British Airways certainly made a profit from Concorde, which was operated by a separate division of the company. I don't know if (then state-owned) Air France did.
In the extended edition of Two Towers they show him in a flashback of Gondor retaking Osgiliath. It's not a particularly flattering portrayal- the military success is shown as belonging to Boromir more than Denethor-…
Got it in one!
My favorite diner is just off an Interstate exit in Connecticut. I'm pretty sure it opened after the Interstate highway was built. Whenever I'm in there, it seems busy. Part of the USP is that it's open 24/7 (something…
Why would a flock of birds large enough to be ingested by both engines of a two-engined plane not also be large enough to be ingested by all four engines of a four-engined plane?
How do IP addresses work with cell towers? The WiFi where I work doesn't allow personal devices to connect, but there's reasonable 5G.
>Not only does the system know exactly where you are at every moment, it knows who your friends are, what they are interested in, and who you are spending time with This actually makes sense of an anecdote a colleague…
>Posh = not from round here. Perhaps the best example of that is that, as one of the linked maps [0] says, both British people who rhyme "scone" with "gone" and those who rhyme it with "alone" think that the other…
Rowing had the sliding rigger boat which was banned in international competition within a year of first being used. (In a normal racing rowing boat, the athlete sits on a sliding seat, while their shoes and the rigger…
Or to a slave in a Republic (whether that's the Confederacy, Rome or Athens).
AIUI that requirement can be met with vision corrected to 20/20 by glasses.
Sorry, I got confused- it's the professor who stays with an uncle as a child in The Magician's Nephew.
>the privilege of being sent to the country during a dangerous time. Children of all social classes were evacuated- the slum child evacuated to a prosperous country farmhouse is practically a trope, while some children…
Posting from the perspective of an American East Coast skier: An interesting question is whether what is happening is loss or consolidation? In other words, while there are fewer ski resorts in the US, is the total size…
In the Netherlands and Flanders the week-long school break in late February/early March is called the Krokusvakantie (crocus vacation).
They were already able to perceive polarized light [0], like many other arthropods, though AFAIK it's not clear what they normally use this perception for.…
Plenty of European countries have a work vehicle loophole, though it's not as big as the US one. Generally it's something along the lines of "a truck or van registered to a business is assumed to be a work vehicle, so…
Cigarettes aren't the only thing that might ignite furniture- there's also the risk of, say, a child playing with matches, or a set of hair straighteners left on. Or, of course, smoking materials other than…
And cigarettes, for a very specific reason. Fire safety testing for furniture upholstery involves testing that it resists being ignited by a lit cigarette. The problem is that since the test protocol was written, states…
In my experience in Europe, dining cars seem to be more of a Central (and maybe also Eastern) European thing. Benelux doesn't have dining cars at all, and in France and Italy the best you can usually hope for is a…
Depends which Eastern Europeans- Lithuania stayed pagan until the late 14th century, with some areas not being Christianised until the early 15th century. Of course, the Lithuanians themselves might well say they're not…
> Though I never really could appreciate the "old masters" from the Dutch Golden Age. Their work was part art and part record-keeping for which nowadays we have photography and video. The subject of many of these works…
>After all, people usually don't hand their phones to random strangers or leave them lying around - and those pagers aren't even mere personal devices used for private purposes And even compared to a phone, the limited…
And presumably some of the 66% are either children/students who have never had a job but will have a 401k or similar when they get one, or retirees who cashed out their 401k and bought an annuity (perhaps not the…
Some of these stories reminded me a bit of the stories of the religious scholar, trickster and scoundrel Nasreddin Hodja, who uses his wits to get the better of kings and sultans. Nasreddin is AIUI originally a Turkish…
British Airways certainly made a profit from Concorde, which was operated by a separate division of the company. I don't know if (then state-owned) Air France did.
In the extended edition of Two Towers they show him in a flashback of Gondor retaking Osgiliath. It's not a particularly flattering portrayal- the military success is shown as belonging to Boromir more than Denethor-…
Got it in one!
My favorite diner is just off an Interstate exit in Connecticut. I'm pretty sure it opened after the Interstate highway was built. Whenever I'm in there, it seems busy. Part of the USP is that it's open 24/7 (something…
Why would a flock of birds large enough to be ingested by both engines of a two-engined plane not also be large enough to be ingested by all four engines of a four-engined plane?
How do IP addresses work with cell towers? The WiFi where I work doesn't allow personal devices to connect, but there's reasonable 5G.
>Not only does the system know exactly where you are at every moment, it knows who your friends are, what they are interested in, and who you are spending time with This actually makes sense of an anecdote a colleague…
>Posh = not from round here. Perhaps the best example of that is that, as one of the linked maps [0] says, both British people who rhyme "scone" with "gone" and those who rhyme it with "alone" think that the other…
Rowing had the sliding rigger boat which was banned in international competition within a year of first being used. (In a normal racing rowing boat, the athlete sits on a sliding seat, while their shoes and the rigger…
Or to a slave in a Republic (whether that's the Confederacy, Rome or Athens).
AIUI that requirement can be met with vision corrected to 20/20 by glasses.
Sorry, I got confused- it's the professor who stays with an uncle as a child in The Magician's Nephew.
>the privilege of being sent to the country during a dangerous time. Children of all social classes were evacuated- the slum child evacuated to a prosperous country farmhouse is practically a trope, while some children…
Posting from the perspective of an American East Coast skier: An interesting question is whether what is happening is loss or consolidation? In other words, while there are fewer ski resorts in the US, is the total size…
In the Netherlands and Flanders the week-long school break in late February/early March is called the Krokusvakantie (crocus vacation).
They were already able to perceive polarized light [0], like many other arthropods, though AFAIK it's not clear what they normally use this perception for.…
Plenty of European countries have a work vehicle loophole, though it's not as big as the US one. Generally it's something along the lines of "a truck or van registered to a business is assumed to be a work vehicle, so…
Cigarettes aren't the only thing that might ignite furniture- there's also the risk of, say, a child playing with matches, or a set of hair straighteners left on. Or, of course, smoking materials other than…
And cigarettes, for a very specific reason. Fire safety testing for furniture upholstery involves testing that it resists being ignited by a lit cigarette. The problem is that since the test protocol was written, states…
In my experience in Europe, dining cars seem to be more of a Central (and maybe also Eastern) European thing. Benelux doesn't have dining cars at all, and in France and Italy the best you can usually hope for is a…
Depends which Eastern Europeans- Lithuania stayed pagan until the late 14th century, with some areas not being Christianised until the early 15th century. Of course, the Lithuanians themselves might well say they're not…
> Though I never really could appreciate the "old masters" from the Dutch Golden Age. Their work was part art and part record-keeping for which nowadays we have photography and video. The subject of many of these works…
>After all, people usually don't hand their phones to random strangers or leave them lying around - and those pagers aren't even mere personal devices used for private purposes And even compared to a phone, the limited…
And presumably some of the 66% are either children/students who have never had a job but will have a 401k or similar when they get one, or retirees who cashed out their 401k and bought an annuity (perhaps not the…
Some of these stories reminded me a bit of the stories of the religious scholar, trickster and scoundrel Nasreddin Hodja, who uses his wits to get the better of kings and sultans. Nasreddin is AIUI originally a Turkish…