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*Sweeping generalisation alert* I think the Dutch are up there because they grow high value crops like flowers rather than arable crops. Most of the flowers sold in Scotland seem to come from Nederlands in refrigerated lorries. I suspect the same is true of France with high value crop areas like Cha...

Prehensile, do I look like a non-prehensile kind of guy?

Cheech or Chong?

As far as I know there has never been a tie.* The only minor stunt is that the number of US winners and the number of US wins is not the same. It is at the lower end of your scale. * I have a nagging feeling that Fausto Coppi's brother was involved in a tie in a race, but it might not have been the ...

Mactep wrote:I found this.

And occasionally I can't help myself.

I also found a thread where someone is saying that the value of agricultural production in the Netherlands is higher than in any other country except the United States and France :?: I think this must be some per-acre figure, or something like that. But then, I wouldn't think the US and France woul...

Myopia

Badger or baboon?

Ah, too obscure. Contrary to the Armstrong Media Machine, he is not the the first or only US rider to win the TdF.

Twice as many.

Lower.

It was won by the man you are thinking of in 1993. It hasn't been won by a US rider since him.

The first US rider to win it was also the first US winner of the Tour de France.

A four point lead and five games to play, what can possibly go wrong . . . :D

A possible league decider at home in the final game against Augsburg? Nice. (Insert "League of Augsburg" joke here)

All you need is Fürth to get promoted with you.

There have been several US riders who were quite good, and a couple who still are.

Not five.

ToSeeked.

Apologies.

How many times has a US rider won the Men's Road Cycling World Championship?

50 years ago today.

I don't know how they are celebrating this at BAUT, probably talking about the enduring economic benefits their space programme brought to the USSR , , ,

Google.

Oh dearie me, how many otuches did he want? :D

I haven't seen it yet, but I'll look out for it.

Good to see a final held (sort of ) equidistant for both sets of fans.

And a happy journey home northwards for Lianachan. :D

I knew that my honours degree in Byzantine History would be useful one day . . .

MM_Dandy folks, he'll be here all week! :D

Is this to do with applying numbering to emperors known by family names? My knowledge gets a bit sketchy after the Comneni, but John Kantakouzenous was preceded and succeeded by John Palaiologos. John K is number VI and John P is number V.

As you were the only one interested enough to google, over to you.

Edit : typo

It is all the fault of the jews, as usual. They nailed that man to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change . . . :D

Paris - Roubaixweekend, next year I hope to get over for it and to do the randoneé the day before.

As Mactep sdays, this isn't my area, either of law or geographically. Generally to successfully sue you would need to establish a direct link between the burning of the Quran and the deaths. There is probably a "foreseeability" test (or similar) but that will depend on the jurisdiction. I ...

And Inter scored first, a good night for our favourite team from Gelsenkirchen.

KLA2 ladies and gentlemen, he'll be here all shift! :D