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Who wrote: "Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire.." ?
Jordon
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William Blake. It's from his poem "And did those feet in ancient time". This was later set to music by Hubert Parry and became the hymn, "Jerusalem" which is now a crucial (to me) part of the Last Night of the Proms.
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Wiliam Blake in his Poem "And did those feet in ancient time..." from the preface to his opus "Milton" (1804)
Andreas Weber
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What's special about 4th May 2006, and specifically two minutes and three seconds after one o'clock in the morning?
Jordon
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01:02:03 04/05/06
If at first you don't succeed, call it version 1.0
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1:02:03 4/5/6 (Cosmic and chronological alignment of the first six integers)
Christopher Reed
"The oxen are slow, but the earth is patient."
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It becomes 01:02:03 04/05/06.
Assuming, of course, you write the date in the sane format.
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Cheers,
Vikram.
I don't know and you don't either.
Militant Agnostic
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even more amazing :->...sorted by the unit magnitude
April, 5, 2006 @ 3:02:01 AM
06/05/04 03:02:01
and last year...
April 3, 2005 @ 2:01:00 AM
05/04/03 02:01:00 (lift off)
Steve
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.. and after midday on 7th August 1990 ..
12:34:56 7/8/90
A few years out of date (ho ho) but along the same lines.
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Easy 1 2 3 4 5 6
01:02:03 04 of 05 of 06...
So then the answer is it's time for a beer!
But then again 01:02:04 is time for a beer...01:02:05 is time for a beer...etc
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The News from Jordon wrote: What's special about 4th May 2006, and specifically two minutes and three seconds after one o'clock in the morning?
Paul Watson posted this in the Lounge back in May: clickety[^]
--EricDV Sig---------
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
- Laurence J. Peters
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yeah but I thought it would be fun to post in the newsletter. Not everyone does both
It's the only time for a hundred years (before or after) that the time in the UK will read as 01:02:03 04.05.06. In the US and Canada of course this happens on 5th April due to the way the date is shown there (day and month are inverted).
Jordon
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Paul McGann, Peter Davidson and William Hartnell have each played the same famous sci-fi role. What's the character's name?
Jordon
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Dr. Who I believe ...
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Dr WHO !
(For those people outside of the UK, it was a children's TV Sci-Fi that ran so long that parents who watched it as children now watch it with their children!)
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"What" is not the character's name but "Who" as in Dr. Who. (With apologies to Abbot and Costello. )
BTW William Hartnell was the original Dr. Who (1963-1966).
Peter Davidson played The doctor from 1981 - 1984 in the wake of the actor with the longest run as the Doctor, Tom Baker, who was, IMHO, the best Doctor ever.
Paul McGann played The Doctor in a TV movie (which I haven't seen) in 1996.
Andrew C. Eisenberg
Nashville, TN, USA (a.k.a. Music City USA)
(Yes Virginia, there are rock and roll stations in Nashville! )
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Doctor Who
Christopher Reed
"The oxen are slow, but the earth is patient."
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The News from Jordon wrote: What's the character's name?
"The Doctor" in the TV Series Doctor Who
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The ten faces of the Doctor are William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant.
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Coram wrote: The ten faces of the Doctor are William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant.
You've forgotten Peter Cushing who played the Dr in the first two films.
Andy
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StandardLife wrote: You've forgotten Peter Cushing who played the Dr in the first two films.
However, that isn't regarded as Canon.
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Peter Cushing = Two films
Paul McGann = One film
Not Canon? It's very difficult to deny what your eyes have seen. I hope Canon didn't provide the cameras or lenses for Cushing's films. Anyway, WHO regards it as "Not Canon"? Having watched it from behind the sofa since the very first episode (everyone remembers the TV they were watching the week Kennedy got shot) I think that he is a very significant part of the culture. You have to remember that Cushing appeared with the Daleks and that their use had to be licensed from Terry Nation who created the things in the first place - that's credability to me.
More to the point, Jordan's question was, what was the character's name. As we all know, his title was "The Doctor". We've never known WHO he is, which is the point of the show's title! We could suppose that he has an English style name as his grand-daughter's name was Susan.
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