I guess the US Civil War was the wrong way to convince the Southerners of that era (changed from the Germans, and WWII, to avoid falling foul of...
Yes; also, one of the best reasons to keep things undercover is that it greatly retards decay, which will have to be rectified eventually, taking...
The basic idea pre-dates electronic navigation systems; I once saw for sale, in a truck stop, a map-book which included annotations on things in...
There are usually/often consequences for engineers who make such mistakes. In the 1981 Hyatt Regency walkway collapse, the engineering company...
I wonder what consequences they, and their employer, will face? (If there are none, look for it to keep happening.) Noel
I think that some people haven't fully absorbed the point of the aphorism you quoted a few days back, 'the plural of anecdote is not data'. That...
People turning their own brains off, and relying blindly on computers, is a common fault in this age, especially where vehicle navigation is...
The GWSR got so tired of drivers striking the Broadway bridge that they gave up and implemented the Hitchhiker's Guide heavy metal beam solution....
As Seymour Cray reportedly laconically said in response to Thomas Watson Jr.'s famous memo, "It seems like Mr. Watson has answered his own...
If the 'crew' currently in charge of the NYMR really wanted to try and succeed, they'd organize day (or longer) visits to several of the many (I...
Quite possibly, to both; but how can we measure the effect? (As Lord Kelvin famously stated, “when you can measure what you are speaking about,...
Sure; but do they bring in fare-paying visitors - visitors who would not have come were they not there? Because that's the most important way in...
Sure, but that wasn't the question, which was (paraphrased - I'm too lazy to find the original to quote it) 'are they so special that they will...
They might be happy to publicise the total raised, but I doubt they want to make details of the spending on bridge 42 public - especially a...
If my memory is not failing me (which I cheerfully admit it might), ISTR people saying that the Whitby trains were a good share of the NYMR's...
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