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shack

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When it was first settled during the middle ages, it was green (i.e grassy). (Read Guns, Germs, and Steel -- but it's historical fact.) Result of the global-warming they had at that time.
My understanding is that it was a frozen wasteland, but to entice fellow Vikings to migrate and colonize the land, they called it Greenland.
 

Ceiling Cat

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Maybe to return the mail that's been sent to the wrong country??

Slovenia and Slovakia have such similar names that representatives from both countries meet once a week to exchange all the mail that was mistakenly sent to the wrong place.
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shack

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When it was first settled during the middle ages, it was green (i.e grassy). (Read Guns, Germs, and Steel -- but it's historical fact.) Result of the global-warming they had at that time.
Looks like the climate/global warming denialists are wrong again.
 

buttercup

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Approx how much did the British government pay for a Lancaster Bomber, during WW2?
In GB pounds: (a) 20,000 (b) 60,000 (c) 100,000 (d) 150,000?
(Multiply the 1940s pound by about 70, to get modern CA$.)

Supplementary question: approx how much did it cost to send Lancasters on bombing missions, per aircraft, per sortie? GBP. (a) 500 (b) 1,000 (c) 2,000 (d) 5,000?
 
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