Youtube comments of Neil of Longbeck (@neiloflongbeck5705).

  1. In the words of Brian Clough: "We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass."
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  2. It's nice to see this mission being remembered.
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  3. There were several outcomes from this disaster. All future iron bridges needed to be designed to withstand a side on wind that gave a pressure of 56lb per square foot and bridges in exposed locations had to be fitted with wind gauges that sounded an alarm if the wind rose to give a pressure of 28lb per square foot. If the alarm sounded in the signal box no train would be allowed to cross the bridge until a full inspection had been completed. The opening on the Whitby to Loftus railway was delayed in order to ensure the iron viaducts were strengthened and a wind gauge placed on Staithes viaduct.
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  4. To lose one bow is unfortunate, to lose two is sheer bravery.
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  5. The biggest problem was that the stress tested fuselage was cold worked and was tougher than normal. Thus De Havilland got misleading strength data. If all if the fuselages had been stress tested in the same way, these accidents might never have happened.
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  6. Mega should always be designated in a unit by M not m (which means milli).
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  7. By the time the cops got to the site of the ladder in No. 2, there would have been a massive pile-up. Retrieving the ladder was a reasonable action.
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  8. The peopleof Scunthorpe had more luck in getting the Normans to pronounce their town's name properly.
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  9. You should also cover the Fengate, Peterborough, fireworks explosion of 1989. At least this was a rural area. Fengate cost a firefighter his life and led to ballistic face shield on their helmet when the fireworks exploded. 107 people were injured by the explosion, 84 of them needing hospital treatment.
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  10. He wrote 2 political plays - "Love, Labour's Lost" and "Love, Labour's Won".
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  11. The traditional counting system used in the Yorkshire Dales and parts of Lincolnshire and County Durham is a base 20 system based on the Brythonic Celtic language.
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  12. It's so funny that Dassault was also pushing for the adoption of the single-engine Super Etandard because of the engine issue....
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  13. Still it's difficult to get people to overcome their nature instinct to run away from a fire.
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  14. Probably because the channel got bored with responding to the experts mentioning poor handling of guns they know are empty.
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  15. Don't Artillerymen think the Earth is concave? It is usually once they've finished....
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  16. I just stamped their ID10T form. He'll get his badge an sign in 10 working days.
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  17. The first recommended cut from the Federal Budget for the new DOGE to consider: SpaceX.
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  18. Reconnaissance, yes but no transportation. You need different horses for that.
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  19. As the song goes: Cold falls the night, Cold rolls the ocean And colder blows the breath of fate That sends the roaring gale. The stars give their light For duty or devotion, But a sailor's heart needs more than prayer When eye and compass fail And more than hope to guide his lonely sail. By sea and land John Harrison's hands Made sure for ever more That sailors could find longitude To bring them safe ashore. Your work was long, Your days were driven. You knew that you could build a clock To marry space and time. But your one great wrong Was never forgiven - For to be better than your betters Was worse than any crime, And their envy was a hill you would not climb. By sea and land John Harrison's hands Made sure for ever more That sailors could find longitude To bring them safe ashore. And the prize of thirty thousand pounds Was more than just a prize. It was dignity and justice Over bitterness and lies - And the longer they denied you, Attacked you and decried you, The more you saw the weakness in their eyes. How many lives, How many talents, Were tainted by the poisoned well Of power from which they drank? But the wind that drives The bold topgallants Was harnessed by a man with Neither privilege nor rank, And the sailor lads, they knew and gave their thanks.
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  20. My father travelled home through King's Cross about half an hour before the fire was discovered. He was there the following day as part of LFB's clean up and was seen talking to Mrs Thatcher.
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  21.  @termitreter6545 I wonder how many time Browning got things wrong before he got it right on all of his designs?
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  22. It's called mine sweeping, as in "It's mine sir, and I'm sweeping it away to my locker."
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  23. There's an old Teesside saying that dates back allegedly to the Harrying of the North. You say that someone who swears a lot is swearing like Billy Norman (aka William the Conqueror). The story is that when he came North to deal with the rebels hiding out in the marshes near Coatham near the mouth of the Tees, it was still cold at night and snow still lay in the north facing valleys. William stayed up late at night shivering by the fire swearing to keep warm.
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  24. This pilot the primary rule for fun flying: It's better to be on the ground wishing you were flying than up there wishing you weren't.
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  25. Harrison's crime was being better than his betters.
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  26. In the mid-1930s a railway bridge in the Esk valley between Grosmont and Sleights was wash away after heavy rain. A few weeks after the bridge had been reopened it was washed away again and had to be rebuilt. That bridge still stands. No one was killed or injured in either collapse.
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  27. Surely Fridge Raider?
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  28. He had plenty of time to use the slow down feature of his vehicle instead he used the look at me button.
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  29. That's correct, but I think that they want to reuse each capsule.
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  30. Back in the 1980s a colleague was serving in the RAF and on a base with a Luftwaffe officer on an exchange posting. With Battle of Britain Day approaching no one dared raise the subject with this German. On the big day the German Officer appeared in the Officers' Mess in full dress uniform to join in the celebrations. When asked, he replied, "Well, we were there too, you know."
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  31. And now you know why the Royal Navy ruled the waves. They were just trying to get some decent food.
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  32. And people wonder why the British retained HESH and rifled barrels for so long after they became ineffective against tanks. HESH is effective against other targets, like bunkers for which it was originally designed.
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  33. You could do what the Vietminh did with wooden sleepered track. A basic method of lining track up is a gang of men with levers to shift it small distances without unfastening each length of track. There are videos on YT about his BR's gangers maintain the track using such methods.
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  34. You missed a major issue. Until mid-1939 the FAA was part of the RAF.
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  35. So, it's the würst of all possible options.
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  36. A bit like the iceberg that the Titanic hit. It sank shortly after the Titanic.
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  37. Brian the Astrophysicist was unable to make comment.
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  38. Without the Adrian helmet Churchill might not have survived the battlefields of Flanders, he preferred the French helmet over the Brodie helmet.
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  39. There's always a bad one in any batch.
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  40. Surely it should be "Last time I was this yearly HMS Captain was still HMS Midshipman"?
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  41. Whilst that is a good assumption to make, these weapons are in a museum's stores and would be known to be empty.
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  42. Sounds like the pilots forgot the first rule. "If lost when flying at night or poor visibility, climb. For no one has ever collided with the sky."
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  43. Apart from the Tiger Force most of this film is pure fantasy. The only other fact in it is the fact that in the early days if the Manhatten Project the Lancastef was considered for dropping the 17' long Thin Man bomb but when the design was change, becoming the Little Boy bomb, the idea of using the Lancaster was dropped. Aerial refuelling had been tested prior to WW2 but unsuccessfully in the UK. It wasn't until around 1946/1947 when Flight Refuelling Ltd was successful.
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  44. Is it worse than claim compensation you are not entitled to? They're prosecutions going on for those who claimed compensation as victims of the Grenfell Tower fire when they didn't live there or had been in the building.
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  45. If you were a villein and ran away, if your lord didn't catch you within 4 days the lord would have to go to court to get you back.
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  46. Obviously you've not bothered to do proper research - the British had axial flow turbo-jets running and flying by November 1943.
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  47. Except for the 2 that remain at the IWM Duxford and the RAF Museum Cosford. You need to do better research and be less sensationalist in your script. The Royal Navy has NEVER been part of the British Army. The same is true for the RAF. You've also missed out the financial crisis of the period 1964 to 1967 ending with the devaluation of the Pound by 14%. The Tornado was developed during the 1970s.
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  48. All freedoms come with responsibilities. People always forget that part.
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  49. The church was possibly a noticeable feature on the landscape and clearly visible from the sea (I bet it was painted white). It would have made a good position to get a positional fix from.
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  50. They might even find the protohaggis, the Haggiosarus.
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  51. What you are circling at the 10:05 mark is a trip cock, interlocked with signal 156 (hence the orange cable). These are automatically lowered when a signal indicate a proceed aspect, but should the pneumatic motor fail they are sprung loaded to return to the stop position. These have been in use on London Underground (LU) since before WW1. LU was already in the process of introducing speed control equipment, similar in nature to the trip cock system already in place, at locations were lines ended in a tunnel after an accident involving an empty train at Tooting Broadway in 1971. By the time of the Moorgate Accident, 12 of the 19 locations had been fitted with this equipment. After Moorgate in July 1978 an new system involving 3 trip cocks was introduced, with the first being at the entry pointwork to the platform, the 2nd at the start of the platform and the 3rd halfway down the platform. If the train's speed exceeds 12.5mph at any one of these, then the emergency brake is applied. They also put resistors in the power supply to prevent trains accelerating into the platform. These are switched out for departures. Also, there were changes to the signalling into dead-end platforms. Previously, the preceding signal would show a green proceed aspect if the platform was clear and a yellow caution aspect if the platform was partially occupied. Afterwards, the driver would see a yellow aspect if the platform was clear or red aspect with 2 white lights at 45 degrees if the platform was partially occupied if the signalman was giving permission to proceed.
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  52. The man that killed Richard I was a cook, who went shooting after his duties in the kitchen were done.
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  53. The same is said to be true when a country uses the word "Democratic".
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  54. Those ranges are fairly reasonable for a submerged launched torpedo. A periscope at 10 foot above a flat surface will see just short of 4 miles (distance to the horizon). This reduces to about 1.5 miles if the periscope is only 1.5 foot above the surface.
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  55. It was 6 foot beyond the Bureau of Ordnance's comprehension.
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  56. Funny you said that. There's an episode of The Navy Lark which features a rogue WW2 U-Boat that had been resupplied by CPO Pertwee's Dutch relatives.
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  57.  @ghjgbnhjjghjthknvf6379  you do know that I can own an Uzi in the UK or a WW2 era rifle such as the .303 Lee Enfield? Both would be legally held under the mainland UK strict gun control laws (the laws in Northern Ireland are a bit more relaxed, but gun owners there can't bring their weapons to the mainland). The UK's gun laws have prevented mass shootings and apart from Dunblane in 1996 we haven't had a school shooting. How many have there been in the US in that period? These weapons are in a museum and would be empty and would have been so for years, plus before being set out for filming they would have been checked.
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  58. What a thriller. Only one winner - Women's Rugby.
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  59. There's a restaurant in Sheffield called Polonium. This incident has done little for them.
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  60. And people wonder why the Americans are disliked as a nation in some parts of the world? And yes, the English/British, French, Belgians, Italians, Spanish, Portuguese ain't any different.
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  61. That picture of Harold Lloyd hanging from the clock is not as risky as it seems. Lloyd was only a few feet above a flat surface that was hidden from view by carefully selected camera angles. At this time Lloyd had already lost most of his fingers on one hand after an explosives incident.
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  62. One reason that Grumman and Douglas built so many aircraft for the USN was that the USN for many years, and they may still do this, would only accept aircraft from manufacturers who had a track record of building carrier-based aircraft. Hence Northrop had to get into bed with McDonell Douglas to get the USN to consider their YF-17.
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  63. Those Victorian terraces were just as good as producing criminals as the tower block.
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  64. After the Brodie helmets were issued to British soldiers in WW1 the number of head injuries increased and the Generals considered withdrawing the helmets until it was pointed out that those soldiers would have been killed if not for the helmet.
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  65. The HP Manx is proof that in Europe the Hortens weren't the only ones looking at flying wings.
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  66. He was cancelled by YT for smoking a pipe.
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  67. Peterborough is the new name for the city. It was original called Medeshamstede, this then became Burgh in the late 10th Century. By the 12th century, it had become Glidenburgh.
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  68. The Wright brothers were self-taught.
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  69. The only variant of the A-12 that never got off the drawing board was the bomber.
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  70.  @ddandymann  Stalin told the Japanese before Hitler was dead that the treaty was off. Funny that Mr Felton never mentioned that - the Japaneze were aware that Stalin would probably send his forces east.
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  71. The Roman's didn't just use rectangular shields. The Auxiliaries used different shields to the Legionaries.
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  72. Don't let TIK hear about GmbH being a private company if they have shareholders. GmbH is the German equivalent of the UK's private limited company (one were shares are not traded publicly and shareholders are required to sell their holdings to other shareholders before offering to a third party).
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  73. I would have though that undermining the war effort would be a better translation than corruption of the war effort. It might not be a direct translation of the German but I think it gives a more accurate phrase.
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  74. Number 3 if you know a big bump is coming up you can slow down a bit more to reduce the impact. Sometimes action is more important than talking.
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  75. And yet he kept it the terms on Soviet-Japanese neutrality pact. He didn't annul it until the last 12 months in line with the terms if the treaty. Funny that.
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  76. The Republic of Ireland could opt out of WW2 under terms of the Statute of Westminster of IIRC 1932. The other Dominions had the same choice.
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  77. For those who don't know it, Hert in Hertfordshire is pronounced as Hart not Hurt.
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  78. Because school history books tend to focus on the big picture and not the countless stories that make up the big picture.
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  79. It was attempt at stopping the British gas warfare programme.
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  80. Wasn't the A10 going to be withdrawn in the early 1990s?
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  81. Your ignorance of climate change is showing.
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  82. In many large buildings, you get 2 alarms - the standby alarm and the evacuation alarm.
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  83. ​ @imanoldurango8213 automatic reaction.
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  84. And yet Krakatoa was the loudest bang in recorded history.
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  85.  @Deepthought-42  they were. Her real name was Norma Ann Sykes, sadly she's no longer with us as she died I November 2016.
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  86. Well done, Portugal.
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  87. My grandfather served I the Italian campaign in an anti-aircraft battery of the RA. He never talked about his experiences in the war and I was too young to have asked him about it.
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  88. Never put down to malice what can more easily be put down to incompetence.
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  89. Hou can say that about a lot of the clips on channels like this.
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  90. Those who do this know that those of us who want to check their conclusions are going to have to work very hard to contradict them; in other words they are trustworthy. Those who don't give their sources aren't worth trusting.
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  91. Ah the Glasgow Kiss...
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  92. Obsolete against most German tanks, but Italian and Japanese tanks were still vulnerable.
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  93. Well they had to do it twice, the second time they filmed it. And after each German reaching the peck, the Russians came along and cleaned up the garbage the Germans left behind.
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  94. Yes.
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  95. Admiral Cunningham is said to have said something similar about the evacuation of Crete: it takes 3 years to build a destroyer, 300 a reputation; the evacuation goes on.
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  96. When it comes to kamikazes, we must take into account the words of General Tacticus: "It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country. This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind". Although the Japanese ignored his advice in the later half of the war in the Pacific in regard to ensuring against defeat when out-numbered, out-weaponed and out-positioned: "Don't have a battle". When it came to the invasion of Japan, the Allies took his advice to heart: "After the first battle of Sto Lat, I formulated a policy which has stood me in good stead in other battles. It is this: if the enemy has an impregnable stronghold, see he stays there". Even the Germans in the first half of WW2 followed his advice: "...A crucial factor, I have always found, is NOT the size of the forces. It is the positioning and commitment of reserves, the bringing of power to a point..." If only General Lucas had remember his Tacticus on beachheads at Anzio: "If you want your men to spend much time wielding a shovel, encourage them to become farmers".
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  97.  @asherrice5289  out of a population of 67.5 million in 2020 we only had 30 homicides that involved a fire arm, whilst in the US in 2018 there were almost 20,000 homicides involving guns for a population on 329.5 million. The US population is about 4.8 times that of the UK but their gun death rate is around 666 time higher. Yes we have a problem with knife crime, but there again we always have. See the Glasgow razor gangs of the 1960s or the Peaky Blinders from Birmingham (the rare gang and not the BBC version). As for the Akec Baldwin incident, that was a gun that had been used for firing blanks and not a museum item.
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  98. The full saying is: The customer is always right in matters of taste.
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  99. Because in the UK several members of the Class 86 locomotives were in service with SAB resilient wheels at speeds of upto 100mph (160km/h). I've looked every where and not found any evidence of an accident being caused by these wheels on these locomotives. So, this meant that the Germans had a source of evidence for the reliability of these wheels.
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  100.  Paol Vrobel  the treaty had a provision that in the last 12 months either side could annul the treaty. This could occur anytime after 13th April 1945. Stalin told the Japaneze on 5th April 1945 that he was going to annul the treaty on 13th April 1945; this occurred long before the Potsdam Conference. Only a stupid person would be unsuspicious of Stalin's intentions towards the Japanese.
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  101. One of the reasons that this configuration never became common was because the rear engine suffered from over heating problems. The lack of yaw when an engine failed has NOTHING to do with the engine type but their location on the centre line of the aircraft. It is the offset thrust of the engine still operating that causes the yaw.
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  102. British beer, like red wine, tastes best when served at room temperature (around 15 to 18 degrees C). It's only lagers, like white wine, that taste best when served cold. If you serve traditional British beers (bitter, mild, porter, stout, etc) cold you lose all the flavour.
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  103. I find the use of Thomas Aquinas as the starting point for liberalism troubling. As for him God's plan includes slavery for some, as supported by many verses of the Bible and that includes chattel slavery of both non-Hebrews and fellow Hebrews (using the words used in many translations of the Bible).
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  104. The problems with burials in London is covered by The History Squad on YT in the video "Minister Buried 12,000 Corpses Under Chapel". Kevin Hicks is a supreme story teller.
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  105. @flatlander4527  I've always assumed that when it comes to museums, the guns they have in their collections are always empty, and that before filming, on any channel, they have been visually checked. But then I'm no expert.
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  106.  @Theyrecomingtogetyoubarbara  which would be considered appropriate today if dealing with a parent that does not habitually reside with the child, in line with deeds of the charitable trust set up for the victims and families of those affected by the disaster.
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  107.  RavnDream  the killers of James Bulger were children and were in need of help rather than retribution. They were jailed until they became adults. At their trial they were sentenced to be detained at Her Majesty's Pleasure (ie indefinitely). In 2001 the Parole Board decided that they were to be released on lifelong licence. One of them (Venables) has been jailed twice for subsequent offences, the other (Thompson) hasn't put a foot wrong, showing that he has learnt his lesson.
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  108. We have a P-51B-1-NA of the 355 FS of the 354 FG (Squadron Code letters GQ) at the 5 minute mark followed by P-51Ds if the 356th FS of the same Fighter Group (Squadron Code letters AJ. The 355th were based at RAF Boxted, the aircraft is 43-12408 and was photographed in early 1944 around the time the squadron lost their Mustsngs from Thunderbolts and moved to tactical support from bomber escort duties. The 356th lost their Miustangs in early 1944 and were re-equipped with Thunderbolts and were assign to tactical sir support duties instead of bombed escorts. The 356th also lost their Mustangs at the same time as the 355th and got Thundefbolts along with a change of mission to tactical support.
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  109. But paper and wood doesn't burn at a temperature high enough to melt steel, said no one after this disaster.
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  110. Just like today...
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  111. ​@Iffy350 we've had difficulty accepting intelligence in the female half and the non-white part of humanity, so why would you expect anything different with animals?
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  112. Whatever you do don't anger Middle Eastern carpenters. You'll never know what they'll do next. About 2000 years ago one started his own religion....
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  113. I don't know who is dumber Number 1 or Number 3.
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  114. A very superficial telling of the reign of Edward II and the death of Piers Gaveston. The death of Gaveston was much more interesting than given here. Edward II and Gaveston were at Knaresborough in January 1312 and were in Newcastle in May when Thomas of Lancaster force marched his men to the city, including the Earl of Pembroke, Henry Percy and Robert Clifford. The King and Gaveston barely escaped. They ended up in Scarborough and when the King left for York Lancaster placed his men between the two whilst the men under Pembroke, Percy, Clifford and Earl Warenne besieged Scarborough Castle. Gaveston surrendered and was taken to York, where negotiations with Edwatd II were to be conducted. Gaveston was be released on 1st August if negotiations with Edward II failed. He was then taken south to Oxfordshire, in Pembroke's custody to Deddington, where he was kidnapped by Thomas of Lancaster's men and taken to Warwick for his trial. Found guilty he was taken to the nearest piece if Lancaster's land and beheaded by 2 Welshmen. The kidnapping drove a wedge between Pembroke and Lancaster and made Pembroke the King's man. Much more interesting than the bland account given here. Hugh Despenser the Younger becomes a sea monster (ie a pirate) when he was banished. Lancaster was supposed to come to Badlesmere's aid but refuse because he didn't like Badlesmere. Lancaster was supposed to move to the Welsh Marches but did not, forcing the Mortimers (Roger of Chirk and his nephew Roger of Wigmore (the one that escaped from the Tower of London and allegedly became Queen Isabella's lover)) to surrender. One his escape from the Tower of London Roger of Wigmore fled to France, where he became the focal point of the resistance to Edward II, so much so that before Queen Isabella was allowed to go to France Roger and the other exiles had to be banished from France. The Mortimers claimed to be descended from the legendary King Arthur through Llewellyn the Great, his maternal grandfather. There was a legend that a son of the Mortimer house would one day be King of England. Thomas of Lancaster wasn't the King Arthur named in these letters. Thomas of Lancaster was captured the morning after the Battle of Boroughbridge. It took 3 blows to remove his head, he was dead after the 1st blow. The landings of Queen Isabella and Roger Moryimer of Wigmore was in the Orwell estuary, which us not known for white cliffs. They had come from Hainault with a small army, of about 4,000 men.
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  115. Ba dum tish!
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  116. And some of them had fought against British rule. That makes them real heroes in the fight against authoritarian regimes.
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  117. The RAF's Bomber Command in the first year and a bit of the night bombing campaign were lucky if their bombs landed within 5 miles of the intended target.
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  118. Just what the RSM needs a roomful of barrack room lawyers.
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  119. Windscale was selected as it was in a relatively low population density area but had sufficient skilled workers unlike Arisaig, which had been selected for the plant.
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  120. And stop riding the lines. That's just asking for trouble.
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  121. If an American fights for another country against America they lose their citizenship. Soviet citizens who fought against the Soviet Union should have known what to expect.
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  122. Harold was from Wessex, i.e. a West Saxon. There were the people of Essex i.e. the East Saxons, the people of Sussex i,e. the South Saxons, and the people of Middlesex, i.e. the Middle Saxons. Then there were the Jutes of Kent and the Angles of Mercia and Northumbria. The latter 2 were pushed out of their lands by the Danes and the Norse. Some Danes and Norse settled in France becoming the Norman's or North Men. By the time of 1066 there had been many mixings of these peoples, but there were sufficient differences to mark out the 3 ethnic groups, for example Harold's men predominantly spoke English of the Wessex dialect leavened with some Danish and not the Northumbrian dialect that survived North of the River Tees.
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  123. Lots of wheels are tightened by hand. Nothing wrong with that, provided the correct torque is applied.
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  124. Well as Airwolf came out in the 1980s, it's bound to be a bit grey now...
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  125. It must have been seen as a bit of a joke to call the MFI the Flatpack😉
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  126. Deep stall affects the air flow over the elevators, not the ailerons. If you lose elevator control, you only get out of the stall by a sudden thump with the ground. Any aileron input close to the stall can put you into a spin.
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  127.  @srelma  whilst gge DU is primarily an alpha emitter, what it breaks down into on decay include thorium-234 a beta emitter and that decays into protactinium -234 also a beta emitter which decays into U-234. Neither of which are good for you if you ingest them, the decay products are less friendly outside as well. The good news is that thorium-234 has a half life of 24 days and protCtinium has a half life of a few hours.
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  128. Robert Erskine Childer's most famous work as an author (the Riddle of the Sands) was a call to arms against the dangers of German ambitions on the world stage.
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  129.  @trevorhart545  you do realise that fire engines were sent from Dublin to Belfast during the Belfast blitz? The Dublin government also complained to the Nazis about the bombing of Belfast and persuaded the Germans to stop bombing the 6 counties. So much for being Nazi sympathisers.
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  130.  @Margarinetaylorgrease  Rivert duHamel's video on YT covers it succinctly.
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  131. I've just checked the calendar - it's not 1st April.
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  132. It looks a bit like a biplane version of the Ju-87.
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  133. Number 1 you had plenty of time to turn your interaction into a non-event - their turn signal was on fir ling enough - but you had to go charging in just so you can feel superior. In reality you're as bad as the other driver.
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  134. Are you aware that many of the horses being used by the German army in 1940 had been sold to them by the British and still had War Department brands?
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  135. The Douglas AD (originally the BT2D) was their 2nd attempt to fulfil the requirement. You really should be comparing the XBTK with the Douglas XBTD.
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  136. Shakespeare wrote his plays and sonnets in the same way that Trevithick, with little formal educations, invented the steam locomotive. Many of the parts were there for both men,but both made use of them in new ways.
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  137. Those stuffed shirts at the Air Ministry had in 1938 issued Specification B.9/38 for a medium bomber made of non-strategic materials such as wood and steel. They approached Armstrong Whitworth, Bristol and de Havilland. Of the three the one that didn't respond was that stuffed shirt de Havilland. The result was the less than stellar Albermarle.
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  138. Never phone the Kremlin and ask "Is Lenin"?
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  139. The Americans did it with the larger Sheridan.
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  140.  @weirdshibainu  Stalin told the Japanese on 5th April and attacked them in July. Only an idiot wouldn't know they were coming.
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  141.  @Nathan-jh1ho  he was a great painter - he could do 1 apartment, 2 coats, in a single afternoon.
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  142. Straight ahead and damm the torpedoes, that's our Drach.
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  143. Yes, but in the words of Nigel Owen's, they all cheated fairly.
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  144. No system is fool-proof...
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  145. Surely their most telling product is air brakes (as used on the railways).
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  146. Sorry, the British Merchant Navy lost around 2,000 more men, women and boys than the German U-boat command did. And they were all civilians.
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  147. Is he a Jehovah's Train Spotter?
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  148. So ducks are a clear and present danger to the USA? Got to laugh.
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  149. Yes, it was legal. All Argentinian warships in international waters or Argentinian waters could be attacked. They did not need to be within the exclusion zone to be legitimate targets. This was announced to the Argentinians on 23/4/1982 a full week before the Martime Exclusion Zone became a Total Exclusion Zone. The Exclusion Zone was there for the benefit of neutral shipping but under international law the position and heading of any vessel of any of the belligerents have no bearing on the vessel's status. The Captain of the Belgrano confirmed that his ship was a legitimate target as did the Argentine government in 1994.
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  150. A B-17 could lift 8,000lb externally plus the full internal bomb load. It could carry this load 1,720 statute miles at an altitude 6,000ft or 790 statute miles at 25,000ft. Source the B-17 Pilots' handbook .
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  151.  @pittarak1  I think I mentioned it, but I think I got away with it...
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  152.  @johnross6314  yes, but the bomber version remained unrealised.
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  153. It was certainly one of the first aircraft to use bogies.
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  154. There is no controversy but that created by politicians and idiots - any Argentinian warship or military aircraft anywhere in the world was a legitimate target in terms of the Rules of War provided it was in internal waters, Argentian waters or in the vicinity of the Falklands exclusion zone, although in some areas attacking them was not seen as politically sound hence dome attacks on Argentinian airbase were considered but never carried out. Even the Captain of the Belgrano says his ship was a legitimate target.
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  155. When is wrong to use all of the road space and merge in turn? Err, never. All those empty headed drivers causing more congestion by filling up one lane and leaving the other empty.
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  156. Sometimes the symbolic gesture is worth the cost. The Doolittle raid did very little damage to Japan but it did make them realise how easy it was for the Americans to strike at their home land and giving a morale boost to the American public.
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  157. Well, he got used to not dying.
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  158. And to you, my brother.
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  159. In 1952 very little of the national network had been electrified.
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  160.  @scottmarshall1702  CPO Pertwee's relatives in Brazil, Uruguay or South Africa.
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  161.  @1slotmech  wikipedia is an easily accessible source which if used correctly is a way of getting into a subject provided the sources for the article are cited. It's not suitable for degree level studies.
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  162.  @billd.iniowa2263  no, that was an invention of Christian historians writing over 100 years after the event.
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  163.  @Seahorn_  didn't realise that the Bristol Beaufighter and Westland Lysander were developed by the Americans....
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  164. ​@JCDenton3 Christianity is still alive. Every schism just weakened it. But none of the Abrahamic faiths are single entities.
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  165. Plenty of time to turn it into a non-event.
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  166. No.
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  167. Pink was the colour for boys as red was a masculine colour and pink is just a weaker form of red. It wasn't until the 1950s that pink became a girl's colour.
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  168. Err, wasn't the first airlift of any kind in 1915 and conducted by the French? Yes, it was they evacuated wounded soldiers by air from Serbia in November 1915. The next one was in April 1923 in Iraq with 280 Sikh troops being moved by air to Kirkkuk. The airlift for the Spanish Civil War by my reckoning would be forth airlift, after the RA's airlift of diplomats from Kabul in 1929. It was, however, the largest airlift so far in history. Oh dear, glossing over history for the sake of the narrative!
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  169. ​ @sayjay26 1984 wasn't a warning about totalitarian regimes but a prediction of things to come. Stop with the New Speak bollocks and use the words we have.
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  170. You can visit the remains of a concrete ship near Whitby. You can walk out to it a low tide from the abbey side of the river mouth.
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  171. 2-6-4T indicates the wheel arrangement and normally doesn't indicate the class but can be used to distinguishes between 2 locomotives of similar power but different wheel arrangements or between tender and ta k locomotives (as indicated by the T). The local train was being hauled by a Fowler 4MT (in the BR power classification scheme, it was 4P under the LMS).
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  172. English is probably the most spoken word around the Globe (theatre).
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  173.  @readhistory2023  here all week, try the fish.
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  174. Number 14 - you can't park there, pal.
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  175.  @meretes.lintrup4684  in Europe I wouldn't be surprised if the vigesimal or Base-20 counting systems all come from the same pre-Celtic Indo-European language but such systems also evolved independently in Africa (with the Yoruba), with the Mayans and Aztecs in Mesoamerica, and with New Zealand's Māoris. Even English has a Base-20 history. The Gettysburg Address starts off with "four score and seven years ago". But I'm not certain if that isn't due to the Norman Conquest of 1066.
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  176. ​ @johannderjager4146 not just American.
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  177.  RavnDream  and yet we know that Venables has been jailed twice since his release. You can't have ut both ways.
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  178. The wing would receive more damage from enemy fire because it carried the engines, but compared to what? All multi-engined aircraft had engines on the wings and one of the best ways to bring them down would be to shoot out the engines.
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  179. @zhufortheimpaler4041  Thatcher was removed from being Prime Minister on 28th November 1990. 8 Prime Ministers later,in 2021, the smooth-bore gun was adopted for a programme started in 2005 under Tony Blair. So they pushed for a wholly domestic tank, whilst simultaneously insisting that all combat aircraft had to be collaborative efforts. Strange.
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  180. The Hammersmith Flyover was built with electric heating to prevent ice formation. However, aftervthe first winter the local council turn it off after getting the bill for the electricity.
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  181.  @gabrielbecerra2290  so, in spite of seeing the tow truck's size and that they were turning you still proceeded to the stop line where you would have had to have waited for the tow truck to complete his turn as he would have right of way over you as he was at the stop line first? In doing so you created a worse situation so that you could appear to be the victim. And, just because it's a residential street this tow truck, unless signed otherwise had equal right as you to be there.
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  182. Surely Dicta Boelcke was the first attempt at a systematic approach for attacking and defending yourselves in aerial combat?
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  183. Why does the KH31 remind me of the Bloodhound missile?
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  184. Blackburn his first monoplane from Marske beach on 24 May 1909. It wasn't much ic a flight lasting only a minute and leaving the plane a write off. Things got better.
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  185.  @wilburfinnigan2142  except for that fitted to the Mustang X and the blueprints for the engines built by Packard. Or doesn't that count?
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  186. Gotcha! The Sun's headline announcing the sinking of the Belgrano. Hardly the headline of a story of doing something wrong. Also the Argintinians were aware on 23/4/1983 via the Swiss Embassy that all Argentian ships or aircraft, including civil aircraft engaged in surveillance, in the South Atlantic that were considered a threat would be attacked.
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  187. I suspect that Gavin told Browning that he intended to take the high ground and the Reichswald before taking the bridge and Browning accepted this. I suspect the Generals are like all busy managers - they accept the suggestions of lower level managers and staff. The big question is why would Browning want to delay the ground forces of Operation Garden from reaching Arnhem?
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  188. After Admiral Robert Blake from the 17th Century, I do believe. It was either that or caling HMS Suicidal Insanity. But the contract....
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  189. Has there ever been an HMS Excaliber? If so, can you cover it?
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  190. Lieutenant Bligh's fault was being too lenient with the crew of his ship. Too many of his crew were inexperienced seamen and after 5 months in Tahiti they didn't want to return to their duties. Bligh was such a tyrant that he preferred giving a tongue lashing over a flogging (as borne out by the Bounty's log book).
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  191. Right operation, but Joe Kennedy Jf was killed in an explosion on the BQ-8 he was flying.
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  192. The Americans and British to a lesser extent were economically supporting Spain, the Amerixans were supplying the Spanish with most of their petrol.
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  193. Sadly, nothing new there. Some of the Irish remember massacres carried by the armies under Cromwell such as after the Siege of Drogheda of 1649.
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  194. Number 11 a sensible driver gets out of the HGV's (truck to our Americans friends) blind spots as quickly as possible even if that means changing lanes.
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  195. USAID was America's greatest defence programme.
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  196. There are no truly wild horses in the UK, but we do have feral and semi-formal horses. The ones in the Carneddau are feral Welsh Ponies. The Exmoor, Dartmoor, New Forest, Shetland and Fell pony populations are semi-feral.
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  197. @kennethhummel4409  thanks for the reply, I'll try Google.
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  198. That's usually said about the RAF, Luftwaffe and the USAAF.
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  199. Number 5 - In the UK, it is against the Highway Code (the Rules of the Road) for a vehicle being overtaken to accelerate, so, assuming a similar rule in the USA, the idiot is the one being overtaken.
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  200.  @guaporeturns9472  of course it is, but sailors tend to be superstitious.
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  201. A Wikipedia article is only as good as the articles and books cited in the article, and how you then make use of this information. I've seen YouTubers misusing aircraft technical manuals.
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  202. The requisitioned French Marylands also had their throttles changed around to push forward to increase power.
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  203. I wondered where my Gran's curtains had gone?
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  204. Alternative title: How Frozen Chickens Brought Down one of the Saviours of the UK in WW2. The leading edge was strong enough to be used as an axe, according to the story recounted in Wide Body - the story of the 747. The impact strength on the upper surface of the blade was much lower.
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  205. Schwindler translates as fraudster, so yes the words are linked somewhere in history.
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  206. I think it's the lighting as even his beard looks washed out.
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  207. Or perhaps people should just learn to drive.
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  208.  @garthcox4307 someone born in 1831 had alive expectancy of around 41 years. William Manley exceeded the average by a significant amount.
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  209. It's the accident rate PER million kilometres of rail travel.
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  210. No. 3 gets a 5.9 from the American judge.
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  211.  @allangibson2408  Douglas did that for the DC-1 to DC-3, so that's not a problem. Messerschmidt did it for the Me-262 for the same reason and got a few more mph out of the airframe.
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  212.  @olivere5497  it doesn't always use all 10 coaches. Sleeper coaches are omitted if there is no need to have them on the journey.
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  213. The rugby authorities have decided that Stewart should have been sin binned not sent off. Bit late to change the result, not that I think England on their recent performance would have won.
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  214. The F-4 Phantom confused Macnamara in its USAF guise, the F-110.
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  215. Uffa Fox produced the first air-droppable lifeboats (the Airborne Lifeboat Mk1 of 1943). These were dropped by RAF Hudsons and later Warwicks dropped the Mk2. It could be dropped from 700ft with its xescent retarded by 6 parachutes. It was self-righting with the parachutes being automatically released on landing when rocket propelled 300ft rescue lines would also be set off. These boats had emergency rations, a radio, waterproof suits and medical supplies. The American version wasn't introduce until 1944 (the Higgins A1). Higgins had considered the Uffa Fox had weaknesses.
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  216. You've got to hope the country can survive.
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  217. Number 18 - the silver car didn't help the situation by staying where it was. Get in a staggered formation, either ahead of or behind the truck, and the the traffic will just flowmore smoothly.
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  218. Seen him do it live once or twice at Sherwood in the shade of the Major Oak.
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  219. No one knew much about pyroclastic flows until after this.
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  220. I had a device to travel in time but each journey took an hour to move 60 minutes into the past.
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  221. People have been calling tanks obsolete since the end of WW1 as they were considered to have been designed to overcome the stalemate of trench warfare. Didn't stop them being used in every war since then. Their effectiveness comes and goes in line with advances in arms and armour.
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  222. Spoken like a non-pilot. It is easy to misread an altimeter. Been there, done that, and got away with it without incident.
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  223. There UAPs out there with their standard navigation lights on...
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  224. In the run up to D-Day nearly all of the code names appeared as crossword clues causing panic amongst the security services.
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  225. That's a different personality that is often portrayed. Franz Ferdinand is often portrayed as the last best hope for peace. He stopped Conrad von Hotzendorf from taking the Astro-Hungarian empire with Serbia on numerous occasions. He also is portrayed as wanting to be the dual monarchy in to a triple one with the Serbs within the empire being given equal status to the Austrians and Hungarians.
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  226. Which Geneva Convention are you talking about? I think you meant the Hague Conventions.
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  227.  @olivere5497  the Monarch has the power to veto any legislation, but has never needed tomexercise this power. Don't forget all legislation passed in this country is in their name.
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  228.  @halfsourlizard9319  the easiest rebuttal ever: PRESIDENT BORIS JOHNSTON.
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  229.  @pkz420  the flight control issues when unloaded. Why bother developing complex and expensive flight control software when you can have a simple tubular fuselage that can take lightweight containers built for aircraft. Just pull up your truck and roll them off the aircraft reducing unloading times compared to removing the pod and then unloading it. Also there are less things to go wrong. Damage any if the attachment points and the system fails, damage an anchoring point in side the fuselage then just use the one next to it (the fuselage anchoring points will be duplicated along the fuselage every few inches to maximise utility.
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  230.    TIK thinks that companies owned by shareholder are public (ie state owned) bodies, when they are still private companies.
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  231.  @Mazorca-qq3li  and your point is? Because you obviously missed the joke I was making.
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  232. This story has been covered at least twice. Once in the Sunday Times magazine in 1973 and online in 2017.
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  233. And they had forgotten the lesson of the American War of Independence. You can't beat a population that is opposed to you if you don't listen to them and make compromises.
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  234.  @JosephOlson-ld2td  Hadrian's Wall would not exist for another 62 years and the Romans didn't conquer the area North of the Humber for another decade or so.
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  235. Birds. That's all these UAPs were. And not as far off as thought by the radar operators. If you go and watch the original,footage that has been released you can clearly see that the objects are small bird sized objects. The footage also shows that the magnificationn and field of view changes. The second incident's film show that the aircraft was in a turning flight whilst filming a bird move diagonally across the aircrafts direction of flight
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  236. Then the accent the language is spoken in. The Highland Scots accent is considered musical whilst the Glasgow accent sounds harsher, but both speak the same language.
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  237. Number 3 - 2 drivers that Im glad I don't sharethe road with.
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  238. "The only a matter of time" phrase is true in all accidents. It was only a matter of time before the lifeboats requirements from the British Board of Trade would result in a massive loss of life, and it did in April 1912 when RMS Titanic sank (at the same time it was only a matter of time before a liner would collide with an iceberg). If you wait for long enough every cause for an accident will occur at least once.
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  239. In the Danelaw the equivalent of the Anglo-Saxon Hundred was the Wapentake.
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  240. It's all down to diet and life style. Back then and upto the last 50 years or so people were more active and burnt up more of the calories they ate. Also there were few houses with heating in all rooms meaning that calories were used up keeping the person warm. Couple this with the relative expense of food (when compared to pay) meant people ate less or bought cheaper foods. IIRC in the early 1970s we in the UK spent about 20% of take home pay on food which by 2010 had changed to 10% of takea1home pay being spent in food.
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  241. Bollocks. The B-17 could carry 8000lb of bombs externally PLUS it's full internal bomb load of 6000lb.
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  242.  @acfalk3  that's probably because both American and Britain were also anti-semitic at the time, but not so openly as in Germany. Read Genius (the biography of Richard Feynman) about how Jews were given ,limited access to post-graduate education at American universities.
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  243. The example shown here is American, but don't assume a vehicle is American just because it has a white star on it. All vehicles, including those used by the British, Canadians, French, Poles, etc, used in western Europe wore the star.
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  244. If CPO Pertwee is involved, then they go to his Uncle Ebenezer, and any item with the monogram WD was supplied by a generous benefactor, Mr Wensley Dale. Plus, he has a dozen witnesses who will swear blind that he was nowhere near whatever it was whenever it went missing.
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  245. Another cracking match. Heartbreaking for the French.
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  246. I think Miranda Sykes put it best in her song "The Lily and the Rose": O, twas early in the springtime Nineteen hundred and sixteen My sweetheart sailed to Flanders To serve the King and Queen We cheered them from the quayside And as our cries arose He threw my way a sweet bouquet A lily and a rose O, the rose and tender lily Still bloom within their beds They cut the rose for lovers The lily for the dead And hope, which springs eternal Swells every bud that grows Each bloom, for me, a memory The lily and the rose O, his letters brimmed with courage Until July the first Behind his gentle humour I knew he feared the worst And on that fateful morning Amidst the whistle blows He plucked for me so valiantly The lily, not the rose O, the rose and tender lily Still bloom within their beds They cut the rose for lovers The lily for the dead And hope, which springs eternal Swells every bud that grows Each bloom, for me, a memory The lily and the rose Now and then I read his letters Written many years before As young men over England Depart again for war And in my summer garden They stand in selfless rows As sweet today as that bouquet The lily and the rose. It always brings tear to my eye.almost as much as Steve Knightley' "Coming Home" with it sad final line: Born in the north country, raised in the west It was his mother and sister that knew him the best Eager to learn but struggled at school Too swift with his fists, too slow with the rules All through this town he raised hell with his mates They only slowed down when they started to date A natural made father as fine as his own Into the man the boy had now grown So he tattooed their names, a heart and a crest He fought with his brothers and seved with the best Twenty years, three months and a week Since the day he was born He's coming home now The family have been informed
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  247.  @nicholasneyhart396  those educated in school after 1965 have been educated in the metric system. We signed the Treaty of the Metre in IIRC 1885 and have been full members of the CGPM since then. The inch is defined in terms of the mm since then. The first prototype metre and kilogramme were cast c. 1889 by a British company, sorry I can't remember which one. The road locator signs (a blue rectangle with yellow characters) give distances to/from the start of the road in km, roads having been built in metric since the early 1970s.
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  248. Immersive might not be the best word to use on a ship that is suffering from a leaky hull.
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  249. Because crap doesn't breach the copyright laws that historical channels can.
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  250. The Witan elected Harold as they had done so for countless Kings before him. Most times they elected the elder/eldest son, but when there were no sons they chose a suitable man for the position. A bit like when a political party changes their leader when in power.
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  251. Forward swept wings have a lot more limitations than a similar sized aft-swept wing.
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  252.  @mtkoslowski  it was a night navigation exercise. One of those killed was the Navigator who could of taken star shots and worked out their position if they could gave got above the clouds. Also onboard was the Radio Operator. Unfortunately the RO took a wrong radio bearing due to miscommunication. As for equipment the aircraft as it was from 239 Operational Conversion unit it would have been fitted with all the equipment in use on the operational squadrons including Gee-H which had been introduced back in 1943. The aircraft on this exercise would have sufficient fuel for their task plus a reserve, and considering the British weather in March they would gave gad suffcient to climb away from the hills and mountains of Wales and England. At the time of impact they had been airborne for about 7 hours. Now a Lincoln has a combat radius of about 2,800 miles at 15,000ft and 200mph with 14,000lb of bombs. The same fuel load would equate to a much greater range considering that no bombs would have been on board.
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  253. The impact energy is easy to calculate - half the mass times velocity squared. The crumpling of the bow is less easy to work out as it depends on the structure and materials involved. Add to this the weight of the iceberg impacted and how much the Titanic pushed the iceberg, remember the iceberg isn't a fixed object - it's drifting on the water and would have bounced slightly off the Titanic.
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  254.  @korbell1089  we ordered the P51 straight off North American's drawing board when they told us they could do better than the P40 we wanted them to build. We gifted 2 of the first production order to the USAAF for them to test. This initial order was fitted with the low altitude rated Alison engine.
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  255. The issues had been fixed.
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  256. @rowdy6274  all of which I agree with. The pilot in charge, by using the wrong chart, put his aircraft in danger even if there hadn't been a cable car in the area. He made the accident inevitable by not paying attention to what his eyes were telling him and only accepting what the instruments were saying.
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  257.  @FajitaBurger  yes, but as it was designed as day and night fighter to combat unescorted bombers it was a half failure only because no one expected Belgium and France to fall allowing the Luftwaffe fighters to escort the bombers.
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  258.    he did one on public and private ownership and equated share ownership of a private company as being owned by the people, such as a nationalised company like Bristudh Rail and British Airways.
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  259.  @RogCBrand  the merchant navy sailors were all civilians and not military and thus all are the victims of war crimes.
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  260. Molotov told the Japanese Ambassador onn8th August at 11pm Trans-Baikal time that they were going to be at war in just over a hours time. This was aboutb4 months after the Japanese had been told by the Soviets that the Neutrality Pact was not going to be extended. The Japanese knew that the Soviets might attack so they kept a large army in Manchuria.
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  261. But what happens when new information comes to light? History gets re-assessed and the books get re-written as required, obliterating the people's understanding of their history.
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  262. No squadrons operational with Sptifires (first examples came into service in August 1938 with 19 Squadron). The crappy tanks as used in 1940, but fewer of them. Result would be similar to 1914, if we were lucky.
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  263. Cyclist did nothing wrong in Clip 3.
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  264.  @LegendarySpaceRipper  the history books in my state school, back in the 1980s, talked about how ruined Germany was in the aftermath of WW1 and how they got themselves back on their feet just in time for the Americans to pull the rug from under their feet. They even mentioned that German was already recovering from that before Hitler came to power. But there again they also mentioned all the evil that Hilter and the Nazis did and that most Germans weren't members of the Nazi party but went along with it and were involved in their atrocities and that includes the German Army and Luftwaffe. They also discussed the effects of WW1 on Britain and France including the situation in Ireland and the other colonies.
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  265. One of the oldest surviving written ballads of Robin Hood isn't even set in Sherwood Forest or in the reign of King John. The Geste of Robin Hood is set in the reign of Edward II and takes place at The Sayles in Barnsdale Forest in the North Riding of Yorkshire (just off the A1 at Wentbridge). At that time, his primary opponent was the Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and the Royal Forests.
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  266.  @mimsydreams  didn't compketely work at Pompeii, did it? Over 1500 people are known, and there may still be more to discover, to have remained in the city to die (approx 10% of the estinated population). Vesuvius is still active, although in hasn't erupted since 1944 (and that was at the end of 30 years of eruptions), and today over half a million people live in its danger zone. If you live close to a volcano you can expect minor eruptions and the occasional bomb coming your way. You get use to it.
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  267. The Casual Navigation channel on YT is full of videos on similar topics to this presentation. Well worth checking out that channel.
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  268. USAID was America's best defence spending.
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  269. Have you taken out the effect of inflation? Are the launch costs higher, the same or lower in real terms? If so, how much of a change has occured due to inflation?
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  270. Well he was into alchemy and other weird stuff.
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  271. We're still waiting for that day. And looking at the world we further away than we were back then.
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  272. The Sojourn is just a radio drama, just like I grew up listening and still listen to today.
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  273. Because he hasn't been found guilty, yet.
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  274. But how ling was the planning phase before the ground was broken on the first reactor? Building is the easy part.
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  275. No, the prototype Attacker wasn't the first aircraft to take the Nene into the air. That was done by in an YP-80A serial no. 44-83027 (which was written off after a crash on 14/11/1945) followed by testing in Avro Lancastrian VH742 (first flight 14/6/1946).
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  276.  @FilliamPL  they're doing a great job of keeping lots of the rain off much of Britain.
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  277. Monty isn't included as he isn't American.
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  278. At least they did repeat the old lies about de Havilland coming up with the idea of the fast unarmed bomber, that the Air Ministry or RAF were opposed to such designs, or that he insisted that they use wood. George Volkert had submitted an unarmed design proposal (called the Handley Page Unarmed Bomber) along side the HP.56 to meet Air Ministry Specification P.13/36. This bomber was designed carry a normal bomb load of 3,000lb instead 1,000lb of the P.13/39 and would, on paper, have been 1,165lb lighter and 22mph faster at cruising speed (300mph over 278mph). Captain Liptrot (at that time Research Director Aircraft 3) calculated that this twin-engined bomber could be fastervthan the Spitfire. He acknowledged the counter-argument of the fighters would get faster but he had been arguing that this margin would never exceed 15% with advanced versions of current technology. In late July 1937 R H Verney (Director Technical Development) gave guarded support to further research into such a concept. In April 1938 the CinC of Bomber Command Air Chief Marshall E R ludliw-Hewitt gave his support to the unarmed bomber concept, although he objected to the use of the word "unarmed". He also requested in August 1939 that a fast bomber be developed as soon as possible. The ACAS (at the time W Sholto Douglas) did not believe that the speed advantage would last, but still encouraged the DTD to develop a fast bomber (this was the Blackburn B.28). This exposes the lie that the authorities were against de Havilland. As for the use of timber, this was covered by the Air Ministry Specification B.9/38 which called for a medium bomber that did not require the use of aluminium alloys or other metals already in use for aircraft production. De Havilland was asked to provide a design to meet this requirement but he refused. Armstrong Whitworth and Bristol were also approached and provided designs to meet the specification. In the end the AW.41 Albermarle was selected. Another nail in the coffin of the lie that no one at tge Sir Ministry wanted timber combat aircraft.
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  279. No such place as Britain at this time. Come back after 1707.
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  280. And Hood or Hode was a common nickname for criminals in this period.
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  281. Because the French Admiral refused to negotiate with an inferior officer.
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  282. Why the picture of the Landrover at 0:48? The Series 1 Landrover appeared in 1948.
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  283. Hope you don't mind, but gnawing is pronounce nor-ring, the G is silent.
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  284. His nickname e in the RAF was Butch not Bomber.
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  285. Apparently their captains were heard to shout "Mind my paint! It's only got one coat!"
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  286. They do say that it is bad luck to change the name of a ship.
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  287. It's a guided bus way guidance mechanism but cruder.
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  288. Stupidity. On behalf of the cammer.
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  289. If you watch any other videos of tasks given at the Oxford Union the audience are told to remain seated until the guest has left.
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  290. @sayjay26  "unalived" is a non-word. Plus, the OP on this thread has already used the word killed.
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  291. @richardgrier8968  funny that we are having this conversation on a thread that has already used the word killed.
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  292.  @ShamanKish  by court ruling YouTube is a private forum that the public can choose to have access to in order to make comments. They are allowed to block comments if they decide the user has breached their terms and conditions.
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  293. Those ventral fins folded to be out of the way for landing and remained in the airflow. They didn't retract.
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  294. Don't worry that bridge was replaced.
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  295. @coconutsmarties  ah, someone who is less smart than their handle. They could see the mountain but couldn't see the cables for the cable cars. Many pilots over the years have come cropper because they never saw the wires across a gap. One glider pilot I knew was hospitalised by a single cable he never saw as the poles holding it up were covered by trees.
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  296.  @robertsneddon731  thanks, I never knew that. That might be were Pratchett got his joke about the film Titanic being only a half story.
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  297.  @neurofiedyamato8763  John Harrison's Hands. I'm not sure who did the original, but Show of Hands have covered it.
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  298. @nenad1809  no matter what has happened in the past, it is up to us in the here and now to not repeat it and keep the c6cles of violence going. As Ghandhi put it - an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.
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  299. The Hangar Myth is also laughable due to most maintenance on the Stirling being intended t9 be carried out in the open air (as stated in the specification).
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  300. As did the concave mirrors using in car lights and search lights.
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  301. Better than the Mark 13.
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  302. But so did the Tiger Moth.
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  303. The unfortunate Scots were lilacking a response to the Black Ferns this time.
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  304. Or with your lunch, if you are same time zoneas Drach normally is.
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  305.  @terranempire2  its capable of 125mph, which is the current national limit of the railways of the UK, and where there aren't rail lines close to the destination they fly.
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  306. Number 14 - it's never a good idea to sound your horn as it causes the person you are reminding of your presence to brake unthinkingly.
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  307. When Speedlink closed the local trip workings and marshalling/remarshalling conisted of about 70% of the operating costs of the service. Suppliers had to send out 10 wagon loads per day over a distance of 500 miles to cover the cost of the service. BR looks at cost cutting measures - if they could have cut 40% of the costs then only 15% of the Speedlink traffic flows could make a profit.
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  308. Along side as a medium bomber.
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  309. As the council was responsible for licencing the grounds, they were held to be negligent in their statutory duties.
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  310. ​ @allangibson8494  the Manchester and HP.56 were both medium bomber not heavies.
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  311. @JohnnySmith.  but that is not what climate changes predicts. The more energy trapped in the atmospheres by increased CO2 will increase the ferocity of storm systems. It doesn't mean that we never had them before man-made CO2 levels increased. Additionally as we burned coal to power the industrial revolution the soil particles from incomplete combustion had a benefit on the atmosphere by acting as a reflector of sunlight, reducing tge amount of heat energy that reached ground level.
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  312. The Manchester and the HP.56/HP.57 Halifax were MEDIUM bombers not heavy bombers (Air Ministry Specification P.13/36) . The only heavy bomber the RAF had ordered in the mid-1930s was the Stirling (Air Ministry Specification B.12/36). The letter P in the Specification identifies a medium bomber whilst a heavy bomber was indicated by the letter B.
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  313. The slats and flaps were set for take-off, not for landing. The take-off settings are less drag inducingtgan landing flap settings. The sudden loss of lift on one side would cause a roll into that side.
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  314. The Wilde Sau missions were ready anky successful in the summer months, but come the autumn losses mounted, many of the losses were due to landing accidents but an equal number were due to pilots becoming lost and bailing out (they didn't have the electric navigation equipment that standard night fighters were fitted with, nor did they have someone trained in the art of celestial navigation). Those that did find an airbase to land at didn't always land back at their home baes which meant the day fighter unit had to spend time retrieving their aircraft. The unit was disbanded after less than a year.
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  315. So the Royal Navy got The Hotspur and the RAF got The Victor. What did the Army get?. And no one say blisters.
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  316. Just because the report says a unit had performed well it doesn't necessarily mean that it was directly involved in combat. Without further information we can't assume why they performed well.
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  317. This was the first time this kind of eruption was observed scientifically.😊
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  318. One correction - we call them Hydraulic Platforms not cherry-pickers.
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  319. You aren't the only one - a live stream of a barn owl nest was pulled from Facebook as it broke the sex and nudity rules.
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  320. In the words of General Tacticus: At night all armies are the same size.
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  321. He was just copying Spike Milligan who use that joke in his script for the Goon Show "Lurgi Strikes Britain". This was the Episode 7 of Series 5 and first broadcast on 9th November 1954. Although Milligan spelt it after the real Scottish island of Ewe.
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  322. The aerofoil section was selected for the Stirling was to ensure adequate take-off performance. As for the selection of aerofoil sections by British aircraft designers, many, like Sydney Camm,reliable on data supplied by bodies like NACA. In the mid-1930s NACA produced a report on laminar flow aerofoil sections that showed that they had no advantages over conventional aetofoil sections. This report was later withdrawn after NACA discovered that their windtunnel was faulty. But by then many designs had been finalised and production drawings and blueprints were being created.
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  323. This one.
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  324. And yet he was correct. There wasn't a hurricane. It was a bomb cyclone, which caused hurricane strength winds. And there wasn't even a caller to the weather centre.
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  325. Stop talking bollocks about company ownership. This is one area you are always wrong.
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  326. ​ @adambosman9611 the correct quotation is "pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit goes before a fall".
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  327. @iosis2009  I think you've misunderstood me. I'm assuming that the person handling the gun and the film crewm I any, have done all the required safety checks before filming starts. I'm aware that you always assume a gun is loaded until you have checked it. Better to have 2 people doing checks independently than no-one. Remember the old story of Anybody, Somebody, Everybody and Nobody.
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  328. @EvieCorwell  I know basic gun safety and can explain it clearly. But when you say a gun is loaded when you know a gun is unloaded then it shows you don't know how to explain things. If you meant that even when you know a gun is unloaded then you act like it is loaded so that others feel safe, then say than not some bollocks like you posted earlier, as the people around you may not know thatbthe gun is safe.
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  329. It's just a bit of British understatement. Nothing more.
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  330. But what's his name?
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  331. Number 1 - what's wrong wihh merge in turn?
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  332. No the AD1 was designed by Ed Heinemann to fill the same role.
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  333. Buckingham Palace was originally owned by the Duke of Buckingham who took his title from the town of Buckingham. The Blenheim was named after the battle in the Dpanish Warbof Succession at which John Churchill, the 1st Marquis of Marlborough, lead the Grand Alliance of England, Scotland, Austria, Prussia and the Dutch Republic in victory against the French and Bavarians. The Beaufort was named after the inventor of the Beaufort Scale, rear Admiral Francis Beaufort, a man and certainly not a stately home.
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  334. Some of those motors ended up back in trams at Beamish.
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  335. Also known as small beer.
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  336.  @Rob_Moilanen having looked it up since making my 1st comment Royal Navy experiments were conducted on HMS Sidon but were ended in 1956 after the loss of the Sidon after a peroxide explosion. At 08:25 on 16th June 1956 one of the 2 peroxide torpedoes exploded in its torpedo tube. Fortunately the warhead didn't explode but the hull was ruptured. All but the 12 men killed by the explosion survived as the Sidon was still in harbour. Unfortunately one of the rescued was killed.
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  337. They closed because too many people shifted from the trains to first the bus and then their cars. Take the Whitby to Loftus line, when it closed in 1958 it had 4 trains each way, whilst the local bus company ran a bus every half hour. You can see where the passengers were.
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  338.  @FangsInMyLeg  to be a joke it has to be funny. Like Jimmy Carr' "say what you like about Hitler, at least he killed Hitler."
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  339. The Germans were also slowed significantly by the stores they captured in the attacks. They thought we were also going short and when they got to the rear areas and found the food and other stores they stopped to resupply.
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  340. The difference between the concerts you mention and Live Aid is that everyone atbthe concerts you named were there to see Queen whilst at Live Aid you had a mixed audience not all of which would have been Queen fans. Freddie got them singing along as if they were there just to see him and Queen perform.
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  341. Well all of Denmark is east of the Elbe and thus fell in the Soviet sphere of influence for the post-war world. The Soviets liberated the Danish island if Bornholm. The Soviets landed on 9/5/1945 and left on 6/4/1946. As a foreshadowing of things that are unfolding now the Soviets decided that only Danish troops could be stationed on Bornholm, any other troops would be seen as a declaration of war against the Soviet Union. This stance was maintained after Denmark joined NATO.
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  342. Never heard that pronounciation of Dunedin... mostly I've heard it as Dun-Edin.
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  343. Funny you should say that, but it was based on a Messerschmitt design.
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  344. No the Stinking Billiy is the Scots name for the Sweet William, which was named for Prince Wiiliam, Duke of Cumberland, the victor of Culloden. Ragwort is Stinking Willie.
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  345. The potato famine affected most of northern and western Europe.
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  346. That green glow is the Martians launching their invasion fleet....
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  347. The British Army uses minesweeping. As in "it's mine, I'm sweeping it away".
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  348. Unfortunately the brass were still thinking along WW2 USAAF bomber mission lines and realising that the mission specification had changed more to the WW2 RAF Bomber Command bomber stream model but with fewer aircraft heading for each target.
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  349. Isn't every age the modern times?
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  350. And sadly, there are 3 people who gave this a down vote. SHAME ON THEM.
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  351.  @perpetualidiocy6622  language keeps evolving and I did come across it in an old book (late Victorian), and they said the saying was old then.
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  352.  @Ansset0 I'm a Brit and have no problems with metric.
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  353. Around 1980 some BR Class 86 locomotives were fitted with resilient wheels and were renumbered into th 86 3xx series. By the end on the 1980s all had been replaced with normal wheels and external coil springs between body and bogies, this was done for standardisation. I have no knowledge of any accidents caused by the resilient wheels on these locomotives weighed about 82.5 tonnes and gad a maximum speed of about 180 kph.
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  354.  @WilhelmKarsten  no it wasn't. The wing sweep was only applied after it was realised that the intended engines were heavier than expected. The wing swept, as everyone knows, was applied to restore the centre of gravity to a flyable position.
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  355.  @jonathandnicholson  is it? Do you not know what an analogy is? Just because the Witan chose Harold (the Liz Truss of his day) over Edgar (the Rishi Sunak equivalent) in early 1066 and then switch allegiance to him after Hastings is the analogy. The fact that before the ink had dried in the Chronicles some members of the Witan switched sides shows just weak the Witan's position was (a but like the Vonservatives electing Boris Johnson and then turning in him a few years later). It's also telling that Edgar paid homage to William, who by right of conquest was now king. Edgar whilst getting some support in 1067/68 in his attempt to regain the throne was relying on mercenaries such as the Danes sent by King Sweyn and as always the problem with mercenaries is that they fight for money so if someone with more money comes along they switch sides. Primogeniture didn't come along until after the Conquest and was altered by the Act of Settlement of 1791 to allow the Pritestant descendants of Electress Sophie of Hanover to become the British monarch.
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  356.  @2ndTimPlayground  not with the fragile French governments of the mid-1930s.
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  357. The paramedic arrives in the ambulance service much later on. The ambulance crews in the 1960s were just there to get people to hospital with a little first aid thrown in.
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  358. You are do right, the Canard configuration goes all the way back to the Wrights.
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  359. @KCzz15  have you ever done any flying? Or have you ever misread something? It's easy to misread your instruments. It's a cardinal sin, on the other hand, to mis-set them or to not use the correct charts. The pilot in charge made too many basic errors and I'm not looking to defend him on that account. But our OP is ignorant.
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  360.  @johnburns4017  some pipe dream. The first flight was in September 1942. And once the overheatingnissue with the 3nhine were overcome it proved a reliable aircraft. The problem was it was rushed into service.
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  361. The all moving fin might have been innovative on jets, but they had been used before. One example is the Fokker Eindecker of WW1.
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  362. Without the charm and human decency of Edison.
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  363.  @ddandymann  remember Stalin agreed in February 1945 at Yalta to enter the war against Japan, and yet he kept to the treaty terms for all of March. AND instead of a defacto annulment by invading Japanese territory he formally announced the annulment. A strange way to go about things for an opportunist.
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  364. knife  please go and watch Mel Brooks' The Producers and you'ĺl find my source.
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  365.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  nearly every home in the UK still receive a lot of data via an aerial - terrestrial and sarellite TV and radio is broadcast via aerials. All TV signals are digitised but the radio signals are both analogue and digital. Cable TV does exist but is not so commonplace as the US.
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  366.  @Milepost93Productions  now try running the car or truck into a moving object and you'll find the impact damage is reduced slightly. The iceberg was free to move and taking the laws of physics that cover impacts would have rebounded slightly from the Titanic unlike a fixed object that a truck might hit.
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  367.  @wolfbyte3171  the physics remains the same both the iceberg and the Titanic obey Newton's Laws of Motion and would rebound from the collision. The Titanic would show the bigger amount of rebound, but not a very significant amount whildt the iceberg an unmeasureable amount but still greater than that of an unmovable object like a truck would hit.
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  368. That'll be the projectile going bang, just like a high velocity bullet, say from an M1 Garand, being fired into water.
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  369. ​ @MTCason yes it is. It's a mechanical computer. Today, we use electronic computers to drive the looms.
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  370.  @wilburfinnigan2142  that's an aerodynamics issue not an engine power issue.
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  371. More Pink Floyd please.
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  372. Offence taken.
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  373. There was also Project Orion, which used nuclear bombs to propel it in to space.
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  374. I've seen uglier things on the road, but never in a state of mind that would be legal for driving.
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  375. Mail certainly could be passed on but a suit of plate would have been made to measure for the original user. It wouldn't be too difficult to add or remove links from the mail, plate on the other hand can't easily be modified.
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  376. Dear American Voters, please don't do what has happened in the UK. In the UK, there have been big leads for one side in an election and people supporting that side have failed to turn out to vote, resulting in that side either losing or failing to get the expected numbers. So, please turn out to vote if you want your preferred candidate to win. It doesn't matter if you are a Democrat, a Republican or for any other party. If you don't vote, then you are part of the problem, not the solution.
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  377. No, it was the lead ship of a 5 ship class of ships of which only the Enterprise was built.
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  378. There's a British driving instructor on YT called Ashley Neal who puts up driving fail and good driving videos (primarily British ones) with his professional analysis. Many of the driving fails are due to people driving too aggressively and not reading the roads correctly (including the reading the intentions of other road users).
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  379. The fog of war and combat stress wouldn't have helped either.
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  380. Surely persecution not prosecution.
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  381. @davefloyd9443  the search for the Shackleton replacement started with OR.350 which was cancelled in 1963. A smaller down version of this specification, OR.357, was cancelled in 1965. ASR.381 and MR.254 for an interim maritime patrol aircraft were issued on 16th June 1964, with both written around the Breguet Atlantique, the winner of the NATO maritime Patrol Aircraft competition. But instead, the HS.801 Nimrod was selected due to range and payload needs. The first Nimrod flew on 23/5/1967.
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  382. There were 2 formations that bombed Rotterdam. It was the force that came in from the north that did all the damage as they never saw the signal flares aborting the mission as the radio antenna had already been wound in by the time the abort message was sent out by radio.
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  383. There were also strikes and other industrial action in Britain at this time. The Britush MPs didn't want to be seen to be targeting civilians at this point of the war.
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  384. It looks like the minimum allowed footway width of 3m outside of the shops has been maintained. I bet there were people who were upset over the placement of the classic red GPO postboxes and telephone kiosks. I know that the cast concrete K3 phone box was controversial in its day.
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  385. 4,400 to around 28,000 is more like an increase of about 6.5 times rather than a trebbling.
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  386. War has a nasty habit of changing priorities.
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  387. Annually for at least the first 5 years.
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  388. A ship full of Jonahs.
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  389. The problem the police had was the lack of knowledge on elephants and how dangerous they can be when wounded.
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  390. But at as high a cost as the TSR-2.
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  391. @DawnDavidson  that's the problem of democracy. Not everything will be approved of by every individual. "Measure for Measure"would also be apolitical, in the same way as "Yes, Minister" was.
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  392. @AllKings  those 2 are amongst the incomplete works.
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  393. One reason why The Geste of Robin Hood is set in the period of a King Edward is the fact that Robin is a skilled archer, and the Assize of Arms of 1252 required all Yeomen to be practised in the use of the bow.
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  394.  @sunnyjim1355  he right, the wingspan was limited to 100ft to prevent aircraft becoming too larger for a single pilot to control. The Type C hangar had doors that could open up to 120ft. The myth about wingspan and hangars wasxdebunked decades ago. Hell, the specification (P13/36) call for most maintenance to be carried out outside of the hangars, which makes the myth about hangar doors something that was made up by someone who didn't know what he was talki g about, bit like you.
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  395. ​ @kyleanuar9090 we don't know just how bad the audio was in his headset.
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  396. IIRC Gamerlein only had 1 radio in his headquarters, on which he could receive broadcasts from Radio Luxembourg and the BBC.
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  397. The shortest war in history was the Anglo-Zanibar War which didn't even last an hour.
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  398.  @olivere5497  saddo.
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  399.  @halfsourlizard9319  that's a laugh. Tbe private sector when involved in the public sector makes a mess and then charges extra to clean up their mess.
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  400.  @halfsourlizard9319  you do like talking bollocks. The public sector provides schools, healthcare, fire services (because the insurance companies just couldn't cut the mustard and went to the government cap in hand), police, the military and roads to name but a few things the public sector does.
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  401.  @halfsourlizard9319  we did - the Turnpikes built in the UK between the 17th and 9th Centuries. At one point 1,000 Turnpike Trusts administered some 30,000 miles of roads in England and Wales taking tolls at some 8,000 toll gates. By the early Victorian period the toll roads were seen as a impediment to free trade as the turnpike trusts had failed to maintain these roads due tocorription and failures to use resources efficiently. The coming of the railways made many of the Trusts insolvent and by the 1870s the remaining Trusts, many having been forced to merge, were only in busines to pay off their debts before their roads were returned to the care of the local authorities which had been maintaining most of the bridges on the turnpikes. The Local Government Act 1888 saw all roads being returned to the care of the local authorities. In 1838 the Trusts were raising tolls of around £1.5 million in England and Wales and trying to service debts of around £7 million. In1888 any surplus lands and buildings were sold off to service any remaining debts. Such was the efficiency of the private sector that roads taken from the public sector ended up being returned to the public sector.
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  402. There was a proposal for just that including one by Boulton Paul. But it would have need a much more powerful engine to get adequate performance. Considering it was fighting a war it was never designed to fight it didn't do too badly.
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  403.  @Charlesputnam-bn9zy  would you know which kind of hoplite helmet was the inspiration? I've always assumed the medieval sallet type helm was the inspiration. The Brodie helmet certainly takes its cues from the kettle type helm.
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  404. Why the post-war Luftwaffe Harvards at the 1:20 mark?
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  405.  @pavliksin123  whilst the Bf109 had been in service for around 18 months and had been used in combat over Spain, I agree that Getnany wasn't ready either (they weren't really ready in 1939), which is why I think it would have been a repeat of 1914.
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  406.  @tomfu6210  and nobody ever talks about the bits of Czechoslovakia that Poland and Hungary took either.
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  407. Number 11 - grow up. Of course, the on coming traffic is going to go around the fallen branches.
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  408.  @roadie3124  you look at the sources cited in the articles. However, nearly all articles are influenced by the author(s) biases.
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  409.  @imogenveneear1935  yes, different words in different dales and areas.
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  410. They used Eureka radio beacons on 6/6/1944. Although primate by later devices they went on to be developed into the Beacon Approach Beam System an early girm of ILS.
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  411.  @barryb90  don't forget that many British soldiers guarding those camps died of starvation and disease along side the detainees. The causes were poor planning on the part of the British and the Boers cutting the supply lines. Either way it would be enough to change anyone's mind.
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  412. I wonder just how well Barbarossa would have gone if the men, materiel and fuel sent to Yugoslavia and Greece hadn't been sent there. I know Barbarossa wasn't delayed by the attack on the Balkans.
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  413. This was not a unique combination. HE111H-22 could carry 2 V1 flying bombs.
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  414. I wonder just how much this influenced the design of the SAAB 21.
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  415. The Krag had a body side door into which you could dump 5 rounds. C&Rsenal on YT did a video on this rifle as part of their series on WW1 small arms. Thetpy had also covered the Madsen.
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  416.  @fasthracing  yes, takes 60 years to notice.
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  417. @EvieCorwell  a more nonsensical comment I have yet to read. Bullets, unlike quantum particles cannot simply materialise out of nowhere.
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  418.  @banana-rs3pv  that's because of American propaganda due to what happened after 1945.
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  419. Electronic warfare has been a thing since the invention of the field telephone and radio.
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  420.  @kittyhawk9707  the TSR2 had limited range. From Laarbruch it could only reach the Polish-Russian border on a hi-lo-hi mission profile, whilst the F-111 could get deep into western Russia from Lakenheath (source Aeroplane magazine). GOR309 inspired the design criteria for the F-111.
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  421. It sounds like Soviets repeated the French achievement of surprising the Germans.
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  422.  @justme_gb  it was the Warrington bombing that inspired this song and two English children who were killed, although the nationality isn't that important.
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  423. Instead of dead weight it's dead space. The lift-fan concept dates back to the early days of V/STOL, see the Ryan XV-5.
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  424. On the morning that the British entered Belgium in response to the German invasion the Belgian Ambassador to the Court of St James made a formal complaint to the British Foreign Secretary as the British Army had entered his country without the permission of the Belgian government.
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  425. ​@ryancraig2795 yes, it goes south for the winter.
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  426. Little known fact. Most fighters of the period the Zero was designed in carried little armour. The Spitfire, for example, was still being delivered without the armoured windscreen in April 1940.
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  427. So you're happy for a child to be shown programmes that will give them nightmares? Censorship prevents that.
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  428.  @dfmrcv862  then you are guilty of propagandising your children and causing them more harm than good.
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  429.  RavnDream  you need to do a bit better. 3 enquires into Hillsborough that found the police culpable for the deaths and that these deaths were avoidable. The Attorney General got the original coroner's verdicts overturned, which lead to the prosecution of those responsible. The former Sheffield Wednesday FC club secretary was found guilty of breaches of the Safety at Sports Grounds Act 1975. Duckenfield was retried but eve actually found not guilty by the jury on the presented evidence. The case against Bettison was dropped on the grounds of lack of evidence sufficient to give a reasonable chance of a successful prosecution. So not much of a cover up.
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  430. Depends on the passenger numbers. Why run 2 coaches when 1 woukd suffice?
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  431. ​ @henke37 BR parented a flying saucer.
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  432. It was United Nations response to the North Korean invasion of South Korea not NATO.
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  433.  @crowmollymedia6480  depends on if the camner was in the Skoda's blind spot - looked in mirrors saw nothing behind and moved out. Would you look more carefully, especially when going round a bend?
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  434.  @Champz2323  by the removal of food from the border areas as the Japanese were known to be living off the land wherever they invaded. It was a lesson learnt in France 1940 wgere the Gernans refuelled there tanks at civilian petrol stations.
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  435. Traditionally, it is accepted that a defending force has a 3:1 advantage over an attacker. In other words, a defending force can hold off three times its own number of attackers. This means the British and French needed over 172 divisions to overcome the German 57.5 divisions on the Somme.
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  436. 12.1 - love the attitude. So composed.
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  437.  @cidercik  it is true. Hammersmith Borough Council refused to pay the £4800 electricity bill for the winter of 1962-63 and in protest they cut off the electricity. In the end London CountybCouncil took over paying the electricity bill. The heating system failed sometime in the 20th Century and so salt was used instead to prevent icing causing structural damage costing millions to repair.
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  438.  @maximkretsch7134  spoken like a non-pilot.
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  439. @demophys4883  in the UK, the speed limit for such vehicles is 60mph (vehicles with speed limiters are slightly slower) on similar roads, but they still overtake each other because onetruck is doing slightly more than the other.
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  440. It wasn't the Black Death that was the turning point that was more or less the straw that broke the camel's back. The Feudal system had been falling about for over a hundred years by the time the plague arrived. One of the earliest event was the passing of the Statute of Merton of 1235 which allowed the Lord of a Manor to enclose common land for his own use provided enough pasture remained for his tenants. It also set how and when he could assert his rights over waste land, Woodlands and pastures against his tenants. This statute quickly became a basis for English Common Law, developing and clarifying legal concepts of ownership.
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  441.  @philiprufus4427  in many locations the buses were indeed withdrawn. Quite often those bus services swerved the okd station sites instead of the village whose name they bore. Thus the bus service was as bad as the railway service it replaced and the people chose nitro use it. The trackbed in rural areas was sold to the farmers and in some areas they use it as a farm track in others they've ploughed it up to grow crops. Station sites were redeveloped into industry or homes. In the urban areas trackbed were sometimes redeveloped across improvement schemes after compulsory purchase by local authorities.
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  442.  @rogergiles3190  that depends on altitude. At 25,000ft it had a combat range of only 790 statute miles, but if limited to a mere 6,000ft it had a combat range of 1170 statute miles, ie Berlin and back. Source: the pilot manual for the B-17; figures quoted are the the B-17F (the last model fitted as standard for the carriage of an external bomb load)..
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  443. What's the American for Specsavers? Because number 18 needs to go there. That truck never crossed intoher lane, and whilst it should have stopped at the Stop Line,it didn't cause any conflict with other traffic until Mrs Entiled tooted her self-righteous horn.
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  444. And yet that study on airport noise has tangible, real world, outcomes on planning rules and future restrictions on airport operations. So, hardly bullshit.
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  445. Didn't the Soviet Union annul the Brest-Litovsk Treaty on 13th November 1918 and the Germans agree to its annulment as part of the Versailles Treaty?
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  446. Insert jokes about mizzen masts here.
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  447. The homophones have got you again. The architect was Archibald Kier Leitch. He was responsible for the following English and Scottish football grounds: Anfield, Highbury, Ayresome Park, Bramall Lane, Celtic Park, Craven Cottage, Deepdale, The Old Den, Dens Park, The Dell, Ewood Park, Fratton Park, Goodison Park, Hampden Park, Home Park, Ibrox, Hillsborough Stadium, Molineux, Old Trafford, Roker Park, Saltergate, Selhurst Park, Stamford Bridge, Villa Park, West Ham Stadium and White Hart Lane. He also worked in Ireland (Lansdown Road) and Wales (Cardiff Arms Park) plus Twickenham.
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  448. Considering the number of attacks on the Tirpitz, the Bismarck would have been targetted until destroyed.
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  449. There was also a swing-wing version of the Phantom suggested at an earlier date.
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  450. I was trained to fly gliders by one such ex-POW. He told a story of the summer of 1945. Before the war he had flown gliders and once the restrictions on civilian flying he was able to take his first glider flight since the start of hostilities. He ended up landing in a field. The farmer told him he was lucky that he hadn't landed there the day before as it had still had the anti-glider landing poles in it.
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  451.  @arctic_haze  all we know about them is that analysis shows the item producing those shook waves was said to be travelling at between Mach 4 and Mach 5.2 at 90,000ft but not what caused them. Hardly convincing evidence for Aurora. The other alleged clue is the doughnut on a string contrail, but I've seen them produced by a 737 over London and so that's evidence of something but not Aurora.
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  452. The driver in number 5 was called a moment later by his wife. "Honey, take care there's some fool driving down the wrong side of the road." "What do you mean, there's dozens of them."
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  453. Err, not according to Tony Buttler in Chapter 5 of British Secret Projects - Fighters and Bombers 1935-1950. The Armstrong-Whitworth AW.41 was not based on the Bristol Type 155, which came in 2 versions, a conventional tail-dragger and one with a tricycle undercarriage, but all their own work. The original specifi action they were built to was the B.9/38 but after mock up conferences 2 new specification were issued B.17/38 for the Bristol Type 155 and B.18/38 for the Armstrong-Whitworth AW.41 with a minimum cruise speed of 250mph and a bombload of 4,000lb an increase from the original specification of 1,500.bbombload.
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  454. @offshoretomorrow3346  it was formed in 1934 a result of the purchase by Hawker Aircraft of the companies of J. D. Siddeley, the automotive and engine builder Armstoong-Siddeley and the aircraft manufacturer Armstrong-Whitworth Aircraft. At this time, Hawker Siddeley also acquired Avro, Gloster and Air Training Services. The constituent companies continued to produce their own aircraft designs under their own name as well as sharing manufacturing work throughout the group. A fact a post-war government chose to ignore in order to reduce the number of companies.
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  455. Anybody know what a turbo-charger is doing on a nuclear powered submarine? The Argentine A-4Q's would have had to get through the Sea Harriers.
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  456. I've also heard it came from minding your pints and quarts. But I've no idea what the true source is.
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  457. Spike Milligan's parady "I was Monty's Treble" is much better.
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  458.  @dp-sr1fd  as we had to under the Geneva Conventions. They had to be sent back to the country of their birth.
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  459.  @Dreagostini  no it doesn't. Modern just means at that moment in time. Post-modern us an oxymoron.
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  460. Number 5 you had plenty of time to observe the turn signal but you chose to accelerate. Don't blame others for your inadequacies.
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  461. You forgot the Yak-38 which was the Soviet Union's 1st V/STOL aircraft.
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  462. Butchers still use mail gloves when using knives and cleavers as protection.
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  463. The old NER (North Eastern Railway) in England also used tripcocks, which would apply the brakes automatically if the signal was at stop.
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  464. @TTownTim  funny, the word killed is in the initial posting on this thread.
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  465. I thought that the Flak units were part of the Luftwaffe not the Heer.
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  466. @mikeromadin8744  and then there're "United" and"Union".
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  467.  @wbertie2604  I'm aware that the sweep was for balance purposes and nothing else. The same was true for the tail-less aircraft designed by J W Dunne prior to WW1. I knew 18.5 was involved somewhere. I should have checked first. The increase in airspeed over the original straight wing that this slight sweep gave was around 40km/h at 6,000m or in English about 21kts at 19,685ft.
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  468.  @TheImperatorKnight  no it is a private business being a limited liability company which allows it some of the tax benefits of a sole-trader or partnership and the limited liability of a corporation. It does not matter if there is a single owner of the business or a thousand (just bezyse shares are publicly traded doesn't cha ge a thing). It is by law a private business (as determined by a court of law) and thus is exempt from the provisions of the 1st Amendment and thus it can censor your videos.
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  469.  @ShamanKish  not really it is based on legal precedent set by US Supreme Courts ruling in Marsh vs Alabama from 1946. Prager Univerdity failed to demonstrate that YouTube was acting in violation of this ruling. As the court pointed out in its ruling "a private entity hosting speech on the Intefnet is not a state actor" and that "YouTube does not perform a public function by inviting public discourse ou its property". The judges went in to say that it is not a "public forum", in the same way that other companies that host "speech kn a private platform" such as a comedy club, nor does YouTube's embrace of diverse expression transmogrify them into state actors (unlike what TIK thinks). The ruling in Marsh vs Alabama was that state trespass laws could not prevent the distribution of religious pamphlets on a town sidewalk even though the sidewalk was in a privately owned company town. The company was ruled to be acting as a state agent in preventing the distribution of the pamphlets.
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  470. Both were designed to meet the same operational requirements. However on a hi-lo-lo-hi mission profile with a similar bomb load the F-111 could reach into western Russia from Lakenheath whilst the TSR2 could only reach the Polish-Russian border from Laarbruch.
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  471. The commentary on the footage of the K guns on the LFB ladders says that an armour plate was later fitted. It goes on to say that an adequate supply of refills was carried behind the armour plate. I think you have the later 2 gun model with armour plate. The three guns version appears to have only been used in training. Tne ladders were 100ft Merriweather ladders.
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  472. They've forgotten that around the time the Air Ministry was looking at the specification that would lead to the Spitfire and Hurricane they were also looking at what would be suitable calibres of armament. Specifically they were looking at machine-gunds in 0.303in or 0.5in, or 20mm cannon. The 20mm cannon they were looking at in 1934 was the 20mm Hispano cannon, as used by the French, was a new gun and temperamental and as the 0.303in machine guns appeared to give the best possible rate of fire.
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  473. Sandhurst is Berkshire not Norfolkshire.
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  474. Could we have unit names under each of the flag tiles?
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  475. Number 12 the other car was playing snooker. After interacting badly with you they gad yo interact with a coloured car (yellow, green, brown, blue pink or black) to run up the highest break (or should that be brake?).
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  476.  @miken4591  the English are mainly descendants of the Anglo-Saxons, with a bit of Viking, Jute and Celt thrown into the mix at the time of the Norman Conquest.
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  477.  @johnburns4017  you got me. But I did know a little before seeing his film.
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  478. True, the poachers would of got her.
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  479. In 1918, they said the tank was obsolete. How did that idea turn out?
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  480. In a similar way to Buddy Holly, or any other entertainer that died at the right of their fame. It's not do much what they did but rather what was left undone.
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  481. Funny how he glosses over, sorry that should be fails to mention the reaction of the UK and Commonwealth, not to mention the reaction if the rest if the world (the General Assembly of the UN condemned thus invasion as illegal by 108 votes to 9). This was one of the biggest diplomatic rows between the UK and America since Suez. A pretty one sided story.
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  482.  @Tiberiotertio  short for gasoline. Remember petrol is the name of a solvent produced by Carless, Capel and Leonard. This solvent could also used as a fuel and bybthe time the original manufacturers came to trade mark their solvent's name it had become the generic name for a fuel for cars.
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  483. Why do you think the Nazi's wanted Czechoslovakia in 1938? Skoda and Tatra.
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  484. By late 1940 the 109 was passed further development, unlike the Spitfire. The best single-seat piston engined aircraft has to be the Merlin-engined Mustang, closely ahead of the Spitfire Mk.IX and the FW.190.
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  485. An outward opening cargo door would only be a danger if the hold was pressurised. If at ambient pressure then the forces on the door are equal on both sides. Was this hold pressurised on this flight because it sounds like it was?
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  486. And Doctor Who's "The Horror of Fang Rock".
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  487.  @nickdanger3802  and in the UK a patent was taken out for a naval radar operating on the 50cm wave length, and in 1931 there was also a test run of a radar system in the UK using pulse modulation. Meanwhile experiments of a similar nature were happening in France, Germany, the Soviet Union, the Netherlands, Italy and Japan as well as America.
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  488.  @BazilRat close, the Dutch own Abellio with runs the Anglia Trains franchise. Arriva Trains is owned by DB. DBS also runs what was EWS. Freightliner is now owned by subsidiary of the American company Genesee & Wyoming.
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  489.  @mickmaphari6606  both Boris and Yorrick were empty headed.
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  490.  @PalHBakka  everybody who watched this video knows this. Everyone who has read of the inter-war developments within British military aviation knows this. The idea was sound just not practical in a single engined aircraft. The soundest version to fly was the Beaufighter with the four gun turrent placed just behind the cockpit of which 2 were built and out under test.. The concept of the bomber destroyer was held by many nations including the Germans with their Bf 110 Zerstörer, but the Germans rarely used manned turrets (the only Getmsn aircraft that I can think of that used named turrets was the FW.200.
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  491. Number 15 - only idiots sit in someone's blind spot.
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  492.  @rob5944  I've heard several possibilities. Everything from his womanising (originally father was mother) through to financial corruption. The truth is now lost to time.
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  493. That's probably it's named after a place not the person, in line with the RAF's bomber naming convention of using place names from within the Empire. Canada or Australia this time.
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  494. Oh dear, it looks like someone took Musk at his word. Musk ishardlya reliable witness. Remember when said his money would be the last out of Tesla? And what happened, as soon as he had ownership of Twitter, he divested himself of some of his Tesla stocks to pay for it cause the share price to fall. His fully self-driving cars promised years ago aren't even fit enough to drive in an empty carpark let alone on a quiet street. Musk was talking about the problems with they were having at their Texas launch site with meeting NEPA requirements not with hitting a shark or a whale in the ocean, the Indian Ocean is where the boosters were intending to comeback to Earth not the Pacific.
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  495. It had an ejection system that was as lethal to use as remaining for the crash. It needed a longer runway for take-off and landing due to the rear prop and the ventral fin.
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  496. This happened in April 2024 and will happen around the end of February 2025. So hardly rare.
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  497.  @carlosandleon  you mean Hero of Alexandria? He has been recorded as one of the first to play with steam to do work. The credit for creating the first useful steam engine has to go to Thomas Savery. People only remember that the Germans had axial flow jet engines and forget that Whittle's patent covers both axial flow and centrifugal compressors. He went with centrifugal compressors because the materials weren't there for axial flow compressors when he started. Materials were where the German engines suffered, they couldn't get enough of the metals they needed. Also developed in parallel was the turbo-fan, which Metropolitan Vickers got working whilst the Germans had to give up due the lack of suitable materials during the war.
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  498. Northumberland and Durham weren't conquered by the Vikings, but large areas of the Midlands were.
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  499. Heligoland was a much better swap. We swapped it with Germans for Zanzibar and got control of much of east Africa. Heligoland was, before the Napoleonic War part of Denmark, but we tookit over to break Napoleon's embargo on trade with Britain., I was also where the words of the German National anthem were written in 1841.
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  500. Yes and the last to drop bombs in anger.
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  501. And yet he still gets it wrong.
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  502. The prototype SU-24 used a similar wing to the TSR-2 and only switched to a swing wing after the TSR-2's cancellation.
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  503. ​ @Shortghost26 kind of strange. Possibly uninsured.
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  504. Don't forget that many drivers in the army had only just learnt to drive and didn't drive before being called up.
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  505. The real reason for Dassailt not to support the Jaguar for the French Navy was that they had lost out on the programme that lead to the Jaguar.
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  506.  @bjorntorlarsson  24 hour operation 7 days per week of all activities with 2 watches per day, you soon need a lot of men on board a ship. In Hoods case 714 per watch plus the Captain.
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  507. @stephenlee5929  that's more apolitical as it could be applied to any political party along with "As you Like it".
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  508. The Me-262 had swept wings for the same reason the DC1 had swept wings - to maintain the correct centre of gravity. It was not to allow any speed advantage, although it did get a slight speed increase. The original Me-262 design used a modified BF-109 wing.
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  509. Is lobscouse the source of the nickname for Liverpudlians?
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  510. ​ @exF3-86  all Ed says is that the RAF refused to allow any of their fighter aircraft to be sent to the FAA. That doesn't mean that the FAA was part of the RAF in any way, shape or form. The RAF was ignoring the needs of the FAA over those of those parts of the RAF thatvrenained on land and didn't go to sea.
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  511.  @amateurcameraman  no, I was ignoring HS1 for the reason you mentioned.
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  512.  @halfsourlizard9319  with the anarchy that will follow there would be no savings.
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  513. Is that above sea level or ground level? It can be both.
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  514. He got the loss rate of Lancaster crews wrong by a verg wide margin. And he repeats myths as fact (the wingspan limitation which was debunked decades ago).
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  515.  @Charlesputnam-bn9zy  when you consider that the Brodie helmet is intended to protect the wear from failing shrapnel when the wearer is stood in a trench, it does exactly what ut is supposed to do. It was also cheaper and easier to produce than either the Adrian or the German Stahlhelm.
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  516. In 1934 the Air Ministry started looking at better guns for future fighter aircraft. This was around the same time as they were also looking at what would become the Spitfire and Hurricane. They tested 0.303in and 0.50in machine guns and the 20mm Hispano cannon (which was new and unreliable at the time). The 0.303in machine gun gave the best rate of fire and was selected.
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  517. And all to the true of Scotland the Brave.
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  518. No, it was a match dropped a couple of hours earlier into the dirt and grease below the escalator.
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  519.  @stevenlowe3026  only if he got his CMG, KCMF or GCMG. These are the 3 tanks of the  Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George - the 1st letter refers means Companion, Knight Commander oang Knight Grand Commander. More colloquially, especially in the British establishment CMG means Call Me God, KCMG means Kindly Call Me God and GCMG means God Calls Me God.
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  520. 1936 also saw the issuing of the P13/36 mefium bomber specification which produced the Avro Manchester and Handley Page Halifax.
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  521. Why title this "Cement Ship" if you mean concrete? The 2 materials are different. Cement is a constituent of concrete.
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  522. Bradford did reach the top flight of English football for just one season (1998-99) and the League Cup Final in 2013.
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  523. Just think of all those resources that could not be used elsewhere as they were stuck in Germany and all those days of lost production in individual factories. And stop with the racism.
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  524. Spartacus Olsson isn't an a scientist or engineer but a media executive, host, writer, and producer.
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  525. It's not that easy in the UK either. An Oxford College has a statue of Cecil Rhodes outside of it (it's on the external wall). This statue is now controversial because if his colonial attitudes.
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  526. @ianrowley5762  a similar event happened in 1987, and climate scientists have been talking about man-made climate change since the 1950s, but this is a single weather event and not a climate. So , your question cannot be answered because it is like asking what does yellow smell like.
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  527.  @chaptermasterpedrokantor1623  you seem to overlooking the fact that the British army based in the UK was much smaller than the French ķarmy based in France. The first portion of the BEF left Portsmouth on 4th September 1939 and by 27th Deptember 1939 152,000 men were in France along with21,400 vehicles, 36,000 tons of ammunition, 25,000 tons if petrol, and 60,000 tons of frozen meat. Between January and April 1940 8 TA Divisions were also landed after completing large formation training in the UK.
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  528. But that wasn't in service until 1956.
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  529.  @ReviveHF  lots of aircraft had short service lives back then
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  530. You don't need to declare war when defending your own territory against an invasion by a foreign country.
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  531.  @RichardDevereauxEarlofEssex  they didn't have to as the Japanese had already attacked them. The American Congress declared war in 8 December the same day the Japanese formal declaration was delivered to Washington, the Japanese had made the declaration on the morning if the attack, but due to the International Date Line they made it in 8 December. Between 1700 and 1870 only 10 out of the 117 wars were formally declared. Under the Hague Conventions you had to formally declare war on a country. However, this has been superceded by the UN Charter. Article 51 allows a country or a group of countries to defend themself or a member of the group against the aggression of a other country.
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  532.  @gullwingstorm857  if you want 15+ hours then that can be arranged. But that would barely cover Puers Gaveston.
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  533.  @sandervanderkammen9230  whilst true, it is another pointless observation you've made.
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  534.  @sandervanderkammen9230  since it was the first jet transport it was a technical achievement.
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  535.  @thereaction18  where were the French or German steam engines?
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  536. BR started developing Automatic Train Protection system back in 1994 due to the cost (and the then forthcoming privatisation) this system was dropped for the cheaper TPWS). In the 1970s they were also working in a 2-wire system for in-cab signalling (also dropped because the Treasury wouldn't spend the money). How quickly we forget about technologies that could have saved lives, and that we couldn't have because they cost too much too install. It's always been the case. In the UK we build schools without sprinkler systems because they are expensive to install and maintain, but just how much does it cost to put out a school fire, where a large part or the whole of the school is on fire, and then find somewhere else to educate the children whilst rebuilding the school?
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  537. The best music always sounds fresh, no matter how old.
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  538. The reasoning behind the sale was sound. It was an attempt to keep the wartime allies friendly with each other and reduce tensions between them. The Rubleishardly award currency.
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  539. But 2+2=4 is only true for average values of 2.
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  540. There were 3 basic SABA concepts that BAe. There was the twin tail boom P.1238 and the canard P.1233-1 which were both pusher turbo-propfans using the Avco Lycoming T.55 as the engine. The other concept was the P.1234 which came in 3 variants all of which were jet powered: the Dash 1 which was armed with a gun turret; the Dash 2 with a straight wing; and the delda-winged Dash 3. The Dash and Dash 3 were designed around the RR Adour engine, whilst the Dash 2 was designed around the Aco Lycoming ALF.502 engine (a jet version of the T.55).
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  541.  @Greensanctuary-c4w  more correctly the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. The Cromwellian siege of Drogheda was in what is also known as the 3rd Phase of the Irish Confederate Wars.
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  542. So somebody was doing some mine sweeping.
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  543.  @alexjradcliffe  also the subject of a Jake Thackeray song.
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  544.  @meadow-maker  the mark was made to indicate a count of 20 which is indicative of a Base-20 counting system. In Old French 32 was written as vint et douz (ie 30+12) 50 was dous vinz et dix (ie two twenties plus 10). Norman French was influenced by Old French and modern English is substantially based on Norman French rather than Anglo-Saxon.
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  545.  @meadow-maker  apologies for being presumptive about your comments. But the question remains why was the scoring of the tally stick was done at 20 sheep and not 10 if society as a whole was using a Base-10 counting system? The remaining Celts in the Anglo-Saxon areas would have had to learn the language of their new overlords just as the Anglo-Saxons did after 1066.
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  546. We'll have to wait a bit for all the dust to settle - any economic decisions take a decade or more to have a clear outcome. An example of this is the devaluation of Sterling in 1967 has one of its routes in the economic decisions passed by the Conservative governments in the 1950, one of which encouraged overmanning in both the nationalised and privately owned industries in order to keep unemployment unnaturally low.
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  547. Funny how many channels are now jumping on the bandwagon. This scandal was first brough to light buy Computer Weekly in 2009 and was picked up by Private Eye in 2011.
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  548. Ah, the Mucky Ducks.
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  549. Just like Cassandra, the warnings were ignored.
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  550.  @oscaranderson5719  people don't believe that it will ever happen to them. That's human nature. You can't change it.
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  551. Whilst the Angles and Saxons came from what is now Gernany, they came over 1,000 years before Gernany became a nation. We have also got Celtic, Roman, Danish and French influences but it didn't stop us shelling Copenhagen (twice) or fighting the Hundred Years War and other wars against the French. We are British not Germanic.
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  552. Number 11 you had a hand in that crash. Sounding your horn hassled the van driver into moving when it wasn't safe. Well done for, your impatience caused others to have a crash.
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  553. The Danish word for animal is dyr. Obviously a familial link.
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  554. Korea.
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  555. Thatcher was opposed to this American action as was the Commonwealth.
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  556. ​ @enoughothis that's not quite true. A B-17F could haul 17,600lb of bombs to Berlin so long as you could accept flying at a mere 6,000ft at 145mph. Source: the B-17F Pilot's Handbook. All models of the B-17 upto the F model could do this.
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  557.  @phillipnagle9651  prove it. You've made a statement, now provide your evidence to support your claim.
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  558.  @phillipnagle9651  again your opening statement is only an opinion and has no more value than any other opinion.
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  559.  @phillipnagle9651  thanks for confirming that you are a troll. I asked for a source to backmul your assertions and you just can't do it.
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  560.  @phillipnagle9651  writing on a bus is never easy, you were lucky to get a coherent sentence with only a handful of errors. I have repeatedly asked you to provide evidence to back up your initial statement. All of which you have refused to do. Save for your first reply Tommy post, all you do is insult, deflect and prevaricate like the troll, you are. I'm not taking a position that is contrary to yours, but wanting to find out if it is just your opinion or are there any facts that support your position. You never know I might have agreed with you, but now you've burnt your boats and whether or not you have any supporting evidence your opinion is not worth any further response.
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  561. ​ @bcwbcw3741 that's a Billy Connolly joke.
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  562.  @bcwbcw3741  Billy Connolly was brought up a Catholic and says in one of his routines that he thought, as a child, that there was bear in Heaven called Gladly with bad eyes because at Church on Sundays they would sing "Gladly, the cross-eyed bear". He also thought as a child that at funerals the Priest would say "In the name of the Father, the Son and into the hole he goes."
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  563. Drake is going west lads, so Fred is going west, but ittle Tom just stays in bed, the lazy little beast.
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  564. For how long and whose going to pay for it?
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  565. He came back to managef the Boro, but wasn't able to stop the rot that saw us drop to the old 3rd division for only the 2nd time.
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  566. A pittance compared to the cost of developing the TSR-2. Between 1956 and 1965 around a dozen other mitiary projects were cancelled including the purchase of the Chinook helicopter. We later pre-ordered them.
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  567. I take it that you don't know that old joke about the Bishop's crossword?
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  568. There were plans for a version that would have been as capable as the F-4 Phantom. Unfortunately Sandys's white paper cast a long shadow and the money was not available.
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  569. Manchester wasn't a city until 1853 and Liverpool had to wait until 1880. Therefore, it can't have been the first inner-city railway. STRIKE 1 for Woolner. As for the Stockton and Darlington not operating the passenger services in the early days, well that doesn't preclude them from being considered a proper railway. Does Amtrak own the tracks it operate on? Or does it gave access rights to run its services? In the UK and EU states, we have open access and companies who wish to run grain services can apply for access to run train services provided they meet all legal requirements. This also mirrors what the Stockton and Darlington was doing. STRIKE 2 for Woolner. Anyway who says a railway can't gave mix propulsion or has to gave more than 1 line. If it needs to have more than 1 line then it rules out many railways that still operate today, including many lines in North America, Australia, Denmark, the UK, etc. STRIKE 3. You can't rely on journalists.
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  570. Not even a minute in and the crap is flowing. The prototype Hurricane flew on 6th November 1935. Please note the date and that it is almost 4 years before the UK's involvement in WW2. It should have flown in the spring of that year, but the Air Ministry decided that the new fighter aircraft had to be fitted with 8 machine guns and not the four initially envisioned (2 in the Vickers machine guns in the fuselage and a Browning in each wing). The initial design work had started in 1933 with the initial design completed by 5th December 1933, by which time Herr Hitler hadn't been Chancellor of Germany for 11 months and almost 8 months before he became President as well.
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  571. Concentration camps were born during the Spanish-Cuban War of 10/10/868 to 28/5/1878 not the 2nd Boer War. Fancy a history channel ignoring history...
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  572. Believed to be the master of the Sorong.
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  573.  @gilgamecha  and your ignorance of what I've said is outstanding.
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  574. If she had only said she thought he waxabout to cross the line into her lane then the honk could be justified, but for no other reason.
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  575. Or any British town or city?
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  576. Shouldn't that be "Magistrate" at the 3:00 mark?
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  577. Shame he messed up the history by using British instead of English.
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  578.  @OptimusPrinceps_Augustus  and why should they? The Anglo-Polish Mutual Assistance Pact was signed 2 after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. It had a secret protocol that name Germany as the attacker for which the UK had to take up arms. In all other cases they had to consult together on actions to be taken in common. What wasn't known at the time was the secret protocols of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact that detailed the boundaries of each country's spheres of influence (this wasn't made public until the Nuremberg Trials in 1945).
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  579. Milk bottles in the UK were a similar shape as the P-47's fuselage until the 1980s.
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  580. No because GOR.339 was used as a basis for the F-111.
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  581.  @Mishn0  but it is a well known fact that bombs coming out of linear bomb bay would be dragged along the bomber for a distance making accurate bomber impossible even if dropping a nuke. It's in the Wings of Fame article on the Vigilante. The TSR-2 was for tactical strike not strategic strike, so the having of Polaris wasn't an issue for the TSR-2 unlike the V-Bombers.
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  582.  @romansternberg5696  sadly, you are mistaken. If you tell children about the Holocaust without the censorship of making the information age specific then you are abusing those children and can cause PTSD. This is why teachers are trained to differentiate for age groups. There will always be people drawn to evil actions.
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  583.  @dfmrcv862  it may be what happened and totally accurate, but do children need to know all the facts in one trauma inducing lump? As Stalin is supposed to have said 1 death is a tragedy, 1,000,000 deaths is just a number.
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  584.  @dfmrcv862  yes they need to know this and about other atrocities as well, but they need to understand it and not be traumatised by it. How do you get s child to understand the industrial murder of every inhabitant of a city the size of London (currently around 8.9 million inhabitants)? Especially if they have no concept of death. We don't teach quantum physics I school, but we do teach that atoms behave like hard balls and that electrons orbit their nuclei in set orbits when neither description is true but do allow concepts like pressure and chemical reactions to be explained. Simplifications are a form of censorship, but only to allow concepts to be built up to their full complexity.
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  585.  @goonfish1704  third is no such thing as the English Government and I refuse to respond to the rest of your childish drivel.
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  586.  @tomaskuli177  not so much divorsed but abandoned.
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  587.  @jalapenofarts  there are people out there who had one parent, typically the father but in dome cases the mother, walk out on them as children. I went to school, with one that I k we of, there were probably more. This was just as real in the 1969s as it is today. So if the authorities request evidence if the closeness of the relationship it is acceptable.
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  588.  @jalapenofarts  I was talking about some of children I have known over the years. The people running the Aberfan fund and other funds like it have always had to ensure that money they are responsible for went to those directly affected and that means asking difficult questions. Recently a fraudster was jailed for getting money out of the funds put aside for victims of the fire at Grenfell Tower, so not only has the fund lost money, some of which will never be recovered, the tax-payers have had to pay for a trial and imprisonment over somebody who if the right questions had been asked at the time wouldn't have got the money. I'd rather ask awkward questions than give money to some chancer who doesn't qualify. I presume from your uninformed comments that you are happy with fraudsters getting money intended for the victims of such disasters. In the case of Aberfan, the laws governing charities required then to ask such questions, nasty and it was but still they had to be asked by law. If they hadn't the Charity Commission would have removed those running the charity from their positions and may have had them prosecuted. The laws governing charities were changed after this. But why let facts like this change your narrow minded opinions.
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  589.  @jalapenofarts  perhaps you need to learn to read. The second term in the dead of trust shows that the money is only to be paid out to those living in the affected area at the time of the incident. This means the money can only be paid out to those habitually living in the affected area. Therefore, an absent parent who does not habitually live in the affected area can ot make a claim on the charity. This does not include parents working away who maintain a home in the affected area. The Charities Act governs what a charity can and can't do in regards to the individual charities terms of reference or deeds, unless the charity is exempt of the provisions of the Charities Act (exempt charities are listed). The deeds of the Aberfan Fund set out who could claim and who could not make claims on the money that the charity had. The Charity Commissioners had to ensure that the charity followed the terms of these deeds which meant dsistressing as it was they had to establish the relationship between the claimants and the victims including habitual residency and for what reason the money was being claimed. PTSD claims were dismissed, wrongly in my view.
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  590.  @jalapenofarts  well you don't have to like another persons interpretation of the facts or their opinions you just have to accept that they have them. You have failed to provide any evidence to show that your opinion and interpretation is more correct than mine. As I pointed out you need to look at things in the contemporary context and not today's context.
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  591. Didn't Shoval hang a sailor the day before for questioning their position? This was seen as an act of mutiny.
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  592.  @supraguy4694  the first incident took place off an island with lots of sea birds and in an areas where whales are know to feed. The 2nd incident is also a high flying goose or duck.
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  593. It might be spelt Boatswain but we pronounce it bosun.
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  594. Dramatic events indeed. These events have been lost sight of by many as other events have been deemed more important World-shaking events.
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  595. If this was mainstream TV, this would have been made years ago say in 2003 (See Killing Hitler from the BBC or Mission: Kill Hitler on the Yestrday Channel).
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  596. Well that was exciting. Shame it was all spoilt by the numpty that gave away the result in the title of the video.
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  597. @StopAlopeciaOrange  but that tends to be a modern thing. Numerous sexual predators got away with it for years just because they were famous.
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  598. Did you vote for lower taxes? If you did then we know who to blame.
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  599. The turbofan was invented in Germany during WW2 beating the British by a few months. The Germans were forced to give up on it due to material issues whilstbthe British were able to get it working (and yes, the British were using axial-flow compressor jet engines for their turbofans). Geared fans can allow larger fans as they can keep tip speeds down.
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  600. Obsolete as in no longer made or used.
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  601. They are saluting the office, not the man.
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  602. Comparing the early naval jets against the contemporary land-based jets is similar to the situation before WW2 when compating the equivalent piston-powered naval and land-based aircraft.
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  603. The potential impact on support for the war amongst the American public should never be under estimated. The American public's reaction to Sputnik is a good example of this.
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  604. The other bit of top advice is: drive like you own the car not the road.
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  605. Didn't the RN lose a sub because of one of these types of torpedoes?
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  606. TLDW: Cancelled because the basket-case UK economy couldn't afford it.
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  607. The invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece took valuable men and materiel that would have been useful in Operation Barbarossa.
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  608. 1. Light spreads outing an inverse square relationship - doubling the distance means the beam covers four times the area. 2. Practice.
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  609.  @maximkretsch7134  you correct about the dates, but nothing else. The raid was intended to target the rail yards and junctions, and the road network supporting the German invasion of Belgium. It was also one of the first night bombing raids of WW2 and was about as a curate as the Zeppelin raids of WW1 which deliberately targetted civilians and wasn't considered a war crime even though the Entante could have demanded the handing over of the culprits. Rotterdam wasn't an open city in 1940. The German Army wanted a Stuka attack, but Göring ordered level bombing in an attempt to destroy Dutch resistance. The raid was delayed by a day due to low cloud and whilst the German Army tried to have the attack called off the radio message was not received by either of the 2 formations of bombers as they had wound in their aerials before the message was sent. Only the southern group of bombers saw the signal flares aborting the mission. The rest bombed the surrendered city.
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  610.  @maximkretsch7134  the Germans dropped their bombs on the medieval centre of Rotterdam and the western end of the primarily residential area of Kralingen.now as Rotterdam was a defended city under the Hague Convetions on Land Warfare a legitimate target, the German bombs landed nowhere near the Dutch defences and were intended to kill civilians and demoralise the defenders. However, there is some debate about whether this Convention applies to aerial warfare as many of the provisions about attacking defended cities can't be carried out by the commander of air attack such as giving notice of the intention to attack. Therefore, the Dutch court martial have limited scope of action and had to acquit. As for night bombing, yes it is difficult to pick out one dark patch out from a dark background at any height. However, this didn't stop the RAF destroying those dams. This is given as one of the reasons for the switch to aerial bombing to kill those who made the weapons, etc, that those on the front line used. In the same way the U-Boats sank merchant vessels coming to the UK and the Americans submarines sank the Japanese merchant ships. Both are examples of actual war crimes that went unpunished.
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  611. There was a film made of the first days of the Battle of the Somme and some of the build up. It was made by Geoffret Malins and John McDowell. It went on general release on 21/8/1916. The footage of troops going over the top was filmed behind the lines, but most was filmed in the trenches.
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  612.  @kevindavis5966  and kill the politest man in American politics? A man composite he swam fir miles instead of waking up a complete stranger.
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  613.  @chucktheperson1063  not all. Under the statute of Westminster of 1932 the Irish chose not to tazke up arms as a nation as a nation, but as individuals stood against oppression as they had against the British.
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  614.  @philiprufus4427  the nationalised bus operators and those run by local government all operated along side the trains and canals by the British Transport Commission. They also ran for many years the road haulage companies. After the end of petrol rationing until the time the Beeching Report was being written car ownership rose year on year by an average of 10% per year. This was in the era of plenty of railways and local buses. I wonder why the travelling public took to cars in the same way they took to buses after WW1? Could it be that the railways and buses, although available were less than useful due to limited times they ran? Of course it is, the same reason why people use cars today. They can travel where they like, when they like.
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  615.  @bigblue6917  just like the well-known transonic aircraft the Tiger Moth....
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  616. I know those Americans love their guns, but carrying 38 revolvers is overkill.
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  617.  @caseymente875  so your Grandfathet was Hitler...
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  618. Have you not heard of tge TV show Candid Camera? They did stuff like this all the time.
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  619. @MrkBO8  I was meaning pranking the unsuspecting members of the public.
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  620. The De Lorian was built on stainless steel and boy did it show the hand marks.
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  621.  @drumsnpiano8957  without the audience you don't have a performance, you just have music. Queen used their 20 minutes better than some other big name acts. We all know that Freddie had been told by Doctors to rest his voice, so that will be the cause of the vocals being a bit off. As for the musicianship we'll just have to agree to differ.
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  622.  @drumsnpiano8957  never said it was their best performance, but it must have been a very good one to win over an audience that was indifferent to their music compared to one that had chosen to go and see them. But you don't seem able to grasp that.
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  623. That's in the Islamic calendar. The current year in the Islamic calendar, 1444 started on 30th July 2022.
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  624. MAGA - Maie America Gay Again?
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  625. The entitlement is strong in this one.
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  626. Happens all the time in men's football.
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  627. Elon will be here soon with his hyper-conductor.
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  628. The answer is: yes, they are battlecruisers and at the same time fast battleships. It's akin to the tank/tank destroyer argument.
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  629. It was England that fought the Hundred Years War not the British. Nor was Roxburgh Castle held by the Br8tish, but the English.
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  630. No they are concrete not cement.
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  631.  @FilosophicalPharmer  the threat of violence is a criminal act not a freedom. And the law allows me to defend myself against even a threat of violence. This right comes with the responsibility to use it sparing and to only use reasonable force. A punch can only be countered with a punch, if all other things are equal.
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  632. Sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide are both strong alkalines and both are damaging to living tissue. The only good thing is that both react with carbon dioxide. This means that there will need to be restrictions on the usage of devices such as what Thunderf00f is proposing which might make that less useful than a chocolate teapot.
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  633.  @thulyblu5486  sodium chloride is big the same as sodium hydroxide. Sodium hydroxide is a powerful alkaline used in small quantities in cleaning products (the same is true for potassium hydroxide). Even in these low concentrations care is needed in their usage (household rubber gloves being recommended) to avoid skin irritation and medical assistance should be sought for ingestion and eye contact.
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  634.  @Zialitt  bullshit - the bit about there being a creator.
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  635. The early ballads, Robin Hood had a much different character, one who was easily angered and took revenge for the merest slight such as beating up Little John for beating him in an archery contest. Not the polished person we have come to know.
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  636. But that figure is only for the efficiency of the engine. If you take into account the energy used to produce the petrol you get even lower efficiency figures, figures which are misleading. If we take out the energy cost for the production if the hydrogen and look only at the energy we get back in the fuel cell we get a much higher efficiency figure than that of the petrol engine.
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  637. Sounds like those 2 boys had never been told of how Theseus had navigated his way through the Knossos Labyrinth and killed the Minotaur.
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  638. Try watching that clip with audio. The driver admits messing things up before asking where the other driver came from. Big ups to her for admitting her fault.
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  639. Think of it as the British getting revenge for the Viking raids.
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  640. According to researchers (in Height Across the Last 2000 Years in England) the average height of a man when from around 167 to 170cm in the late Roman Period up to 173cm around 1100 (with a dip around 600). After this it dropped until just after the Black Death when it started to rise again to 173 to 174cm by the late 1650s. However, by the end of the 17th Century it had fallen to around 169cm. By the 1950s it was again around the 170cm mark and by 1977 it was about 177cm, with the great rate of increase taking place over the last 10 years. The reasons for the changes in height are linked to the usual combinations of better food, clean water and better healthcare. All of which have fluctuated over the last 2000 years.
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  641.  @grizwoldphantasia5005  the wing hard points weren't fitted to the B-17G. The last model they were fitted to were the B-17F. This meant in theory they could carry 17,600lb of bombs, 8,000lb of which were carried external. Range or altitude had to be sacrificed to carry this load. Either an operational range of 790 miles at 25,000ft or 1,170 miles at 6,000ft.
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  642. @r2dter  just remrmber what the philosophers say about nothing good ever lasting. Well, if it's true for the good it must be true for bad, this too will pass.
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  643. The glitchy audio didn't spoil my viewing.
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  644.  @dp-sr1fd  yes, but those Germans hadn't fought against their nation. The Cossacks and the ROA actively aided the German war effort and fought against their own bstion or its allies. It may not be a war crime, but ut was against the laws of the Soviet Union. Just as an American fighting for a foreign nation can be stripped of their US citizenship. It doesn't always happen, but if you take up arms against America it is more likely to happen (it's just one if the stated reasons in the American legislation).
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  645. Because there is too much history for schools to teach. Remember, Ireland was always separate to Britain.
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  646. You should have a look at the design Volkert came up with to meet this requirement. It was the first British bomber design, not the Mosquito, intended to use speed as its main defence.
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  647. Or rockets.
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  648. 46202 "Princess Anne" had only re-entered service a short while before this accident. It had been rebuilt from the Turbomotive, which had been one of the best turbine powered steam locomotives.
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  649. Err, hadn't the line between civilians and combatants already been crossed by the shelling of Whitby on 16th December 1914? Unlike Hartlepool and Scarborough , Whitby had no military facilities in its port. Stop trying to sensationalise history, but doesn't need it.
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  650.  @samsungtap4183  but Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, The Netherlands, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Greece and the Soviet Union didn't and all were invaded by the Germans.
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  651. The machine gun's effectiveness depends of the landscape. If there are areas where the machine guns can't lay down fire then they will be less effective in defence.
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  652. I wonder just how much of this influence the writer of the 1962 film Jigsaw to set the film in Brighton? I know the book, "Sleep Long, My Love", the film is based on is set in Connecticut.
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  653. Oh the irony. The YT algorithm just gave me an ad for Sheffield Hallam University...
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  654. Seen them over London being produced by a 737.
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  655. Barbarossa wasn't delayed by the invasions of Yugoslavia and Greece, the conditions under foot did that. But the men (wound, killed or stuck on garrison duties in these countries and the other occupied countries), materiel and fuel used up didn't help the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
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  656. Dropping parachute troops over the trenches of WW1 would have resulted in worse casualties then the 1st day of the 1st Battle of the Somme. Technically speaking its was me of the 7th Fliegerdivision that took Eben Emael using DFS 230 gliders in this assault. This unit became the 7th Fallschirmjäger Divisionin 1943.
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  657. Number 9 try using your brakes.
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  658. Because it has a much longer lasting effect than the aerosols produced by a volcano.
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  659. ​ @kevinbarry71  Scottish, Welsh and Irish towns and cities were bombed. The trouble is that many non-British people use English as a synonym for British. Reme gef the song "There'll always be an England".
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  660.  @ThatGuysProject  neither were built specifically as nightfighers.
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  661. Except for all their light transport aircraft and trainer.
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  662. analysis gods know what I was trying say there. My dodgy spelling and autocorrect produce some interesting results. This one I missed.
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  663. They tried such rockets and non-cable towing rockets over land in the UK around the Battle of Britain with great success in wasting money and resources whilst getting a certain Major Sandys infatuated with rockets.
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  664.  @TheImperatorKnight  you need to learn the difference between a state owned company and a privately owned company. As you don't understand the basics. A group of people can own a business and it is still a private business. This is so basic it is the economic equivalent of 1+1=2.
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  665. Shush. Don't tell anyone.
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  666. You've never watch Ster Trek Enterprise have you? There were many vessels called Enterprise over the centuries.
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  667. @eatsinabeat  tell me, if a person is punished at your work, is it made public or does it remain on their records and only those who need to know are told? Now, do you think it is a fair system? 8f you think it I fair, why are you expecting a different approach in the civil service?
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  668. No, the intskes for the APUs are in that area
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  669. The Pilot of the B(I).8 was alone under the fighter style canopy with the Navigator in the fuselage, in the early models behind the Pilot and in the later models in front. Correction the Navigator was was in front in the early models and behind in the later ones.
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  670. According to US case law YouTube is a private company and thus can censor what is put on it (see YouTube vs PragerU. As YouTube operates under American laws, the American court decision stands.
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  671.  @namewarvergeben  it's better than trams, if British trams are anything to go by, that go no faster than about half this speed. Whilst the 19 members of the Class 86/3 isn't a large sample, it is large enough for this purpose. As for the probability of failure, if the failure if a tyre has a probability of 1 in 10,000 then it doesn't matter if it's the first or last tyre that fails the probability remains the same as each tyre is independent if all other tyres.
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  672. And when will, you cover the operation that casual WW2 historians haven't heard of? These 4 are all well known.
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  673. Was it renamed? I thought of The Cruel Sea.
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  674.  @johnburns4017  from what I've read prior and going from memory both Groves and Arnold wanted an American plane if at at possible but were not adverse tk using the Lancaster. The reason why the B-29 was prioritised for the Far Eastvwas more to do with delivery delays. By the end of 1943 100 B-29s had been delivered but only a dozen or so remained airworthy. These aircraft had originally been slated to go to Egypt and from their bomb Germany and other Axis targets as the airbases in the UK were deemed to be too crowded. At this point in time there was no certainty that either atomic bomb shapes would ever become a viable bomb. The B-29 was designed to drop a large conventional bomb load. The use of the British Type G single point attachments and the Type F releases as use on the Lancaster B.1 Specials used to carry the Tallboy bombs was because the American release mechanisms being used for the testing mic the Thin Man bomb shape were less than reliable. Going from memory from a book on the development of atomic bomb the American bomb release mechanism would release late or not at all it in one case before the bomb bay doors were opened. The crew chief of that particular aircraft was not pleased with the damage caused by the bomb passing through them whilst flying to the range. The Americans are not stupid and chose to use a proven system. Yes, a Lancaster could have reached Hiroshima from Tinian and then got to Iwo Jima to refuel provided it escaped the shockwave from the bomb going off. I do know that Spaatz wanted some Lancaster B.1 Specials on Okinawa for the planned invasion to drop Tallbiys on selected targets.
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  675. A new book was published on this period was published earlier this year. The book covers the little known Littleport riots
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  676. Watching some of these clips I wonder why do the road authorities bother putting up signs for intersections and junctions.
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  677. The Nazi regime left the stage pursued by the Russian bear.
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  678. Sounds like you bet on a fart and lost.
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  679. There are also 3 shaft turbofan, with both low and high bypass ratios.
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  680. The same people also say the Soviet aircraft designers copied the western designers. This is pure western arrogance. The Soviets and the Japanese are, and always have been, perfectly producing good aircraft. They've also produced some death traps but so has the west (Blackburn Botha). There are only a handful of solutions to the problems of aerodynamics.
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  681. Sorry HG, but you've tripped up over another bloody English place name intended to catch out unwary foreigners. The wear in Wearmouth should be pronounced as if you're saying we're.
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  682. The saying "the exception that proves the rule" doesn't mean what most people think it means. In this saying the word proves means to test (as the Proof House were guns were put under test).
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  683. Yes, but with better jokes than the Cranes.
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  684. There's an even rarer Vickers' bomber designed by RJ Mitchell and destroyed in a bomber raid in 1940.
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  685.  @blueeyeswhitedragon9839  which Squadron was he in? Just asking as the gliding club I was a member of back in the late 1990s was based at Gransdrn Lodge (the club still is, but I no longer fly). Grandson was the home of 405 Squadron RCAF between April 1943 and May 1945 and for 5 days in March 1943 it was also the home of 421 Squadron RCAF. We had several coach parties of veteran comic g to visit old familiar places.
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  686. The ideology of fewer companies getting a larger slice of an ever shrinking pie?
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  687. Number 4 - the original lane change by the cammer looked a bit close, but certainly didn't merit what then happened.
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  688. Wrong it was a toilet, not the seat. Operation Sani-flush.
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  689.  @stephenp448  now corrected.
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  690. That's a powerful cough you have there Number 3. Makes car drivers lose control.
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  691. Why do you use a picture of a Womble and put a caption saying "Disposable"? The Wombles are famous for being keen recyclers when recycling wasn't common.
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  692. In the RAF Harris's nickname was Butch not Bomber.
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  693. That's almost as bad as the new roof joke.
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  694. ​@andreasjensen8277 tobe a war crime, there have to be laws on the conduct of war. There were no such laws for the best part of 100 years.
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  695. At the 16:20 mark and elsewhere, we can see a Seahawk of 897 Squadron with its large seabird head (a roseate tern).
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  696. Not always it depends on the signage that is posted with the zig-zag markings. If the sign gives no timeframe for being operational then it's in effect 24/7. Drivers avoid them as the sign are normally placed parallel to the road.
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  697.  @GNMi79  no, they didn't have the power to lift more than 1 person at a time. But that's not the point. Very few if the pioneers of aviation had any formal qualifications in engineering. The same is true about the other fields of engineering. The scale of the death toll is not a reflection on a persons learning. The designer of the Titanic was a fully qualified naval architect and a member if the Institute of Naval Archiects and still his most famous design was never completed its first trip. Qualifications don't mean everything.
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  698.  @wilburfinnigan2142  so they did provide some engines and some input,rather than the nothing you originally stated.
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  699.  @wilburfinnigan2142  another pointless response from you. I've not said anything against the Allison engine.
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  700. How many accidents like this are going to happen?
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  701.  @anonUK  405 line was the standard until BBC2 came along at 625 lines followed shortly by BBC1 and ITV.
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  702. Margaret Thatcher was there the following day. I know this because my father was one of the Fire Officers who spike to her during the clean up. He was the Staion officer at Clerkenwell on day shift on the day of the disaster and travelled home through the station about an hour before the fire was discovered. He was on fil on the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 and in the following days' newspapers. In the picture that was on the front page of The Times were 2 other Fire Men, one who worshipped the ground Maggie walked on and the other who wouldn't have urinated on her if she was on fire.
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  703. @goranmiljus2664  that kind of attitude will only result in more atrocities.
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  704. Lucky you, it's only lunchtime here.
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  705. They are getting something, even if they cancelled their order. They're getting a bill for the full amount.
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  706. Part of the suction effect will be caused by vortices shed by the trailing edge of the ramekin. A similar effect can be felt at the corners of buildings on windy days.
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  707.  @cunard61  that would explain it.
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  708. The idea was to shot down bombers and not dog fight with other fighters.
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  709. 3 points on the licence of the defaulting country. Get 12 points and you get a ban.
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  710. Hyperventilation is Elon's latest product. It's a window.
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  711. Metal fatigue was discovered in 1837, long before the Wright brothers' parents were born.
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  712.  @TheScotsalan from my engineering materials notes. In 1842 William John Macquorn Rankine recognised the importance of stress concentrations in his investigation or railway axle failures. The following year Joseph Glynn identifies the keyway as the crack origin whilst investigating the failure of an railway axle. In 1849 Braithwaite was granted money bybthe British government to ascertain the effect of continuous changes in loads on iron structures in order to determine the max load that would not cause failure. He also coined the word fatigue in 1854 . Fairburn and Wohler undertake system research into fatigue in 1860, which lead Wohler to conclude in 1870 that it is the cyclic stress range rather than the peak stress that is the ruling factor in fatigue and came up with the term endurance limit. Sur James Ewing in 1903 that fatigue originates from microscopic cracks. Basquin in 1910 came up with the log-log relationship for S-N curves from Wohler's rest date. In 1954, the year if the Comet disasters, Coffin and Manson explain fatigue crack growth in terms of plastic strain in the tip of the crack (I can't say which came first). In 1970 Elber demonstrated the importance of crack closure on fatigue crack growth due to the wedging effect of plastic deformation, and finally in 1973 Briwn and Miller noticed that in multiaxial conditions the fatigue life of an objectbus governed by the direction receiving the most damage and that both tension and shear loads on the critical plane must be considered. As you can see the majority of the published work came before Comet.
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  713.  @TheScotsalan  only as far as it raised awareness of the subject and made engineers look at the fatigue lives of structures. The only research that I'm aware of that could be related to Comet was published 19 years after the disasters, the mutliaxis work as mentioned previously. The rest was based on the body of knowledge already amassed.
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  714.  @rob5944  well John Nott did storm off Nationwide when Robin Day asked him whether the public should trust a here today and gone tomorrow politician over a senior RN officer (you can relive that moment on YT).
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  715.  @rob5944  it's been going in a long time, remember Lloyd George knew my great grandfather and what's more great grandfather knew Lloyd George (sung to the tune of Onward Christian Soldiers as infinitum) and that's just one of the many historic scandals.
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  716.  @Simon_Nonymous  thanks, I knew it was someone like that.
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  717. ​ @hellomoto2084 Brittany? That part of France and they use SI. You meant the UK, where we use both Imperial and SI units.
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  718.  @Mute_Nostril_Agony  pommes de terre are potatoes not tomatoes which are tomatoes.
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  719. Afe you aware that that slogan came from the DDR?
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  720.  @steelhelmetstan7305 I believe it was 1996 at the party conference that he first used this phrase, which read somewhere had previously been used in the DDR.
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  721. JLM was a great actor. He was in Jigsaw (1964), where he played the father of the murder victim and gave a powerful performance of an old-fashioned father.
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  722. Number 6 shows the dangers of being in someone's blind spot. Perhaps you should learn a lesson yourself about positioning along with the other driver about checking blind spots before making a move.
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  723. Didn't you upload this earlier today?
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  724. Can't be French, she looks too normal.
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  725. It was cheaper and easier to make than plate to the required strength. It's only flaw is it's not do good against long pointed arrows, but that's were the gambeson comes into play (thanks Tod of Tod's workshop).
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  726. The Wrights didn't invent the aileron that honour goes to British scientist Matthew Puers Watt Boulton who patented the aileron in 1868. Unfortunately for Curtiss and the others the Wrights sued this earlier patent had long been forgotten.
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  727.  @SoloPilot6  but they claimed that Curtis infringed their Patent and won.
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  728. Bornholm is midway between Germany and Sweden not Denmark.
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  729.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  same as in the Napoleonic War then?
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  730.  @mfletch3205 whilst that is true, it doesn't make any difference to there not being attacks on the British population since the days of Napoleon.
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  731. The Browning M2 and the DShK use different ammunition. The M2 uses 12.7mm x 99mm NATO rounds whilst the DShK 12.7mm X 108mm. Not only are the rounds different lengths they are different shapes so I doubt that the American round will fit the DShK's chamber.
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  732. He would have been in the 1st Battalion as they were the only part of the Regiment to be sent there.
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  733. Sorry, but Douglas Aircraft had the same concerns about size and complexity hence the A-4D.
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  734.  @Philistine47  only on the Mustang I. The Mustang II had 4x20m cannon. From the Mustang III, IIRC they standardised on 6x0.50 cal Brownings.
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  735. Can you provide any evidence to support this claim?
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  736.  @MoparAdventure  thanks, there are lots of people on YT that make statements that they can't back up. I'll read it later.
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  737. Service ceilings are often defined by the altitude of a specific maximum rate of climb qnd not the altitude that the aircraft cannot climb beyond. IIRC the RAF servi e ceili g was that were the maximum rate of climb had fallen to 100ft/minute.
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  738. I thought the Germans converted the tracks to standard gauge. It's not so easy to convert standard gauge vehicles to a broader gauge especially steam locomotives with outside valve gear.
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  739. Hit the saddle with a standard crossbow and kill your own horse....
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  740.  Wulf  he had equal amounts of good and bad luck. If you rely on luck you soon lose the game.
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  741. ​ @PantherBlitz no it didn't. The invasions of Yugoslavia and Greece was BEFORE the invasion of the Soviet Union. Plus that invasion couldn't have occurred much earlier due to ground conditions in the Soviet Union. It did, however, waste men, fuel, equipment and ammunition that would have been useful in OP. Barbarossa.
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  742.  @seanosborn3272  and once the process was in full swing in the 1960s the Americans were singing the another tune as many former colonies turned anti-western.
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  743. Wasn't the UAPTF's predecessor, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program disbanded? Funny that as soon as they disband one body thet have to form a new one. I wouldn't put too much on the reports coming out of the same government body who thought the Soviets had more bombers and then more missiles than they did or from a country that dragged the world into another war over non-existent WMDs in Iraq.
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  744.  @AudieHolland  everything I've read states that Winkelman was initially prepared to fight on after the loss of Rotterdam. Yes, there usually is a cease fire of a limited period but not always such as at the end of WW1. And everything I've read suggests that Kesselring was ignoring what the ground commander were telling him on 14/5/1940. And guess what. You're wrong about there being a breach of the rules of war. The city was defended and the commander of the attacking force gave warning.
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  745.  @kennethknoppik5408  Old Big Head was full of them.
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  746.  @Brozius2512  don't worry I'm part Billy goat.
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  747. 1st apart from the raid on Cuxhaven on 25th December 1914 when the RNAS launched sea-planes from ships. A sea-plane carrier is still an aircraft carrier.
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  748. Popa was wrong about the death of a king leading to bloodshed. You have to go back a long way in the UK to get bloodshed on the death of a monarch. IIRC, in England, it was with the death of Edward IV.
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  749. The farthing was legal tender until 1961.
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  750.  EnglishXnXproud  yes, but the RAF which incorporated the RFC and the FAA was not part of the Army or Navy. It has always been a separate branch if the British military.
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  751. Number 13 - why not use your brakes and make it a non-event?
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  752. It looks like a DH.114 Heron to me. The Heron was a stretched DH.104 Dove and to help move the heavier aircraft it was given 4 engines.
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  753.  @exF3-86  no it wasn't.
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  754. IIRC they tend to park it in out if the way locations overnight if not in use, but travel overnight when in use.
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  755. And to find out who was responsible, go look in the mirror and at your parents and grandparents. We, as a nation, voted for the service we receive.
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  756. @WildSuppositions  I don't think that anyo eonboard was paying attention to anything. Not the area flight rules, not the instruments, not the charts of the area back at base, not what was going on outside. They said in their trial they were at 1000ft AGL, half of the legal minimum for that part of the area.
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  757. Trench warfare existed long before WW1 - for example trench systems were used in the American Civil War.
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  758. Isn't the business end of any gun the end you point at the enemy?
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  759. The Trinity test was to test the implosion-type bomb that was used against Nagasaki. The gun-type bomb as used on Hiroshima was never tested as they knew that bringing 2 sub-critical masses together would create a self-sustaining nuclear reaction.
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  760. MW stands for Mittelwork and 18014 was the serial number of the Aggregat 4 that was launched on 20th June 1944. I can't understand how a well respected history channel can it so wrong whilst Wikipedia is spot on the money.
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  761. ​ @danewood2309 whilst speedos are inaccurate the dpeed they display must be the highest possible speed that you will be doing. So, if the speedo shows 40mph and the error is 10% then your actual speed will be around 36.5mph. This has been true for decades.
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  762.  @JosephDawson1986  which they do using C-130s using trailers with wheels already in place for FOBs, or fly in containerised based modules in to such locations using a heavy lift helicopter such as the CH-47, as they have find for decades.
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  763.  @JosephDawson1986  the containerised command posts I'm thinking of are based on the standard 6m by 2.5 by 2.5m ISO container. Which ones are you thinking of? Not the 3.4m by 3.4m by 2.75m tents?
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  764. Familiarity breeds contempt.
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  765. Powered aircraft had taken to the air, but unlike that of the Wright brothers they only flew in graceful ballistic arcs without much in the way of directional control or thrust.
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  766. In summary - effective gun, but too heavy for easy manual movement and like all towed artillery vulnerable to counter battery fire and infantry assault.
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  767.  @Charlesputnam-bn9zy  a yway thanks for your information.
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  768.  @RogCBrand  then you'd have to extend the same protection to factory workers and farmers.
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  769. The margarine wasn't acting as the fuel for the fire but was the fuel for the fire.
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  770. That is simple English.
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  771. Did you see the Spanish vs Irish match this week? A real nail-biter.
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  772.  @MyMW3Channel  thanks that's the best laugh I've had this morning. They're empty until they're not. Museums aren't in the habit of leaving weapons loaded.
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  773. If wasn't for bad luck some people wouldn't have any luck at all.
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  774.  @allangibson8494  classifications like light, medium, and heavy and relative terms.
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  775.  @RT-qd8yl  why? We love heating non-native English speakers or Americans stuff it up.
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  776.  @RT-qd8yl  tough on them. If you want to talk about British place names you'd better get it right or be laughed at.
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  777. Another fine design of ship from Teesside.
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  778. ​ @adelaidesngan604  Dunkerque where around a third of those evacuated were French, you mean? Whilst at the same British troops were being landed west of the Somme. At what lead to Dunkerque? Why the French masterplan for beating the Germans, that's what.
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  779. The MV Summit Venture was a bulk cargo carrier not a barge.
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  780. Trump signed the deal that pulled the Americans out of Afghanistan. Biden was left holding the baby.
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  781.  @MikeTagg-kg1so  the very same, but from his role in the Navy Lark.
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  782.  @Aeronaut1975  the UK is part of the continent of Europe.
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  783.  @murderouskitten2577  except for the morale aspect of doing something. The Doolittle Raid did very little to Japan, but did have a noted effect on the US morale at a time when the news from the Pacific was almost all baby.
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  784.  @brucebaxter6923  check out the reports on Tay Bridge disaster on the Railway Archive. These are the figures given.
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  785.  @brucebaxter6923  doh, correction made
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  786. @ianbell5611  only those had not studied the works of Eratosthenes who in 254BC proved the Earth was a globe.
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  787.  @chaptermasterpedrokantor1623  a third of the total British deployment delivered to France in 3 weeks, and that was just the Army's contingent. And it used radios. Maybe nit as many as the Germans but certainly more than the French did. The only radio in Gamelin's was fine if you wanted to listen to the BBC or Radio Luxembourg. He had to issue orders over the civilian telephone system. The British Army in Europe may have been small, and it was certainly smaller than that which had sailed to France in 1914, but it was highly trained and reasonably armed. It was let down by the French command and control system and the crap plans drawn up by Gamelin.
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  788.  @robertcbarry  potentially doesn't mean that they would. It is equally potential that the interference of foreign governments in the inter al affairs of Germmany could have had the opposite effect.
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  789.  @robertcbarry  there's a big contraction in your last post. How could Chamberlain go against all advice if he was listening g to the people of Britain, who were primarily anti-war? I also don't believe that the conspirators had full control of the units they claimed. Just look at what happen on the Storozhevoy when its Commissar, Sablin, lead a mutiny and tried to sail the frigate to Sweden. Not all of the crew were on his side. One escaped and raised the alarm in the port before they sailed and several others freed the Captain whilst at sea. The Beer Hall Putsch failed after Ludendorf released von Kahr. Not that I'm saying such would have happened, but they could of happened.
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  790. Well, we do call the war a "little unpleasentness with [INSERT ENEMY NATIONALITY HERE]".
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  791. You mean Grape Street? Where Grape is a corruption of Grope.
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  792. To be pedantic it was the TBM-3W that carried the radar set.
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  793.  @jacobbocks4798 in the UK's Highway Code it states that when queuing use all the available road space and merge close to the point where the lanes merge. Number 2 is exactly what drivers in the UK are supposed to do. However, we also have the same empty heads who will congregate in the lane that will remain open instead of using all available road space causing unnecessary congestion. I'm surprised that the states don't have a similar rule.
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  794.  @Edmonton-of2ec  the Government in Dublin did as much to stop the Belfast Blitz and sent their firemen North to help. Do you hold the Swizz and Swedes in such contemp? What about the Americans making money from the conflict until 1941 and the passing of the Lend-Lease Act?
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  795. By the way Clifford's Tower was part if the new castle of York. The other one known as the old castle was across the Ouse.
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  796. We are close to nuclear fusion power stations. On a geological timescale.
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  797. Extra take-off power is available without exceeding the max engine rpms. You just need to reduce the power going to the tail rotor used to oppose the torque of the main rotor. The helicopter would then climb whilst gentle rotating. The speed of rotation depends on how much power you switch from the tail rotor to the main rotor. See the book Chickenhawk for more details.
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  798. Because precedent is case laws and must be taken into account. If precedent is ignored, then the dependent gets automatically gets grounds for an appeal.
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  799. Have you ever or would you ever, consider getting involved with TV commentary?
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  800. Nor did any of the non-white units of the British Empire other than the Gurkhas and the Indian Army. Will we see films highlighting their efforts or will they remain ignored?
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  801.  @mosquitocoast25  tell that to the Irish. Amongst other things the Corn Laws made the potato famine worse than it should have been. Catholics were forced onto the worst lands, land only suitable for potatoes.
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  802.  @mosquitocoast25  I must have been watching a different video as de Valera's condolences to the German people were mentioned. As for the Corn Laws by the time they were repealed much of the damage had already been done (repealed 1846 but not removed until 1849). We considered ourselves a civilised nation who had done much to stop the slave trade and slavery, but failed to prevent the needless deaths of thousands of the citizens of the United Kingdom because they were Catholics. If that's civilised I'd rather be a barbarian.
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  803.  @Twittler1  no she's too canny for that. Brian on the other hand might have gone political. My comment was aimed more at those who don't live within the Commonwealth.
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  804.  @mosquitocoast25  yes de Valera did damage his and his country's reputation a bit. As for the comparisons with the Nazis we will have to hold differing opinions, which ain't a bad thing. Have a good day.
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  805. The RNLI is primarily volunteers and is the only body that I know of that covers both the UK and Republic of Ireland.
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  806. There was a strategic bomber version that is even less well known than the fighter version of the Oxcart.
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  807. Seems strange as the uniforms had information about a units identity.
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  808. 16.5 nice helping out of an idiot. Well driven.
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  809.  @goatwarrior3570  Chamberlain as Chancellor and then Prime Minister oversaw the rebuilding of the RAF, Army and Navy in the run up to September 1939.
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  810. The Edinburgh-Hawick end of the Waverley route was always the busier section of the line.
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  811. In the UK an idiot called Winston, who was the Chancellor of the Exchequer, put us on the Gold Standard in the late 1920s at the rate we had been on before WW1. Thus rate was far too high and it damaged our economy, stagflation, and then along came the Great Depression.
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  812. 0.303 inch.
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  813.  @roadie3124  you haven't given any facts, you've only made assertions. Some of which Wikipedia already has stated have occurred.
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  814.  @ryanh2621  and which of them were comics?
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  815.  @jimtaylor294  the Wehrmacht can share the Tiger comic with the Royal Navy.
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  816.  @Claymore5  they'll have to share The Battle with the RAF, but they can have Chips with everything.
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  817. It's also affecting Tesco.
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  818. As was the Foctor Who serial "The Horror of Fang Rock".
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  819. He left around the end of 2018.
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  820.  @draculameme  not that old load of bollocks, look up Op Unthinkable and the American veto.
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  821. And the fiasco inbGreece almost cost us North Africa and that would have meant the loss of the oil fields in the Middle East.
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  822. Nigel should be speaking louder and not using subtitles.....😂
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  823. Number 2 - when passing a lay-by (UK term for such a parking area) you should always assume, unless you can see otherwise, that someone might be wanting to pull out and take your foot off the throttle. Whilst your insurance will find you not at fault in such a crash you avoided, you can avoid being without your own car for a period of weeks.
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  824. Sorry but no, milk bottles in the UK were of a similar shape to the P-47's fuselage until the 1980s.
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  825.  @Greensanctuary-c4w  I'm English by place of birth but have ancestry from all four parts of the UK plus Ireland and parts of mainland Europe (mainly What is now Germany and Denmark). Related to Border Reivers and a famous explorer who sailed around the Pacific to Australia and New Zealand before bring killed in Hawaii.
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  826.  @Greensanctuary-c4w  that's the British for you. Not so much an ancestor but on the family tree.
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  827. Higher temperature means more evaporation of water from the soil meaning less plant growth due to lack of water. And less absorption of carbon dioxide.
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  828.  @meadow-maker  if you want to be pedantic and patronising make sure you don't make mistakes - 20 shilling in the old Pound. And you sure that in old English we used the same counting system?
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  829.  @TheImperatorKnight  nobody needs to label you as a conspiracy theorist, you've already done it. As for economics, yes you don't know as much as you think, after all you think a plc and a state owned company are the same thing. In a plc the shares are traded publicly on a stock exchange and in a state owned business no shares are traded. Which means they are not the same. Yes a government can retain a share in a plc, like they did with the Royal Mail until quite recently. It's amazing that You Tube is so bothered by your comments they have taken no real action, after all they are a private business, a Limited Liability Corporation, and can legitimately silence you without infringing your freedom of speech. But they don't seem to have done this, although they did make it harder for people to see your video about the Greek famine in WW2 by not recommending it this is not censorship to all but thinnest of skinned conspiracy theorists. You Tube, is there to make money for its owners, Google, and films about famines or other disasters including wars are not money makers for them.
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  830. He said vertically, which teams the mortar bombs will drop back on to the mortar crew....
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  831.  @gwyneth7812  that's not how the justice system works in the UK. The judges preside over the cases before them and the juries give the verdict on that case not the judge. That decision is based on the evidence presented and is sometimes influenced by how the judge directs the jury before they go off to decide their verdict. All the defence has to do is put a little doubt into the minds of the jurors as the standard to be reached is beyond reasonable doubt (any doubts the jurors will have been directed to bring back a not guilty verdict, although in most cases a clear majority (typically 10 to 2 in favour of one verdict) verdict can be accepted). If you bring the judges in you'll have to bring in each juror and the barristers and lawyers and the inquiry will take forever.
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  832.  @somalilandrecognition5413  that's not who the legal system works. The JURY decided who is guilty and who is innocent NOT the judge. The judge is there to see that neither the prosecution nor the defence break the rules and to hand down the sentence or sentences to those found guilty. It is role of the defence to pull apart the case made by the prosecution and to put into the minds of the 12 jurors doubt about what the prosecution is saying.
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  833.  @TheImperatorKnight  performed well means that in the duties they been assigned they performed well. It does not necessarily mean that the unif has been fighting unless the report says that.
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  834.  @Tindometari  but how could they know which volcano would be have in which way? The study of volcanos was in its infancy.
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  835.  @ShubhamMishrabro  are for those who don't speek idiot?
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  836.  @benguest4834  so 2 wrongs make a right? Yes, the van was stopped in the wrong place but that doesn't make the cammer's actions any better. Have you never been lost in a strange city or part of the city you don't know well?
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  837. Feierabend = Beer o'clock.
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  838. @61rampy65  you must have a lovely head of air, with all the hair splitting you do. Using any manual tool is hand tightened. Using your fingers is also hand tightened. I'm not an authority, but do have experience. You just seem to have a mouth and no experience.
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  839. @61rampy65  thanks for confirming everything I said.
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  840. That was the British in the 1930s and lead to our development of radar.
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  841. The Tiger Moth also had transonic problems hence the leading adage sweep on its wings.... sorry that should read centre of gravity issues not transonic problems.
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  842. Or in American Army slang from Germany in a book by Harold Coyle: Mox nix!
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  843. The Great War channel has just done a film on this film and its historicity as part of their build up to their series on Nebula, Rhineland45. I've recommend their viewers to check out your review of this film and others.
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  844. The RN didn't open fire until they could smell the garlic. Guaranteed a hit every time.
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  845. So the name Hetzer is like the Sherman being called the Ronson. Ronson did use Sherman-like tanks in their wartime adverts, but there is no evidence to show that the soldiers used this term during the war. Ronson did use a similar tag line in one if their adverts in the late 1920s to their famous one from the 1950s aboutblughting up first time, every time.
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  846. Whilst there is a place in England called Effingham it is not where the Verity was bound, that was Immingham. Effingham is a small village close to Dorking in the county of Surrey. Immingham on the other hand us a large port on the southern side of the Humber estuary in Lincolnshire.
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  847. The pronunciation variations in English depends on when that word's pronunciation was standardised. This standardisation took place over a couple of centuries, which explains why there are 7 different ways to say "ough". Although this does raise a few hilarious situations like when someone goes to bed with a chest cough (where he ough is pronounced as ow).
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  848.  @mikhailiagacesa3406  Christopher Columbus certainly did.
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  849. The owner of that gun according to rumour doesn't like his brother, who runs the cafe across the road (the A17) at which the gun is said to be aimed.
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  850. Just think of all that technology America has developed from technology invented outside of America. Like all those jet engines based in the British Sapphire engine.
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  851. It only took the Americans just over 4 years to take action against the Communist government of Grenada. Was there an election coming up in America?
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  852.  @phillipnagle9651  yep. So what? If you can't backup an opinion it's not worth anything. I want to know uf you're able to back up your assertion or are you just a sad little troll? If the former then give us the supporting evidence. If not, then no one should listen to you.
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  853.  @BigBoomOfDoom2  the RN did use navalised versions of the Hurricane (the Sea Hurricane) and the Spitfire (the Seafire). But neither had structures that were robust enough for long term operation at sea.
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  854.  @phillipnagle9651  you are a joke. My second posting states which of your postings I am referring to - your initial posting. The situation in the Indian Ocean has no bearing on your initial posting nor dies ghe quality or lack thereof of the ships and planes. Unlike the others that are arguing that your opinion is wrong, I'm asking you to provide facts not opinions.
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  855.  @BigBoomOfDoom2  the Sea Hurricane came along too late in the life of the Hurricana and not much more erformance could be wrung out of the airframe. As for the Seafire it was a war expediency measure and was a crude modification of the Spitfire compared to a fresh design straight from the drawning board. But as you pointed out of the priority had always been for the land based models iv the Spitfire.
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  856. Patton was an idiot for giving such an order to kill those who surrender after fighting. The judgement in Compton's trial is correct given what you have said. He had a valid defence and the court accepted it, whilst West had murdered POWs. In general, crimes are only judged against the laws in place at the time of the offence.
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  857.  @emergencylowmaneuvering7350  gods you are a moron. The SAAB 21 was design in the late 1930s a short while after this Italian design. Whilst many early aircraft were indeed pushers, this does not make any difference to my initial musings. The Sopwith Triplane influenced Anthony Fokker to design his Dr.1 triplane. PLEASE NOTE I SAY INFLUENCED. The SAAB 21 has a passing similarity to this Italian design. There were several other designs that followed roughly the same design layouts, some like the SAAB 21 with a conventional tailplane and others like the Curtiss-Wright XP-55 with a canard configuration (and built to meet the needs of the USAAC's specification R-40C of November 1939). Really if you can't ubderstand that earlier designs influence later ones, you shouldn't ne allowed on YT without an adult to supervise you.
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  858. WRONG NUMBER 2. The wingspan was limited to prevent an aircraft becoming too large for a single pilot to control. The Tyle C hangar, already in use, had doors that could open to 120ft. This myth about the wingspan was debunked in the 1980s, but people still repeat it. You need better sources.
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  859. It's quite simple a vacuum is pressure less than standard air pressure with an absolute vacuum being zero pressure. Vacuum brakes as used on the railways in the UK worked created a vacuum of 21 inches of mercury (except on the GWR where their vacuum was 25 inches of mercury). An absolute vacuum is 30 inches of mercury below normal air pressure.
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  860. Number 14 only a idiot rides in someone's blind spot.
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  861. One of my Danish friends puts knobs of butter and sugar on her porridge.
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  862. Number 1 - what does "STOP" mean? Whilst the guy in your footage was in the wrong, it doesn't mean that you are any better.
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  863. It's not so much unknown but less well known.
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  864.  @dannygjk  but in English the phrase would be the undermining of the war effort, not the corruption of the war effort.
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  865. It wasn't Handley Page that had doubts about the RR Vulture but the Air Ministry. The Air Ministry asked HP to rework the HP.56 as a 4-engined bomber to produce the HP.57.
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  866. Can't wait to see this busted by another scientist.
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  867. Fireman Sam was created by 2 London Firemen and debuted on S4C (Welsh Language TV) on 1st November 1987 and on BBC1 on 17th November 1987.
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  868. What happened to the audio ag the xtart?
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  869.  @HistoryHustle  the audio from the live in Bratislava parts have a horrible garbled quality, a bit like listening to something underwater. At least the meat if the video is fine.
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  870. I hope you get around to cover T. Danforth Smith aka Dan The Plan (as Alan Hull named him in the song of the same name).
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  871. It's either The Beagle or HMS Beagle but never The HMS (His/Her Majesty's Ship) Beagle.
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  872.  @TheImperatorKnight  private ownership is EVERYTHING not owned by the state. You can't get that simple,e fact into your head. It doesn't matter if it is owned by a individual or share holders that is ALL the same, it is private ownership. Perhaps you should get with the programme. Your crappy video on what is public and private ownership is not acceptable evidence as it was wrong on so many levels.
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  873. The Sheriff missed him because he was white.
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  874. Which is what they did before Nationalisation.
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  875. Number 8 in such situations you should drive a bit slower and give yourself a bit more time to react.
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  876. @karlanthonymargate7362 I understand that it's a normal part of the deactivation process in the UK for museums (we don't want criminals getting their hands on such weapons).
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  877. @bryanmcdermott4204  you mean you treat every gun as if I was loaded, even when it is locked open on firing the last round. I have limited range time, and it's what I was told.
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  878. @gilgamecha  what? In assuming that all UK Health and Safety rules are being met? You do that whenever you enter any business place, even where firearms are not involved.
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  879.  @gilgamecha  and you worked that out all by yourself? And still got it wrong.
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  880.  @mikearmstrong8483  then those historians are doing piss poor research. The Wrights achieved so much and no one can deny them their successes.
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  881.  @mikearmstrong8483  have a good day.
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  882.  @searay7723  too damn right.
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  883. ​@jamesmccrea4871 i just hear Temz, so a slient h.
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  884. Got a source for that?
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  885.  @FirstDagger  thanks.
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  886. So, 2 of the 3 books are works of fiction.
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  887. The builders stated that every technique had been applied to make the Titanic virtually unsinkable. The press of the day ignored the virtually.
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  888. Err, no it doesn't. The Traffic Signs Manual shows that within 20mph zones repeater signs are not required.
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  889. If you rely on luck for the outcome of any event then all you'll get us bad luck.
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  890. The First World War was really the Seven Years' War.
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  891. Had the F-107 be selected then the North Vietnamese forces would have a field day shooting them down with such a hugh reward blind spot.
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  892. You're over a 100 years too early. Come back in 1707.
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  893.  @maciekmateo8533  possibly that they don't like the click-baity title. Katyn isn't as forgotten as King Louis of England.
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  894. Sometimes. But aren't we all.
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  895. The only difference between the Glasgow-Edinburgh Push-Pull services and the auto-trains used your GWR is the technology used to control the train.
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  896. Something positive about the Botha for you: the Botha made the Battle look good.
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  897. @jamest2401  I was thinking more on the lines of Spike Milligan's "Case of the Vanishing Room" but on a much grander scale.
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  898. But the baseline standard for cars is much higher now. How many cars now come with AC as standard compared to 1984? How many cars had ABS or any other of the safety systems we take for granted today. Now, which car is actually cheaper? Also you've done the classic error of not comparing the relative cost against average earnings.
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  899. ​ @OptimusPrinceps_Augustus not strange at all if you bother to read the text of the agreement between Poland on one side and France and the UK on the other only applies to a German invasion. It did not apply to the Soviet Union's invasion. In the same way American airmen who landed in the Soviet Union after bombing Japan had to be interred as the Soviet Union was neutral in that conflict until August 1945.
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  900.  @OptimusPrinceps_Augustus  their excuse was that, the part of Poland get topm was in their sphere of influence. No further excuse needed.
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  901.  @stevek8829  whilst at the same time killing more Germans than all others fighting them. Then the was the little matter of a peace treaty between the Soviet Union and Japan that Stalin couldn't afford to break until the Germans had been dealt with (he didn't have the generals to fight to wars at once, plus Roosevelt's begging for the Soviets to enter the war against Japan.
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  902.  @stevek8829  LMAO. Hitler would have taken all of Poland in 1939 if the Soviets hadn't taken the eastern half. The Soviets had already fought the Japanese and found them hard to beat and had signed a peace treaty with them, expecting a war with Germany and not wanting a 2 front war.
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  903.  @stevek8829  would they? They didn't stop when it came to the Rhineland, Austria or Czechoslovakia did they? Hitler knew the French were all talk and threat and that the British were the junior partners in the alliance. As for the Winter War, that was also part of the secret portion of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact as Finland was part of the Soviet sphere of influence along with the Baltic states. Both Stalin and Hitler were opportunists, but Stalin never fully trusted Hitler. But, there again he never really trusted anyone.
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  904.  @stevek8829  both of the first 2 were in breach of the Versailles Treaty. The Sudetenland was not part of Germany but had been part of the Austro-Hungarian empire.
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  905.  @stevek8829  and yet the inaction of the French, British, Belgians and the League of Nations over the Re-occupation of the Rhineland served to encourage Hitler. And were they Germans or just German-speakers? Or should the English be demanding Edinburgh back, after all it was named for a King if Northumbrua?
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  906. And yet plants when given too much CO2 stop absorbing it. The Aussies gave doing research on this and recently presented the result of their findings.
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  907. Not quite it was hit during a torpedo run.
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  908.  @dfmrcv862  and propaganda doesn't have to be false.
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  909.  @romansternberg5696  that's correct, but it doesn't make it right that you sit a bunch of kids down and give them tbe unexpurgated facts either. It won't help then to understand the evil that men do or to contextualise the evils of, in this case, the nazi regime. Can you get your head around the death of everyone in a city the size of London (about 8.9 million people)? Could a child with no conception of death do that? Because that's what you're going to be doing. The Holocaust and all the other atrocities heed yo ve taught in the same way you eat an elephant.
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  910.  @dfmrcv862  so you agree with censorship then. Hypocrite!
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  911.  @dfmrcv862  there are many forms of censorship but you're not thinking. You've heard the word censorship and had a Pavlovian reaction to it, instead of thinking about what it means. One form is the gradual introduction of a topic in easily understandable chunks. You censor out the harder bits until your audience is csoanke of understanding them, which to use an analogy is why you don't get classes in quantum physics in a primary school. THIS IS CENSORDHIP IN ACTION ON A DAILY BASIS. Would you let a class of kids watch potm? No, me neuther then we've just practiced censorship.
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  912.  @dfmrcv862  wrong, that is still censorship as you are suppressing knowledge of a sensitive event in history.
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  913.  @leadpoisoning717  no, the burden of proof would, and still does, lie with the claimant. The Charity Commission had no option but to take the actions they took as the law, as it stood, prevented them for acting any differently. False claims are still a problem, a weeks back someone was jailed for falsely claiming to have been a victim if the Grenfell Tower fire. This means genuine victims lost money and the taxpayer had had to spend money on an investigation, trial and detention that could have been prevented with a little checking prior to handing over the money. The Charity Commission is damn if it does and damn if it doesn't.
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  914.  @AG-hn4ng  it was too cruel and strict, and that was the problem. Today things are better, but as far as I understand things but by not much.
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  915.  @Hartley_Hare  just because I can make the split between emotional responses and empathetic responses doesn't make me a bad person. It just means I can see the wood for the trees.
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  916. You can see that in the text of the specification (P13/36) that most maintenancecwas to be carried out outside. Also the Type C hangar could open up to 120ft.
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  917. @tabularasa0606  so the inventor shouldn't profit off their invention? An invention that might have taken many thousands of hours to develop. Grow up.
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  918. Pigs are also omnivores. I've come across accounts of medieval pigs eating people, some of whom were alive at the time.
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  919.  @SkyLightsUFOs  the one titled ORB Lights are aircraft with FAA required strobe lights on. The rest will be aircaft, weather balloons or flying animals.
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  920. channel  also it was filmed in the IR part of the spectrum so all you see are the hotter parts. The wings, with little muscle, will be colder than the flight muscles with are going the majority of the work. Not an alien encounter just birds.
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  921.  @SkyLightsUFOs  it so clear that you should get your eyes tested before even riding a bike let alone flying a plane. The stones are so clear that it's laughable that someone who is a pilot couldn't see them.
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  922. We also called hedgehogs urchins. The sea urchin was named after the urchin.
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  923. It throws the nastier side of Hitler into stark relief. The more normality his behaviour the worse the atrocities he inspired become. It makes us realise just how good and bad everyone can be.
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  924. I wondered how they worked out it was Chinese.
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  925.  @zsoltontube  me too. I lived there for a while.
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  926. Bethlehem Hospital was an asylum for the mentaly ill, an appropriate location for a museum covering the madness of war.
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  927. Sorry, but I've doubts about the veracity of this tale of the actions involving the British 11th Tank [sic] Divison. The British 11th Armoured Division was in Schlesvig-Holstein as the forces of occupation for that part of Germany, where it was disbanded by January 1946 (some sources say November 1945). There is no evidence that they ever operated in Austria. The author is probably confusing the American 11th Armoured Division that was disbanded at Gmunden, Austria, in August 1945. However I can't find any evidence that they were involved at Lienz.
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  928. The Anglo-French agreement from before WW2 stated that neither country could seek an individual peace with Germany. You could say that French betrayed the British.
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  929. Starship will get to the Moon in 2024, in the Islamic calendar that's over 500 years away.
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  930.  @ВячеславФролов-д7я  thanks.
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  931.  @Maritimesgestein  the Washington Treaty had an effect as well, but not so much in Europe.
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  932. Number 15 - poor lane discipline. Get over to the 1st lane before you reach your junction, otherwise we'll watching you in a video entitled: "Bad drivers never miss there exit".
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  933. That all depends on how long the fire lasts. A pint of petrol burns too quickly to be effective. When the bottle breaks the petrol gets spread in a fine thin flaming layer reducing its effectiveness.
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  934. From your pronunciation of Nene you are in the Downstream of Oundle camp. Hopeful the Upstream of Oundle camp won't get too upset.
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  935. Yes it us the height of irony and even more so the man that led us was Churchill.
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  936. The Infantry Tank Mbk2 was also called the Matilda. There is no evidence to support any of the possible source of the name Matilda. It could quite easily have been named after the Empress Matilda, the granddaughter of William the Conqueror. The 88mm Flak gun was provided with anti-tank rounds in order to deal with pill boxes.
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  937. Yes, but the Crnturybseries fighters were part of a fully integrated air defenses system that the Lightning lacked. The RAF relied on the pilots judging the point to turn to get behind the target bomber for the early missiles to get a lock on , which at supersonic speeds they tended to get wrong and be too far behind to be of much use.
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  938. Bad news, there was no caller, and there wasn't a hurricane. It was a bomb cyclone, where two low pressures combine, and the air pressure drops like a bomb. These do cause hurricane strength winds. But what was worse was that a reporting station sent in inaccurate data.this wasn't picked up until after the last TV weather forecasr had gone out.
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  939. In the confusion after the bombing of Rotterdam the Dutch legation in Paris initially said 100,000 people had been killed, whilst a little while later their legation in New York said 30,000. Such is the fog of war. 2 groups of bombers carried out the bombing of Rotterdam. There were 54 coming in from the north-east and 36 coming in from the south. The smaller group, coming in over the front lines saw the signal flares calling off the attack, but the other group did not and dropped their bombs with devastating accuracy. By the time of the attack run the German aircraft would have already reeled in their trailing aerials and were no longer contactable by radio.
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  940.  @wbertie2604  although a few brigands ended up with a stately pile of their own.
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  941.  @kellybustell769  he didn't say that.
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  942. They reinvented the Cierva W.11 Air Horse which first flew on 7th December 1948.
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  943.  @makantahi3731  none, but they were bench testing one - the Germans had the DB670 and the British had the F.3.
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  944. You never mention the one thing that links the Navy and the tank - the chassis is referred to as the hull.
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  945. There used to be many volunteer fire brigades in the UK but today they are rare. The only one I know of in a major urban area is in Peterborough and was formed in 1884. Today it functions as a retained fire station supporting to the 2 whole-tine fire stations in the city as part of the Peterborough and Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service. Although unlike the retained firefighters who get paid when training or on duty the volunteers don't get paid.
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  946. The RAF still has 2 DHC Chipmunks in service (WG486 and WK518).
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  947. In reality Rommel's Treasure was buried above ground at Wadi El Yauant.
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  948. Admiral William Hotham not Hoffman.
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  949. Except maritime containers, as carried by the railways, are heavier than those needed for aircraft and have the aerodynamics of a brick. OK, if we use aerodynamic pods we'll end up wasting space on the train. Plus you'd need to straddle vehicles that stand over a 1m tall at their highest points (based on UK container wagons) design to carry standard 40' maritime containers. You can do this for freight but not for passengers due to crash worthiness standards.
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  950. She was only a roadmender's daughter, but she knew how she liked her asphalt.
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  951. The Getman artillery was just as bad in WW1 as WW2. They missed him then as well.
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  952. This channel is well known for its poor standard of research.
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  953. He also refused to enter into negotiations with an officer junior to himself. The RN officer sent to negotiate was IIRC a Commander who was the highest ranking officer who was fluent in French within the flotilla of ships. Darlan's "arrogance" led to the deaths of many brave French sailors.
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  954. Badly written or understood orders have happened in every war.
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  955. Except the first English invasion of Ireland was at the invitation of a deposed Irish king in order to get his throne back.
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  956.  @PalleRasmussen  the fighters would be the long range maritime aircraft patrolling the seas off western France dealing with the German U-Boats. These would be the Beaufighters and Mosquitos, but they would have to spot the Me-264s visually. The Germans would have had to take Iceland off the Americans first to land there.
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  957.  @PalleRasmussen  yes, it would have been too little, too late. Unless they had used weapons of mass destruction like one of the early nerve agents they had developed (they had created Sarin in 1938 and had tested it as a weapon in 1939, by the end of WW2 they had between 500kg and 10,000kg of the stuff, they also ended the war with 12,000 tonnes of tabun plus some soman) or a radiological bomb (a bomb that used conventional explosives to spread a radioactive material and not one like used on Hiroshima or Nagasaki).
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  958.  @PalleRasmussen  but at that time we didn't have nerve agents, unlike the Germans. Both the Iraqis and the Iranians had WMDs and used them on each other during their war at the height of the Cold War. The Americans stockpiling gas in North Africa in WW2 brought stocks of German poison gas to Italy until someone realised the Americans were stockpiling gasoline. It's that easy to escalate an issues until someone make a mistake, such as portrayed in the film The Bedford Incident.
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  959.  @brettcoster4781  got a source for that?
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  960.  @brettcoster4781  thanks. I already knew the story of the discovery of sarin.
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  961. It's amazing just how incompetent governments can keep aircraft like this secret....
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  962.  @Boppy-B-B  really? The biggest devaluation of the Pound (14%) was caused by systemic weakness of the British economy cause by government policy (encouraging overmanning even in private industry to keep unemployment low), failure of business owners to invest in new equipment and methods and Union resistance to change. November 1964 we had a trade deficit of a mere £800 million (the markets had expected a deficit of £400 million) coupled with a everything is fine budget and falling productivity cause 3 years of financial crises which cost us all of our foreign currency reserves and almost all of our bullion reserves.
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  963. The H2S radomes were located aft of the bomb bay in place on the ventral turrets on the British heavy bombers. Not in the nose.
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  964. It wasn't just the western Allies but the Swedes as well.
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  965. Sounds like some people don't understand what was meant by "give me freedom or give me death".
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  966. Somebody has to say it. To lose 1 bow can be seen as unfortunate, but to lose 2 is careless.
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  967. Except what is a pencil chest apart from a large box for putting pencils in? He meant pigeon chested.
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  968. Wasn't that a British tail turret with 4 .303" machine guns instead of a B-24 turret with 2 .50" guns?
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  969. Don't forget truth is beauty and therefore something that is beautifully written must be true.
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  970. ​ @camenbert5837 well he was Welsh.
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  971.  @grahamstrouse1165  10 arrows per minute was the expected rate for an English archer, which equates to 600 an hour. And I've seen archers like Kevin Hicks do almost 15 in a minute. I just rounded things up to be consistent.
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  972. And the Boer Wars.
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  973.  @maximkretsch7134  which happened after Rotterdamn. Moenchengladbach killed 4 on the ground and 1 of them was British.
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  974.  @maximkretsch7134  and normal bomber crews weren't trained over many months prior to their first operational flights? At the same time meteorologists were just starting to learn about the jet stream, which didn't help with navigation or bomb accuracy.
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  975. @johnt.848  is that the US rule? Because Rule 168 of the Highway Code says the opposite.168 Being overtaken. If a driver is trying to overtake you, maintain a steady course and speed, slowing down if necessary to let the vehicle pass. Never obstruct drivers who wish to pass. Speeding up or driving unpredictably while someone is overtaking you is dangerous. Drop back to maintain a two-second gap if someone overtakes and pulls into the gap in front of you.
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  976. He was supposed to say bomber destroyer.
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  977.  @typxxilps  or better still reinforce the Afrika Corp and take the Suez Canal and the Persian oil fields.
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  978.  @tdoran616  or Cleveland Bays.
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  979.  @amh9494  depends on the weight of the wagon.
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  980.  @amh9494  not really, it's what these horses were bread for, shifting heavy loads.
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  981. What does anyone know of the part Denmark or any of the other smaller nations played in WW2? More people will know what contribution the Canadians played than what the Danes did.
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  982. I'm not worried about longtermism as the shorttermist ars also to be found in Oxford as that is were our PMs come from...
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  983. It's not keen on names containing the word "Titan". Both the Titan and Titanic sank.
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  984. The closest I'm aware of is the use of the Type 42 destroyer by both sides in the Falklands War. The Argentinian Navy had the ARA Santisima Trinidad and the ARA Hércles, whilst the Royal Navy had HMS Cardiff, HMS Glasgow, HMS Exeter, HMS Sheffield and HMS Coventry. But they didn't face off against each other.
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  985.  @gregsutton6258  that's not 100% true as the Air Ministry since 1938 had been looking for aircraft designs that used non-strategic materials such as wood and steel. They rejected the idea of speed as a defence as they assumed fighters would eventually match and then exceed the Mosquito's speed advantage. One result of this search was the less than successful Albermarle.
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  986. Photosynthesis in green plants only happens during the daytime and in the UK between April and October. At night and during the rest of the year, a green plant actually produces carbon dioxide as they respire, which they also do whiost photosynthesising. This means that whilst they do sequester carbon, that mainly happens only when they are photosynthesising.
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  987. Macnamara simply counted the common parts and took no notice of Boeing's plan to use programmable tooling to manufacture parts for the USAF and USN planes to the standards required by each service instead of building parts that met the standards of the service that required the greater strength.
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  988. Both sides in WW2 had UFOs for short periods until they became identified.
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  989.  @somethingmoredecent  where does the Tank Mark 1 of WW1 fit into your narrow definition?
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  990. Are we certain that it was a category 2 hurricane and not a bomb cyclone driven along by the jet stream? The strength of the wind can't be the sole classification used.
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  991. The Germans of 1940 didn't know what blitzkrieg was.
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  992.  @HistoryHustle  the term blitzkrieg was invented by an American journalist working for Time magazine. Hitler is said to have called it a stupid phrase. The Germans were using manouevre warfare combining land and air elements as was used in a limited way by the British Army in late WW1. The German Army in 1940 was built for short wars like they got in 1940 in western Europe. So to the Germans a blitzkrieg only referred to any war that was over quickly.
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  993. Can we have negative IQ's? But considering some of the people who have been elected, people well known to be dodgy Trump and Johnson spring to my mind, perhaps we need an IQ test to vote as well.
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  994.  @TheImperatorKnight  so not a scientific source but an economics institute. Is that the best you've got? Stick to history, you're good at that. 3 minutes in and he's already failed to understand just what the Nightingale/field hospitals were for. It doesn't matter that they were not used for the envisioned figures. They were insurance against the fixed hospitals being overwhelmed. I pay a significant sum for insurance and only rarely do I need to make use of it, and when I do I'm glad that I have insurance.
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  995.  @billwilson-es5yn  I knew of gas warning panels,but that the star was one of them. Thanks.
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  996. Number 21 - you could have used your brakes and turned it into a non-event.
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  997. Will that be the Winston who further ruined Anglo-Irish relations by employing the Bkack and Tans?
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  998. Just ignore the flowerpots to either side of his business and the advertising hoarding in front of the 5G boxes.
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  999. Private Eye took up the baton and has run with it since Computer Weekly published their article.
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  1000. @jetdriver  yes, it does hold up. And your response is irrational as saying the Swedish S-Tank isn't a tank becit doesn't have a turret whilst accepting that the Tank Mark 1 is a tank that doesn't have a turret.
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  1001. @jetdriver  but as Drach has pointed out some nation's had battleships that others would consider battlecruisers and vice versa. Therefore, you can consider these ships asboth battlecruisers and battleships.
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  1002. The big question is why if the Schlieffen Plan called for the Netherlands to be invaded on the way around the French border forts did they drop this part from their invasion of 1914?
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  1003. But which bits of history would we need to remove from the syllabus?
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  1004.  @FirstDagger  applying Ockham's Razor, the Aurora codename for the finances of the B-2 is a better fit than an aircraft that no one has seen if photographed in the 40 or so years it has been in existence.
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  1005.  @peterparker9286  and yet no one has any pictures of it in the 30 odd years it's been in existence.
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  1006.  @Beanyurza  or to be more succinct - every right comes with responsibilities.
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  1007.  @FilosophicalPharmer  fact checker - according g to the American Knife and Tool Institute switchblade knives are not banned by Federal Law but are banned or restricted by the laws of some states. The only law dealing with such knives is ghe 1958 Federal Switchblade Act which regulates their manufacture and prohibits the importation and interstate commerce in such knives. There are also laws governing the sale and movement of guns. There's the Gun Control Act of 1968 prohibiting the interstate transfer of guns except by licensed manufacturers, dealers and importers. The 1986 Firearms Owners Protection Act prohibited the sale of automatic weapons manufactured after the date this law was passed. It also amended or repealed parts of the 1968 Act.
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  1008. None that's a Stinking Willie he's removing.
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  1009. Or perhaps they just don't understand satire.
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  1010.  @garethbaus5471  but until the fossil fuels are phased out, the question remains why is the efficiency of the production of hydrogen taken into account when for all other fuel sources the efficiency of the fuel production ignored? We don't bother with the efficiency of the production and distribution of petrol do we? So, why do we do do for hydrogen?
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  1011. They never did.
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  1012. ​@Farweasel that person shouldn't be driving unsupervised.
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  1013. But can be taken into account if a driver is involved ed in an accident where speed is an issue as evidence of lack of attention.
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  1014. The problem with the Millennium Brigde was it design by an architect and not an engineer.
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  1015. J is only the manufacturer code used by the US Navy. The USAAF just used NA when needed.
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  1016. Please look at what Brian Clough said about football.
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  1017.  @Simon_Nonymous  the sector that Churchill's unit was posted to was near Ploegsteert. On 16/2/1916 his temporary HA was shelled whilst he was eating breakfast as recorded in a letter to his wife. On another occasion it is recorded that a shell fragment hit the battery case of a lamp he was holding.
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  1018. There wasn't a Sheriff if Nottingham until 1449. Until then they were the Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and the Royal Forests. Henry de Facemberg was both the Sheriff of Yorkshire 1323 to 1327 and Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and the Royal Forests in 1318, 1323 and 1329. This could be one of the reasons why Ribin Hood is linked to Yorkshire.
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  1019.  @asbjo  only if you return everything your ancestors stole first.
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  1020. Other version is "never argue with a half-way as witnesses won't be able to tell the difference".
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  1021. Or, more likely, there is too much history and lots of history is therefore left to be forgotten by those outside of the nation an event occurred in.
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  1022.  @Bartonovich52  these 2 sentences don't make sense. Fans blades are set at an angle and the upper aerodynamic surface faces the oncoming air. The chicken is more likely to hit that surface than the leading edge. The hyfil fan blade was designed the withstand impacts on the leading edge, but could take impacts on the broad upper surface. From what I remember the hyfil blades had a beefed up leading edge, butbthe u bidirectional fibres at the root were the cause of the failure of the struck blade(s). The story I'm thinking off is the one were the sales rep from RR hit the conference table that Joe Sutter and buried the the leading edge of the hyfil blade about an inch into the wood to show its strength.
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  1023. I read years ago that some members of the IRA took up arms against the Germans and fought for the British as they were opposed to oppressive regimes such as the Nazis. The Irish Free State was one of the parts of the Empire that was given autonomy within the Empire in regards to declarations of wars. They were the only ones to choose not to go to war against the Nazis.
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  1024.  @Bob_Betker forgive my idle musings, I don't expect an answer to every question that I have in life, after all therexare more questions than answers.
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  1025. Cierva Air Horse copy.
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  1026. Spitfire 1A X4009 was the 945th Spitfire built and first flew on 24/7/1940 and went to 37 Maintenance Unit on 28/7/1940. It was allocated to 2434 Squadron on 19/8/1940. On 7/9/1940 it was shot down by a Bf-109 over south-east London and its pilot Flight Lieutenant Hughes was sadly killed. X4009 was struck of charge by the RAF on 30/9/1940.
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  1027. The Farquhar Hill was cancelled in 1919 before a single one had been made because the Germans surrendered prior to a production facility has been allocated. There was nothing intrinsically wrong with the FH compared to the standard rifle, we had sufficient as to not need a new rifle at that time.
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  1028.  @1chish  that's your definition. So far, and before asking the question, both bombs using fission and fusion have been described as nuclear bombs as well as atomic bombs. Weapons whose explosive output is exclusively from fission reactions are commonly referred to as atomic bombs or atom bombs. This has long been noted as something of a misnomer, as their energy comes from the nucleus of the atom, just as it does with fusion weapons.
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  1029.  @1chish  all of the bombs you've described can be described as atomic or nuclear your hairsplitting is unscientific. I'll stick with the definition used by the Los Alamos National Laboratory. As they put it the power for WW2's atom bombs came from the splitting of the heavy nuclei into smaller units, but as that action takes place in the nucleus of the atoms involved it's, in their words , more accurate to call these atomic bombs nuclear bombs. What's your source?
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  1030.  @1chish  PS the experts also say a hydrogen bomb is a more advanced version of an atomic bomb.
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  1031.  @sandervanderkammen9230  the F86E had a stabilator, the the F86A used an adjustable stabiliser with an elevator. Missed agained.
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  1032.  @sandervanderkammen9230  pathetic? Just because you can't accept the truth.
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  1033. A nightmare is still a dream.
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  1034. There was last Specification F.11/37 which called for a twin-engine turrent fighter which was to have 20mm cannons in the turret. Fortunately no e gotbeyong the model stage.
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  1035. A barrel role is a 1G manoeuvre. The Boeing Dash-80 did one without any problems. However the G loading in a Cu-Nim cloud would be much higher (both sustained and instantaneous) than the Lancaster's airframe could take (both in the positive and negative loadings) and thus the airframe needed a thorough examination. A similar thing happened to one of the Sea Harriers in the Falklands War.
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  1036. One thing you haven't mentioned is that Louis, Henry II's grandson in law was going against the Pope. John was the Pope's vassal. And England a vassal state. Meaning he face excommunication. His father, Philip, also opposed this action.
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  1037. Apart from all the errors such as ignoring the TBM-3W AEW aircraft introduce to the war in the Pacific in May 1945 on the USS Enterprise.
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  1038. You mean 4 score and 7? Snd that is good English.
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  1039. What about analogue computers? (Posted at the 2:00 mark).
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  1040. All hail the malgorithm.
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  1041. It was also one of nails in the coffin for feudalism in England and led to England's version of the Highland Clearances with a shift to increased sheep farming in many areas.
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  1042. The Lightning had one skill - high speed. The rest was little better than the Spitfire of the Battle of Britain. The TSR2 was also not as good as you think.
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  1043. Design limits often have a safety margin to the level that will destroy the object. However, it's never a good idea to regularly exceed the design limits, especially for a long period, as ut reduces the fatigue life significantly.
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  1044.  @jtgd  there's no technically about it. At the time they were the modern times.
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  1045. Number 18 was your speed as safe speed? You've just gad one car cross in front of you, you should have expected there might be more of them and lifted off the loud pedal.
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  1046.  @TheArklyte  it already has as the JGM-52 Lance tactical ballistic missile in service between 1972 and 1992.
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  1047. Number 14 turn signals don't mean it is safe to move, they just indicate that you wish to move in the direction indicated. The fault for that accident lies with you.
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  1048. Robin Hood - the those landing craft. The biggest historical anomaly that our presenter fails to notice.
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  1049. Göring was forced to claim that Stalingrad could be support from the air. One of his deputies, Jeschonnek, has made this claim at a meeting Göring had not been sell enough to attend. I think it is a pity poor show when a historian make statements that are knowingly false.
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  1050. In English law you don't need to wait to defend yourself provided you have a reasonable belief that you or another are about to be attacked.
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  1051. We have the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. But it only deals with those killed in WW1, WW2 and subsequent wars.
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  1052. You missed the reason why they used O-rings in the SRBs. Instead of having them built at the launch site they had to bring them in in pieces and have them put together on site, hence the need for the O-rings. This was due to the way the USA government hands out contracts with each politician wanting some of their voters to have a chance to work on government projects.
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  1053.  @jeebus6263  they can hit it again and remove the downvote. That excuse doesn't wash.
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  1054. Talks about WW2 and uses images from WW1.
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  1055.  @oldgreybeard2507  this is the legend, how true it is I can't say.
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  1056.  @SuperStandin  interesting. It's a phrase that is dying out.
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  1057. Ideological reasons got cigarettes banned from TV long before other tobacco products. If it had been for health reasons then they would gave banned all tobacco products at the same time. No difference here.
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  1058.  @roybaker6902  that'll be pre-embargo Oldsmobile fenders won't it?
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  1059. There is a crane in the painting of the battle (shown around the 12-minute mark). This crane still exists in Copenhagen's harbour alongside a more modern preserved warship.
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  1060. Stupid is as stupid does.
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  1061. Because the B-17 could lift a much higher payload but with range or altitude penalties. The B-17 could lift 8000lb of bombs externally in addition to a full bomb bay. A feat that the Mosquito couldn't do.
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  1062.  @arthurrytis6010  err, the number of aircraft would be the same.
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  1063. The Nazi's may have worked the advantages of the variable geometry wing for high speed flight. BUT the first aircraft to use variable sweep was the Westland-Hill Pterodactyl IV of 1931, which could vary the wing sweep in flight. OK it only moved a few degrees to control, longitudinal trim on this tailless aircraft. This tailless aircraft flew 2 years before the Horten brothers "invented" the flying wing....
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  1064.  @mal2ksc  interesting but delta in the maths of science and engineering means a change in a quantity.
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  1065.  @Krolmir96  wrong. The treaty between France and Britain, and Poland only named Germang as the aggressor they would go to war on Poland's behalf.
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  1066.  @huntermad5668  The use of HESH rounds.
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  1067.  @huntermad5668  HESH has other uses other than for taking out other tanks, such as fortifications.
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  1068.  @huntermad5668  and yet HESH isn't the only round fired by the Challenger 2 tank. It also fires APFSDS rounds, with which the Challenger 1 scored the longest distance tank kill. Also you're forgetting one thing. The British Army had a large stockpile of HESH rounds. You might as well have a gun that can make use of them and once they're gone we won't buy any more.
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  1069. If you'd published this on any other day....
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  1070. Sounds like a bit of mythbusting, similar to the myth that the wingspan of the RAF's 4-engined bombers was limited to 100ft due to the hangars doors (it wasn't).
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  1071. ​ @EinBaierImHimmel no blockading ports was a legal tactic as set out by the Hague Conventions on Naval Warfare, although these rules did not take into account airpower as when they were written and agreed to airpower was just a pipe dream.
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  1072. Mostly it was to honour the country that delivered them to use. The FAA tended to use bird names for their fighters, hence Martlet which is an archaic name for the House Martin.
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  1073.  @RogCBrand  thank you for your efforts.
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  1074. Funny how things change. When Gerald Ratner said the product his companies sold was utter crap almost overnight his company tanked as everyone believed him. When Elon Musk says something similar no one believes him and his companies linked on.
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  1075.  @WilhelmKarsten  well, I would if the Messerschmitt archives didn't show straight-winged designs for the 262 or was it was then known the P.1065. You can find line drawings of 2 P.1065 configurations in Luftwaffe Secret Projects - Fighters 1939-1945 by Walter Schick and Ingolf Meyer. The only lies being published are by you.
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  1076. How come the soldiers using these rounds never complained about this so called flaw during either World War? I don't believe that no one would have mentioned it, which leads to the conclusion that this issue is caused by people not understanding how to handle such rounds and that the soldiers who used these rifles were trained on how to use them properly.
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  1077. Total bans are always counterproductive.
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  1078. And yet TIK doesn't understand what public ownership actually is.
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  1079. And what happened to Italy once the Allies invaded? It surrendered and made supplying the CBI theatre easier by sending g the shipping through the Mediterranean. The shorter route was the equivalent of a few hundred ships fewer being required.
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  1080. You can still find fire insurance badges on buildings in the UK. There's one near me in Longthorpe, Peterborogh. At the time Longthorpe was a small village on the road from Peterborough to Leicester, about 2 miles from Peterborough. Peterborough also has one of the very few volunteer fire brigades in the UK, and as far as I know the only urban one.
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  1081. Try googling Operation Osoaviakhim.
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  1082. Too many errors in regard to the torpedo attack.
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  1083.  @garthcox4307  and what was the average for the period?
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  1084. @Aquamarie333  so, we should all be silenced?
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  1085.  @2ndTimPlayground  it's not working in Israel is it? All it causes it revenge attacks. The occupation of the Ruhr by the French and Belgians when Germany defaulted on its reparation payments bred more resentment of France than anything useful.
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  1086. @Tian Wong 500 years earlier we had just concluded the Hundred Years War against France, which had 2 main aims to restore the Angevin Empire and to allow the grandson of Philip IV (and his descendants) to hold the crown of France. In this we had the support, for a while, of the biggest power block in Europe at the time the Holy Roman Empire, whilst France was officially only a small territory surrounding Paris. The real power of the French Kings was the vassalage of the local Lords, some of whom were also vassal of the English Kings at the same time.
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  1087. But who? The person who composed the original text? Any person's who edited it? Or their manager who cleared it?
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  1088. Ethics, that'th the county to the north-eatht of London.
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  1089. At least the windows survived...
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  1090. Number 13 - were you driving just in front of the truck in the middle lane of had it caught up to you? If the former then you need to stop driving in the blind spits of other vehicles fir your own safety. If the latter then the trucker needs to pay more attention
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  1091. Can't be. It works everytime.
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  1092. ​ greglinski2208 you don't even know what cushty means. It means very good or pleasing. The job of the ambulance crews in the 1960s was just what you saw here the movement of patients to hospital from the accident site administering first aid if required. Paramedics come in much later.
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  1093.  greglinski2208  wrong generation, but thanks for taking part. Your sign will be dispatched shortly
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  1094.  greglinski2208  he who starts with insults has already lost the argument.
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  1095. Whilst Article 2 does say that POWs should be treated humanely, Article 45 says they are subject to the same military law and regulations as the capturing power's military and Article 46 says that can face the same justice processes as the soldiers of the capturing power for breaches of these laws and regulations. The "rioters"should have faced a court martial and if found guilty the same punishment as a British soldier found guilty of the same offence. Those killed whilst attempting to regain control are a different matter.
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  1096.  @RealEngineering  it's brakes not breaks.
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  1097. The Blue Circle radar meet all of its design requirements from day one unlike many defence programmes.
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  1098. 16.3 we're changing your tag to Cupid Stunt for that incident. You held up other road users with that, Stunt.
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  1099. It doesn't mean what you think. Cultural tradition and genetic heritage are badly named but are there to show that having a team that is from many backgrounds will give a better decision making process.
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  1100. But can he do Milngavie?
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  1101. In the early days we used both railways and railroads.
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  1102. ​ @wbertie2604  you can tell Svdk, but you cannot tell him much.
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  1103. Spain couldn't afford to join the Axis as the British and Americans were supporting their economy. The Americans were supplying nearly all if Spain's petrol.
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  1104. In response to the first clip - only one cop car with 4 lanes to deal with and we have no idea when the incident occurred. Drivers should be driving at speeds that they can stop within the distance they can see.
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  1105.  @LUAu101  I stand corrected.
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  1106. So, what you are basically saying is the military intelligence isn't so much as bad but very difficult to do accurately.
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  1107.  @migueldelacruz4799  this rule should had been ingrained in pilots by the 1950s but still isn't.
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  1108. That's only half the quote. It should end "people with temperature guns".
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  1109. @coconutsmarties  the military operates under a similar but different set of flight rules to civil flying. They are allowed to do things that civilians can't - like fly fast at low level (down as low as 250ft AGL in the UK away from towns with a population of 10,000 or more). Such flights are often below the tops of even modestly tall hills and often in the remoter parts of the UK like the Highlands of Scotland. Does this mean that these flights are dangerous? It wasn't the height that was the problem but the lack of proper charts, which caused the flight to be badly routed.
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  1110. @ald1144  did the aircraft hit the ground or something almost invisible a few hundred feet in the air? That's right, it hit a cable, not the ground. And as the presenter said, the charts they were using didn't show the cable car.
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  1111. @SoManyRandomRamblings  that wasn't the mistake. The mistakes occurred before they left the crew room. It started with not using the correct tools to plan the flight. An up to date chart is a requisite.
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  1112. Some of the cars ended up at Beamish.
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  1113. Has anyone pointed you in the direction of Nigel "The Laws of Thermodynamics are Lies" Cheese and his PCAMS? Well worth a laugh, if you're having a bad day. Just don't wear your best best clothes as you'll be spitting out your coffee.
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  1114.  @ajsimo2677  it takes me that long to liv off and walk to the fridge. They don't like me drinking and working.
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  1115. This story should have been for 1st April. You can always tell when a story is made up. You look at where the story was first publìshed and how long after the events portrayed it was published. The tale of Sawney Bean was first published in the Newgate Calendar, a popular London publication printed in thec18th and 19th centuries over 300 miles from where the story was set in Soth Ayrshire in the 16th century. The cave is between Girvan and Ballantrae. In the original telling they tell aclocal magistrate and not one in Glasgow. After the authorities captured the clan they were taken in chains to the Tolbooth Jail Edinburgh and then either Leith or Glasgow and executed without trial. Apart using real locations there is no truth in the tale which was created to denigrate the Scots after the Jacobite rebellions.
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  1116. Then there's that place in the Orkneys, that could be twinned with Muff. My manager mangled Clitheroe.
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  1117.  @johnburns4017  in November 1943 a decision was taken to B-29 and modify it for testing the intended Thin Man and Fat Man bomb shapes. The testingbtook place in February 1944. With the dropping of the Thin Man shape in favour of the Little Boy shape a standard B-29 could carry the atomic bombs in development. Yes, adding a parachute to a bomb will slow its decent allowing the aircraft dropping it to escape whilst at the same time reducing its accuracy. Remember both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were live tests of their respective atom bomb designs so accurate dropping was required.
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  1118. Many a man has been bitten by a Winchester goose at Southwark. A lot of the properties in Southwark were owned by the Bishop of Winchester, and his geese were prostitutes.
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  1119. Were you aware that Newcomen's engine infringed on Savery's patent forcing Newcomen to go into partnership with Savery?
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  1120. Good old J W Dunne.
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  1121. You gave to wait until the 18th century for pregnant women to have death sentence commuted and until 1931 for that to become official policy.
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  1122.  @geordiedog1749  well, to answer your original question, it was neither the Soviets or the French that caused Carter's plan to fail. If you want to blame anyone it was Carter who broke his plan with sales to Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia and planned sales to Iran.
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  1123. 5,1 failed to observe the merging vehicle and take any action to avoid the incident because they had right of way effectively making things worse. You kniw can yield the right of way? So, why not use your brakes instead on your horn and make the world a better place?
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  1124.  @siblinganon66  if you had done even a modicum of research them you would know that medieval serfs had rights and could take their feudal master to court if he went further than the law allowed. The serf had duties they had to perform for their feudal master but that same master had a duty to protect those self same serfs.
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  1125.  @siblinganon66  but below the serfs were true slaves, those who had no rights and that hasn't changed since ancient times.
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  1126. Sadly that one was caused by the Germans forgetting how to do engineering. A fatigue failure in one on the metal tyres caused the derailment. The saddest part if some one had pull the emergency alarm when the tyre failed the train wouldn't have hit the bridge. Part of the tyre entered the passenger comoadtnent and a passenger went to find the Guard who was a long way down the train and by the time they got back there was no way to avoid disaster. The train used resilient wheels a steel tyre with a rubber centre on a metal axle. This design makes the wheel part of the suspension system and works well. It us more often than not used in trans. But if the tyre gets damaged and fatigue cracks develop you need to put the vehicle out of service whilst replacing the wheel. BR used them in some of their electric locomotives without incident, the Getnans used them in their ICE and paid the price for insufficient maintenance.
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  1127. This was film in Manchester, not London.
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  1128. We have the same type of cycling cock-wombles in the UK, out there looking for trouble for their channels by putting themselves in danger.
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  1129. @matthiuskoenig3378  no its not. People down the year have said this weapon is obsolete or that weapon I obsolete only to find that no it isn't. In 1918, the British Generals decided that the tank could be disposed of as I was designed to break the deadlock caused by trench warfare. They failed to see that the cavalry was the obsolete weapon system.
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  1130. Darkness travels faster than light, as does ignorance.
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  1131. They wetted their swords - well battle takes some people like that...
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  1132. X is short for eXcrement.
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  1133. Didn't you know it flies south for the winter.
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  1134. Stop repeating the old debunked tales about the Mosquito and do some proper research. Try books like British Secret Projects - Fighters and Bomber 1935-1950 by Tony Buttler and not Wikipedia-type books. De Havilland proposed a militarised version of the Albatross to meet the requirements of the Air Ministry Specification P.13/36 which called for a twin-engined medium bomber for world wide use with a speed of not less than 275mph at 15,000ft on 66% engine power and a range of 3000 miles with a 4000lb bomb load. The required aircraft was to be a medium bomber, general reconaisance and general purpose aircraft all rolled into one and capable of carrying2 18in torpedoes. it was to be armed with 2 2-gun turrets fore and aft.THe Albatross design to carry 6000lb bombs to Berlin and back at 11,000 ft. This aircraft was rejected and the Avro Manchaster was selected to fill the specification. Howwever, the Airministy by 1938 were concerned that there wasn't enough aluminium alloy for aircraft production should war break out and put out specification B.9/38 for a bomber of composite construction to Bristol, Armstrong Whitworth and de Havilland. This required an aircraft that did not use any materials currently used for the construction of aircraft structures namely wood and steel tubes. tIt was the Air Ministry and not de Haviland who where looking at the woodworking industry.the Armstrong Whitworth Albermarle was selecteded by the Air Ministry. In May 1937 George Volkert of Handley Page had proposed a high-speed unarmed bomber with a crew of 2 to meet the P13/36 specification. In his proposal he pointed out that an armed version of his design would fly some 25 mph slower than the unarmed version and would need more aircrew. Volkert's aircraft could carry 3000lb of bombs internally in the fuselage and be able to cruise at 300mph. Captain Liptrot (Research Director Aircraft 3) declared that this design had the potential to be faster than the Spitfire. Volkert's and Liptrot's ideas gave rise to the consideration that defensive armaments were not needed and should be eliminated. So the ground was already well prepared for the Mosquito.
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  1135. IIRC the sub was HMS Aeneas which was a diesel-electric sub launched in October 1945.
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  1136. When I was young we had safety information films on the TV. One told drivers not to mix radial and cross-ply tyres on the same car.
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  1137. I was told that microwaves are tuned to vibrate fat and sugar molecules as well as water.
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  1138. Wasn't the crew of Capricorn 1 killed?
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  1139. Experiments often fail. It's what you learn from those failures that counts.
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  1140. Theoretically. But just how much mass does a typical mass spectrometer convert? And how much power is needed?
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  1141. The raid on the Shellhus in Copenhagen isn't the Mosquito's finest hour. One was shot down and crashed into a school, and the crews of those following it bombed this smoke killing many children and their teachers. Funny how you left that out, not.
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  1142. Apparently one of the victims got out of the beer flood three times to go to the toilet before succumbing to the flood.
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  1143.  @LordFred69  so other nations don't gave the right of self determination, one if the items that American fought its War if Independence for? That's a bit hypocritical.
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  1144.  C B  yes it was the late 20th Century and a small, insignificant in global terms, country was invaded by a much larger neighbour because the neighbour didn't like what that country was doing.
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  1145.  @WALTERBROADDUS  then neither is a rebellion and war of independence.
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  1146.  C B  no that was sovereign territory of the UK with the only inhabitants being British. Try again.
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  1147.  C B  oh dear, can't tell a hart from a hind. There have been many rescues of citizens from war zones without a full scale invasion.
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  1148.  @jeremiahchriste6623  took the Scepitcs a little over 4 years to react and they were still allowing travel there in those years since the initial communist take over. FUNNY THAT!
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  1149.  C B yes, we did pinch a lot of the globe off many people and many parts of it are doing better than the UK these days including those parts that freed themselves by force of arms like Ireland. I am in full agreement with what the Irish did and what the American colonists did, what the British government was doing in both countries went against Magna Carta and so we gave only ourselves to blame (part of the cause if the English Civil War was a domineering King from a Scottish Royal house, so we should have known better). But Grenada was never a danger to any other nation and was left in a worse state than it was in before the invasion; the domino theory has no found ding in reality. The Communists had been in power since 1979 and did nothing to prevent Ametica s coming and going, so the idea there was going to be another hostage situation was pure paranoia. I suggest you look up Operation Palliser, and you rescue your foreign civilians from a war zone without becoming involved in the fighting.
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  1150.  C B  👍
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  1151.  C B  yes, he's doing Guadalcanal on Wednesdays at the moment. Just started today.
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  1152. Possibly because more people know what Britain or Great Britain are than know what the UK is. People, often Americans, use England to mean Great Britain or the UK.
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  1153. The Tornado was based on the Anglo-French Variable Geometry aircraft.
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  1154. Any flight that is below the horizontal is a dive. The Swordfish would have done fairly shallow dives compared to the Ju-87.
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  1155.  @ewhartiii  I stand corrected. Thanks.
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  1156. The lack of antisemitism doesn't make Nazism any less fascist.
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  1157. @panzerofthelake506  well, that's your take on the subject. But I can't find any sources that support you.
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  1158. Bombardment from balloons with explosive devices was the only method of air warfare specifically address in the 1st Hague Convention on Land Warfare. However, it was only in place for the 1st 10 years after the Convention came into power, so by the time of WW1 the prohibition had lapsed.
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  1159. It's not some recreation of the Japanese Fu-Go balloon attacks is it?
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  1160. The Finns were never an ally of Nazi Germany but a co-belligerent.
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  1161.  @dallesamllhals9161  thems the facts. The Finns never sign the Tripartite Pact and in the Continuation War they stopped when they reached their pre-Winter War borders. They didn't even get involved in the siege of Leningrad without Army stopping around 20 miles from the city.
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  1162.  @stacymcmahon453  didn't say that didn't work with the Germans, just that they weren't allies but co-belligerents fighting a common enemy.
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  1163.  @dallesamllhals9161  so you don't understand the difference between allies and co-belligerents. After the Italian surrender the portion under British/American occupation turned its weapons on the Germans. These Italians were co-belligerents and not allies.
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  1164.  @dallesamllhals9161  ah insults, the refuge of idiots who can't find a counter argument and know that they have been in the wrong the whole time.
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  1165.  @esajuhanirintamaki965  even at the tinder ut was clear from the actions the Finns took they were only out to get back what they had lost in the Winter War.
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  1166. Lance Corporal Jones of Dad's Army fame was only a Drummer Boy at the time of the Gordon Relief Expidition of 1884 (the year he enlisted at the age of14) and would have been a Private at the time of the Battke of Omdurman. He was invalided out of theatmy in 1915 due to his eyesight;at this time he was a Lance Corporal, a rank he hadheldsince just after the Boer War (which he took part in).
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  1167. Really?
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  1168. I wonder if this event was the inspiration for the opening of John Wyndham's The Day of The Triffids?
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  1169. It was pointed at the target befo4 separation and left to its own devices to fly down and hit the target.
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  1170. So Mark has completed Brexit by taking the UK completely out of Europe. The British Isle are still part of the continent of Europe.
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  1171.  @Emdee5632  the headline "Fog in the Channel. Continent cut off" although fictitious sums up our isolationist attitude held by many British people. The kind of people who complain that immigrants to the UK gather together in little enclaves, eat strange food, wear strange clothes and refuse to speak English, whilst when travelling abroad won't try the fod of that country and want English food, won't speak that country's language and look for the nearest British pub. This attitude goes back a long way, Churchill espoused such sentiments in 1953, but it goes back further. This attitude, although widespread, does not infect everyone, 48% of those who voted in the 2016 referendum voted to remain in the EU, but only 72% of the electorate voted - some 13 Million could not be bothered to vote.
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  1172. ​ @dmitryisakov8769 trees are not a solution, nor are any green plants. Trees and green plants only absorb carbon dioxide when in leaf and when the sun is up. The rest of the time they produce carbon dioxide. Additionally a tree only requires a certain amount of carbon dioxide to live on and grow, if there is more available they don't absorb extra.
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  1173.  @dmitryisakov8769  no, dipstick. The carbon dioxide is converted into sugars in the process known as photosynthesis. These sugars moved around its structure to were they needed for the growth of the tree. BUT photosynthesis only occurs when it is in leaf and the sun is above the horizon. In parts of the world where the trees shed their leaves every year or the sun doesn't go above the horizon in winter lityle or no photosynthesis occurs. However, respiration goes on. This goes on all the time. So when not photosynthesis is not occurring a tree (or any green plant) will produce carbon dioxide.
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  1174. WRONG NUMBER 3. The HP56 was designed by Handley Page to meet the same Air Ministry specification (P.13/36) as the Manchester but didn't get beyond the drawing board/model stage. As the Air Ministry, those fools who couldn't see further than the ends of their noses, were worried that the RR Vulture wouldn't ge ready in time and do they asked Handley Page to redesign the HP56 to carry 4 RR Merlins instead of 2 RR Vultures. This new design was the HP57 which was later named the Halifax.
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  1175.  @ndg9367  citation needed
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  1176.  @jw4513  Stalin already knew that from Sorge's reports.
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  1177. @Mark Haywood was he ever on the brink of defeat? The German army didn't ha e the logistics train to support the invasion of the Soviet Union. Stalin kept his part of the bargain he made with the Japanese until the first moment he could repudiate that agreement not out of any moralistic point of view but out of paranoia. He did not trust the army leadership and a strong military leader in the east, out of his direct control, was a danger to his position. Which is why he brought back Zhukov to Moscow.
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  1178.  @starcraftplayer7084  no.
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  1179.  @alexanderarmfelt4452  that is true, but the Polish-Soviet treaty explains why the pact between the UK, France and Poland only concerns German aggression.
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  1180. The Sexton is carrying markings of the Tyne Tees Division aka 50th (Northumbrian) Intantry Division and the 147th Essex Yeomanry, which were part of the Division on D-Day.
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  1181. Number 10 might have been caused by an old lady but you and everyone else who flew past in the lefthand lane didn't help, sordid your rebuke on the horn. Why not be a grown-up and help such drivers out of their stupidity?
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  1182. A large number of horses use by the Germans in WW2 were sold to them the British from army stocks as the British mechanised.
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  1183. You could record onto flat discs. Maybe not at home but the BBC Ranscripgion Department was using then so that programmes could be sent overseas to various parts of the Empire.
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  1184. @53jed the government wanted fewer companies back before WW2 but didn't have the economic conditions to make it happen. When Air Ministry Specification F7/30 was issued not did Hawker submit a design but so did 2 of the other companies in the Hawker Siddley Group - Armstrong Whitworth and Gloster.
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  1185. @53jed  in the 1930s the Air Ministry issued Specification F7/30 to which IIRC 7 proposals were submitted. Three of them came from the subsidiary companies of the Hawker Siddeley Group - Hawker, Armstrong Whitworth and Gloster. This duplication of effort was expensive, as well as time wasting. Too many companies, chasing too few orders. The Hawker Siddeley Group wasn't efficient as each company was a stand-alone entity fighting for orders against its sister companies and as such costing the group money. The mergers of the 1950s and 1960s weren't the start of the problems, they were endemic in the system from day 1.
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  1186.  @53jed  but too much competition has the opposite effect.
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  1187.  @53jed  when you have 3 design teams from the same company chasing a single order when you could single design team chasing the order. Automatic saving and more profit. Or, alternatively, you aim each design team at a specific segment of the market and thus reduce artificial competition. Again saving money and increasing profits. This is what the post-WW2 restructuring was intended to create. Thzze nationalisation that reduce 2 companies to one reduce competition wiypthin the UK but did not reduce competition with foreign companies. The pre-WW2 ideology was very laissez faire and cost companies like Hawker Siddeley more than it earned them, which is why the government by the late 1950s was pursuing the concept of fewer companies which would each get larger share of the pie, although due to spending cuts the size of this pie would continue to reduce.
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  1188. You missed a bit of the story. It gets a bit James Bond. At the time they were designing the 247 Boeing did not have their windtunnel. The closest windtunnel were in California. The student running the tunnel Boeing was using to test the 247 design wanted to work in the aviation industry and so stole the test data and too, it to Douglas. Thus the DC-1 was also a cousin of the Boeing 247, which makes the DC-3 a second cousin once removed. Source: Widebody - the 747 story.
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  1189. Well, the No Hopers were finally beaten. Well played South Africa.
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  1190. I doubt that the plates melted. Softened, yes. Melted, no.
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  1191. Poster of number 12 - you've never read the secret version of the rules of the road given to certain cycling experts?
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  1192. £800 was 800lb of silver - not an easy amount to hide. 1 Mark was 2/3 of £1 or 160 pennies . There was no coin worth a Mark or 13 shillabd 4 pence. Although the terms Mark and Shilling were used there never were any coins of these values.
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  1193. Sikorsky Dragonfly's inspiration?
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  1194. I wonder just how long today's carbon fibre aircaft would survive if parked outside?
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  1195. @infidel6728  does it rain much there? I remember reading that rain had badly affected the skins on F-22s which had been parked outside.
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  1196. There's a film on YT about the analogue computers used for targeting the guns on warships. There are also the training films for the Norden bombsight.
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  1197. @FatalPies every time you jump up you deflect the Earth by an infinitesimal amount, which accord g to chaos theory has after a time a noticeable effect.
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  1198. In medieval England we used to have 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of night, every day summer or winter. The lengths of these hours varied depending on the season.
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  1199.  @camicus-3249  Birmingham Airport.
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  1200. Not really. He was human. Neither a god or a devil.
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  1201. The death of science has been predicted before and then along came Einstein.
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  1202.  @Dan-yk6sy  too prosaic, man.
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  1203. There were elements of the British army west of the Somme at the time of Dunkirk.
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  1204. Errr, when did we stop eating horse? NEVER.
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  1205. A better example of the steering control device is that used on guided bus ways. In fact the device on the Tesla is exactly the same but with bigger side wheels.
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  1206. Only the fighter and fighter-bomber (including those used by Coastal Command) variants had guns. The bomber and recon variants were unarmed. The B-17 could lift the same as Lancaster and take it to Berlin, provided you didn't mind flying at 6,000ft.
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  1207.  @PappyGunn  I'm not denigrating the B-17, but pointing out that simple comparisons in regard to bomb load tend to be misleading. The B-17 could take more bombs than most people think, but range (790 miles at 25,000ft) or altitude (1170 miles but only getting to 6000ft) suffered. I take it that you are aware that because of its large single bomb bay and the capability of lift a single 10 long ton bombs the Lancaster was considered for dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? But before this became a possibility the kinks in the B-29 design were worked out. As good as the Norden bombsight was, over Europe the flaws in all optical bombsights at any altitude were laid bare - it couldn't target what it couldn't see for the low lying cloud..
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  1208. Stagecoach London are normally painted red. So I don't think this is London.
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  1209. 5he name Hitler isn't controversial. Nobody says the name West is controversial after the actions of Fred and Rose West.
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  1210. @cgi2002  obviously, the creator doesn't understand the Wombles, who make good use of the things people leave behind.
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  1211. @cgi2002  like Tomsk? Or Omsk who burrowed out of the Russian Embassy?
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  1212. As everybody who watch YT know only the Hortens did flying wings..... Another nail in the coffin of that myth.
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  1213. There was another Doctor who got the VC and Bar,but he did it in 2 separate wars.
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  1214. And America doesn't do socialism in business.
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  1215. The Soviets and the Poles were both flying forward swept wing aircraft in the 1930s. The Soviets had the BP-2 flying in 1934 and the BP-3 flying in 1934. I'm not sure when the PWs Z-1u, Z-8 and Z-47 first flew.
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  1216. Youse. The plural of you.
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  1217. If only the French, who created the plans for the fighting of WW2, and British had learnt the right lessons from WW1. The French decided that the next war would be fought close to the border by stopping the Germans with strong defensive lines. The Germans, on the other hand, looked at the British 100 Days campaign of 1918 and decided to combine thwt methodology with their storm troopers based on their fear of long wars of attrition that they knew they would have little chance of winning.
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  1218.  @pkl8811  to be a war criminal there has to be a law that was broken. Whilst there are laws governing the conduct of land aand sea warfare in place during WW2 there were none covering air warfare. Therefore, no laws were broken. Please note the Luftwaffe leadership was not indicted at Nuremberg for the bombing g of civilians but for waging a war of aggression.
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  1219. Currently being repeated on Radio 4 Extra - 7 fits in as of 28/12/2021.
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  1220. Pencil chested? A Pencil Chest is a chest for putting pencils in. You meant Pigeon Chested.
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  1221. Number 5 - so someone slows down before turning off the road is a brake check? Get a life.
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  1222. Have you looked at or will yoube looking at the work of T. Danforth Smith (aka Dan the Plan in the Alan Hull song)?
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  1223. Some of these word, bait for example, are still in use. In the north-east, bait is still used in the word baitbox or lunch box.
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  1224. What a load of rubbish they talk about the Mosquito. If a wooden bomber was deemed unfit for action why did the Air Ministry issue Specification B.9/38 for a medium bomber made of wood and steel without using any light alloys (ie aluminium alloys)? The Air Ministry approached Bristol, Armstrong Whitworth AND de Havilland to design aircraft to meet this specification. And it was de Havilland that refused to submit a design. The Air Ministry selected the AW Albermarle to meet the specification.
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  1225. But one of the 3 battalions if the regiment that didn't go to France.
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  1226. Stop repeating the crap that the Hortens influenced the US flying wings. Northrop was experimenting with flying wing long before the start of WW2.
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  1227. I think that "Hearts of Oak" is more appropriate.
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  1228. @andreasjensen8277  citation needed for internationally agreed laws on warfare and not just conventions on warfare. The latter haven't legality and until the Hague Convetions that were adopted as the laws on land and naval warfare that were internationally binding I can see no laws.
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  1229. @andreasjensen8277  did the civilians who manned the guns in Copenhagen don uniforms or some other distinguishing mark? I don't think so. Did the generals of besieging army's stop their men from pillaging and looting (and worse) the cities they had besieged? No, but that too was against your alleged code of conduct for warfare. But as you say this is all a matter of semantics. But it still means that you haven't provided evidence, only opinions.
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  1230.  @bazza945  his aircraft flew for longer and did more flights before beinh written off. His aircraft weren't always pretty.
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  1231. This put the Cadfael novels into their historic context.
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  1232. This morning trains were delays on the ECML north of Peterborough due to a cow on the line.
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  1233. Number 1 - he wasn't thinking, you have to do his thinking for him (and you did).
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  1234. The technical term for a pavement is the footway as any surface that has a durable surface is paved.
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  1235.  @rampak1  whilst the markings are, as stated in the Traffic Signs Manual Chapter 3 paragraph 13.28.5, on their own advisory if there is a sign stating either an operating period (such as Monday to Friday 08:00 to 16:00 or During Term Times) or At Any Time) then the markings are fully enforceable.
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  1236.  @nickdanger3802  J F Coales' book The Origins and Development of Radar in the Royal Navy... which I read many years ago at university shortly after publication.
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  1237.  @nickdanger3802  yes, it covers the preceding developments just like Morgan and Shacklady's book in the Spitfire.
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  1238.  @wilburfinnigan2142  you're right I have not said anything good about it either. Perhaps you should aim your comments at those with something to say about it. But you won't.
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  1239. This portion of the Battle of Stalingrad is detailed on Wikipedia, which references Omar Bartov's publication and research of this less well known part of the battle. Whilst Wikipedia isn't the always the best source for details, when it comes to big events, like this, there are usually plenty of reference sources given.
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  1240. Weren't the Indians also Americans?
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  1241. The Air Ministry was always looking for advances. They were wanting 8-gun fighters before the 4-gun fighters had been in service for 6 months.
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  1242. Remember, when you point a finger, you've got three more pointing back at you.
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  1243. Number 6 heads to open their eyes a bit more. The other car moved over because of the dar approaching at speed from the tight and not looking like it was going to yield.
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  1244.  @scarecrow1323  there were around 10 squadrons from the RAF that flew the Thunderbolt including 135 Squadron that flew them from May 1944 until the end of the war against Japan.
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  1245. Just don't complain when you can't get a signal on your smart phone.
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  1246.  @thequagmire7882  there's always one who backward compatible..😂😂😂😂
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  1247. Yellowstone is a the caldeira of a super volcano.
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  1248. Number 9: hornscause people to react in many ways, including coming to a sudden stop. It's better in many cases to not sound your horn but brakes early as possible and sadly shake your head at the other person poor driving. You won't make many a better safer driver by sounding your horn.
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  1249. Can we have a coherent thought please? It's incoherent between "Yes" and "the trouble".
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  1250.  @philkelly8031  "yes a little known fact with what Russian troops did infact [sic] some did end jl in Russian in fact". All Russian troops that survived did indeed end up back in Russua, whereas would they? Now would like to clarify this nonsense of yours?
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  1251. It's not a plan but the concept of a plan.
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  1252. That plucky Hungarian g8rl who made King John sigh the pledge and closed the boozers at 10pm.
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  1253. Any member of NATO can triggered Article 5 if attacked militarily and the Russians know this. America triggered it after they were attacked on 11th September 2001 and the European allies responded. They will be expecting America do respond in kind. The Russians know this as well. So the likelihood is no war in Europe between NATO and Russia, but the start of Cold War 2.
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  1254. Bristol Pegasus, stop re-writing history. RR had nothing to do with the initial development. They bought out Bristol later.
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  1255. What is 38 high in metric? Oops, but of a glitch there.
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  1256. The RAF rejected the Victory bomber as they didn't want to use resources to build a bomber capable of carrying only a single bomb per air raids.
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  1257. Wouldn't the VK3002 on the battlefield lead to friendly fire incidents? The P-47 was occasionally mis-indentified as the FW-190 resulting in white bands on wings, fin, tail pkahe and cowling.
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  1258. The Cam is also the Great Ouse.
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  1259.  @Baddroneflying  it's what I was told. I haven't checked it, so it's probably wrong.
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  1260. Number 13 - your son was at fault for following the rules of the road. Everyone knows that...
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  1261. So far every technological advance has been accused of going to destroy society. Still waiting for it to happen.
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  1262. ​ @Regnum0nline remember only half of us will have above the median IQ.
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  1263. 2030s? In which calendar?
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  1264.  @TheScotsalan  PS Milner in 1945 popularised the work of Palmgren's linear damage hypothesis of 1924 which can be used for fatigue life estimation.
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  1265. Except he'd had sold his shares when becoming the minister.
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  1266. ​@Bungle-UK only because the Tories had messed up the economy, leaving Labour to clean up the mess.
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  1267. Horrible robot voice with terrible pronunciation making it unwatchable.
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  1268. In the UK a big lead in the polls before a vote doesn't alwaystrans.ate into a big win as it can often suppress turn out for the side leading in the polls as if the result is a forgone conclusion. It never is, so come election day please go and vote. Who you vote for is your choice, but if you want your preferred candidate to vote you have to vote for them otherwise the other candidate will get in.
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  1269.  @rob5944  nope, there's nothing new under the Sun.
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  1270.  @rob5944  a bit like every government since the mid-1960s with the ending of the British East of Suez commitments. But he did have to cut his cloth in line with the country's financial situation. Since the 1967 devaluation we had had the best part of 15 years of industrial turmoil and decline. In 1982 many parts if the country were still dealing with the recession of the early 1980s with no view of any prosperity that was supposed to come from the slimming down of the nationalised industries. Tax income had fallen with each person removed from the workforce and each business closed. If was political suicide to cut the welfare state including the NHS or education, but cutting military spending was seen as fair game as was reducing the number of people who could call themselves British, which including the people of the Falklsnds (one of the reasons why the Argentinians though we wouldn't fight for them). Unfortunately political actions and inactions tend to blight the country hard a decade or more down the line. An example if this us the devaluation of November 1967. After the best part of 3 years trying to support the value of the Pound the Labour government had to allowing to be devalued by 14%. The causes are many, but include a worse balance of payments deficit (£800 million instead of the expected £400 million run up under the preceding Conservative government), overmanning in industry encouraged by Conservative policies intended to reduce unemployment, lack of investment in new equipment and techniques and unions resisting to changes (some of which would have benefitted their members in terms of health and safety and other areas).
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  1271.  @rob5944  unfortunately we keep doing this to ourselves and we never learn. You can always predict which party will win any general election. They're the one who tell you that they will tax you the least but spend the most. It never fails.
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  1272.  @rob5944  unfortunately we keep doing this to ourselves and we never learn. You can always predict which party will win any general election. They're the one who tell you that they will tax you the least but spend the most. It never fails.
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  1273. In the same way that you don't deploy armour without infantry, you don't deploy your Crabs without the support of other elements to suppress the enemy. Making them practical in a combat zone. Whether or not this was done in practice is another matter.
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  1274. Harriers are still in service with the Spanish Navy and will be until, in the present plans, 2030.
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  1275. Didn't max Hastings come up with this phrase in the 1960s?
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  1276. Patron was an idiot.
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  1277. The Sun went with Gotcha!
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  1278.  @mattheweagles5123  no, that was the town after which Sir Athur took his title.
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  1279.  @mattheweagles5123  Canberra is not an English town or city but we named a bomber after it. PS before being made a Duke he was made the Baron Duoro and the Viscount Wellington in Augusr 1809, then in February 1812 he was made the Earl of Wellington and in August the Marquess of Wellington. It wasn't until May 1814 that he became the Duke of Wellington, and on the same day the Marquess of Duoro. However, before all of that he was a younger son of an Earl and so Sir would have been appropriate upto the point he was made an Earl.
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  1280. Surely a drainage ditch?
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  1281. It's not just traditional journalists. There are academics, including historians, who are just as ignorant.
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  1282. The English certain did in the Middle Ages and also faced them.
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  1283. Number 1 - a self-entitled driver with a camera.
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  1284. Sounds like Mary-land to me. And I'm English. Remember we have over 400 different regional accents.
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  1285.  @robertmoffett3486  it's sent in Kent, not the Fens (Lincolnshire/Norfolk bordering the Wash).
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  1286. During the Berlin Airlift a DC-3 was struggling to get airborne and to keep to time and altitude. After landing in Berlin it was discovered that it had been overloaded as it had been given the load for an Avro York. Shows just how capable the design was.
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  1287. Eden was a fool.
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  1288. Th3 joy of living in the Wasteland of the Free. These men and women need to be remembered. At least the USAF is continuing to honour them.
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  1289. The Douglas Devastator, as used by the USN in the early years of WW2, had a landing speed of 68mph and made torpedo attacks at 80ft and at a speed of 92mph (due the limitations of the Mk 13 aerial torpedo, which itself was limited to a maximum drop speed of 115mph). This attack speed was well above the aircraft's stall speed (the stall being tupically either lower or equal to the landing speed), not the engine's. The engine was happy to run at 0mph provided it got enough cooling air.
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  1290.  @apis_aculei  except in the Pfeil it had a nasty habit of not being able to be operated as the canopy fe Ease had ripped the pilot's hands off.
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  1291. @mikelucas3746  but the first motorway, the Preston Bypass, had been in planning since 1937 (delayed by the war and the lack of money after the war). And was about 6 years away from opening.
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  1292. Try using the seating position in a saloon car or light aircraft and you can sit a person quiet comfortably in a height of 1.1m. If you adopt a a more laid back position, as found in a high performance sailplane you can reduce the height required significantly.
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  1293. Operation Skyshield in 1960, 1961 and 1962 was made public in the USA in 1997. But any one who read the Wings of Fame article on the Vulcan in Volume in late 1995/early 1996 would have read about it BEFORE it was it made public in America. So much for secrecy. I do wish Felton would write better scripts....
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  1294. As bad as the Mary Rose was for Henry VIII the century before.
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  1295. I wonder just how many countries won the wars they started?
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  1296.  @larryl212 the Soviet invasion of Poland wasn't part of WW2, it just happened at the same time, bit like the Franco-Thai war.
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  1297.  @carlosandleon  precisely the opposition of what I think your position is.
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  1298.  @tauncfester3022  that is true, but what new technology works perfectly the first time. It took about a 100 years to develop an efficient steam engine, but that was still inefficient compared with what we use today. And don't forget there was a war on.
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  1299.  @leon-ks9yn  it's been another wonderful day.
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  1300.  @Enthropical_Thunder  yes, the Germans were working on a turbofan engine from 1939 until material supply issues forced them to abandon the work around May 1944. This engine ran for the first time in earlier 1943, a few months ahead of the MetroVick F3, on which the British started working on in 1942. The Germans concentrated the materials they had on the less complicated simple turbo-jets. I never said that the British were first, just that they were working on the same technology in parallel with the Germans.
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  1301. Back in1996 Iris Dement sang a song called "Living in the Wastelland of the Free" decaying how bad life in America had become. Trump and MAGA decided to make it come true. We got preachers dealing in politics and diamond mines And their speech is growing increasingly unkind They say they are Christ's disciples But they don't look like Jesus to me And it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free We got politicians running races on corporate cash Now don't tell me they don't turn around and kiss them peoples' ass You may call me old-fashioned But that don't fit my picture of a true democracy And it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free We got CEO's making two hundred times the workers' pay But they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage And If you don't like it, mister, they'll ship your job To some third-world country 'cross the sea And it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free Living in the wasteland of the free Where the poor have now become the enemy Let's blame our troubles on the weak ones Sounds like some kind of Hitler remedy Living in the wasteland of the free We got little kids with guns fighting inner city wars So what do we do, we put these little kids behind prison doors And we call ourselves the advanced civilization That sounds like crap to me And it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free We got high-school kids running 'round in Calvin Klein and Guess Who cannot pass a sixth-grade reading test But if you ask them, they can tell you The name of every crotch on mTV And it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free We kill for oil, then we throw a party when we win Some guy refuses to fight, and we call that the sin But he's standing up for what he believes in And that seems pretty damned American to me And it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free Living in the wasteland of the free Where the poor have now become the enemy Let's blame our troubles on the weak ones Sounds like some kind of Hitler remedy Living in the wasteland of the free While we sit gloating in our greatness Justice is sinking to the bottom of the sea Living in the wasteland of the free.
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  1302.  @eadweardwoden7309  never said it wasn't.
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  1303.  @eadweardwoden7309  in some cases that would be true, especially those whose name are wholly or partiall Viking in origin. or from regions whose accept is mirrored in Jutland, like the Teesside accent.
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  1304.  @eadweardwoden7309  think more family name rather than given name. Edward is more Anglo-Saxon than Viking in origin. as for DNA the Angles, Saxons and Jutes and the later Danish invaders were too closely related (especially the Jutes) to be able to give clearly distinct DNA samples.
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  1305.  @eadweardwoden7309  that doesn't account for the 2020 study that did identify around 6% of British people (on average) having distinctly Viking DNA shared with about 10% of Swedes (again the figure is an average). In both studies they used people whose lineages didn't move about much. Older studies have difficulty in determining between the Anglo-Saxons and Jutes, and the later Danish Vikings. It was easier to distinguish between the Orcadians and the Norwegian Vikings.
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  1306.  @eadweardwoden7309  no, terror only begets more terror.
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  1307. Then please explain the 1917 break out at Etaples, France, where many British soldiers died of a disease that had the same symptoms including the cyanosis?
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  1308. Probably by looking at old parish maps and other documents dating back the middle ages. Much land between villages was not cultivated and was described as moor.
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  1309.  @DavidFraser007  back then yes.
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  1310. Quite simple really. The governments we have elected have cut so much because of their unwillingness to raise realistic amounts of taxes that we no longer have sufficient equipment to doeverything that the self same politicians want the military and public services to do. So, to find out who is responsible, go look in a mirror.
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  1311. From 1937 Lord Woolton, he was elevated to the peerage in 1939 (as unalligned peer), was involved in many secret war preparation committees and worked senior civil servants, such as Sir Horace Wilson (who advised Stanley Bsldwin) and Sur Warren Fisher (Permanent Secretary to the Treasury and Head of the home Civil Service. From May 1939 he was an honoury advise to Secretary of State for War, Leslie Hore-Belisha, and was responsible for ensuring sufficient uniforms would be available in case if war. Iin April 1940 was appointed as the Minister of Food (the Woolton Pie is named after him). In the same year he was made a Privy Councillor. So, his carpeting in 1938 by the government wasn't a serious sanction; it was only done as a matter of form. The government had to show the Germans that they were serious about maintaining good relationships with their country and not draw attention to the more covert aspects of war preparation. Really expect better from you TIK. Took me all of 10 minutes to find these details and draw my quick and dirty conclusions of the information readily to hand from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biographies which is run by Oxford University Press. After the war he joined the Conservatives (on the day after Churchill's defeat was announced) and quickly became party chairman and oversaw party reforms which git them back into power in 1951, after which he was in the Cabinet for 4 years. He died in 1964 as the Earl of Woolton.
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  1312. What about the shelling of Hartlepool, Whitby and Scarborough on 14th December 1914? Ooops!
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  1313. A fireman's job has always been to save life and protect property.
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  1314. That's because politicians don't understand what confllation is.
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  1315. Whilst you had the right of way Number 7, you had plenty of time to prevent an accident. Much better to have the footage of this bone headed trucker being in the wrong place and your vehicle undamaged than to keep your right of way and have your car off the road for repairs.
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  1316. IIRC The fuselage was so narrow that engine gauges were put on the fuselage side of the nacelles.
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  1317. The same can be said about domd of the products of every nation's aircraft designers.
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  1318.  @MarkFeltonProductions  you are wrong this time. You can't feed a 108mm long cartridge into a gun design to chamber a 99mm long one. And if I'm not mistaken it's also dangerous to try and chamber a shorter cartridge into a gun designed for a longer cartridge. Even if the cartridges were the same shape, which in this case they are not. Small differences make big issues. Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades, putting a M2 cartridge into a DShK has been likened to having a hand grenade. You can point the gun in the direction of the enemy but as soon as you pull the trigger your getting hurt. You were talking bollocks this time.
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  1319. ​ @hunterelliott4772 and as yet they never have. Even in the darkest days of the Korean War.
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  1320. Antidisestablishmentarianism was a regular word on a BBC quiz show on BBC1 between the children's TV finishing and the News at 6.
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  1321. ​ @Philistine47  the Mk1 had only 2x.50 cal guns and 4x.303 guns.
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  1322. 9, 10 and 12 now missing.
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  1323. Talks about the Spitfire bring a short range fighter and shows a photo-reccon Spitfire that was capable of flying over Berlin. Not only that, but an American operated version (yes reverse lend-lease)..
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  1324. So, all we have is someone using the wrong wording. Colloquially, we use criminal to identify anyone arrested by the police and not just those who are found guilty.
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  1325.  @kevinclark1992  as a society, yes.
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  1326. At least they didn't suggest that de Havilland came up with the idea of using speed as defence. That was done by Volkert about 2 years before the Mosquito was designed. Nor did they mention that de Havilland suggested the use of timber for combat aircraft, the Aur Ministry since around 1938 was already looking for non-strategic materials for combat aircraft, one result of this search was the Albermarle.
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  1327.  @peebeedee6757  the Albatross D.V also used an independently developed plywood airframe. So its nothing unusual. As for the 1934 Boeing built DH.4M, they ditched the wood for steel and fabric. If de Havilland was so ahead of the curve why did the company not submit a design to meet the requirement that lead to the Albermarle? Volkert produced a fully worked out design concept for a high-speed unarmed bomber that was faster than Handley Page's HP.56 whilst carrying 2,000lb more of bombs over the same distance. Post-WW2 defensive guns became as common as the cavalry horse on the battlefield.
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  1328. The Allies agreed upon unconditional surrender for all Axis powers in 1943. I can't see them changing that stance. And why would France allow Alsace-Lorraine and Cameroon be retained by Germany? The loss of Alsace-Lorraine in 1870 was a contributory cause for WW1.
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  1329. ​ @wshk9718 cammer 100% at fault.
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  1330. ​ @resnonverba137 broken windows would be expected if a rogue wave had struck the lighthouse.
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  1331. Kevin Hicks used to do a re-enactment of the arrow extraction from Prince Henry's face by surgeon, John Bradmore. Bradmore had to invent the tool for extracting the arrowhead, which is still used today.
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  1332. Infamous means everybodynknows what you did, whilst famous means nobody can remember what you did.
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  1333. But for once Mr Trump did get something right - there can be electoral frauds when using postal voting (as it is called here in the UK), but not to the extent that he is suggesting.
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  1334. We don't want to change the way we pronounce OUGH because we love go hear that a non-English speaker has gone to bed with a "chesty cow". Think about it...
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  1335. ​ @stuartcorbett4902 surveillance and monitoring that's a tautology.
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  1336. @davefloyd9443  agreed.
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  1337. @jackroutledge352  that's true, but most stop at the metal fatigue issue.
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  1338. Or sideways?
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  1339. It come of been worse. Just ask the MiG-15...
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  1340.  @Bob-qk2zg  because those islands are mountainous with little scope fir the use of airborne troops and if limited strategic value. In many ways very similar to the Channel Islands, an invasion would be a waste of men and materiel. Invade the Italy nainland and you remove the Italians from the war on the German side forcing them to deploy troops from more critical areas such as France or the Soviet Union. The Germans just didn't have the troops for this purpose. After the fall of Sicily and the removal of Mussolini from power the Italians were already put out peace feelers.
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  1341. In the Middle Ages all a man needed to do to be officially married was to have sex with his wife to be. There was no need for a Church wedding.
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  1342. How was the question framed (ie how you avoided priming the test subject)?
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  1343. Because financial inequality has less effect on criminality than the Daily Mail would have you believe. I grew up near Hartlepool in the early 1980s, where adult male unemployment was about 20% (around double the national average) and no riots took place. These riots and other that have happened down the years since the end of WW2 have more to wit perceived and actual marginalisation.
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  1344. @coolbreez773  then please explain how deprivation caused they lack of riots during the 1920s and 1930s, which for the working classes were much worse than anything this century. Or the non-race riots in the recession of the early 1980s? Deprivation as a cause for riots has never been proved. Research by S. Spillerman (Structural Characteristics of Cities and the Severity of Racial Disorders, 1976), which looked at the race riots in America during the 1960s, showed that economically deprived area were no more riotous than those that were not economically deprived. Nor can't the blame be put on Relative Deprivation, which is a subjective measure that is not always linked to economic hardship. However, it does have a measurable link to a person's willingness to take part in a riot as part of a group that feels economically deprived, but willingness to participate, doesn't mean that someone would participate.
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  1345. @coolbreez773  but, let's see Hartlepool with an adult male unemployment rate in 1981 of 20% (double the national average) had no riots in that year, whilst Handsworth burnt. The subsequent Scarman Report concluded that the riots were "essentially an outburst of anger and resentment by young black people against the police", but whilst unemployment was a factor it wasn't as important as the heavy handed police actions. A similar social backdrop of tensions and hostility towards the police existed during the rioting of September 1985 (which lasted for two days, beginning in Lozells Road, Lozells, and spreading into Handsworth) to which this unrest was ascribed. It was a similar situation in Toxteth, Chapeltown and all the other places that saw rioting that summer. But the other economically deprived areas, like Hartlepool, didn't riot.
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  1346.  @AudieHolland  that's only true for the northern part of the city, in the southern part, already captured by the Germans, the red abort flares were fired. The city had not surrendered at this point as negotiations were still on going. The 36 bombers attacking from the south saw these flares and the 54 attacking from a northerly direction never saw any flares due to low cloud. The city surrendered shortly after the bombing.
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  1347.  @AudieHolland  that's not what any history book I've ever seen says. They all say the surrender happened after the bombing.
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  1348.  @AudieHolland  bombing of Rotterdam around 13:20. 16:50 Winkelman orders the surrender. This is not the order you are trying and failing to suggest.
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  1349. Nobel Peace Prize? No, Carrel got the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on vascular surgery. Guthrie got nothing.
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  1350.  @ajace5883  you've forgotten that things changed after the British cities were targeted.
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  1351.  @ajace5883  except hat we didn't start off doing this. We attempted to do targetted bombing by night and failed. But what is the difference between the crews if the merchant ships sunk without warning and the bombing out of the civilians who operate the machine tools in an aircraft or weapons factory. The Germans however, had no such scruples as from 1st September 1939 they bombed hospitals and other civilian infrastructure during their invasion of Poland. You should see what they did to the town of Weilún - 75% of the buildings destroyed including the clearly marked hospital and church, killing around 1200 people in the process. Over 9 hours the Germans dropped around 50 tonnes of bombs on the town. Early British raids were limited to military and industrial targets supporting the German war effort (ie weapons factories), roads and railways west of the Rhine. After the bombing of Rotterdam, in which 4 hospitals were destroyed along with around 25,000 homes (and that was a day-time raid in good weather), the RAF were allowed to drop bombs east of the Rhine. The first bombing raid on an inland target in Germany was against the rail yards in Möchengladbach which had little effect and killed 4 civilians, 1 of them British. None of the early British bombing raids had much effect other than to kill a few unlucky cows. The bombing of Dresden is as acceptable as the bombing of Rotterdam as both were significant military targets near or at the location of ground operations.
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  1352. Good one, but how many takes?
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  1353. @mipmipmipmipmip yeah, just like the Space Shuttle. Oh, hang on. That was reusable.
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  1354. No that was a modified B24, that was part of the same project.
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  1355.  @rickriede2166  you're going to have to explain this comment.
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  1356.  @gort8203  every problem can be solved with enough time, money and resources. None of which Dornier had. Even Cessna, without the pressures of war couldn't get this configuration to work.
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  1357.  @gort8203  never said the concept wasn't worth pursuing just that it's tricky to solve some problems.
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  1358. You do realise that Churchill was never universally liked in the UK whilst ye was alive? The dockers , many who would gave fought in WW2, had to be paid to dip their cranes when his funeral barge passed by as the unions dispised him for what he did during the General Strike of 1926, some 39 years before his death.
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  1359. Greetings from the UK, the land of the free.... at the point of use healthcare
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  1360.  @fatherson5907  yes Prince Philip is the Queen's 3rd Cousin. But nobody worships her as she is not a god only a constitutional monarch and not above the law.
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  1361. Mean, average - I saw what you did there
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  1362.  @jefffranklin4894  then why say in the first few minutes that all were destroyed?
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  1363.  @MrSaerrock  a quick potted history. The FAA was formed as an operational unit of the RAF in 1924. The RAF was at that time operating ships embarked on RN ships. The RNAS was merged with the RFC to form the RAF in April 1918. The Admiralty did not take control of the FAA until mid-1949
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  1364.  @richardvernon317  sorry that was a typo, as you say 1939 not 1949.
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  1365. Doesn't the H&S Act 1974 apply to students in a school?
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  1366.  @rogerlay8183  just as long as it's horn to brake and not the other way round.
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  1367. Number 8, why not let the idiot in and save yourself a lot of hassle? It's just a strip of tarmac not a birthright.
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  1368. Is the minimum permitted altitude you quoted a hard limit or the minimum safe altitude for the area. For example of what a hard limit is, you could fly over my gliding club at 3,000 feet above ground level or higher and be fine as we had a licence to winch launch to that height above ground level. On the air charts, there is a circle around the airfield to indicate the danger zone. The minimum safe altitude for overflight, above mean sea level, is 3,500 feet.
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  1369. King John doesn't appear in the surviving original ballads. The king named in A Gest 9fvRobin Hood ie Edward, and most likely Edward II.
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  1370. @ModernKnight  the modern stories do, but they also include Friar Tuck (introduce to cannon around 1470) and Maid Marion (introduced to cannon around 1600). But historically, there I nothing to link Robin Hood to the reign of King John. A lot of the action takes place outside of Nottinghamshire.Robin and the Knight, part of A Gest of Robin Hood takes place at the Sayles, near Wentbridge in Barnsdale, which is in Yorkshire during the reign of Edward. The story involves the unnamed abbot of St Mary's, York. The Sheriff of Nottingham or to give him the correct title, the Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and the Royal Forests, appears in several of the fyttes, but in his role of the Sheriff of the Royal Forests but is never named unlike his henchman, Guy of Gisborne. Additionally, the cult of the longbow dates from later in history. It wasn't until 1252, a I'm no doubt that you a aware, that it became law for all men between the ages of 15 and 60 to be proficient in the use of the longbow. So whilst the longbowwas in use, it wasn't until the latter stages of Henry III's reign that it became part of English society.
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  1371. But still I daren't laugh at the madman.
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  1372. Woah there buster. Call yourself an engineer, the production of ALL fuels is energy negative. Do we take into account the amount of energy to produce a ton of coal or a gallon of petrol or diesel? No we don't. So why do we have to do this for the green fuels? The energy used to produce green fuels is a red herring and is holding back green fuel development. You also have a limited understanding of farming. In the middle ages between 1350 and 1399 in England on average a wheat field gave a field of 4.34 bushels of seeds for each bushel planted. The figures for barley and oats are 4.01 bushel and 2.87 bushels for each bushel planted. The farmer wouldn't starve on these returns, nor would he grow fat.
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  1373.  @brainlessspudlogic4875  yes, but the Me-262 didn't.
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  1374. As it turned out.
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  1375. @Sebastian_Brandstetter  now replace Natural Law with God's Plan. It was God's Plan for some people to become slaves? Aquinas would have us believe so. That means those whomoppose slavery are heretics.
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  1376.  @davidwright7193  ta.
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  1377. ​ @31redorange08 tough.
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  1378. @momo yes, but they are terribly polite about it.😂
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  1379. @digitalzips  and, who put those politicians into power? It's not a lazy response but an accurate one. Over the years, we have regularly elected the party that says they will cut taxes. We ignore the lies they tell us. In 2010, the Conservative led coalition government cut 20,000 police officers, and in the year before the election the Conservative government told usethat they had recruited 20,000 police officers, putting back to where we had been in 2010 and most of the UK's media lapped it up. The Conservatives and Labour are as bad as each other.
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  1380.  @ddoherty5956  citation needed.
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  1381.  @ddoherty5956  citation needed.
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  1382.  @digitalzips  and just who elects those politicians? That's right, the electorate. Which makes the electorate responsible for the errors made by our elected representatives.
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  1383.  @ddoherty5956  citation needed.
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  1384. The Herald of Free Enterprise sank off Zebrugge on its way to Dover.
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  1385. All heavier than air aircraft use anti-gravity technology. They're called wings.
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  1386. 30 shillings is the equivalent of £1.50 today. But back then was worth a lot more than it is today.
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  1387.  @Gallagherfreak100  it was after a CBE device.
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  1388. Now compare the CyberTruck with a real off-roader like a Landrover Defender, which does crumple like a saloon car as it was designed to meet a different set of legally defined criteria to those of ordinary cars.
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  1389. Those laws covered by the Metropolitan Police Act apply outside of the area covered by the Metropolitan Police?
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  1390. There's nothing unusual about enemy combatants making use of captured enemy aircraft for test and evaluation purposes. Nor is there any anything unusual for the use of captured aircraft against their former owners provided the national markings are replaced.
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  1391.  @Nostripe361  they did.
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  1392.  @raypurchase801  not always.
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  1393.  @raypurchase801  well we're ignoring those not designated as a bomber variant in this conversation. All variants of the B-17 upto the F model could carry 8,000lb of bombs externally (or double what some of the bomber variants could carry internally) and they could get it to Berlin but only at 6,000ft (790 miles at 25,000ft) . Source - the pilots manual. Ranges quoted from memory.
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  1394.  @JosephDawson1986  probably similar to what I'm think of, but I gave the packed and ready to go height and width. Most of those out there are standard 20 ft containers, but 25ft and longer exist. The lengths I've seen match to standard ISO shipping containers.
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  1395. He was also almost killed in 1914 during the First Battle of Ypres.
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  1396. Carrot growth restricted by having 2 per hole, as any gardener will know, and not the radioactivity.
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  1397.  @LHJlives  the Napoleonic war ended in 1815, after the little remembered, outside of the USA, War of 1812 was all over.
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  1398.  @agwhitaker  some RFC pilots were said to be doing it in WW1 with the Lewis gun mounted on the upper wing.
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  1399.  @WALTERBROADDUS  no it isn't but to overcome drag you need more thrust or to get rid of what's causing the drag. But if that drag is the aircraft's reason for existing then the only option is more thrust and more thrust tends to require more power. To shift a heavier aircraft you need more power, but at some point the increase in power is not going to have any significant benefit.
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  1400.  @WALTERBROADDUS  probably not if it had continued to be used in daytime over southern England. If it had been kept in the north and Scotland things might have been different.
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  1401.  @rob5944  yes you do. It's called these days doing a sensitivity study. Each change in one factor has knock on effects. In some cases, eg the Spitfire, the airframe was able to absorb the fitting of more powerful engines with minimal changes to the airframe whilst others, eg the Bf-109, have harder time. As there were was one one change to the engine from the 1,030hp Merlin III which weighed 1,385lb and was fitted to the Defiant F.1 to 1,280hp Merlin XX which weight 1,4590lb and was fitted to the Defiant F.II. Maximum speed increased from 304mph to 313mph and range increased from 465 miles to 480 miles with this small change and without the AI equipment who knows just how much faster the Defiant F.II could have been. Or just how much faster it could have got with even more power. However, there comes a point where no increase in power can increase the speed but as this engine change was the only engine change in service who knows how much extra performance could be wrung out of the Defiant's airframe with minimal changes.
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  1402.  @rob5944  and her on 9th December 1940 the Air Ministry issued modification to specification F.18/40 which allowed submissions of turret fighters to fill the 2 seat night fighter role. The Defiant had been design to operate as a day or night fighter, so basically only half of the Defiant's original role was gone.
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  1403.  @rob5944  I think you'll find that my second posting covers the misuse fairly clearly. As for rationalusation of types that has been covered in many books and articles over the years. The reason that the Defiant was taken out if front line service has also been covered many times. The introduction of the Bristol Beaufighter in the night fighter role pushed the less capable Defiant out if this role. As such no further development was required although Boulton Paul were looking at more advanced versions to meet the later specification.
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  1404.  @rob5944 ah! Sarcasm, the lowest form of wit. And the refuge of people who don't bother to read everything.
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  1405.  @rob5944  the why bother to respond?
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  1406.  @rob5944  as the post you are responding to was referring to the Boulton Paul P.92 (which would have used 2 RR Vultures) and other aircraft designed to fill theF.11/37 specification and Boulton Paul P.96 (which used the Napier Sabre) and the other aircraft design to fill theF.18/40 specification and not further development of the Defiant, which did get an improved engine over its service life.
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  1407.  @rob5944  have a nice day and keep healthy, to you and yours.
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  1408. Eventually we will have everything that Musk is proposing, but I doubt it will be in my life time.
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  1409. Does anyone know what is meant by the British Specisl Service? The only one I can find is the Special Service Brigade which became the Army Commandos. It isn't the SAS, which wasn't operating in western Europe at the ti e of Heydrich's assassination. Do you think he means the SOE or the Security Service?
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  1410.  @diarradunlap9337  I wish he would be more precise.
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  1411. BR used SAB resilient wheels in the late 1970s and were in daily operation into the late 1980s without any similar incidents.
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  1412. Number 13 - have you been to Britain as you certainly have a British sense of humour?
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  1413.  @Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry  you obviously don't understand statistics. It's not whether or not they were promoted from the ranks or not. The percentage of upper class junior officers killed in WW1 was higher than that of working class men of all ranks as there were fewer upper class men than those from the working classes.
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  1414. The cameras were fitted in the fuselage with their viewports below and behind the wing. Get a better script writer.
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  1415.  @Simon_Nonymous  see Lindybiege's video.
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  1416. We don't need flâner as we have promenader.
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  1417. Hope you haven't put a curse on things.
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  1418. Number 1 - you do realise you started this interaction by sounding your horn? No one was in danger.
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  1419. If you didn't have public servants nothing and I mean nothing would work in your county. Just think of all those archives you use that would no longer exist without those public servants you despise. I bet your teachers, you know public servants, think you're an idiot for that comment.
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  1420. Err, Bundeswehr translates as Federal Defence and consists of the army (Heer), navy (Marine) and airforce (Luftwaffe).
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  1421.  @88porpoise  in 1940 they did and they got jams after a few fired rounds and the pilots of 19 Squadron asking for their old aircraft back. Better an ineffective weapon than a useless weapon.
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  1422.  @88porpoise  IIRC there were no other 0.50in machine guns (neither Vickers or Browning) in regular use with the British military at that time and so there was no appetite for another supply chain. They stopped almost all aircraft development in 1940 to concentrate on defence using what was already in service or planned to come into service. It took until after the Battle of Britain was long over before a reliable wing-mounted cannon was developed.
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  1423. If the C-120 was a head of it's time, howcome the Germans had come up with the idea before their defeat in 1945?
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  1424.  @jeffreyknickman5559  the whole Regiment was part of the Territorial Force, aka the TA aka the Army Reserves. There were 4 Battalions by 1916, but only the 1st Battalion was sent to France.
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  1425. No the rivets stay in one place the plate rotate around and slide on the rivet in an elongated slot.
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  1426.  @ModernKnight  no it's the inner plate that is moving as the rivet should be fixed on the outer plate.
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  1427. No, Airbus started on what would become the A380 in the late 1980s. As a student at Glasgow in 1995 I had the double-deck Airbus A3XX brochure as my dissertation was on aspects of double-deck airliners.
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  1428. ​@neilgodwin6531 that Act was repealed in 1998 but that did not make slavery legal again.
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  1429. The Uslter Volunteers were otiginally formed in 1912 to block home rule.
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  1430. You can explore the remains if the MV Creteblock at low tide off Whitby, North Yorkshire. Built at Shoreham, Sussex, in 1919 she was eventually ended up on the River Tees at Smiths Dock where she was employed as a tug. In 1935 she was taken go Whitby for scrapping. In 1947 after every reusable or vafluable parts she was to be scuttled off Whitby. Unfortunately she hit Whitby Scar, under Abbey Cliff, in shallow water and started to break up, ti make her less of a hazard to other ships they tried using dynamite to blow up the remains. This was less than successful.
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  1431. Originally it had 3 jets.
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  1432. It won't take long before someone finds a way to beat the 20-minute red card rule. Perhaps by putting a less capable/experienced player in for the first 20 minutes before they commit a foul and get a red card and then for the second half bring on a more capable/experienced player. I think red should mean the loss of a player for the remainder of the game.
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  1433. @toma411  the laws on kicks had to be changed after a player found the loop hole. So anything is possible.
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  1434. @toma411  it's an example of a rule that was being abused. And the 20-minute red card rule has a t leadt one way of being abused. In the final of the Women's World Cup 14 player England had almost got the better of New Zealand who had an hour to put the match beyond England's reach (IIRC England had the lead at half time).
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  1435. @toma411  and at the same time proves mine. But that was just one example. I've seen many premiership teams with a man in the sin-bin score against the numerically superior opponents (and I notthinking of a team like Newcastle - they'd need a five man advantage against most opposition).
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  1436. Many horses the German Army used in WW2 were ex-British Army horses sold off during the 1930s.
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  1437. Forgotten again - the British and Commonwealth forces in Italy.
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  1438. The lack of armour is just another war myth. Very few contemporary aircraft had much in the way of armour. Spitfires were still being delivered to the RAF in mid-1940 without armoured windscreens. The Spitfire unlike the Zero got modifications as lessons were learnt and all had armoured windscreens before going into conflict.
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  1439. It may be spelt Galton but in the English-speaking world we say it as if the "a" is an "o". Sorry. One wsy we could test AI is to make all computers using AI speak English. Any that can cope with our spelling and pronounciation are not truly artificially intelligent.
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  1440. 4th country to sign the Tripartite Pact. Someone was channeling their inner Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a trilogy in 5 parts).
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  1441. Err, if this film is so accurate why do all of the B-17 have only 2 engines? They look more like B-26. It wax a B-26 that al ost crashed it the Akagi's bridge after being hit during its torpedo attack run and not from a high level horizontal bombing run.
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  1442.  @xolotl8860  the film maker was also inaccurate as was the bearded historian.
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  1443. They can't be POWs once the war is over.
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  1444.  @xwormwood  with the economic situation in Germany at the end of the war neither Germany nor the Allies could have dealt with the influx of ex-prisoners. Also the Geneva Convention of 1929 requires either an exchange of POWs as part of any armistice agreement or once the peace treaty is signed. In the case of Germany in WW2 there was no armistice and the peace treaty negotiations didn't conclude until 1990.
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  1445. The big question is just how long did it take for your clothes to dry out? And did you change out of them like a wealthy person, or did you have to stay in them like a peasant?
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  1446. Red and green lights were adopted as these colours were unlike house lights which would be a yellowy-white colour. Actually blue glass was used on raikway signals to make green light as oil lamps burnt with a yellow flame.
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  1447. One man is said to have got out twice to go to the toilet before drowning.
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  1448. Except for the F-110.
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  1449. Your positioning of the action against UB-110 is way off. The UB-110 was sunk 4.4 nautical miles NNE of Huntcliff (4.2 nautical miles NE of Saltburn, Redcar and Cleveland, close to the mouth of the River Tees. She settled in water 26 fathoms deep with a muddy bottom. After bring raised she was taken to Swan Hunter's on the Tyne (arriving there around 9th October 1918). HNS Garry was a River Class destroyer and by the time of the action against UB-110 she was being operated out if the Humber as part of the 7th Destroyer Flotilla. Laid down on 25/4/1904 she was launched on 21/3/1905 and completed later the same year. UB-110 was HMS Garry's 2nd U-Boat as she had rammed U-18 close to Scapa Flow in November 1914 causing this U-Boat to surrender.
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  1450. ​@Tiggi-h4z only 3 parts of the Magna Carta are is still in effect. One 9f them I solely about the independence of the Church of England. The second covers the libertiesxand customs of the Citynif London. And the third covers the prevention of legal sanctions without the lawful judgement of your peers. So, stop bringing the Magna Carta as m9st 9f it has been repealed over the years.
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  1451. @midwinter78  where's there a will...
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  1452. @midwinter78  if there is a will, then there will be a way.
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  1453. @midwinter78  so? There were sizeable majorities for prohibited and then for its abolition.
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  1454. @midwinter78  if you want change you have to work for it. It may take a lot of effort. It may take may years. You may be like Moses are never seen the promised land. But every journey starts the same way, with a single step. Justvr3member Kennedy's words - we do these things... not because they are easy but because they are hard.
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  1455. @midwinter78  quit whining and grow a pair. Slavery did disappear overnight. It took time and effort.
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  1456.  Tiggi-h4z  the Magna Carta was aimed at the nobles and not the commonality of English society. Very little had to do with the rights of the nobility and the powers of the king. At least 2 clauses are to do with the removal of forest law from lands that had been put under forest law by John. There were a similar number of clauses dealing with the status of Jews in England and debts owed to them. Today only 3 clauses remain on the statue books on England.
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  1457. 303 calibre Browning. That's huge!
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  1458. Along side asa medium bomber.
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  1459. Kaiser Bill was related to 2 of his enemy monarchs. King George didn't like Tsar Nicholas much. The last French king was long dead by 1914.
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  1460. Putting the railway on a berm would increase its visibility not decrease it. I know this because I grew up close to such a line in the UK, and that was more obscured from view by trees and bushes at and above heights that can be seen from British lorries or coaches. Also no driver worth their licence stares directly ahead of themselves when approach such crossings, and there are thousands of such crossings in the UK typically on farm tracks and not the public roads and where there have also been similar incidents.
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  1461.  @cgln8760  who said anything about fiting it? I said own. And yes there is such a gun as a .22 rimfire Uzi. IIRC it was made by Walthers and was a semi-automatic.
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  1462.  @cgln8760  as it is listed as such on many websites I chose to use that name. It's just one of many semi-automatic rifles I could choose to own.
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  1463.  @cgln8760  nope. No mistakes made this end.
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  1464. Number 3 - what an arse. You closed the gap do much the other motorist was left with no option but to creep over. Less mouth and less gas AND more gap.
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  1465.  @carribob1992  forgot that.
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  1466.  @hyperturbotechnomike  not everyone who is a non-native speaker has problem with pronounciation. It all depends on the way they learnt the language. There's an old joke about a Dutchman going to bed with a chest cough (pronounced to rhyme with bow).
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  1467.  @cedriclynch  1965?
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  1468. As these aircraft have top speeds at different altitudes then this exercise has no value as you are comparing chalk and cheese.
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  1469.  @watcherzero5256  but those maximum speeds cannot be compared to each other because they are all dependent on the specific airframe and engine combinations. The Tornado F.3 was faster then the F-15. But only at low level. Does this mean the Tornado was the better aircraft, ir just the better aircraft in that flight regime?
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  1470.  @watcherzero5256  exactly, why this kind of analysis is pointless..
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  1471. I'm sure that this was covered back in late 1917 (Series 4) or 1918 (Series 5).
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  1472.  @richardedgar9670  so is, ironically, the village of Upper Slaughter.
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  1473.  @marflitts  with the General Post Office coming along in 1657 and remaining in service u til 1969 to become The Post Office which in the early 21st century was split in to The Post Office (the post offices and sub-par offices) and Royal Mail (the delivery system).
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  1474. If it was in The Grauniad it was luck that it was correctly spelt.
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  1475.  @hawkeye5955  sailors won't harm seagulls (although strictly speaking there's no such bird only gulls) as a gull at sea is the carrier of a sailor's soul and its cry is the mournful cry of the dead man. So sailors won't touch a gull in case they injury the deceased.
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  1476.  @thorrell1673  I take that the USAAF brass rejected the pink aircraft, as the RAF used pink photo-reccon Spitfires.
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  1477.  @christopherconard2831  that's their rail line...
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  1478. Yes, but wasn't adopted by the British to the same extent.
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  1479.  @benwilson6145  that's right.
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  1480. Median is also an average. The third average is the mode.
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  1481.  @DrBrown88  don't forget that the Germans have a history of targeting civilians. For example the shelling of Whitby in Decembef 19q4 or the bombing of Liege in August 1914 to name but 2 other incidents.
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  1482. Don't worry the 5G caused Covid-19 will get you first....
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  1483. At what aktitydewas that speed you quoted?
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  1484. Would that the Weygand plan? The one that only the incompetent Gen. Billotte was briefed on and then got killed in a car crash leaving 1st Army Group (which the BEF was part of) leaderless for 3 days? Not that Billotte's death had made any difference, since after the German attack he had been unable to make any decisions. With the Channel ports the only option for supplying the BEF and the French and Belgian units in the north and the Germans almost at the Channel Gort had no option but to withdraw to the sea along with the French and Belgian armies. Although he did order the BEF's tanks with infantry support to attack south towards Arras with the loss of most of these tanks. The southern, all French attack towards Cambrai was a complete shambles. Whilst the evacuation at Dunkerque was taking place, so was the Battle of Abbeville which include elements of the British army being landed in northwest France during the Dunkerque evacuations. Perhaps you should do some proper research and not rely on the lies you have been told.
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  1485. Not quiet.the Spitfire was the Supermarine Type 300,whilst the proposed turret fighter was the Type 305. Whilst there were many similarities between the 2 airframe there were sufficient differences to make a different Type number was required.
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  1486.  @timsweet3224  they did use the same wing, tailplane and fin, but large parts of the fuselage were different.
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  1487. The big question is just when did the alleged torture take place? Was it before or after Germany's surrender? If after, then the victims were no longer POWs as defined by the Geneva Conventions. Members of the Gestapo are civilians s as they were part of the police and not combatants.
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  1488.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  as soon as a war ends all POWs become former enemy combatants and need to returned to their home country as quickly as possible.
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  1489.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  Article 75 of the 1929 Geneva Convention which covers the treatment of Prisoners of War (which came in to effect on 19th July 1931) states that all POWs should be released as part of the armistice and where this is not possible the repatriation should can carried out with the least possible delay after the peace is concluded. This means, in regard to the fighting in WW2 against the Germans, we could have kept the POWs until after 12th September 1990. Thus there is an end date for being a POW - either the signing of the armistice agreement or the peace treaty. In practical terms the ending of hostilities is often a clearer boundary as it was in WW2.
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  1490.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  what contradiction? If the war was over then no longer POWs and need to be sent home ASAP.
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  1491.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  the former POWs would no longer have POW status once the hostilities are over and have to be returned to their home country, unless citizens of the capturing nation and facing treason charges. This is the equivalent of sending an illegal immigrant back to their home country after all avenues for protection have been exhausted. The Geneva Conventions only apply in times of war and in the immediate aftermath in regards to their repatriation. This is not a contradiction.
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  1492.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  1i that the 1949 version your quoting because the 1929 version doesn't say this in Article 5 or in any other Articles. The 1949 version wasn't, as the implies, in force in 1945; the 1929 version was and thus is the only version that counts.
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  1493.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  yes and I think I told you that.
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  1494. Many of those 20 nations that the Hunter was exported to got rid of them as soon as possible thanks to poor customer support from Hawker and the companies it merged with.
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  1495. Wouldn't that make it a bi-sesquiplane?
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  1496. Sorry computers have always been involved in aircraft design. In the early days these were people who did the calculations for log tables etc.
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  1497. Not only did the crops fail in the mid-1310s but the livestock got diseases and died.
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  1498. Wilson was forced to devalue the Pound after 3 years of financial crises that caused runs on the Pound. These crises took all of our foreign currency reserves and most of our bullion reserves to protect the Pound and left us with vast debts. The causes of these crises was the basket case British economy. Under the Conservatives we had a boom and bust economy with falling productivity between 1952 and 1964. When Wilson took over one of his government's first actions was to announce the trade figures that had been delayed by the election and to hold a budget. The financial markets had expected a trade deficit of a mere £400 million. Government announced a deficit of £800 million, which coupled with a budget that said the economy was sound and made no attempt to address to inherent weaknesses of the economy including overmanning to keep unemployment figures artificially low, lead the foreign currency traders to shift to more stable and productive currencies and away from the Pound. Over the next 3 years poor trade figures, industrial unrest and bad budgets triggered a new crisis until finally the pound was devalued by 14%.
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  1499.  @gregorywright4918  the Doolittle raid highlighted a gap in the Japanese defensive perimeter and was a factor in the Battle of Midway but Yamamoto had been pushing for a campaign in the central Pacific to destroy the US carriers, something that his opponents in the Army had been against.
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  1500. In what way?
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  1501. @romanpolanski4928  no, climate change is real. All the evidence supports it.
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  1502.  @dejjal8683  easy. The PM is the leader of the party that gains the most seats in a General Election, or if the change of leadership occurs during the term of the Parliament the leader if the largest party in Parliament. When Baldwin resigned after the Coronation of George VI, he advised the King to call for Chamberlain.
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  1503.  @tomfu6210  the border fortresses were no longer relevant as many of them were lost with the the Sudeten. Numbers are less important than many people think. One man can hold off a thousand in a narrow passage of ge has the will to fight. The French and British had more tanks than the Germans, but had failed to learn how to use them effectively. The days if the close blockade were over. Billy Mitchell had shown that air power was a danger to warships and got court martialed for it, and the previous conflict had shown just how vulnerable warships were to the submarine.
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  1504.  @stevewatson6839  what exactly could he do as Gamelin's subordinate? Apart from ensuring all units under his command were aware of their role in Gamelin's great plan. A plan that involved the Belgians preparing positions for the French and British, which when push came to shove were either not started or already occupied by the Belgians (who didn't want us on their territory before being invited - the Belgian Ambassador to the Court of St James made an official complaint on the day the Gernans invaded Belgian that British troops had entered his country without being invited).
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  1505.  @stevewatson6839  you should be on the stage, you're a real comedian. He did prepare The BEF for action. But as they were intended to move into Belgium there was little he could do until the Belgians invited them to enter. The Belgians having played the neutrality card to avoid a repeat of 1914, not that it helped them. As for Arras, that attack was ordered by Gamelin, who was fired before the attack commenced and IIRC both attacks were cancelled by his replacement only for the order for the orders to be reinstated giving the Germans about 48 hiyes if respite. The problem with Gamelin's plan was it left the Belgians out in the breeze and King Leopold told Gort his army would not be able to hold out if the BEF went south as ordered. Gort attacked with what he had, but the only half decent tank was the Mathilda II, and that's stretching half decent to breaking point, and there were only 16 of them. The French command structure meant some units had 2 chains of command. How, all knowing Oracle that you are, is a foreign subordinate going to sort that mess out?
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  1506. The sign was put up by the Mayor IIRC. Boeing also suffered until the the Boeing Bust period of ha ing a large turnover of employees. They would get fully trained up and then quit.
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  1507. The Malta loved to operate in a target rich environment.
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  1508.  @MontyCantsin5  at least school boys can still snicker over the large groynes at the seaside...
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  1509. There will always be another fighter or bomber aircraft that will get the restoration funding before this beast. Transport aircraft just ain't sexy.
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  1510. HMS Campbeltown was, at the time,the world's largest manually controlled torpedo.
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  1511. True but it was still a Dominioon of the British Empire.
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  1512.  @Edmonton-of2ec  check out the Statute of Westminster of IIRC 1931, which allow the Dominions of the Empire to make there own decisions in regards to going to war when the UK went to war.
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  1513.  @Edmonton-of2ec  and yet you found the neutrality of Irelsnd surprising.
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  1514. There also Class C and Unclassified roads. The Class C roads are local roads similar to the of Class B roads but unlike the Class B roads they rarely have signs showing their number.
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  1515. The RFC did exist before WW1, but was hidden away in the Army so that they did scare the horses.
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  1516. @punchodex2  cammer talks about storm damage, but drives like everything is fine. Where's the commonsense there?
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  1517. @Dani-zm6ey  you admit that your speed was excessive considering the storm damage. You're on a road lined with trees and can't anticipate that branches might be down? Where's your commonsense?
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  1518. @Dani-zm6ey  looks like it from the caption and your reaction. As I said too fast for the conditions and lack of anticipation at a point more likely to have branches down.
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  1519. @Dani-zm6ey  because of your arrogance over commonsense and the lack of it in others. From the footage, I'm certain that the other driver crossed over earlier to avoid debris, but you didn't take that into consideration - displaying the lack of commonsense you are lambasting the other driver for not having.
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  1520. Only when photosynthesing do green plants absorb carbon dioxide and that's only during day time and when they are in leaf. The rest of the time the release carbon dioxide like all other living things.
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  1521. Not even 20 seconds before the first error. The first British jet aircraft was the Gloster E28/39.
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  1522. Err, Czechoslovakia was the first nation to be forcibly swallowed by Nazi Germany. Call yourself a historian.
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  1523. No, same old human failings. It doesn't just happen in the nuclear industry. For example the UK's Board of Trade regulations of the number of lifeboats required on British flagged vessels that failed badly in the case kf the RMS Titanic.
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  1524. Panic Mode isn't the right phrase to use.
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  1525. No, not asymmetry. From the front it has reflection symmetry in the vertical plane along the centre line.
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  1526.  @ian_b  if you only consider the nacelles then, yes there is no symmetry there. But most of the time we look at the airframe as a whole.
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  1527.  @caractacusbrittania7442  don't forget the territories of the Angevins held by the Plantagenets. The King of England d at the height of their medieval power ruled territories from the Spanish to Scottish borders up the west coast of what is now France.
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  1528. ​ @georgebarnes8163 citation needed
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  1529.  @Twittler1  she couldn't go any further without becoming political.
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  1530.  @Twittler1  it's a nickname given by the magazine Private Eye to Prince Charles. The origins are lost in the mists of time.
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  1531.  @thecelticprince4949  that nice Mr Blair did give an apology. Swiss neutrality goes back over 500 years to 1516, long before modern banking had been invented.
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  1532.  @Twittler1  so true.
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  1533. Unit was originally the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce before the UN asked the BBC to rename it. It was never just a British organisation. Nuclear powered aircraft were first considered in the 1950s. Both the USA and USSR built test aircraft to find out if they could fly with a nuflear reactor on board. The US version was the NB-36H were the N identified an aircraft that has been modified for test purposes and cannot be modified back. In 1955 the USAF published WS-125 for the combat version.
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  1534. Even though you had advertising during this episode? Saw an advert for holidays in Spain.
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  1535.  @thomasbaagaard  and the last few all had adverts... Laws and rules change and if you want to survive you have to follow such changes or you go under.
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  1536. I'm just glad I don't live in an area prone to big earthquakes.
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  1537.  @garrisonthad  just following the example of the Italians (ie the Romans).
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  1538.  @thereaction18  whilst thought about in the 17th Century by a Flemish Jesuit from what is now Belgian no successful versions were built until Watt had worked his magic on the steam engine was reduced its coal burning by having a separate condensors and placing the cylinder in a steam jacket.
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  1539. Must be a fan of Bone Head Truckers. You know - swing wide it's a trailer.
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  1540. But could the E-Meter tell you your personality problems to ten decimal places?
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  1541.  @trainman2615  the GWR introduced their system in 1906 and had it in use on all mainline by 1908. It remained in use until 1970 when replace by the standard BR AWS. The Germans developed their inductive systems around 1931 and by 1934 IIRC 165 locomotives and 4500km of track were fitted with this system. By the end of WW2 the system was no longer functioning due to the destruction the war brought to Germany.
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  1542.  @trainman2615  the problem was that in 1979 not all lines were fitted with AWS. The line at Invergowrie was one of them not yet fitted with AWS.
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  1543. Just because the Pentagon says the footage was filmed by the USN doesn't mean that it shows a UFO.
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  1544. @neilturner6749  yes, I saw it. But still, whenever the Yf-12 is discussed, the bomber variant is rarely mentioned. This channel is always one step above the rest.
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  1545. The spelling and pronunciation of words in English is simply down to a few factors. 1. When the spelling or pronounciation was standardised. 2. Scholars adding silent letters in to words to make them match other words from other sources.
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  1546.  @43sumfilmz1  no that was the Americans with their decision to put tariffs on imports.
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  1547. Was you childhood In France? I think you missed out a word or 2.
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  1548.  @joeobyrne3189  RAF Bomber Command had many bases in WW2. Either you lives out side of the UK, missed a word or don't understand what a few miles signifies.
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  1549.  @joeobyrne3189  so you live near just one part of the organisation, so there were missing words.
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  1550.  @joeobyrne3189  dyslexia is something you have failed to take into account. Have you had special training or are you a naturally ignorant? Take that plank out of your own eye before attacking others. My errors have been corrected. But what's your excuse?
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  1551. @anthonylewis679  just like with tanks, the word medium shifts about a bit with no clear definition. When it comes to bombers, the Lancaster is a heavy bomber, but so is the B-17, but the specification that led to the Lancaster was for a medium bomber.
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  1552. WRONG NUMBER 5: by the time the RR Vulture had been discovered to be a complete failure in service Handley Page was no ,longer designing aircraft to use it. They had been asked by the Air Ministry to developed a 4-engined bomber that used the RR Merlin. The HP57 (aka the Halifax) entered service with the RAF on 13/11/1940 around the same time as the Manchester.
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  1553. The Americans provided most of the money NATO spent on V/STOL programmes like the Harrier.
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  1554.  @goatwarrior3570  no Chamberlain was proactive and not reactive as your initial post hints at. If Chamberlain hadn't budgeted for radar, the Spitfires and Hurricanes the Battle of Britain would have been lost. A better analogy would have been Stanley Baldwin during the Great Depression, he did nothing to help.
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  1555. Is this why I've not seen Tizer in the shops for years?
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  1556. ​@generalfluffyproto your joke failed by one numbe - MI6 is our spy agency MI5 and Special Branch are the counter-intelligence agencies. They're the ones who be interested in any organisation wanting to overthrow democracy by non-democratic means.
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  1557. In what way? The Americans did only drop 2 atomic bombs. The Americans had plans to drop more and intended to have IIRC at least 5 bombs available for September and around 10 for October.
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  1558.  @Eric-kn4yn  were they?
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  1559. Surely, the first jet on jet combat was the Meteor vs the V-1 flying bomb? Just because the pulse-jet pilot-less V-1 flew straight and level during the combat doesn't matter. How many manned bombers were shot down during bombing runs whilst flying straight and level and not called kills?
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  1560.  @deathsheadknight2137  IIRC they got a half kill for each V-1.
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  1561.  @roadie3124  the last reliable source I have seen for the reliability of Wikipedia c. 2016 said that it was no worse than the Encyclopedia Brittania. I have also seen one source saying that 8 of the 9 articles on history that they checked in 2010/2011 contained errors, but ask any statisticians and they'll tell you that this is too small a sample to be statistically significant. As for censorship by Wikipedia in the main it us done to comply with legal requirements relating to an accused person getting a fair trial or the preventing of child sexual exploitation. By far it is external bodies that force Wikipedua to censor articles especially in countries with a single political party in charge of everything. But having said that, Wikipedia us a private forum which allows the public to edit its content and as such they can legally block any edits or articles in the same way that YouTube can.
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  1562.  @roadie3124  not that I'm aware of, I looked at the Canisius Institute's website and the four links they have and the 2019 report from Natute Human Behaviour. You need to provide evidence of the alleged censorship.
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  1563. Is the US Navy trolling the UFO believers?
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  1564. Remember the male American outlaw Jessie James? Jessie Murphy could have also been male. The name is one of those gender neutral names. It is often the shorter form of Jessop.
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  1565. Doesn't SS stand Screw Steamer?
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  1566. There's a training film on mechanical computers on YT and how they work. Well worth viewing.
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  1567. 11
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  1568. Carlson is a ignorant Tucker. And the physicist ain't much better. I bet he's including bio-fuels in with the fossil fuels.
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  1569. Four months later, on 16th December 1914, the British soldier to be killed by enemy action in England for 200 years will lose his life during the bombardment of Hartlepool. Private Theophilius Jones of the Durham Light Infantry was the first of 7 soldiers to die, along with 86 civilians (14 soldiers and 424 civilians were wounded).
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  1570. @TheHistoryChap  yes, one day I will learn to type... now corrected.
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  1571. They did sweep the seas, ships are another matter.
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  1572. They say Americans don't like liberals but they're m9st liberal people,e Know when it comes to the use of their car horns. Very few 9f them are conservativein this respect. For gods' sake it's a road not a birth right.
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  1573. Different markets with different rules.
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  1574. Fried Chicken instead of One Vision from the Queen song of the same name.
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  1575. Funny how many channels are now jumping on the bandwagon. This scandal was first brough to light buy Computer Weekly in 2009 and was picked up by Private Eye in 2011.
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  1576. @diggernash1  Yes, it does, but it also means more rain. But in the Cretaceous Period we started off with a single landmass which broke apart due to tectonic forces in several smaller continents which moved dueto those same tectonic forces changing the oceanic currents which caused the formation of the ice caps at the poles. The formation of these ice caps reduced mean seal level by around 170m. None of which helps your initial argument.
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  1577. @diggernash1  you've already answered that question,but as you too dense to get it. The average temperature at the poles was around 14 degrees C to around 30 degreesC at the equator during the hottest period of the Cretaceous Period (94 to 90 Million years ago).but temperatures started to fall around 86 Million years ago until the ended the period. This cooling was driven by the reduction of CO2 levels in the atmosphere. The temperature gradient from pole to equator drives the jet stream, and the shallow gradient in tge Cretaceous Period would have meant light winds, so rain storms would have been slow moving, increasing the likely of flooding. Flooding that would have resulted in the loss of plants not adapted to flood areas. The moisture content of soil is dependent on the make up of the soil. Sandy soils are more free draining than clay, but are also more prone to erosion.
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  1578. @RobertScott-pp6gj  and guess who were the people working the land and looking after the livestock for the Anglo-Saxon overlords? Why, those Brythonic speaking Britons. Whilst many Angles, Saxons and Jutes came to post-Roman Britain, there was only enough of them to form the new ruling class and the Britons who did not flee West and surrendered to the invaders went on with their lives but with new rulers. The same happened after 1066, and with nearly every country the UK took as a colony. This is why the animal retained the Anglo-Saxon name, but the meat took a Norman French one.
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  1579. You forgot to say that the American delegation suggested Greenwich, in recognition of all the work done in the UK on the longitude problem.
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  1580.  @TheImperatorKnight  you obviously slept through 2015 - because in that year 499 years of state ownership of the Royal Mail came to an end with the selling of the final 30% stake held by the government. Royal Mail Group plc is now wholly owned by shareholders. The clue is in the name - plc - public limited company which means it is a company owned by shareholders and that those shareholders are protected against any liability for any losses the company runs up (that's what limited means). The word public means that shares are traded publicly and that anyone can own buy; unlike in private limited companies where the other shareholders decide who can and can't buy the shares. In a stated owned company, there is one shareholder, the government. Your video on public and private ownership got this wrong, public doesn't mean state and private doesn't mean an individual. You have a good grasp on history, but haven't a clue about basic economic facts. As for YouTube's alleged censorship, case law shows that YouTube is a publicly accessible privately run forum and had the right to restrict freedom of speech (as I told you last time you were complaining about your Greek famine film, which I have watched and consider to be a well balanced film). YouTube don't have to promote such films, nor do they have to allow you or anyone else to say what you can say in, for example, the street.
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  1581.  @useodyseeorbitchute9450  could we now have that in English? Don't forget case law gas YouTube as a publicly accessible private forum and that they can legally block comments and films without infringing the poster's freedom of speech.
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  1582.  @TheImperatorKnight  you don't have a clue about what you are talking about. Public limited company has a very specific meaning AND I'll repeat it for you. It means a company whose shares are traded so that anyone may buy them and that those shareholders are not responsible for any debts the company incurs. The company is privately owned, which simply means that it is not owned by the state (see the definition of private below). A private limited company is one where the shares in the company cannot publicly traded. THIS IS ECONOMICS 101, and if you can't understand this you have no place discussing economics or busi ess ownership. I own a car, but have to follow the laws governing driving and car ownership by your logic the car is now owned by the government as I have to obey the law. THIS IS NOT WHAT HAPPENS. The FTSE250 is a capitalisation-weighted index of the 101st to 350th largest companies listed of the London Stock Exchange, which is owned by the London Stock Exchange Group, a public limited company (see above for what this means). It is not under the control of the Bank of England nor had it ever been, although, just like with driving, government has set the ,awx under which it operates. As for a dictionary definition of the word private please note the following definition option given by the Cambridge Online Dictionary: belonging to or managed by a person or company rather than the government. Cambridge in thus case means the Cambridge University Press which is a publisher owned by, and run independently to, Cambridge University. Please don't try playing silly word games it just makes you look more foolish.
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  1583.  @mrdunns3338  there are no certainties in sport.
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  1584. Cycling Mikey has an American cousin.
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  1585. All evidence is circumstantial.
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  1586. YT moves in a mysterious way its wonders to achieve.
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  1587. That only happened after the Shops Act 1950 was passed, making it only a recent tradition.
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  1588. Except for the fact that we, with the help of the Americans were helping to support the Spanish economy.
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  1589.  @tolik5929  well you seem to forget that the Spanish were well aware from Britain and America that should they were to actively join the war effort on the Axis side they would receive no more oil (they had only a ten week reserve).
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  1590.  @tolik5929  except for all the tz,kshad been Hiyler and Franco including a list of demands. Plus they knew that they couldn't do any reconstruction without the oil the Americans supplied, a supply that the British persuaded the Americans to continue in Nocember 1940 IIRC.
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  1591.  @tolik5929  you started the arguing. I just pointed out that if Spain had been foolish enough to join in WW2 they would have been cut off from their oil imports. This would have in the minds of the Spanish political leadership in their decisions, especially in mid-1940 they got rid of their Anglophile Foreign Minister to one who was pro-Germany. Just keep ignoring the facts.
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  1592.  @tolik5929  just the kind of childish responses I was expecting from you. Yes, no-one cares what your opinions are.
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  1593.  @tolik5929  got nothing better to do but idiot baiting.
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  1594.  @tolik5929  nope. Try again.
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  1595.  @KarolusTemplareV  you mean like the IRA?
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  1596.  @physiogirl8678  because system said that there should be this much money, therefore someone must have taken it if the actual amounts were lower. That's the logic of any such system whether it is a bank, corner shop, supermarket or post office, and whether it is electronic or uses paper records. There have been cases of embezzlement on all systems. The flaw this time was that no one accepted that the computers were not working correctly meaning no one believed the Sub-Post Masters.
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  1597.  @gwyneth7812  unfortunately the CPS or PF's Office had sufficient evidence to make a conviction likely which is the standard for bringing a criminal case in England and Wales or Scotland in the Post Office cases. The judge gets papers on each case which include the prosecution's evidence, which has also to be declared to the defence unlike the defence's evidence. So the judge would know the strength and merits of the prosecution's case.
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  1598.  @joshua6244  but your also wanting them to act as experts outside their area of expertise in identifying spurious evidence. You can't have it both ways.
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  1599.  @joshua6244  the judges didn't, the expert witnesses said the computer system was sound.
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  1600.  @joshua6244  no the comma is missing after didn't. Now added.
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  1601. Sorry, but navigating using a map at night is virtually impossible. The shape of any urban area does not correspond to the shape that the street lights and building lights would make up. The only time where it would be possible is where a water feature cuts into or through a city. Even in day time it is difficult to navigate by recognising urban areas other than by using well-known landmarks, such as the Pyramid swimming pool in Bedford.
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  1602. ​ @sam8742 before we had electronic navigation aids we used light beacons. By the end of the 1920s radio beacons were coming into service. A certain American General famous for slapping his Privates got into trouble after flying along such a route after he ignored the rules.
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  1603.  @hermitoldguy6312  not necessarily. Performed well just means that whatever task they had been assigned in regard to their normal or ancillary duties were performed to the expected standard. The units in question may have been assigned the task of shifting ammunition to the front line and had moved it in sufficient quantities and in a timely manner to allow the fighting units to conduct combat operations. Without knowing what duties they performed we can't say with any certainty that it was in fighting or support of the fighting. An artilasrynunit that is attacked by an infantry unit and drives them off with their small arms preventing their guns from being damaged, destroyed or captured van ve said to have performed well in the infantry role but not in the artillery role. An aircraft repair facility that has been bombed and gets back to operating quickly can be said to have performed well in the resetting up of their main function but not necessarily in their main function.
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  1604.  @mimsydreams  I bet they did not. For they had lost their homes, businesses, friends and family. Only a fool would think that they would be happy. Also how do you explain the Days of Prayer for Rain in the State of Texas which took place in 2011? Between Friday 22nd April 2011 and Sunday 24th April 2011, Texas governor Rick Perry asked that Texans pray for "the healing of our land" and for an end to the drought. The governor noted that in the past, Texans "have been strengthened, assured and lifted up through prayer", and that he thus believed prayer to be an appropriate measure to address the drought. All this in one of the most technically advanced countries in the world and in living memory. So much for your assertion that people don't do stupid crap today. Yes, people wanted to leave, but more people came into the city from the surrounding countryside.
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  1605.  @oscaranderson5719  everybody ignores warnings signs from time to time on the daily commute. So why should they listen to hurricane warnings? The last time the hurricane hardly bothered them. Thos hurricane warnings are like the signals Mt Pelee was giving out. No one expected the volcano to blow its top.
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  1606. Number 2 - gave uluru never changed your mind at a junction? So what, if they're slow there may gave green a good reason you couldn't see.
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  1607.  @FrankBarnwell-xi8my  is that when crew get their steins out ang ho overboard to give the hull a shove?
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  1608. Number 13. I hope the police officer dealing with your crash has been reported for dereliction of duty.
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  1609.  @realulli  so would, or footage from another perspective. Unfortunately we might never know the full story.
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  1610.  @freedomwillneverdie6600  by sounding their horn the cammer forced them to take action. Have you never been lost in a strange city? A little patience goes along way.
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  1611. Bang goes a good chunk of our puns if we start adding accents to homographs. We love hearing that non-native speakers have gone to bed with a chest cough (pronounced to rhyme with bough).
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  1612. Asbestos was a good insulator as well as a good anti-rust agent.
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  1613. @hyrumzaugg5749  and the driver didn't notice? They shouldn't be on the road if they couldn't tell they had a loose wheel.
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  1614. @61rampy65  I do know what I'm talking about. It happened to a car I was driving on private land as a demonstration of why you have to take care when attaching a wheel to a car. It didn't last a minute at less than 20 mph before working loose enough to let the wheel wobble. It was spanner tight but hadn't had a tongue wrench used on it.
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  1615.  @robv5834  must have been atypical for me then. S0a ner tight but not torque down. Got wobble in lessthan a minute.
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  1616. @hyrumzaugg5749  been there, and didn't get more than a minute before wobble started.
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  1617.  @robv5834  and in English?
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  1618. Rivers or by the sea. Copenhagen has no major river.
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  1619. Err, the spending on the Wehrmacht was started before the Nazis came to power.
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  1620. It's not the English Royal Navy but the British Royal Navy.
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  1621.  @bleidddrwg9847  the adverts with the famous tag line that is usually given for the source of the nickname was post-war. The only other Ronson advert about reliable lighting was a good 12 years before the Sherman came about. However, some of their war time adverts did use the Sherman's outline.
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  1622. ​ @robertleache3450 well in the words of Christine Keller, he would say that but it took the Italians out of the war on the side of the Axis, shortened the supply lines to India and tied up German troops.
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  1623. When ordered the Amy to Greece he was telling the Americans that the British Empire would fight Germany everywhere. This was a strategic vision that you seen to be ignoring.
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  1624.  @DomWeasel  so, the Greeks could have held out for a few more months but at the same time by getting involved the British were to be subjected to a second Dunkirk. The former is a WAG as in February 1941 they were Disney to around 2 months if artillery shells and the latter is pure hindsight that could not have been predicted at the time. The shift of forces was only considered possible as it was thought the Italians were beaten in North Africa. No one knew of the German reinforcements until too late. Going into the Balkans and Greece were a bigger blunder for the Germans who lost irreplaceable men and materiel in these invasions.
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  1625.  @robertleache3450  invade in north Italy and leave the Germans in charge of the Mediterranean. LMFAO.
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  1626.  @robertleache3450  and how did Allied air supremacy help the Roma on 9th September 1943? It's another fallacy that Allies had control of the air over the Mediterranean. The Spitfire Mk.IX could fly the length of Italy but would have no fuel left for anythjng but a crash landing. 44 Suoermarine Seafires were lost during the landings at Salerno - only 2 of them were due to combat, and to invade northern Italy or southern France would need fighters from aircraft carriers operating 24 hours per day, all operating within range of the Luftwaffe. Keep believing your fantasies and us realists will keep laughing.
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  1627.  @robertleache3450  you think the Allies had control on the Mediterranean (your fantasy) whilst in reality they did not. That's not the same as the Germans and Italians being in control either. Neither side had full control. But when the Italians surrendered then and only then did the Allies have the upper hand (this is the reality you are ignoring).
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  1628. I have doubts that Durham's name has Viking origins. There are many place names ending in -ham in the Danelaw such as Upleatham and Coatham. The same as all the places in the unconquored part of Northumbria,north of the River Tees, like Seaham and Greatham (both onthe coast with the later close to the Tees), Billingham (just over the river from the Danelaw and closer to it's influence). I suspect that the names pure Anglo-Saxon and refers to the farmstead where the soil is brownish grey.
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  1629. Yes we all get frustrated being held up by a truck overtaking another at their speed limit, but brake checking one is just a suicidal. Just be patient, get past and leave them in your wake.
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  1630. You should have seen the bomber aircraft that didn't get off the drawing board. Such as the Vickers Long Range High Altitude bomber which had been designed to carry Tall Boy and Grand Slam bombs at a time when it was though no conventional bomber could carry them. It was intended to have a take-off weight of 104,000lb (with only one bomb) and cruise at 40,000ft at a speed of 306moh on the outward run and 350mph on the return leg and have an radius of action of 1,800 miles. The carriage of a single large bomb on general bombing sorties was one reason why this design got no further than the drawing board, but it did lead in late 1941 to an Air Ministry draft operational requirement for a longer with at least a 15ton bomb load (and preferably 20tobs) with an operational range of 2,500 miles at a cruise speed of 300mph at 20,000ft but with the capability of flying at 30,000ft. This became known as the 75ton bomber
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  1631. What's the old saying? Oh yes, if it's a Boeing, I ain't going.
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  1632. Shouldn't that be cubic metres of contaminated waste not square metres?
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  1633. The National Fire Service (NFS) was formed in August 1941 in Great Britain (1942 in Northern Ireland). The Blitz ended 11 May 1941. It was the Local Authority Fire Brigades and the Auxiliary Fire Service which fought the fires in the Blitz. These were then formed into the NFS after the end of the Blitz. Bit of a credibility gap. All members of the NFS were the Brodie Helmet just like the AFS before them.
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  1634. ENSA - Every Night Something Awful. Typical soldier humour.
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  1635.  @AWMJoeyjoejoe  you've forgotten that the B-17 was designed to bomb a fleet attacking America and wasn't intend or designed to bomb Berlin or any other European city, so flying at 6,000ft over the ocean wasn't a problem.
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  1636. There was also warping aka kedging.
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  1637. Which of Britain's colonies were under threat in 1940? Only those in the Horn of Africa, but that was more of a threat on paper due to poor leadership by the senior Italian officers.
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  1638. You can blame the Cold War for the lack of awareness of the WW2 era Soviet aircraft.
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  1639. A film mentioned, as a running gag, in Spike Milligan's TV shows on the BBC whenever David Lodge was on screen. Often said by Mr Lodge direct to the camera.
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  1640. ​@davidfoster3427 now put that ban into the context of tbe tbe Great Depression, the USA being on the Gold Standard, and hoarding and the subsequent restriction on money supply caused bt said hoarding.
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  1641. The source in Wikipedia for the bombing of the Hitler house comes from the BBC article called The Scouse Hitler. I've not been able to find a copy of this on line. You find the details in the Wikipedia article on the Liverpool Blitz.
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  1642.  @kurutze  except for those parts that they invent for themselves like creating the first effective liquid fueled rocket.
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  1643.  @kurutze  von Braun's work was based on Goddard's work which was based on the theoretical work of Tsiolkovsky from 1903. So technically it was Russian in origin not German.
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  1644. Do, people have been in error about ERA.
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  1645. Caveat emptor applies.
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  1646. Tanks for the music.
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  1647. ​@philiprufus4427 you mean the ex-chairman. Plus most of these cuts were ones that the Big 4 were considering before nationalisation.
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  1648. There is another explanation for "mind your Ps and Qs". The other explanation suggests that it came from the saying "mind your pints and quarts".
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  1649. If Edward II was murdered as the legend says, why was his brother Edmund executed 2 years later for attemptng to free him from his prison? Edmund was at Edward's funeral and would have known he was. Or was Edward dead? None of his family saw the body between the death being announced and the embalming of the body. If his father was dead then Edward III would have been free to pardon his uncle. He didn't, which points to the fact that Edward II was still alive and Edward III knew this.
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  1650. Richard I would gave sold London if he could have found a buyer.
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  1651.  @phillipnagle9651  your original assertion. I've looked at your other posts - lots if opinions but no sources.
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  1652. Hassle, surely?
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  1653. And which RAF Unit would have been converted? The RAF Regiment? That wasn't formed until February 1942 and wouldn't be considered combat ready until much later that year.
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  1654.  @emergencylowmaneuvering7350 I did say influence?. The Saab 91 had a pusher engine and twin fins. Geese.... Burt Rutan was influenced in his designs.
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  1655. Well as the Normans were from Danish Viking stock and so are not going to be much different from the Danish Vikings that settled in England. This DNA will also be similar to that of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes that crossed over the sea around 300 years earlier. Thus probably means that any specific genetic markers that identify some as being from these groups of people are few and far between. Whereas in the Scottish Island, Wales and Ireland the native DNA, going back to settlement of these islands, has been fairly settled that new DNA coming in with the Vikings from Norway would be more noticeable compared to similar groups in England or Normandy, where Saxons also settled.
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  1656.  jonnyneace8928  except Bede got it wrong. Not all of the Anglii left southern Jutland. Many remained behind in what is now Schleswig-Holstein, on the Jutland Peninsula, where there is a small peninsular area is still called Anglia (the land of the Anglii) today and is formed as a triangle drawn roughly from modern Flensburg on the Flensburger Fjord to the city of Schleswig and then to Maasholm, on the Schlei inlet. Their version of English evolved along different lines to that spoken on the other side of the North Sea.
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  1657.  @ericadams3428  the HP.57 had a wingspan of 98ft 8in. The Halifax B.I Series 1 increased this by 2in. The late model HP.61 (aka the Halifax B.III) increased this to 104ft 2in.
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  1658. Our presenter doesn't know what ubiquitous means.
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  1659. I suspect that the effectiveness us due to several factors including it's penetrative effect (however limited), the percussive effect of being hit by the arrows and the psychological effect of rumours of the power of the longbow.
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  1660. 10 miles equates to about 5 hours of walking at 2 mph (average walking speed today is normally taken to be 3 mph). 10 miles is far too short a distance for travel in good weather on dry roads. Markets in England were set between 4 and 8 miles apart, meaning a third of day to get there, a third of the day spend in the market, and a third of the day to travel back.
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  1661. @ModernKnight for metallic surfaces the CDC puts it between 2.5 and 4 mph for an average healthy person between 15 and 40 (age range selected based on average life spans in thecmedieval period), whilst a 2020 study quoted in Runners World puts it at 3 mph (no age data quoted). I said 2 mph to take into account of non-metalled surfaces, based on the range of averages I've seen of between 1.5 to 2.75 mph for off-road walking (no age range given in those sources).
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  1662. The British used stick grenades in the trenches of WW1 butvtge stick was dangerous to the user (it hit the parados) so it was got rid of.
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  1663. Tondern (now Tønder again) was on Germany at the time of the raid on the Zepplin sheds. It was situated in the Duchy of Schleswig, so its history is intertwined with the contentious history of Schleswig-Holstein and had been lost to the the German Confederation after the war of 1964. It was returned to Denmark after a referendum in 1920.
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  1664. Couldn't hear what you were saying from about the 34 minute mark.
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  1665.  @jockellis  the roadbed us still there, but under a road.
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  1666. There are none so blind than those who will not see.
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  1667. Number 1 - the footage makes you look like an ass for cutting up the car when changing lanes. I hope this wasn't the case.
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  1668. Per square mile the UK gets more tornadoes than the USA. Although they are less destructive than those in America we don't build structures that can withstand tornadoes. There was a tornado in Bognor Regis, Sussex, in 2000 that was about 200 yards fro where I was living. And yes ig dis go through a Trailer Park...
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  1669. Stoptalking nonsense. The TMR crashed after it thrust-vectoring control system failed.
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  1670. Perhaps you should also cover Charles Coward, probably the only British soldier to be awarsded the Iron Cross.
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  1671. I thought only the British government could mess up defense programmes and international negotiations...
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  1672.  @dorjedriftwood2731  in the UK they designed and built the TSR2, which due to a number of issues suffered cos over runs, and was eventually replaced by the Buccaneer and F-4 Phantom via the F-111K which had been designed to meet the same needs. We had co mittees to which about 100 people attended one meeting. For the next meeting the chairman had asked for only essential persons to attend and 200 turned up. There were committees to determine where each switch and instrument should be place and all of them were put there in the mock ups and nearly all were moved for the prototypes; a sub-committee decided on the name labels, all of which had to be changed.
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  1673. ​ @seanpadgett3053  that's correct.
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  1674.  @dannygjk  I can think if many usages of the word corruption, one of which is to rot. There is a British poster from WW2 showing a shadowy Hitler listening to the conversation between 3 servicemen (one from each branch of the British forces) with the warning: Beware - spreading of vital information will undermine our war effort - DO YOUR PART IN SILENCE. So, a translation of Wehrkraftzersetung into English would be to undermining of the war effort. That much maligned and often accurate online encyclopedia gives the translation of Wehrkraftzersetung as the undermining or subversion of military force or the war effort or the underming of military morale.
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  1675.  @walterscientist  war effort and fighting ability and war power (the exact translation of Wehrkraft) are all synonyms in Dnglush.
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  1676. It's not just WW2 German bombs. A pair of post-WW2 1,000lb bombs were discovered on a building site near where I used to work. These were lost after an RAF Vampire crashes on a training exercise in the 1950s. The bombs had buried themselves deeply in the soft soil hiding themselves from view. There are also many landmines planted on British beaches and forgotten. Two were found when they were digging a new sewer outfall pipe and had to be disposed of. They must have been of the anti-personnel type as my school, which was less than 400 yards from the mines, was not evacuated.
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  1677. Arse-end is a north-eastern phrase for the late part of the year.
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  1678.  @Kevc00  weren't the police civilians?
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  1679. A deeply disturbing subject, sensitively handled.
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  1680. I hope this footage was sent to the bus company and TfL. They shou,d have sent it UK the police.
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  1681. You haven't heard of this as most if it is made up. Whilst consideration of Lancaster to drop the Thin Man bomb in 1943 it had been dropped from consideration by a change in the bomb's design becoming the Little Boy bomb. As for the rest, apart from Tiger Force, it's all made up.
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  1682. Really? Speedlink failed and that was introduced after TOPS.
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  1683. Except that turbojet and turboprops are considered different types of engines, in the saw way as rotary and radial engines are similar but different.
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  1684. Candid Camera has a lot to answer for.
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  1685. If you're going to cheat, cheat fairly. One of your best.
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  1686. That'll be The Power Rangers.
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  1687. Just think how many Canadians, Mexicans, Panamaians, and Danes, who now hate America due to Trump have crossed the border.
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  1688.  @Delogros  whale oil
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  1689. @chatteyj  at that time, the last weather forecast on the BBC was after the 9 o'clock News, so at 21:20. On ITV, it was at 10:20, after their News at Ten. After that, the only weather forecasts were on the radio, and few people would be listening in at that time of day. Included in the radio broadcasts was the Shipping Forecast of Radio 4, but that gives the wind strength on the Beaufort scale, and few people know that.
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  1690. The fried chicken song...
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  1691. Wasn't the 3rd crash a 4-engined aircraft? If so, which 2 engines failed?
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  1692. Unless you fly a Cessna.
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  1693.  @MyLateralThawts  provided you have plenty of water. Don't forget stagnant water is great for mosquitoes.
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  1694. Whether it's 1 or 1000 complaints doesn't matter. All are of equal value until assessed. The ASA has to look at each complaint on its own merit and make a judgment.
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  1695. Didn't a submarine also bag a train during WW2?
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  1696.  @sthenzel  ta, I knew it was something like that.
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  1697. Do speed limit signs give details of any fines for breaching the speed limit?
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  1698.  @stephenwabaxter  does that give you notice if the penalty for breaking the speed limit? No it doesn't, it just allows you to maintain compliance. Do any signs give detail of fines for breaches on the public highway? The London Congestion Charging Zones signs don't.
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  1699. January 1967 is the best pat of 4 years before the end of the decade in which Kennedy wanted to land a man on the Moon. There was no Year Zero in the common calendar, it went fro 1 BC to 1 AD, which means 1970 is the last year of the 1960s.
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  1700. The design of screw propeller from ships was adapted for aircraft.
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  1701. 1 x 1 = 2 is true for large values of 1. It's a rounding thing.
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  1702. Stopping using phrases like "Phoney War" because at sea it was a real war with men, women, and children being killed.
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  1703. ​@The-Punch-and-Jewdy-Show falls under the syllabus of Chistian Responsibilities which dealt with how religion impacts o drugs, drink money, war slavery, and many aspects of life.
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  1704. Let's rename the states - Delaware will become Delunaware. 49 to go.
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  1705. To make it a 50:22 the ball must have grounded within the opposition's 22 irrespective of where else it grounded first, otherwise the opposition get the throw at the line out. So, I think both you and Nigel are correct.
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  1706. Flat Earthers have heard that gravity is a fictonal force. They've also heard that fiction is made up and therefore gravity is made up.
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  1707. That's just paranoia. Everybody suffers from that.
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  1708. Drake is going west, lads So Tom is going East But tiny Fred Just lies in bed, The lazy little beast. Spike Milligan.
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  1709. Surely it was design go fight hoards of Warsaw Pact tanks in CENTRAL Europe.
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  1710. He failed to wrap, a that's a yellow card at least.
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  1711. There were 4 battalions of The 1st Cambridgeshire Regiment in WW1, but only the 1st/1st (1st Battalion of the 1st Cambridgeshire Regiment) served in France. The 2nd/1st (formed around the outbreak of WW1), 3rd/1st and the 4th/1st all remained in the UK (3rd/1st and 4th/1st battalions were formed in 1915). The 1st Battalion was part of the East Midlands Brigade of the East Anglian Division. On 15th February 1915 the 1st Battallion arrived in France and became part of 82nd Brigade of 27th Division. By November of the same year they had transferred to VII Corp, before transferring in February 1916 to 118th Brigade of 39th Division in time for the Somme.
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  1712. Its over a decade since the spiroid wingtip first flew but not many aircraft, if any, use them as there is insufficient aerodynamic advantage over the open planar form of wing tips. In the last 13 years they gave been thoroughly tested.
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  1713.  @Barnaby_bo  no, I did hear that.
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  1714.  @Lassisvulgaris  a history channel should. They have peop,e writing and researching the scripts. If I can find it in a 2 minute Google search, surely they can?
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  1715. What's wrong with the word kiosk, as in telephone kiosk?
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  1716. It was Cnut who thought he had the power to send back the tide but some of his courtiers. Cnut, King wise, knew that he had no power over the tide and proved it.
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  1717. Whilst "Keep Calm and Carry on" is from WW2 it was never used during the conflict and only came to the public's attention 75 years after the posters were created.
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  1718.  @Tetemovies4  the Yak-38 didn't land on conventional carriers. The Kiev class carriers had no catapults or arrester gear, unlike the French carriers. The Yak-38 was a v/stol aircraft which needed to lift engines to allow it to fly vertically. If either lift engine failed then it took up the flight characteristics of a breeze block, just like F-35 would. This makes you analogy pointless. Doubling the number of engines whilst doubling the number of potential causes of failure doesn't increase the chances of total engine failure by double. There are very few occurrences of multiple engine failure and those are either caused by an external factor, such as volcanic ash, or non-engine related, such as ice in the fuel or running out of fuel. The chance of each engine failing remains the same and that means the chances of a double failure engine failure solely to mechanical failures is approximately half that of a single engine failure due to the way the maths work.
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  1719.  @Tetemovies4  don't be stupid. The Jaguar had 2 thrust engines whilst the Yak-38 only had one. You are comparing apples with granite. As your 100 engine aircraft then it depends on the use the engine is being put to. If the engine is a lift engine then it is conceivable that a single failure could result in a crash in a vertical landing.unlikely but possible. The shaft driven lift fan is useless if the engine it is attached to fails and is little better than the lift engines fitted to the Yak-38. If either gear box fails if can only land I the conventional manner.
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  1720.  @Tetemovies4  then why bring up the V/STOL Yak-38 and its problems, which according to the Aviaton Safrty Network were primarily due to the failure of a single lift engine during either take-off, landing or hovering during an airshow. That ONE engine out of THREE and always one of the lift engines. A lifting jet engine is identical to a thrust engine except for the direction the jet exhaust is pointing. Your 100 engine aircraft is nonsensical. The problem that the Mk101 engines of the earlier Jaguar had was it went from 100% dry thrust to afterburner. This was changed for the Mk102 engines to have the afferburners come on at IIRC 80% dry thrust.
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  1721.  @Tetemovies4  and by your illogical push of the idea of redundancy it makes it nonsensical. As for the engine issue on the Jaguar, that was solved long before the decision was made to buy the Super Etandard. The single-engine handling was also addressed. BUT the question still remains why did you chose to base your argument on the Yak-38 when it can quite easily be dismissed?
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  1722.  @Tetemovies4  more word salad.
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  1723.  @Tetemovies4 having 2 engines in the Jaguer makes them functionally redundant you muppet that's what redundancy means. The engine upgrades made them work better by smoothing out the thrust characteristics and had no impact on their redundancy, which was already assured by have 2. The Yak-38 needed a pair of lift engines as the Soviet Union, and all other nations to be fair, could not make a small enough engine with the required levels of thrust. The French with their Mirage III-V needed 8 lift engines, plus a thrust engine. Now, there's redundancy. Although a better western equivalent of the Yak-38 I'd the VFW VAK 191B with 2 lift engines and a thrust vectoring main engine (sound familiar because that's what the Yak-38 had). Again it had 2 lift engines because Rolls Royce couldn't make a turbojet any shorter and jet the required thrust. However, this aircraft remained a technology demonstrator. Nut it did have design advantage over the Yak-38 as the lift engines were placed at each end of the fuselage and were powerful enough to be landed on alone if needed or by using the main engine's vectored thrust. A very Germanic concept of redundancy.
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  1724.  @Tetemovies4  but it could still fly to an airfield on land if within range AND that makes it functionally and physically redundant because it could continue to fly. Your argument is spurious and facile. Just because this aircraft or that aircraft in a prototype form couldn't achieve one specific aspect doesn't mean that it could never do that with improvements, which is what prototypes are for. Improvements that, in the Jaguar M's case were not long in arriving, but arrived too late for that version of the Jaguar. At least the Jaguar M had the option to return to a land base on a single engine, whatbhope did the Super Etandard pilot have with a single engine failure? All he could do was hope that his ejection seat functioned as promised, his dinghy inflated and the rescue helicopter wasn't too long in getting to him. He had no redundancy at all.
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  1725.  @Tetemovies4  prototype testing. You just don't get it do you? As explained earlier the issues foundvduringnthe testing were all resolved. Unlike the major flaw with the Super Etendard. it Plus have you never heard of air to air refuelling. The French Navy had. But if the Jaguar M had gone into service the engine and engine out issues would have already been resolved. But you don't seem capable of getting that into your head.
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  1726.  @Tetemovies4  well as stated earlier the issue with the response to the throttle input was solved with the afferburners coming in earlier than originally intended. This is well know and resulted in the Adour Mk101 becoming the Adour Mk102. Also who said the Jaguar would be refuelling other aircraft, stop making piss-poor assumptions as they keep making an ass of you. I also never said anything about the wing loading being suitable, so stop shifting the goal posts. Well let's see, the F-4 Phantom had a wing loading of 567kg/m^2 against the Jaguars 649.3 kg/m^2. So a bit more, but not excessively so. But also a meaningless comparison.
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  1727.  @nigelsmith7366  I was commenting on what was said, notvrepeating it.
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  1728.  @dizzzzzzler  of which he was cleared.
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  1729. @dizzzzzzler  noit doesn't, but nor does your previous comment come close to lininging up with what I said. Remember I said I assumed that those involvec in the handling of guns when filming for YT channels have, prior to filming, already confirmed that the gun is unloaded. In the case of Rust, Alex Baldwin was told it was unloaded but didn't confirm it himself. There is a world of difference between assuming that they did the checks and accepting the checks have been done.
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  1730. @natespurgat6245  as a pattern room, no doubt they do.
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  1731.  @SonsOfLorgar  and the UK's Health and Safety Act simply states that an employee who is properly trained to do a task can do that task should they wish to and it is the employer's duty to ensure that said employee has been correctly trained and is aware of the risk assessment for that task.
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  1732. @RedTail1-1  stop talking bollocks. British museums have very strict rules about the handling of firearms, plus they are NEVER loaded with live ammunition (been there done that in more liberal times). Who in this day and age still thinks there is someone behind each camera? We take gun safety very seriously in the UK, having learnt our lessons the hard way and taken the never again attitude.
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  1733. @6nosis  to never have again a school shooting is more important than the right to bear arms.
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  1734. @paulallen-01  I know.
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  1735. @ifv2089  it's only an armoury by name these days.
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  1736. You can learn a bit of romantic Japanese from the Queen song "Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)".
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  1737. Number 13 - never outdownto malice anything that can be simp,y attributed to stupidity.
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  1738. Some piss poor research or script writing here within the 1st minute. The Americans weren't the first to fly heavier than air vehicles that was the French. They were the first to fly a fully controllable powered aircraft capable of sustained flight rather than the fully controllable weight shift gliders that had been in the air for over a decade at that point. The first glider flight was over 100 years earlier in 1801 when André Gbuillaume Resnier de Goué managed a 300m straight line glide at Angoulême sustaining a broken leg on landing. By the time the Wrights got involved in aviation men like Otto Lilienthal could control the direction of their gliders by shifting their weight. Others who flew heavier than air craft before the Wrights include Octave Chanute, Percy Pilcher and Lawrence Hargrave who invented the box kite. All the Wrights did was to solve the inconsistencies in the aerofoil data (for their heavier than air gliders), create a engine powerful enough to get them off the ground and a practical propeller and put all of them together and take flight. BUT THEY WERE NEVER THE FIRST TO FLY A HEAVIER THAN AIR CRAFT.
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  1739.  @mikearmstrong8483  and I'm agreeing with your comment.
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  1740. It means everyone knows what you did.
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  1741. Nice hypothesis, but how does it fit in with the Britush landings in France around 7th June of 157th (Highkand Light Infantry) Brigade and the intentions to land 1st Armoured Dividion and the rest of the 52nd (Lowland) Infsntry Division (from which the 157th came) and the 1st Canadusn Infsntry Division? By focusing on a single part of the fighting, you have lost sight of the bigger picture. Remember after the war all the failures were Madman Hitler's fault, so we can't rely on the German generals for objectivity.
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  1742. The Hitler and Trump did it and got whole countries. In the words of Hitler people believe big lies.
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  1743.  @milanondrak5564  the politicians that cancelled it weren't the ones responsible for its demise. They had already ruined the UK's economy and been kicked out if power. The design was poor and would have needed a major redesign. Just look at the Su-24 prototype and production models.
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  1744. And mechanical calculators and look up tables.
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  1745. The BBC's Horrible Histories covered this event in their accurate but humorous way.
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  1746. We elected them. We're to blame.
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  1747.  @jebise1126  dead SPACE not dead WEIGHT. This means internal volume that cannot be used for fuel, weaponry or avionics.
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  1748.  @jebise1126  yes a lift fan is less heavy than a lift jet, BUT and this is the point you are missing it still takes up useful volume, approximately the same the same volume as a lift jet. Volume that could be used to extend range or carry a gun with ammunition or extra sensors.
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  1749. ​ @StazherEzhov but only after many years of service without issue.
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  1750. Please tyell the full story of the Mosquito and H2S and not just the bits that make the Mosquito seem like a wonder plane. Only the K-band version of the H2S (the MkVI - IIIF) with a 3 foot antenna. These were tested in 1944 and by May 1945 the first sets were in Squadron use, just in time for peace to break out.
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  1751. To either rip the wings of aircraft of to make them fly higher and make them less accurate in bombing.
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  1752. The stupidity is strong in this one; and I didn't get past 2 minutes to realise this. And as for the bearded guy...
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  1753.  @hfjtrytry9216  most people (and I include myself in that group) have areas of ignorance.
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  1754.  @Valen-mh9fh in most locations a circular sign with a red boundary with the number 20 at the start and a similar sign with a 30 in it. In some ,o nation such as outside schools where the reduced limit is in effect then the starting point with have have an additional plate giving details of when the lower speed limit is in effect. It's all set out in the Traffic Signs Manual (details of the correct signage to use) and the Highway Code (details of the correct actions to take for all road users).
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  1755.  @Valen-mh9fh  until the 20mph speed limit was introduced all roads with street lights, unless signed otherwise, had a speed limit of 30mph. After the 20mph speed limit was introduced the new speed limit got the same treatment. Speed limit signs are posted at the boundary of the area or zone (both have the same meaning) where the speed limit applies. Once inside the boundaries of the speed limit the speed limit remains constant, unless signed otherwise.
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  1756. Some selective retelling of the Mosquito story here. George Volkert of Handkey Page proposed an unarmed bomber in May 1937 to fill Air Ministry Specification P13/36 (this specification was filled by the Avro Manchester and the Handley Page Halifax). In his 20 page proposal Volkert's design could carry 3,000lb at 300mph. This was long before de Havilland cand up with the idea in Aoril 1938. As for the usd of timber and other non-strategic materials the Air Ministry issued Specification B9/38 for a medium bomber, which was later filled by the Arnstrong Whitworth Albermarle.
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  1757.  @AndrewGivens  yes.
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  1758. Ah, the joys of living in the Wasteland of the Free.
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  1759. The 100% chance of death on failure was mentioned.
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  1760.  @noname117spore  prove it.
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  1761.  @noname117spore  you comparison us very flawed. If a Tri-star lost one if its wing engines the thrust from the other wing engine will make it yaw and turn into the failed engine until such time as the pilots can input corrective control deflections and reduce thrust on the operable wing engine. The force experienced during such an event is noticeable to all on board. If such an event happens to a rocket, the rocket is not so much history as geography; I know of no rocket that has survived the loss of a main engine and still managed to reach the intended orbit. The only time when you don't get unbalanced thrust yaw is when you only have one engine on the centre line ofthe aircraft or rocket. The more engines you have the greater their offsets are to the centre line of the rocket and the certain loss of the rocket of one engines fails.
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  1762.  @noname117spore  I was taking gimballing into account.
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  1763.  @HistoryHustle  from what I femme ef reading, the Belgisn Ambassador and his staff hadn't got the message about the German invasion.
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  1764. Is anyone surprised by Trump's actions?
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  1765. Britain didn't exist until the Acts of Union of 1707.
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  1766. Its little better than a jet powered Bristol Freighter.
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  1767. General Lucas had never the writings of General Tacticus - if you want your soldiers to be familiar with a spade, encourage them to become farmers.
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  1768.  @infantryattacks  no, but when he became King of IIRC Sto Lat he assessed which nations posed the greatest treat to his throne and then declared war on his former country the city state of Ankh Morpork. At Anzio they needed a commander who was dynamic, instead they got incompetence of a scale demonstrated at Galipoli. A d we all know how that panned out.
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  1769.  @infantryattacks  surely if you get to the rank of General you must know how to command men? Why would Lucas need Clark to hold his hand? Within hours of the landings recon units had reached the outskirts of Rome. As the plan was to swing south and attack the Gustav Line from the rear he had a chance to be aggressive, but he just strengthened his bridge head and pissed away his men. Just .ike the Generals in charge of the Gallipoli landings. Whilst the Turks were aware of British anf French intentions and had plenty of men ready to defend the coast there was only a corporal's guard on the coast, but instead of ceasing the high ground in land from the landing beachs the Generals waited on the beaches whilst the Turks got there men in place and on the beaches the French, British and Empire troops remained until evacuated. Sounds all to familiar, only at Anzio the troops the landings were supposed to relieve had to slog it out with the Germans to get to the landing zone whilst the Germans attacked the beleagured Allies in their bridgehead with little chance of relief until the soldiers attacking the Gustav Line broke through it. I'm not say that the losses in attacking the Gastav Line from the rear was an easy task, but it was a better idea than just sitting on the beaches waiting for the Germans to take control of the battle. Once control of the battle is lost, so is the battle.
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  1770.  @infantryattacks  the 2 battles are analogous. Beach landings where the troops didn't leave the beaches which were overlooked by high ground from which the defenders could see everything being done by the invaders, just like at Anzio. Each beach at Gallipoli was atacked by a division or 2, just like at Anzio. So, not the same at all. Tactical and strategic doctrines are always based on the lesson taught by previous war. The British learnt the lessons of the Boer Wars and put them in to effect successfully in WW1. What lesson all Generals should have learnt from Gzllipoli was that beaches are no places to be defending. Even limited forces used effectively can make a difference. The reco units getting to Rome is indicative of the weakness of the defences in the Anzio region and whilst the Germans would react if you have the advantage and fail to exploit it then you shouldn't be involved in such a battle.
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  1771.  @infantryattacks  your experience is neither here nor there because whilst no 2 event are ever identical they can be analogous. There are always lessons learnt from each event and that as part of your training and that of each NCO and officer above you in the chain of command would have learnt. And this goes back to the days of the first battle ever fought. Hence why would be need staff colleges? Of course they forces landed at Anzio could do everything but they did have an operational plan. Just because Clark didn't tell Lucas everything that he was to do he did give him the overall operational plan, and left it up to Lucas to come up with the plans to achieve these goals, which as a general he should have been able to do. Kesselring reacted in predictable ways, just like the Turks at Gallipoli, and tried to push the invaders back into the sea. Oh but by your illogic that shouldn't have happen Kesselring should have reacted differently to the Turks. So, what Kesselring did shouldn't have happened. But as it did there must be standardised tactics for dealing with an invasion which must be based on an original reaction to an invasion from some point in history. And that point is so far back in time it has been forgotten. The ancient Britons did exactly the same when Julius Caesar invaded Britannia in 54BC. But wait that means the Turks were copying the ancient Britons when they tried to thrown the French, British and Empire forces from Turkish soil in 1915, if your illogic is to hold. All of those battles Caesar's invasion of Britannia, Gallipoli and Anzio are all analogous but all are different due to the technology in use was different.
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  1772.  @infantryattacks  read Clausewitz many years ago and Sun Tze. But by your logic neither of them have any bearing on modern war. Clark's written orders to Lucas said . Seize and secure a beachhead in the vicinity of Anzio 2. Advance and secure Colli Laziali [the Alban Hills] 3. Be prepared to advance on Rome". These orders placed the onus on the timing for the advance on Coli Laziali on Lucas. The problem was Lucas' relative inexperience in battle, which was couple with Clark's caution due to his experiences in Italy. This meant that Lucas spent too long on the beaches whilst the Germans got their forces in order to prevent the break out.
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  1773. Got a source for that?
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  1774. It had been used by the Royal Navy in the times of Nelson. And kids love skimming stones of the surface of a body of water.
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  1775. Those gloves had to be worn to prevent DNA transfer in case of future testing if found guilty.
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  1776. Should have flown roughly south west to the Irish Free State.
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  1777. Yes.
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  1778. Between 1924 and 1939 the FAA was part of the RAF and not the Royal Navy. The Navy didn't get effective control of the FAA until mid-August 1939.
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  1779. @chrishartley4553  that was part of the joke. I'd explain it, but like the new roof, it would go over your head.
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  1780. The Police and PCSOs don't deal with parking offences that's a job for your local council and haven't since 2008 when the civil enforcement powers of Section 6 of the Traffic Management Act 2004 came into effect. So it's no use complaining to the Police or PCSOs.
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  1781.  @tomf4547  and how long ago was that? The Police no longer deal with parking issues. The process started 8n the 1990s when parking offences were decriminalised and end when Theressa May (whatever happened to her?) as Home Secretary. Whilst a police constable can deal with parking issues they tend not to as it's no longer a core function.
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  1782.  @jamest2401  just Google The Goon Show. It's what inspired the Pythons and much of the British comedic talent of the 1960s.
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  1783.  @OptimusPrinceps_Augustus  what didn't excuse the Soviets? And the British and French could do nothing to assist Poland against the Soviet Union. Hell, the French plan was to wait for the Germans in Belgium and to defeat them there. Within days of declaring war they had invaded Germany had a pick nick and gone home again.
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  1784.  @TheScmtnrider  no read it in Nature Climate Change. The Australian EucFACE project. CO2 at 550ppm (150ppm above today's levels - this is one of the predicted levels for around 30 years time). Findings photosynthesis is increased by around 19% but significant growth of the test trees compared to the control groups (these are trees in the wild and not under perfect greenhouse conditions); all excess sugars produced ended up in the soil around and metabolised by bacteria in the soil producing CO2. Whilst the sun is the driver of climate CO2 and the other greenhouse gases including water vapour act as feedback loops meaning that a small change in the isolation produces a large response in the atmosphere. This has been known since the 19th Century. In 1896 Svanre Arrhenius predicted the effect of increasing CO2 levels.
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  1785.  @TheScmtnrider  now it is your turn to produce some evidence to support your claims. Prove it or shut up. Obviously you're not aware of the Butterfly Effect. Climate scientist know that it only takes a small change in one of a number of factors that can flip from one stable state to another, ie cause an ice age or warm period. One if then is CO2 levels. All it takes is runaway positive feedback, as Budyko hi Ted at in his ice-albedo feedback hypothesis.
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  1786.  @TheScmtnrider  1st article is concerned with cumulus and maritime stratocumulus clouds both of which require the surface to be heated first. Yes, white clouds reflect heat, that basic physics. The problem is that on formation the cloud releases heat, heat that came from the sun previously (otherwise the cloud could not have formed. The cloud will also trap a layer of warmer air beneath it. As for the second article. CO2 and other greenhouse gases do reflect heat but the article only concentrates on the heat energy coming in. Some of that heat energy is reflected away, but the rest of it penetrates to ground level otherwise live as we know it could not exist. Air being a poor absorber of the sun's heat energy, but the reflected heat energy from the Earth's surface is reflected back down by the greenhouse gases heating the surface levels. This article supports this argument as its findings match the predictions of the climate models. Thank you for debunking yourself.
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  1787.  @TheScmtnrider  you've provided any article that proves that CO2 and other greenhouse gases reflect infrared light at high altitudes. Your obviously not capable of understanding that if they do it at high altitude where there are fewer molecules then they will do the same at lower altitudes to the heat being radiated from the Earth's surface. QED CO2 helps to trap heat in the lower atmosphere, rebutting your entire argument. All clouds reflect light from them, but only from the surface that is being illuminated. The MCS are created by the action of the Sun, and cloud formation releases heat, as all forms of condensation do. Meteorology isn't climatology.
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  1788.  @TheScmtnrider  you're really showing you ignorance meteorology is the scientific study of the atmosphere that focuses on the processes and predictions of the weather whilst climatology is the scientific study of climates and includes meteorology amongst its disciplines. It's a simple as that.
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  1789.  @TheScmtnrider  truth hurts doesn't it. Your source effectively proves that CO2 at all levels in the atmosphere acts as a greenhouse gases reflected EM radiation in the IR frequencies. Climatology is the study of weather conditions averaged out over a long period, typically more than a week, making meteorology a subset of the studies included in climatology. The su is the source of the majority of all EM radiation reaching the Earth, a large amount of which gets to the surface and heats it up, some is absorbed and some is reflected back as light including in the IR frequency range. The greenhouse gases act as a feedback loop trapping some of the reflected IR energy in the atmosphere. The levels of CO2 and other greenhouse gases determines has much IR energy is trapped; your article says this quite clearly but as it is based on studies at the edge of the atmosphere you've failed to realise that the findings can be applied to greenhouse gases in the lower atmosphere irrespective of where those greenhouse gases come from.
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  1790.  @TheScmtnrider  and you know because you talk enough of it.
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  1791.  @Mishn0  and instead of leaving the bombs on target it towed them home.
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  1792.  @Mishn0  no, just a little exaggeration. It's a fact that the ejecting the bombs out of the back of the fuselage did cause them follow the aircraft, and one of the reasons why they stopped using it as a bomber.
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  1793.  @romansternberg5696  and then counselling for the trauma you would cause. You're as bad as the Catholic Church.
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  1794.  @dangreene9846  dear fuckwit, you've just described what a sensible parent does. I bet you were fed the information on the Holocaust in easily digestible chunks and not a sudden flood ue you were subjected to a form of censorship.
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  1795.  @dangreene9846  first I'm a snowflake now I'm a racist. Of which I'm neither. You have the gall to comment on somebody's IQ that you have never met and holds a different opinion, you must be one of those woke fools.
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  1796.  @meeeka  children are a group within society and as with every other grouping they show a wide range of ability to absorb and assimilate knowledge, just ask anyone who has trained to be a teacher. There is no such thing as a typical child, nor is there average human, and so you have address all concerns to the entire group or a subset of that group. Whilst some child will be able to deal with topics as difficult as the Holocaust and other such outrages others will not and so you have to start with the simplest explanations and work up, ie you censor the topic to the bare essentials and then add to those foundations.
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  1797.  @KopitioBozynski  I'm sorry for your loss, but lots of people including me (an eighteen month old baen my that would have been my great-uncle killed in the bombing of a industrial town in the north-eastern England, lost people during the WW1),was and infamous situations in history. I6m not saying se can't teach about episodes like the Holocaust but that you need to approach the matter with a degree of self-censorship. The internet is no different to any other media, it has to be used responsibly and is responsible for its content. YT is a private forum and thus it is exempt from the freedom of speech rules, ax confirmed by a court ruling.
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  1798.  @KopitioBozynski  censorship is like money neither good nor bad in itself. It is how it is used that make it good or bad. Cinema and TV age restrictions are a form of censorship, they allow people the choice of what to view and restrict children from seeing images that they might find disturbing, such as graphic violence. I'm advocating that form of censorship, which includes discussion of the Holocaust and other similar topics in age specific ways as we already do with film and TV. I'm not for the banning of the teaching about these difficult topics or lying about them. However, education has been described as lies to children because it presents simplifications of reality, for example to structure of the atom that chemistry teachers use is not the same as that used by physics teachers, but both are true for a specific value of true and are at the same time censored version of the truth.
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  1799.  @ninobelov4153  you've forgotten that YT is a private forum where you don't have the freedom of speech (as established in the US courts as YT is an American organisation). A situation you agreed to when you joined.
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  1800.  @ninobelov4153  and yet you made a defamatory statement in your post about the Vatican.
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  1801.  @RomanHistoryFan476AD  you've just contradicted yourself.
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  1802.  @RomanHistoryFan476AD  no, it's a form of censorship. The person doing it has determined that person to receive the information can't have it.
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  1803.  @RomanHistoryFan476AD  in many countries, like in the UK, teachers are paid by the state which also sets the curriculum so it all gets linked. Censorship starts with the self and finishes with the state.
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  1804.  @RomanHistoryFan476AD  I'd only want that for the maturest of children. Those about to go off to University. The rest get censored versions. The latest episode of the Franco-Prussian War went into fairly graphic details of injuries sustained during the fighting, and they always complaining about age restrictions.
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  1805.  @RomanHistoryFan476AD  it's on the Real Time History channel on YT. The episode came out on Thursday.
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  1806.  @RomanHistoryFan476AD  it's as good as their series on the Great War, as well as one of those wars that is hardly covered outside of France and Germany.
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  1807.  @David-ci1vn  why do you say that?
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  1808.  @MikeHunt-zy3cn  yes, the age if the person viewing the material. The same is true of TV channels as this private forum. Yes, You Tube is a private forum with it's own rules of what us acceptable for viewers and presenters which means if we want to use this forum we have to obey their rules. The same is true for film makers and TV channels, they need to ensure that if they want the widest possible viewership they have to present a sanitised version of events or face restrictions on viewership. The difference between films, TV channels and You Tube is the organisations enforcing the rules. There are only 2 options on You Tube - obey their rules or find another forum.
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  1809.  @vespadavidson2315  no it happened almost 60 years ago when the rules were different. No why don't you go and do what you suggested.
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  1810.  @benadams834  not sociopathic but reality. It happened and although the video doesn't set out why, I have. If you don't like it, tough.
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  1811.  @jalapenofarts  let's see the Charities Act 1960 and the terms of deed drawn up for the Aberfan Fund. The Charity Commission advised that any money paid out had to in line with the terms of the trust deeds, which means that inquiries about where the parents and children habitually resided had to be asked.
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  1812.  @jalapenofarts  I am not defending the situation but putting it in to proper context, something you are failing to do. If you had bother to read the deeds of the trust you will see that it not only see that it talks about being resident in the affected area but also says it is for the benefit of the children of that area. This means that the parents had to show that they were both resident in the area AND in a close familial relationship in order to claim the money ie not living separately or divorced and with custody of the child or children in question. Whilst not nice, it was deemed necessary. The world doesn't run on nice, it does run on necessary.
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  1813.  @wix7657  any damage to property being used by a state agency is always paid for by the tax-payer.
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  1814.  @carolecollins853  no I put events into their historic context like grown ups do.
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  1815.  @Hartley_Hare let's look at an analogous situation. One of the justifications for the Atlantic slave trade was that it was allowed by the Bible. Europeans bought slaves from the slave ports on the Atksntic coast of Africa because Leviticus 24 v44-45 allows it and in those days no one argued that the Bible could be wrong. Is slavery abhorrent? Yes, it is. Could those involved in it justify it? Yes, provided they accepted the inerrency of the Bible. Should we allow slavery? No. And we should look to the teachings of Jesus for our justification, that all men are your brothers. The situation after Aberfan was wrong, but they thought it was justifiable as their actions were in line with what the law allowed. After Grenfell Tower, we had a few chances taken money from the relief charity, some of whom ended up in prison for their greed. The laws under which relief charities operate have been improved, but the people running such charities still need to be vigilant against fraudsters. A large chunk of the Grenfell money will never be recovered from the fraudsters meaning the real victims went shorter than they should have done. Society may have changed, but the individuals that make up society haven't.
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  1816.  @Hartley_Hare  then you fail understand anything I've said on this matter. I am viewing the matter without letting my emotions run away with me. I have said the rules were too inflexible, too Victorian, in the 1960s and that after this tragedy the rules have been improved somewhat although they are still far from perfect. The requirement to establish the relationship between parent and child are still in place. And the rules are still in place to ensure that only those who should get support get it. Perhaps you should think with your head and put the events into their proper historical context. Putting a fraudster who has conned a charity out of its funds into prison is counter productive. The charity doesn't get its list money back and the public has to pay for the incarceration of somebody we could be putting to a mird profitable work.
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  1817.  @Hartley_Hare  that fine. I don't need the pity of fools.
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  1818.  @pollypockets508  not so. Professionally distanced. If you become emotionally involved you make bad decisions. Just look Operation Midland, the police investigation 8ntonhistiric child abuse by high-profile persons including a former Prime Minister and a former home Secretary, and what happens when you don't check the credibility of the person making the claim. Whilst the police must accept that a victim tells them as being true from the victims position, they must, when there is no corroborating physical evidence, ensure that the victim is a credible witness and not a fanfasist like Cark Beech was. It is clear that senior police officers failed to maintain their professional distance and let their hearts rule their heads.
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  1819.  @Norfnorf12  prove it. Everything I've posted is based on fact.
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  1820.  @casswashwash1070  just putting things into the correct context, ya muppet.
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  1821.  @johnmcdyer1573  and in English?
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  1822. @bethanywilliams1260  what those families went through in the aftermath was fairly typical for the period. Whilst cruel and barbaric compared to what we do today, you have to view history through the lens of what things were like at the time. Otherwise, you miss the point of the lessons that history teaches. Coming forward to a more recent tragedy, Gremfell Tower, because the rules were changed over the years to more compassionate one, fraudsters took money that should have been spent on the real victims. The old harsh rules of the 1960s effectively prevent such actions.
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  1823. It adds another logistics chain, when a modified bomber or fighter doesn't.
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  1824.  @jameshead9119  the AWACS are based on the 707 airframe, but used when introduced the same engine as the B-52H, KC-135E and the C-141 reducing the logistical support required. What's more it was based on a commercial engine making spares more readily available; as does the use of an airliner as the airframe.
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  1825.  @jameshead9119  yes it was a common engine, but your point was so vague that it was no longer a point. And yes it was in use with the US Army both in the air and on the ground. So the logistic chain would not have been so great a problem. However, whilst it could have fill the SAR and sub spotter roles it would have made better sense to use an aircraft in either role with greater range and payload. What use is an SAR that doesn't have the capability to carry and drop rescue equipment (both the Westland Lysabder and Boulton Paul Defiant had this capability). And why just had sub spotters when a more capable maritime reccon aircraft would not only get the sub to submerge but also could sink the sub without needing a second aircraft to come along and kill fish long after the sub had left the area.
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  1826. Elbonia was created by Scott Adams in his Dilbert cartoons.
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  1827. Elon Musk is Derek Trotter - "This time next year we'll....[INSERT LIE HERE]".
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  1828.  @hekatoncheiros208  thanks, thought it was something like that.
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  1829. The nobles, more often than not, held manors spread widely over England as well as in Wales, Ireland, Scotland and until they were lost in what is now France. So, the having a manor down in Surrey and one in Nottinghamshire is historically accurate.
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  1830. No wonder the ice bridge collapsed if it was the 4th August (narration at the 3:26 mark).
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  1831. The sacks being loaded into the bomb bay at the 6:10 mark are branded as Portland Cement. This leads to 2 conclusions: 1. That they used these sacks to contain the food supplies; or 2. That this photo is not from the Operation Manna period, but the Berlin Airlift.
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  1832.  @MarkFeltonProductions  thanks for the reply. You known just how often photos get mislabelled in your work.
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  1833. We, well the Scots, have "a face like a well skelpit arse" (a face like a well slapped arse).
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  1834.  @SkyLightsUFOs  no my mind was made up after seeing your evidence. Took only a few seconds to realise just how poor the evidence is and just how easy it is to come up with a more realistic explanation in line with the precepts of Occam's Razor.
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  1835.  @shaundouglas2057  the ventral turret was replaced by the H2S radome on many Lancasters. Early Lancasters were fitted with IIRC a Frazer-Nash FN.64 turret with used a periscope for targeting and aiming. Thus turret had a very small field of view and was almost impossible to use in combat. Lancasters not fitted with a radar set were often fitted at Squadron level with a downward firing machine gun or guns as a defensive measure.
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  1836.  @JMiskovsky  the big difference between a damaged tank and a damaged aircraft is that in a tank the g-forces never increase until it explodes. If the g-l9afing doubles you need twice the strength to fo anything that you could do on the ground in a 1g environment.
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  1837. The numbers represent the distance in feet from the sign to the hydrant.
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  1838. Von Spee and the ship that was named after him both ended their days in the South Atlantic.
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  1839. Yes, but mainly in the early days of naval aviation. There was the Harrier Skyhook project which use gyro-stabilised cranes to pick Harriers out of the sky or to launch them. I'm not sure if it got any further than the drawing board.
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  1840. A consignment of geriatric shoemakers.
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  1841. Lions led by donkeys is a phrase used to describe the British Army in WW1 and was not used before the 1960s. It is credited to Max Hastings AND not a German.
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  1842.  @bigwoody4704  from what I've seen, since my original posting, Ludendorff only said thec first part, and General Hoffman completed it. But they weren't the first to use this particular phrase. That honour goes to Karl Marx and Frederick Engels after the battle for Redan in the Crimean War. But in dates back even further to Plutarch but he used deer and lions.
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  1843. Sounds like the initial operations commanded by Phleps were the blueprint for the American operations in Vietnam. The Hunting Commando operations sound more like the "Hearts and Minds" tactics used by the British in Malaya.
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  1844. Your thumbnail features a Harrier, an aircraft without a tail hook.
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  1845. @Ottedikkie  just because you have priority doesn't mean you have to take it. In that traffic, if you wait until there is a suitable gap, then you're going to wait a long time.
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  1846. The mist obvious source of failure is the tube. It will need leak-proof expansion joints. Jointed railway tracks in the UK was made of track panels of upto 60 feet, at the end of each panel an expansion gap of 3/8 inch was left to prevent track buckling in summer. Continuously welded rail needs larger expansion joints set at regular interval to a void thus issue but still we get the occasional buckled rail due to the heat of the Sun. Ok paint the tube white, but it will still expand and contract significantly. Virgin Rail no longer exists.
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  1847. Ian, Joluqa Malta has a video on his channel called Rearming a Wellington that's shows the daily maintenance routine in such a gun in the rear turrent of a Wellington. You get to see over the gunner's shoulder just what they did to clean the gun.
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  1848. A payload is a load that pays. Fuel is NOT a payload.
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  1849.  @lamwen03  then why does our presenter say "the wing was prone to receiving more damage from enemy fire"? He says nothing about the wing absorbing more or less damage before failure than other aircraft. He might mean this but he doesn't say it. He says the wing was prone to receiving more damage, which as I pointed out is unremarkable as the wing carried the engines and fuel tanks both of which are prime targets from enemy fighters.
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  1850.  @lamwen03  that's an assumption too far. How do we know what he meant to say? We can't, we can only go with what he said. Surely a larger wing would be more prone to receiving more enemy fire? A smaller wing can have a more denser structure and can ge more robust than a larger wing with a less dense structure. The reverse is also true a less dense structure can allow shells through before their fuses have time to operate. This was noted during the Battle of Britain where canon shells that would explode with the fuselage of a Spitfires would pass through that of the fuselage of the Hurricane before exploding. I do agree that his script writing lets him down as ge makes many errors, but we can only address what is I his presentations and mot what we think should be there.
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  1851.  @krips22  and vice versa. Neither side comes out smelling of roses.
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  1852.  @krips22  there's plenty of Francophiles on the on this channel foing exactly that with their English (or if they're more intelligent British) ran away to the beaches and back home comments which ignores the landing of elements if the British Army to the west of the Somme, such as the 51st (Highland) Infantry Division and 1st Armoured Diguson both if which fought in the battle of Abbeville which ended after the evacuations from Dunkerque. These troops had to be evacuated once France signed the armistice with the Germans. Yes, the French army failures of 1940 have given rise to a lot if insults, but does that mean the Francophiles have to stoop to the same level? The army's failings were mainly political with governments not wanting a large army, getting conscripts barely trained before the end of their period of conscription, and a general lack of wanting to spend money of the mobile parts of the army. This coupled with the intention of refighting the battles of WW1 after learning the wrong lessons frim that war (as did the British). The Germans, as the losers tend to do, learnt the real lessons of that war, although they also got things wrong. From what I've read the only radio that Gamelain had access to was perfect for listening to Radio Luxembourg or the BBC World Service but could not be used yo order troops around. To do tag he had to either send a messenger or use the public telephone network. The Germans had plenty of radios and knew how to make best use of them.
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  1853. And Gruinard Island is now habitable.
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  1854. You need something approaching 10 times the draw weight of a longbow to get a similiar performance out of a crossbow as the limbs have a much shorter distance to impart the energy into the bolt compared to the longbow. Steel has the strength to do thus, but is slow to return to its preloaded shape. Horn composite or wooden limbs respond quicker, but wouldn't be able to take same load. It is the speed at which the bows power is transferred to the bolt or arrow that is more important than the overall draw weight, or so I am lead to believe from what I have seen.
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  1855. For clarification: perpendicular to which direction in the hull?
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  1856.  @owensteam  is that perpendicular to the ground or some other frame of reference? Ditto for parallel? Perpendicular just means at 90 degrees to some frame of reference.
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  1857.  @Aperson156  just like the original Mini.
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  1858. Number 11. You need to pay better attention. The turn signal is clearly on from the start of your clip. And SLOW down in the rain as your stopping distance will be at least double what it is in the dry. New wiper blades wouldn't go amiss either.
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  1859. Brand is still the annoying idiot he was when on the Radio in the UK where he and Jonathan Ross whiost briadcasting phoned up Andrew Sachs and left lewd nessages on his answerphone including sexual ones relating Brand's relationship with Sach's granddaughter.
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  1860. Are these vehicles actually WW2 weapons or just post-war build versions of vehicles used WW2?
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  1861. Depends in the cause of that fire.
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  1862. The UK came off the Gold Standard because it was killing our economy. A certain Winston S. Churchill put us back onto the Gold Standard but at too a high a value. The idiot politician put us on at the the pre-WW1 value which was too high for our post-war economy as it made our exports too expensive compared to those from our industrial competitors. We came off the Gold Standard just in time for the aftermath of the Wall Street Crash to destroy international trade.
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  1863. It's not B.1 Washington BUT Washington B (for Bomber) Mk 1, as anyone who knows anything abou RAF aircraft designations.
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  1864. Just don't get started on the so-called palandromic years.
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  1865. I thought that slogan came from the war years.
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  1866.  @None-zc5vg  the design was finalised overnight, but Heinemann and his team had been designing a replacement for their less than sterling BTD-1. Heinemann had been lobbying the Navy to cancel the multi-seat BTD-1 and allow them onto submit a new design the XBT2D-1, which was later redesignated the AD-1 (or more fully A1D-1), which was designed to the same specification as the AM-1 (originally designated the BTM). The AD-1 was essentially a single seat version of the BTD which had been developed from the XSB2D-1, but with an uncranked wing and a traditional tail-dragger configuration. Heniemann had asked the Navy for 30mdqys to put in the new design submission but the Navy only gave him to the following morningba 09:00. 3 hours later the BTD-1 was cancelled and the AD-1 was born. The time taken by Martin to sort out the AM-1's handling and other issues were just what Heinemann and Diuglas needed to perfect their design.
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  1867.  @nunyabidniz2868  correct, their are only a handful if solutions to every aviation design problem.
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  1868. These old men must have had knowledge that was useful for the group they were with.
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  1869. Peterborough wasn't even a city at the time.
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  1870. What you said primary routes on roundabouts is not strictly accurate. A primary route is defined as a motorway and the more important A roads. What the thicker exit marker indicates which exit to take to remain on the same road.
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  1871.  @prof_kaos9341  from what I've seen the A11 (Matilda 1) and A12 (Matilda 2) were in almost simultaneous development and the project was given the code name Project Matilda. But no one can confirm just why the name Matilda was given. It might have been the duck or it might have been another reason, but the name was applied before the design process had started.
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  1872. @zhufortheimpaler4041  but you did say it was done with brains and consistency, otherwise why retain a weapon system past its best? Thatcher's economic policies came from her deep moral and political convictions.
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  1873. @SonsOfLorgar  she was the daughter of a shopkeeper, you muppet, with strong Christian values.
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  1874. @itsericzhou  HESH was developed during WW2 as an anti-fortification weapon. It was also found to good at killing tanks and other armoured vehicles, but as armour technology advanced, it became less effective against other tanks but still capable against less well armoured vehicles. Why waste an APFSDS round against a target it would go straight through? And as smooth bore weapons predominately the tank world eventually it would lose its place in British tanks.
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  1875. 15.2 - was that the notorious CC of Westchester County you caught on film?
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  1876. @ZacharieGartner  In the case of Burgos, IIRC, the British and their allies suffered from supply shortages and a lack of artillery.
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  1877. @maximilianodelrio  I was just using the number of German Divisions given in this presentation.
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  1878. The B-17 upto the F model could carry 8,000lb if bombs externally along with a full internal bomb load. They could carry that bomb load 790 miles at 25,000ft or 1,170 miles at a measly 6,000ft (and that range is enough to get to Berlin) before returning empty.
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  1879. But not if you were using it when someone bought a stamp.
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  1880. Leeches are used in surgery to this day when dealing with the re-attachment of body parts. They are the best thing in nature and medicine for stimulating blood flow.
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  1881. There was nothing decisive in regard to the bombing of Hiroshima or Nagasaki bringing about the end of the fighting in Asia. It is equally likely that the invasion of Manchuria by the Soviet Union was the cause of Japan's surrender.
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  1882. Shurely, by have 90% fewer shystems that can fail, it has to be 90% shafer. Bar keep another round for me and Harvey.
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  1883.  @Katy_Jones  probably where the term stately pile comes from. Greetings from, possibly another descendant of Border Revier (from Middle March unless it's from the Glen Coe or Caithness branches of the clan).
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  1884. The Sperrin was the insurance aircraft in case of failure of the other 3 designs.
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  1885. The Hood was a cruiser with battleship size guns.
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  1886.  @FranciscoJG  in 2008 the UK government announced plans to construct new nuclear powerplants at current nuclear powerplants. One such location was announced in 2010 was Sizewell in Suffolk. The energy company EDF back in 2012 agreed to construct 2 reactors. They intended to work with China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN). On 27/5/2020 a development convent order application was submitted (yes after 8 years they started the process to get permission to start construction). Suffolk County Council rejected the application on environmental impact grounds due to the intended number of heavy goods vehicles going to and from the site. The planning application was finally approved on 20/7/2022. On 3/11/2022 the programme was put on review under a government spending review but on 17/11/2022 the go ahead wax given, but the government bought out CGN's 20% share on security grounds. No physical construction has so far started since planning consent was granted. Construction and commissioning is estimated to take between 9 and 12 years. So, that's 2 years to decide upon the location, 10 years to design the site and get permission to build, just over a year to get financing in place and for tendering fir contracts and upto a dozen years before it starts earning its keep. That means it will be producing electricity between 2033 and 2036 or about a quarter of a century after the site was selected by which time its electricity will be well overdue. Now, tell me again that the planning costs are insignificant?
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  1887. The tragedy at Bethnal Green was caused by firing of a rocket battery. This new sound caused panic in those wanting to get into the tube station.
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  1888. Concrete is crap under tension but great under compression. It's the reinforcing rods that take the tension.
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  1889.  @barracuda7018  yes, the British didn't have an axial-flow turbojet in service as the centrifugal ones were proving to be more reliable. The Metrovick F2 wzs eventually developed into the Sapphire family of engines. And as I said in my first posting, the Germans had the first turbofan to operate, but due to various reasons including making it over complicated and underpowered they had to stop working on it.
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  1890.  @sparky4878  yes, which is part of the RAF.
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  1891. It's nice to have a ideo on the Cinderella War. good book that covers all of the battles for the ports is "Smashing the Atlantic Wall" by Patrick Delaforce. It covers everything from Cherbourg to Antwerp.
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  1892. They made a film about the San Demetriano.
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  1893. The Sundays during Lent were not considered part of Lent as the Mass on Sundays was a remembrance of the cruxifiction of Jesus. This is why 8f you count the days between Ash Wednesday and Easter Day is more than 40 days. As the Sundays are not part of the Season of Lent you could eat what you wanted to.
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  1894. Isn't the castle at 2:50 Bamburgh?
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  1895. Trump's bruised hand was caused by the people who shook his hand and think a good firm handshake is one that hurts the recipient.
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  1896. Point 2 - mutation of the virus could account for changes to the death rate. For example the variety of the virus causing Covid-19 in Italy is different to that affect California. The Italian strain has more attachment points for connecting to human cells than the Californian strain.
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  1897. Mutation of the virus could account for changes to the death rate. For example the variety of the virus causing Covid-19 in Italy is different to that affect California. The Italian strain has more attachment points for connecting to human cells than the Californian strain.
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  1898.  @teacherdude  depends on what each Me264 dropped. Standard bombs or nerve gas filled ones or even radioactive material filled bombs (not as nasty as a proper nuke but nasty enough). Might even be enough to revive isolationism in the US or to spur the total destruction of Germany.
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  1899. Rights come with responsibilities.
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  1900. Churchill was posted to a relatively peaceful sector of the front line, save for the regular, almost incessant German bombardments which could have easily killed him. A large piece of shrapnel just missed him and his cousin.
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  1901. Denmark is also outside of the Euro.
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  1902. Welcome to the club.
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  1903. It worked out the Mossie though and the early DH jets.
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  1904. I always preferred the F-110.
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  1905. So, winter in Italy is April to November.
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  1906. To get a full Darwin Award you have to remove yourself from the gene pool before reproducing.
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  1907.  @Bad_Drivers_Caught_On_Dashcam  you clearly don't understand the adage. The adage puts the onus on you to maintain safe gaps where the onus is on you to keep them, ie when behind simone, and to be aware of your position on the road and what is going on all around you, so that you can take action to prevent becoming involved in an accident. You certainly do not have to entitlement to any part of the road as the law also requires you to maintain a safe gap from other road users. Priority is not taken but given.
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  1908.  @Bad_Drivers_Caught_On_Dashcam  what total bullshit. You are a danger to everyone with that attitude.
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  1909. As Spike Milligan put it when asked what the Germans were up to during the Tunisian campaign in WW2. He said they were upto Chaprter 2 because of all the long words.
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  1910. That was the glory of bands like Queen, everybody could find a favourite song on their albums.
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  1911. "Lest we forget" applies to all sides.
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  1912. In Danish knife is kniv where the k is pronounced. This would have reinforced the Old English words spoken in the Danelaw, as both languages I heard were mutually understandable to a degree a bit like Norwegian, Danish and Swedish today.
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  1913. On paper Uruguay had no chance, but what does paper know? Well played Uruguay.
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  1914. The French were having new planes delivered from their factories on the day they sign the armistice with the Germans. All through out the campaign they were getting new aircraft, but very few were sent to the squadrons fighting the Germans. They went to central stock piles.
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  1915. And he got to play an officer in "The Way Ahead", a docudrama about a fictional regiment, the Duke of Glendon's Light Infantry.
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  1916. Darell Huff wrote a book called "How to lie with Statistics".
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  1917. Well done number 4 in your 3rd clip for turning it in to a non-event. Well driven.
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  1918. ​ @AndyDrake-FOOKYT I was referring to their 3rd clip.
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  1919. There would not have been a manual lever for these points. Not on a high speed route like this (160km/h track speed). Manual point levers are used in sidings. You might find a small lever frame working an exit from a group of sidings that is interlocked with the signals on the mainline and needs yo be unlocked to work but never a manual lever. What happened was the derailed coach forced the switch (point) blades over from the straight ahead to the diverging route. Thus causing the derailment. I know that this is what it says in Wikipedia and other sources that quote the same source, but it is wrong. A signalman at Connington on the ECML fack in the 1960s worked out that he could partially change a point without breaking the interlocking. One day he was swinging on a point levef and derailed a train by shifting the point just enough for it to catch in a wheel set derailing the train.
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  1920. Sub-variant. Pun intended?
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  1921. Try 1907 for the first stable, controllable tailless powered aircraft with swept wings. It was even demonstrated in front of Orville Wright. Unfortunately Dunne's ill-health and WW1 prevent him from developing them further.
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  1922. And people still wonder why Oberleutnant Armin Faber the Gruppen-Adjutant to the commander of III Gruppe of Jagdgeschwader 2 ended up landing in Wales instead of France.
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  1923. Anyway you read it, it doesn't mean the woman is there without the person they are in a relation with.
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  1924. Err, she says to scale and not full scale. These do not mean the same thing, unless you built it to a 1:1 scale. To scale, to an engineer or model maker means every component has been built to a different uniform scale that may not be full scale. Thunderf00t busted, on a minor technicality.
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  1925. Next time follow the Blue Peter method - here's one I prepared earlier.
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  1926. Because there are dozens of debunkers watching these videos to debunk them, who more often than not include the link to the video they are debunking so that their viewers can see that they using the debunked video soundly. Some of those viewers will then watch the debunked video.
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  1927. A dowser was seen in an episode of the archaeology show "Time Team". They told the archaelogists that there were more finds deeper in the soil when they were already down to the natural clay below the levels where human activity could have been found.
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  1928.  @tovartovarski5522  no the urban legend is that the operations against Yugoslavia and Greece DELAYED the invasion of the Soviet Union. However, the weather and ground conditions would have delay the invasion to June, which is when the invasion started.
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  1929.  @HistoryHustle  Military History Visualised On YT did a short video debunking an earlier start date for Op Barbarossa. I agree with his conclusions that the operations in Yugoslavia didn't delay Barbarossa.
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  1930. 8,1 nice music. Your choice or just the radio?
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  1931. The prototype K2 was in plywood and still exists in the entanceway to IIRC the Royal Acadamy in London. There are still about 5 K4s in public use and 2 on preserved railways that I know of (at Bury on the ELR and Bewdley on the SVR).
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  1932. Have you tried Mild?
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  1933. Mulberry B survived the storm that destroyed Mulberry A as it had been properly constructed. Falaise was a missed opportunity.
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  1934. All hail the almighty malgorithm.
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  1935. @seanmalloy7249  citation needed, because so far I can't see one source supporting this.
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  1936.  @ThePlayerOfGames  the beam is still spread across all sources I can access in relation to the inverse square law. Divergence is defined as how much a beam of light spreads out over distance.
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  1937. Signal beacons have been used since forever. About 120 years ago archeologists dug the remains of a Roman signal station on Hunt Cliff, Saltburn (the rest had already been lost to the North Sea). This was part of a chain of such signal stations on the Saxon coast of England.
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  1938.  @terrymckenna3382  at least it's knocked Brexit off as the top story.
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  1939. ​ @camenbert5837 how many shots per hour from the arqebus? An average bowman could do around 600. Spanish pin cushions, anyone?
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  1940. ​ @AdamMGTF Flodden Field.
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  1941.  @TheSchultinator  whilst undoubtedly true, the bow was much more accurate at this time and had a much faster reload time.
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  1942.  @TheSchultinator  in every battle accuracy is needed.
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  1943.  @TheSchultinator  to kill a long bowman or the user of a musket you need accuracy. And you have not given any reasonable description of accuracy. A trained English bowman in this period used a willow wand as his target at 100 paces not the big circular targets we use today. The best of the best could hit it, the average bowman could get their arrows within 6 inches of either side. Arrows in the period of the armada were mass produced. In 1359 850,000 arrows were delivered to the Tower of London alone, from a population still recovering from the effects of the Black Death, the following year it was 500,000 arrows.
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  1944.  @a2falcone  the tercio is just another form of the schiltron but with added firepower. However, it was also highly vulnerable to artillery in the same way as squares were in the Napoleonic wars, or the shiltrons used by William Wallace or Robert de Brus were to the longbow.
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  1945. Number 3 has probably watched too many clips of red-light jumpers and wants to be safe.
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  1946. If those vacuum chambers are made of Corten Steel then the corrosion isn't a problem. Just ask a metallurgist.
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  1947.  @johnt.848  and which rule in the Highway Code is that?
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  1948. @johnt.848  and yet it says nothing about speeding up which you maintain is OK. Hmmh, can't see how that helps you. Rather it seems to contradict you.
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  1949.  @johnt.848  stop shifting the goal posts. I never said speeding, but accelerating, which is not the same. I can see why you're not a driving instructor any more
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  1950. @johnt.848  no comments deleted. So stop lying.
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  1951. The British Nationality Act 1981 sent the signal that we would not defend the islanders if Argentina invaded.
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  1952. Number 4 - the biker put himself into danger the car was already indication the turn before the biker joined that carriageway.
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  1953.  @ITBOILSMYBLOOD  the car driver was stuck between turning from the middle lane or running the biker off the road.
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  1954.  @beerdedwanderer  they are synonyms.
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  1955. ​ @ITBOILSMYBLOOD  yes, that was an option. But it was also an option for the biker to use their brains and to back off. Noa1one comes out of this interaction as the good guy. The biker is doubly foolish as before they joined the road the carcwas indicating a turn and they still put themself in to a position of greater danger.
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  1956.  @ITBOILSMYBLOOD  and my response you remains that the biker was also an idiot for putting themself into a dangerous position for failing to notice or react appropriately to a car indicating a turn. They are more foolish when you remember just how much larger the blind spot is on that side of the car.
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  1957.  @ITBOILSMYBLOOD  or did they get flustered by the first that they weren't in a fit state to drive on? Please not the cammer had space to go around them and didn't have to stop directly behind them.
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  1958.  @ITBOILSMYBLOOD  not deflecting at all, but pointing out that the situation is more complex than your smooth brain accepts. The car driver made mistakes but soi did the biker. The biker was allowed to accelarate but by doing so put them into danger and into the driver's blunddpot with a car intending to turn. The car driver was forced by the presence of tge biker to remain in the middle lane from where they shouldn't of turned, but they did end the biker had plenty of time to have noticed the turn signal but ignored it. As for the second incident that was related to getting stressed out after the first incident. A situation many people find themselves in, in less dangerous situations every day.
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  1959.  @88porpoise  and in Russia they had the same issues (see TIK's video on German logistics).
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  1960. Number 20 you don't need any oil or diesel just lots of rubber tyAres followed by rain.
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  1961. TIK 250 from 350 leaves 100 and not 150.
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  1962. George Medhurst came up with the idea in 1799.
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  1963.  @tdoran616  not unusual for a heavy hunter. They also pull the British Royal coaches. Not bad for one of, if not, the oldest established breeds of horses in England and from my old stomping ground.
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  1964.  @amh9494  did you know that the Cleveland Bay, which I mentioned in an earlier post, was breed to be both a draft and a riding horse? No, didn't think so.
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  1965. Will you be covering the non-white British Empire units other than the Gurkhas and Indian Army or you be ignoring their contributions?
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  1966.  @Demun1649  total bollocks.
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  1967.  @fritobandito5374  just because they can afford better lawyers doesn't mean a 2 tier system, so yes he is talking bollocks.
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  1968.  @fritobandito5374  is Savile really your best evidence of a 2 tier system of justice? Yes, he was considered by many to be dodgy but he was never convicted because the police couldn't get the evidence. You can't get a conviction without evidence. There enough bad drivers out there that have never been caught by the police. Does this indicate a 2 tier justice system or is it that in system of policing by consensus that the police can't be everywhere? Or would you prefer a police state, like North Korea or Stalin's Soviet Union?
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  1969.  @fritobandito5374  let's see, he's still facing possible criminal prosecution for what has been alleged by Ms Giuffre although he reached an out of court settlement when she sued him. In the US to get a conviction in a civil case like this all the accuser's legal team has to do is show a preponderance of evidence e (ie they need to show that it us greater than 50% chance that the evidence is true), a much lower standard than the beyond reasonable doubt needed in a criminal case. This hints that there is not enough credible evidence e yo bring a criminal prosecution and mist of that evidence boils down to personal testimony with no physical evidence to corroborate it. If the police or FBI gets sufficient evidence to prosecute him, there is no reason to believe he won't be extradited as he committed the offences in that country. He's not another Gary McKinnon, who the US authorities wanted to extradite but had it blocked by Theresa May whilst she was Home Secretary. Now, he' really is nobody important unlike Prince Andrew. A certain Keir Starmer as the Director of Public Prosecutions announced that McKinnon wouldn't be prosecuted in the UK due to the difficulties involved of bring the evidence against him from the US. Now argue that we've a 2 tour system where the rich and powerful get all the breaks.
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  1970.  @fritobandito5374  "just because they can afford better lawyers doesn't men there isn't a 2 tier legal system" is what you started with before moving on to 2 example of people with either power or influence. This infers that you fo think that the rich and influential get better treatment from the legal system. But Prince Andrew will be tried by the American legal system that won't care about his privileged position in British society. And you have no answer for the legal system's treatment of a relative nobody, a person with neither more or influence who was protected against the Ametican justice system.
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  1971.  @fritobandito5374  Prince Andrew is still undef I investigation by the police and FBI. Although they have yet to bring charges and unless there are statutes of limitation regarding timeframes since the offences occurred we will just have to wait and see just who else gets indicted and amongst the friends of Epstein, who as he died before his trial his legally innocent of all charges he faced, include former-President Donald Trump. But remember the burden of proof is on the accuser not the accused. If it comes down to a she said/he said argument then it becomes very difficult for the prosecution to win their case.
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  1972.  @fritobandito5374  what about illegal migrants? The UN Convention Refugees allows that there wi, ge timex they gave to travel frommibe country to another illegally to seek a place of safety. It also expects them to claim asylum in the first safe country they come to, but many of them don't know where they are until the people smugglers tell them they are in the UK. Are you aware that one of the defences against people was dismantled when we left the EU? Prior to Brexit anyone claiming asylum anywhere in the EEA was fingerprinted and their details recorded. So if they claimed in one country and them came here and claimed again they would be sent back to that country. With Brexit and the loss of that system they can claim there get refused and then try again here. One of Brexit's benefits that Good Old Nige never mentioned.
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  1973.  @fritobandito5374  as I understand it the Home Office is planning another flight soon. Many failed asylum seekers have voluntarily returned home with a grant to set up a business, a system that has been running for around 20 years. As for Linton-on-Ouse theybare the victims of the liberalism planning system that the Conservatives put in their manifesto a few elections back IIRC. The majority of the country voted for the Conservatives and thus it became law. This is one of the unexpected consequences and has nothing to do with immigration. Brexit was solely about our place in Europe and has nothing to do with illegal migration except to make it harder to deal with.
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  1974.  @fritobandito5374  Tony Blair was Labour, so why would the Conservatives follow his agenda? Makes no sense. If you mean they deal with refugess fairly, well that just showing your ignorance as all they are doing is following the 1951 UN Convention on Refugees, which this country was founding signatory. There's nothing in the Convention that prevents flights to Rwanda or anywhere else to deal with an asylum claim. The people of Linton can go to the courts to get planning permission refused. Again your ignorance is showing through as the refugee centre will be on the former RAF base outside of the town. And which part of the EU dictated to us? Surely you don't mean th European Court of Human Rights founded in 1959, with the UK being a founding member 14 years before we joined the EEC and 33 years before it became the EU. All its dictates were to do with our government breaching either the laws it passed or the rules of the EU (which our parliament enshrined into our laws). As for the NGOs I haven't finished reading about them, but they are involved. The aircraft and crew for the first Rwanda flight was from a Spanish company, making it an NGO. More rain for your parade.
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  1975.  @fritobandito5374  why are you so ignorant of the real world?
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  1976.  @eric2500  yes, it all equates to today.
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  1977.  @fritobandito5374  still beating the same dead horse? Time you got a life.
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  1978.  @mikethebloodthirsty  provide proof and I might believe you, no evidence = your own false claims.
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  1979.  @rayjames6096  it's as much a flying wing as the G38 or AW52.
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  1980. Of our own will we took the field Our spears like stands of pine Though battle-weary shield to shield We vowed to hold the line Far to the north we had put to flight An army twice this size But marching south three days and nights Til we heard the Norman cries Breme fell at Hastings And under bitter skies Pieced by the cruellest blackest reign The heart of England lies The heart of England lies In hearth and home and family We had welcome fires to burn But they'd burnt their boats behind them No hope of safe return. Now beaten down and broken We are driven from our homes And the foreign tongue is spoken now Within our Saxon walls Breme fell at Hastings And under bitter skies Pieced by the cruellest blackest reign The heart of England lies Oh the heart of England lies In forests taken by the crown We hunt our game in fear For if we're found they'll ride us down And trap like common deer From castle gates their lord's hand down The edicts of the King. Now in every shire and county town In bondage now we sing Breme fell at Hastings And under bitter skies Pierced by the cruellest blackest reign The heart of England lies Breme fell at Hastings And under bitter skies Pieced by the cruellest blackest reign The heart of England lies Oh the heart of England lies Words by Steve Knightly of Show of Hands. PS Breme was a farmer from Suffolk recorded as fighting and dying in this battle.
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  1981. It's a long forgotten raid.
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  1982. You could say that most countries are artificial creations. The United Kingdom is certainly one, with Scots, English, Welsh, Irish, Manx and Channel Islanders forming the largest 8 distinct groupings (there are 3 main Channel Islands).
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  1983.  @metanoian965  the United Kingdom is indeed a country. We have one seat at the UN not 4.
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  1984. If the contract had been placed with Kaiser Fleetwings thetbwoukd have had to partner with a company with a proven record if aircraft design and production of naval aircraft for use on carriers.
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  1985. @kaylingibson8887  and then tried to justify it by saying the truck crossed into her lane. Which it may have done by a fraction of an inch, but unless you are riding the line will never be an issue.
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  1986. @kaylingibson8887  we seem to take the same attitude to poor driving. Keeping in the back of my mind the times I've driven a poorly.
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  1987. They were there but had the brains to stay under tge radar.
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  1988. You can use either septagonal or heptagonal.
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  1989. That's a long way to go to the Loo. You could have popped down to Cornwall. And on the way you could have popped in to see the Westward Ho.
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  1990. RCS = Radar Cross Section.
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  1991. Well Riebels always die.
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  1992. I think you've got the north-Easter boundary for the Danlaw a little off. The boundary is normally drawn along the River Tees which is the notch a little to the south of where you put the line. I grew in Marske (which was a Danish settlement and which derives its name from Mærsk oo boy ground) and a few miles away we had the distinctly Saxon Charlton.
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  1993.  @RobWords  it's not that bad, they would have had some influence up ther amongst the Northumbrians.
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  1994.  @chellesama8256  the second bridge is still in use.
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  1995. If Ron Howard had made the accident realistic it wouldn't have been dramatic and the film wouldn't have been as watchable.
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  1996. They tried something like this in WW1, but it was more like the V-1 than the Project Aphrodite aircraft. The WW1 version was very hit or miss (more miss than hit).
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  1997. Well, in the UKthe lettuce outlasted Luz Truss, the previous Conservative PM before Rishi Sunak, who lost the General Election.
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  1998. Although the Boer War wasn't the first time concentration camps had been used. The "honour" goes to the Spanish. But I have one question: Did the death to.l you quoted for the internment camps include the deaths of the guards? Disease was rife on both sides of the wire. The supplies to these camps were often inadequate due to poor logistics and the actions of the Boer Commandos cutting the supply lines. Couple that to inadequate facilities you have a recipe for disaster.
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  1999. And Liege, in August 1914, plus the shelling of the east coast towns.
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  2000. There are uglier things, but I wasn't sober when I saw them...
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  2001. Apologies to the late, great Spike Milligan, but the period of 1930-1936 sounds like simple moments of political fun.
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  2002. There would have been guns facing forward aft (called bow and stern chasers), but only 2 of each and often of a lower calibre than the main battery.
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  2003. Was that midnight local time?
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  2004.  DR Dan  the history that seems to celebrate the slavers and slave owners? We don't need statues to remember them.
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  2005.  @WatcherMovie008  we have the history books to learn from not statues.
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  2006. Well I never, a Christian Bishop following the teachings of Jesus Christ.
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  2007. Whitehead's alleged fought was steam powered. This alone casts doubts on his claim ofva powered flught in 1899.. He'd have needed to lift sufficient charcoal and water for the boiler to maintain the requied steam pressure; and as m^3 of water has a mass of 1,000kg it means that Whitehead aircraft is unlike to have survived the filling of the water tank let alone flying. Not only did Whitehead need to lift the weight of the boiler, water and charcoal it also had lift the weight of Louis Darvarich. Mr Darvarich claimed in his 1934 affidavit to have been aboard this flight as stoker for the boiler and receiving a severe scalding in the crash at the end of the flight which required sveral weeks in hospital. and all of this happened in a weight shift aircraft. I'm surprised that the boiler didn't start a fire on landing as many trains caught fire from the fire in the boiler when a train crashed. Plus all the aerofoil data coming from the likes of von Lillienthal was incorrect, which the Wrights noticed during their experiments with gliders.
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  2008. Number 11 - you did hit her car, but only after she carelessly changed lanes.
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  2009.  @ar_2015  sense of humour failure.
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  2010. Didn't Mr Blair turn it down when he left office? I think that it was reported in the Daily Telegraph in 2007.
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  2011. No. 15 - Think about your own positioning in the lane as only people turning the other way drive so close to the centre line. By being so close to the centre line, whilst not illegal, sends out the message that you're about to turn left. By tge time you put your turn signal on, it was too late to avoid the crash.
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  2012.  @somethingmoredecent  either
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  2013.  @somethingmoredecent  but the Tank Mark 1 doesn't have a turret, does it. That means by your definition it's an SPG.
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  2014.  @somethingmoredecent get the terminology right, those battlement turrents as you call them are called sponsons. Nice use of circular logic by you by the way. It is impossible for the Tank Mark 1 to have been designed to combat another tank as there were no other tanks. You can't design something go combat something that doesn't exist. As the name implies it is a tank. So is the Swedish S-Tank, which has neither turrent or sponsons. It is you that us being intellectually dishonest. The dictionary definition of a tank just say it is heavy armoured fighting vehicle carrying guns and moving on a continuous articulated metal track (Oxford English Dictionary). No mention of needing a turrent (or even sponsons). I will grant you the supplemental definitions you have included, but that definition covers everything from a horse to a battleship. Nice try, but you've not convincing anyone with your line in bullshit.
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  2015.  @somethingmoredecent  PS what you've just described as a vehicle to combat other armoured vehicles is a tank destroyer.
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  2016. The 20p come didn't good in until the 1980s.
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  2017. So, the Dr Feelgood song "Milk and Alcohol" dates back much further than 1978.
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  2018. He's been listening to the Navy Lark...
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  2019.  @18robsmith  after 9/11 all the "experts" said the first bit, but with jet fuel. And you also missed the point of this sarcastic comment.
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  2020.  @gantmj  And you also missed the point of this sarcastic comment.
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  2021.  @ctrlaltdebug  And you also missed the point of this sarcastic comment.
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  2022.  @rommerro17  And you also missed the point of this sarcastic comment.
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  2023.  @gantmj  who says so? No. It's up to you to use your brain.
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  2024.  @ctrlaltdebug  I'd tell you about the new roof,but that too would go over your head.
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  2025. @ctrlaltdebug  I'm ripping on the 9/11 conspiracy meme, and you're too dumb to spot it.
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  2026. After WW1, some of the Army Generals wanted to disband the Tank Corps as it had been created to solve a specific problem, i.e. the trenches and trenches weren't going to be dug in the next war. Well, they got the last bit right, but not their ideas about the tank. After WW2, they ditched the SAS. They got that wrong as well.
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  2027. Probably caused by cavitation.
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  2028. You've been Nathaned. Nathan Oakley thinks you win arguments by shouting the loudest and ignoring the truth.
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  2029. Not that confusing, most of the manors in Yorkshire were held by the House of Lancaster.
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  2030.  @HistoryHustle  no problem. It's something that I only learnt about in the last 5 years or so.
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  2031. WRONG! Your quoted loss rate is for ALL of member command. It includes the crews of Battles, Wellesleys, Blenheims, Wellingtons, Whitleys, Herefords, Hampdens, Stirlings, B-17s, Mosquitos, Halifaxs and the Lancaster. You really need to be more careful.
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  2032. Number 14 - what an areshole you are. The other driver was just using all available road space and merging in turn.
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  2033. The orange roof tiles of Whitby and other ports up and down the British east coast are also the result of ballast from ships trading with Flanders.
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  2034. Sounds a bit like the ice-cream wars this side of the herring pond.
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  2035. Some signs have been repainted o er the years. There's an EWS sign on the rear wall of the museum in Peterborough that faces south and has been repainted.
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  2036. Drach, how will you get the Plymouth Ho past the You Tube censors?
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  2037. Trees and green plants when in leaf AND the sun is above the horizon. The rest ofbthe time thay are CO2 prodducers. Which means trees and green plants aren't the solution the green lobby claim they are.
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  2038. Says car was left balancing precariously but shows a car with all 4 wheels on the road deck.
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  2039.  @kurteisner67  all four tyre are the bridge. Looks like the only thing stopping ug falling off the bridge is the Parking Brake. Hardly hanging precariously. If you want hanging precariously watch the final moments of The Italian Job.
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  2040.  @ian3580  it hung on long enough for post-accident photographs to be taken from various angles. So, again hardly precarious.
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  2041.  @ian3580  well let's see. The parking brakes are holding it in place, otherwise there would be no post-accident photographs. Therefore, you have to conclude that whilst it has a possibility of collapsing the likelihood is low. As for the bridge deck has remained in place even with the weight of the car on it also snow that it has a low likelihood of shifting further unless disturbed. So, the only conclusion that can be drawn is it's not a precarious position. QED.
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  2042.  @ian3580  likely means something that has a high probability of happening. BUT As this car was sat there for several hours after the driver escaped it means it was unlikely to happen. THEREFORE, according to the definition that you provided the car can't be in a precarious position.
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  2043.  @ian3580  now as dictionary definitions are descriptive but do not match colloquial usage. Precarious has taken on the meaning that something is likely to fall within a short while (and in your example several years can be considered a short while).
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  2044.  @ian3580  some other examples include terrific and decimate.
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  2045. In the evolutionary battle of arms and armour, something will come along to overcome the current armours and then a countermeasure armour will come along and the cycle will start again.
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  2046. Now add in the time taken to construct a nuclear powerplant including the planning processes and you'll get around a decade for the entire process.
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  2047. Err, if the U235 is removed, in part or wholly, wouldn't that make depleted uranium does radioactive? The depleted uranium warheads used by the US military are said to gave only 60% if the rafiiactivury of natural uranium.
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  2048. Sorry, Scott but arteries carry oxygenated blood not veins.
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  2049. Whilst science is looking at how magnetic waves/fields affect the brain, I've not seen anything to show that scientists know what frequencies or field strengths have a specific effect on the brain other than gross motor control.
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  2050. TIK the government are countering disinformation on Covid-19, you know the information that can harm people.
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  2051.  @TheImperatorKnight  you do talk a load of conspiracy theory bullshit don"t you.
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  2052. It was only 350mm in diameter, so did they sit on the outside of the missile than was only 4200mm long?
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  2053.  @QuantumMechanic_88  the Henschel HS117 missiles I know of are the surface to air missile and the air to sir variant. Nrithefcwere large enough to take a person. They were optically guided by us of a telescope. I think you need go provide a source.
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  2054.  @QuantumMechanic_88  got a source for this?
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  2055.  @dimitrididimitri3488  the air-to-air variant was the HS-117H. The standard surface-to-air missiles had a range of only 32km and nothing I've seen suggests the air-to-air variant had a different range.
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  2056. Most of us work to live, not live to work.
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  2057. In the days that this was designed those computers where the human beings that produced, amongst other things, logarithmic and trigonometric tables. They also did all the regular calculations, ie they did the computations, from where we get the word computer.
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  2058. Oh, you mean the ones where the guards also starved to death or from the same diseases killing the internees? The ones where the action of the Boer fightsrs cut supply routes to?
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  2059. DSB used a variant of the VT11.5.
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  2060. The condons went to the Province of Gaza in Mozambique,not the Gaza Strip. But hey, Elon's never allowed the truth to get in the way.
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  2061. We need your talents - solar roads were bad enough, now they're doing it on railway tracks in Switzerland.
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  2062. The Nutcracker is all well and good until you get combat damage. That tail unit is in the jet blast with all the flutter and vibration issues.
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  2063. There were only 2 direct trains, Monday to Saturday, each way that went between Cambridge and Oxford taking over 4.5 hours. Most passengers between the 2 university cities took the faster more frequent services via London.
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  2064. The 1946 Bikini was more of a New Zealand than those of 80-odd years later.
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  2065. Surely that should gave been the Pacific Plate and not the North American Plate?
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  2066.  @stephenwright8824  I do not know what plate Honshu is on, but the Pacific Plzte is subducting under it causing earthquakes.
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  2067. Phil elements of the Ait Ministry staff supported the unarmed bomber concept as originally proposed by Volkert. As did Luflow-Hewitt (CinC Bomber Command). There were calls as late as August 1939 for such an aircraft.
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  2068. @peebeedee6757  Talk about misinformation, 3 designs were created to meet B9/38. These were then issued two new specifications, one for the Armstrong-Whitworth design, which went into production as the Albermarle and the other for the 2 Bristol designs, which they dropped due yo having too much work on their books. I said that de Havilland didn't respond to the Air Ministry, but not why due to the sources I have access to not saying why. I see you like to repeat the old debunked slanders about the Air Ministry. Some in the Air Ministry and at the top of Bomber Command (Ludlow-Hewitt) were calling for an unarmed high-speed bomber as late as August 1939.
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  2069. @peebeedee6757  Somebody needs to go to Specsavers. I wrote B.9/38 for the initial non-strategic materials medium bombers. There was never a Specification B.9/36. There was a Specification S.9/36, but that was for a 3 seat spotter aircraft that was cancelled. My source is Tony Buttler's wonderful book on aircraft projects. As for his removal from Bomber Command, we'll that was down to his insisting on the formation of the Operational Training Units at the expense of the availability of front-line airman. But, he was right to send half-trained airman in to battle. He was responsible for the Central Gunnery School and tried and failed to get escort fighters for his bombers. If he was as bad as you make out, why was he made Principal Air ADC to King George VI until the 4/5/1946 after a period as the Inspector-General of the RAF.
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  2070. The Manchester was designed to meet specification P.13/36, the specification written after that for the Stirling (B12/36).
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  2071. Shifting from meat eating to plant eating has happened many times. There is a species of vulture that has shifted from to plant eating due to environmental changes.
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  2072. If you think this is good then why did he say the Hawkeye is operated by the USAF?
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  2073. Dictators don't learn from history. The Argentinian Junta ordered their military to take the Falkland Islands and a forced regime change against the will of the people living there. They soon learnt a humiliating lesson. Putin has tried the same with Ukraine and is learning the hard way. Third time is not a charm, as Trump will learn.
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  2074. You still can't build a hotel without wooden furniture (plastic coated chip board and MDF these days) and fabrics (curtains, towels, sheets, quilts and carpets)
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  2075.  @HistoryHustle  the original plan called for crossing the border near Heerlen and leaving Dutch territory near Maastricht, before going on to visit Antwerp. In 1914 they had the men and materiel to carry out the plan, but by then they had decided to no to visit the Netherlands on the way to Antwerp. Later in the war, as stated, they no longer had the men or materiel to invade the Netherlands.
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  2076. Gin dates back to the 13th Century and takes its name from a contraction of genever (which comes from the Dutch for juniper). Monks distilled it as a tonic from juniper infused wine. Apothecaries sold it as a cure for all sorts if complaints from coughs to bad backs, but some consumed it for pleasure and not as a cure.
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  2077. Surely, HMS Bulwark?
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  2078. There is a British WW2 training film called Shoot to Kill.
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  2079. The proxy wedding of Edward III and many other nobles in the medieval Euripe don't count them?
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  2080.  @yomama9538  no, another person or persons stood in proxy for the bride, groom or both. No need for near instantaneous communications equipment. Although one or both principals were not present the wedding was as binding as if they were there.
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  2081. The Airlander 10 uses the R101's hangar at Cardington. I was lucky enough to see its first flight in August 2016, the day of its first crash.
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  2082. No, Aurora was a name used on the B-2 programme, something to do with finance.
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  2083.  @FirstDagger  the dimplest explanation is normally the truth. Aurora isn't real.
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  2084.  @arctic_haze  considering Aurora was flying in the late 1980s the only evidence for it is the sonic booms you brought up and the strange contrails. I agree the sonic booms could have been caused by anything including Aurora. Byf why post this evidence in a thread about the fictitious Aurora?
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  2085.  @arctic_haze  never did, but as there is no link between the booms and any aircraft there's no point in you bringing it up.
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  2086.  @arctic_haze  yes Imam biased. Biased to only accepting evidence that confirms a position positively. The sonic boom record doesn't positive confirm anything other than something was going very fast at attitude.
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  2087.  @peterparker9286  just read your incoherent posting. There never was a US government aircraft called the Aurora.
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  2088.  @arctic_haze  you're posting stuff that has been used to support the conspiracy nutjobs in a thread about their fantasy. Nuff said.
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  2089.  @arctic_haze  funny that 10 hours ago I stated that I don't accept that those seismic traces were made by the Aurora as there is no evidence that showing that there was ever a hypersonic aircraft called the Aurora.
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  2090.  @arctic_haze  for a scientist you are a fucking joke. I can understand written text perfectly well. There are other options, other than the fictional Aurora, such as another air vehicle.
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  2091.  @peterparker9286  the Argus As109 was the first practical pulse jet and most of the major engine companies are working on them for various uses including VTOL. Anti-gravity technology including the Alcubierre drive, is still only hypothetical, after all how do you bend space-time in such a way as to reverse it's normal curve. Space-time is simultaneously bent in all directions equally for an object sufficiently massive to have a noticeable gravitiational effect. It is the time part of space-time that causes gravity and so far no one has found a way to reverse the flow of time. And no I'm not a shill, but you don't have to belive me. Go ahead and use that freewill of yours to belive whatever crap you want. And I do accept that codenames for things change. It's basic security that anyone who reads James Bond books would pick up. but it still doesn't mean that the word Aurora was used for 2 different aircraft programs. That's just bad security. You never reuse code words.
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  2092.  @peterparker9286  another hypothetical from a patent. Are you aware the British Rail filed a patent (now lapsed) for a flying saucer? No flying g saucer was ever made.
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  2093.  @trapperjohn6089  and yet there is not one photograph of it anywhere. the engines have been in development since the 1980 but Ive not heard of one running for more than 5 minutes
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  2094.  @trapperjohn6089  when the B-2 was unveiled no one was to see it's trailing edge, so they did it at between over passes of Soviet spy satellites and banned over flights, and then pullit out of the hanger in bright sunshine, revealing the secret of its trailing edge. Considering the Aurora has supposed to have been flying since the late 1980s and just how incompetent governments are, how come no photographs have leaked out?
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  2095.  @trapperjohn6089  whilst possible, there is no evidence to support this claim.
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  2096.  @trapperjohn6089  so you bury a fake program within a real program within a fake program. Makes sense, not.
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  2097.  @peterparker9286  Georgia who? Don't know any Georgias. Ah, the work of Rudolf Schriever for which there are no records only what he said in interviews 20 years after the end of the war. Millenium Dalcon is another work of fiction - a craft was said to have done the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs [sic]. Even when I saw Star Wars in 1977 Inhad to laugh as even then aged under 10 I knew a parsec was a unit of length not time.
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  2098.  @Biketunerfy  I never said anything about it being impossible, just that we can't do it. Perhaps I should have been clearer and said we can't do it at the present. The warping of space-time has been theorised shortly after Einstein published his theories. As for the Nimitz encounter it had been thoroughly debunked along with the later black blob encounter.
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  2099.  @Biketunerfy  baa. You trust a government department that said the Iraqis had weapons of mass destruction and then failed to find one trace of them. You poor deluded fool. The 2014 footage clearly shows a large waterfowl in flight as does the 2004 footage. Your pareidolia is strong if you see anything else. The UAP came up with 3 possible solutions - advance Russian or Chinese aircraft, our own advanced aircraft or aliens and missed all other possibilities.
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  2100.  @Biketunerfy  have you actually watched the footage? Or even say in a moving vehicle and noticed the trees flying past whilst you remain stationery in that vehicle?
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  2101.  @bleachorange  that is a reasonable assumption but is still only an assumption.
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  2102.  @bleachorange  lots of assumptions there, with nothing substantive to hold up this house of cards. The only substantive evidence for Aurora ever being used by the USAF as a codename was in a report in the finances if the B-2 program. This has then been woven into it must have been another aircraft program hidden within the B-2 program without a shred of evidence to support that claim.
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  2103.  @Biketunerfy  motor just another conspiracy nutjob. It was a duck in the second footage heading in the opposite direction to the F-18 and at a much lower altitude.
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  2104.  @Biketunerfy  so you do your own thinking and came up with a non-terrestrial solution. A solution that has no grounds to support it and you call me the sheep.
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  2105.  @Biketunerfy  it's a duck. It will always be a duck. There's nothing alien or high tech. It is a duck flying in the opposite direction to the aircraft in the 2014 footage. It is as clear as the summer sun that the camera system tracking in slewed round to track it. The aircraft was also shown to be in a well banked turn. As for the 2004 footage, we have IR blooming on footage shot from almost astern of the duck (you can see the offset angle being recorded as is the magnification setting. It's clear than when they changed the magnification the duck left the field of view momentarily before lock on was re-established. Until the duck was too close andthe aircraft lost lock on. The evidence is clear and I didn't need Thunderf00t or any other debunked to lead me to this conclusion. I watch the footage on a different platform BEFORE seeing g any of the debunking videos on YT.
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  2106.  @Biketunerfy  these 2 examples were using IR tracking and switched from black for hot to white for hot and back again. No RADAR data used. Shows just how much you've been lead by the nose by the conspiracy nutjob. Whose looking sheepish now? As for not being able to see the wings, well wings contain very little in the way of muscle and as IR systems detect sources of heat they tend to see the hotter areas, such as the large flight muscles which during flight are working their hardest and as such will give the largest IR footprint for the bird. Frankly, I wouldn't trust s scientists that can't even understand the basics, sheep-boy. PS would those be the same scientists and engineers who couldn't work out how the humble bumble bee flew?
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  2107.  @Biketunerfy  that is a recording of what the camera in the ATFLIR pod was looking at not the HUD display. No G reading, no heading information, no rate of climb information as would be expected on a HUD recording. But in did have the word ZOOM on the left hand side of the Nimitz 2004 footage. The 2014 footage clearly shows the sea behind the duck the whole time and the aircraft never gets closer to the waves as they all stay about the same size (if we were looking through the HUD, fire fly ahead of the aircraft the sea would get closer very rapidly and it doesn't). What we do see is targeting critical information such as altitude, bearing of the target relative to the aircraft, aircraft speed (not target speed, it can be done with IR systems, but radar does it so much faster) as well as how the aircraft is banking. So, you did you research? How come you missed the obvious?
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  2108.  @Biketunerfy  dear gullible, I've read what passes as research on that clearly biased website. It's a pity that your mind is so closed to the truth. There were no alien craft. All we had was a duck being filmed either in the IR portion of the EM spectrum or the visible light spectrum using a low-light TV system (it even saws which system was being used at top of the screen). What you laughingly called the HUD is nothing more than a recording of the WSO's screen in the rear cockpit. In 2 of the 3 clips the aircraft is clearly in a turn of approximately 30 degrees angle of bank. Yes, there is a speed figure in the lower left, but that is the plane's speed not the target's (below it is the speed in Mach numbers - IIRC it's 0.55 Mach in the first, 0.58 Mach in the 2nd and 0.61 Mach in the last). Whilst you can use passive systems to detect range quiet easily, it's another matter to calculate speed using one (the average speed measurement systems use 2 passive devices known distance apart, but in these clips we have 1 camera fo.lowing the duck and that means you can't calculate the duck's speed unless you do speed matching for which there is no evidence).On the right we can see the altitude, which is around the 20,000 foot mark. In all 3 cases we see at the top or off to the top left of the screen the slew angle for the camera (ie the horizontal angle from the line of flight for the camera - in the 3rd clip the slew angle the anglewas about 41 degrees to the left). I'd go on but I'm bored with trying g to get the facts into your closed mind. The report you so gullibiy accept as true was written by someone who has already made up their mind that what is one the footage is alien technology. The footage does not match with the conclusion reached by the authors.
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  2109. No, it is promoting Covid-19 conspiracy theories.
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  2110.  @FilosophicalPharmer  but the truth is that you don't have a right to resort to violence except in self-defense, which under UK Common Law includes the defence of others (not sure if other countries would accept the extension to that right). And your grandfather was right if violence is the answer then you've gone to far.
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  2111.  @FilosophicalPharmer  so you and the creator of the phrase think you have a right to threaten violence? That ain't a right that's pure ignorance. No one has the right to threaten violence to anyone. In most jurisdictions a threat of violence will result in the person making the threat losing their right to the freedom of movement.
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  2112.  @FilosophicalPharmer  the first I said 23 hours ago. The second is irrelevant.
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  2113.  @FilosophicalPharmer  and in most states the switchblade knife is legal.
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  2114. According to the makers of Yorkshire Tea the only time you must out the milk in last is when you make tea in a cup or mug. It makes no difference when making tea in a tea pot. Anyone who tells you different is wrong.
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  2115. I was Nirthamoton on business a few years ago when the air-raid suburbs went off. They were texting the flood alarms.
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  2116. The political arguments over the Corn Laws has parallels with today's political arguments over inheritance tax for farmers.
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  2117.  @dannibble  sodium hydroxide is an alkaline and can cause tissue damage. It is not salt which is sodium chloride, a much more benign chemical.
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  2118.  @MichaelKingsfordGray  that's what I thought, thanks for confirming it. But what Thounderf00t wants to do is spray bleach into the air not common salt.
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  2119.  @dannibble  lye heavy soaps are IIRC fairly harsh on the skin so tended to be used sparingly especially near the eyes. If I remember by school, chemistry correctly (yes we made soap in chemistey) both NaOH and KOH are called lye and soaps made using KOH are more easily dissolved in water. Lyes from what I've read are bad news for aluminium (NaOH will react with this) and copper (both NaOH and KOH will react with this), meaning I doubt the CAA would like such corrosive materials anywhere near aircraft, especially in a warm condition which tends to speed up the reaction. Yes, these lyes will be in small concentrations, but that just means the aircraft won't be dissolved after a few flights but a few hundred. As soon as corrosion sets in it reduces a components fatigue life.
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  2120. No, it wasn't the first modern war as all wars happen in modern times unless viewed through a historical looking glass. Unless you are saying that it is the first war of the modernism period and that we are in the post-modern period.
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  2121.  @easy8690  at the time the Romans were using cutting edge technology and tactics in what was to them modern times. Modern keeps moving.
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  2122.  @easy8690  so 100 years ago is modern? Then explain the current war in the Ukraine. Is that a post-modern war? Or perhaps just accept the fact that modern equates to the time you are in right now. For the Roman's fighting the Gauls they were in their modern times. The Boers were fighting in their modern times. Plus most historians consider the first truly industrial war as the US Civil War.
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  2123. Because they speak the same language as their audience. Why do you think nursery rhymes get passed on? Goosey GoGooseGander is about religious intolerance in the English Commonwealth.
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  2124. Some of the rebels who rose up against William hide out in Coatham marshes on the Yorkshire side of the River Tees. When Wiiliam came north he camped on the Cleveland Hills, these face north and in the valleys the winter snow still lay unmelted and legend has it that William kept himself warm by the camp fire swearing. There is an old, almost forgotten, saying on Teesside: He swears like Billy Norman.
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  2125. @justforever96  then, by your definition, it is the first systematic approach. No two ways about it.
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  2126. The universe is only pointless if the 100 people questioned never mentioned it in response to a valid question.
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  2127.  @garethbaus5471  then all we need to know is how efficient each method is in converting their fuel source into usable power (the chemicals in the battery or hydrogen in the fuel cell). We don't take into account the power required to produce coal, petrol or diesel, do we? So, why do we do it for hydrogen?
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  2128.  @garethbaus5471  you contradicted yourself. There are no natural sources of petrol or diesel. Both have to be extracted from crude oil. And if your value of the amount if 4negry required to release it from crude oil is correct, and I will accept for argument's sake, then petrol and diesel engines should be, by your logic, slightly less efficient than claimed. This energy cost, still doesn't address the energy used to extract the crude oil or to transfer it to the refinery, or the energy required to move the petrol and diesel to their place of retail. And yet, we have to fo this for hydrogen, simple because it is locked up in water. The petrol and diesel were safely locked in crude oil and that was, in most places, safely locked in rocks layers deep under the ground.
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  2129.  @ikocheratcr  just how much energy is required to run, for sale of argument, a North Sea Oil Rig? Whilst coal is relatively easy to get at in an open cast mine, deep mining is an expensive operation. But we never take that into consideration. As for contamination, you can't run a spark ignition engine on crude oil. You have to first extract the fraction of the crude oil that can be used efficiently in that kind of engine. We don't take that into account when talking about spark ignition engines. This where the efficiency of the production of the fuel source needs to be separated off from the efficiency of the fuel source as a source of power.
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  2130. In this case, March doesn't refer to the town of March but the Welsh Marches (i.e., the bits of England along the Welsh borders).
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  2131. Dungeon is one of those words that has changed its meaning. The word used to mean the keep of the castle and not an underground prison cell. Some sources I've seen cast doubt on the use of the oubliette as a prison cell and saying that this idea came around in the19th century. Many of what we call oubluette were more likely used as for storage or as cisterns. The one you show at the 0:52 mark was in the Bastille, Paris, and was described in The Dictionary of French Architecture from 11th to 16th Century as being used to store ice not prisoners.
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  2132. Perhaps a corruption of "Look who's here?"
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  2133. ​@philipjones9458 there's always one idiot. Why is it always you?
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  2134. What about sheep? The plural is sheep.
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  2135. This is a consequence of Brexit. One of the 27 remaining countries had to replace us as the least forward-thinking member of the EU. Sorry, Germany...
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  2136. 2 errors: 1. Technically speaking a vacuum is any pressure below atmospheric pressure. This is just how vacuum brakes on trains worked. In the UK most railways reduced the air pressure in the brake pipes to 9 inches of mercury (down from 30 in of mercury); the GWR reduced the sirpressure down to 6 inches of mercury. 2. The air pressure inside the cabin of an aircraft at cruising altitude is reduced to around 12 pounds per square inch from the 14.8 pounds per square inch at sea level.
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  2137. There have been ma y technologies that have been heralded as the future of transportation and very few of them have ever made any significant impact.
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  2138. They use prepacked containers, which take at lot less effort to .road and unload at their air hubs.
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  2139. If you want an understanding of the role of the Army Chaplains, try the song "The Padre" by Show of Handsfrom their double album Centenary.
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  2140. No, Thunderfoot, the human test subjects are promising to give results.
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  2141. The Assize of Bread and Ale set the prize of ales and linked it to the price of wheat and barley: "when a quarter of wheat was sold for three shillings, or three shillings and four-pence, and a quarter of barley for twenty pence or twenty-four pence, and a quarter of oats for fifteen pence, brewers in cities could afford to sell two gallons of ale for a penny, and out of cities three gallons for a penny; and when in a town (in burgo) three gallons are sold for a penny, out of a town they may and ought to sell four".
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  2142. Number 6 - he was trying to get away from some jerk who was tailgating him from the start of his journey.
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  2143. Captain of the Venus: my God, did they see us?
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  2144. So, mustgetinfrontitis is infecting America. Nowhere is safe.
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  2145. First Brexit
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  2146. The Irish government had the right to choose to fight ir to stay out under the Statute of Westminster of IIRC 1931.
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  2147. The PIAT was a spigot mortar.
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  2148. I wonder what would have happened to Upham if Freyberg had listened to the intelligence reports and had fortified the airfields?
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  2149. The Little Ice Age is also responsible for the cliche of snow at Christmas as Chatkes Duckens grew up during the latter part of the Little Ice Age.
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  2150. Someone will always complain about a decision made by the reffing team.
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  2151. Sheffield was chosen as it was a nuclear free zone.
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  2152. The numbers in the medieval armies is a reflection of the same problem with the Roman army. A Century is 80 soldiers made up of 10 Contubernia of 8 soldiers. But each contubernium had 10 men, 8 soldiers and 2 slaves. This would explain what the basic unit of the Roman army was called a century.😂
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  2153. @user-do5zk6jh1k  when the Air Ministry issues the original specifications (B.9/38) they approached three companies de Havilland, Armstrong-Whitworth and Bristol. De Havilland declined to present a proposal.
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  2154. People have considered double bubble fuselage and gave constantly rejected them as not being able to meet the the emergency evacuation requirements. The problem with this design are the same that affects tec the VC10 and all others with rear fuselage mounted engines is that you lose the the benefits of the engines as bending moment relief and the CG position is pushed aft.
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  2155. Was it actually a hurricane or a storm with hurricane force winds? Both are equally destructive but have different causes. The former start off in the tropics whilst the latter are often caused by two low pressures merging (see the Great Storm of October 1987).
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  2156. And the Sapphire was based on an enlarged Metro-Vic F2, Britain's WW2 axial-flow turbojet.
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  2157.  @01r1sh  thanks.
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  2158. ​ @PasleyAviationPhotography when Yankees learn the proper spelling of words.
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  2159. So that's where former Sub-Lieutenant Phillips ended up after his time on HMS Troutbridge.
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  2160. It's possibly person dependent.
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  2161. @wormyboot  the person writing the manual may well have decided to do it that way.
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  2162. Quit with the racism. The imperial for mass is the slug. If you had done a little research instead of thing up some racist comments you would have known this.
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  2163. Did the English fleet have a Prid of somewhere?
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  2164. I think you've messed up on the wing chord being reduced by 6%. It was the thickness that was reduced. The chord at the root was increased as the wing area was increased by 50 ft^2 over the FJ-2. Or is that the wing thickness was reduced to 6% of chord length?
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  2165. And yet this one wasn't. It's been fiction from day 1of its existence.
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  2166. Strange to go to a landlocked town to get a submarine but Vickers owned, and still do the Barrow Shipbuilding Company in Barrow-in-Furnace.
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  2167. Now, what do you mean not strictly prohibited? The Hague Conventions of Land and Naval warfare prohibit the targeting an undefended civilian dwelling or town. But, there was no such convention on Aerial warfare. This makes the case of whether the bombing of civilians is a war crime a bit as clear cut as you're trying to make out. Göring and the other Luftwaffe commanders were never charged with the bombing of civilians just for waging a war of aggression and the wanton destruction of property beyond that needed for military necessity (the means of which was not stated). The along with divers other persons, during a period of years preceding 8 May 1945, participated as leaders, organizers, instigators, or accomplices in the formulation or execution of a common plan or conspiracy to commit, or which involved the commission of, Crimes against Peace, War Crimes, and Crimes against Humanity, as defined in the War Crimes Commission, and, in accordance with the provisions of the War Crimes Commisson, are individually responsible for their own acts and for all acts committed by any persons in the execution of such plan or conspiracy.
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  2168. Lest we forget.
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  2169. You've made a mistake. You've got them doing 60mph AFTER 6 seconds not 5 seconds in your first worked example. Ooops!
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  2170.  @CrittingOut  if your 0 to 60mph time is five seconds then at 5 seconds you will be doing 60mph. You will be doing 72mph after 6 seconds.
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  2171.  @CrittingOut  looked at the spreadsheet at the 18:46 mark. The speed at 5 seconds is 50 mph and not 60mph for a vehicle that has a 0-60mph time of 5 seconds. Both can't be correct. The mathematical logic is sound, the keyboard work isn't.
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  2172.  @CrittingOut  at the 18:36 mark he compares his calculation at the six second mark to performance car figures but the performance car is accelerating at 6m/s/s (using his rough rule of thumb, the conversion factor is closer to 2.2) and not 5 as he is using.
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  2173. Remember, Trevor,ts just make you Jo.t, but the mill[iamp]s that kill.
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  2174.  @pat36a  was he using a medium? Chamberlain had died on 9th November 1940.
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  2175.  @pat36a  what? Since before the Ameticans were involved? Before Eisenhower was anything but a General in the US Army with no politicsl power? The war started in 1939 when America was strongly isolationist. The facts remain Chamberlain was out of office as Prime Minister before the Germans invaded Frsnce and Belgium and he was dead before the year was out. He never met Eisenhower. Perhaps, you should take your own advice.
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  2176.  @pat36a at kwastbyih finally realised after doubling down that you were wrong. But prior to the passing of the Lend-Lease Act the UK and France, before its surrender, paid for what they got from America either in cash or in one case by the UK by the leasing of bases in the Caribbean for 50 destroyers. Roosevelt, not Eusenhower, didn't put any conditions other than whoever wanted the materiel had to pay for it and come and get it. Nor is there anything in the Lend-Lease Act to back up your claim. Politically Roosevelt may not have like the idea of empires, but then he should have got rid of the American overseas territories taken from the Spanish otherwise he's a hypocrite. Paton like Churchill was an idiot. He didn't have the men, the supplies or the equipment capable of taking on the Soviet Army.
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  2177.  @pat36a you brought up Eisenhower and Chamberlain. Which is where I came in pointing out the impossibility of them ever meeting this side of the Pearly Gates. To which you threw out an insult like a petulant child.
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  2178.  @pat36a  Spiro Agnew.
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  2179. To cobble is similar to the River Cam which takes its na e from the City of Cambridge.
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  2180. And yet in his rush to produce videos he make mistakes that a bit less haste would prevent. The M2 and DShK have the same calibre, but use different length cartridges (the DShK being 10% longer than that of the M2) and different shapes cartridges making the rounds not automatically interchangeable as they would be for Italian and American M2s.
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  2181. And there are problems with Ms Harris's X account, which Mr Musk has been accused of being behind.
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  2182. Blackadder is a firm of estate agents in the Aberdeen area.
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  2183. The only thing that is insane your inane use of the word insane.
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  2184.  @backfill9183  nope. You sh6always use the whole of the available carriage way otherwise the tailback gets longer. Only the empty heads don't get this.
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  2185.  @Knards  no, he chose not to extended th tail back but chose to attempt to merge in turn closur to the merge point. By failing to use all of the avail.able road space all you get is a long tailback, one that would start to affect the roads leading into the junction the cammer came from. What he failed to was indicate his wish to merge and caused a road rage incident.
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  2186.  @cornfed123567  which is what he was trying to do. He was merging close to the merge point. And what's wrong with trying to make the world a little better?
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  2187.  @nobody7817  the merge part was done poorly but the all those queuing drivers were showing equally poor driving skills.
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  2188.  @nobody7817  so the vehicle that came past the cammer never accelerated from a stand?
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  2189.  @nobody7817  I must have been watching a different clip because as he comes across a vehicle comes from behind..
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  2190.  @PB-jo9vq  so there were 2 moving vehicles. Thank you for confirming that. I've never said the cammer did a good merge, just that was what he was intending.
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  2191.  @PB-jo9vq  never said anything about blocking. Although he did end up blocking him. I said that the cammer was making better use of the road space by not joining the queue of vehicles. I've also not said that he made a good merge. My position is that the drivers of the queuing traffic showed poor decision making by forming a single line which caused the traffic to fill up that lane to the junction instead of using all road space. The cammer, on the other hand made good use of that road space until forcing his way in instead of joining the queuing traffic in an appropriate way. Yes, it looks like queue jumping but it isn't. The queuing drivers created the space for this short of driver to exploit and by not using the road space fully they weren't using their brains ie they were empty heads. Not that the cammer wasn't equally empty headed at the end.
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  2192.  @PB-jo9vq  it must have been stationary as we see the queue start to move.
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  2193.  @PB-jo9vq  I don't agree I think the vehicles at the rear are stationary. My initial point was that the people in that queue are dumb for not using all of the available road space and thus allowing the cammer the space to pull this stunt.
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  2194. Emma Lyon was from an English, Irish or Scottish branch of the family, but can you supply details of which one? As for Nelson, that could be an Anglised version of the Viking Nilsson or Nilsen (and the Vikings had Norfolk as part of the Danelaw).
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  2195. Any kind of intoxicant can lead to poor decision making. Just look at bad decisions that drunks make every day. If Hilter was on drugs that affected his behaviour then some of the decisions he made whilst on those drugs will have been poor decisions. Just like anyone else on the same drugs.
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  2196. ​@leonardbresland4288 or believed the poll numbers and stayed home. That's the problem of having a large lead in the polls.
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  2197. That means this rifle is unlikely to have served in France as the 2nd Battalion were not sent to France.
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  2198.  @Bob_Betker  it's possible as over the course of the war they did lose 77 officers and 789 other ranks. But would they need 3 replacement battalions? Also around 1916 identification disks were being removed from the rifles, those retained in the UK would, probably, be amongst the last to lose them as they had the least chance of faling into the enemy's hands.
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  2199.  @Bob_Betker  thanks
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  2200.  @Bob_Betker  thus information now leads to the big question would the identity disks of individual rifles be changed when a man changed units provided he took his rifle with him?
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  2201. How many hours until YT pulls this video?
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  2202. The hundredweight is 112lb in the UK or 1/20 of a ton.
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  2203. Rough rule of thumb - a knot will reduce the breaking load of a piece of rope by about a third.
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  2204. Dugout Douglas wasn't as clever as he thought he was.
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  2205. @TheHistoryChap  no, much worse. Go look at the mess he made in Korea.
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  2206. ​ @kiereluurs1243 Caliban Rising on YT has put forth a video on this subject recently. The weather on that occasion had a cold front passing over the UK, but it takes a special kind of person to ignore the position of the sun.
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  2207. And their is e very other historian thi king g that Hungary as part if the Austro-Hungarian empire was the instigator of WW1 with its demands on Serbia.
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  2208. Surely YGTBSM.
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  2209. Your leak wasn't at the bellows, but at one of the elbows.
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  2210. My the Good Lord said d us from Hull, Halifax and Hell.
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  2211. Without knowing the reason for the council's actions nearly all comments here are just a mixture of guesswork and anti-bureaucracy ra ts that ignore the fact that society created the bureaucratic rules we all have to follow.
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  2212. In the case of Space X, just how much fuel do they need for landing? And just how much does it cost to put this fuel into orbit?
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  2213.  @MrTrashmasterfx  you hear figures bandied about like $40,000 per lb to orbit, so I was just wondering. It may be included in the launch cost, but what percentage?
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  2214.  @MrTrashmasterfx  the cost figure was just pulled out of the air as I couldn't remember the actual figure I was told a few years back. Yes, it is excessive. But thanks for your replies.
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  2215. Yes.
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  2216. There was no General Dgaff in the Reichswehr as that was forbidden by the Versailles Treaty. HOW CAN A HISTORIIAN LIKE FELTON NOT KNOW THAT?
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  2217.  DOUG HEINS  yes, it was called the Truppenamt, the term Genersl Staff has no meaning when discussing the Reichswehr.
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  2218. WW2 went on until Augst 19545 and not just May 1945. Why do you have to be so inaccurate?
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  2219.  @PappyGunn  true.
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  2220.  @1chish  and what is the difference between a nuclear bomb and an atomic bomb?
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  2221.  @1chish  no, you numpty between atomic and nuclear. There's a big difference between splitting and merging whatever word you use. Without q source to back you up your distinction between atomic and nuclear is meaningless. I've never argued with you about the types of nuclear bomb, just your meaningless distinction between the 2.
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  2222.  @sandervanderkammen9230  that's not fly-by-wire. That's just an electrical trimming system. The Americans used something similar for propeller pitch control.
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  2223.  @sandervanderkammen9230  never said they didn't. But it is still not fly-by-wire.
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  2224.  @sandervanderkammen9230  only the pitch trim was electrically controlled, not the control surfaces they were all push-rod controlled. But don't take my word for it go and read the pilots' handbook.
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  2225.  @sandervanderkammen9230  the trimming of the tailplane was the only aspect that could be called fly-by-wire. The elevator was controlled by a push rod. If you bother yourself to read the pilots notes it expressly forbids the pilot from using the electric trimmer to initiate dives.
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  2226.  @sandervanderkammen9230  stabilator is another word for all moving tail that combines the function of the fixed tailplane, the elevator and trim tab. The Me262 was fitted with ekecatirs to control the aircraft in pitch and an adjustable tailplane to adjust its trim. As already mentioned pilots were forbidden in the pilots'h notes to use the electric trimmer to control the aircraft in pitch. It is really that simple.
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  2227.  @sandervanderkammen9230 yet again you are ignoring the facts. Whilst the Me262 was tested in high speed wind tunnels, if the engines had not been heavier than expected it would have been fitted with a wing based in that of the Bf109. The Me262 was not fitted with a stabilator (a single unit) it was fitted with a trimable tailplane and elevator (2 pieces - the trimmer was electrically control, but the flying control surface was manually controlled). Go and fead the pilots' notes which are available online, as are diagrams of the control runs.
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  2228.  @sandervanderkammen9230  that's right they didn't, but what's that got do with your ignorance of what a trimmable stabiliser is and what a stabilator is.
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  2229.  @sandervanderkammen9230  the fact is it had an electrically trimmed stabiliser not stabilator as it has a separate push-rod controlled elevator. This is the truth and I accept it. Whilst this may be considered fly-by-wire by some, the main stream view, from a quick Google search, is that having an electric trimmer system isn't enough to be considered fly-by-wire. If the actual control surfaces were electrically controlled as in the ANT-20 then you do have fly-by-wire.
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  2230. Bit like Dr Strangelove, with one of the folders in front of General Jack D. Ripper called Assigned Targets for Megadeaths.
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  2231. But only at a safe separation.
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  2232.  @grizwoldphantasia5005  they would have been.
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  2233. Didn't they say "Houston we've had a oroblem"?
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  2234.  @jeromelemoine1942  which made him Hery II's grandson in law. IIRC Louis was Henry III's 1st cousin ince removed.
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  2235. But who was Aelfgyva?
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  2236. Is the Rand a unit of weight?
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  2237. Stop talking bollocks. The Kriegsmarine had full access to the Baltic and North Sea as Germany has a coastline on both of these seas and could easily transfer ships from one to the other along the Kiel Canal. The Germans were restricted in to what they could get into the Atlantic from Germany. But after the Bidmark was hunted down and sunk, they had little desire to send warships out into the Atlantic, relying instead on submarines. The Heinkel He111 could fly from Norwqy to Scapa Flow and back. They bombed RAF Driffield and THAT is a longer distance.
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  2238. My grandfather told me ENSA stood for Every Night Something Awful.
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  2239. I must be a Luddite as I don't have a need for a smart phone of my own (my employer has supplied me with one for work purposes. Yes, smart phones are useful, but I don't need all of their functions to enjoy my life.
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  2240. Hitler not a Christian. Is that really the case? Yes, was born to a Catholic mother and was baptised and confirmed as a Catholic, but there is no evidence he we to Mass or received the sacriments after after he left home aged 18. There is no record of the Catholic church excommunicating him as would be automatically done should be have defected from the Catholic church, which means he died a Catholic. No matter what be wrote in Mein Kampf there are enough quotes from him to show that he was a Catholic including him telling Genedal Engel in 1941 that "I am now, as before, a Catholic, and will always remain so". If he wasn't a Catholic, he certainly wasn't an atheist as he spike in Mein Kampf about what could only be described as a Godhead. He also took steps against the leading atheist organisation in Germany shortly after taking power and handed its buildings over to the Catholic church, which suggests he had leanings towards that faith. But he also took steps to subordinate all Christian churches the Nazi goals. I suspect we will never know the truth, but my own conclusion from all readily available sources I'd that he was a theist with no specific faith and told his audience just what they wanted to hear so that they would do his will.
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  2241. 8twas the Ehops Act 1950 that brought us the cl8sed shops on Sundays as well as defining the closing times for shops.
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  2242. In late 1964, confidence in the UK economy fell, and those holding Sterling started to sell their holdings. The UK had to borrow a lot of money to try and prop up Sterling, but in the end, Sterling had to be devalued by 14%.
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  2243. Oh dear not even before the advert and you have made a mistake. The legendary Robin Hood fought French pirates off the Yorkshire coast. These pirates plundered the fishing boats and the coastal area. Robin and his outlaws hear of their plight and fight the pirates beating them and returning the pirate's loot to the villagers of what is now called Robin Hood's Bay. So pirate tales form part of the Robin Hood canon. One of the oldest surviving ballads of Robin Hood is set in Yorkshire (The Sayles, in Barnsdale) and not Sherwood Forest.
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  2244. Pink was considered a masculine colour until the 1950s. Red was seen as masculine and as pink was only a shade of red, pink was also seen as masculine. The reason for the change might have something to do with the US' Red Peril of the 20th Century. But the jury is out on that.
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  2245.  @PhilipWorthington  yes just watched that QI (Who Wore Pink and was Called a Girl). The royal they were talking about was Astrid of Swede who was the Queen to King Leopold III of Belgium. The crib was decked out in pink as everyone expend the birth to be a boy, but a girl was born. As late as the 1950s pi k was seen as a male colour and blue a female colour, but no one can say for certain how or why the change occurs. Many online sources, but not all, I've been looking at to find this QI but the blame of Mrs Eisenhower.
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  2246. Technically that is what a nuclear bomb is.
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  2247. If running on absolute block then you can only have 1 train on each block (section) of track. If running on permissive block you can have more than one train, but only in specific conditions. Freight only lines can have permissive or absolute blocks. Lines with passenger trains are absolute blocks, except at platforms where limited access for 2 or more trains can be allowed.
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  2248. At least they didn't ascribe the Butcher Bird moniker to the RAF. That too was Kurt's doing as he called most of his aircraft after birds. He called the FW-190 the Würger or in English the Shrike, which also is known as the Butcher Bird after jts habit of hanging the carcasses of its prey on thorns in the way a butcher hangs meat on hooks.
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  2249. ​​ @Iffy350 if you weren't a white male than your intelligence was ignored for long enough.
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  2250. @adeaston6553  just done take your kids to work, then.
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  2251. @seanmccann8368  well the Republic is. Ulster isn't. And we do know this. We don't care what Dublin decides to do.
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  2252. Stop passing off crap as history. The Getmans were not always in the lead when it comes to aeronautical engineeting. The Russians were flying a rocket powered aircraft in 1940, a whole 12 months before the Germans. In 1938 Segei Pavlovich Korolev sketched out a design that was very similar in layout as the Me163, but with wing tip fins. If he hadn't been arrested on Stalin's orders this design might have taken to the air first.
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  2253. The XB-35 and YB-49 should not be here as both were built and flown.
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  2254. Unconscious bias is a bad thing for anyone, let alone a historian. Whilst I may not agree with all of your conclusions, you do a decent job of countering your own biases TIK and should be saluted for your efforts.
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  2255. Or rockets.
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  2256.  @yeoldeseawitch  unfortunately the Duke it took too long for the funding to be allocated and by the time the Duke took to the rails the Modernisation Plan had been published so BR never really dealt with this licomotives numerous faults.
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  2257.  @yeoldeseawitch  a lot of them have been remedied already during the restoration work including fucing the draughting.
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  2258. In the UK the Prime Minister is the MP who is also the leader of the party with the most seats in the House of Commons. The only people who elect the PM are ghosecregistered to vote in the constituency that person represents. The vast majority of the electorate never votes for a PM. The leaders of each party are elected by the members of that party or in the case of the Labour Party the unions affiliated to the party also have a say in the election of the leader.
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  2259.  @mrjockt  well it was only an interim fighter that missiles were going to replace. We're still waiting.
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  2260. Surely, the DUKW's tyre pressure system was innovative?
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  2261. The UK postcode letters at the start of the postcode record postal districts rather than the local authority or county. For example the TS postcode covers 6 local authorities.
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  2262. They say that Ted Turner, the co-founder of CNN, tried to come up with 10 concepts per day. If so, on the day he co-created CNN he had 9 other concepts. Whatever happened to them? How many of them were rubbish? How many saw the light of day with someone else?
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  2263. The first thing that the DOGE will cut isthe money for Space X.
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  2264. How did it deal with the fuselage boundary layer and its effect on the intakes?
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  2265. Churchill is a complex subject. He was a stirring wartime leader, but he was also reckless. He sent troops from North Africa to Greece whennthe job in North Africa wasn't finished. It was lucky that the Germans and Italians had logistical problems or we might have lost the Suez Canal and the rest of the Middle East, where we got much of our oil from. He broke the rules on neutrality during the Altmark Incident and then was responsible for getting Norway and Denmark invaded by the Germans with his plan to mine Norweigan waters. In peace time he was even worse. He out the Black and Tans in to Ireland losing the support of moderates in the Republican movement. He put Britain back onto the Gold Standard as Chancellor. He put the Pound on the Gold Standard at pre-WW1 levels which was far too high for the economy to support making British products more expensive than those from other nations. The economy was still in the doldrums when the Great Depression struck. One of his good things was the introduction of the 8 hour day for miners in 1908, but then he pissed it all away in 1926 with his actions to break the General Strike. When he died the dockers had to be paid to dip their cranes as his coffin went by.
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  2266.  @Dreagostini  but the Renaissance period was at the time the modern times with all the ,latest inventions. Modern times don't stand still. The names of the periods are applied after they are past. No one .iving during the period we call the Renaissance called it the Renaissance. The historian will tell you that the 1990s were part of the contemporary period which they defined as starting around 1945. But that is beside the point whatever the current year is that is the modern day, so 1927 was the modern day for 1927 just as much as 2021 is the modern day for today.
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  2267.  @theamici  some say that this is the Information Age, even though each age was an Age of Information.
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  2268.  @Dreagostini  every age is modern times. We only name them once they are past, and then more often than not they are nationally biased. What do Danes, for example, call what the British call the Victorian age?
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  2269.  @cv4809  that may be so, but it doesn't address the original question. Although it does make what Indy says even more of tautology
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  2270. Dr B has a 100% record in the field of cashectomies.
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  2271.  @ralphbernhard1757  ah, but that was in the period before any formalised rules for war and thus is beyond the scope of this debate.
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  2272.  @ralphbernhard1757  no, but there were no formal legal protections for civilians until the Hague Conventions became international law.
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  2273.  @ralphbernhard1757  according to source I have access (Politikens Etbinds Danmarks Historie by Scocozza and Jensen) to the majority of the population of Copenhagen left the city before the seige was completed. The major cause of death and injury to the civilians wasn't the fighting but the fires it caused. If the British had wanted to kill civilians then why did they allow so many to flee the city?
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  2274.  @ralphbernhard1757  the Coast Guard was at the time of WW1 the primary governmental agency for life saving at sea and the prevention of smuggling. It had nothing to do with the military, although it did come under the control of the Admiralty but as a civilian agency. Thus it was not a legitimate target under the Hague Convention. Nor was Scarborough Castle, the Grand Hotel Scarborough or the 3 churches the Germans managed to hit. The only legitimate target that the Germans did hit was the Heugh Battery in Hartlepool. The RN ships in Hartlepool harbour were missed. But the factories were not a legitimate target as they were all civilian. The Germans fired over 1100 shells on Hartlepool deliberately hitting predominantly civilian targets plus the Heugh Battery and they only fired at that because it fired at them. The Germans deliberately targeted civilian targets, whereas in Copenhagen the British didn't deliberately target the civilian population of the city. As the rest of the Royal Navy, due to the way they had been operating up to that point in the war, on constant patrols many ships were in port for deferred maintenance. Leaving fewer ships to be kn patrol. I don't know how familiar you are with North Sea in winter, but visibility can be poor even when the weather is relatively nice on land with lingering fog banks and low cloud. The Navy's p,an to get the ships on the way back was a sound one.
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  2275.  @ralphbernhard1757  and I Harwich, Rosyth and a few other ports. The blockage of Germany was carried out in line with the provisions of the Hague Convention. All shipping was stopped and those with prohibited articles turned back. The units at places like Hartlepool were intended to protect the British coast.
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  2276.  @ralphbernhard1757  then perhaps you should have read the article you've just posted. There are clear grounds to say that in regard to Whitby and Scarborough Articles 1, 4 and 5 were breached. As this raid came a matter of weeks after the raid on Great Yarmouth which had the intention of causing the Navy to alter the disposition of its ships after the deliberate shelling of civilians. This raid failed as the shells hit the beach and ot the town. The Germans tried again in December 1914, and shelled the undefended civilian ports of Whitby and Scarborough. They claimed that Scarborough is defend because it has a castle, but the castle was slighted after the English Civil War and was no longer a defensive position. Even if it were, a large number of shells landed at the other end of South Bay, around the Grand Hotel area and not the Castle, which was also targeted.
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  2277.  @ralphbernhard1757  btw Copenhagenizing is an American phrase and not British.
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  2278.  @ralphbernhard1757  yes and then along came the submarine.
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  2279. Dr Janega is American by birth, but that doesn't mean she hasn't become British since then. Not that her nationality has any bearing on her work.
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  2280.  @unionhighjack1547  every scale needs a bottom. For temperature the bottom is 0 K.
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  2281. Temperature inversions are not unusual. If you've had a hot day today then tomorrow you might have a temperature inversion tomorrow.
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  2282.  @neilkurzman4907  we get them in the flat lands of the Fens of Cambridgeshire. You can tell when there is a temperature inversion because the sky remains blue and the cumulus clouds that would normally form from about 10:00 don't start to form until the inversion is breached in the early to mid afternoon.
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  2283. Number 6 has either re-written the laws of physics or can't type accurately.
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  2284. The nuclear flask was filled with water and pressurised to 100lb/in^2. It lost only 0.29lb/in^2 of this pressure after being stuck by a 249 ton of which the locomotive weighted 138 tons, train travelling at 100mph.
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  2285. Oh the irony. YT's malgorithm has just given me an ad for a cruise line....
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  2286. Shouldn't that be 25MeV and not 25meV? The font used shows what looks like a lower case "m" and instead of an upper case "M".
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  2287.  @sarowie  the font shows an upper "V", but lower case for the rest of the letters, and as Google research shows this device puts out radiation in either format of up to 25MeV the caption on the screen should match what the machine was capable of.
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  2288. More of miss. Too many easily checked errors.
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  2289. The original design concept for the Su24 used a wing planform very similar to that used on the TSR-2. They soon realised just how poor that planform was and looked elsewhere.
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  2290. They used flush rivets. They did not remove the rivets.
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  2291. Not necessarily illegal, as an advisory sign (information signs a rectangular in shape and can be white or yellow with a black border and lettering or red with a white border and lettering depending on the perceived level of visibility needed) it would be OK. Warning and Order signs can be including in signs as advanced warning or instruction but must conform to the colour scheme for such signs, but there is no provisions for green rings, so I think it is just there to highlight the number.
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  2292. Back when it was being designed there were plans for fitting the 777 with folding wing tips.
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  2293. It is an oft repeated myth that RMS Titanic unsinkable. The designer and builders said that they had taken every practicable step to make RMS Titanic practically unsinkable. This unfortunate phrase was latched onto by the press who dropped the "practically".
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  2294. Jail and gaol are both pronounced the same as jail.
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  2295. Was Lewis H. Tried under the Defence of the Realm Act?
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  2296.  @perpetualidiocy6622  wasn't thinking that at all.
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  2297.  @wor53lg50  yes, but my comment was aimed at a question about the number of planes.
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  2298. The identification of what animal the cave painters were depicting all depends on the skills of the painter. To me it looked like a long-legged mouse.
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  2299.  @leneanderthalien  yes, there were many. The most forgotten of the early developers of powered tailless aircraft was The Irishman John William Dunne who developed a series of swept-wing tailless aircraft between 1902 and 1913, when ill heath curtailed his flying and he took up fishing. He's better remembered for his book on dry fly fishing and a technique for tying flies than his flying and aircraft. Dunne's designs were designed to have automatic stability, the washout of the wing tips which were well behind the centre of gravity gave his designs longitudinal stability. Yaw stability was achieved by having cloth panels on both on the outer interplane struts. The incidence and interplane were also decreased outboard to help achieve stability. I'm not belittling the achievements Fauvel or any that came after Dunne, but Fauvel's first design came out in 1932 and was based on the theoretical and practical work of George's Abrial from the 1920s.
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  2300. The Pound Note is also a promissory note, as it states the Bankmof England will pay the bearer on demand the sum of the face value of the note [in gold].
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  2301. 20 seconds of research and I found that the prohibition on gambling in the Libraries and Offencies Act 1898 was repealed by the Pasding of the Gambling Act 2005. The Salmon Act of 1986 is hardly an ancient law and to be in breach of Section 32 (Handling in suspicious circumstances) there has yo be suspicion that the fish has been stolen. The law on knocking on doors are running away specially states the person committing the offence wilfully and wantonly disturbs the peace of the victim (ie causes harassment) and is still a valid law. Guy Faekes tried to blow up Parliament not set fire to it. It's called the Gunpowder Plot for a reason.
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  2302. @David that it is.
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  2303.  @mal2ksc  I realise that, just pointing out, in case you weren't aware of it, the use of Delta in science..
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  2304. Mustangs and Corsairs used by the British had to be returned or destroyed on the end of the war, along with all other equipment supplied by the Americans.
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  2305.  @Philliben1991  I'm not aware of what happen in America, just those who received land lease.
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  2306. Harris was known as Butch within the RAF. It was the media that called him Bomber.
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  2307. ​ @blunderingfool that's the job of the judge - to make sure that the defendant(s) gets a fair trial. His intellectual difficulty.
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  2308.  @halofreak1990  because legally there are no obvious results from an action. In this incident was it a deliberate oversight or negligence that caused the deaths? The difference is murder or manslaughter. It is not for the prosecution or the defence to make absolute statements like this as they are leading the jury. It is the judge's role to see that the jury only gets the facts (this includes the conclusions of pathologists which are merely informed opinions). It is the jury that decides whether or not it is an obvious fact.
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  2309. It was before Korea/Vietnam/the Falklands/Afghanistan (both the Soviet a d America-led wars)/any other war you wish to name.
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  2310. He was too busy flogging the dead house called Elon.
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  2311.  @trainman2615  yes, the increased rotation of the increased speed does increase the centripetal and centrifugal forces on a wheel as well as increasing the loading cycle on every part of the wheel. All of which call for increased monitoring and preventative maintenance, which appears to not be the case in the ICE. Metal fatigue was well known by the 1990s.
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  2312.  @trainman2615  from what I've read, and it is limited, DB had used testing machines on the ICE1 wheel sets but had been getting too many false positives and had discontinued using them relying on flash lights alone to do the inspections visually. I've also read that for about 3 months prior to the accident there had been reports about noise and rough riding in the coach with ge detective wheel set. What is really galling is that the Hanover tram network had notice fatigue failures in their tram wheels and had started replacing them long before their design lives were anywhere near up. They even sent out warnings to other operators of similar wheel sets the previous July, a warning that DB ignored. As was the warning in 1992 from the Fraunhofer Institure for Dtructural Dueanility and System Reliability. Unfortunately the wherl sets were never tested in extdbdion wear states ir fully fatigue tested by DB prior to this accident.
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  2313. Sounds like the Gernan equivalent of the British Z Battery rocket system that impressed a certain Major Duncan Sandys in WW2 so much so that in the 1950s he wrote a White Paper that hamstrung the British military aviation development so much that almost 70 years later the Britush no longer have an indigenous military aircraft design capability.
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  2314. Archduke Franz Ferdinand would have made the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy into a triple monarchary by adding a Serbian element.
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  2315. Is there a set wording for a Declaration of War? If not, then any statement that makes it clear a state of war exists is then a Declaration of War, like the 2 examples given.
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  2316. Markets happened at least once a week, and fairs only happen on the days their charter says they can occur on. Often, markets in villages happened on Sundays in tbe churchyard until the 13th century.
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  2317.  @EinBaierImHimmel  the war didn't end until the peace treaty was signed. That's a fact that you and the surhor(s) you are relying on have failed to comprehend. The initial armistice that started on 11th November 1818 at 11 o'clock was only in force for 36 days and had to be renewed before it expired. The German army might have withdrawn from their positions in France and Belgium did not mean the war was over, never to resume. That's what can armistice means, a mutually agreed sussation of combat forces agreed period, during which offensive actions cannot be taken without due warning as stated in the armistice's terms. If the armistice's terms failed to take into account the blockade then it isn't a breach to maintain it as it is outside of the agreed armistice's terms and thus it would be legal.
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  2318.  @EinBaierImHimmel  the fact that the Versailles Treaty was a poor document is neither here nor there. Maynard Keynes said it was a bad treaty and would end up causing mire problems but he was in the minority. So what point do you think I failed to address? The on going blockade going a war crime? Well, the war wasn't officially over under the peace treaty was signed. An armistice is just a temporary suspension of conflict. A blockade is a legitimate means of warfare and has been since the first time a location as besieged. The Germans tried it but in a way that broke the rule of warfare by the indiscriminate sinking of merchant ships, including those neutral nations that simply happened to be in the waters off the UK, without first establishing that that had contraband goods on board. An vessel with contraband, as defined in the Hague Convention, on board could be seized or sunk legally. Failure to do so was a war crime as it was against the laws and customs of war (as was the use of poison gas but that didn't stop the Germans, tear gas wasn't illegal as it doesn't normally kill).
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  2319. At last proof that not all Germans understand physics and engineering.
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  2320. The Me163 and the Japanese copies didn't have a tailplane, they only had a fin.
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  2321. Jangler - Jongleur?
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  2322.  @Peoples_Republic_of_Devonshire  no
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  2323. History isn't being destroyed. The removal of the statues of those involved in all aspects of slavery doesn't delete anything from history. We don't need the statues of these people.
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  2324. I think this was because the Britidh were a free democratic people and the Germans lived in a controlling dictatorship.
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  2325. Many Irish, including many who fought against the British, from what is now the Republic of Ireland came to Britain in WW2 to fight against Nazi Germany in spite of the poor treatment of their country over centuries under British control. The common reason is that they were opposed to oppression in any way.
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  2326. And this isn't even from the era of the Black Death or any other period when the plague was prevalent.
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  2327. Have you not seen The Producers?
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  2328.  @gwtpictgwtpict4214  scale doesn't matter. A control flight of less than the wingspan of a jumbo-jet is still the first flight. But by your illogic it isn't. The airlift in the Spanish Civil War was the at that time the world's largest not the first.
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  2329.  @gwtpictgwtpict4214  no, by your lack of understanding the first air lift was by the Montgolfier brothers. An airlift is defined as the movement of materiel and/or personnel, usually military but not always, by the use of predominantly military aircraft. Therefore, the French move ent of wounded soldiers constitutes the first recorded air lift, the second was by the RAF in Iraq, the third was by the RAF in Afghanistan and the fourth was in the Spanish Civil War.
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  2330.  @MoviesStuff  the German aircraft came in from 2 directions. Those aircraft that came over the front line saw the signal flares. Those that came in from the north didn't see any flares and carried out their attack.
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  2331. McNamara allegedly counted the number of shared parts, ignoring the fact that Boeing was planning to use the same tooling to make the parts to the required different sizes. They were going to use the, then, advanced numerically controlled machine tools for this.
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  2332.  @harryfaber  you missed the bit where the British government put out specifications for a fighter to match ot exceed the expected capabilities of the straight-winged Me.262.
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  2333.  @WilhelmKarsten  better still, why don't you stop posting lies and half truths and trying to pass off your opinions as facts. HERE ARE THE FACTS as recorded in Luftwaffe Secret Projects - Fighters 1939-1945. From the line drawings of the P.165 and the P.1070 as published in this book we can see that the we can see that the P.1065 had straight tapered wings based on the Bf.109 wing whilst the P.1070 had swept wings with a leading edge sweep of 32 degrees. The book goes to discuss the P.1070 saying that it was Dip.Ing Hans Hornung's attempt to produce a lower weight twin-engined jet fighter that was slightly smaller than Willi Messerschmitt's P.1065. The book also notes that the P.1070 had the advantage of a later start date as it benefitted from the most upto date aerodynamics to improve performance, ie swept wings, and that it's production costs were estimated to be as much as those of the more advanced, in terms of development, P.1065 (aka the Me.262) which was already under construction which led to furthervdevelopment of the P.1070 being dropped. However, the work on its wing, with its 32 degree of leading edge sweep, was incorporated into the Arrow-Wing II variant of the Me.262. Now, what facts do you want to argue with?
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  2334. ​ @ReviveHF the Russian weren't stupid. Deny Germans their sausages and the Berlin Wall would have fallen earlier or might never had been built.
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  2335. Far too soon.
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  2336.  @Bird_Dog00  immersive is the adjectival form of the noun immersion, which means the act of putting something or someone completely under the surface of a liquid.
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  2337.  @Bird_Dog00  your first comment was a question, which casts doubt on your understanding.
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  2338. Nah, it was the Rutans.
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  2339. You are aware that the Harrier is just an improved Kestrel? These improvements were based on trials in service conditions that had started the year before the Mirage III-V was completed.
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  2340. The Lancastrian was used for testing the Nene.
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  2341. Next time can we have HMS Troutbridge?
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  2342. Tik unfortunately does not understand that a privately owned business can have shareholders. He's under the illusion that as soon as you gave shareholders the business is state owned and no longer privately owned. This is caused by his refusal to understand all of the meanings of public and private in regards to limited companies. It's a pity he can't u derdtsnd thus fundamental concept.
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  2343.  @TheImperatorKnight  which would fall under the Industrial Common Ownership Act 1976. Such an organisation would have to be a ,I ited company by guarantee or a registered society under the Cooperative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014. The Articles of associate must define that members must be either employed by the body or any of its subsidiaries, that the assets of the business remain the property of the business and cannot be transferred to an individual member excepting if the business sells them to the member, and that the assets on the winding up or dissolvement of the business are transferred to a central body responsible for the disposal of the assets to pay off any outstanding debts. It also states that body is controlled by a majority of the people working for the body. Therefore, the definition of common ownership is a form of private enterprise and not state ownership. Please go and do some proper research.
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  2344. I love vzgue prophecy - I predict August will be warmer in the UK than May.
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  2345. Don't put the result in the title.
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  2346. Really? Have you ever seen Top Gun? Goose was Maverick's RIO not his wingman.
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  2347. Croissants are Austrian not French in origin.
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  2348.  @derrickstorm6976  another history channel I watch had to delay releasing a video because of licencing issues with stock footage, so instead of getting q copyright strike they deal with the issue and got things sorted and then published their presentation. So, perhaps it's you that should STFU. The absolute crap our OP was taking about are videos that have no intellectual content, bit like your comment
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  2349. Different country, but the same kinds of idiots.
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  2350. Sorry, the Japanese knew how to drop torpedoes in shallow waters of the harbour. The Royal Navy showed the how to do it at Taranto. The Japanese Naval Attache inspected the results.
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  2351. Whatever happen to drive like you own the car and butbthe road? Different country, same idiots behind the wheel.
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  2352. Further guise that weren't aware of the float plane Spitfires: there only 5 converted Spitfire 1 R6722, Spitfire VBs W3760, EP751 and EP754)and 1 converted from a Spitfire IX MJ892. R6722 proved to be disappointing and was quickly converted back to standard only for it to be shot down during the Battle of Britain (the pilot survived, the aircraft didn't) . It had been intended for use in Norway, but with Norway's surrender and lack of performance the idea was dropped.The Spitfire VB conversion were intended for use in the Dodecanes and unlike the Spitfire 1 conversion the performance was better the Merlin 45 with a 4-blade prop allowed a max speed of 324mph and a service ceiling of 33,400 feet. They carried the same armament as the standard Spitfire VB. They were sent to Egypy, but the last of the Dodecanes fell to the Germans before they were deployed. W3760 was struck off in January 1944 and EP751 followed in December 1944, but what happened to EP754 is not recorded in any source I have access to. MJ892 was struck off in November 1945 after becoming IIRC the fastest float plane of WW2 with a top speed of 377mph and a service ceiling of 38,000 feet. It also had the same surname t as a standard Spitfire IX. IIRC Folland was involved in the conversions of the Spitfire Vs and the Spitfire IX, but I don't know about the Spitfire 1 conversion which used floats of a Bkackburn Roc.
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  2353. The PIAT was a spigot mortar and not a rocket. Its projectile was little more than a very large explosive filled bullet.
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  2354. @martimasters7704  why do this when we have perfectly good words that we can use, such as dead, killed, murdered, assassinated?
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  2355. @i.ehrenfest349  a rock is an unalive as anything can be. A person is either alive or dead. The new eccentricity in the Earth's orbit has been put down to all those authors spinning in their graves.
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  2356. @Reed-2big  then they are not rules but guidelines.
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  2357. ​@brettmccardle9303 you missed a bit. Cnut ordered the sea not to come in and wet his feet. It did and he needed new shoes.
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  2358.  @2ndTimPlayground  but you still espoused that Britsin and Frande should have invaded Gernany in 1935, when the populations of both Britain and France were opposed to war? You can't gave it both ways?
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  2359.  @dondajulah4168  or another more openly anti-semitic, anti-bolshevik leader from the Nazi Party would have arisen. One with the economic brains that Hitler lacked.
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  2360.  @dondajulah4168  why would it have to transition to a democratic government? An internecine conflict was just as possible.
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  2361. @Tian Wong it ended just over 500 years before WW2. 500 years is the period you stated.
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  2362. @Tian Wong reufirces a pointless point. OK, have it your way.
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  2363. When did we start drinking barley wine, ie beers with a strength of, typically, between 6% and 12% alcohol by volume?
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  2364.  @johnnyyen4910  although he makes many mistakes.
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  2365.  @WhiskeyTango84  for example calling Number 1426 (Enemy Aircraft) Flight a squadron when as its title shows it is a Flight.
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  2366. Smoot-Hawley came in 1930, which was after the Wall Street Crash not a cause of it.
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  2367.  @abchaplin  thanks for that. The organisation of the armed forces of Nazi Germany were a bit strange to outsiders. The Parachute Troops were part of the Luftwaffe whilst those in Britain were part of the Army.
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  2368. Just don't misgender a volcano - it'll blow its top if you do.
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  2369. I see you know a little about railways. The Russian gauge in WW2 was only 89mm wider than the German gauge. If modern track is to go by with a sleeper length of 2,560mm the rails would on standard gauge track would have the inner edge of the rail about 532mm in from the ene of the sleeper, for Russian gauge it would be 488mm in from the end. However, the length of sleeper is a pure guess, as there is nothing I can find on the internet to say just how long the sleepers were on the railways of the Soviet Union. In the UK prior to WW1 the standard length of a sleeper had standardised on most railways to 2,745mm and afterwards, as a cost saving measure, to 2,592mm. The decrease in inset distance on the assumed sleeper length is not that significant as timber sleepers are often cut shorter than normal to around fixed obstructions, and all without train falling over at those points. The Germans whilst retreating from Russia also used railway ploughs which ripped the sleepers in half and damaged the track bed, so the Soviets would have had to restore the track bed in order to lay down new tracks, with new sleepers. Damage to the track bed is a more likely source of derailments. A lot of effort is taken in peacetime to ensure that railways are kept as level as possible as passengers don't like being thrown around. But it's not just for our convenience, trains don't like it either. A typical steam locomotive has a very limited amount of play in its suspension, unlike a car, lorry or dare I say it a tank, most of the suspension of the train actually comes from its trackbed being flexible to absorb the weight if the train whilst being rigid enough to not collapse. Quickly repaired or badly maintained track may be more like a rollercoaster than a a railway and that means either limiting speed of trains or derailments. As for the train loading policies of both the Soviet and German armies, there us something to be said for mixed loads. At least you'll get some of what you need on each train that arrives at the rail head, provided the correct items were dispatched. In the way of these things if you put the loads on trains in the most effective manner, the train that is lost to enemy action will be the one filled with the most vital supplies.
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  2370.  @TheImperatorKnight  but you're relying too much on an economic historian and not an engineer. I spoke to a railway civil engineer. Yes, the holes left by the bolts of spikes would reduce the strength of the sleeper, but not that much considering the nature of the material; some sleepers would have broken, but for reasons other than the shifted rail. It is also true that moving a rail outwards will increase the bending moment on the sleeper, again but not by much. The real problem is the increased loadings on the track bed at the outer end of the sleeper at the end with the shifted rail. This increase load on the ballast making the track bed shift exacerbating the problem of the shifted rail.
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  2371. Don't know where you get your stats, but I think you are well wide of the mark. According to the the figures freely available from the government's own website in 2022 agger were 68 people killed in a total of 16,447 accidents in a 20mph zone and 532 killed in 57,226 accidents in a 30mph zone. These equate to 1 fatality in 242 accidents and 1 fatality in 108 accidents. So, in conclusion you are more likely to die in a 30mph zone than a 20mph as the energy imparted by the accident into your body is much higher in a 30mph zone (kinetic energy being equal to the mass times the square of the velocity).
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  2372.  @jeffreybryan5591  these are the circumstances that put the blame squarely were it should be, so grow up.
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  2373.  @TheImperatorKnight  it's still wrong to send those non-Soviet citizens back.
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  2374. Arsonists like rats for setting their fires.
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  2375. We do like to play things down - the Malaysian Emergency, the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
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  2376. If you want a shake in the grass, look for a word whose meaning has been changed.
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  2377.  John Buck  but that use of crude oil products doesn't cause, after production, much in the way of greenhouse gases.
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  2378.  John Buck  yes, but only in regard to lubricants, until something sustainable comes along. Provably the greenest thing you can do with crude oil , after leaving it where it was, is turn in to tar, mix it with rock chippings and make road surfaces. After all the volatile gases escape there is next to no pollution.
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  2379.  John Buck  stop being stupid.
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  2380. The Mash Report is a topical satirical comedy show. The presenters are all comendiansn9t reporters. Apart from that, I agree what you've said.
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  2381.  @ChuckieFinzter  these used the same cockpit layout as the B(I).8.
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  2382. ​ @scottkrater2131 one reason was the shortening g of the supply lines to India and the war against Japan.
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  2383. You need to check your captions match your script a bit better - says a foot short whilst caption say a foot longer.
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  2384. Nice video, crap title. There is nothing insane in the A-10's design. It is a coherent product design to counter the expected threats.
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  2385. You'll have to clean up after it.
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  2386. This is ancient footage and hasn't been filmed since the rule change.
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  2387. Don't worry about the 5G giving you cancer, the 5G will gave already killed you with Covid-19 first....
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  2388. As one former soldier put it - the Vietnamese were doing fine without our help.
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  2389. If the carpark is private land wouldn't it be a civil offence rather than a criminal offence?
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  2390. Slash not dash in Air Ministry specifications. E.3/45 means an experimental aircraft specification issued in 1945 and wa the 3rd specification of all types to have been issued in that year.
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  2391.  @User-j63849j  nope, never driven an American car.
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  2392.  @PapiJonk  so 2 wrongs make a right for do they? If you're not a cop just let it slide. It's a lane not a birth right. By rebuking the bad driver Cupid made the situation worse for all in those 2 lanes. Sometimes, sorry most times it better to shake your head and let them go on their merry way and remain the better driver.
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  2393.  @PapiJonk  by sounding his horn Cupid made things worse. If he hadn't sounded his horn do you thing the other car driver would have stopped and blocked 2 lanes? More likely they would have driven off and e everyone else wouldn't have been delayed. The horn should be there to announce your presence not as a rebuke. And Cupid used his horn as rebuke and got the expected result, another confrontation. Better to have turn this encounter with a terrible driver into a non-event and then publish the footage for ridiculing the other driver's poor standards.
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  2394. Video paused at 3:25 mark. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it Superman? Is it ET comeback? No, it's a bird.
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  2395. @christophmahler  which form of astrology would that be? As for those rest, your expertise has been noted and has been ignored.
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  2396.  @christophmahler  "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts" 8s as true today as when Aristolte vouned the phrase.
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  2397. @christophmahler  citation needed - but every source I can access attributes the saying to Aristotle in Book VIII of his Metaphysics. And it lines up eitnthe findings of the OODA loop.
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  2398. @christophmahler  thanks, you're another idiot who thinks that their opinion is more important than facts.
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  2399. State socialism does not equate to a society of producers. State socialism means the government owns all the means of production. Whereas a society of producers has no single meaning, ranging from 100% capitalistic through to 100% state owned. And don't send back your normal response saying that a company owned by members of the public is a state owned company when anyone who understands these things knok you don't understand it. Private corporations are not part of the state.
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  2400. The ballistics equation for range use the sine and cosine if the angle of elevation. In its simplest from the distance contains the sine of double the angie of elevation, which for maximum range this term must equal 1, and therefore the only angle of elevation where this is true is 45 degrees.
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  2401.  @MrBottlecapBill  yes, the ballistics equations are based on simplifications such as the Earth being flat, no air resistance, the projectile beings point of no mass, gravitational forces being constant and no coriolis effect. Real world shooting needs to take all of these and more into effect.
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  2402.  @Goldenhawk583  no. Flying is not the same as ballistics. Although the maths behind both have simplifications. You seem to be ignoring than the atmosphere is attached to the surface of the Earth and travels with it at the same speed
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  2403.  @Goldenhawk583  your stupidity knows no bounds, doesn't it. Wind is just the movement of air from a region of high atmospheric pressure to a region of lower atmospheric pressure caused by the heating effect of the Sun. The air in a car with its windows and vents closed doesn't shift rearward when it accelerates it stays motionless relative to the interior of the car, the same is true for the atmosphere of the Earth. Turn on the fan in the ac unit and the air starts to move, that is the equivalent of the wind. Perhaps you should read a science book instead of watching conspiracy theory but jobs on YT.
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  2404.  @marcamant7258  it must have had some lift effect being in the up wash ahead of the main wing. The Wrights did notice the destabilising effect of the canard, so it must have been generating a lifting force.
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  2405. The original Me262 wing was based on the late model Bf109 wing. The sweeping of the wing only allowed another IIRC 18.5kts of speed to be wrung out of the airframe.
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  2406. He did it at 1:20 mark as well with some post-war Luftwaffe Harvards.
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  2407.  @megladon6  that's not how probability works. The chance of a single wheel failing remains exactly the same whether you have 2 or 2000 wheels.
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  2408.  @namewarvergeben  in that case why didn't BR have a similar failure? After all these locomotives were in service fir the best part of a decade without, accordinding to the sources I've looked at over the years, ever suffering from an in service tyre failure. Perhaps BR got a good batch, which is not a good bet. No it's more likely that the BR engineering and maintenance staff took better care of the wheel sets and made sure that tyres showing signs of defects were replaced. All such wheels were placed by the 1980s as improvements yo the primary and secondary suspension came into service on these locomotives. Yes, the Class 86/3 significantly slower but they were a.so noticeably heavier then the ICE1 powerczars (by about 4000kg) and significantly heavier than the coaches (by around 30,000 kg over the 2nd class coaches, 28,000 kg over the 1st class coaches and 24,000kg over the catering coaches). And yes it's the rate of loading and unloading that matters more than the actual magnitude of that loading and for the same size wheel a higher linear speed means more rotations per minute. But it still remains that there were no in service failures or accidents recorded in the materials I've had access to. Defects were recorded and maintenance carried out preventing things getting worse. Plus BR didn't require train crew to see the damage before stopping a train. Better a delay than a death. Whilst the British can be bureaucratic they are very rarely socially bureaucratic.
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  2409.  @P_RO_  yes, kinetic energy does do that.
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  2410.  @namewarvergeben  yes, an event becomes certain if you have enough of them, but the probability of the event occuring remains the same. All large probabilities are approximations.
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  2411. The public sector is everything owned by the government or state. The private sector is everything else. A sole trader is a business owner by an individual, whilst a company us one owned by more than one person. A private company is one where the shares are owned by one or more persons and not traded publicly (ie they can only be sold to the other share holders and that new shareholders can only join with the permission of the other shareholders). A public company us any company whose shares are publicly traded on the open, market. Then there are cooperatives which are owned by the members and anyone can buy into them. This is do simple even a child can understand it in less than 10 minutes.
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  2412. Number 8 - your dipped headlights dazzled the other driver.
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  2413. Was he related to a certain Sub-Lieutenant Philip's with his "We don't know where we're going until we get there"?
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  2414. A battle remembered in dong by Pink Floyd in the song "When The Tigers Broke Free".
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  2415. You can get porter in many supermarkets - Lidl sells a very nice porter.
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  2416. Shame you had to go and say the Germans launch a blitzkrieg against Stalingrad. The Germans didn't use the term blitzkrieg until after the war in the way you are meaning as a swift armoured thrust into their enemies rear area. To the Germans blitzkrieg meant a short war, and what they were doing here was a war of manouevre (I can't remember the German word for it).
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  2417. The senior generals in the British Army after WW1 said the tank was obsolete with the ending of that war as it has been built to overcome a specific situation ie trench warfare [I should have waited]. Later they also said it wasn't worth improving the armour of tanks as any enemy would only develop a better anti-tank gun as the gun would always be able to overcome any armour as eventually the armour would be so heavy as to make the tank immobile. As for the Ukraine how many tanks/armoured vehicles do we see being attacked and not being removed from the battlefield?
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  2418. The railcars built by the GWR in the UK used 5-speed pre-selector gear boxes.
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  2419. Someone's being compensated for Little-Hampton Syndrome.
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  2420. He was just channeling the thoughts of J W Dunne, the true pioneer of tailless aircraft.
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  2421.  @twistedyogert  all structures have a degree of flexibility.
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  2422. @LennyTwo-o7q  it's not just me saying this. There is a video on YT that I picked up on this fact from. So, instead of being a smart arse throwing around insult, go and get educated and become wise.
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  2423.  @Itachi951000  perhaps you should go and read a history book or two and stop listening to tired old myths. The British army was still being landed in France (ie 2nd BEF) whilst the Dunkirk evacuation was going on. The last British evacuation from France occured in August 1940, by this time in was an informal evacuation operation as most of the troops and civilians extracted from France had left 3 days after the French signed their Armistice with the Germans on 22nd June 1940.
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  2424.  @Itachi951000 I wasn't talking about Op Dynamo but Op Aerial which took place between 15th and 25th June 1940 which use St Nazaire and other Atlantic coast ports in France. It involved the evacuation of British, Czech and Polish troops, civilians and equipment. One major loss during this evacuation was HMT Lancastria. Op Dynamo ended on 4th June 1940, but the 157 (Highland Light Infantry) Brigade was one element of what was to be the 2nd BEF set sail for France on 7th June 1940. That really sounds like the British were running away to their fortress island, doesn't it? They were trying to support France, but the Germans were just too good st that time.
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  2425. Breaki g News:Trump is intending to replace E Pluribus Unum on the Coat of arms with BOHICA.
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  2426.  @kevingoodwin5177  that's building big developing the aircraft.
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  2427. All of the signals on lines where there are passengers services other than at station platforms are absolute block. It doesn't matter if they are automatic or controlled by a signalman.
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  2428.  @LUAu101  yes, there were/are some lines with passenger services were permissive working of freight trains was allowed. But none of the services involved in this incident are freight trains and so such permissive working are irrelevant. There were also sections of line that had/have no block, but only on freight lines as far as the evidence I have access to shows, and thus not relevant to this incident. My point still stands. At the time of this accident all lines were passenger trains ran were absolute blocks, excluding platform lines in some places.
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  2429. As one historian, a Dr S. Knightley, summarised the Armada: "Drake and all his mates are playing bowls out on the Hoe. Medina in the distance has a hundred miles to go. Finish off the game, let’s wander into town. Light the f-ing beacon and we'll buy another round."
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  2430. 1987 wasn't a hurricane but a bomb cyclone.
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  2431. He makes it seem easy because he is well versed in the laws.
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  2432. David Starkey is a Rent-a-Gob beloved of the right wing press.
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  2433.  @mtkoslowski  well let's start with navigation. The positions of numerous stars are given in Navigator's almanacs with a minimum of two stars you can get a rough positional fix, with 3 or more stars you can get a more accurate positional fix. Now RAF Valley is on the coast with the end longest runway being roughly north-south and the longest north-wedt-south-east in alignment. Once you get you position to fly to a point over the Irish Sea using dead reckoning and taking further positional fixes before turning g back towards the location of RAF Valley before descending to under the cloud base and fly back to the position of the base to land. The Lincoln had fuel burn rates between about 170 gallons per hour and 400 gallons per hour depending on the supercharger gear, the weight and altitude. These can be found online in the Pilot's Handling Notes. The Lincoln had a max fuel capacity of 3,580 gallons. Of course, as with every aircraft not al, of this fuel will be available for use in flight, so assuming g we can use 90% of this fuel in flight, then at the maximum fuel burn rate it equates to about 7 hours of running time for the engines. By the time RF511 crashed they had been airborne for about 7 hours, so at max fuel burn they would have been running on fumes. At the most economic fuel burn we're kicking at over 18 hours of engine running time.
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  2434.  @alganhar1  yes, I know that you get a fix to within a fraction of a degree and that you need at least 3 to fix your position to this kind of accuracy. However, at night unless you are able to determine the difference between one patch of land and another most landmarks are useless. If you can spot the coastline or a body of water then you might spot a familiar location. But there again, and proved by WW2, you can spoof pilots into thinking there are not where they think they are by mistaking one body of water for another. Now unless you know that it is safe to descend it is impossible to avoid controlled flight in to terrain and to be certain of where you are to any degree you need to get a navigational fix, be that with celestial navigation or radio signal triangulation. Having done daytime navigational training flights I know how difficult it is to determine one town from another and that was with clear visibility, at night how do you determine one cluster of lights from another?
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  2435. The Cato Street Conspiracy became the Morphic Street Conspiracy on Terry Pratchett's Disc World. It was just another historic event that inspired his writing.
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  2436. WRONG NUMBER 4. There was no rudder in the central fin, as shown in the photograph you used to illustrate this feature. You can clearly see that there is no vertical gap on thus structure no hinges or balance weights. You are not even as reliable as Wikipedia. The tail flutter was solved with new vertical tail surfaces.
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  2437.  @dukecraig2402  the fin did work by increasing the keel area, but no rudder was ever fitted to it. In the end they redesigned the vertical fins and fitted them to the Manchester and used similar ones on the Lancaster.
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  2438.  @dukecraig2402  yes, as shown in that photograph.
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  2439.  @dukecraig2402  if you mean the Lockheed Constellation, then yes it did.
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  2440.  @dukecraig2402  your welcome
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  2441.  @ericadams3428  is that the Browning or Vickers gun? My source does say which machine guns they looked at.
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  2442.  @chrisbowen7648  shire meaning county. Irony is not easy to do in writing.
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  2443.  @chrisbowen7648  Norfolkshire is an older name for the county.
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  2444. Can anyone tell me what was wrong in 24.1,other than obeying the signs and merging without causing an accident?
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  2445. Isn't this the battle that is described in the book "Chickenhawk"?
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  2446. Most of Yorkshire fought for the House of Lancaster.
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  2447. @ald1144  spoken like SLC.
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  2448. @TroyDalton1965  did Isay faulty? No I didn't. I said mis-set. There's a world of difference. Before you say off on any flight, you have to set the altimeter. Set it wrong and you will encroach on controlled airspace, etc.
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  2449. @crazeelazee7524  in my case it was, 800ft and 1200ft. But if you take off at sea level and then fly into hilly terrain at 2000ft you will quickly end up at 200ft above the ground even though your altimeter still says 2000ft. Perhaps you should put the keyboard down and try flying. You'll soon learn the difference.
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  2450. @st4rgat3  it shouldn't happen, but you are ignoring some basic facts. An altimeter works off air pressure and should be set to a reference altitude before departure. When you fly along at a given altitude, say 2000ft, you are flying at an altitude based on the initial setting of the altimeter. Irrespective of what the ground does, if you fly straight and level, you are still flying at an altitude based on what you set the altimeter to. Controlled flight into terrain happens most years and not just in bad weather. The other factor you are ignoring is that pilots often fail to accept what their eyes are telling them because they have been training to accept that their instruments don't lie (and it's not just altimeters they ignore). This has led to many pilots crashing.
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  2451.  @SoManyRandomRamblings  I said it can be mis-set, but it's very easy to misread an altimeter.
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  2452. @SoManyRandomRamblings  never said they did mis-set the altimeter, just that it is possible to do so. But I did say it was easy to misread one.
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  2453. @SoManyRandomRamblings  no, I having a go at idiots who prefer to hang people for making mistakes with no conception of why these mistakes happened. Take the original poster, the only flight time he's got is as SLC. It isvery easy to misread an altimeter and I know this from personal experience whilst learning to fly and ever again since then.
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  2454. @MikeHunt-fo3ow  and those top notch military pilots were using charts that didn't even show the cable car? Certainly not a good advert for the American military of the day.
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  2455. @charlotteinnocent8752  the heights of the mountains is of less relevance than you. Whilst it is true they we're joyriding, it remains a fact that they had planned this flight in the same way as all other flights, except they didn't have charts showing the cable car.. It might have been from their home base, but familiarity breeds contempt.
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  2456.  @SoManyRandomRamblings  senior officers are responsible for their subordinates obeying legitimate orders and following safe operating procedures. Their CO would have been reprimanded for any oversights. Such reprimands are often a block to further advancement.
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  2457. @SoManyRandomRamblings  who said I was against accountability? Being dismissed from the military in such circumstances comes with plenty of baggage.
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  2458.  @GrandpasRevenge43  I was of that. They were negligent in their planning.
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  2459. @peterfitzpatrick7032  faulty doesn't mean it can't be misread or incorrectly set. These are different. If you read the evidence they gave under oath, they swore they were at 1,000ft AGL. And not the 360ft they were at. The Radalt was also found to be working but set to trigger at an height above ground that was above what they were flying at (IIRC it was set to about 850ft), making it as useful as runway behind you. Was it mis-set or just ignored? Nothing I've read gives a clue.
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  2460.  @GrandpasRevenge43  quite easily. You don't believe what you see.
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  2461. @SoManyRandomRamblings  wrong on all counts. I just objected to OP's statement. And yes, I would have thrown the book at these clowns and not accepted their plea bargains they were criminally negligent as were those above them in the command structure.
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  2462.  @TrappedinSLC  and yet that still happens.
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  2463.  @TrappedinSLC  in 2009 Air France pilots failed to recognise they had stalled and the pilot in control kept the aircraft stalled until it was too late for recovery. The primary instruments were faulty and they didn't believe the back ups resulting in the death of all on board.
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  2464.  @kurtkurtson9111  no where near.
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  2465.  @saiboogu  mechanical altimeters do stick. All it takes to unstick them is a light tap to the instrument panel.
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  2466. @saiboogu  it was an accident as no one deliberately attempted to collide with the cable car. The causes of the accident were the negligent actions of the aircrew involved and their immediate chain of command.
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  2467. @saiboogu  the there is a great book out their about human factors in air crashes. It explains why pilots will ignore the evidence of their own eyes and rely on their instruments until it is too late to avoid a crash. This includes highly trained military and airline pilots (see Air France flght 447 as a prime example of this). When it comes to safe altitudes, the military often ignores them in order to practice low flying. See all the videos on YT taken at the Mach Loop with aircraft well below the safe altitudes. It was criminally negligent, however, to ignore the up to date charts of the area.
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  2468. @PabloGonzalez-hv3td  the RAF crews ride the same in the run-up to the first Gulf War including footage shot from the cockpits of Tornados and Jaguars flying at such low levels there were times that they had to climb to avoid camels. There's also footage of Tornados flying at such a low levels that you can't see the shadow the aircraft was casting on the desert. The camcorder is not the smoking gun that many think it is. The fact that he destroyed the tape is an admission of guilt.
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  2469. @GNMi79  they thought that they were at 1,000ft AGL (according to their testimony) and flying at 9 miles per minute over mountainous terrain. By the time they react to something ahead of them, it's gone past.
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  2470. @neilkurzman4907  beyond 18ft we use relatives and motion to give us our perception of distance, so it becomes harder to tell howfar you are away from something, even the ground if you go beyond the average human's steroscopic rangof about 18ft. As for knowing what height thesaly pioneers of aviation were flying at prior to the invention of the accurate altimeterrelies on subjective estimations. But I've never used that argument in any of my comments. What I have said is that you can be at altitude of 2,000ft and be at a height of only 200ft above the ground. This is not the same as what you are trying and failing to suggest. Even at 200ft without seen a recognisable object of an easily assesed height, such as another human being, house, car, or farm animal will lead to an error in estimating your height above the ground.aspart of my flight training I was required to an approach and landing without reference to my altimeter, but I got that exercise in early by misreading the altimeter by about 300 hundred feet, and that was over an area that I flown over many times and was familiar with. It was full of reference points that I was ignoring, just like this aircrew. But unlike them, I wasn't being filmed. I also got back to the airfield without incident and learnt a valuable lesson. Gliding is full of such lessons as you have only one chance to get it right.
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  2471. @neilkurzman4907  as comprehending comments on YT videos, is something that you obviously have difficulties with. Perhaps you shouldn't take your own advice. PS your second sentence made very little sense. But I'll try to respond to what I think you are saying. At an indicated speed of, let's say 300mph, the ground will be moving at the same speed, irrespective of your altitude. It is your perception of the grounds movement that changes with height because your field on view increases with height. The same is true when looking at the horizon, things closer to you appear to move towards you at a much higher speed than those in the distance, although they are closing at the same speed.
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  2472. @neilkurzman4907  I was responding to what you had written ev3n though it wasn't clear what you were trying to say. As I said previously, I wouldn't have accepted their plea bargain. If that's defending then, then you are stupider than you appear.
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  2473. @GNMi79  because, as stated in the video, the charts they were using and other planning materials were out of date.
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  2474. @GNMi79  are we talking about 1,000ft AGL or 1,000ft AMSL? At Cavelese 1,000ft AGL is 4,000ft AMSL, where I am at this moment it's only 400ft AGL to be at 1,000ft AMSL. Now, if a pilot is relying solely on their instruments to keep them safe then they've just bust the the 500ft minimum altitude in the UK, the only set of rules I'm familiar enough with to comment on. They should, of course, not be relying solely on their instruments, but people but people don't always believe what they're seeing or choose to ignore their instruments. And at 9 miles per minute, as in this tragedy, you have to react so much faster than you have to in a Cessna 150 pootling along at a much lower speed. As for flying over a populated area, that can be allowed at 1,000ft (the rules in the UK, for example,fot all pilots allow flight over a built up area at 1,000ft AGL provided it's possible to glide clear to a safe landing spot should there be an engine failure). None of this condones what this aircrew did, but is an attempt to explain what might have been happening in their heads. If you want to read more about the human factors in air crashes, there are some good books out there.
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  2475. @GNMi79  we're you not paying attention? The charts and other documents they used for planning this flight gave a lower height. They did not use the upto date charts. PS you brought up the death at the pilot couldn't tell the difference between 2 without defining what these distance represents. In some circumstance, such as flying over a dead calm body of water pilots can't accurately judge their altitude until they hit the water.
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  2476. @GNMi79  the over water flight situation was an example of when pilots can't be trusted ousetheir 9wn judgement on altitude. It was not a representation of the situation this case. And, whilst pilots should be able to tell their altitude is too low by visual reference to structures they can see. It all depends on the structure. A house, yes, but the pillar for a cable car without the gondola, maybe not (no gondola may indicate a non-operational cable car with no strung cables, i.e., an abandoned system). You need a reference point to start estimating heights. Estimating heights is easy when you have a reference point and the time to make the estimate, as you do when flying along at, say around 2 miles a minute in a Cessna 152, this aircrew, had they been paying attention had even less time to estimate their height as they were doing 9 miles per minute. Remember, they thought they were at 1,000ft AGL at the time, the safe altitude according to the chart they had used.
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  2477. @GNMi79  PS go look up the Rhomney, Hythe and Dimchurch Railway's armoured train, and the Bf.109 it is credited with shooting down. The pilot failed to judge his altitude and came a cropper.
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  2478. @coconutsmarties  did you not listen? They were operating under the assumption that they were operating correctly simply because they had used the out of date charts. And 2, you and all the rest are ignoring the other human factor issue in that they ignored what their eyes were telling them. Two of the major factors in many air crashes, both military and civil.but this is just too difficult for you and the others to get your heads around.
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  2479. @4rtworlds  I was a pilot. No, why don't you go away. And when you get there, keep going.
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  2480. @somethingforsenro  and yet pilots do that (Been there, done that but over flat farm land). The pressure altimeter gives you a height above sea level and not your height above the ground. You need a radar altimeter for that. And then you need to pay attention to it, but this crew did not.
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  2481. Another aircraft influenced by late war Germany designs - this time ohe by Messerschmitt.
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  2482. ​@MM22966 with over 2,000 years of recorded history just for the UK there is limited time to teach everything that has happened since Julius Caesar's 1st invasion. So we tend to concentrate of moments of significant change.
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  2483. @MM22966  depends on the exam board. The reigns of the 3 Edwards and the start of the English domination of Britain is one subject being taught in our schools. Plus, WW1 and its global impact, such as the acceleration of the global power of the UK and rise of the USA.
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  2484. @Katmando376  maybe so, but teachers have a way of subverting the aims of politicians to our children's advantage. Take maths, for example, the UK is not near the top of the exam league tables but when it comes to practical application of maths, we are amongst the best in the world (top 5 and beating most of the cou tries with better exam results).
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  2485. @Katmando376  does it matter?
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  2486.  @MM22966  school level - GCSE.
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  2487. The stupidity of that farmer. He knows farms, including his, will suffer if Mr Trump follows through with his plans but still votes for him. Don't worry, that kind of stupidity is universal. Farmers in the UK were more likely to vote for Brexit even though it meant they lost more than they have gained.
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  2488. Mothballing costs money, especially if you want the line quickly available. The Bramley Line is said to have been mothballed but would take months to reinstate physically as the line is overgrown by trees, and all the level crossings have been removed. There was no integrated transport system in the majority of the country. In most places you couldn't use the same ticket on the local buses and trains. Tge multiple units were single-manned in the cab, but locomotive remained two-manned until relatively recently.
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  2489. I remember another dictator wanted autarky. It didn’t work out too well for him either. I think he, too, was a golfer. Not a good one, he got stuck in a bunker and instead of taking a penalty stroke for an unplayable lie, he shot himself.
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  2490. Number 5: Why not use your brakes instead of your horn?
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  2491. ​ @beerdedwanderer there was no obvious braking before hitting the horn.
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  2492. What nonsense. The TSR2 was cancelled because the UK couldn't afford it. It was just one of about a dozen defence projects cancelled by either the Conservatives before October 1964 or Labour after that. Although the Chinook cancellation by the Conservatives was later reversed.
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  2493.  @AshMundo  and what evidence is there for that? None that stands up. Basket case Britian's economy was crashing and burning by October 1964. The trade deficit was double what the financial markets had expected at £800 million pounds, which lead to 3 years of financial crises which kead ti ghe Pound bejin devalued by 14%. Support from the IMF and the US and other central banks but none of it was contingent of the dropping if the TSR2 for Ametican aircraft. The loans came after the cancellation was long past. We simply could not afford what we wanted. Plus with the dropping of our East of Suez commitments the need for the TSR2 was reduced.
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  2494.  @B-A-L  and what evidence is there for any of this?
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  2495.  @zackthebongripper7274  the Army isn't allowed to by law.
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  2496.  @SteamCrane  yes they can, but the US Army has never succeeded in doing so. Even at the height of the Cold War, in 1961 when they tried to buy a version of the A4D-2N, the Fiat G51 or a version of Northrop's N156. This programme forced the USAF into providing close air support aircraft to the army.
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  2497. No a buggered British economy finished off the TSR2.
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  2498.  @brianperry  there is no evidence to support your claims that I've come across. Ten days after taking power the Labour government had to announce that the balance if trade deficit run up under the previous Conservative government was £800 million against the expect £400 million. We achieved this without any help from the Americans. This caused a run on the Pound for which we got credits of $3 billion from other central banks in November 1965, some 7 months after the TSR2's cancellation.
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  2499.  @brianperry  watched it and read the Murder of the TSR2 and as much other material as possible. They all gloss over the economic situation. The UK simply couldn't afford all of its spending commitments in the 1960s. The so-called economic golden age of the 1950s wix nothing more than a pack if lies. The 1950s were a series of economic bond and busts caused in part by the economic policies of the Conservatives who encouraged over manning in all sectors of industry making British products more expensive than yjisr if our industrial rivals in order to keep unemployment artificially low. Productivity in British industry was falling due to failures to adapt to the changing economic situations, part of this lies with the unions becoming more militant and part with the business owners failing to invest in new equipment and methods of working. The end result was, after 3 years of trying UK support the Pound at an exchange rate of £1 to US$2.80 we were forced to devalue it by 14% to £1 to US$2.40, and that was after securing loans from the other central banks and the IMF, no e if which required the scrapping of the TSR2 to obtain. In fact the Americans didn't want us to abandon our commitments east of Suez, for which an sir RAF with the TSR2's capabilities were required. IIRC the TSR2 was the 12th or 13th military programme we cancelled in the 1950s and 1960s, all of which are quietly forgotten and they were not as glamourous as the TSR2. One of these programmes involved a more advanced version of the Victor bomber.
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  2500.  @brianperry  yes, the Americans had nothing to do with the demise of the TSR2 or the Avro Arrow. The latter was destroyed by the lame duck British economy and the Arrow was the victim of the ICBM. Whilst the TSR2 programme was further along in its development the F-111 was the superior aircraft, especially in range.
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  2501. It's the first ducted fan aircraft and nothing to do with the turbo-fan, whic the German and British would develop independently of each other but only thr British would get their design to run effectively.
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  2502. Finland was never conquered by the Nazis.
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  2503. Whilst a populay myth, nobody ever said the Titanic was unsinkable, certainly not the designers and builders withadding caveats. White Star Line, on the other hand, stressed the safety of Olympic and Titanic, claiming that "as far as it is possible to do so, these two wonderful vessels are designed to be unsinkable". But even this isn’t a definite claim of unsinkability. Even the trade press called the Titanic practically unsinkable.
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  2504. Number 6 - if you are carrying a fragile gift, why not just back the F off and let the idiots go ahead? Remember the old saying of drive like you own the car, not the road.
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  2505. Me I start at 1705 each day....
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  2506.  @RoyCousins  nope, they were relatives of the Norman kings.
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  2507.  @miken4591  the trouble with the Irish is that they invited the Normans to go there and gave them land as a reward for returning one if their kings to his lands. As for the Welsh there were many border ncidents that lead to the eventual subjugation of the Welsh.
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  2508.  @thehive378  they were Norsemen that settled in that part of France.
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  2509.  @WalesTheTrueBritons  the Tudor kings were the illegitimate offspring of John of Gaunt, who was of Norman Angevin descent. Now that's the truth, not an opinion.
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  2510.  @WalesTheTrueBritons  that is why I ssied eventual.
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  2511.  @MarcDufresneosorusrex  yes, but they're Frenchish and they do things differently over there.
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  2512. Tunnels under the Atlantic is another idea from the Victorian era..... from the era when they didn't fully know just what was at the bottom of the ocean.
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  2513.  @johnburns4017  by your illogic the Lancaster was a pipe dream in the summer iof 1941 as it wasn't in service. Tes,the B-29 had problems but so did the Avro Manchester for very similar reasons.
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  2514.  @johnburns4017  with the B-29 development starting around 1938 it certainly was in the game, long before the Lancaster rose pheonix-like out of the ashes of the Manchester. The RAF considered they would face loss rates as high as 80% over Japan. Which by your logic means that the Lancaster wasn't a good aircraft. Plus it would have suffered from overheating issues whikst on the ground in the Far East due to be a liquid cooled engine, which again by your logic makes it a bad aircraft.
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  2515.  @johnburns4017  I know quite a lot about Lancaster, it's good points and its flaws.
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  2516. What about the break out at Etaples, France, in 1916-1917? Why isn't this part of the waves of the Spanish Flu as it had the same symptoms as the Spanish Flu including the cyanosis?
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  2517. No the fall of the Shah and the seizure of the American embassy and the hostage crisis which, in part, cost him the 1980 election. Carter was seen to be weak on international affairs.
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  2518. Say Harrier shows a Kestrel. It's not difficult to get it right.
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  2519. Has anyone else noticed just how much the Hype-r-loop resembles the travel pod system found at Moonbase Alpha from the 1970's Space:1999 from Gerry and Sylvia Anderson?
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  2520. Elon's promises will be made but not this century
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  2521. It is a miracle that such a limited capability aircraft saw service for so long.
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  2522. You were doing so well and then fucked up. The Harrier II was an American aircraft that we opted into not a British aircraft that they chose to buy. The lead company was McDonald McDonald Douglas. Although originally involved in the initial phases of the Harrier II programme from December 1973 we with drew in March 1975 and didn't get involved again until August 1981 after the prototype's 1st flight (in November 1979). All of the design work was carried out by the Americans. At least you didn't repeat the half truths about Geoffrey de Havilland suggesting to the Air Ministry to build a wooden aircraft that used speed as its sole means of defence.
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