BaZmO* wrote: » This post is the 10,000th post
tympany is just free air in a cavity so it could be bloating due to gas or it could be a pneumothorax i.e. collapsed lung. The large drums called Timpani get their name from it.
I assume the ones who died of odd things like piles and teeth actually died of blood infections from open wounds. Doctors back then just didn't know that's what it was.
Other oddities listed:
Jawfaln appears to be lockjaw
Surfet is overeating.
Tympany I think is just gas. Its difficult to find a meaning for that one. All the google results just say bloat/excessive gas in the stomach of a cow.
That’s Ace Venturian bad.
Not a great time to be alive. 40 people died of teeth.
London was actually a population sink at the time. Deaths exceeded births until the late 19C iirc. Which means that most people in London are not descendants if the people who were there in the 16C.
I don't know about romance, but my grandfather, his neighbour and his neighbour's wife (who was also granddad's neighbour, incidentally 😄), all are.
Jesus. And they say romance is dead 😳😆
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'Made away themselves' - suicide?
Not many people died of old age, wonder how 'grief' was arrived at as a cause.
The 2 who died of lethargie just couldnt be arsed living any more.
My grandfather was born in 1912. I remember him telling me that he used to have a neighbour who had piles that were so bad that he'd had to get his wife to help him "put them back in" and his boots would often fill with blood from them.
Infection most likely.
How the fcuk do u die of piles!!!!!!
Do u bleed to death?
Kil'd by several accidents - being killed by one accident is unfortunate but how much bad luck does one have to have to be killed by several accidents 😁.
I love this:
List of deaths in London in 1632
Favourites include:
Cancer, and Wolf - 10 (Wolf apparently referred to cancer on the lower body)
Cut of the stone - 5 (kidney/bladder stones)
Kings Evil - 38 (or scrofula, swelling of the lymph glands curable by the touch of royalty)
Murthered - 7 (yeah right)
Planet - 13 (apparently stroke or heart attack)
Rising of the lights - 98 (pneumonia/croup, lights being a common name for the lungs)
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To put that into perspective; the fastest speed humans have travelled in a vehicle was 25,000 MPH in Apollo 10 when it was returning from orbiting the moon. Though all the Apollo missions were within one percent of that speed. By comparison the Space Shuttle topped out at 17,500 MPH. Even if you filled its cargo bay with fuel tanks it wouldn't have enough to reach the moon. Well I suppose it would eventually. But then it would have to come back and if it came back at 25,000 MPH it would burn up like a match.
For Apollo to get to the moon from Earth orbit it needed this third stage of the Saturn V rocket assembly.
Basically a tube of fuel containing quarter of a million litres of liquid hydrogen firing through a nozzle for a couple of minutes to get them up to 25,000 MPH. At launch the Saturn V's engines guzzled 20 tonnes of fuel per second.
The fastest manmade object isn't a hypersonic jet or spacecraft, but a large manhole cover.... When the US started doing underground nuclear testing, nobody really knew what would happen. One test bomb was placed at the bottom of a 485-foot deep shaft on July 26, 1957, and someone thought it was a good idea to put a half-ton iron manhole cover on top to contain the explosion. The bomb turned the shaft into the world's largest Roman candle, and the manhole cover was nowhere to be found. Robert Brownlee, an astrophysicist who designed the test, wanted to repeat the experiment with high-speed cameras so he could figure out what happened to the cover. So another experiment was created, this time 500-feet deep, and a similar half-ton manhole cover was placed on top. On August 27, 1957, they detonated the bomb. The high-speed cameras barely caught a view of the cover as it left the top of the shaft and headed into oblivion. Brownlee used the frames to calculate the speed to be more than 125,000 miles per hour.... more than five times the escape velocity of the Earth, and the fastest man-made object in history.
Physicists have debated the whereabouts of the two manhole covers ever since. Recently, with the help of supercomputers and a lot more scientific knowledge, physicists are certain that they wouldn't have had time to burn up completely before exiting the atmosphere. This means both of the remaining pieces would have passed Pluto's orbit sometime around 1961 and are way beyond the edge of the solar system by now.
*actual speed and space-boundness of manhole covers are disputed, even by Brownlee himself. But still nice to think theyre flying around the cosmos as ufos.
The plane that delivered a load of Wonka Bars in the 1971 Willy Wonka film, the Clipper Climax, met a tragic end three years later, crashing in Indonesia with all 107 on board killed.
The last US Civil War widow died in December last year.
Helen Jackson was 101, and had married James Bolin in 1936, when she was 17 and he was 93. The marriage was Bolin's way of repaying her for chores she did - when Bolin died, which he did three years later, Jackson would be entitled to a Civil War Widow's pension. She never claimed it though, partly out of embarrassment of a 17-year-old marrying a 93-year-old it seems.
Cashews.
They grow one crop a year. India and Vietnam grow the most.
There's one nut in each "cashew apple."
The nut itself is fragile... until recently, they were all opened by hand (and that's still done).
The plant itself is a member of the same family as poison ivy, which makes handling the nut toxic to human skin, so laborers are making $3 a month *and* get to have their hands slowly burned off.
Took me an hour to find this thread. Fecking vanilla crap!
Today is the first day of 2014. In Ethiopia.
Tag brothers are a group of 10 men who had been playing the game of tag since 1990, chasing each other around the country, traveling by plane, car etc. As of 2018, the game was still ongoing.
A jumping spider named Nefertiti was launched to the ISS to observe if it could catch prey in microgravity. It succeeded in catching prey by learning to walk slowly, rather than leaping, as this species usually does. It survived reentry and readjusted to full gravity before its natural death
This is a page from the Klencke Atlas, made in 1660 by the Dutch, as a gift to King Charles II. The writing at the bottom looks small, too small to read.
Except it isn't small writing....
... instead it's just a very, very, very big book. All the better to see the 41 maps that are in it. At the time it was made it contained maps of all of the earth that was known to Europeans. It was the largest book ever made until 2012. It actually has wheels at the bottom to move it around and it requires 6 people to life it.
Must watch the documentary wings of hope about this
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