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From the Periodic Table

Elements named after countries or regions:
  • Americium: (Am): The Americas
  • Europium: (Eu): Europe
  • Francium: (Fr): France
  • Gallium: (Ga): Latin name for France (Gallia)
  • Germanium: (Ge): Germany
  • Hassium: (Hs): The German state of Hesse
  • Nihonium: (Nh): Japan (Nihon)
  • Polonium: (Po): Poland
  • Rhenium: (Re): Latin name for the Rhine river and region (Rhenus)
  • Ruthenium: (Ru): Latin name for Russia (Ruthenia)
  • Scandium: (Sc): Scandinavia (Scandia)
  • Tennessine: (Ts): The US state of Tennessee
Elements named after cities or locations:
  • Berkelium: (Bk): Berkeley, California, USA
  • Californium: (Cf): California, USA
  • Darmstadtium: (Ds): Darmstadt, Germany
  • Dubnium: (Db): Dubna, Russia
  • Hafnium: (Hf): Latin name for Copenhagen, Denmark (Hafnia)
  • Holmium: (Ho): Latin name for Stockholm, Sweden (Holmia)
  • Livermorium: (Lv): Lawrence* Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California
  • Lutetium: (Lu): Ancient name for Paris, France (Lutecia)
  • Moscovium: (Mc): Moscow Oblast, Russia
  • Strontium: (Sr): Strontian, Scotland
  • Terbium: (Tb), Ytterbium (Yb), Erbium (Er), Yttrium (Y): The village of Ytterby, Sweden
Elements indirectly named after places:
  • Indium: (In): Named for the indigo line in its spectrum, related to India
  • Magnesium: (Mg) and Manganese (Mn): Named for the Magnesia region in Greece
  • Thulium: (Tm): An ancient Greek name for the remote northern land of Thule, likely referring to a location in Scandinavia
*with Lawrencium. a synthetic, highly radioactive chemical element with the symbol Lr and atomic number 103, named after physicist Ernest Lawrence. .
 
There has been some outrage over both the axing of Stephen Colbert and more recently Jimmy Kimmel , i did not want to clog up the threads where they were placed with off topic stuff.
This seems like the perfect place.
If you look at the ratings charts, one can see that the ratings for the big three in late night wasteful TV have been consistently falling for some years.
These figures are a bit dated, but the trend was well in place.

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mullokintyre said:
There has been some outrage over both the axing of Stephen Colbert and more recently Jimmy Kimmel , i did not want to clog up the threads where they were placed with off topic stuff.
This seems like the perfect place.
If you look at the ratings charts, one can see that the ratings for the big three in late night wasteful TV have been consistently falling for some years.
These figures are a bit dated, but the trend was well in place.

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Unfortunately that doesn't fit the narrative and smacks too much of common sense, which is another feature the ranters and chanters don't posses.

Maybe the shows producers, took the opportunity to get rid of a dated presenter, not that that ever happens.

It will be interesting to see if the show is re booted and iff so who the presenter is.
 
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If memory serves me correctly no one is now allowed to scramble up that thar rock anymore, so is it just a case of drive around it and just look and wait for the sunset.
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Spoke to a ranger plus local indigenous about that on the side why was the real reason.
Ranger said 36 had died on the climb nowhere in Australia would any business be allowed to run with that many deaths never mind a national park.
He also said they often had to do up to 3 rescues a day sometimes using helicopters exposed ranger’s to unacceptable risk.
Indigenous bloke just said would you like people dying in your front yard it was genuinely upsetting and unacceptable for them. Guess it killed the vibe for them.
Still that’s irrelevant for many 😀😀
 
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I liked it when, in 2000, the Olympic torch first landed in Australia at the airport near Yulara; the politicians and officials, the self promoters, media scrum and hangers-on were there at dawn on 08 June.

Yulara is 500m above sea level, it was a crisp winter's morning and very few had sufficient clothing. They huddled on the runway looking very cold.
 
Dona Ferentes said:
I liked it when, in 2000, the Olympic torch first landed in Australia at the airport near Yulara; the politicians and officials, the self promoters, media scrum and hangers-on were there at dawn on 08 June.

Yulara is 500m above sea level, it was a crisp winter's morning and very few had sufficient clothing. They huddled on the runway looking very cold.
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Wind howled and freezing when I was there, though Kata Tjuṯa was more spectacular.
Walk around Uluru 2hrs 15 mins
Walk though Kata Tjuta 2hrs 45mins
Wife has Morton’s Neuroma so we were slower
 
IFocus said:
Spoke to a ranger plus local indigenous about that on the side why was the real reason.
Ranger said 36 had died on the climb nowhere in Australia would any business be allowed to run with that many deaths never mind a national park.
He also said they often had to do up to 3 rescues a day sometimes using helicopters exposed ranger’s to unacceptable risk.
Indigenous bloke just said would you like people dying in your front yard it was genuinely upsetting and unacceptable for them. Guess it killed the vibe for them.
Still that’s irrelevant for many 😀😀
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That makes sense, it is a shame because the view from the top is amazing, but with OH&S the way it is one can understand the reasoning.
 
sptrawler said:
That makes sense, it is a shame because the view from the top is amazing, but with OH&S the way it is one can understand the reasoning.
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Well there is always Mt Augustus here in WA a much bigger piece of granite without any restrictions, I believe.
 
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