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martinsh
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Bohemian Ratsody ?
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DaleCooper
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This thread has been dormant for three days, has anyone got a question?
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Here's one: As well as being a steam locomotive, Galatea is also the name of a moon of one of the planets in the solar system. Which planet?
Struner
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Galatea, named after Γαλάτεια, a Nereid (sp?), is a moon of Neptune. A fairly recent discovery actually. I remember the excitement.
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It’s somewhat later here. I’ll have a Grolsch with my tea 
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Was working with astronomers at the time. They were looking way further, beyond the solar system. But all the same, there was some excitement. After checking I found it was 1989.
tWas an open goal.
& now it’s an open floor.
.Was working with astronomers at the time. They were looking way further, beyond the solar system. But all the same, there was some excitement. After checking I found it was 1989.
tWas an open goal.
& now it’s an open floor.
DerekC
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OK - what do the following have in common:
Louis Alphonse Gonzalve Victor Emmanuel Marc de Bourbon
Franz Bonaventura Adalbert Maria Herzog von Bayern
Jean-Christophe Louis Ferdinand Albéric Napoléon
Louis Alphonse Gonzalve Victor Emmanuel Marc de Bourbon
Franz Bonaventura Adalbert Maria Herzog von Bayern
Jean-Christophe Louis Ferdinand Albéric Napoléon
Struner
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Those people are called “pretenders”? Some of them may be about at a certain type of weddings|funerals?
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Apologies. Work.
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My gracious thanks to my subjects, currently under newfangled misrule...
I like questions about flags -- so:
There are two countries (both Old World) whose present-day national flags are virtually identical; except that one bears a central device or symbol -- in a different colour -- which is not on the other. One nation adopted its current flag in 1918, the other in 2010. Please name the two countries, and briefly describe their respective flags.
I like questions about flags -- so:
There are two countries (both Old World) whose present-day national flags are virtually identical; except that one bears a central device or symbol -- in a different colour -- which is not on the other. One nation adopted its current flag in 1918, the other in 2010. Please name the two countries, and briefly describe their respective flags.
DerekC
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I was going to suggest India and Ireland, but the dates don't work and I have feeling that although the colours are similar the stripes go different ways. Keep thinking!
Indeed -- keep thinking ! (The flags of Ireland and Cote d'Ivoire are truly identical, except that one runs vertically green / white / orange, and the other ditto but orange / white / green). Ireland doesn't feature in the answer to my question.
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Serbia and Russia?
I like your thinking here; but I'm going to be a real hard-nose and say "no". The two flags concerned have horizontal bands of the same number and colour; but the coat of arms on the Slovene flag is not "central" as per wording of my question -- it's near the top left-hand corner. The device / symbol on the relevant flag of my question, is fully in centre of flag (it's something a lot simpler than a coat of arms).
The two countries of which I'm thinking in my question: one is in fact in Eastern Europe; the other is in the Old World but outside of Europe.
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Austria and Lebanon?
I'm being self-confessedly highly tough with this question. So I'll say: sorry, but no. Appreciable difference in breadth of white stripes, between the Austrian and Lebanese flags; and you're wrong re the date of adopting of one of those two (I included the dates, in my original question -- the idea was to help, rather than to create an additional obstacle
). If somebody comes up with two flags, not "mine" but fulfilling all specifications except the dates -- "headaches all round"...
DaleCooper
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Netherlands and Croatia?
My question says, "central device / symbol in a different colour" from rest of flag; the Croatian coat of arms contains numerous elements of red, white and blue -- same colours as flag's horizontal bands. Thus: sorry...
Have come to the conclusion that my question was poorly-thought-out, with tendencies towards the invidious re who may be right or wrong. Think it best to make an end of it now, with apologies for my botching of the thing; and -- hoping to offend nobody -- open the floor.
My flags re question posed, were -- Lithuania (equal horizontal bands top-to-bottom yellow / green / red; adopted 1918 at start of Lithuania's "First Independence"); and Myanmar [Burma] (horizontal bands ditto, with a white star in the middle of the flag; adopted 2010, replacing the country's previous flag).
As above: open floor.
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TV: Nicola Murray was a character in a popular TV programme. Name the programme and the actor who played the part.
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Clue: It was a comedy on the BBC.