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Slavery Abolition was enacted?
Who starred in it mate, can't remember seeing this film.
George Mitchell.
Hull born mathematician John Venn invented a bowling machine that once bowled out star Australian batsman Victor Trumper four times.
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-venn-bowling-machine
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-venn-bowling-machine
The cornea is the only part of the human body that has no blood supply. It instead gets it oxygen directly from the air
Tell that to my mate who had a leg amputated. He's not too hopeful of a new one growing in its place.
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The inventor of the zip fastener has just been given a life peerage. From now on on he'll be known as Lord of the Flies.
Two merchants from Hull, Joseph Green and Robert Motherby are seen as two of, if not the biggest influences on the life and philosophy of Immanuel Kant.
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table
David Hume could out-consume
Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel
There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya
'bout the raising of the wrist
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill
Plato, they say, could stick it away
Half a crate of whiskey every day
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle
Hobbes was fond of his dram
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart
"I drink, therefore I am."
Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed
Some threads take off, others don't.
Abridged version, bleedin' plagiarism.
The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
Abridged version, bleedin' plagiarism.
The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
Ahead of your time TwoWrights. You're the Anita Willets-Burnham of not606.
Some ideas are so great they need the rest of the world to catch-up.....
Some ideas are so great they need the rest of the world to catch-up.....
Some claim I need burning, I couldn't possibly comment.
The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
I'm more than happy for this thread to merge into yours.
See, there's something else I learned today.
Jimmy Somerville sings the backing to Fine Young Cannibals Suspicious Minds.