I will be in Boston for a few days.
what's the best stuff to do there. haven't been before
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I will be in Boston for a few days.
what's the best stuff to do there. haven't been before
Lincolnshire sausages, at a guess.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pat Vegas
Visit the Stump and the Bubblecar Museum then leave town asap.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pat Vegas
The other one has Cheers Bar. And the Bunker Hill Monument, commemorating a battle the Americans lost to the Brits though that last bit is only mentioned in the small print at the site.
That's not the won in the war of 1812 when we trashed them with Congreve Rockets, is it? That they still moan about in their national anthem?Quote:
Originally Posted by pjlincs
If not, what battle is this one? And where was the rocket one?
{Sorry, I can only really help on WW1 and the sub-continent.}
Not been there since the big dig, a fair while back. Lovely place. The harbour area was great for sea food obvs. Lobster and Clam chowder were excellent.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pat Vegas
The battle of Bunker Hill!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
Congreve rockets (developed at Woolwich Arsenal) used about a century later. On the sub-continent!
Cheers. Hadn't heard of Bunker Hill.Quote:
Originally Posted by pjlincs
But it wasn't a century later. Bunker Hill was 1775 and we first used Congreve Rockets in 1806.
The War of 1812 use vs the Yanks that I was talking about was:
"It was the use of ship-launched Congreve rockets by the British in the bombardment of Fort McHenry in the US in 1814 that inspired a phrase in the fifth line of the first verse of the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner": "the rockets’ red glare". HMS Erebus fired the rockets from a 32-pound rocket battery installed below the main deck, which fired through portholes or scuttles pierced in the ship's side."
But thank you so much for getting me to google. I never knew the rockets were actually invented by our Indian enemies:
"The king of Mysore, Tipu Sultan and his father Hyder Ali[6] developed the military tactic of using massed wave attacks supported by rocket artillery against enemy positions. In 1792, Tipu Sultan wrote a military manual called Fathul Mujahidin, in which two hundred artillerymen specialising in rocket artillery were prescribed to each Mysorean brigade (known as cushoons). Mysore had between sixteen and twenty-four cushoons of infantry"
Tipu Sultan built that mechanical tiger that plays music as the robot tiger munches a British redcoat:
"Tipu's Tiger or Tippu's Tiger is an 18th-century automaton created for Tipu Sultan, the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore (present day Karnataka) in India. The carved and painted wood casing represents a tiger mauling a near life-size European man. Mechanisms inside the tiger and the man's body make one hand of the man move, emit a wailing sound from his mouth and grunts from the tiger. In addition a flap on the side of the tiger folds down to reveal the keyboard of a small pipe organ with 18 notes."
It's in the V&A and it's worth going there just to see that.
https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/tipus...zMHCHEs9KpBUdp
So you're right about the sub-continetal origins which I didn't know {and you know how happy learning about Indian genius makes me, so again, thank you.}
But it wasn't a century after Bunker Hill. The Mysore Kingdom were using them within a decade of that Battle, we first used them about 30 years after the battle and we first used them against the Septic 40 years after the Bunker Hill and the Septics still moan about it in the national anthem.
Sorry to bore you with history but thank you so much. {My MA presentation was on the Indian troops on the western front 1914-15.}
I think Fash just wanted a recommendation of the best local whore house.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
:( I've only ever been to a nunnery thereQuote:
Originally Posted by Maravilloso Marvo
Cheers. Hadn't heard of Bunker Hill.Quote:
Originally Posted by pjlincs
But it wasn't a century later. Bunker Hill was 1775 and we first used Congreve Rockets in 1806.
The War of 1812 use vs the Yanks that I was talking about was:
"It was the use of ship-launched Congreve rockets by the British in the bombardment of Fort McHenry in the US in 1814 that inspired a phrase in the fifth line of the first verse of the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner": "the rockets’ red glare". HMS Erebus fired the rockets from a 32-pound rocket battery installed below the main deck, which fired through portholes or scuttles pierced in the ship's side."
But thank you so much for getting me to google. I never knew the rockets were actually invented by our Indian enemies:
"The king of Mysore, Tipu Sultan and his father Hyder Ali[6] developed the military tactic of using massed wave attacks supported by rocket artillery against enemy positions. In 1792, Tipu Sultan wrote a military manual called Fathul Mujahidin, in which two hundred artillerymen specialising in rocket artillery were prescribed to each Mysorean brigade (known as cushoons). Mysore had between sixteen and twenty-four cushoons of infantry"
Tipu Sultan built that mechanical tiger that plays music as the robot tiger munches a British redcoat:
"Tipu's Tiger or Tippu's Tiger is an 18th-century automaton created for Tipu Sultan, the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore (present day Karnataka) in India. The carved and painted wood casing represents a tiger mauling a near life-size European man. Mechanisms inside the tiger and the man's body make one hand of the man move, emit a wailing sound from his mouth and grunts from the tiger. In addition a flap on the side of the tiger folds down to reveal the keyboard of a small pipe organ with 18 notes."
It's in the V&A and it's worth going there just to see that.
https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/tipus...zMHCHEs9KpBUdp
So you're right about the sub-continetal origins which I didn't know {and you know how happy learning about Indian genius makes me, so again, thank you.}
But it wasn't a century after Bunker Hill. The Mysore Kingdom were using them within a decade of that Battle, we first used them about 30 years after the battle and we first used them against the Septic 40 years after the Bunker Hill and the Septics still moan about it in the national anthem.
Sorry to bore you with history but thank you so much. {My MA presentation was on the Indian troops on the western front 1914-15.}
Yes that would be most useful as it seems complicated.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maravilloso Marvo
Hang on a minute I am not fash. That foul t shirt wearing tube map saddo.
I am more of a 5 star hotel luxury timepiece kind of chap.
You can take the Fash out of Pat Vegas, or something like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pat Vegas
You can say that againQuote:
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult