I don't know if (then state-owned) Air France did.

It's not a particularly flattering portrayal- the military success is shown as belonging to Boromir more than Denethor- but at least it shows him sane.

Whenever I'm in there, it seems busy. Part of the USP is that it's open 24/7 (something increasingly rare)...

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e6/55/f9/e655f9c6ae124664ad5c...

Then they replace the sign with one that reads "$10- put cash in letterbox"

Within an hour, the furniture is gone, though of course there's no cash!

I think this is also true for Orthodox monks.

I'm not sure if there's a Christian denomination that has pastors who aren't priests, and also has monks. So this sounds to me more like a situation where all fellow members of the church are addressed as Brother/Sister.

The Carthusians didn't use computers, and the Jesuits didn't need his help.

This actually makes sense of an anecdote a colleague uses to say that he thinks his phone is listening to him.

I am a keen skier. He used to ski a lot, but hasn't been for several years. Around the start of ski season this year, we talked about my plans to go skiing that weekend, and later that day he started seeing skiing-related ads.

He thinks it's because his phone listened into the conversation, but it could just as easily have been that it was spending more time near my phone (I had only recently started at that job) on which I regularly search for skiing-related things like conditions reports and directions to ski areas.

I'm fairly sure this is a mistake and is supposed to be "cat's meat"- in other words, cheap poor-quality meat sold as cat food, rather than the flesh of cats!

AFAIK the only London Zoo animals that were killed at the start of the war were the venomous/dangerous ones, because of the risk that they would escape if their cages were damaged by bombing.

(I thought it was just the venomous ones, so was a bit surprised about the tiger)

The zoo raised rabbits and guinea pigs to feed to the carnivorous animals.

Perhaps the best example of that is that, as one of the linked maps [0] says, both British people who rhyme "scone" with "gone" and those who rhyme it with "alone" think that the other pronunciation is the "posh" one.

[0]https://starkeycomics.com/2024/05/10/eight-british-and-irish...

Producing these (and other game components) requires specialized machinery which isn't made in the US. So even if someone did want to set up a board game manufacturing company in the US, they would now be hit by tariffs as they bought the machines they need.

Stegmaier says that possibly games where all the components are cards will be less affected, as there are companies in the US printing playing cards.

(In a normal racing rowing boat, the athlete sits on a sliding seat, while their shoes and the rigger with the oarlock are fixed to the boat. In the 1980s, boats were developed that had the shoes and rigger as a unit that slid, while the seat was fixed, which was more efficient as it meant that the boat hull and the athlete's mass moved together.)

On the other hand, first carbon-fibre oar shafts and later asymmetrical "hatchet" oar blades were adopted near-universally within a few years of their invention.

The Licensed Victuallers' Association was a mutual benefit society for pub landlords. As well as operating institutions like schools and almshouses, it ran an insurance company.

[0] https://www.reading.ac.uk/adlib/Details/collect/12943

In other words, nothing.