Lord Lucan
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But if the apricot's in a crate...Gotta be a good shot to hit a moving emu with an apricot tho'
But if the apricot's in a crate...Gotta be a good shot to hit a moving emu with an apricot tho'
Well that narrows the odds, as long as you have a small mobile trebuchet to hand.But if the apricot's in a crate...
But if the apricot's in a crate...
They were only defeated because they gave up. If you want to kill emus, you need a crate of apricots covered in strychnine. I have it on good authority from a Territorian.
And there goes all the Parrots, Lorrikeets, Bush Turkeys, and the majority of the Scincidae species in the general area.
And there goes all the Parrots, Lorrikeets, Bush Turkeys, and the majority of the Scincidae species in the general area.
Absolutely correct. Poison is a scatter gun at best... but if you want to kill emus there's gonna be collateral damage.
The Black Tom explosion on July 30, 1916, in Jersey City, New Jersey, was an act of sabotage by German agents to destroy American-made munitions that were to be supplied to the Allies in World War I. This incident, which happened prior to American entry into World War I, is also notable for causing damage to the Statue of Liberty.
www.historynet.com/world-war-i-intrigue-german-spies-in-new-york.htmIn 1939 a German-American Mixed Claims Commission found the German government of 1916 responsible for the blast. In 1953 the commission awarded damages of $50 million, which were finally paid off in 1979
... However: taking this incident at the level we presently must accept (ie that it was a formal Imperial Germany operational attack on US soil, by a deliberate act just on that basis, and nothing more complex) why did it take until the following year for the US to enter WW1? ...
Even after the smudge pots were ruled out as the explosions' root cause, the incident was widely considered to have been an industrial accident.
...There does seem to have been huge doubts as to the genuine operational involvement of Imperial Germany. Whilst it's clear to see (even without hindsight) that Germany wanted to cut-off such a key source of munitions, why on earth did they seem so oblivious to the risk of bringing the US into WW1?
I know this thread is intended primarily to be about forgotten aspects of history (of which this is an inaguable gem) but it is impossible not to conclude that there could so easily have been a number of conspiratorial factors also at play, all intended to bring the US into WW1. ...
The Germans may have been banking on their Mexican connection and meddling to keep the Americans preoccupied in the Western Hemisphere. They may have assumed America's dismantling of the dying Spanish Empire less than 2 decades earlier didn't prove the USA was a credible military threat. For all I know the Germans viewed a Black Tom attack as a warning intended to keep the USA out of the war. It can't be said to have backfired, because Black Tom wasn't the focal rationale for declaring war.
I came across a local mystery last week in Midsomer Norton. A small memorial to the 12 miners ( men and boys) killed in 1839 when the rope they were being lowered into the mine on was deliberately cut. A verdict of murder by person or persons unknown was bought in.
Goggle has not been able to shed much light on this, just links to some family history researchers (rootstock) and lists of other mining disasters, has anyone else heard of this? I only spotted the small memorial stone by accident and I have not previously heard of this rather extraordinary story.
I came across a local mystery last week in Midsomer Norton. A small memorial to the 12 miners ( men and boys) killed in 1839 when the rope they were being lowered into the mine on was deliberately cut. A verdict of murder by person or persons unknown was bought in
Hang on - there was a murder in Midsomer ?
Do the inhabitants realise why their property prices are so poor?Hang on - there was amurder inMidsomer ?
You can't, well, not at least until the CSIs have dusted it for prints.I'm not even TOUCHING that one.
Do the inhabitants realise why their property prices are so poor?
Hang on - there was a murder in Midsomer ?
I hadn't appreciated until reading the Wiki that the county referenced in the named tv series is fictional, but the eponymous village is real...(have I got that right?)the peaceful county of Midsomer
the county referenced in the named tv series is fictional, but the eponymous village is real...(have I got that right?)
How odd. Thank goodness there was never a tv cop drama series called "Honolulu 50" set in the fictional town of HawaiiCorrect
How odd. Thank goodness there was never a tv cop drama series called "Honolulu 50" set in the fictional town of Hawaii
I hadn't appreciated until reading the Wiki that the county referenced in the named tv series is fictional, but the eponymous village is real...(have I got that right?)
So if it were a real county in a parallel (parallel) universe, might it be named Midsomershire, and be pronounced 'Misumshere'?
This is a odd a case of retroventive geonomination as I've seen in many a long year of Sunday evening ITV harmless murder mystery mini-series.
MM is mostly filmed in the Chilterns and the surround. In the early series I amused myself by playing 'spot the place I know well'.Correct. Midsomer Norton is a real town in Somerset but it has never been mentioned in Midsomer Murders. The closest Midsomer Murders got was, I believe, "Midsomer Morton".