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Post by Guest Sun Oct 31, 2010 4:09 pm

Indeed it has.

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Post by Guest Mon Nov 01, 2010 11:28 am

It's the author that's of interest.

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Post by stoupaduck Tue Nov 02, 2010 3:33 pm

I reckon Jim knows this but is just keeping his powder dry.....

Theodor Seuss Giesel was the author of Cat in a Hat (the feline fashion statement) and Theodor went to Oxford University where he met his wife.
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Post by Guest Tue Nov 02, 2010 3:37 pm

Yeees......... and...............

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Post by stoupaduck Tue Nov 02, 2010 3:55 pm

.....and ?????
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Post by Guest Tue Nov 02, 2010 5:11 pm

What links him with a Cathedral city? (I don't count Oxford)

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Post by stoupaduck Tue Nov 02, 2010 5:37 pm

errr... Lincoln (college he attended)?
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Post by Guest Tue Nov 02, 2010 5:41 pm

Yes!!!!

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Post by Chas Wed Nov 03, 2010 3:29 pm

Phew! The suspense was killing me!
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Post by stoupaduck Thu Nov 04, 2010 3:24 pm

Another mystery man

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Post by Chas Fri Nov 05, 2010 10:30 am

Looks a lot like the bloke who set up the world's first mechanised assembly line, a couple of miles from here in Traffod Park.

If he'd done it a few months earlier, the Westinghouse Road would be called Ford Road, instead.

It's not a thoughtful Rodin, it's Henry Ford (thinking of new ways to destroy the planet?).
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Post by stoupaduck Fri Nov 05, 2010 12:15 pm

Quite correct, Chas and nicely put as well.
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Post by Guest Fri Nov 05, 2010 8:15 pm

He was an admirer of Hitler apparently.

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Post by stoupaduck Fri Nov 05, 2010 8:57 pm

... wot, Chas? - I don't believe it
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Post by kidder Fri Nov 05, 2010 9:51 pm

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Post by Guest Fri Nov 05, 2010 11:35 pm

You just never know do you? People you think are ok...............

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Post by Chas Sun Nov 07, 2010 1:06 pm

Sorry for the delay ............... a bit preoccupied with Poland.


I have a belting "where is this" picture ..... when I can find it again Rolling Eyes
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Post by Chas Sun Nov 07, 2010 2:40 pm

Where is this Question

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I've been kind - using the big image ... here's another ...

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Post by stoupaduck Mon Nov 08, 2010 1:21 pm

My first instinct was that this was another plug for the Lowry centre but a bit of googling reveals this as, the Midland hotel, Morecambe
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Post by Chas Mon Nov 08, 2010 3:50 pm

Oh, bum! I thought I'd found a toughie .... hah!

Spot on , John, that is the recently (well, this century) refurbished art-Deco masterpiece.

This was to be the next clue ....

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Sam had a "Sales Team" night-out(and in) there, last June ..... the view across to Grange-over-Sands and the lakes shows the "flaming June" weather.

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Post by stoupaduck Mon Nov 08, 2010 7:44 pm

What links Harry Belafonte with the Russian ballerina Maya Plisetskaya
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Post by VickyS Mon Nov 08, 2010 8:53 pm

Is it something to do with Bizet's Carmen?

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Post by stoupaduck Mon Nov 08, 2010 9:44 pm

I think that's close enough....and pretty quick too.
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Post by VickyS Tue Nov 16, 2010 2:41 pm

I'm still thinking...! General knowledge - Page 17 507750

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Post by Chas Wed Nov 24, 2010 1:48 pm

VickyS wrote:I'm still thinking...! General knowledge - Page 17 507750

Deep Thought?

Then, the answer must be 42.
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