Test- well, when I try to delete a post it kicks me off the site, when back on post is still here. Only happens on the IPad though, not on windows or strangely enough, my IPhone.

Lucky guess today, or it’s all the whale documentaries that Teresa watches….😁

Hi Austin,
If you want to scrub a post simply --
Click on the Edit button in the top right hand corner to open the editing window,
then click on the 'dustbin' (trash can) icon in the top left hand corner to delete the post.
Doug

I would have to agree with your statement Ross.
But I must confess that I don't see what it has to do with the price of corned beef?!
(Or owt else😉)
Doug😎

Doug.

. . . and the Arctic Ocean is an Ocean and not a SEA route?!?😉

I take it that ocean going and pleasure traffic using it everyday made it a direct water connection from east to west. Win some lose some
AustinG😀

True Austin,
But the question also asked for a 'sea route', whereas the Panama 'Canal' is a series of canals and inland lakes.🤔
Doug B😎

The question said Famous so I would suggest that the only real famous one in use to day on a daily basis by all type of vessel is the Panama.
AustinG😀

Hi Doug

I suppose that is true in spite of the tales of China clippers rounding Cape Horn 😏

I agree Ed, but I concluded that the Magellan Strait was probably the least well known, ergo not exactly famous.
Cheers, Doug😎

There are three correct answers, The Straights of Magellan connects the Atlantic to the Pacific.
It was used long before the Northwest Passage was successfully navigated and even longer that the Panama Canal.
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I believe there are two correct answers, Panama Canal is the other one.

If it was NOTORIOUS sea route yes, NWP

I got todays question wrong.
Should have read the question and thought about it before I jumped in and answered the Panama Canal. It say's famous SEA route, the Northwest Passage. But isn't this still a dangerous route due to ice and is it still under Canadian ruling and Ice breakers escort as well as needs Canadian Government permission?? Isn't that why the Panama Canal was built even though for certain destination's it was a longer route. These are things I remember from things I learnt at school in history, weird I thought some Of what i listened to would never be of any use. but am I wrong ? did I get it wrong or was I told wrong. Also I just got this question wrong and I have just dropped from 93% to 89% ??

Hi Doug I was there in Sept. 2016 on an excursion from cruise ship Queen Elizabeth. I think I bought a hat in Taormina which seems to have gone now. Etna did nothing at all and looked like a pile of rubble, but that was just my thoughts. I was on the cruise to tick off some boxes like that and Venice and a trip on a gondola and actually being on a cruise. Very nice as it was, it was not my kind of holiday. The food and service and cabin (with balcony) was excellent.

They charge a fortune to use Broadband, one of the lifeboats, used for transfer to port etc. broke down when we were in it, still moored to ship fortunately. Interesting to see the old Yugoslavia as we had been there before they started fighting.

When we entered Cadiz I had just finished breakfast on the balcony and thinking how pleasant it all was. Took out my camera and took a picture of my empty plate of croisants and Tiptree marmalade and made sure the slogan in the lid was visible to read.
I thought no more of it, then when reviewing photos about 3 weeks after I came across the photo and sent it off to the makers of the marmalade, I really like marmalade!

By return I had a request from Tiptree asking if they could use it as a Tweet? Also asked me for my address, I said yes. A week or so later a parcel arrived, I thought goody goody some marmalade! I was a little disappointed to find a 3 bottle case of fruit gin, most of which I still have.
Prevously I had ticked off going to Jerusalem and seeing the sights, if you have not been, make sure you have some warm clothes! Also on the way, swimming in the Dead Sea, beware of having sunburn as well. You just float on top!

I still have 2 boxes left to tick and they may remain empty, sorry but not sharing them!

regards
Roy

Bin there dun that, forgot to buy the T shirt🙄
Unforgettable excursion up Mount Etna. What a pong though🙊 Sulphur!
As our ship left Taormina in the evening Etna gave us a Goodbye firework display send off💥💥😮😀

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Wassa difference Phil?
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Don't mind looting but it all that pillaging that don't like to much of 🤣🤣
Phil uk

A current docu series on German TV opened my eyes to the versatility of the Vikings and the three phases of their expansion through Europe (far beyond Willy the First's humble abode Roy.) Incidentally Roy the Vikings first incursion into England was long before Willy; Lindisfarne, June 793. The Vikings who settled in northern France (Normandy) became the Normans (Northmen).
Phase 1; pillaging, rape and general mayhem through western Europe.
Phase 2; Settling down to establish settlements and a trade network.
Vikings established Norse settlements and governments in the British Isles, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Normandy, and the Baltic coast, as well as along the Dnieper and Volga trade routes across modern-day Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. They even made it as far as Constantinople (Istanbul), Arabia and Iran.
Phase 3; Collapse of their trading empire and reversion to pillaging as other empires rose and challenged them.
Sorry Maurice but many of them actually were "respected business leaders, and family men" but not just back home (in modern Scandinavia) but where they had been settled for generations during the 200 hundred years or so of the so called 'Viking Age'.
Incidentally, the Vikings were also instrumental in coalescing the multifarious Viking clans into the three states we know today; Norway, Sweden, Denmark.
(The Finns are another story with a language with little or no resemblance to anything else on Earth. To my great relief I discovered, in 1983 after a rail journey to Helsinki from Moscow, that they all speak English as well😀), helped I must admit by a very nice Finnish girl I had met in the hotel in Moscow😊 Happy memories, and another shaggy dog story; why I was in Moscow and why I stayed much longer than planned. Think Korean Air Lines flight 007!

Doug😎

I would agree Viking activities fell under the category of raping, pillaging and causing all kinds of mahem on whomever they encountered. The ironic part is many of these "traders" were actually considered respected business leaders, and family men back home. I guess "Viking" Is the ultimate definition of " boys' night out!

guess thats what historians call Trade,🤓

If looting and pillaging had been up there that would have been my answer, and I would have been wrong. A lucky guess again for today. 👍😁

Are you learning how to build bridges?

I was casually reading some history of the Vikings and they were also refered to as the Norwegians. They started to move south no doubt trading with axes in their own inimitable fashion. Getting as far as France and William 1 ( I can't think of a little fat bloke as a conquerer), was a direct descendent of this invading lot. He died early on and he was so extended around the waist that at his funeral a final push to get the coffin lid down made him burst! I don't even want to think about that!

The English King Harold had only been on the thrown for 9 months and the French bloke thought he was more 'entitled' than Harold. We still have 'entitled' people and they can be a real pain. I remember many years ago when some of the hereditary peers were removed from the Lords, one of them said at interview he thought he had been born to rule and instruct others!
History then is no more reliable than history now, as forgotten old truths lay alongside the modern fake ones.

To some people 'facts' are dangerous!
I'm off to run my Bridge class, where logic prevails!

cheers.

Roy

Looting and pillaging would have been my answer too. I suppose relieving folk in neighbouring countries of their goods and chattels using extreme violence could be loosely described as 'trade', "I'll trade you this axe in the head for your goods and chattels"....

Hi ed pllage and subduction!
Roy

Thought it was sailing to other countries to pillage them 😂, but that was not one of the options.

RN,
You are correct, Dias named it Cape of Storms but when he returned to Portugal the king changed this to Cape of Good Hope as it was a route to the spice producers of Asia. After the Dutch East India Company established a re-supply station here the names became interchangeable.
Another myth is that the Cape Point is the southern tip of Africa, the southern most part of Africa is Cape Aguascalientes which is about 100 miles east of Cape Point.

Hey! I am in Charleston SC, and of course ran over to the Yorktown. If for no other reason, it has the greatest collection of model warships anywhere on Earth on board. Some of which are on a Titanic scale...1:100 and larger, buried in the labyrinth of decks and ward rooms. I must see.

Doug,

Soooo, NOT the same same guy who named GREENLAND? THAT GUY SHOULD BE SUED FOR FALSE ADVERTISING😉

Hope you are all well now Cash🤞
Only ten days now to Launch Date for the Puffer!!😁
Bon chance mon ami.
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Ed, 👍
Uncle Wiki says-

"Dias called the cape Cabo das Tormentas ('Cape of Storms'; Dutch: Stormkaap), which was the original name of the cape."

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Otherwise known as the Cape of Storms.

Would have been embarrassing getting this wrong as I grew up there and this came up every year in history at school

Been sick, whole house was out of sorts. Tried to play catch-up and missed a few🤣

I just went for what I learnt at school. Also something I did take notice of, the word Superior giving it it's name for the largest freshwater lake by surface area in the world. If that hadn't been in the question I wouldn't have known. So I would have then gone for D. Is Caspian Sea a freshwater Lake?? surely it's a Sea.

Well, you learn something new every day 🤣🤣,well you do on this site, I thought it was a model boat site? 🤔😂😂😂
Phil

I went for Lake Baikal, home of the Sturgeon, I f I'm not mistaken....

Saw a fascinating Edmund Fitzgerald doc recently. They were quick to point out the answer, especially as it relates to it's potential for monstrous weather.

Phew that was a close one!
Roy

Ah ah, caught out again by not reading the words "fresh water". 😂

RATS!!😠
I knew that Lake Baikal holds the largest volume of fresh water on the planet but forgot that it's much deeper than the Great Lakes.
Pook🐱 (As my mate Garfield would say)

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Another Canadian question. . . Thank you😁

and today's Canadian history lesson

Hi Roy,
I reckon you must of dozed off during your history lessons. Understandable ... Yaaaawn!😴
Actually it was Harold Godwinson (Harold II) who clobbered the Vikings (under Harald Hardrada) at the battle of Stamford Bridge, 25th September 1066 (and all that!😁).
Three days later Willy the Conk landed at Pevensey on the south coast, so Harald and his troops (who were still enjoying a few beers or mead, and probably a few wenches!!😮) had to sober up and trudge back down south to meet Willy at Hastings.
Harold only got the news of the landing on October the 6th (his handy battery must have been flat!😁)
So he started off on the 6th to meet Willy at Hastings (or allegedly around a small village, now called Battle, pretty place a few miles north of Hastings) on the 14th October.
Where he stuck his head over the ramparts at the wrong moment and caught an arrow with his eye.😜 The rest, as they say, is history.
Cheers, 😎
PS Maybe if King Harold's adversary had been Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson he might have got the news sooner, with a tip off from Harald!

roycv,
yes dine out, very little food for a hell of a lot of money. And it's not always fine to all.But there you go, my son is an accountant and he says come out with us for a meal and some places we have been he says the food is great. to my wife and myself it's (excuse the french) bloody awful. We go dutch on the bill and it's a sheer waste of money sometimes. How the other half live ???☹️👎.

Hi Com...H so as far as you are concerned with Vikings it is Rape, Pillage, and Subduction!

I think they subducted the odd chieften and put him up for subransome.

When 'they' (Vikings) came to see us, it was the same time as William 1 arrived, William had to go straight up north to fight them. I think he won but the wily old Vikings decided to marry into the winsome wenches and so got their own way in the end.
So if you see a 'bonny wee lass' with flaxen hair, her name might be 'Vicky'

Meanwhile 'Doomsday' Bill sent out all his accountants to check on the new found assetts. I have to say that from then on Accountants have been a separate specie for me. Bill determined to stay French re-named all our food for us and started Fine Dining, for which we have been paying through the nose ever since.

But now we have the Dogger Bank we have been fighting back with fish and chips, trouble is you can still buy them as French Fries, I blame those lackies at the top! Never Give In, or am I getting mixed up with 'Galaxy Quest'?

Roy

Vikings were the first. I give credit to Vikings for everything.

Vikings discovered subduction zones

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Stumbled like a drunken sailor on this one, "me likes to go swimmin' with bow-legged women...." etc. 😉😂

Captain Cook, and presumably! all the members of the crew of the Resolution 😊

Hi Commodore-H,
Going back to the QotD of 9 days ago ...
It seems that your question "O.K., what's a subduction zone, tell us "
was never answered. So here's the answer.
The subduction zone is the zone along the fault line where two tectonic plates meet and one slides under the other, i.e. subducts.
It's where earthquakes are generated when the two plates lock together.
The pressure from the moving plates continues to build up until something has to give!
NAT GEO "How the Earth was formed."
Cheers, Doug😎

17 January 1773, HMS Resolution.

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