How about Caradog (Caractacus), handed over to the Romans by Queen Cartimandua of the Brigantes?

Doesn't any Kensington station automatically mean old money, or does the Cameron Eurodestruction Protocol supersede that?

High Street Kensington

Unless you do it it somebody else's country without asking or even informing them first - then it pretty much is.

Dozens of people around the world contributed to the early development of powered flight, and even though the Wright Brothers were (probably) first, their excessive and draconian use of patents ensured their work was largely irrelevant to the development of the aeroplane. A lot of other people shared what they learned, which is why many of their machines quickly started to look like our modern idea of an aeroplane rather than the tail-first pusher-prop wing-warping monstrosity that was the Flyer.

I have no problem with giving the Wright Brothers credit for the first sustained heavier-than-air powered flight over level ground, but their subsequent actions had the effect of holding back rather than advancing the field of aeronautics, which is kind of the point TFA is making about Bunsen and patents. The only worse example that comes to mind is Matthew Bolton, who through his sharp business practices and political chicanery only narrowly avoided bringing the entire Industrial Revolution to a grinding halt.

I suppose some do, but since autocompletion and syntax highlighting are enabled by default in recent emacs, they would need to edit the .emacs file and turn off M-/ and global-font-lock-mode.

Because that would be a meta-wish, and before you ask, you can't wish that it wasn't because that would be a meta-meta-wish, and genies don't do those either.

In England you can; In Wales and (shortly) Scotland there is no charge for prescription medicine - we take 'free at the point of use' to mean what it says.

Ah, the classic example of a typo - (allegedly). The story is that the word was misspelled on advertising in the ninteenth century, and just stuck. Some people disagree, but the fact that patent applications by the same firm use the spelling 'aluminium' lend creedence to the claim.

IUPAC did try to sort this out a while ago, but swiftly folded in the face of massive indifference from the American people. Seems a bit unfair to me, since we Brits got saddled with the US spelling of 'sulfur' in the same drive for standardization, and seem to have adopted it pretty universally.

And for added fun, put it back together with a single edge flipped (or a single corner rotated), then jumble it up and leave it in the vicinity of a smart-arsed kid who thinks he knows how to solve it :-)

Well obviously the TARDIS is just a set, but the sonic screwdriver seems to work fine IRL, as Matt demonstrates in this footage from Glastonbury Festival this summer.

It's an interesting theory, but not really bourne out in reality - U.S. sports betting is usually done on a handicap basis, with the stronger side penalised a certain number of points.

The result of a match may be more predictable, but bookmakers do all they can to turn the betting opportunity into a coin-toss in order to increase the action.

I think if you look at qualifying performance and squad strength, you have to give England a reasonable chance. They are still a slightly false price at 8.6 on betfair, but that is nowhere near as overbet as they usually are for international tournaments

I wouldn't be surprised if they made it to the semis, at which point they would probably have to win two matches as slight underdogs (depending on the opposition) - not an overwhelming possibility, granted, but nowhere near hilarious; you'd have to tip someone like Switzerland or USA for that.

Speaking as a Welshman, I'd love England to get to the final - then get beaten by Argentina (with an Aguerro goal that had more than a hint of hand-ball :-))