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Groucho's Fact Hunt

Bilko said:
quickest way to measure a football pitch

walk from the corner flag to the edge of the pitch,as you know the eighteen yard box is 44 yards wide (2 x 18 yds and 8 yards for goal) ,so double the yards you walked and that's your width

for length ,walk from edge of D on penalty box to edge of center circle.so the goal line to the D is 22 yds ( 12 yd penalty spot + 10 yds to furthest point of D),add the centre circle's 10 yards + the distance walked = 32 yds + distance,double that total and there's your length.
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Dont you mean from the corner flag to edge of the box? I think.
 
Eggs said:
...The Goree is an island off the West African coast (Senegal I think) and the Liverpool landmark is so named because many slaves came from that island to this port. I'm told the marks where the shackles were are still in the Goree wall.
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Apparently false.


I'm led to believe that no slaves were actually traded in Liverpool.

That is, while the money and ships came here, no slave was ever sold in the city.

Still bad, like.
 
Groucho said:
Apparently false.


I'm led to believe that no slaves were actually traded in Liverpool.

That is, while the money and ships came here, no slave was ever sold in the city.

Still bad, like.
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Chances are they were sent down here mate. Bristol sold gazillions. In fact, a few years ago the City had a sort of Truth & Reconciliation thing to almost draw a line under it, and move on. But when half of the City is named after, owned by, or built by, slave traders, had to be done.

I think a Bristol MP was instrumental in the abolition though. But probably cos he made his fortune from tobacco! Bad weapons Bristolians!
 

roydo said:
Chances are they were sent down here mate. Bristol sold gazillions. In fact, a few years ago the City had a sort of Truth & Reconciliation thing to almost draw a line under it, and move on. But when half of the City is named after, owned by, or built by, slave traders, had to be done.

I think a Bristol MP was instrumental in the abolition though. But probably cos he made his fortune from tobacco! Bad weapons Bristolians!
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Similar story this end really.
 
Groucho said:
Apparently false.


I'm led to believe that no slaves were actually traded in Liverpool.

That is, while the money and ships came here, no slave was ever sold in the city.

Still bad, like.
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...heard slaves were traded in the area now called Exchange Flags. Seem to recall seeing documentation relating to this. Very good section of the Maritime museum which highlights links with slavery that can still be seen today, there was a move not so long ago to change the street names of merchants who's wealth was founded on slavery but that failed.

I'm not sure if you're right but whatever we should never brush our history under a carpet no matter how unpalatable. Fascinating discussion, though.
 
Eggs said:
...heard slaves were traded in the area now called Exchange Flags. Seem to recall seeing documentation relating to this. Very good section of the Maritime museum which highlights links with slavery that can still be seen today, there was a move not so long ago to change the street names of merchants who's wealth was founded on slavery but that failed.

I'm not sure if you're right but whatever we should never brush our history under a carpet no matter how unpalatable. Fascinating discussion, though.
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Whoever is right, you're spot on in that we shouldn't forget how the city became so great.

I remember the street name thing - not sure renaming streets was the correct way to go about it though - thousands of outsiders know about Penny Lane for example, and that would've had to have been changed.

Also, changing the street names would be forgetting, and that's wrong for a start. Whoever they're named after, the facts must remain so we can learn from them, rather than airbrush them out and forget.
 

The reason the Sun is hot is that it contains a lot of mass. All that mass weighing down on the core squeezes it and makes it very hot (the core is about 15 million degrees) and at these temperatures all matter dissolves into an anonymous state called plasma. The sun is made out of a billion billion billion tonnes of mostly hydrogen, but taking into account what I have just written, theoretically if you could gather a billion billion billion tonnes of bananas it would form something pretty similar to our sun.
 
Titus Bramble said:
The reason the Sun is hot is that it contains a lot of mass. All that mass weighing down on the core squeezes it and makes it very hot (the core is about 15 million degrees) and at these temperatures all matter dissolves into an anonymous state called plasma. The sun is made out of a billion billion billion tonnes of mostly hydrogen, but taking into account what I have just written, theoretically if you could gather a billion billion billion tonnes of bananas it would form something pretty similar to our sun.
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Someone is going to reference Goat arent they?
 
Titus Bramble said:
The reason the Sun is hot is that it contains a lot of mass. All that mass weighing down on the core squeezes it and makes it very hot (the core is about 15 million degrees) and at these temperatures all matter dissolves into an anonymous state called plasma. The sun is made out of a billion billion billion tonnes of mostly hydrogen, but taking into account what I have just written, theoretically if you could gather a billion billion billion tonnes of bananas it would form something pretty similar to our sun.
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Amazing.

Who knew bananas could do that?

I assume you could have a billion billion billion tons of anything with the same effect.
 

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