London looks right.
That why they call New Zealand the “ shaky isles “. We must feel a small earthquake at least once a month in Wellington.
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Probably vibrations from all those kangaroos on that small island to the west of you.
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Is the state Eire or Ireland?
The preferred term these days is Republic of Ireland.
Willy.
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Mathew Paris map c1250. According to Wikipedia: ‘The name “Snowdon” is first recorded in 1095 as Snawdune, and is derived from the Old English elements [snaw] and [dun], meaning “snow hill”.
The Welsh name of the mountain, Yr Wyddfa, is first recorded in [Latin] as Weddua vaur in 1284. This is probably an approximation of Pen y Wyddfa Fawr.’ But Mathew was an English monk probably, despite his name, though he would use Latin and Norman French.
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From the Radio Four news just now: Scientists have published a map of the universe’s dark matter.
There is more of it than the normal matter that we see in our lives. But we don’t know what it actually is. We know dark matter is there because of its gravitational pull on normal matter. That’s a summary of the words of a scientist from University of Durham.
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Or ‘We need it to be there in order for our current understanding of gravity to be able to explain what we see’. Maybe we don’t yet have the full picture of gravity at the galactic macro scale. The history of Science is littered with ‘things’ used to fit what was seen with human knowledge at the time. Subsequently as our understanding improved they were discarded. Bring back the Aether 
(Not intended to be a reply to Christopher themselves, just the idea)
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Correct
Theories where developed concerning gravity based on what was known at the time. When more information became available indicating the theories are incorrect, some mysterious force was invented, instead of admitting the theories are incorrect.
You couldn’t make it up. Oh wait a minute.
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273 billion trillion miles (273,000,000,000,000,000,000,00
That’s far far away and a long long time ago
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Of course you can meet Him……..
Might not end well though……
ATB, J
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They seemed to like Britain. Plus the river Rhine.
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I was kind of thinking the same.
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One wonders why. It was cold, wet and full of *********s….
(Funnily enough, not much has changed since they left… 
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OTOH, the Rhine does at least produce some decent Vino Collapso!
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