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I think the Flying Submarine from that show has resurfaced. F: Jodie Foster. G.

Astronaut? "I'm not complete till I've been to the Moon", for instance: something said then ever regretted.

Roger Bannister?

Base 60. Divisible by 2.3.4.5.6,10,12,15,20. Must have been meant for trading without reliable measuring standards -- ended up in astronomy instead!

They're everywhere. An auntie of mine married a paratrooper called Terry Thomas. Ok rabbits live near fresh water, so he wasn't big game fishing. Rule out the Carribean!

Calling a tie between all participants. None of you got it but neither would I have, I think. Modern search tools are seeming to become very weak on social history - easy to discover stuff but increasingly hard to find it. The lady is a Doffer, and replaces those spools (doffs) as they fill...

Well I might have been pulling the wool over your eyes with this one, but I washed it first! I think she's a dag detector - gets one of her minions to do the dirty work.

I managed to reverse track the answer with "what's the name for someone who puts up ends in a textile mill?" but I think it's only because I was writing the answer previously. The first two autocompletes here for "what's the name for someone who" were 1: only eat white meat. 2: identifies as a...

Now I have a mental image of an exotic dancer with the stage name of Bobbin Turner...

I didn't know that one. But no, that would make her a carpenter.👩‍🔧

Not quite there yet. The lass has a particular. job description for what she's doing - and it was a skilled position. A clue. What she's doing is "putting ends up". There's a single word for her in English and also in German. It's not the same word but either will do. I don't speak German but...

I just found out they say "textile engineer" now. They would, wouldn't they. This is more menial. A South Hampton anti-Ludite? Agh! Hissss! I told you never to talk about Southampton!

Twiner? No, but to do with weaving or threadmaking.

I was impressed by your observation a while back that Roman civil law had persisted so well in Germany. Obvious - how else to mediate disputes? Rome the ever-present? And in later times the easy transposability of Rome as a shorthand for "the church". I can imagine conferences of cardinals and...

Workplace in 1937. What's the young lady's job title?

Teacher jokes are dad jokes with references. I think it just means no Centurions or chariot racing. Will try to think of next round this evening.

I think this is a local story. Did it involve a scuffle at Darwin aerodrome?

Sorry, been away for a bit. It's partly incidental - the romance of cold war spy stories and weekly news magazines. I did teach some modern European history for a couple of years despite not being formally qualified. English kids with nothing better to do get immersed in war history from an...

I'll take a shot at Thomas Müntzer, he seems pretty colourful and would probably have taken a shot at us. Progress Film, a DDR company made a biography of him in 1956, apparently turning him into a proto-Marxist hero! Thomas I'm wondering if Richie wonders if you had seen it🤓