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FourPacketsOfPeanutsFeb 6, 2025

Is there a site that has introductory reading lists for a wide range of subjects?

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Is there a site that has introductory reading lists for a wide range of subjects? - Lemmy.World

I like to binge read and self educate. When coming to a new topic (let’s say History of Western Art or Pharmacology) I’ve never found a single place where I could look up the key texts that a university student would be reading to get into the subject. Usually I search around and find an actual university’s reading list or something equally well put together but it’s hit and miss. Had anyone ever come across a single place that holds this kind of info over a wide range of subjects?

FourPacketsOfPeanutsJan 24, 2025

UK: is there a good compact encyclopedia in print?

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Is there a good compact encyclopedia in print? (UK) - Lemmy.World

Am looking for a compact paperback encyclopedia but am struggling to find one available in the UK. I used to have the Hutchison compact, but believe that was last printed in the 90s…

Show threadFourPacketsOfPeanutsJan 22, 2025

Things I’ve learnt:

  • the American continental army tried to take Quebec early in the war but were unsuccessful

  • inhabitants of British Canadian territory did not have the same sentiment towards Independence as in the 13 American colonies, it was far more sparsely populated, lived in closer association with indigenous people, and was not economically large enough to consider independence

  • after the war, many British loyalists left America and settled in Canada causing the cultures to diverge even more

  • Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and other bits all used to be part of British Québec

  • America continued to try and claim Quebec in the Paris peace talks after the war

  • in the end the British surrendered the above territories with the border being more or less on the current place

Invasion of Quebec (1775) - Wikipedia

FourPacketsOfPeanutsJan 21, 2025

Why did (what is now) Canadian territory not get caught up in the American war of independence? It was all British, right?

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Why did (what is now) Canadian territory not get caught up in the American war of independence? It was all British, right? - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

FourPacketsOfPeanutsJan 16, 2025

Are the 'doors' on the ISS locked?

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Are the 'doors' on the ISS locked? - Lemmy.World

You know, “hatch”. But it’s funnier saying door. Could a ship just dock with it, equalise pressure, and open the hatch? Or is there some sort of security? I tend to think ‘no’ because of a macabre situation where the crew are dead and the station is being recovered. But it’s amusing to think in space they don’t need to keep the doors locked.

FourPacketsOfPeanutsJan 3, 2025

Without unnecessary brand name dropping, what current technology blows you away?

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Without unnecessary brand name dropping, what current technology blows you away? - Lemmy.World

I was listening to the New Year’s Day concert at the Vienna philharmonic wondered who one of the composers was so used a popular song recognition app. (I expected it would make some fuzzy match on the piece and give me the name + composer). To my amazement it did give the name and composer but as played by the Vienna philharmonic in 2005 in the same location. The orchestra does not have the same members as 19 years ago, nor was it the same conductor, so it seemed the piece was matched on the acoustics of the Musikverein where they were playing, which I found astonishing.

FourPacketsOfPeanutsDec 29, 2024

Radio Times Christmas cryptic crossword

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Radio Times Christmas cryptic crossword - Lemmy.World

Believe I’ve finished this (if anyones stuck on any clues am happy to help), but am just mystified as to how some of the clues are supposed to work… 34a A posh car taking carriers outside department store _ A _ R _ D _ So for this I had “Harrods”. So “department store”. The “posh car” is rolls royce giving the RR. But I’m lost as to how the remaining letters on the poster (HAODS) are “carriers”. It almost seems like a typo for HANDS, which would make sense, but obviously doesn’t give Harrods, or anything else that makes sense Help? An I missing something or is this a mistake by the setter?

FourPacketsOfPeanutsDec 28, 2024

I had a hazy memory of The Ten Commandments seeming to be on all day long when I was a child. I've just seen it's on Channel 4 for 4 and a half hours(!) I feel vindicated.

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I had a hazy memory of The Ten Commandments seeming to be on all day long when I was a child. I've just seen it's on Channel 4 for 4 and a half hours(!) I feel vindicated. - Lemmy.World

I am, however, watching Death on the Nile on bbc 2

FourPacketsOfPeanutsDec 22, 2024

For the first time in what might literally be decades, I looked up what's on in the Christmas RadioTimes (UK) and watched it on live TV

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For the first time in what might literally be decades, I looked up what's on in the Christmas RadioTimes (UK) and watched it on live TV - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

FourPacketsOfPeanutsDec 18, 2024

I had need for two batteries earlier today and mulled the need to walk down to the village. My mum however had recently cleaned an old drawer and had two of the exact right batteries in her pocket.

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I had need for two batteries earlier today and mulled the need to walk down to the village. My mum however had recently cleaned an old drawer and had two of the exact right batteries in her pocket. - Lemmy.World

It was very satisfying