Well run two years ago. Friends were semi regular stall holders for a charity. Their biggest complaint was the professional traders that would buy (latterly try to) their donated stuff for half nothing and sell it for higher prices on their own stalls. Not the cheapest car boot place and it is Longf...

Both very close but not correct, Croghan/Cruchan Co. Roscommon is a current village 10+ miles away. Unlike Del.Monte I need the exact answer for this one.

As no one has risen to the question, Speranza.

Poet, author and Irish nationalist. Had dropped out of favour in the 20th century as she was not really the right type of nationalist for mid 20th century Ireland.

Right, going really simple for the next question. Where did Queen Meave/Meabh rule from?

I'll let you have it on the basis of your first post which was kind of heading in the correct direction and the question was fairly obscure. https://irishpostcards.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/lord-roberts-etc.jpg?w=840&h=541 Feels a bit of a cheat getting that. Anyhoo, easy and close to home. O...

I have a vague recollection about an Oxford college or some college but that is the best I can do.

Where their statues are located?

A few of them have real offroad or towing ability and if you are involved in construction or farming they have a real purpose however drop the S and they would be of even more use to this category.

...or his 'humble' an old word like 'shambles', meaning the offal left over form cuts of meat, i.e. you were getting the dregs of the carcass??? Yep, it is a pie made from offal, from the norman french "nombles" which became numbles and then umbles getting it's h due the the variations of...

Have to disagree with you on the greatness of the rock band who in my opinion were less the the sum of their parts unlike the original humble pie which was meant to be more than the sum of it's less than attractive parts. Hint the word is middle English but has changed spelling from its older origin...

Right, so while we are waiting for Knucklehead6 here is a quickie. I just read a comment on this here forum about someone having to eat humble pie, so what actually was a humble pie?

Yikes! Definitely time to take it easy

Discovered the first oil well? Close enough at this stage. He identified Spindletop near Beaumont Texas as an anticline (geologic structure that retains oil or gas) which nobody believed as there was supposedly almost no oil in Texas! He spent years developing a drill to get the oil and gas out of ...

Sorry for the delay, yesterday was overly busy.

Nothing to do with The Alamo, wars or politics and is to do one of the things Texas is famous for.

Why is Patillo Higgins significant to the history of Texas in particular and more generally to the USA?

Saloth Sar, probably the most evil man of the 20th century and that is saying something. If you wore glasses therefore you were an intellectual and due for re-education or death and 2 million of the people of his country died. If you were a farmer who owned enough land to feed your family you were a...