Did you know?

[noirua]

...that after suffering, Foot & Mouth, blue tongue and floods. East England, East Anglia have now been struck with the H5 strain of bird flu and further tests are being carried out: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7091284.stm

...the bird flu is now confirmed as the virulent H5N1 strain.

 

[nioka]

A friend sent me this and asked me to spread the word.
During a BBQ a lady stumbled and took a little fall. She assured everyone and just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes.( They had offered to call an ambulance.) They got her cleaned up and got her a new plate of food.While she appeared a little shaken up she still went about enjoying herself for the rest of the evening. Her husband later called up to say she had been taken to hospital. Later that day she passed away.
She had suffered a stroke at the BBQ. Had anyone there known how to identify the signs of a stroke she may still be with us today. Some don't die. They end up in a helpless, hopeless condition.

A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke.

RECOGNISING A STROKE:

The first three steps are S T R
S.. Ask the individual to smile.
T.. Talk.. Ask the person to repeat a simple sentance. (coherently)
R.. Ask them to raise both arms.

IF HE OR SHE HAS TROUBLE WITH ANY ONE OF THESE TASKS CALL 000 IMEDIATELY AND DESCRIBE THE SYMPTOMS TO THE DISPATCHER.

ANOTHER SIGN OF STROKE IS:

1. Ask the person to stick out their tongue
2. If the tongue is crooked, if it goes to one side or the other that is an indication of a stroke.

Make sure as many people as possible know about this and some lives will be saved. ONE OF THEM MAY BE YOUR OWN>>

 

[noirua]

...that the U.K. is now doing a survey on dormant Bank accounts, Building Society and Post Office accounts, where no one has made a transaction for at least 15 years and post has been returned. Money not claimed will be used in projects throughout the U.K. ( this money, about A$34 billion, will be able to be reclaimed with interest without limit of time)

The oldest account goes back to 1854.

A large part of the money is thought to be owned by descendants who left the U.K. for Australia, Canada and New Zealand.

http://www.bba.org.uk/bba/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=144&a=501
http://www.bba.org.uk/bba/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=144

http://www.gnn.gov.uk/Content/Detail.asp?ReleaseID=329224&NewsAreaID=2

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2007/feb/19/business.accounts1

 

[noirua]

...How a hard disc works? http://www.howstuffworks.com/hard-disk.htm

 

[noirua]

...Place names: Bloody Dick, Montana, USA; Condom, South West France; ****ing (edited by ASF), Salzburg, Austrian German Border; Pity Me, Durham, UK; Zzyzx, CA, USA; Pratts Bottom, Kent, UK; and Hell, Grand Cayman Islands.

 

[kgee]

Did you know in the days of the roman empire the legionerre's pay was partly paid in salt.... and thats where the word salary comes from

 

[2020hindsight]

Did you know in the days of the roman empire the legionerre's pay was partly paid in salt.... and thats where the word salary comes from

that explains why I get paid in celery then

 

[noirua]

Did you know in the days of the roman empire the legionerre's pay was partly paid in salt.... and thats where the word salary comes from

The word soldier comes from the latin ~sal dare "to give salt".
The Chinese were first to write about 40 different types of salt about 4,700 years ago.

Kgee, 2020 et al, thou be "the salt of the earth" and may thee always "live above the salt" and may 2020's celery grow well and always be "worth the salt that be giveth"and may post long on ASF, Aussie Salt Forums.

 

[noirua]

...the cottage in which Captain Cook's parents lived in the 1750's, in Yorkshire, England was brought to Australia brick by brick and reassembled in Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne.
http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/info.cfm?top=39&pg=625

 

[2020hindsight]

if Whitney Houston married Gene Pitney, she'd be Whitney Pitney

 

[2020hindsight]

...the cottage in which Captain Cook's parents lived in the 1750's, in Yorkshire, England was brought to Australia brick by brick and reassembled in Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne.
http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/info.cfm?top=39&pg=625

but Cook himself never lived in it (according to ABC show)

 

[noirua]

but Cook himself never lived in it (according to ABC show)

As you say, he never lived in it, but did stay there whilst visiting, so it would seem. I suppose that's good enough: http://www.captcook-ne.co.uk/ccne/timeline/earlylife.htm

Interesting, that Captain Cook had 6 children, all of whom died without issue.

 

[2020hindsight]

As you say, he never lived in it, but did stay there whilst visiting, so it would seem. I suppose that's good enough: http://www.captcook-ne.co.uk/ccne/timeline/earlylife.htm

Interesting, that Captain Cook had 6 children, all of whom died without issue.

Tonight's show on ABC will no doubt cover this :-

After a month's stay, Cook got under sail again to resume his exploration of the Northern Pacific. However, shortly after leaving the Big Island, the foremast on the Resolution broke requiring the ships' return to Kealakekua Bay for repairs. The return to the islands by Cook's expedition was unexpected on the part of the Hawaiians and as the season of Lono had recently ended, tensions rose and a number of quarrels broke out between the two camps. On February 14 at Kealakekua Bay, some Hawaiians stole one of Cook's small boats. Normally, as thefts were quite common in Tahiti and the other islands, Cook would have taken hostages until the stolen articles were returned.[2] Indeed, he planned to take hostage the Chief of Hawaii, Kalaniopu'u. .....
...... In the ensuing skirmish, shots were fired at the Hawaiians but their woven war shields protected them, and Cook's men had to retreat to the beach. As Cook turned his back to help launch the boats, he was struck on the head by the villagers and then stabbed to death as he fell on his face in the surf.[11] The Hawaiians dragged his body away. Four of the Marines with Cook were also killed and two wounded in the confrontation.

............. Coupled with a jaded grasp of native diplomacy and a burgeoning but limited understanding of local politics, Cook may have inadvertently contributed to the tensions that ultimately conspired in his demise. However, as noted above[10], the theory linking Cook and Lono has been questioned by historians.

The esteem in which he was nevertheless held by the natives resulted in his body being retained by their chiefs and elders .............eventually returned to the British for a formal burial at sea following an appeal by the crew.[12]

Clerke took over the expedition and made a final attempt to pass through the Bering Strait. Resolution and Discovery returned home in 1780. Cook's account of his voyage was completed by Captain James King.

A number of the junior officers who served under Cook went on to distinctive accomplishments of their own.

William Bligh, Cook's sailing master (on Resolution) , was given command of HMS Bounty in 1787 to sail to Tahiti and return with breadfruit. Bligh is most known for the mutiny of his crew which resulted in his being set adrift in 1789. (See: Mutiny on the Bounty). He later became governor of New South Wales, where he was also the subject of another mutiny — the only successful armed takeover of an Australian colonial government.

This was the only armed takeoever of an Australian government

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bligh Many years after the Bounty mutiny, he was appointed Governor of New South Wales, with a brief to clean up the corrupt rum trade of the NSW Corps. This culminated in the Rum Rebellion led by Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur.

This was the first attempt to make Australians less dependent on drugs .... (alcohol )

PS I have heard a theory that, had Bligh been present with the main party when Cook was killed (instead of being off chasing down another matter), that it may have ended differently / better - but it's possibly just a theory, and certainly hard to prove .

 

[2020hindsight]

http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-BeaBlig-t1-body1.html

Although Bligh does not write such passages, I see no reason why he should not have agreed with them. He would certainly have agreed with another one: 'It has ever been a maxim with me to punish the least crimes any of my people have commited against these uncivilized Nations, their robing us with impunity is by no means a sufficient reason why we should treat them in the same manner';17 nor, to leave Cook's own words, is there any reason to tolerate gratuitous violence towards them. Hence the punishment visited by both Cook and Bligh on any piece of brutality committed upon an islander by a seaman, not only that of 'striking an Indian chief””punishment sometimes deplored by the victims. But 'a strict regard to justice' made the islanders themselves subject to some control, or attempted control, and the lash was used on them too. We must not, in our own humanitarianism, underestimate the problem, and flogging was better than shooting. Chiefs sometimes urged on the process; but chiefs could be cruel to their subjects in a fashion that shocked the British””for instance, in Tonga. Nevertheless it was Cook who, driven beyond endurance by the problem of theft, Ton

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gan or Tahitian indifference to his own principle of 'strict honisty', on his third voyage, began to impose floggings and ear-cropping and arm-slashing and destruction of canoes that seriously disquieted some of his officers. If Bligh had been the responsible commander, this would have come down in tradition as brutality. It seemed out of character. On one occasion, we know, it disquieted himself; for with him the other side of 'strict honisty' was 'gentle treatment'. Again I think we can see Bligh learning from Cook, and alas! improving on him; and it is perhaps significant that the Cook he observed was the Cook of the third voyage. Bligh was not going to have his men assaulting the islanders, he believed in the principles of strict honesty and gentle treatment, he was diplomatic and agreeable in his own conduct””until he thought it was time to make an example. But the example””theft again was the reason””of 'one hundred lashes, severely given, and from thence into Irons', 18 seems a little excessive, even though a chief had urged Bligh to kill the man. On the whole, I think, Cook and Bligh would each assert that he had tried to maintain an even-handed justice. Bligh might possibly have been a little more convinced that he had succeeded.

 

[noirua]

Excellent stuff 2020, and for a mere US$25,000 you can obtain an original copy of Captain Bligh's book: http://www.davidbrassrarebooks.com/pdf/dbrb_ilab_fair_2006.pdf

 

[noirua]

...the U.K. Northern Rock Mortgage Bank remains deeply in the mire with the stock down 93% on their 2007 high. One bidder has pulled out and there is now the possibility that the Bank will have to be nationalized by the Bank of England.

 

[noirua]

...that the largest scorpion was between 2.33 to 2.59 metres long: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/21/2096819.htm

 

[noirua]

...that if a box is put into a larger box, and then an even larger box and so on and so on; That the whole Universe would become a box. If there be anything beyond it, it would also be consumed by the ever increasing box. Therefore, even nothing would become a box.

 

[noirua]

...that the largest ant that ever lived was the "Eocene ant" (Formicium Giganteum) and had a wingspan of 13cm and lived 44 - 49 million years ago. The closest living relative is the European Red Wood Ant.

 

[Rapture]

The first patented condom was meant to be reused!

Most car horns honk in the key of 'F'

In Michigan, a woman isn't allowed to cut her own hair without her husband's permission

In Texas it's illegal to put graffiti on someone else's cow

In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.

Eggplants aren`t vegtables they`re really fruits