Anyone else up watching things unfold?

It's not easy to get over here, but Makros often do it.
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Dunno.
Found this, tho' it' s not an answer, just a contemporary context

"On September 12, 1932, within seven months of the discovery of the
neutron, and more than six years before the discovery of fission, Leo
Szilard conceived of the possibility of a controlled release of atomic
power through a multiplying neutron chain reaction, and also realized that
if such a reaction could be found, then a bomb could be built using it.

On July 4, 1934 Leo Szilard filed a patent application for the atomic bomb
In his application, Szilard described not only the basic concept of using
neutron induced chain reactions to create explosions, but also the key
concept of the critical mass. The patent was awarded to him - making Leo
Szilard the legally recognized inventor of the atomic bomb.

Szilard did not patent this prescient and tremendously important idea for
personal gain. His motive was to protect the idea to prevent its harmful
use, for he immediately attempted to turn the idea over to the British
government for free so that it could be classified and protected under
British secrecy laws.

On October 8, 1935 the British War Office rejected Szilard's offer, but a
few months later in February 1936 he succeeded in getting the British
Admiralty to accept the gift."


http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Med/Discfiss.html

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/RRTuneBk/tunebook.html

 

VBG

 

(The Older Gentleman) struggled
to ejaculate:

Well, it's history to most of us, it's just memories to you ...

 

Oh, I agree, but look at the methods employed.

When the British had conquered/subjugated/whatever India[1], there
were still >400 million Indians alive.

Compare and contrast with the "American Way".

[1] With a standing army of ~75,000 troops, plus around 100,000 locals
or "sepoys".

If >400 million don't find that rule at least tolerable in part, then
75,000 redcoats won't stop them.

One legacy of the British Raj: India didn't become part of the
Japanese Empire in the mid-C20.
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Agreed. The red is OK, in a mass-market plonk fashion, but the rose is a
cut above yer average. The rose's harder to find, though.

I still prefer Tavel or Bandol.[/QUOTE]

I've been looking for the Bandol rose since the first Chimay trip, but
without any success. Any suggestions for places on either side of the
Channel that may stock it?

 

There's a good reason for that: you mean Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

iirc, Phil the Greek's family name was Mountbatten, at least after
1947, which suggests it was Battenburg beforehand, though aiui, the
dynasty was the Schleswig-Holstein-Gluckburg-Sonderburgs; the Royal
house of Denmark and Greece.

Both, of course, were related to Queen Victoria, who was a Hanoverian.

Great-great-grand-daughter, and great-grandson, I think.

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Inbreds the lot of 'em.

 

....And these atomic bombs which science burst upon the world that night
were strange even to the men who used them.

H. G. Wells, The World Set Free, 1914

 

Really, any good supermarket should have it. Bandol is one of the
classic powerful roses.

 

Fekkorf.

 

Are the AOC rules the same for the Bandol roses as for the red?
ie: 50% Mourvèdre grape and 18 months ageing in casks.

 

No idea!

 

I had heard of the case from a TV program but found the link very
interesting.

One very inspired fiction writer.

"Life copying Art"?

I also read that when the hydrogen bomb was proposed Albert Einstein had
written to the then president of the US Truman explaining that his
calculations concluded there was a great chance that a run-away
condition could take place destroying all life on the planet. Truman in
reply said he had thought about it and decided it wouldn't and
authorised the test explosion.

OK Einstein was wrong, but my vote would have gone with him.

 

Really, any good supermarket should have it. Bandol is one of the
classic powerful roses.[/QUOTE]

Thanks - I'm planning a booze run to replenish the wine stocks, get
some chocolate and some coffee before Christmas, so I'll make time to
venture further away from Calais.

 

As in: Armageddon outa here!

?

 

Our old dog threw up her dinner in four places round the house and the
young one sat shivering in the cellar all evening.

 

There's something intrinsically evil about Holland.

 

LOL!

 

^^^^

Nice.