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The Roman Army certainly used marching songs, although none have survived. One song that did survive is (allegedly) a humorous song written by Julius Caesars troops for his triumph, telling the Citizens to fund his further s*x**l adventures - Legio XIIII use it as a marching-song, largely...

I only use it for job search, but the adverts are annoying.

Sorry, I was reminded of my last trip to Germany. The first two people I met were Hans and Fritz (to be fair, both Johann (German equivalent of John) and Fredrich are VERY common names in much of Germany).

It has to be Feist. The trouble with Anthony, as I've said several times, is that you never know what you're getting. Sometimes absolute brilliance with a touch of humour, sometimes something so awful you want to bleach your brain. Anthony is living proof that gold and muck come from the same...

Is that the one with Billy Connolly, "Wance mair, an' I'll brek your airm and that effin burd's neck !" ?:ROFLMAO: In Scotland, this is subtle.

More like cows than you realise - insects use gut bacteria to beak down cellulose into sugars/starch for energy, and use digestive enzymes broadly similar to our own to digest/assemble proteins. Insect digestion uses the same chemical reactions as anybody else, and the sheer volume that insects...

To be fair, "Come back, Mrs Noah," was a product of its time, and had its funny moments. Mrs Brown's boys - Where to start with this absolute Mother ? Absolutely Fabulous - Joanna Lumley got too old to boink producers, and ended up in this waste of time. Tittybangbang - crass, immature...

Nope, the whole thing was worthless.

Dystopia. While it's true that Science Fiction especially can be a warning, far too many authors seem to get their kicks from a post-apocalyptic, post pandemic etc. etc. world on its knees, with a plucky survivor and his merry band tackling the monsters (human and other) in a quest for some...

Afraid I don't. Oliver has a reputation in Scotland that he can look back on 5,000 years of History, yet still claim we aren't a nation. The addition of the, "K," to his name is a symbol that he's the Establishment's pet Unionist.

It was Wallace's execution that made Bruce take the gamble to claim the crown (having disposed of John Comyn first). Personally, if you can find them, I'd go for Nigel Tranter's Bruce trilogy (The Steps to the Empty Thone - ends at his Coronation and the Battle of Methven. The Path of the Hero...

Having dabbled in some FSU stuff (Lem, and the Strugatsky brothers - thanks Gollancz Yellow Jackets) I've found this to be a little bleak, but the quality is unquestioned. I'd really like to see more of this type of hard SF, but considering my limited German (let alone my non-existent Russian)...

No change there, then.:p

I own an Argus C3, "Brick," as used by Colin Creevey (not so common on this side of the Atlantic, although).

The Dark is Rising/ The Seeker. Christopher Eccleston (The Black Rider): "When I read the book..." Interviewer: "You must've been the only one on that project who did !" The book was so badly mangled that it lead the elderly Susan Cooper to the brink of suicide, until the backlash from...

The KV-VI was a fantasy model built in the '90s, using bits of various plastic kits. It was an entry in a special competition, where contestants not only had to produce something outlandish, but to write a, "What if," history. This kind of thing goes on all the time among more extreme...

The T-35 main 76.2mm 2x 37, or 45mm AT guns and 5x 7.62 mgs distributed over 5 turrets. Looked very impressive on Mayday parades. Around 30 were built but fire control was a nightmare, and the only service they saw was when a handful were thrown into the defence of Moscow (One was actually...

SI Units are a strictly modern phenomenon in the English-speaking world, and any media from here created up until the 1960s would use Imperial measurements (one of the attractions of, "Star Trek," was the use of metres and kilometres, which struck me as very advanced at the time). I was in...

My Galland quote was from, "The First and the Last." You only have to look at them - let alone watch excellent Youtube videos from, "The Chieftain," or Bovington tank museum to see what a maintenance nightmare these vehicles were - thus, over engineered. The 200 series Maybach engine which...

Not this again ! :mad: The Me 262 was a far better aircraft than the Gloster Meteor - which it vastly outnumbered in any case. A single squadron of Meteors was deployed to Belgium in early '45, but there was little for them to do by that time, and people were nervous about someone getting...