Fullerene Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 By area, Lake Superior is the largest lake in the world and is larger in area than Scotland. By volume, Lake Baikal contains more water than all the Great Lakes combined. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Stanton Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 Carlisle is south-east of Edinburgh. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btb Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 5 minutes ago, Arch Stanton said: Carlisle is south-east of Edinburgh. Carlisle United were briefly top of Division 1 down south during the early 70s. I worked alongside a guy who kept a copy of the league table in his wallet to show all & sundry... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambie's Pigeon Feed Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 Carlisle castle has been besieged ten times, more than anywhere else in Britain. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 2 minutes ago, Lambie's Pigeon Feed said: Carlisle castle has been besieged ten times, more than anywhere else in Britain. Does Berwick changing hands 13 times beat that? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 35 minutes ago, Arch Stanton said: Carlisle is south-east of Edinburgh. More like south-south-east tbf 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 21 minutes ago, Zen Archer (Raconteur) said: Does Berwick changing hands 13 times beat that? It was Richard, Duke of Gloucester who finally captured Berwick for the English in the 1480s If you don't know who he is they dug him out of a Leicester car park a few years ago and Shakespeare wrote a long play about him (Tudor propaganda really). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted July 26, 2021 Author Share Posted July 26, 2021 By area, Lake Superior is the largest lake in the world and is larger in area than Scotland. By volume, Lake Baikal contains more water than all the Great Lakes combined.Is the Caspian Sea not the largest lake in the world?Lake Baikal contains ~20% of the world's unfrozen freshwater. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 1 hour ago, DiegoDiego said: Is the Caspian Sea not the largest lake in the world? Lake Baikal contains ~20% of the world's unfrozen freshwater. By area, Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 3 hours ago, Arch Stanton said: Carlisle is south-east of Edinburgh. From 1916 to 1973, the pubs in Carlisle were state owned. Edinburgh is further west than Cardiff Glasgow is slightly further west than Inverness. Inverness is slightly further west than Plymouth. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonS Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 2 hours ago, DiegoDiego said: Is the Caspian Sea not the largest lake in the world? The southern third of the Caspian Sea contains two-thirds of its water, the middle third contain one-third of the water, and the northern third is so shallow that it only holds 1% of the sea's water. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 3 hours ago, GordonS said: The southern third of the Caspian Sea contains two-thirds of its water, the middle third contain one-third of the water, and the northern third is so shallow that it only holds 1% of the sea's water. It's sister lake, the Aral Sea, was the world's 4th largest lake (>26k square miles) in the 1960s. It's now insignificant (down to ~1300 square miles) since the Soviets played around with and screwed up the regional hydrology. An ecological disaster story. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strichener Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 (edited) 8 hours ago, Lambie's Pigeon Feed said: Carlisle castle has been besieged ten times, more than anywhere else in Britain. Except for Aberdeen's goal when playing the OF. Edited July 27, 2021 by strichener 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 Why anyone would want to capture Berwick is beyond me. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbornbairn Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 (edited) 49 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said: Why anyone would want to capture Berwick is beyond me. The real truth is Scotland & England have spent 900 years trying to foist Berwick of on each other. We won in the 1480s but they forced us to take Berwick Rangers. Edited July 27, 2021 by Newbornbairn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 41 minutes ago, Newbornbairn said: The real truth is Scotland & England have spent 900 years trying to foist Berwick of on each other. We won in the 1480s but they forced us to take Berwick Rangers. Presumably even Russia didnt want it. Downtown Grozny seemed a more palatable option. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted July 27, 2021 Author Share Posted July 27, 2021 Presumably even Russia didnt want it. Downtown Grozny seemed a more palatable option. Well, yes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 Uzbekistan grows more carrots than the USA. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 James Doohan (Scotty from Star Trek) had two fingers of his right hand shot off during the D-Day landings in World War 2. Whenever you see him on screen pushing a button, it's always with his left hand. He usually kept his right hand either behind his back or curled in a ball so nobody could see his missing fingers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 1 hour ago, scottsdad said: James Doohan (Scotty from Star Trek) had two fingers of his right hand shot off during the D-Day landings in World War 2. Whenever you see him on screen pushing a button, it's always with his left hand. He usually kept his right hand either behind his back or curled in a ball so nobody could see his missing fingers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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