Useless knowledge game.

Gunpowder was produced in Britain, in significant quantities, from the 16th centuary until the late 1980's. While the obvious user was the military most of the production sites served the mining and quarrying industries. The Government produced the powder required for the military at its own works from the 1760's. Civilian production was very small after the use of gunpowder was banned in mines in 1931.



What do you know about Iceland?

Iceland was settled by Vikings in the 9th century who would first stop off in Ireland and kidnap young women for wives. There is a claim that some Irish monks got there first.

What do you know about Newfoundland?

a lot! portuguese gave it name when they got there for fishing cod. Hence the name of Cap Cod, even though it's way down.

What do you know about Stanley Bay?

::: double post

The Micmac Indians were the dominant culture in the 1400's in what we call newfoundland. The French called them Sourigeois. An important Algonquian tribe that occupied Nova Scotia, Cape Breton and Prince Edward Islands, the north part of New Brunswick, and probably points in south and west Newfoundland. While their neighbors the Abnaki have close linguistic relations with the Algonquian tribes of the great lakes, the Micmac seem to have almost as distant a relation to the group as the Algonquians of the plains . There has also been some genetic testing that links the micmac directly to the Asians . Concluding.. the micmac are direct decendants of asian nations.
the micmac tribe was proven to have some ancestory in america but mostly found in newfoundland. The last remaining micmac tribesmen number 700 today.


What do you know about the dragon fish?

I googled this :
hope this is what you were referring to ?

Stanley Bay Writers' Walk
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Terrain: Fairly level with descending steps on Spring Street.

Duration: Minimum of one hour

Parking: Available in front of the supermarket in Bartley Tce and Fleet St, near the north-western corner of the car park.

NB This walk is linked to, and marked on the Devonport Walk map.

Walk up Victoria Rd, turn left into Calliope Rd. continue along, turn right into Kiwi Rd and left into Rutland Rd. Jack Lasenby lived at 27a Rotheram House for several years from 1963 onwards. The house, which is down a long drive, was designed for use as a studio by Bruce Rotheram. It was built in 1951 and is listed by North Shore City Council for its exceptional heritage significance.

Jack Lasenby (1931-) Children's writer

Lasenby attended the University of Auckland from 1950 - 1952, before he left to spend the next 10 years deer-culling in the Urewera. he later moved to Wellington, where he lectured at teachers' College before becoming a full-time writer.

Turn right into William Bond St and continue along to the cottage at 26 William Bond St...

John Graham (1922-) Playwright, screenwriter and memoirist.

Graham lived here during the 1960s. He had formed a strong friendship with the German poet-in-exile, Karl Wolfskehl (see the Takapuna Walk). Graham later moved to great Barrier island, where he still lives.


source: http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/tourism/destinations/stanleybaywalk.html


What do you know about Alaskan Eskimos?

One of the small bands of Eskimos, known as Tlingits, made much money guiding greenhorns across miles and miles of frozen tundra during the Yukon gold rush in the late 1890's. Their trek began at Dawson City, Alaska and ended in the Canadian Yukon. Many did not make it to their destination, due to disease or freezing cold temperatures and lack of shelter. Fewer still struck it rich.

What do you know of the many uses of baking soda?

great game shewolf...I'm gonna lurk

Baking soda can be used to clean laundry, apparently it helps to get out really hard stains. It is also used in the refirgerator to keep oors under control. Baking soda has been put into toothpaste to help whiten teeth and has been known to kill certian bacteria that are commonly found in the human mouth.


What do you know about blue jeans?

Wearing 'em too tight causes genital irritation. Ha! (useless knowledge acquired within a2k)

What do you know about orchids?

OMG! Someone else saw the ad! I thought I was seeing things since I never saw it again after that first time!

I haven't seen the ad. :wink:

dammit!

Maybe I am losing my mind....

Maybe your jeans are too tight...

or you sniff to much vanilla in it! (orchid spice)

what do you know about flirt language?

now that I think about it...the chafing has been a little more irriatating as of late.... :wink:

I know that hair flips can damage the eyes of bystanders.

What do you know about the Atlantic Ocean?

It's really big


What do you know about laryngitis?

Laryngitis can be caused by heartburn.

What do you know about deciduous trees?

Ticomaya :

Can you be more acurate, which of those :

American elm
European white birch
Paper birch
American linden
Golden willow
Prairie Gem
Amur maple
Green ash
Quaking aspen
Balsam poplar
Honey-locust
Russian-olive
Black ash Ironwood or Eastern hop-hornbeam
Silver maple
Black walnut
Japanese tree lilac
Sugar maple
Bur oak
Kentucky coffee-tree
Tatarian maple
Butternut
Laurel willow
Thornless cockspur hawthorn
Columnar European Aspen
Manchurian ash
Tower poplar
Common hackberry
Mountain-ash
Weeping willow
Cottonwood
Nannyberry
White poplar
Crabapple
Norway maple
White willow
Cutleaf weeping birch
Ohio buckeye

what do you know about evergreen trees?