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Ken Marshall
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Posted at 22:06 on 13th April 2014

Yes Vince,it's solar panels.Well done.

Some people have installed alarm systems to prevent theft.Others have used special bolts.As the price of panels drops,I guess theft will decrease.

 

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Vince Hawthorn
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Posted at 22:10 on 13th April 2014

  Thanks Ken, it was a proccess of elimination- there was not anything else left on the roof to nick except guano.

               Time for a think. 

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Vince Hawthorn
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Posted at 22:26 on 13th April 2014
  Ok then, it is 1855 in Paris and the maid knocks over a kerosene lamp onto a tablecloth. Who's tablecloth, and what was the consequences?
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rustyruth
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Posted at 22:49 on 13th April 2014

Well done Vince, never thought of solar panels,  we don't see many around here, people have wind turbines instead. 

I'm thinking about your quizzy Smile 

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Vince Hawthorn
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Posted at 22:59 on 13th April 2014
  That tells you something about your local weather !
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rustyruth
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Posted at 13:19 on 14th April 2014
Queen Victoria visited Napoleon III in the Palce of Versailles in 1855, but I can't make a connection between that and a clumsy maid with a lamp Undecided
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Vince Hawthorn
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Posted at 21:42 on 14th April 2014

  Sorry Ruth not anything Royal.

             Just to confuse the issue in research I have seen the dates 1825 and 1835 as well as 1855 and the contents of the lamp being turpentine or camphor as well as kerosene, either way the principle is the same , the person is the same , and the consequences are the same. 



Edited by: Vince Hawthorn at:14th April 2014 21:56
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Ken Marshall
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Posted at 05:47 on 15th April 2014

Jean Baptiste Jolly noticed his tablecloth was cleaner after the contents of the lamp wet the tablecloth.He started a dry cleaning service that is credited as the earliest application of dry cleaning technology.His process did not use water so he called it dry cleaning.

 

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Vince Hawthorn
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Posted at 22:13 on 15th April 2014
  Spot on Ken well done, I did not give too much to go on so very good sir- over to you.
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rustyruth
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Posted at 22:22 on 15th April 2014
Well done Ken.
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