The largest explosion? Possibly Santorini just off Greece When?not sure about-600bc?
The largest man-made non-nuclear explosion I think was in England during WWII when an underground ammo dump went up somewhere near Coventry
Mary.
Tom Stoppard : Plautus :: Beatrix Potter : ?
a) Euclid
b) Ptolemy
c) Aesop
d) Terence
e) Seneca
(Heh, heh…)
“I can’t think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one’s grammar.”
– Dorothy L. Sayers
Nobody ever answered my question about why Dorothy was given the last name of Gale in the movie, although no last name was given in the book. The answer is that in the later books of the series by L. Frank Baum her last name is given as Gale.
FP - Ptolemy=Plautus, (tortoises)
McCartney’s middle name = Paul
His first name, which he doesn’t go by is James.
Good one Fret, even Ben Stein missed that one (Immaculate Conception).
ref loudest explosion.
Santorini blew up in 1650 bc it was bigger than Krakatoa in 1883 but there is some evidence Krakatoa went up even bigger sometime in the 5thC something certainly affected the world climate round then for at least 5 years according to dendrocronologists
and ash deposits strikingly similar in composion to Krakatoas have beem found in the right soil horizons over an enormous area
There is reliable evidence of possibly the biggest ever in human history called Tuapo on the New Zealands northern isle when some 33 billion tons of material was ejected in 130 AD
You Americans have another very fine e***le of the breed at Yellowstone where an eruption threw out some 2500million cubic kilometres of material(that is over 1200 times bigger than Mt St Helens) about 2.2 million years ago.Good job man wasn’t there to see it then.
I’d put a link in but I don’t know how yet but you could try
[http://www.extremescience.com](http://www.extremescience.com)You Americans have another very fine e***le of the breed at Yellowstone where an eruption
ooops! e***le = example (how did that happen?)
WAY TO GO ! my very first link worked YESYESYESYES!
Lieutenant.
Lawrence.
jrf
Theodore Calvin (I think)
Theodore Calvin (I think)
I confess that I don’t remember hearing Maynard G. Krebs say “Walter” on the show. My source for “William” was a 1980s book titled Rumor!, which even Cecil has referred to in his books.
Now, a harder one:
In the Marx Brothers movie Animal Crackers, Groucho’s character is named Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding. What does Spaulding tell Margaret Dumont the “T” stands for?
Here are some more:
- What surrealist artist was commissioned to paint a picture for an automobile advertisement? (Not an American make)
- What player, with a last-place team, led the National League in home runs and RBIs for one season, although he had a more famouse home-run hitter as a teammate?
- What metals, other than mercury, are liquid at normal temperature?
- Who were the only two English novelists whose books were put in the Catholic Church’s Index of Forbidden Books?
- Why was Hitler’s plan to invade the Soviet Union delayed long enough for the Russian winter to thwart his attack on Moscow?
I confess that I don’t remember hearing Maynard G. Krebs say “Walter” on the show. My source for “William” was a 1980s book titled Rumor!, which even Cecil has referred to in his books.
Now, a harder one:
In the Marx Brothers movie Animal Crackers, Groucho’s character is named Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding. What does Spaulding tell Margaret Dumont the “T” stands for?
Here are some more:
- What surrealist artist was commissioned to paint a picture for an automobile advertisement? (Not an American make)
- What player, with a last-place team, led the National League in home runs and RBIs for one season, although he had a more famouse home-run hitter as a teammate?
- What metals, other than mercury, are liquid at normal temperature?
- Who were the only two English novelists whose books were put in the Catholic Church’s Index of Forbidden Books?
- Why was Hitler’s plan to invade the Soviet Union delayed long enough for the Russian winter to thwart his attack on Moscow?
I’m way behind here, but I wanted to wade through this mess and see if anyone else had seen the original mistake in this thread. In the OP, Torgo identifies the first Beatles’ solo albumn as a soundtrack to the film “The Family Way”. I guarantee you that I am not trying to be a “knowitall wiseguy” when I correctly point out that the first Beatles solo album was “Best of the Beatles” (c.1963-64) by one Pete Best. Pete was an original Beatle, not just one of the guys who played with Lennon & McCartneys earlier bands.
I’m way behind here, but I wanted to wade through this mess and see if anyone else had seen the original mistake in this thread. In the OP, Torgo identifies the first Beatles’ solo albumn as a soundtrack to the film “The Family Way”. I guarantee you that I am not trying to be a “knowitall wiseguy” when I correctly point out that the first Beatles solo album was “Best of the Beatles” (c.1963-64) by one Pete Best. Pete was an original Beatle, not just one of the guys who played with Lennon & McCartneys earlier bands.
Good God! What’s happening here? Looks like LBJay and I wound up getting our postings duplicated! (This was shortly after I tried to go to Page 4 of this thread and got a screen message saying it “couldn’t be found.”)