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  1. Bolton's Boots

    Bolton's Boots Well-Known Member

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    What's the significance of these years?

    601BC (approx), 1543, 1781, 1846, 1930.
     
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    Key milestones for OFH?
     
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  3. hornethologist a.k.a. theo

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    discovery of the planets of the solar system?
     
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  4. colognehornet

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    They are all milestones in the history of Luton ? In 601 BC a meteor hit the earth leaving a big hole. In 1543 they filled it in and grounded a leper colony there. In 1781 it was sacked by the Gordon rioters. In 1846 the first people to actually want to live there were escaping the potato famine in Ireland. And in 1930 Luton Town F.C. recorded their last win ?
     
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  5. oldfrenchhorn

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    Recent memory w_y. Having trouble with long term things these days. ;)
     
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  6. Bolton's Boots

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    <laugh> Deserve to be, but unfortunately not the correct answer.
     
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    Yes - were you around for some of them? :)
     
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  8. hornethologist a.k.a. theo

    hornethologist a.k.a. theo Well-Known Member

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    It often feels like it!

    What links a former Chairman of the Conservative party and a former captain of the England cricket team?
     
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    Watford FC. Lord Ashcroft and Mike Gatting.
     
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    Ashcroft was only deputy chairman.
     
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    hornethologist a.k.a. theo Well-Known Member

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    Afraid not, NZ, but I should on checking have said Deputy Chairman...not that LA was the answer anyway.
     
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    I'm glad I didn't get that right. I'm running out of questions that BB can't answer!
     
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  13. hornethologist a.k.a. theo

    hornethologist a.k.a. theo Well-Known Member

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    Fair point...BB does know absolutely everything. Rumour has it he is a former Mastermind, Countdown, Krypton Factor and Brain of Britain champion and was author and editor of the Guinness Book of All the Facts in the World. We shall catch him out one day though<laugh>
     
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  14. Bolton's Boots

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    I don't suppose it's Seb Coe? He's married to the daughter of Mike Smith and he was a Tory MP - not sure about Chairman/Deputy Chairman of the Tory Party though..
     
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    Andrew Strauss is a fund raiser for the Conservative Party, so would know party chairmen.
     
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    Not what I was looking for. Time for a clue I think...the link is etymological.
     
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    They're both phrases used in South Africa for profiteering scumbags
     
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  18. Bolton's Boots

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    Amazing what you can find on google - is the answer Yorkshire?

    The Honourable Stanley Jackson - Yorkshire cricketer who captained England in 1905, and was Chairman of the Conservative Party 1923-1926
     
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    Good effort, BB, but far beyond my knowledge!

    2nd clue: the link is in the names rather than the people themselves.
     
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    The child of one is married to the other. Is there a woman who was chairman or the english womens cricket captain?
     
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