Steve44

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by Steve44 3y ago
https://www.andrewgrantham.co.uk/soundmirrors/locations/deng... is quite a good article and set of photographs about the Denge sound mirrors. There are also some more accessible, but smaller, ones along the cost a
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by Steve44 3y ago
The Romans didn't conquer Scotland, they built walls at the northern boundary instead. Hadrian's Wall [1][2] was begun in 122 AD and big parts are still there and it's a tourist attraction. About 20 years later they started
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by Steve44 3y ago
I'm not sure, one thing I like about Sumatra is that it's very light and clean. When we need to sign or view some complex documents then I'll use Acrobat.
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by Steve44 3y ago
For extracting to tables I've been using http://tabula.technology/ for a couple of years. It seems to do a pretty good job even with some fairly complex tables and I've not had any problems with it.
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by Steve44 3y ago
In addition to the Stop Lines the other poster has mentioned, there were a number of Auxiliary Units set up. These were undocumented groups with their own arms bunker storing 'terrorist' and assassination weapons whose job was to
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by Steve44 3y ago
I think it was the Miles M.52, there is an original scale model at lovely little aviation museum[1] near Reading, England. There is also a very good reason the Bell X1 looks very much like the Miles. [2] > In 1944, design work was consid
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by Steve44 3y ago
They are really good for a normal person to get a knife sharper than they could ever wish for. I've given one to all my kids as it's the only method for them to keep their knives sharp. It's a great tool for an everyday hou
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by Steve44 3y ago
I'm fairly certain the de Havilland Aircraft Museum, located on the northern outskirts of London, used to have one of those cannons. It wasn't mounted, but was on display with the loading mechanism and magazine. I've checked
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by Steve44 3y ago
I have that quite often as I RDP in from various desktop sizes. You can bring up the Move command with Alt+SPACE then "M" and then use cur cursor keys to move the whole pane. That allows you to bring one of the corners into view
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by Steve44 3y ago
There are also some in Tobermory on the island of Mull in Scotland. It's used as the setting for a BBC children's TV series called Balamory. https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/photo/coulorful-houses-..
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by Steve44 3y ago
Canary Wharf in London has a installation of six Swiss railway clocks which, invisible to most people passing by, has a clever way of synchronising. https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/see-londons-six-swiss-r... >
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by Steve44 3y ago
There is much of a Chevaline, an upgrade to Polaris, in the Museum of Berkshire Aviation [1] which is near Reading, about 50 miles west of London. They also have some of the navigation systems, such as gyroscopes you can get a good look at
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by Steve44 3y ago
The PE lined coffee cups are recycled in the UK, and there is a mandatory cup takeback scheme coming in over the next couple of years to help increase recycling rates. https://www.jamescropper.com/about/innovation/
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by Steve44 3y ago
I've not seen that one before, fascinating. Shame it's so tucked away and not that easy to get to.
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by Steve44 3y ago
The Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust [1] website seems to have quite a few of the older and closed airfields. [1] https://www.abct.org.uk/airfields/airfield-finder/
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by Steve44 3y ago
I first heard about Sin Eaters from a BBC Radio programme, part of their The Digital Human series. It's a fascinating topic, and as per a link in the parent article the last known of England's Sin Eaters died as recently as 1906.
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by Steve44 3y ago
On a related note I've heard/seen a few programmes over they years about Foley artists, the ones who create these overlayed sounds. Some of their techniques are very inventive and surprising how they come up with the ideas. http
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by Steve44 3y ago
I'm British and don't recognise most of your points.
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by Steve44 3y ago
> Outside the US it is quite common to view the bombings as war crimes, I'm from the UK and born in the 1960s and have not heard that as a mainstream view. I've seen a bit of chatter on the Web about it, but nothing substantia
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by Steve44 3y ago
> I've rarely seen it referred to as "WW2", as opposed to "WWII", I'm an older Brit and had to think about this one but it's usually been WW2 as far as I can remember. I think the WWII is perhaps more
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by Steve44 3y ago
Looking at that link it's a scary and expensive hobby. Having said that my brother used to get my dad a £200-500 bottle of scotch for Christmas each year so definitely something to explore. Cheers.
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by Steve44 3y ago
I had been using EO Peppermint & Tea Tree for quite a few years but haven't been able to get that in the UK for a little while. I have tried Bronners soaps a couple of times and found it a bit thin and and also not that great unfo
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by Steve44 3y ago
I love the wide variety of tastes you can get. Beers are getting there, but there is no alcohol free wine or spirit that comes close to the flavour carrying profile of decent drinks. I make quite a lot of cocktails and have some quite dece
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by Steve44 3y ago
> was about 15.76 litres of pure alcohol I've done the maths on that and it comes out at 39.4 litres of 40% spirits a year, 750ml a week, or 108ml a day. In the UK that is basically two double spirit drinks. Four UK units a day is a
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by Steve44 3y ago
I had a glass of Louis XIII Cognac a few years ago and was really surprised at how much better it was than a VSOP. As you say the tail lasted so long and was so rich and complex, I didn't expect it to be that incredible.
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by Steve44 3y ago
I normally do a 3:2:1[1] for a sidecar and get good feedback on it. [1] my recipe is 2 x VSOP Brandy + 1 x Cointreau + 0.5 x Lemon juice / Shake & strain.
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by Steve44 3y ago
A good martini takes skill and good ingredients to make. The gin and the vermouth choice make a difference, as does the way they are mixed and how they are garnished. One thing I've not seen mentioned in other comments is the importan
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by Steve44 3y ago
Given the difficulties trying to intercept Concorde over the years it looks like it would take an awful lot of planning, equipment working perfectly, and topped off with a lot of luck. There are some intercept stories [1] and [2] about why
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by Steve44 3y ago
Note that the article says that is the holding temperature, not the brewing temperature. I can't see the article specifies but I expect this will have been filter coffee and so it's the temperature the brewed coffee is held at in
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by Steve44 3y ago
The Thames is tidal in London so the water does 'flow' both ways, but I'm fairly sure you'd say it flows towards the river but London is on a tidal section.

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