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There is a bit to much high faluting history with wars and famous people every week so here is summit more peasant based
Why would my Grandfather or any person mix Copper Sulphate an Washing Soda in a 40 gallon barrel of water.
Simple enough if this is not got ye should be ashamed of yerselves
The Irish brew ales from it to supply foreign Irish Pubs?Quote:
Originally Posted by gaelic cowboy
To make Burgundy Mixture and get rid of fungi.
Burgundy mixture was one of the first fungicides and very effective to spray potatoes.
On with the questions, yes? I believe it was on to gaelic cowboy.
Yes and I answered his question! I'm waiting for he response...
Correct my good man Beskar
copper sulphate or bluestone mixed with water and washing soda in a barrel to prevent The Blight.
The prevention of blight having maybe a slight connection to Ireland as you know.
Sorry for the random necro but this caught my eye:
There's a story that the design for the Fliners street railway was intended for Bombay and the plans were mixed up en route but IIRC thats a furphy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
Its a favourite meeting place , under the row of little clocks in that big arched entrance. Just opposite is a grand old pub with a pretty nude painting upstairs, another familiar meeting place in town.
Can anyone tell me the name of the girl in the painting?
Do you want the painting's name, or the model's?Quote:
Originally Posted by Cyclops
Bonus balloon if you get both.
The girl's name is Chloe, the model's name was Marie.
Right on both counts.Quote:
Originally Posted by drone
The urban myth is that she posed for the french painter, used the money she made to throw a lovely party and then commited suicide poor thing.
Your go.
History quiz anybody?
Swell idea.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lord of Lent
I suggest that you can start by posing a fine question for us wannabe history buffs! (Unless Drone comes in here real quick - technically it's his turn!)
How many pretzels did you eat in 2009?
Feel free to ask away. :bow:
How many men died to noncombat related ailments during Napoleons march on Russia?
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Originally Posted by Jagiellon
If you want to resurrect this, feel free. Just come up with a good question.
rock chalk jayhawk KU. i'll be rooting for wildcats.
what is the origination of the term jayhawk?
A bird of prey that crossed the road illegally?
It's supposed to be some sort of noturnal bird or flying thingy that kills birdeens and robs theres nests in Ireland. Although the only noctunal bird in Ireland is an owl so it's probably just a racial memory of something far far older I bet.
Incidently no one would even remember it as a term now except for the fact it came back across the atlantic from America by way of Hollywood.
jaywalk! am giggling atm thanks for that response. here on my side of the state line we can't stands us some jayhawks and any derogatory remarks for them is golden.
gaelic cowboy you have the correct answer, however your answer is interesting. am not understanding what you mean with the hollywood thing? in my neighborhood (Kansas/Missouri state line) a jayhawker had quite the well known reputation starting around 1858 till 1864. had anticapated answer that referred to that jayhawk. the irish bird myth was the answer i was looking for.
The term jayhawk as Americans came to understand it eventually, would only now be heard in Ireland on telly in some American tv programme or movie.
So nowadays an Irish person might here the term but assume it was a purely American phrase, the same way trick or treating at halloween is an American invention sent back to us.
We gave you halloween as an idea but you americans sent us back trick or treating as YOU understand it, this activity was incorporated and adopted in Irelands idea of halloweeen probably through the influence of television.
ah i see. you quiz us now?
What is the origin of the surname Walker
the finishing process of wool now known as fulling used to be called waulking, or walking. so the same process has given us both the Fullers and the Walkers. Other woolen guilds included those wonderful Dyers as well as the Weavers.
indeed fire away with your own question.
the boys of summer are back on the field. they aspire that their successful play might someday get them an invitation to Cooperstown, home of the baseball hall of fame, from whom/what does Cooperstown get it's name?
- the U.S. senator that named Cooperstown had a son who lived most of his adult life in Paris, continuing to publish best selling fiction novels in English as well as nearly every European language.
:furious2::disappointed::rifle::rifle::rifle: i don't know tell us
James Fennimore Cooper was a best selling novelist in France and England, as well in the U.S. His father was a Senator from New York, who founded his own little village on a peaceful lake there.
Literature may not be a popular history topic. How about music history? For whom (several options) did Michael Jackson sing back up vocals?
Jackson 5
Michael was lead vocalist on their first hit, as well as their last, and the majority of songs between. Their were three other acts for whom he never sang any lead, but did backup vocals. However since there were a few songs in which he backed up Jermaine and Marlon, we'd be glad to respond to your question.
Fair enough
Staying with music, which musician stated he/she was 'bringing ballet to the masses'?
Freddie Mercury, in response to Sid Vicious.Quote:
Originally Posted by rickinator9