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Herod's first wife was called Doris.
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Groucho's Fact Hunt
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Black Belt Jones
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Deng Xiaoping, architect of modern China and the hardest of political survivors (purged twice by Mao, son was thrown out of a 4th floor window and crippled during the cultural revolution) never held a formal Leadership position in the communist party. Ran the show without ever being the CP equivalent of primeminister, or secretary of state etc.
Paris;
Rin-Tin-Tin is buried in the same graveyard as Jim Morrison.
Long, 5ft diameter, steel shafts that help drive the 120yr old counter weight Eiffel Tower lift system are lubricated once a week using a big brush and a bucket of hot liquid Mutton Grease.
The Paris Opera House has an underground lake in the basement. A fireman ( the opera house fire officer?) used to breed Trout down there
Oh, and there is a Beehive on the roof.
That's all I got.
Rin-Tin-Tin is buried in the same graveyard as Jim Morrison.
Long, 5ft diameter, steel shafts that help drive the 120yr old counter weight Eiffel Tower lift system are lubricated once a week using a big brush and a bucket of hot liquid Mutton Grease.
The Paris Opera House has an underground lake in the basement. A fireman ( the opera house fire officer?) used to breed Trout down there
Oh, and there is a Beehive on the roof.
That's all I got.
deipnosophist
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To my knowledge, Rin Tin Tin is buried in a pet cemetery in Paris...not the same cemetery that holds Jim Morrison (and Edith Piaf, Proust, Bizet, Chopin, Marcel Marceau et al).
Rin Tin Tin actually died in Los Angeles ( in the arms of actress Jean Harlow). He was buried in LA but was disinterred and reburied in Paris (his place of birth)some time later .
Oysters and Lobster were at one point considered food normally reserved for poor/lower class people, due to how readily available and easy to catch they were.
It's only when over-fishing for oysters and lobsters dramatically reduced their numbers (particularly on the US coastal cities) that they were considered expensive delicacies.
Supply and demand in action.
It's only when over-fishing for oysters and lobsters dramatically reduced their numbers (particularly on the US coastal cities) that they were considered expensive delicacies.
Supply and demand in action.
Diogenes the Cynic
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Very true.
Oysters were so plentiful they were used as filler in steak pies long before kidneys became popular.
I've made it but it's as i suspected, a waste of good oysters.
Griff Rhys Jones showed me on the History Channel - so it must be true.
Diogenes the Cynic
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Can't argue with that. It's the same with Tony Robinson, instant credibility.
deipnosophist
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I enjoy the History channel very much...I record many, many, of its programmes.
Discovery History, National Geographic, Yesterday and the Smithsonian Channel are usually much better. For me, History Channel is far too hit and miss.
Diogenes the Cynic
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The Hitler Channel
"Bringing you Secrets of the SS and Nazi war machines around the clock!"
When they started following someone buying stuff in pawn shops and producing (only) semi-authentic documentaries, I moved on.
Diogenes the Cynic
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You mean in life? Good for you man. I mean it's fun to climax to daytime telly for a couple of decades but after that you just need more you know? Like a dvd player or something.
deipnosophist
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I bet the Smithsonian Channel would be very good. I always look forward to visiting Washington DC and going to the Smithsonian museums...brilliant. Interestingly, the Institute was founded by a British scientist James Smithson...mid 19th century I think.