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how many People

what is the aproximate number of Humans who have ever lived?

Pronunciation of Lodz / Wroclaw

I know that many UK towns are not pronounced as they look ie Leicester, Loughborough etc. While talking about this the subject turned to Towns in europe that were pronounced differently from how you...

mycatis

Space Cadets

I've been watching the adverts for this new "reality" show, getting more angry everytime. Does anyone else think this sounds like a horrible idea??I would go absolutely mental!! I would be sooo upset....

airbolt

Monty Python Sketch on Balloons

Can any Python fans help me with this. I have vague memories of them playing the Montgolfiers ( French Balloonists ) as rowdy Scotsmen . Was this an actual sketch or just my imagination?

brionon

independant ?

Tony Blair =Scottish Gordon Brown = Scottish Charles Kennedy=Scottish David Cameron ={Sounds} Scottish. Sean Connery wants Inependence for the Scots. Can we have it too ?

nfn

Red Cross and Red Crescent Need to change!

To Red Crystal! Because some countries feel that religious symbols are offensive. Well I'm sorry, but isn't the Red Cross a Christian based organisation? Shall we call the Anglican Church a place...

c00ky83

New Animal

Is it a coincidence that a guy called Wulfrat was on the news talking about a newly discovered animal - which looked like a cross between a wolf and a rat? Will it be named after him?

stevie_c2it

Americans and Torture

With terror suspects being taken to overseas facilities for interrogation in order for the USA to bypass breaking international conventions (Human rights, Geneva etc), do ABers accept that this is...

itsallyellow

Dropping a ball through the Earth...

If you dug one hole directly down through to the other side of the world and dropped a ball into it, and if there was no friction and forget the fact it gets very warm down there and there isn't a...

marcoddy

how far away is the sun from the earth (in miles)?

Thanks in advance...

xavier

blind skiers

how do blind people sky

dadddarrell2

Flight

1 What are Spaced-based obvervations of earth used for? 2 Why is a telescope such as Hubble such a tremendous advantage over earth-based telecopes? 3 What evidence do astronomers look for to indicate...

einsteinsdog

Is the speed of light affected by the solar wind?

sunflower68

Lennon - 25 years ago

25 years ago next week I was under my duvet, tiny transistor radio tuned to radio Luxemburg and my ear piece in when I heard John Lennon was dead. Where were you?

NiceCupOfTea

English - what makes you happy and unique?

I was going to answer a previous question, but ended up in a quagmire of my own making. I'm genuinely interested in how people on AB feel. History makes an impact as do current social trends. How do...

kaktus

European or not?

Following from NiceCupOfTea's question. I have in my readings here in news wondered about what relationship the British have to Europe. I am not talking about the European Union but Europe. Sometimes...

Zen

Is this a joke ?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/200 5/12/04/uiraqpolice.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/12/04/ix portaltop.html Right,what we need is a force made of people of one religion who are...

johnlambert

Capital Punishment, Yes or No?

The Americans have just carried out the 1000th execution since 1976, should we also bring back capital punisment for killers (all murderers, not just for killing a Police Officer) Im going to stir up...

Loosehead

Does Blair's Europhilia know no bounds?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4491190.stm So after saying no to changing the rebate until the montrously expensive CAP is changed, Blair is using our rebate as a Euro Boot licking exersize....

Chessman

Destruction of England

A bit drastic, but I believe that the ultimate goal of the present goverment, and has been since they first got in, is the destruction of England. Just like to point out a some of the things that make...

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