Norwich featured as a destination in one of the nursery rhymes that my grandmother used to sing to me:
Other English nursery rhymes that feature English place names in the lyrics include; “Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross” (Banbury in Oxfordshire), “Oranges and lemons” (London churches starting with of St. Clement’s) and “As I was going to St. Ives” (St Ives in Dorset, Cornwall orthe then Huntingdonshire - now Cambridgeshire - take your pick). The last names is an example of a riddle rhyme:
As I was going to St. Ives,
I met a man with seven wives,
Each wife had seven sacks,
Each sack had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kits:
Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,
How many were there going to St. Ives?
It is a trick riddle as rather than the simple multiplication it suggests I understand you need to include the man telling the tale and the man he meets, but exclude the sacks (as being inanimate objects) hence 2,403 in total.
[Correction - 345. Whoops!]
It is a trick riddle, and you fell for the trick.
The correct answer is one. I was going to St. Ives. No one and nothing else.
Nope, I don’t think you are infer that. If he passes him 2 mins from St Ives then he is going to St Ives. My pa told me the trick involves counting the men and not the sacks. Maybe it varies. Anyway - ***play continues from post 21,898 ***
American modernist composer Charles Ives, who supported himself as an insurance executive and can be claimed to be a pioneer of estate planning, was among the first composers to engage in a systematic program of experimental music, with musical techniques including polytonality, polyrhythm, tone clusters, aleatoric elements, and quarter tones. His source material included hymn tunes and traditional songs, the town band at holiday parade, the fiddlers at Saturday night dances, patriotic songs, sentimental parlor ballads, and the melodies of Stephen Foster.
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The Honda Element (images) was a compact crossover SUV offered in either FWD or AWD from 2003 to 2011. It was based on a modified CR-V platform, which, in turn, was derived from the Civic.
The Honda name started out in Oct 1946 as the Honda Technical Research Institute with a staff of 12 men working in a 170 sq ft shack. They built and sold improvised motorized bicycles using a supply of 50 cc war surplus radio generator engines and, when they ran out, their own copies for customers to attach to their bicycles. This was the Honda Model A.
In 1949, the Institute was liquidated for the equivalent of about US$5,000 today and these funds were used to incorporate Honda Motor Company Ltd that exists today.
… and it’s worth a little bit more than $5,000.
My 2001 Honda CR-V was a darn-near bulletproof car and lasted me 222,000 miles until I sold it. It was a 5-MT transmission and the original clutch lasted 213,000 miles. That clutch was still going strong when it was replaced because I was having other tranny work done anyway.
I didn’t baby that CR-V, either. I took it offroad to places where most more-capable SUVs never tread.
Pictures here: http://goo.gl/tJbiix
And: CR-V Adventures
Yes, this is my play here in this game.
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The top three rubber-producing countries are Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia.
Recent research by an aerospace engineer indicated that an ant’s neck joint is capable of lifting 5,000 times its body weight, but still not enough to move a rubber tree plant.
Formic acid takes its name from formica, the Latin word for ‘ant’.
The Thessalian soldiers led by Achilles were called Myrmidons after the Greek word for ant.
Paul’s First Epistle to the Thessalonians (a variant on Thessalians) was probably his first letter and therefore the earliest book of the New Testament to be written.
Paul’s Second Epistle to the Thessalonians is considered by most New Testament scholars to be the pseudepigraphical work of a later writer, probably written after Paul’s death.
Paul’s Epistle to Philemon is his shortest epistle, and the third shortest book in the Bible.
The feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul is celebrated on 25 January.
Pictorial representations of the conversion usually show Paul falling from his horse, although the text in Acts simply states *et cadens in terram * (‘and falling to the ground’).
There are 13 Pauline epistles in the New Testament:
Romans
1 Corinthians
2 Corinthians
Galatians
Ephesians
Philippians
Colossians
1 Thessalonians
2 Thessalonians
1 Timothy
2 Timothy
Titus
Philemon