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. I couldn't think of any case where a Barbarian tribe handed over one of theirs to the Romans for trial.
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
Killing a murderous criminal in the act of resisting arrest using deadly force is hardly assassination.
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.
People actually use editors without tag completion, syntax highlighting/validation and such?
I suppose some do, but since autocompletion and syntax highlighting are enabled by default in recent emacs, they would need to edit the
Imagine if you will, you find a lamp with a genie in it. You get three wishes. Most people wish for selfish things, for which only a bad outcome can happen (or so says TV). But you thought this through...
Yes, I have. I wish for an infinite supply of wishes.
I could never understand why people didn't just do that in the stories.
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 the UK you can buy yearly prepaid prescription cards for about £100,
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.
-No, it's anodized aluminum.
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.
It's lucky you're going so slowly, because you're going in the wrong direction.