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  1. yorkshirehornet

    yorkshirehornet Well-Known Member

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    Can you give more detail.. e.g where?
     
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  2. yorkshirehornet

    yorkshirehornet Well-Known Member

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    They are slovenian and germanic flutes made from animal bones... in a similar way a thoudand years apart in time and a thousaqn miles distant..

    Ill give it to you Frenchie
     
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    yorkshirehornet, Jan 24, 2023
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    Oops, didn't see that.

    Right, when did this appear on a scorecard?
    "Lillee, c. Willey, b. Dilley".
     
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  4. Bolton's Boots

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    December 1979 Ashes Test at the WACA
     
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  5. oldfrenchhorn

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    That was quick BB. Yes, that is quite right. All yours!
     
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    Cheers.

    Staying with cricket, what unusual stat happened during a South Africa/Australia test match in Cape Town twelve years ago?
     
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    At 11:11 on the 11/11/11 South Africa needed 111 runs to beat Australia.
     
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    And went in to win.

    Back to you
     
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    Which World Championship has been won 11 times by German teams? The first recorded match was in 1588, and the winner's trophy then was the hand in marriage of a Sussex milkmaid.
     
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    oldfrenchhorn, Jan 25, 2023
  10. colognehornet

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    Think it might be marbles ?
     
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    Quite right cologne. I didn't wish to mention the Saxonia Globe Snippers or 1st MC Erzgebirge in case they were local teams to you.
     
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    oldfrenchhorn, Jan 25, 2023
  12. colognehornet

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    Which once independent state once called itself Amikejo and why ?
     
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  13. yorkshirehornet

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    upload_2023-1-25_22-26-4.png

    It was the first esperanto state

    It was founded in a tiny (3,5 km²), wedge-shaped area that for a hundred years was an easily overlooked ‘neutral zone’ in Western Europe.

    Amokejo means friendship in Esperanto?


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_Moresnet
     
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    yorkshirehornet, Jan 25, 2023
  14. colognehornet

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    All yours Yorkie ! Administered as a sovereign neutral state for about 100 years (ending in 1919) they established Esperanto as their official language (although many of the population struggled with this). It was, more or less, administered by the Vieille Montagne Zinc Company, which was a Belgian mining firm. The same firm also had mines in Westmorland and were active in the area where I live. Went to Alte Moresnet (now in the small German speaking part of Belgium) a few months ago to their mining museum. Take it away.
     
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    colognehornet, Jan 26, 2023
  15. yorkshirehornet

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    What scorpion had a toxic sting?
     
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    Just had the sting removed...so to speak
     
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    These are humans
     
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  18. colognehornet

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    I'm guessing this might have something to do with The Scorpions, a German rock band but can't get any further with it :angry:
     
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    colognehornet, Jan 30, 2023
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    Maybe Sting sang with them and then left...
     
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  20. yorkshirehornet

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    No... .this is a current news item.... in the US
     
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