Is it True...?

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I guess you have to be there... I guess you have to hear a Merlin... I guess you have to be wierd...

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It was maybe three or four years ago..................I was with the wife on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham.................we were walking from the village to the shrine, and had stopped to admire a field of pedigree rams (there must have been $500,000 on the hoof!) when I heard this noise...................I said to Eileen "Twin Merlins, that's a bloody Mosquito" and sure enough it hove into view......................

They are still flying mate!

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Many of these British inventions have had an enormous impact on the world. For example, imagine how different life would be today if Michael Faraday had not built the first simple electrical generator or if James Watt had not developed the steam engine?

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I don't really care who invented what, or where they are from, I just appreciate their inventions. And who is to say someone else would not have invented an electrical generator or a steam engine.


To French: To stick ones tongue in anothers mouth

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Originally posted here by .:front2back:.
Hmm some interesting snippets of info.
could you quote the url where you got this from attitude.?.

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http://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/BestifBrits.htm


And Terry deary's website : http://www.terry-deary.com/homepage/index.html

Brits are great inventors but crap business people. Most of our inventions go on to make money for other nations because we're crap at seeing the potential.

Penicillin, radar...