I read it as the 60’s.I agree about George Martin.He did a lot of novelty records too.
I’ll have to investigate the new sound of 1960.
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The word factory is an abbreviation of the word, manufactory.
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The French word for Partridge is Perdrix.
It is thought that a mistake was made when translating “The twelve days of christmas” such that the final line should simply have been “A Partridge”.
Upon hearing the translation of the English and French words spoke together, “A Partridge, Perdrix” was mistakenly recorded as being “A Partridge, Pear-tree”, and eventually became the phrase we know it as today.
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Rap is an acronym of Rhythm and Poetry.
Gay is an acronym of Good as You.
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… but only recently:
Does Rap Stand For Rhythm And Poetry?
Even though it looks like a perfect acronym, it is not the root of the word.
The word comes from “rapping,” of quick, loud blows.
The first time the verb “rapping” was used for talking or singing was in the early ’70s, when talking on a radio channel in a stylized manner was called “MCing” or “rapping.” The style got pretty famous among DJs, and they started mixing the beats from synths and samplers, and they eventually started rapping words in rhymes in unique ways.
… again, only recently:
The term gay has referred to someone who exhibits sexual desire or behavior toward a person or persons of their same sex since at least the 1930s. Historically, “gay” has been used as an extremely offensive slur, evening evolving into a catch-all insult for “stupid” in the 1980–90s.
Both are examples of a “backronym”
Apologies for being pedantic … 
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All is not as it seems … 
Italian Astrophotographer, Giorgia Hofer, returned to the same location over the period of 1 year to create this 28-image composite of a Lunar Curve.
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Different to a Lunar Analemma, which looks like a warped figure 8 and is the accurate representation of the positioning of the lunar cycle, Giorgia intentionally captured her images 10 minutes earlier to achieve this unique, curved result. Read her process explanation below:
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“With an astronomical software I calculated for 27 days the position of the moon every 1481 minutes (24 hours and 41 minutes), but for the capture of all lunar phases I took a whole year because the weather, in my country, it is often unfavourable. The Moons in the waning phase, on the left, were captured in January 2017 while the moons in the growth phase, on the right, were captured between the month of July 2017 and December 2017. To photograph the moon, I used a telephoto 400mm and for the landscape I used a 20mm wide angle.”
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Thanks for that Omah, but I’m disgusted!.. 
I took it at face value but I’ve been fooled into thinking it was cosher.
I’m losing confidence in most things I see on the internet now…
Disappointed from Doncaster…
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This is from NASA so, probably, is the real thing:
https://science.nasa.gov/analemma-moon
Published:
Thursday, May 7, 2020
Analemma of the Moon
An analemma is that figure-8 curve you get when you mark the position of the Sun at the same time each day for one year. But the trick to imaging an analemma of the Moon is to wait bit longer. On average the Moon returns to the same position in the sky about 50 minutes and 29 seconds later each day. So photograph the Moon 50 minutes 29 seconds later on successive days. Over one lunation or lunar month it will trace out an analemma-like curve as the Moon’s actual position wanders due to its tilted and elliptical orbit. To create this composite image of a lunar analemma, astronomer Gyorgy Soponyai chose a lunar month from March 26 to April 18 with a good stretch of weather and a site close to home near Mogyorod, Hungary. Crescent lunar phases too thin and faint to capture around the New Moon are missing though. Facing southwest, the lights of Budapest are in the distance of the base image taken on March 27.
Perhaps not as stunning as the wall-poster but, IMO, equally impressive. … 
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I don’t believe anything I see or read online now. 
The internet isn’t as fun as it used to be.
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Knee good sir!
By the powers invested in me as the OP, I do hereby knight thee Fact Checker deluxe
You may rise!
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They call" Burger King "in Australia “Hungry Jacks”
Apparently there’s some little takeaway in Adelaide called “Burger King” that has owned the Oz trademark since the 70’s, long before BK USA tried to muscle in.
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Iceland Supermarket are engaged in another long battle with Iceland (the country) because the country have decided again that the supermarket cannot be called after them anymore. They agreed this was ok, initially, and now they have changed their minds. ( I did wonder if the supermarket had begun selling pickled shark, and breached copyright or something 
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A pottle is a unit of measurement = a half a gallon.
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In Victoria 25 people killed in their cars in 2022 were not wearing seat belts.It’s a heavy price to pay for being stupid.
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Some maps have made up streets on them to catch out any rivals who copy your cartography without crediting/paying you.
Because they exist to catch people out, they’re known as “trap streets”.
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In days of old when men were bold, and knights wore shining armour, they would raise their visor with their hand to the King or Nobleperson during a jousting tournament as a sign of respect so the latter would know who was whom.
This hand gesture is still in use today, and is known as … the salute.
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I thought helicopter is made from heli and copter but no! it’s helico(spiral) and pter.(wing)
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