If like me anyone ever wondered why they are all called something escu in Romania. It means son of. So Peterescu means Peterson.
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Perpignan is dull enough with some nice places close by. Something I’ve learned this weekend
And what are the women called?
Pirlo
September 11, 2023, 12:31am
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Max Verstappen is Belgian.
Bees cannot fly in the dark and will fall to ground if they are flying and it gets dark
Sounds reasonable to me but I never thought much about it really.
Flowers that open at night are pollinated by bats and moths.
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artfoley
September 12, 2023, 6:17pm
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Marcella Detroit, half of shakespeares sister, co-wrote the Eric Clapton hit “lay down sally”
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Always thought that was an old song he put a spin on. The other girl got a lot more of the limelight. Siobhan Fahey?
artfoley
September 12, 2023, 6:35pm
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Not surprising Fahey got more of the attention; married to Dave ‘eurythmics’ Stewart and she was a member of bananarama
That documentary is excellent. Comes across as a really decent human
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Spidey
September 15, 2023, 6:37am
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Siobhan wrote ‘Young at Heart’
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Siobhan is wan of our own
Yep. But was brought up in Meath I think before moving to England
Rose Dugdale
I was having a cup of tea this morning with the in laws and this lady came ip in conversation. Legend.
Bridget Rose Dugdale (born March 1941), better known as Rose Dugdale, is a former debutante who rebelled against her wealthy upbringing, becoming a volunteer in the militant Irish republican organisation, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). As an IRA member, she took part in the theft of paintings worth IR£8 million and a bomb attack on a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) station using a hijacked helicopter.
Dugdale was born into a wealthy English family. Her millionaire father was an u...
She took refuge in my house (a good few years before I was born) whilst Eddie hijacked a helicopter and dropped the milk churns over Derry. Himself and my father were very close. They were flatmates in London. My mum remembers her using one cigarette to light the next from the moment he left until he returned. She definitely stuck to her principles as she matured.
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Rte had a documentary about her during the summer called The Heiress and the heist. Was decent enough.
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