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Yeah it comes from the latin phrase Hominis Vis which means The Strength of Man...

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But that wasn't the question...

Originally posted by T.M
How about the fertiliser that the farmers use to grow their crops..

rain gets on to this it runs off into streams rivers etc.. this will kill water life.

Correct, but a bit incomplete. The fertiliser is indeed the cause of death, but not directly. Fertiliser itself is not very harmful to aquatic fauna, but what it does is make algae grow at an tremendous rate. The masses of algae clog the water and block sunlight, that's what kills the fishies.

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Originally posted by T.M
But that wasn't the question...

Yeah, but still.

Originally posted by Pandemoniac
Correct, but a bit incomplete. The fertiliser is indeed the cause of death, but not directly. Fertiliser itself is not very harmful to aquatic fauna, but what it does is make algae grow at an tremendous rate. The masses of algae clog the water and block sunlight, that's what kills the fishies.

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I did say it was a guess.. 😛

Originally posted by T.M
Who named Hovis bread... Hovis.. 😑 ?

(I don't know if this bread is available outside the UK..)

The word 'Hovis' was invented by a London student named Herbert Grimes in a national competition set by S. Fitton & Sons Ltd to find a name for their bread.

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What is the difference between turtles, terrapins, and tortoises ?

cheese!!!!

Originally posted by dr_potato
cheese!!!!

Ignored.

Originally posted by T.M
The word 'Hovis' was invented by a London student named Herbert Grimes in a national competition set by S. Fitton & Sons Ltd to find a name for their bread.

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What is the difference between turtles, terrapins, and tortoises ?

Turtles live aquatic lives, Terrapins live semi-aqautic lives at river mouths and tortoises are real land-animals?

Close.. Terrapins actually live in fresh water.

Apart from that minor detail.. spot on.

Why are there so little ancient shark fossiles (except for the teeth) found?

Originally posted by Pandemoniac
Why are there so little ancient shark fossiles (except for the teeth) found?

Not sure, but Sharks don't have have bones they have cartilidge(sp?) which doesn't fossilize well.

Correct!

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Originally posted by Pandemoniac
Why are there so little ancient shark fossiles (except for the teeth) found?

I knew that.. if only I had been online.

OK..

Who is America named after ?

To your original question, I was going to respond that the answer is debatable.
Amerigo Vespucci.

Ceterum censeo OTF esse delendam.

Originally posted by Storm
To your original question, I was going to respond that the answer is debatable.
Amerigo Vespucci.

Ceterum censeo OTF esse delendam.

Ahh see this is what is commonly thought (and is probably right)

But there was a Welsh man called Richard Amerike who is thought by many to be the person the US is named after.. the main reason why people think this is because country's that are named after people are always named after the surname.. not Christian name.. Richard Amerike is thought to have financed a trip to Newfoundland in 1497 I think.. 10 years before Vespucci's name was given..

All though this is just a theory..

Yeah sorry I changed the question..

Here's one.

What is the largest residential tower block in the world and where is it?

Originally posted by Bloigen
Here's one.

What is the largest residential tower block in the world and where is it?

I know some people are building one in Dubai that will be pretty big (this one's interior is being designed by Giorgio Armani himself).. if not the biggest..

I am guessing there is one in Dubai anyway.. the one that looks like a sail on a boat.. ?