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[Bedford Roughyed]

 

[The Hallucinating Goose]

 

[Futtocks]

Mildly amazed to find that there wasn't one in Trier. It was one of the capitals of the Roman Empire in the days of the Tetrarchy, after all.

[The Hallucinating Goose]

1 hour ago, Futtocks said:

Mildly amazed to find that there wasn't one in Trier. It was one of the capitals of the Roman Empire in the days of the Tetrarchy, after all.

I think what got me was just the amount of universities there was in the middle ages, I didn't realise there was quite so many.

[tonyXIII]

I was not aware of a medieval university at York. The current university in York was only opened in about 1963. What happened?

PS. Durham university (not shown) does, I believe, date back to the Middle Ages.

Edited July 13, 2024 by tonyXIII

[Sidi Fidi Gold]

On 10/07/2024 at 23:05, Bedford Roughyed said:

I don't know about cows in the UK but I was once attacked by a duck, where do they rank on the UKs most dangerous animals list?

[Bedford Roughyed]

35 minutes ago, Sidi Fidi Gold said:

I don't know about cows in the UK but I was once attacked by a duck, where do they rank on the UKs most dangerous animals list?

Lower than swans, but higher than a hamster.

[The Hallucinating Goose]

3 minutes ago, Bedford Roughyed said:

Lower than swans, but higher than a hamster.

Anyone else thinking about Hot Fuzz now?

[Sidi Fidi Gold]

12 minutes ago, Bedford Roughyed said:

Lower than swans, but higher than a hamster.

I was bitten by a hamster as a kid but this duck was very aggressive, I also felt a right fool.

[JonM]

22 hours ago, Futtocks said:

Mildly amazed to find that there wasn't one in Trier. It was one of the capitals of the Roman Empire in the days of the Tetrarchy, after all.

Trier did have a medieval university but it was shut down after one of the various French invasions and never re-opened. Same happened in a couple of other German cities.

[Padge]

On 13/07/2024 at 09:25, Sidi Fidi Gold said:

I don't know about cows in the UK but I was once attacked by a duck, where do they rank on the UKs most dangerous animals list?

 

A family who are friends of ours had a 'pet' duck, it hated women. It would be happily waddling around the garden but if Margaret (or Victoria, daughter) went into the garden it would go for and start pecking at her feat, same with other females.

It got so bad she kept a bucket by the door and if she needed to go into the garden, say to hang out washing, she would throw the bucket over the duck. It could then heard madly pecking at the bucket as the bucket then waddled around the garden.

Edited July 16, 2024 by Padge

[The Hallucinating Goose]

 

[sam4731]

On 09/07/2024 at 15:27, Futtocks said:

The borders between the Netherlands and Belgium in the city of Baarle.

Bloody hell, what did they do before the Schengen area?

[Griff]

On 10/07/2024 at 23:05, Bedford Roughyed said:

That Spanish spider isn't an insect.

[Futtocks]

The Blitz - London bomb damage map.

https://www.layersoflondon.org/map/overlays/bomb-damage-1945 

[The Hallucinating Goose]

Interesting one. Why Chile but no other South American countries?

[JonM]

9 hours ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

Interesting one. Why Chile but no other South American countries?

Chile is a) almost entirely white b) relatively wealthy and c) reliably a US ally, at least since they installed Pinochet in the 1970s. I doubt there are too many Chileans among the migrants entering the US via Mexico. Would be my guess anyway.

Australia is the interesting one. They introduced a policy that everyone needed a visa, for a while back in the 1990s I think. The Americans did a ######-for-tat response and made it so that Australians needed a visa for the US, and some time after that Australis changed its policy.

[The Hallucinating Goose]

15 minutes ago, JonM said:

Chile is a) almost entirely white b) relatively wealthy and c) reliably a US ally, at least since they installed Pinochet in the 1970s. I doubt there are too many Chileans among the migrants entering the US via Mexico. Would be my guess anyway.

Australia is the interesting one. They introduced a policy that everyone needed a visa, for a while back in the 1990s I think. The Americans did a ######-for-tat response and made it so that Australians needed a visa for the US, and some time after that Australis changed its policy.

Thanks for that, I don't know masses of Chilean history so don't know anything about the relationship between the two countries.

[Futtocks]

29 minutes ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

Thanks for that, I don't know masses of Chilean history so don't know anything about the relationship between the two countries.

They've been meddling in Chilean politics for ages, but this applies to a lot of other Central/South American countries too. The third volume of Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire Trilogy tells of the kind of things they got up to across the continent.

His book Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent goes into more detail.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_intervention_in_Chile

Edited July 20, 2024 by Futtocks

[Wiltshire Warrior Dragon]

On 13/07/2024 at 08:12, tonyXIII said:

I was not aware of a medieval university at York. The current university in York was only opened in about 1963. What happened?

PS. Durham university (not shown) does, I believe, date back to the Middle Ages.

Nor was I, Tony, and I don't think there was one.  Durham was indeed the third English location to have a university, but I don't think it was until the 19th century.

In the late 16th century, my native county, Aberdeenshire, very briefly had three universities - one in Fraserburgh and two in Aberdeen.

[Futtocks]

11 minutes ago, Wiltshire Warrior Dragon said:

Nor was I, Tony, and I don't think there was one.  Durham was indeed the third English location to have a university, but I don't think it was until the 19th century.

In the late 16th century, my native county, Aberdeenshire, very briefly had three universities - one in Fraserburgh and two in Aberdeen.

I just did a search, and was quite surprised at the 600-year time gap in English universities between the founding of Oxford & Cambridge and England's next, which was Durham.

[Marauder]

On 20/07/2024 at 08:08, The Hallucinating Goose said:

Interesting one. Why Chile but no other South American countries?

I suspect because Chile are West friendly

[The Hallucinating Goose]

I have been to 9 of these stations. I haven't actually been to any of the London stations on the list.

Edited July 23, 2024 by The Hallucinating Goose

[Padge]

Fill yer boots. Loads of comparative and informative maps (mostly USA but still interesting).

https://news.moovitapp.com/en/show-world-really?ly=native_one

 

[The Hallucinating Goose]

 

This is very interesting. There's some names here I'd never have thought would be the most popular in their respective countries, granted ive never met people from a lot of these places but even so.

I found Smirnov particularly interesting for Russia; shows why the vodka is named that I guess, because the maker of it has a bloomin common name in that country!

I notice people in Moldova don't have last names. It surprised me that the name for Macedonia ends with 'ski', I guess I always thought of people from there being linked more with Greece than with the East of Europe.

Similarly, Tamm for Estonia seems very random. I presume that word maybe means something in Estonian, or at least is a derivative of something because again, I would have ignorantly assumed their names would maybe end in 'ski' as well.

Edited July 26, 2024 by The Hallucinating Goose