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  • #62
    WildWater
    Registered Users Posts: 714 ✭✭✭WildWater


    Rocky Weak Label wrote: »
    Yeah!

    Your question please.

    I’ll stick with Lough Corrib: Commander Beechchey’s Admiralty Chart of Lough Corrib was published in 1846. Since then, there has only been one other survey and published chart of the lake. By whom and/or year of publication?


  • #63
    New Home
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    feargale wrote: »
    Herman Melville.

    Too late! :)


  • #64
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    WildWater wrote: »
    I’ll stick with Lough Corrib: Commander Beechchey’s Admiralty Chart of Lough Corrib was published in 1846. Since then, there has only been one other survey and published chart of the lake. By whom and/or year of publication?

    By Ordinance Survey. I think not long afterwards. 1851?


  • #65
    feargale
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    New Home wrote: »
    Too late! :)

    I know. I've deleted it. Why did nobody tell us the quiz was moving house? Did you move in the middle of the night?


  • #66
    WildWater
    Registered Users Posts: 714 ✭✭✭WildWater


    feargale wrote: »
    By Ordinance Survey. I think not long afterwards. 1851?

    No, not even close on either. You need to change century.


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  • #67
    feargale
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    WildWater wrote: »
    No, not even close on either. You need to change century.

    Praeger?


  • #68
    WildWater
    Registered Users Posts: 714 ✭✭✭WildWater


    feargale wrote: »
    Praeger?

    I’ve no idea who/what that is.

    Nobody else is giving this a go so I may as well answer it. A gentleman by the name of Trevor Northage conducted a survey of the lake (AFAIK without any funding), beginning around 2007, and published a chart and chart book in 2014.


  • #69
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    WildWater wrote: »
    I’ve no idea who/what that is.

    Nobody else is giving this a go so I may as well answer it. A gentleman by the name of Trevor Northage conducted a survey of the lake (AFAIK without any funding), beginning around 2007, and published a chart and chart book in 2014.

    Another question from you?


  • #70
    looksee
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    I will throw in another question just to keep things moving - on what date did the British Penny Black stamp become official postage?


  • #71
    feargale
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    looksee wrote: »
    I will throw in another question just to keep things moving - on what date did the British Penny Black stamp become official postage?

    1840


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  • #72
    looksee
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    feargale wrote: »
    1840

    Any chance anyone could expand on that a bit?


  • #73
    Bogwoppit
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    Didn’t see a previous answer


  • #74
    IrishZeus
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    looksee wrote: »
    Any chance anyone could expand on that a bit?

    Random guess - 01/01/1840?


  • #75
    looksee
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    No, not as tidy as that!


  • #76
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    looksee wrote: »
    No, not as tidy as that!

    I think May. Not sure. Will I get extra credit if I tell you that a Clareman designed the planned accompanying stationery?


  • #77
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,012 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    You are right about May, They were available from 1st May but only became official on 6th May.
    Will I get extra credit if I tell you that a Clareman designed the planned accompanying stationery

    Definitely! Tell you what, you can ask an extra question :D


  • #78
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    looksee wrote: »
    You are right about May, They were available from 1st May but only became official on 6th May.

    William Mulready (1786-1863) born in Ennis, emigrated to London with his family in 1792. His stationery was not a commercial success.

    Question:

    What links:
    Australia,
    Cyprus (de jure),
    Madagascar,
    Taiwan (technically)?


  • #79
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    They're all island states, but you may have something else in mind.


  • #80
    feargale
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    Rocky Weak Label wrote: »
    They're all island states, but you may have something else in mind.

    I have indeed. Island ( or at least water-locked in deference to the continent of Australia) countries that........?


  • #81
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    This thread is getting very slow. Are senile brains beginning to atrophy? I know mine is.


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  • #82
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    feargale wrote: »
    This thread is getting very slow. Are senile brains beginning to atrophy? I know mine is.
    Just stuck on the 'islands' question.


  • #83
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Rocky Weak Label wrote: »
    Just stuck on the 'islands' question.

    I'll give it until 9 p.m.


  • #84
    New Home
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    looksee wrote: »
    Lol, I was going to ask that one NH but I figured there were too many, at least I have seen them recently. If you don't mind whether they are in order I can do some of them:

    Cherubim, Serafim, Choirs, Archangels, you know what, I can't remember any more.
    Rocky Weak Label wrote: »
    Thrones, Dominions, Principalities and Angels are more.


    I assume we're just sticking with Catholic classifications, as there are other Jewish and Islamic angelic ranks.

    Right. The missing one was Virtues. :)

    According to Wiki-know-it-all, they are:

    One more question each, please and thank you. :)


  • #85
    looksee
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    I read your helpful links NH, or at least I glanced at some of them, and someone needed a day job. If I had generated some f that nonsense as I child I would have been told by my mum, I can find you something to do!

    I will go and ponder on a question. I think Srameen still owes us several...


  • #86
    looksee
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    What is/was a clasp locker.


  • #87
    New Home
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    I'm thinking handcuffs. I'm sure I'm waaaaaay off, but...

    Wait - it could also be that little oval hoop you find on the side of necklaces' and bracelets' clasps to secure them - the other side usually has a little button/sphere the hoop can wrap itself around. Again, most likely wrong, but maybe my definition will catch on. :/


  • #88
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,012 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Newhome, no not either of those.


  • #89
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    What is/was a clasp locker.
    A Zip.


  • #90
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Odd one out and why...


    Bullfinch
    Crossbill
    Brambling
    Linnet
    Siskin
    Twite
    Yellowhammer.


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  • #91
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Rocky Weak Label wrote: »
    Odd one out and why...


    Bullfinch
    Crossbill
    Brambling
    Linnet
    Siskin
    Twite
    Yellowhammer.

    All finches apart from the yellowhammer?


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