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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Started conversation Oct 6, 2009
What are the links between an Earl from Norfolk, A Viscount of Norfolk
and a Rock Band.
What were their influences on agriculture??
As usual, no Google or Wiki!!
Watch out for klaxons.
GT
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KB Posted Oct 6, 2009
Hmmm, let's see.
Jethro Tull? As in the seed drill (agriculture) and the flamingo-style flute player (music).
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Oct 6, 2009
Well, that made it an Easy start!!
Yes to Jethro Tull.
Yes to the seed drill.
And there was one or two other improvements he made....
Any ideas???
Now the Earl and the Viscounty may prove more difficult, I hope!!!
GT
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Oct 6, 2009
Yes KB! He made improvements to the plough.......
But he is more famous for another instrument that he invented, and the way that it was used!!
GT
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~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum Posted Oct 7, 2009
Flexible harness.
No yoke. 
~jwf~
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Oct 7, 2009
Close, ~jwf~, but no cigar!!
You may be on the right track with though!!
GT
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drt Posted Oct 7, 2009
ok ok, time to earn my first klaxon-
Viscount biscuits?
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Oct 7, 2009
Don't be 
drt!!
I will let you off this time.
Tread carefully though- there are a few klaxons waiting for the unwary!!!
GT
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drt Posted Oct 7, 2009
Nope, as per usual stumped in the initial stages, I know no search engines allowed and my books are at my parent's so silly is all I can manage at the mo.
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Oct 7, 2009
As per the intro, the links are agriculteral...........
So think farming...............
GT
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drt Posted Oct 7, 2009
I am trying to think farming, but got hung up on the Viscount. A Viscount is the offspring of a titled person, so whoever this is achieved something or had something named after them before inheriting title?
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Oct 7, 2009
Right drt!
Our Viscount was a second Viscount.....
Clue, clue, clue??????????
Yes, that will do.
He is better known by a nickname he earned due to one of his agricultural policies..........
Sorry if that is a little obtuce, but it is not meant to be easy!!!!!
GT
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drt Posted Oct 7, 2009
Also may I apologise for the blatant apostrophe misuse seen above! I would be a pedant if I was not so slapdash!
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drt Posted Oct 7, 2009
ok, agriculture and aristocrats. corn laws is going to get me klaxoned i think - enclosure acts? Also possible slavery link?
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Oct 7, 2009
Sorry drt, Corn Laws is a 
-5
Nothing to do with enclosure acts, and nothing to do with slavery.
Simple improvements in agriculture is what we are after.
GT
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drt Posted Oct 7, 2009
D*amn, saw that cominng. Am I the first person to go straight to a negative score!
Sleeping on this now.
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Oct 7, 2009
No drt, Taff is the master at klaxon collecting!!!
GT
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted Oct 7, 2009
trhe earl of sandwich and spinal tapps album shark sandwich, and its review
shark sandwich....S
T sandwich more like!!!!
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- 4: KB (Oct 6, 2009)
- 5: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Oct 6, 2009)
- 6: ~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum (Oct 7, 2009)
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