mal wrote:John Nash day tomorrow
38th anniversary
will you be celebrating???
by mighty_tiger_79 » Sat Jan 18, 2014 8:09 pm
mal wrote:John Nash day tomorrow
38th anniversary
by dedja » Sat Jan 18, 2014 8:19 pm
by Psyber » Sun Jan 19, 2014 12:29 pm
mal wrote:John Nash day tomorrow
38th anniversary
John Nash may refer to:
John Nash (MP) (1590–1661), English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1640 and 1648
John Nash (architect) (1752–1835), Anglo-Welsh architect
John Nash Round, English architect active in the mid-19th-century Kent
John Nash (footballer) (1867–1939), English footballer
John Nash (artist) (1893–1977), English painter and engraver
John Nash (cricket administrator) (1906–1977), English Secretary of Yorkshire County Cricket Club, 1931–1971
John Francis Nash (1909–2004), American railroad executive
John Forbes Nash, Jr. (born 1928), American mathematician, 1994 Nobel Economics laureate, subject of the book and film titled A Beautiful Mind
Johnny Nash (born 1940), African-American pop singer-songwriter
John Nash, Baron Nash (born 1949), British peer, government minister and businessman
John J. Nash (died 1989), Irish Fianna Fáil politician
John Nash (basketball), American basketball executive
by daysofourlives » Sun Jan 19, 2014 1:41 pm
Psyber wrote:mal wrote:John Nash day tomorrow
38th anniversary
Which John Nash?
Wikipedia:John Nash may refer to:
John Nash (MP) (1590–1661), English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1640 and 1648
John Nash (architect) (1752–1835), Anglo-Welsh architect
John Nash Round, English architect active in the mid-19th-century Kent
John Nash (footballer) (1867–1939), English footballer
John Nash (artist) (1893–1977), English painter and engraver
John Nash (cricket administrator) (1906–1977), English Secretary of Yorkshire County Cricket Club, 1931–1971
John Francis Nash (1909–2004), American railroad executive
John Forbes Nash, Jr. (born 1928), American mathematician, 1994 Nobel Economics laureate, subject of the book and film titled A Beautiful Mind
Johnny Nash (born 1940), African-American pop singer-songwriter
John Nash, Baron Nash (born 1949), British peer, government minister and businessman
John J. Nash (died 1989), Irish Fianna Fáil politician
John Nash (basketball), American basketball executive
by dedja » Sun Jan 19, 2014 3:19 pm
by Footy Chick » Sun Jan 19, 2014 3:21 pm
Gatt_Weasel wrote:if they (Walkerville) dont win the flag ill run around the block of my street naked :) you can grab a chair and enjoy the view
by Booney » Mon Jan 20, 2014 1:03 pm
dedja wrote:Rex Jory can assist you ...
IT was one of the sillier things I've done. On a windy January Monday in 1976, I joined 2000 people at Glenelg.
We faced the sea and waited to be swamped, indeed obliterated, by a tidal wave.
We knew, of course, that nothing would happen.
But Melbourne housepainter John Nash predicted the catastrophe after he had a dream that much of Adelaide would be wiped out by an earthquake and tidal wave at noon on January 19, 1976.
His prediction became rumour which swept the city. The rumour became an inevitable fact.
People sold beachfront properties for bargain prices. Occupancy at foreshore hotels and motels dropped to 25 per cent. Staff absenteeism doubled.
Hundreds of people, particularly of Greek and Italian backgrounds, fled inland as far as the Riverland, their cars loaded with personal possessions, to avoid the ocean-generated holocaust.
One couple arrived in the Renmark with a goldfish in a bowl.
At Barmera, the caravan park had the "full'' sign out and turned dozens of people away.
The BBC sent a television crew to Glenelg from London to record the predicted catastrophe.
Media from across Australia were there. A Sydney radio station did its regular morning show from Adelaide to record the Big Wave.
At Glenelg, the mood of the crowd was somewhere between hysteria and hilarity.
No one seriously believed there would be a tidal wave, but it was sort of fun to be there just in case.
On the beach, a brisk sea breeze whipped up flopping waves big enough to topple a toddler but too small to tempt even a novice surfer.
The Premier, Don Dunstan, mingled with the crowd, assuring people nothing would happen.
Some of the true believers wore flippers and goggles. A few carried surfboards.
One man came in a dinner suit, saying he wanted to die in style.
As midday approached, Mr Dunstan appeared on the balcony of the Pier Hotel and told the crowd
we had nothing to fear. There would be no disaster.
He drew a great cheer when he said Mr Nash, who made the prediction, would not be welcome in Adelaide again.
But we were ready to cheer anything.
At midday there was a bit of a count down, 4000 eyes looked to sea and as history didn't need to record, nothing happened.
We knew there would be no tidal wave.
But we went, nevertheless.
Within minutes, laughing toddlers were again scampering from the flopping waves. The crowd filtered into restaurants and bars.
The following morning ,The Advertiser in an admonishing editorial said: "Hopefully, the lesson we should all have learnt from yesterday's pathetic anticlimax is to rely more on our common sense and less on the silly and unscientific speculation of self-appointed soothsayers.''
Perhaps. But, in an odd way, I'm glad I was there.
by LaughingKookaburra » Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:10 am
by mal » Tue Jan 21, 2014 9:21 am
by mal » Tue Jan 21, 2014 11:47 am
by The Apostle » Tue Apr 29, 2014 9:11 pm
by dedja » Tue Apr 29, 2014 9:12 pm
by dedja » Tue Apr 29, 2014 9:27 pm
The Apostle wrote:BUMP!!!
Anyone feel it? Happened around 7:27pm local time. I was sitting at home on the computer and the whole house vibrated for about 10-15 seconds.
by Footy Chick » Tue Apr 29, 2014 10:09 pm
Gatt_Weasel wrote:if they (Walkerville) dont win the flag ill run around the block of my street naked :) you can grab a chair and enjoy the view
by dedja » Tue Apr 29, 2014 10:10 pm
by Footy Chick » Tue Apr 29, 2014 10:12 pm
Gatt_Weasel wrote:if they (Walkerville) dont win the flag ill run around the block of my street naked :) you can grab a chair and enjoy the view
by mal » Wed Apr 30, 2014 10:30 am
by The Apostle » Wed Apr 30, 2014 6:32 pm
by mighty_tiger_79 » Wed Jun 04, 2014 6:09 pm
by mal » Sun Nov 09, 2014 9:57 am
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