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J Lewis Posted 19 years ago
Jokes, Puzzles & Riddles
A simple question
0 A simple question: 01 b 00 Who made the first non-stop air crossing of the Atlantic 02 b 00 ? 02 br
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0 I know this one really, but would be interested in seeing the answers too! 0-
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0 It seems that only Nona and I are interested, or that only we know the reason fror the question! 02 br
00 I'll wait a little longer to see if anyone wants to reply, but meanwhile here's another question: 02 br
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01 b 00 Who invented the telephone? 02 b 0-
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10 Actually, I'm interested in the first question, because I don't know the answer. 11 blockquote11 cite 20 J Lewis 22 cite 21 b 20 Who invented the t
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0 Well, I've waited long enough! Tanit (ciao, Sab), being Italian, knows the reason for the second question. The 01 b 00 standard answer 02 b 00 is Alexander Graham Bell, but the Italians have always maintained that the real inventor was Antonio Meucci, who didn't have enough money to carry through the U.S. Patent procedure. Bell, who had worked with him, took the invention as h
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0 05 0 00 printing, which allowed individual characters to be arranged to form words, is a separate invention from the printing press. In what is regarded as an independent invention, movable type printing as we know it today was invented in 05 1 00 by Gutenberg in the 1440s, 01 b 00 although the first known invention was in 02 b 01 a
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00 Here's one of interest to Brits only, I'd say. Who committed a robbery at 4 a.m. in Kent and then rode his horse to York where he met the mayor at 8 p.m. on the same day, thus creating an alibi for himself? 0-
00 Here's one of interest to Brits only, I'd say. Who committed a robbery at 4 a.m. in Kent and then rode his horse to York where he met the mayor at 8 p.m. on the same day, thus creating an alibi for himself? 0-
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0 No, it wasn't! Gotcha! It was John Nevison, 50 years before Turpin's time. The feat was wrongly attributed to Turpin. I don't know the name of the horse. 0-
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