A lot seems lost in translation. With a lot of other things.
Though hasn't that been proven to be a horribly incorrect translation?
On another note:
In WWII a German Tiger Tank got stuck when a sealed trench it was driving over collapsed. it slid into the trench. It was then used as an Artillery Piece until the gun jammed and blew the barrel to pieces. The rest of the tank survived until just before the War ended when it was accidentally blew up by a friendly Howitzer. Its Posthumous German name translates as Dolorous Brunhilde. It was named for its Commander's Wife. She is best described as being like Delorous Edd from A Song of Ice & Fire.
The tanks original name plate is still perfectly intact and is held by a private collector.
In 1007 the English paid £36'000 to a Danish army to get them to leave the country. 259 years later (1264 - when the website my source used estimates purchasing power to today), £36'000 would equal about £426'000'000 in today's money.
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If someone fails to follow that code, does the National Board Inspection apply pressure on them?
Magnus Eriksson became king of Sweden at the age of 3 in 1319 after his uncle Birger Magnusson had been deposed following events at the castle Nyköpingshus that ended with him locking Magnus's father, Duke Erik, and other uncle, Duke Valdemar, in a cell and thrown away the key.
George RR Martin, eat your heart out. ;)
A Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure.
Who didn't know that?
I always heard it as sphygmometer...
I thought it was the 10th to be called USS Enterprise? Or do Pre-Independence Warships not count?
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The oldest recorded joke in English is a c. 10th century dick joke.
There was an Australian Aboriginal language who's word for domesticated canine was "dog", completely independently of English.
Wasps possess no element of the divine, unlike the race of bees.
Or at least that's what Aristotle would have us believe.
Moray eels have two sets of jaws. Similar to the creatures from Alien.
The Syrian goddess Anat was said to have eaten her brother Baal: "She eats his flesh without a knife. She drinks his blood without a cup."
The revolving door was invented in 1888.
This was the earliest revolving door comedy bit I could find. (Charlie Chaplin, "The Cure," from 1917)
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In 1947, Dollar Bill of the Minutemen got his cape stuck in a revolving door while attempting to foil the armed robbery of a bank and was subsequently gunned down.
-The highest-altitude stadium in the world is that of La Paz, in Bolivia, at about 4,000 meters (some 13,000 feet). Non-local players often suffer from severe exhaustion when visiting, to the point that FIFA ended up ruling that football games beyond 3,000 feet would require players to stay 2 weeks aclimatizing prior to that. However, since all South American countries, with the exception of Brasil, decided to oppose the ban, FIFA had to lift it in 2008.
-It is estimated that the total amount of francium present in Earth's crust is somewhere between 20 and 30 grams. Francium was also the last element to be discovered in nature (as opposed to all the ones after that, which were synthetised in labs).
-Known as the Great Chilean Earthquake, the shake that brought down the city of Valdivia in 1960 was a 9.5 monstrosity that accounted for almost 25% of all the seismic energy released on Earth during the XXth Century, killing somewhere between 2,000-3,000 people. Nearly half the city sunk beneath the sea, including dozens of beer breweries (the city was a big focus of german and swiss immigration). So much beer sank that they kept finding traces of alcohol in the surrounding waters for decades, slowly released by hundreds of tanks and barrels, many of which are still lost under the muddy bay.
-Prior to the earthquake, Valdivia was also the most heavily fortified city in the southern hemisphere, the result of centuries of british piracy, dutch invasions and the strategic position of the city on the other end of the Strait of Magellan. The entire system, which extended far beyond the city and was the largest fortification in America, was known as The Key of the Southern Seas, and included 5 castles, 3 forts, 4 batteries, 4 citadels, about a dozen in-land fortified outposts, and several miles of walls. Sadly, only a tiny fraction of the structures survived the cataclysmic event of 1960.
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In 1947, Dollar Bill of the Minutemen got his cape stuck in a revolving door while attempting to foil the armed robbery of a bank and was subsequently gunned down.
NO CAPES!!!
In 1947, Dollar Bill of the Minutemen got his cape stuck in a revolving door while attempting to foil the armed robbery of a bank and was subsequently gunned down.
The revolving door was invented in 1888.This was the earliest revolving door comedy bit I could find. (Charlie Chaplin, "The Cure," from 1917)
Oh how I love a good Charlie Chaplin Sketch.
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Minus 40°C is exactly the same temperature as minus 40°F.
that sounds heavenly.
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Minus 40°C is exactly the same temperature as minus 40°F.that sounds heavenly.
Of course it would, to you. ;)
Minus 40°C is exactly the same temperature as minus 40°F.that sounds heavenly.
Well, Heaven wouldn't be the plane I'd immediately think of....
BK Boston is a bowling club from Norrköping, Östergötland in Sweden.
The first recorded car accident happened in 1869, when Irish scientist Mary Ward was riding in a steam-powered automobile built by her cousins. As they rounded a bend in the road, Ward was thrown from her seat and fell in the vehicle’s path. One of the wheels rolled over her and broke her neck, killing her instantly.
According to a survey of 21 UK universities, philosophy students does the most drugs.
According to a poll of 1 poster on the Paizo messageboards, this is as surprising as a bear s+@#ting in the woods, unless, maybe, you're a concept artist.
To crack a whip the tip must be travelling faster than the speed of sound.
Well duh. I knew that.
The Spanish Treasure Fleet transported about 100,000 metric tons of silver throughout its history (between the XVI and XVIII centuries). That amounts to approximately 10% of all the silver estimated to have ever been extracted by mankind.
Unless something remarkable happens before the next election, Paris's next maire will also be the first woman to hold that office - either the Socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo, or the Conservative Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet.
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I look awesome Bedazzled.
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-There is a small village in Austria called F*cking (with a u where the * is), named after a 6th century man by the name of Focko. Tourist, particularly of British origin, regularly steal the signs around the village, to the point they had to build special anti-theft ones to reduce the replacement rate.
-On a similar line, there is a traditional lottery game in Chile called "Polla Chilena de Beneficencia" (Chilean Beneficence Polla, with "Polla" being an ancient term for "betting in a horse race"). Problem is, in most the rest of the spanish-speaking world the term "polla" means quite literally "Male Genital", which tends to cause a bit of fuzz whenever tourists see the signs. The most famous one is the one which says "Saquese la Polla y Hagase Millonario", which would translate into "Take your *** Out and Become a Millionaire". The police doesn't find the resulting photo montages it as funny as the tourists, apparently.
49 years ago, Nelson Mandela was sentenced to imprisonment for the rest of his life.
Oona Chaplin is the great-granddaughter of Eugene O'Neill.
Never heard of her. Before Googling her, I had no idea who she was.