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Post by Voy on Oct 10, 2023 14:19:52 GMT 2
Bless the Scots ! and unbless the Merkins who call what they make Marmalade - when it is sweet orange jam .
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Post by tzarine on Oct 10, 2023 18:34:24 GMT 2
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Post by Voy on Oct 10, 2023 19:03:47 GMT 2
tzarine said:" voy the spanairds have their mermelada naranja i esp loved the amar when we lived there" a) was the mermelada properly tart? b) what is amar? ie - do I bless, or unbless the Spaniards?
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Post by tzarine on Oct 11, 2023 5:11:24 GMT 2
tzarine said:" voy the spanairds have their mermelada naranja i esp loved the amar when we lived there" a) was the mermelada properly tart? b) what is amar? ie - do I bless, or unbless the Spaniards? the brand we ate was tart slightly bitter & very delicious so i leave the blessing to you we gave the world cranberry sauce www.cranberries.org/
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Post by Baz Faz on Oct 11, 2023 10:42:17 GMT 2
Britain gave the world Boris Johnson. Then we had second thoughts. Johnson still believes his time to be world king will come.
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Post by Netsuke on Oct 13, 2023 12:47:53 GMT 2
Australia might be on your “It’s too far to travel” list, but we don’t mind - after all Australian inventions have changed the world!
1. Spray-on skin. In 1999, Perth-based plastic surgeon Professor Fiona Wood patented her spray-on skin technique. The innovation involves taking a small patch of the victim’s healthy skin and using it to grow new skin cells in a laboratory. The new skin cells are then sprayed on the victim’s damaged skin. This process significantly reduces recovery time and scarring.
2. Google Maps. Danish brothers Lars and Jens Rasmussen developed the platform for Google Maps in Sydney in the early 2000s. Along with Australians Neil Gordon and Stephen Ma, they founded a small start-up company called Where 2 Technologies in 2003. The following year it was bought by internet giant Google, which also hired the four men, and the technology was turned into what we now know as Google Maps.
3. Medical application of penicillin. In 1939, Australian scientist Howard Florey purified penicillin from a special strain of mould. The team demonstrated penicillin’s ability to fight bacterial infection in mice and, later, humans. The antibiotic was mass produced and used to aid victims of World War II. Penicillin has been used around the world saving many lives through the combating of infection by common bacteria. Today, it is still widely used in combating infections, but its efficacy is at risk from the growing resistance to the antibiotic.
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Post by Voy on Oct 13, 2023 15:05:39 GMT 2
I dunno, penicillin use might be off set by the invention and use of vegemite....
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Post by tzarine on Oct 14, 2023 22:56:03 GMT 2
baseball which has been adopted by the caribbean, latin america, japan, taiwan
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Post by shrjeff on Oct 16, 2023 15:57:34 GMT 2
ok, we gave the world the true alphabet (all others are 'borrowed') we gave the world monotheism. we gave the world the bible...
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Post by tzarine on Oct 26, 2023 3:12:34 GMT 2
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Post by auntieannie on Oct 26, 2023 6:58:30 GMT 2
Isn’t there something about modern banking and Switzerland?
And we’re the source of so many marketable dreams.
Skiing for fun was invented here, by bored Brits recouping from TB
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Post by tzarine on Apr 11, 2024 2:51:27 GMT 2
the us introduced the world to harvard & yale
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Post by Netsuke on Apr 12, 2024 14:20:55 GMT 2
Isn’t there something about modern banking and Switzerland? Don’t know Annie, but Australia created plastic money - the polymer banknote was first circulated in 1988. ETA: Personally I prefer paper money to this plastic stuff. Paper money folds properly and feels like real money!
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Post by tzarine on Apr 14, 2024 1:51:04 GMT 2
we are the home of boeing we are the home of nasa
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Post by Voy on Apr 14, 2024 2:28:21 GMT 2
Most Americans seem to go gaga over Ginge and Whinge... arrgghh. They are poloing.
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Post by Baz Faz on Apr 15, 2024 11:08:53 GMT 2
I was born in South Africa and we gave the world biltong. Age 4 I relocated to Canada and we gave the world pemmican.
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Post by shrjeff on Apr 15, 2024 11:35:56 GMT 2
we gave the world waze... thus ensuring that too many people wouldn't pay attention to where they were driving but blindly follow the app...
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Post by auntieannie on Apr 15, 2024 13:37:01 GMT 2
I sense some doubts about that app, jeffy...
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Post by auntieannie on Apr 15, 2024 13:37:35 GMT 2
Switzerland gave the world Roger Federer.
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Post by tzarine on Apr 15, 2024 21:43:04 GMT 2
we are responsible for baseball
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Post by Baz Faz on Apr 16, 2024 10:46:16 GMT 2
Britain is responsible for rounders which developed into baseball.
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Post by auntieannie on Apr 16, 2024 10:51:39 GMT 2
Could peace brokerage be considered a thing Switzerland help organise?
What about the Swiss guards to the Pope in Rome?
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Post by Voy on Apr 16, 2024 13:41:39 GMT 2
Baz said: Britain is responsible for rounders which developed into baseball. It was also responsible for cricket - which is quintessentially English .
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Post by Baz Faz on Apr 16, 2024 17:40:09 GMT 2
Baz said: Britain is responsible for rounders which developed into baseball. It was also responsible for cricket - which is quintessentially English . Britain is responsible for a lot of games: cricket, football (soccer), rugby, golf, tennis, badminton (the place where it was developed is just down the road from Chipping Sodbury), pooh sticks. Actually getting sweaty and winning they leave to others.
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Post by tzarine on Apr 16, 2024 18:14:56 GMT 2
baz
& morris dancing
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Post by Voy on Apr 16, 2024 20:27:23 GMT 2
and Court Tennis,( Real tennis, Royal tennis, jeu de paume) which is still played on courts built to resemble courtyards. ) I think it is almost as idiosyncratic as "the Wall Game"
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Post by tzarine on Apr 17, 2024 5:46:30 GMT 2
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Post by shrjeff on Apr 17, 2024 6:29:31 GMT 2
messenger apps - all based on the Israeli ICQ...
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Post by tzarine on May 5, 2024 17:32:50 GMT 2
nikolas tesla
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