Doubtless granted by the spirit Gaviscon?
> The Austro-Hungarian army had a *lot* of different units raised from
> different areas and composed of different nationalities. Even into the
> 20th century, many regiments had certain unique rights. These included:
[Lots of Bohemians doing epicly strange things!]
Tremendous! If you made stuff like that up, no-one would believe you. Well, unless your name was Emperor Freiderich II, or to such effect. Can you give us a pointer to the source for these rogue facts?Bill.McKinley:
> It was, I guess, a commentary on crowd behaviour. It is said,
> semi-facetiously, that the intelligence of a crowd is equal to the
> IQ of the lead intelligent member of the crowd divided by the number
> of people in it.
This sounds like a variant on the old electrical engineer's saw: "Parallel IQ: use formula for parallel resistance". (Bet that one has the liberal arts types, lawyers and accountants simply rolling around on the floor.) ;-)
Sergio Mascarenhas, some time ago:
> Prax / the Wastes are (IMO intensionaly) similar to central Asia in the
> sense they are a crossing between different civilizations and peoples.
Pent plays role much more markedly, though, being a veritable thoroughfare for exchange of civilisation and mayhem between the Lunar Empire and Kralorela.
Cheers, and good night,
Alex.
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