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If the poor commodity prices in the Great Depression of the early 1930s weren't bad enough for sugar cane growers in Queensland, they had additional problems in the form of the cane beetle, which had reproduced to plague proportions. A great solution was worked out by the federal government - import an amphibian from the Americas to control the beetle in the form of the cane toad.

This of course was a disaster and more than 80 years later the toads have spread all over Queensland and into New South Wales, the Northern Territory and Western Australia, probably Australia's worst introduced pests. However at the time one of Australia's leading scientists could foresee the dangers ahead and had argued strongly against importing cane toads, urging the government to abandon this plan. Unfortunately, his warnings were not heeded.

So what was the name of the scientist who tried to stop the introduction of cane toads to Australia? His name was Walter Froggatt.
 
emuboy said:
If the poor commodity prices in the Great Depression of the early 1930s weren't bad enough for sugar cane growers in Queensland, they had additional problems in the form of the cane beetle, which had reproduced to plague proportions. A great solution was worked out by the federal government - import an amphibian from the Americas to control the beetle in the form of the cane toad.

This of course was a disaster and more than 80 years later the toads have spread all over Queensland and into New South Wales, the Northern Territory and Western Australia, probably Australia's worst introduced pests. However at the time one of Australia's leading scientists could foresee the dangers ahead and had argued strongly against importing cane toads, urging the government to abandon this plan. Unfortunately, his warnings were not heeded.

So what was the name of the scientist who tried to stop the introduction of cane toads to Australia? His name was Walter Froggatt.
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Another great disaster is Rat’s tail grasses
Its a great grass that stays green grows in tough conditions in crap soil
Problem is the high silca content destroys the teeth of your breeding females cows and she no longer feeds or breeds,does the same to native animals too
 

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One of the more bizarre celebrity suicides over the years was that of Peg Entwistle, a struggling 24-year-old Depression-era actress who in 1932 climbed to the top of the H on the Hollywood sign and leaped to her death. It is said that her ghost still haunts the base of the sign to this day.

However to be 100% accurate, Entwistle did not jump from the 'HOLLYWOOD' sign, she technically jumped from the 'HOLLYWOODLAND' sign. When first erected in 1923, the 'Hollywoodland' sign wasn't to advertise the film-making district, but rather land for sale in the district and was intended to be temporary. When the sign became a popular attraction it remained standing as "Hollywoodland' until 1949, when the 'Land' suffix was removed and the sign became the more familiar 'Hollywood' from 1950 onwards.
 
emuboy said:
One of the more bizarre celebrity suicides over the years was that of Peg Entwistle, a struggling 24-year-old Depression-era actress who in 1932 climbed to the top of the H on the Hollywood sign and leaped to her death. It is said that her ghost still haunts the base of the sign to this day.

However to be 100% accurate, Entwistle did not jump from the 'HOLLYWOOD' sign, she technically jumped from the 'HOLLYWOODLAND' sign. When first erected in 1923, the 'Hollywoodland' sign wasn't to advertise the film-making district, but rather land for sale in the district and was intended to be temporary. When the sign became a popular attraction it remained standing as "Hollywoodland' until 1949, when the 'Land' suffix was removed and the sign became the more familiar 'Hollywood' from 1950 onwards.
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Looks like they had to remove the bottom of the A and L when the dozer went through to put a road in

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What do veteran English actor Sir David Jason, young English actress Sophie Turner from Game of Thrones, Elvis Presley, Liberace, British singer Jay Kay from Jamiroquai, Marlon Jackson from the Jackson 5 and renowned American science fiction author Philip K Dick all have in common?

Probably not much, except all are 'twinless twins'. Each of them had a twin sibling - either identical or fraternal - who died either at birth or in infancy within a year of birth.
 
emuboy said:
What do veteran English actor Sir David Jason, young English actress Sophie Turner from Game of Thrones, Elvis Presley, Liberace, British singer Jay Kay from Jamiroquai, Marlon Jackson from the Jackson 5 and renowned American science fiction author Philip K Dick all have in common?

Probably not much, except all are 'twinless twins'. Each of them had a twin sibling - either identical or fraternal - who died either at birth or in infancy within a year of birth.
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Was Elvis' twin identical or fraternal dyk?
 
rank and file said:
Inspiration for Nick Cave's song"Tupelo",
off the album
"The First Born is Dead".
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The loss of his twin sister Jane apparently played a part in a lot of Philip K Dick's novels. Frequently there would be a 'phantom twin', or a character referenced as having a twin sibling in his works.
 
If you got all of humanity to hold hands and line up around the equator, a significant number of people would drown
 

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Mofra said:
If you got all of humanity to hold hands and line up around the equator, a significant number of people would drown
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if they all had a piece of lego and clicked it into the one next to them, everyone could let go and we would have a ring around the planet, suspended by gravity!
 
Billy ray said:
if they all had a piece of lego and clicked it into the one next to them, everyone could let go and we would have a ring around the planet, suspended by gravity!
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Nice try, shill for big-lego
 
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