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Groucho's Fact Hunt
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summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Reading about a strange aristocrat called Lord Lytton. Amongst other weird things, he inspired the name Bovril.
www.theprsd.co.uk
A potted history of his life of you're remotely history.
Includes this gem :
It was hard to take the man seriously, and to add to the sense of the exotic Lytton would often receive visitors while smoking a pipe six or seven feet in length, or taking opium through a hookah. Interviews were offered in a room decorated in the style of Pompeii and lighted by ‘a perfumed pastille modelled from Mount Vesuvius
Torquay's Other History: Edward Bulwer-Lytton, the Occult & Bovril - the PRSD
Edward Bulwer-Lytton was a top 19th century novelist who lived in Torquay and was accused of being a member of many occult organisations
www.theprsd.co.uk
A potted history of his life of you're remotely history.
Includes this gem :
It was hard to take the man seriously, and to add to the sense of the exotic Lytton would often receive visitors while smoking a pipe six or seven feet in length, or taking opium through a hookah. Interviews were offered in a room decorated in the style of Pompeii and lighted by ‘a perfumed pastille modelled from Mount Vesuvius
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Not for him personally, but Rathbone Rd was to do with the family...iirc, his branch were in S Africa for some time
…I went to Rathbone School (no longer exists) which I presume was also associated with the family.
Your eyes take in 4.5 billion images every couple couple of seconds … but your brain only has the capacity to remember 2000 of them images
Just for clarity, when I say images I mean bits of information
Just for clarity, when I say images I mean bits of information
…..the longest corridor on The Titanic was affectionately called ‘Scotland Road’ by the large number of scousers on the ships crew;
Jamo Martinez
Player Valuation: £70m
Bilbo is the Basque name for Bilbao.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
For 13 thousand dollars, Englishman Brandon Grimshaw bought a tiny uninhabited island in the Seychelles and moved there forever. When the Englishman Brandon Grimshaw was under forty, he quit his job as a newspaper editor and started a new life.
By this time, no human had set foot on the island for 50 years. As befits a real Robinson, Brandon found himself a companion from among the natives. His Friday name was René Lafortin. Together with Rene, Brandon began to equip his new home. While René came to the island only occasionally, Brandon lived on it for decades, never leaving. By oneself.
For 39 years, Grimshaw and Lafortin planted 16 thousand trees with their own hands and built almost 5 kilometers of paths. In 2007, Rene Lafortin died, and Brandon was left all alone on the island.
He was 81 years old. He attracted 2,000 new bird species to the island and introduced more than a hundred giant tortoises, which in the rest of the world (including the Seychelles) were already on the verge of extinction. Thanks to Grimshaw's efforts, the once deserted island now hosts two-thirds of the Seychelles' fauna. An abandoned piece of land has turned into a real paradise.
A few years ago, the prince of Saudi Arabia offered Brandon Grimshaw $50 million for the island, but Robinson refused. “I don’t want the island to become a favorite vacation spot for the rich. Better let it be a national park that everyone can enjoy.”
And he achieved that in 2008 the island was indeed declared a national park.
By this time, no human had set foot on the island for 50 years. As befits a real Robinson, Brandon found himself a companion from among the natives. His Friday name was René Lafortin. Together with Rene, Brandon began to equip his new home. While René came to the island only occasionally, Brandon lived on it for decades, never leaving. By oneself.
For 39 years, Grimshaw and Lafortin planted 16 thousand trees with their own hands and built almost 5 kilometers of paths. In 2007, Rene Lafortin died, and Brandon was left all alone on the island.
He was 81 years old. He attracted 2,000 new bird species to the island and introduced more than a hundred giant tortoises, which in the rest of the world (including the Seychelles) were already on the verge of extinction. Thanks to Grimshaw's efforts, the once deserted island now hosts two-thirds of the Seychelles' fauna. An abandoned piece of land has turned into a real paradise.
A few years ago, the prince of Saudi Arabia offered Brandon Grimshaw $50 million for the island, but Robinson refused. “I don’t want the island to become a favorite vacation spot for the rich. Better let it be a national park that everyone can enjoy.”
And he achieved that in 2008 the island was indeed declared a national park.
Despite point deductions and continuous uncertainty surrounding Everton fc, they managed to stay a top flight PL team and not get relegated
Alanbileysfeathercut
Player Valuation: £80m
A triathlon can still go ahead if swimming is cancelled.
It's..
Run
Cycle
Run again.
It's..
Run
Cycle
Run again.
One of the last reported sightings of mysterious Victorian folklore character Spring-heeled Jack was in Everton in 1888 on the rooftop of
St. Francis Xavier Church in Salisbury Street.
St. Francis Xavier Church in Salisbury Street.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
When Abba played in the Eurovision song contest, the British jury gave them nil points.
Vintage
Player Valuation: £60m
In 2007 Kim Jong il hoped to solve the famine in his country by breeding giant rabbits. An east German farmer who bred rabbits the size of dogs was apparently asked by North Korea to help set up a big bunny farm to alleviate food shortages. To get things going, he sent a batch of 12 giant rabbits to North Korea, but was shocked to hear they were eaten at Kim's birthday banquet that year.