Agadir, not agidir. As I type this my spellcheck thinks both are "wrong",
Calcium Carbide is not an explosive, but creates Acetylene gas on contact with water. I suspect you recall "carbide lamps" from the old days. Combined with oxygen from the air this makes an excellent explosion.
A most entertaining material, useful for "educating" boys.
Many thanks for your good-humoured and eclectic journalism in print and video. (and the westerns)
Excellent piece.
Two minor issues:
Agadir, not agidir. As I type this my spellcheck thinks both are "wrong",
Calcium Carbide is not an explosive, but creates Acetylene gas on contact with water. I suspect you recall "carbide lamps" from the old days. Combined with oxygen from the air this makes an excellent explosion.
A most entertaining material, useful for "educating" boys.
Many thanks for your good-humoured and eclectic journalism in print and video. (and the westerns)
A little bit of onomatopoeia trivia - I once read that a pogrom is so called because it is the sound of marching jackboots on cobbles.
That's an interesting idea.
And somehow Welsh people think that Winston Churchill was a hero.
When in fact he was an enemy to the Welsh, planning their death.