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I'd forgotten about Dyfed and its having "come and gone" -- with its no longer existing, I don't feel too ashamed; but reckon, as a (100% "Saxon") lover of Wales, that I could have done better !
 
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Sticking with geography, the Royal Alexandra Interprovincial Bridge links which two cities?
 
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Calthrop said:
A total guess: in Canada -- Ottawa (Ontario) and Hull (Quebec)?
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Correct! I would have accepted either Hull or Gatineau as the Quebec side city. Water under the bridge now :D

Your floor. ...
 
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I've never been to the Americas; the "interprovincial" bit hinted strongly at Canada -- otherwise, a stab in the dark. I'd heard of Hull, Quebec, only from happening to read a long-ago Railway Magazine article about the Canadian Pacific branch line from there to Maniwaki.

Anyway: fluke success -- I've got a question.

Concerning Kipling's Jungle Book and Second Jungle Book (this is about the original books, as opposed to film adaptations, whether Disney or otherwise). Some of the stories in each, are not about Mowgli and his associates. Please identify two such, preferably by the respective stories' names: can be from either book, or one from each -- no matter.
 
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It's a bit hard to think of a hint for this one. Most of the "non-Mowgli & Co." stories are set in India; two, though, are not -- these set in very approximately the same milieu as each other: a very long way from India, and pretty well as different from India, as one could imagine.
 
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Calthrop said:
It's a bit hard to think of a hint for this one. Most of the "non-Mowgli & Co." stories are set in India; two, though, are not -- these set in very approximately the same milieu as each other: a very long way from India, and pretty well as different from India, as one could imagine.
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Sadly, they're not books I've read yet, and while there's a copy on the bookshelf, it's my in-laws bookself, and still off-limits!
 
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Altogether grand stuff, in my opinion. If anything, I rather prefer the "stand-alone" stories which are the subject of the question; to the "Mowgli and chums" material. I suspect that the latter may have been a bit spoiled for me by the, so far as I'm concerned, daft Disney cartoon film.
 
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a very long way from India, and pretty well as different from India, as one could imagine
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Well India is the world's largest democracy, so we must be looking at the world's smallest dictatorship: Sark?
 
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Well India is the world's largest democracy, so we must be looking at the world's smallest dictatorship: Sark?
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Impressive lateral thinking; but, I take it, in jest -- I was comparing-and-contrasting geographically, rather than politically.

I understand that Sark has among its wildlife, black rats (Rattus rattus) -- one of the very few places in the (loosely speaking) British Isles, where they're still found. If old Rudyard were writing today, I can see him having some fun with that situation !
 
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It looks like this one isn't going anywhere: seemingly -- among the devotees of this particular gen. knowl. quiz, next to no Kipling fans !
Just "because"; the stories "in question" are: JB -- The White Seal, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Toomai of the Elephants, Her Majesty's Servants . JB2 -- The Miracle of Purun Baghat, The Undertakers, Quiquern .

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Let's try some "On This Day" questions:

1. What was displayed in a shop window in London for the first time in 1633?
2. What was patented by Walter Hunt of New York in 1849?
3. In 1924, the first book of what was published in New York?
4. Who left what "for personal and professional reasons" in 1970?
 
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4. Who left what "for personal and professional reasons" in 1970?
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I can think of a few people: Harold Wilson resigning as PM? John Stonehouse MP leaving his clothes on a beach and disappearing? Lord Lucan or his murdered nanny?
 
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Sadly, none of these guesses are right.

Here's some clues:

1. What was displayed in a shop window in London for the first time in 1633? Think fruit
2. What was patented by Walter Hunt of New York in 1849? It holds things together
3. In 1924, the first book of what was published in New York? A large leisure activity, especially I guess in these times
4. Who left what "for personal and professional reasons" in 1970? Think music

Over to you!
 
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We're pretty much guessing at random now; so for (1), I'll try tomatoes (biologically, fruit not vegetable, though they're not sweet). I had the vague impression that they first appeared in Britain in the 16th century rather than the 17th -- but I could be wrong there. I believe people here were originally chary of them, thinking them
quite possibly poisonous.
 
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I sort of knew at the back of my mind that it was the wrong name for the inventor of the zip. Can I pivot to the paperclip?
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I'm afraid not, but you are very close.

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We're pretty much guessing at random now; so for (1), I'll try tomatoes (biologically, fruit not vegetable, though they're not sweet). I had the vague impression that they first appeared in Britain in the 16th century rather than the 17th -- but I could be wrong there. I believe people here were originally chary of them, thinking them quite possibly poisonous.
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Sorry, wrong colour!
 
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