Also more recent than the Romans and not straight.
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Greeks?
You are right though, it wasn't the Romans, but they did build the first really long straight roads, they often rebuilt earlier roads that had been left behind by older iron age peoples, especially in Britain. The ancient road systems may have been useful in the construction of such edifices as Stonehenge.
There were also many straight roads at this time in Ireland which was never invaded by the Romans at all.
What is the collective noun for a group of baboons ?
I know that its a congress!
Hmmm, I thought it was a troop.
Out of favour Americanism, I'm afraid.
Correct, but there is a new word that is now starting to be used.?
Parliament?
Parliament is for owls, rooks and crows, though I prefer 'murder of crows' for the latter.
And a 'stare of owls' is good, too!
........answer based on the British political system rather than the American!
It's actually a flange.
This was first used in a comedy sketch on the BBC television series 'Not The Nine O'Clock News', in a sketch called Gerald the Gorilla The word was made up, but is now being used in language and books.
A quote from a review of the book ,'Sex and Friendship in Baboons', by Barbara B. Smuts,"In this marvelous book Smuts draws from years of painstaking field research in which she followed around a flange of Chacma baboons........ in Zimbabwe."
Comedy sketch word becomes a reality and used by academics!!!
This was first used in a comedy sketch on the BBC television series 'Not The Nine O'Clock News', in a sketch called Gerald the Gorilla The word was made up, but is now being used in language and books.
A quote from a review of the book ,'Sex and Friendship in Baboons', by Barbara B. Smuts,"In this marvelous book Smuts draws from years of painstaking field research in which she followed around a flange of Chacma baboons........ in Zimbabwe."
Comedy sketch word becomes a reality and used by academics!!!
Which mammal has the most bones in its nose?
Hello AdamGood evening, Kirsty!!!!
Hope you've had a splendid day...
yes it's the calm before the storm! My colleague is off next week and I need to cover for him and then my boss is away to India to work for two weeks in two weeks time so I'm covering him as well! Yay!!
Still hilarious after all these years.
Thanks so much for sharing!
