Just imagine if gravity worked in opposite directions on the two hemispheres, we would have everything going south in the northern hemisphere but they would have everything going north in the southern hemisphere !
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Tim Britton
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OK, intriguing idea and one I've followed at various time in various motorcycling magazines I've edited but as I'm a time served joiner with an interest in the way things were done in the old days - which my kids insist were the 70s when I was an apprentice - I'll pick out a couple of woodworking influences. The first would be George Ellis the author of Modern Practical Joinery. I was loaned an original copy of his book when I was an apprentice and as soon as I found it had been reprinted I bought a copy, added his staircasing and handrailing book too.
Second would be Nigel Voisey who's wood machining book ensured I kept my fingers on and remain mostly unscathed when using all sorts of wood machines including the quaint vintage ones where I served my time.
Drifter2406
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I would like to meet my grandad again and have a chat with him.
Joey Dunlop.
Albert Eisenstein.
Nikola Tesla.
Edgar Alan Poe
Joey Dunlop.
Albert Eisenstein.
Nikola Tesla.
Edgar Alan Poe
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as expected, quite a varied few........
Only found Feynman later in life but still an inspiration......
Only found Feynman later in life but still an inspiration......
John Brown
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And at the equator??
stuart little
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I visited Belsen in '97, it really hit me knowing what a horrendous past it held, In 2005 I visited Dachau, but that was still used int the 60's (I believe) as a displaced person's camp, but after I swore I could NEVER bring myself to visit Auswitz.
East to west !
Yes, it is a very spooky place, certainly sent shivers up my spine.
maybe also Yuri Gagarin, Telford and Joseph Whitworth. For me, with my interest in clocks and watches, would have to add Thomas Mudge, John Harrison and Daniel Buck.
John Brown
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I can't believe nobody's mentioned Father Christmas.
Father Christmas
okeydokey
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About Stuart Littles and Fergie's posts above
I have wanted to visit the places mentioned but fear it would affect me mentally more than I can handle.
I have wanted to visit the places mentioned but fear it would affect me mentally more than I can handle.
Phil Pascoe
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My lad went to the Menin Gate when he was thirteen on a school trip. It must have affected him - he never once spoke a word about it.
I went to the German/Czech border when I was sixteen, part of a school trip. It was scary - after the war the road had been dug up, the power lines and phone lines cut and left hanging, the railway lines had been cut and bent back. It was like a different world. The actual border was a single strand of barbed wire, behind which was about ¾ mile of flat, ploughed land and a row of gun turrets. We were warned under circumstances were we to ass about ............................. but I couldn't resist going to Czechoslovakia for a few seconds.
I went to the German/Czech border when I was sixteen, part of a school trip. It was scary - after the war the road had been dug up, the power lines and phone lines cut and left hanging, the railway lines had been cut and bent back. It was like a different world. The actual border was a single strand of barbed wire, behind which was about ¾ mile of flat, ploughed land and a row of gun turrets. We were warned under circumstances were we to ass about ............................. but I couldn't resist going to Czechoslovakia for a few seconds.
I can't imagine anyone would not be a bit choked up visiting any of the war graves sites in France. All those crosses, each somebody's father, brother or son. Such a waste.
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Travelled through the Normandy cemeteries in the 80s with my stepfather, who was crew of a D day landing craft, the only time he ever spoke of that experience and it has stayed with me. Amazing and terrifying in equal measure
Phil Pascoe
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I went to the Imperial War Museum in Auckland about 25 years ago just before Anzac Day. It was staffed by uniformed veterans, and walking through one of the corridors of memorial plaques I was behind a French couple and their three young children. The children were running through the corridors laughing and the parents said absolutely nothing. The old man shook his head slowly as he caught my eye - I could have cried for him. One of the saddest places I've ever been.
At the tiny church where my mother's funeral was held and my sister got married there are in the middle of a long neglected 19c graveyard about 25 graves that are perfectly manicured - they are the war graves, Kiwis, Canucks, Brits and Poles, nearly all nineteen or twenty years old boys, bigger men than most of us. There was an airfield about a mile away. I took my children to see them when they were young, lest they forget.
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I can't think of anyone I don't know. I'd love to have an hour with my maternal grandmother again, or an hour with my paternal grandfather, who had a hard life and always seemed to be able to weather it - to have him "review his notes" and give me advice. not because i'm spinning out of control or having a hard time or anything, but to see what useful advice he'd have to help with perspective. He carved out time for himself when he needed it but managed to make it in a way that left is resources for everyone else.
And my mother has moderate dementia - still conversational, but struggling. Unless i could trade the hour with someone who gave me a vial of something to stop that...
And my mother has moderate dementia - still conversational, but struggling. Unless i could trade the hour with someone who gave me a vial of something to stop that...
I would like an hour with my long dead Mother, so I could ask her who my real Father was as the man she married never seemed to like me much and I spent a childhood wondering why. He died before her and only after her death did I find out he wasn't my real father.
John Brown
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Would I be allowed to take a pick-axe handle to this meeting?
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J.....only if it made u feel better......hahaha........
