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There's a parallel situation with Great Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries.At one time it was the world's manufacturing base with a 70% share, it owned half the shipping and had far and away the largest economy on the planet. But there were larger and more populous countries looking on and...

Strange that you include Alan Turing who admittedly did very important work on the concept of computers but left out Sir Tommy Flowers who actually built the first one.

Strange thing is that the planet is still cooler than 1000 years ago , it got quite cold in the Middle Ages then warmed up again.From the 1940s to the 1970s it cooled , then till 1998 it warmed and after that it held steady. This does not match the activities of humans.Being in an interglacial...

This isn't true for Diesel though because it's the same as heating oil and demand goes up in winter.This raises the price . It shouldn't be called Diesel as the true inventor was Stuart Ackroyd.

Hardly a new low though! When I began driving I could buy 4 full sized UK gallons (about 5 US gallons)and 4 shots of upper cylinder lubricant all for less than £1. Didn't have many £s then though :-(

Napoleon-he overreached himself , desperately weakened France for two generations and this gave Britain a free hand in the 19th century.That's why the English language has become so important. Newton , though flawed,made giant steps in our understanding of the physical world.Subsequent great...

You can't have any Avengers movie without Patrick McKnee

18000 may not seem a lot of complaints but it must be the most the BBC has ever received.Bear in mind the size of the audience and the fact that most people,however they feel, never even think of complaining.How many Americans wrote to the President over Iraq?

Jennifer Lavoie by a light year Imageposted with specific authorisation from Jennifer Lavoie.

If you are staying then you will need to re registed with the DVLA.Getting number plates isn't easy these days, documents have to be produced first.There is talk of making the MOT every other year but it's still annual at the moment.If you have tinted windows by the way (over 25% light loss) you...

Glad that other posters agree with me.Tattoos are gross and nobody on the planet is improved by them.

Yes, I was going to say that if people are selling then others are buying.Stock was overvalued and needs to be readjusted.

Models do not retain their good looks and figures for ever.Also,like most women they want ******** which creates other reasons like stretch marks etc.****** pressure-I get letters from one model who is concerned about her ***'s interest in her work.Perhaps their husbands don't like them doing...

This relates to Pascal's Paradox. http://www.iep.utm.edu/p/pasc-wag.htm My own feeling is that religion is a cop out. We can't expect to work out how everything around us came into being so we just say "It was created by God" The trouble with this is-where did God come from?

The whole thing is crazy.Staff should be paid a reasonable wage and this be part of the price paid by the customers. Same in pubs/bars.In the UK the price of a pint includes service and surroundings as well as the ****.My friends in America seem to tip a dollar a time and see nothing wrong.I...

IMO the mid 90s were great.Jennifer Lavoie is quite stunning-her later work does more justice to her looks than the PB portfolio though.She doesn't allow any posting of her images which means she is less well known than she should be. Neriah Davis and Brooke Richards , though enhanced, are both...

I remember the Phil Silvers show , it was immensely popular in the UK in the 50s.

If I die before my wife I hope she will continue to live happily , if this means a new relationship that's great as long as it's good.But I do not want my ********'s inheritence to be taken from them.

In an abortion cast there are 3 interested parties-the ******, ****** and the ***** (who cannot speak for itself of course).........it's not simply a matter of a woman's right to choose. There are many reasons for terminating a pregnancy .If it is seriously threatening the life of the ******...

I found Real Player to be too intrusive , tried to add stuff I didn't want etc.There are many free players out there which do the job well without Real Player's drawbacks.I have Videolan VLC , Windows Media Classic , SM Player and so on.

Re: Royal ****** ... I don't understand what you are saying here.The physical requirements of the SAS and SBS are very much greater than of any other arm,including the Royal Marines,Parachute Regiment etc .Only a small proportion succeed the incredibly tough and gruelling selection including...

Re: RM or SAS? Those servicemen who are already regarded as outstanding will be advised to consider the SAS or SBS. During the selection process only about 10% make it.That's why they are called special ******. Surprisingly enough they tend to be on the small side and not at all gung ho.

Actually,cricket is the nearest game to chess and is often described as such.It is the most complex game in existence, there are so many variables to take into account.You set traps, try to lure your opponent to his destruction,vary your ****** and in longer games your decisions might be...

Sex is essentially about their being two versions of people-male and female.It makes no sense to talk about gay sex as one of the key factors is missing but as to what level of M/F interaction can be described as sex must be a matter of opinion.

Great Britain is simply a geographical term.

It was said to be impossible to mass produce-then they built over 20 000 of them.

Americans are not stupid though of course many of them do stupid things.I find it difficult to forgive them for inventing baseball caps though.

Two very different games.If you take the best of both and combine them you get rugby which is on a different level altogether.

I'm certainly not anti-American in any way, I admire the country enormously.I was just amused by the idea that Americans are defined by baseball,apple pie and hot dogs! I don't get the bit about computers,dental health and nuclear reactors.The first 10 programmable electronic computers were...

I don't know why it bothers me except I don't like to see people missing out.To me eating and ******** should be memorable and enjoyable activities.I know there are people who regard food as simply fuel and **** as a way of getting ***** but that's not my way. Back to ****, the reason many...

And our national dish is curry.........

If the cap fits, I suppose. But an analogy is to go to a baker's and see all that lovely fresh baked stuff, wonderful crusty, seeded, multigrain and so on which people ignore and go straight for the wappy wrapped sliced white loaves.I must be a bread snob too :-)

The creation of baseball was a matter of development and refinement rather than invention.There is an ancient English game called rounders, still widely played by schoolchildren which the early settlers took with them.Anyone who has played rounders will immediately recognise baseball as the same...

One thing is when there is a statement like "the first something or other happened" relates to the US giving the impression it was a world first rather than an American one.

The first sentence makes amusing reading ; BOB MOON: Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie... All things that identify us as Americans on this Fourth of July. Baseball originated in England , apple pie has been around for a long time;Chaucer wrote a recipe in 1381 and it was popular on the Continent...

To a lot of people (particularly in Europe, especially Germany) do not really consider Bud to be a genuine **** at all.**** is a ***** made from malt and A-B have replaced 40% of this with rice which has no purpose other than to dilute the flavour and colour. Europe and the US produce an...

Stella and Beck's are dreary nondescript mass produced swill both manufactured by InBev (although Beck's uses English ingredients) but as you say they are light years better that Bud and its like. Perhaps as a result people will actually try ******** **** instead of this travesty of the word...

It's a throwback to the early days of the postal service.The nearest postal sorting office would be part of the address,often this was in a different county! Long Eaton for example is in Derbyshire but the nearest sorting office is Nottingham so the address would be Long Eaton, Nottingham not...

The Royal Mail's ability to deliver correctly with minimum information is legendary. An actual example (a long time ago) was the successful delivery to this address; Wood John Hants The postal workers correctly deciphered it as John Underwood Andover Hants Hants is the abbreviation for...

Just spotted the post about rain. The West is wetter than the East because rain comes from the Atlantic.Eastern England has a lower rainfall than Tunis surprisingly enough! I live in the English Midlands, it's many years since we had more than a token dusting of snow.In fact we have very few...

No. Fog is very rare these days because of the Clear Air Acts.The reputation came from the effects of milliond of coal fires , coal fired factories and trains-what we had was smog rather than fog. We were frequently sent home from school early because of fog , sometimes so thick you could only...

In terms of battles which shaped the future you must include those in the War of Independence .

One or two points which I think need clearing up.First is about ****.We have two sorts of **** in the UK-mass produced so called lager which is tasteless and lacks character so the only way it becomes drinkable is to numb it with coldness - and tasty flavourful brews ***** cool, ideally at...

In 1794 there was no country of Belgium :-)

A little snippet of useless information-Mt Everest was named after George Everest but we've all been pronouncing it wrongly ever since.He pronounced his name "Eave-rest"

Re: Huh? But many people are ****** by them, a lot of them ****** members by accident.There were more Americans ****** at home by guns during the Vietnam war than by the Viet Cong.

As an outsider I find some things quite difficult to comprehend about American thinking.The first is the apparent fear , verging on paranoia , of government.Sure, bad government is to be feared mightily (by this I mean bad, not just incompetent like in the UK at present) but good government can...

Because they are (with the deepest respect) paranoid about governments.They really believe , crazy as it is, that having guns protects them against the government ; it's been repeated so often it has become part of their thinking.Yet their Constitution does give them a high degree of protection...

It isn't the government that wants the oil it's you and me.And the farmers so they can grow food.And the truck drivers so you can get this food and other things you need.Without this oil a large proportion of us would be dead before too long.

There is a flaw in your argument . Certainly let people live the way they want but this requires that they are capable of making that choice.This is not the case with a 1 year old.