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Post by Netsuke on Oct 3, 2023 2:05:21 GMT 2
All countries have a claim to fame - my own has a few. Reading about snakes, to the question
Where is the deadliest snake on earth found? The answer is - yes, you’ve guessed it - Australia!
The inland or western taipan, Oxyuranus microlepidotus, is the most venomous snake in the world, according to Britannica. Native to Australia, this snake has the deadliest venom based on median lethal dose, or LD50, tests on mice.23
I did not know that but I can’t say I’m surprised - we do have quite a few nasties. What does your country have - the biggest ? The sweetest bird call, the longest river etc.
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Post by sophie on Oct 3, 2023 2:35:03 GMT 2
Actually sea snakes are more lethal than any land snakes.. I learned about that detail when I got my diving certificate years ago on the Great Barrier Reef. I just double checked on line and it’s still the case. The only redeeming factor is that the sea snake’ s teeth are way back and you’d have to shove your fingers down the snake’s throat to get bitten.
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Post by auntieannie on Oct 3, 2023 12:06:12 GMT 2
Oh, interesting thread. I need to come back to it with serious answers… à lots of things in Switzerland are the …… of Central Europe
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Post by shrjeff on Oct 3, 2023 13:03:13 GMT 2
we have the first suburb...
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Post by Netsuke on Oct 3, 2023 16:22:01 GMT 2
Actually sea snakes are more lethal than any land snakes.. I learned about that detail when I got my diving certificate years ago on the Great Barrier Reef. I just double checked on line and it’s still the case. The only redeeming factor is that the sea snake’ s teeth are way back and you’d have to shove your fingers down the snake’s throat to get bitten. Were you living here at the time, Sophie? |
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Post by Netsuke on Oct 3, 2023 16:23:41 GMT 2
we have the first suburb... Name of suburb required along with number of inhabitants please Shrjeff! Very interesting claim to fame. |
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Post by sophie on Oct 3, 2023 16:33:59 GMT 2
No.. just a very long holiday.
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Post by tzarine on Oct 3, 2023 18:16:53 GMT 2
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Post by shrjeff on Oct 4, 2023 1:20:03 GMT 2
we have the first suburb... Name of suburb required along with number of inhabitants please Shrjeff! Very interesting claim to fame. it's in the valley of the caves where the residency goes back nearly 1,000,000 years to homo erectus and is the first place discovered where cro magnon and neanderthal coexisted and likely cohabited... with the neolithic revolution of 12,000 years ago which, thanks to cultivation, resulted in settling down, the caves were inadequate for the population and they built a residential suburb just below... I've been taking visitors there for 30+ years, sneaking in to see the excavation of the suburb. |
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Post by sophie on Oct 4, 2023 1:32:23 GMT 2
Jeff took me there when I was in Israel… fascinating stuff!
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Post by tzarine on Oct 4, 2023 17:55:09 GMT 2
we gave the world nike
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Post by shrjeff on Oct 5, 2023 3:18:45 GMT 2
i didn't know you were greek... |
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Post by tzarine on Oct 5, 2023 3:28:05 GMT 2
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Post by Baz Faz on Oct 7, 2023 19:57:11 GMT 2
In 1825 the first passenger train service began between Stockton and Darlington in England
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Post by auntieannie on Oct 7, 2023 20:09:39 GMT 2
Switzerland has one of the highest ratios of Nobel prize winners per capita.
Switzerland's claim to fame? We gave the world milk chocolate, the guards of the Pope in Rome, and Roger Federer.
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Post by Voy on Oct 7, 2023 22:38:52 GMT 2
Switzerland's claim to fame? We gave the world milk chocolate, the guards of the Pope in Rome, and Roger Federer.
Quite honestly, the first alone is enough !!
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Post by Scrubb on Oct 8, 2023 4:12:28 GMT 2
Canada... Hmmmm. We're boring?
But, we did give the world Joni Mitchell (in fact, she went to my high school!). Lots of great comedians, too - Kids in the Hall, Mike Myers, Martin Short. Actors - Sandra Oh, Keanu Reeves, Donald (and Kiefer) Sutherland, Ryan Renolds and Ryan Gosling, Micheal Cera.
We do have a cool flag.
And we built the space arm on the Space Shuttles.
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Post by sophie on Oct 8, 2023 4:47:06 GMT 2
And we invented basketball.. and pineapple on pizza!!
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Post by tzarine on Oct 8, 2023 6:35:36 GMT 2
And we invented basketball.. and pineapple on pizza!! dr james naismith! |
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Post by tzarine on Oct 8, 2023 6:38:11 GMT 2
mcdonald's
william faulkner
zion national park
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Post by Baz Faz on Oct 8, 2023 10:44:43 GMT 2
Cricket, footnall, golf, tiddlywinks.
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Post by Baz Faz on Oct 8, 2023 10:47:55 GMT 2
Pooh sticks.
I was in Budapest on a research trip and I switched on CNN news. I saw a report on the Pooh Sticks championship from near Walligford where we lived.
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Post by Voy on Oct 8, 2023 15:50:23 GMT 2
Baz, I have played Pooh sticks on that bridge ! with my friend Jimmy, while enroute from his house to Hampshire.
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Post by tzarine on Oct 9, 2023 2:57:44 GMT 2
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Post by Scrubb on Oct 9, 2023 3:59:18 GMT 2
And we invented basketball.. and pineapple on pizza!! Good for the basketball, but DON'T MENTION THE ABOMINATION OF PINEAPPLE ON PIZZA!! |
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Post by Netsuke on Oct 9, 2023 9:05:21 GMT 2
Apart from snakes, nasties and snakes, Australia 🇦🇺 gave the world,
1. The Bionic Ear
2. The electronic pacemaker and
3. The Black box flight recorder.
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Post by Baz Faz on Oct 9, 2023 10:51:58 GMT 2
And we invented pineapple on pizza!! Strange coincidences department here. I am this very day proof reading about a man confronted by pizza with pineapple in it and denouncing it as the end of American civilisation. |
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Post by Baz Faz on Oct 9, 2023 19:34:15 GMT 2
I know strikes have been going on for a long time and they are not a British invention and yet the word "strike" is tied to this country. I was in Poland on a research trip in the dying days of communism. I went to a Solidarinosc rally in Warsaw with stirring speeches and the only word I understood was Strike.
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Post by tzarine on Oct 10, 2023 7:11:26 GMT 2
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Post by Baz Faz on Oct 10, 2023 10:39:41 GMT 2
Marmalade. Thrifty Scots decided it was wasteful to discard the skin. In France I made some grapefuit marmalade and gave a jar to a neighbour. She only ate a tiny bit. She said she didn't like peel in it.
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