English History

[LaLuneBleue]

More than London?

Yes i think so.

Manchester has been at forefront of so much be it industrial innovation or political thought.

Music
Sport
Culture
Art
Science

London is a great City that houses our offices of state and the palaces of our Royalty but because they have that, they have never been able to show the radicalism of Manchester. They are limited by there proximity to power to change the power that rules them. Manchester has no such constraints.

I like this, Rascal. I've lived all over the UK and even abroad, whatever I've noticed about Mancunians is that -

Manc's will always, always stand up for what is right over wrong.
You can't pull the wool over the eye of someone from Manchester.
You can't make a Manc do something he/she doesn't want to do.

 

[pauldominic]

I reckon the Turing computer....

Manchster Code

This man started a ton of trouble - Ernest Rutherford ...

<a class="postlink" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/manchester/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8282000/8282223.stm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/manchester/ ... 282223.stm</a>

 

[Dalian Blue]

I reckon the Turing computer....

Manchster Code

This man started a ton of trouble - Ernest Rutherford ...

<a class="postlink" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/manchester/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8282000/8282223.stm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/manchester/ ... 282223.stm</a>

James Joule?

 

[pauldominic]

however, the word 'Telecommunication' gives the game away, I can't remember right now if it is a Greek word or Greek / Latin amalgum.

Greek and Latin hybrid. Communicare is Latin for sharing things amongst a group of people rather than a one to one connection like a telephone. This is why priests can be excommunicated, stopped from sharing the message with the flock. Communicare is the thing shared whilst participare is the person sharing.

Communico shares its root with mun, like common or commute or community

EDIT: I did two years of Latin so know about ten words, but dammit every time one of those ten words comes up I sound like a right smartarse.

Smartarse ;)

Very smartarse who also studied classical studies ;)

What's Upholland up to these days ;)?
















pure guess Damocles and apologies if I'm incorrect

 

[Damocles]

I wish I still lived in an age when walking around in a full three piece suit/top hat/cane accompaniment was socially acceptable.

 

[Rascal]

More than London?

Yes i think so.

Manchester has been at forefront of so much be it industrial innovation or political thought.

Music
Sport
Culture
Art
Science

London is a great City that houses our offices of state and the palaces of our Royalty but because they have that, they have never been able to show the radicalism of Manchester. They are limited by there proximity to power to change the power that rules them. Manchester has no such constraints.

I like this, Rascal. I've lived all over the UK and even abroad, whatever I've noticed about Mancunians is that -

Manc's will always, always stand up for what is right over wrong.
You can't pull the wool over the eye of someone from Manchester.
You can't make a Manc do something he/she doesn't want to do.

What Mancs will always have is an opinion. I think thats been because of forefathers introduced the notion of freethinking and a sense of community.

I dont think its an accident that Marx and Engels developed there theories whilst in Manchester, it was where they new radicalism and new thinking would be found.

Britain, England has a proud history, Manchester in my opinion has the proudest.

The simple fact we have a statue of Abraham Lincoln in our City makes me immensly proud as maybe our forefathers suffering really did change the world for the better

 

[yerwot?]

For quite a small country, a lot has happened here that has had ramifications around the world, both good and bad

Our history is littered with good and bad. We were an Imperalist conqueror of peoples and because of our lack of natural resources we expoited other countrys to make us wealthy. Not so glorious now some of what we did. We helped created countrys that have not been viable. We have created division in many places, but we have helped introduce democracy too.

But we can be proud as Mancunians that our forefathers helped to end slavery in the USA, we can be proud of the Peterloo rioters. Manchester in my opinion has done more to change the world than anyother place in history

Rome, by any measure, Athens before that.
In modern times, Silicon Valley has transformed so much of our lives.
The effects of British Imperialism can be seen in headlines every day, ethnic cleansing didnt work then it doesnt work now

 

[Rascal]

Rome, by any measure, Athens before that.
In modern times, Silicon Valley has transformed so much of our lives.
The effects of British Imperialism can be seen in headlines every day, ethnic cleansing didnt work then it doesnt work now

Rome and Athens had there effect of course, but on the modern world nothing like Manchester. Silicon valley would not have existed without Mancunian innovation

I covered British Imperialism a few pages back and it is something we should be ashamed of.

 

[pauldominic]

I wish I still lived in an age when walking around in a full three piece suit/top hat/cane accompaniment was socially acceptable.

Of course it is.

I was married in a 3 piece suit and little sisters, wore a top hat to a cousin's stag do at haydock but never used a cane yet.

 

[Dalian Blue]

however, the word 'Telecommunication' gives the game away, I can't remember right now if it is a Greek word or Greek / Latin amalgum.

Greek and Latin hybrid. Communicare is Latin for sharing things amongst a group of people rather than a one to one connection like a telephone. This is why priests can be excommunicated, stopped from sharing the message with the flock. Communicare is the thing shared whilst participare is the person sharing.

Communico shares its root with mun, like common or commute or community

EDIT: I did two years of Latin so know about ten words, but dammit every time one of those ten words comes up I sound like a right smartarse.

And the prefix tele is derived from the Greek τῆλε meaning far from, far away, or at a distance.

Rather telepathetic. Sorry.

As in 'Touching from a distance'?