Recent content by David Thomas

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    Are carrots orange because of a Dutch revolutionary?

    More importantly, William of Orange came from Orange in the South of France. The place name Orange has nothing to do with the colour orange, it comes from the name of a Celtic god Arausio after whom the town was named. The word for the colour and fruit 'orange' has a different origin...
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    Top-Secret UFO Files Could 'Gravely Damage' US National Security if Released, Navy Says

    Sorry to be late for the party, but the US Navy made it quite clear why the info was not being released in its reply to the FoI request. It was because doing so would compromise intelligence gathering methods. Here are their words Specifically, under Section 1.4, the materials would trigger...
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    Could a 100-year-old vaccine protect against COVID-19?

    I fear this may be clutching at straws. BCG was used in the UK from 1953 and most children were vaccinated . So anyone born in the UK after ~ 1940 should be protected. But people in their 60s and 70s who should be protected by BCG are badly affected by the disease and many die. However...