Trivial Facts

[RestlessSoul]

Yeah but it's different for me. I occasionally walk up Drury Lane, or cross it.

I often get the 43 bus up and down the City Road, past (though seldom in and out) the Eagle. There are probably still establishments nearby, where one could pop his weasel (to buy half a pound of tuppeny rice and half a pound of treacle).

 

[Rival]

Boustrophedonic means a style of writing in which successive lines are to be read in opposite directions, e.g. one line goes left to right while the next goes right to left and so on, as when an ox (βοῦς, from which we get "bovine") turns (στροφή) when ploughing a field. I came across this when visiting la Sainte Chapelle in Paris, in which there is a series of stained glass scenes which are meant to be followed in sequence in a boustrophedonic manner. My wife and I ageed it was a splendidly obscure word to know.

You can do this in Ancient Greek, I learned it 'as the bull walks'.

 

[exchemist]

You can do this in Ancient Greek, I learned it 'as the bull walks'.

Sounds like bulwarks to me.

 

[Revoltingest]

52100 is a steel alloy commonly used for rolling element bearings.
the "100" means that it's 1% carbon.
That's a lot of carbon for steel.
I once made a lamp base out of a disk of it.
It's one of the world's strongest lamp bases.

 

[It Aint Necessarily So]

The forty days of lent actually take 46 days. Sundays don't count:

"In Protestant and Western Orthodox Churches that celebrate it, the season of Lent lasts from Ash Wednesday to the evening of Holy Saturday. This calculation makes Lent last 46 days if the 6 Sundays are included, but only 40 days if they are excluded."

 

[exchemist]

The forty days of lent actually take 46 days. Sundays don't count:

"In Protestant and Western Orthodox Churches that celebrate it, the season of Lent lasts from Ash Wednesday to the evening of Holy Saturday. This calculation makes Lent last 46 days if the 6 Sundays are included, but only 40 days if they are excluded."

Yes my mother used to enjoy a glass of wine at Sunday lunch in Lent on that basis, when she had given up alcohol for Lent.

Suppose she could have really pushed the boat out on "Let Up"or "Laetare" Sunday (when rose vestments are worn), though to my recollection she didn't.