I've been investigating a family relic discovered whilst exploring (looting) an attic. Its been sympathetically restored and looks quite good, I've been told that it was made in 1952 and cost...
Here's a strange question, for a writing project. Obviously fishing boats have to work with the tide, but do they leave the harbour on a rising tide or a falling one? Does it depend on what they are...
You can use this thread instead, Naomi. Panspermia is the theory that life is common throughout the Universe, found particularly in Asteroids and the like, so that planets with the right conditions...
Hi, I'm doing a quiz for an Asian group soon, and have been asked to add some spiritual questions, with no restriction as to specific religion. I know that images of the Prophet are not allowed in...
This morning looked out on the lawn at the back of the house and I saw what I thought a was whole plant that had been dug out of the border. When I went out to investigate it turned out to be a very...
You may think it a great joke but it isn't really funny to have to stand and humour a couple of clearly deluded women. I know I should have invited them in and explained that my faith was the true way...
Recently I was on top of Benbradagh (~1510 ft.) just outside Dungiven in Co. Londonderry, N.I. and looking roughly NNE I could see the Paps of Jura about 70 miles away. Behind the Paps of Jura, in the...
The mathematician Leonhard Euler believed the best empirical evidence for the existence of God is the following equation (which is easily derivable for anyone who remembers Taylor expansions):...
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I have Zinc Sulphide and 0.1M Silver Nitrate solution. Can anyone tell me the procedure to combine them to make Silver activated Zinc Sulphide for use as a scintillation phosphor?...
Many of us claim they respect others irrespective of race, colour or creed. Sure I'm happy with race and colour plus other additions e.g. sex. But I can think of so many creeds which vary from the...
I am in the process of removing years of gloss paint with a heat stripper and I'm noticing that between the clean wood and me there remains a very stubborn layer of paint. I'm assuming this is 60+...
Hi, My house and neighbor's share a open space divided equally by single wall which is of 4 feet height.We stay in the first floor of our house. My neighbor keeps his dog in the open space and will...
Please does any one know how to get rid of these birds in my garden?They eat all the food put out for the smaller birds,pull the feeders off the trees and I've just spotted one pecking all my trailing...
I got stopped in my car recently. Really I think I was the wrong motorist as the police only wanted to see my driving licence. To my surprise the police man asked if I rode a motor bike to which I...
Yesterday around 11AM-1200 An aircraft flew over part of the Chiltern Hills near to Chinnor in the direction of High Wycombe. It returned about 3/4 of an hour later. I could not identify it but it was...
I have a fairly new cut glass vase which has started to go cloudy on the inside although I wash it by hand. What is causing this? Could it be the flower food (from the packets that come attached to...
Hi Everyone, i need some help with a conversion..... I need to convert 200 mg m-3 of Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) into g/s The other parameters that i have are.... Discharge rate per stream (flue) 15.4...