two weeks or so, some of my messages, particularly those to the States are ariving up to 12 hours later. Who might be responsible for this? Perhaps my mail is being intercepted? I heard of a...
22:28 Fri 27th Jan 2006
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Little-known European battle painting

Apologies for this wispy question. Many years ago a TV series about art showed a very large, portrait shaped, highly detailed oil painting of a battle, (from a museum in Austria?). It was said the...
23:27 Mon 16th Jan 20062 answers, last by Segilla 05:01 Wed 18th Jan 2006
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Australian bird

I once read in an old book, about a bird living somewhere in the S part of the continent whose cry (at night?) was truly bloodcurdling. Can anybody put a name to it please?
23:07 Mon 16th Jan 20061 answer, last by Quizmonster 12:55 Tue 17th Jan 2006
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Elecro-magnetic waves

Why is it that these *magnetic* waves don't interfere with each other simply because they are on different frequencies?
21:52 Fri 13th Jan 20062 answers, last by pagey 23:28 Fri 13th Jan 2006
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Effects of earthquakes

Since drilling can cause oil to gush out of the ground under pressure, are there any occurrences of earthquakes causing fractures in oilfields and quantities of oil to be released?
21:48 Fri 13th Jan 20064 answers, last by EDDIE51 11:43 Sat 14th Jan 2006
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Painting of a military battle

As a child, 1940s - 1950s, I used to do a large puzzle of a picture on plywood, none of whose pieces interlocked. It was of cavalry charge, (19C I suppose), the familiar scene of them advancing at...
21:42 Fri 13th Jan 20064 answers, last by Segilla 23:19 Mon 16th Jan 2006
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Film title wanted please

British B&W film, c 1950 probably a B movie. Passengers in a railway carriage become involved with a mysterious playing card fortune teller (Esme Percy??) who says the cards foretell that the...
21:33 Wed 11th Jan 20063 answers, last by Segilla 05:34 Thu 12th Jan 2006
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Name of sci-fi / futuristic film

Almost at the end, a door in a factory / scientific place was opened and what was going on inside gave a completely different slant to the film.
21:29 Sun 08th Jan 200610 answers, last by Segilla 22:53 Tue 10th Jan 2006
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Name of Music Hall Artist

Saturday Night BBC Home Service Variety Show, in the 1940s. For the time it was such a shocking recitation that it was much discussed. A man recited in gory detail an account of a murder, the repeated...
21:18 Tue 27th Dec 2005
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Old Matt. Tale of the American Old West

Can anybody identify a children's hardback book, pale blue cover publ .c 1947. (Old) Matt was a backwoodsman, had an underground den. He owned a copy of Plutarch';s 'Lives'. Had a dry shave. One...
21:03 Fri 23rd Dec 2005
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Giant Sequoia or Redwood

Can anybody please direct me to a photo of a N American tree, so large that a cart and horse(s) were driven through it. It was a very popular picture in encylcopaedias 1930 - 1950.
20:51 Fri 23rd Dec 200511 answers, last by sunnyside 21:59 Mon 26th Dec 2005
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The Adventures of Robin Hood

Has anyone seen / bought the *re-issue* of this film on DVD? If so, does it include in the final fencing scene an item not in the film regularly televised, of Robin and Guy nose to nose, separated...
13:03 Wed 21st Dec 2005
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Effects of water pressure in deep ocean

Having just watched the TV programme about a visit to the Titanic, I'd like to know more about the effects of water pressure at depth. Obviously, if the deep water craft cannot take the pressure it...
12:30 Wed 21st Dec 20051 answer, last by boobesque 15:38 Wed 21st Dec 2005
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Skoda Diesel Octavia 6 years old

Relay 109 had to be replaced as fuel was intermittently not being pumped to the engine. (Air bubbles in the line). ?!5 relay, ?115 labour as the dashboard had to be removed to get at it It looks as if...
01:02 Thu 15th Dec 20053 answers, last by Segilla 11:40 Thu 15th Dec 2005
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Inventor of process to make steel from low-grade ore

I vaguely recall something like a 19C Clerk to a Central London Magistrate's Court, in his back garden perfecting a process to make steel from low-grade iron ore. It was said that had the Germans not...
00:52 Wed 14th Dec 20051 answer, last by kempie 01:01 Wed 14th Dec 2005
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Music to film 'Ghost' sung in italian

On BBC Radio, I once heard this song sung by an impassioned Italian. Details appreciated
00:25 Wed 14th Dec 20051 answer, last by Spikey88 20:48 Wed 14th Dec 2005

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