EK17 done two attempts in Manchester- and now off to AMS
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From an earlier thread here:
The Captain of the Pan Am B707 which landed at Northolt instead of Heathrow was (allegedly) asked by ATC for his intentions. "I guess I'll take up Chicken Farming" was the reply.
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On Feb 9th all was difficult in N Europe (the continent and islands) 
Flight UX1093 (AirEuropa) a crowded 788 [EC-MIG] from Madrid to Amsterdam made 5 approaches (in these included 2 GAs) and decided to RETURN to MAD/LEMD
Videos of pax in the "tube".
Flight UX1093 (AirEuropa) a crowded 788 [EC-MIG] from Madrid to Amsterdam made 5 approaches (in these included 2 GAs) and decided to RETURN to MAD/LEMD
Videos of pax in the "tube".
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Another fake fact!
Great Britain did not exist until James 1st (VIth) invented the term to describe his kingdom as a single entity without any implied supermecy of England over Scotland or vice versa - this would have been abouyt 1605, so barely more than 400 years ago...
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Great Britain did not exist until James 1st (VIth) invented the term to describe his kingdom as a single entity without any implied supermecy of England over Scotland or vice versa - this would have been abouyt 1605, so barely more than 400 years ago...
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To pretend otherwise is a bit like saying that America didn't exist until Columbus (or the Chinese/Irish/Vikings/etc) discovered it.
Before the "Kingdom of Great Britain" was declared (actually as a result of the Act of Union in 1707), "Great Britain" was a perfectly correct geographical term for the big island off the coast of France.
To pretend otherwise is a bit like saying that America didn't exist until Columbus (or the Chinese/Irish/Vikings/etc) discovered it.
To pretend otherwise is a bit like saying that America didn't exist until Columbus (or the Chinese/Irish/Vikings/etc) discovered it.
Another fake fact!
Great Britain did not exist until James 1st (VIth) invented the term to describe his kingdom as a single entity without any implied supermecy of England over Scotland or vice versa - this would have been abouyt 1605, so barely more than 400 years ago...
:0)
PDR
[This post was brought to you by Pedents R Us AG, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Pointless Pedentary for a Better Britain GMBh]
Great Britain did not exist until James 1st (VIth) invented the term to describe his kingdom as a single entity without any implied supermecy of England over Scotland or vice versa - this would have been abouyt 1605, so barely more than 400 years ago...
:0)
PDR
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(er, shouldn't that be 'pedantry' ?)
Another fake fact!
Great Britain did not exist until James 1st (VIth) invented the term to describe his kingdom as a single entity without any implied supermecy of England over Scotland or vice versa - this would have been abouyt 1605, so barely more than 400 years ago...
:0)
PDR
[This post was brought to you by Pedents R Us AG, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Pointless Pedentary for a Better Britain GMBh]
Great Britain did not exist until James 1st (VIth) invented the term to describe his kingdom as a single entity without any implied supermecy of England over Scotland or vice versa - this would have been abouyt 1605, so barely more than 400 years ago...
:0)
PDR
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I learnt that according to that font of much usually but not always reliable information, Wikipedia:
The classical writer, Ptolemy, referred to the larger island as great Britain (megale Bretannia) and to Ireland as little Britain (mikra Brettania) in his work, Almagest (147–148 AD).[37] In his later work, Geography (c. 150 AD), he gave these islands the names[38] Ἀλουίωνος (Alwiōnos), Ἰουερνίας (Iwernias), and Mona (the Isle of Man), suggesting these may have been native names of the individual islands not known to him at the time of writing Almagest.[39] The name Albion appears to have fallen out of use sometime after the Roman conquest of Great Britain, after which Britain became the more commonplace name for the island called Great Britain.
Clearly Ptolemy postdates the formation of the English Channel and the North Sea...
