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Topic ID 3819
25/09/2008 by Arty
Birthplace?
On an international trip to Harlow this morning (I know how to live...) I notice that the 'Harlow' sign has the legend 'birthplace of optical fibre communications'
Wondered what we could add to the Hertford signs?
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Reply ID 55390
25/09/2008 by codek2
Knights templar :)
Much more cultural!
I wonder if being hertford we can blag ownership of hertford-shire wide things, then we have such things as the conference pear, and lord napier nectarines etc!
Reply ID 55391
25/09/2008 by Deveraux
Birthplace of Deveraux!
Reply ID 55393
25/09/2008 by Steve
Birthplace of Natural Selection
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace
"He is best known for independently proposing a theory of natural selection which prompted Charles Darwin to publish on his own theory."
So in the same way as James Watt didn't invent the steam engine, maybe we could say that Alfred Russell was the first to propose a theory of natural selection, not Darwin.
Reply ID 55394
25/09/2008 by Spotty Dog
That is the article that starts "Wallace was born in the village of Llanbadoc, near Usk", and details how he was at school in Hertford until the age of 13 when he moved to London. Not sure how Hertford can claim it is the birthplace of natural selection?
"Hertford: our trains are always cancelled first"
Reply ID 55395
25/09/2008 by Steve
quote:
Originally posted by Spotty Dog
That is the article that starts "Wallace was born in the village of Llanbadoc, near Usk", and details how he was at school in Hertford until the age of 13 when he moved to London. Not sure how Hertford can claim it is the birthplace of natural selection?
It's good enough for Bircherley Green! [:D]
Reply ID 55397
25/09/2008 by azzza
The Birth place of 'BIGGLES' .... (or was that technically Bengeo?)
Reply ID 55398
25/09/2008 by steven
"Where Parliament escaped The Plague"
Reply ID 55399
25/09/2008 by Steve
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Originally posted by steven
"Where Parliament escaped The Plague"
Many people might not thank us for that! [:D]
Reply ID 55401
25/09/2008 by James007
The death of witchcraft?
Jane Wenham - 'The Last Witch' in England (which is a lie as I can name many more) to be charged with witchcraft and pardoned before reaching the Gallows on Stanstead (Gallows) Hill (now Pinehurst).
Reply ID 55402
25/09/2008 by Ewoowar
Hertford Town
"Saturday night's alright for fighting"
Reply ID 55404
25/09/2008 by Arty
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Originally posted by James007
The death of witchcraft?
Jane Wenham - 'The Last Witch' in England (which is a lie as I can name many more) to be charged with witchcraft and pardoned before reaching the Gallows on Stanstead (Gallows) Hill (now Pinehurst).
now in Castlemead, of course[:D]
Reply ID 55414
27/09/2008 by aubend
Hertford
"Home to Britain's lousiest beer"
Reply ID 55415
28/09/2008 by Marilyn
Thomas Dimsdale and smallpox innoculations.
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