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Peter Lalor's Grandson and Great Grandson - killed in WW1 and WW2.

Captain Joseph Peter Lalor, the Melbourne-born grandson of Peter Lalor, leader of the 1854 Eureka Stockade insurrection, is commemorated by a Special Memorial in Baby 700 Cemetery @ Gallipoli. A professional soldier, Captain Lalor had joined the Royal Navy, from which he later deserted. He then served in the French Foreign Legion in Algeria and in a South American revolution before joining the permanent military forces in Australia in August 1914. At 8.30am on 25 April 1915, Captain Lalor led his men in an advance up Baby 700. Against all regulations, he carried with him a treasured family sword, the hilt of which was wrapped in khaki cloth to prevent it glistening in the sun. The sword was lost but has been looked for for many years by the Turkish and Australian Governments. Lalor got the furtherest inland.

Captain Lalor was survived by his widow, Hester, and infant son, Peter, who during World War II served as a parachutist with the 4th Brigade Parachute Brigade attached to the Kings Royal Rifle Corps (UK). Twenty-eight-year old Rifleman Lalor died on 11 September 1943 following the Allied invasion of the Italian mainland and is buried in the Bari War Cemetery, Italy.
 
Did you know all the gold mined in a year would just about fit in the average persons living room, it would be a cube roughly 4.3m sq.
 
Ramjet said:
Did you know there are 2 proven cures for hiccups..... an orgasm is one.
The other is digital rectal stimulation.

with nuggets 'school project warning', the farting posts and this one - these are now in the top three best posts of the year.

Lets recap - if you double hiccups do you have to go for the daily double?
 
loamer said:
Ramjet said:
Did you know there are 2 proven cures for hiccups..... an orgasm is one.
The other is digital rectal stimulation.

with nuggets 'school project warning', the farting posts and this one - these are now in the top three best posts of the year.

Lets recap - if you double hiccups do you have to go for the daily double?

If you are a little kinky... maybe the 2nd method would lead to the first? ;)
 
There is a dead body on the moon - The final resting-place for Dr. Eugene Shoemaker - the Moon. The famed U.S. Geological Survey astronomer, trained the Apollo astronauts about craters, but never made it into space. Mr. Shoemaker had wanted to be an astronaut but was rejected because of a medical problem. His ashes were placed on board the Lunar Prospector spacecraft before it was launched on January 6, 1998. NASA crashed the probe into a crater on the moon in an attempt to learn if there is water on the moon.
 
The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
 
More people are crushed to death by food vending machines than killed by sharks every year. Yet we don't have a search and destroy policy for those. Why?
 
Ramjet said:
Did you know there are 2 proven cures for hiccups..... an orgasm is one.
The other is digital rectal stimulation.

I'll leave the later for you guys to "experiement" with lol
I'll stick my my own 2 tried and proven methods of curing hiccups..
Holding my breath until I yawn (dead set works, discovered it when I was 10 or so and still works)
And burping the gas out of your stomach
 
Here is something I would like to know.

If someone is born deaf, what language do they think in?
 
John Joseph - , "the only one of the many Americans involved in the Eureka incident to be tried for it. But whereas the other United States citizens arrested for their involvement received the full assistance and support of the United States Consul and the local American community, Joseph received none. He was not recognised by them as a fellow citizen,and later accounts of Eureka written by Americans such as Charles Ferguson (who was himself arrested inside the stockade, but not tried) make no mention of him." Why? - because he was a 'man of colour'. See -
http://www.academia.edu/251995/Men_of_Colour_John_Joseph_and_the_Eureka_treason_trials_Journal_of
 
DYK Venus rotates on it's axis once every 243 Earth days but orbits the sun every 224.65 Earth days
This means on Venus a day is longer than a year.
Also it rotates the oposite direction to every other thing in the slar system.
It rotates clockwise, everything else spins anti clockwise.
 
Balx said:
Did you know all the gold mined in a year would just about fit in the average persons living room, it would be a cube roughly 4.3m sq.

Did you know that as of 2012, all of the gold ever found in all of the history of mankind (that we know about) would only fill a box 69 feet x 69 feet x 69 feet.... approx. 174,000 tonnes?
 
Ramjet said:
DYK Venus rotates on it's axis once every 243 Earth days but orbits the sun every 224.65 Earth days
This means on Venus a day is longer than a year.
Also it rotates the oposite direction to every other thing in the slar system.
It rotates clockwise, everything else spins anti clockwise.

Rod does that mean Venus is getting younger? :/
 
calala said:
Ramjet said:
DYK Venus rotates on it's axis once every 243 Earth days but orbits the sun every 224.65 Earth days
This means on Venus a day is longer than a year.
Also it rotates the oposite direction to every other thing in the slar system.
It rotates clockwise, everything else spins anti clockwise.

Rod does that mean Venus is getting younger? :/

Hmmm not sure. Sounds feasable :D
Lets all go to Venus and wind back a few years ;)
 

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