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Discussion in 'Watford' started by colognehornet, Jun 26, 2013.

  1. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

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    It has lots of islands, one of which has its own loch - so it has a loch within a loch ?
     
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    Near enough.

    The largest island in the loch, Eileen Sùbhainn, contains a loch that itself contains an island - so it's a loch with an island with a loch with an island - the only instance of that in Great Britain.

    Over to you.
     
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  3. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

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    Cheers BB. The World record is 5.42, the second best is 5.19 and the most famous is 3.97. What is it and what holds the record ?
     
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  4. yorkshirehornet

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    Longest tongues???
     
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  5. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

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    <laugh> No sorry Yorkie. If you can work out the measurement used you're nearly there.
     
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  6. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

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    The most famous one at 3.97 was once saved from an artillery strike by a certain sergeant Leon Weckstein. The 3.97 was once 5.5. Those currently ahead of this are mostly in Germany with one important Dutch competitor.
     
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    Angle of tilt. The Tower of Pisa was nearly destroyed in 1944 by the aforementioned Staff Sgt Weckstein. He had a penchant for spotting the enemy through their camouflage and thought he saw soldiers in the tower. Fortunately an aerial assault forced him to to retreat before firing on the tower. He wrote wrote a book about his exploits: 200,000 Heroes...
     
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  8. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

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    Nearly there Fez. The leaning tower of Pisa has an angle of tilt of 3.97 degrees, but there are others where the tilt is larger - so where is the largest ?
     
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  9. yorkshirehornet

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    the church tower of Suurhusen???

    The world`s most leaning tower

    The village of Hinte is home to the church tower of Suurhusen, which is 27.37 metres high and has an overhang of 2.47 metres. That's equivalent to an angle of 5.19 degrees.
     
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  10. yorkshirehornet

    yorkshirehornet Well-Known Member

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    But what about:

    Most Leaning Building In The World

    Abu Dhabi's new Capital Gate tower is, with its 18° slope, the world's most tilted building. It comfortably out-leans the previous Guinness world-record-holder, a medieval church tower in Suurhusen, Germany, that has a 5.19° slan
     
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  11. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

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    The one I was referring to is the most unintentionally tilted building Yorkie. The church tower in Suurhusen has recently been surpassed by new measurements of the church tower at Gau-Weinheim in Rheinhessen (also Germany) 5.42 degrees. There is another very tilted church tower at Bad Frankenhausen. These are all smallish places - the only one of these tilted churches really in the middle of a biggish town is the Oudekirk in Delft (NL) which looks really great at night. But you were close enough with Suurhusen - evidently German builders of the middle ages had a habit of doing this, either that or the substructure wasn't stable enough. Over to you.
     
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    Great question...<applause>
     
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  13. yorkshirehornet

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    What is the contoversy??
     
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    Is it the possibility of a judge ruling the Whopper perhaps not being whopping?
     
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  15. yorkshirehornet

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    You got it ...the photo does not look like the more simple product when you buy it.....apparently
     
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    Thanks, yorkie.

    What is the final word spoken in ‘Star Trek:The Movie’ as a response to the next direction of travel? These days we tend to think of it as a slightly comic Americanism from the early days of cinema with sound, but in fact it is a British expression in origin, from the mid-17th century.
     
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  17. yorkshirehornet

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    Not sure .............is it Thataway?
     
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    It is! Over to you. <ok>
     
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    Whatr is the story about this?
     
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  20. NZHorn

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    Is it where India are sending a space craft?
     
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