Chris S
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Potato bread - it was just a way of using up left-over potatoes. It's now sold to gullible American tourists as a gourmet delicacy.
Known as Fadge locally.. It's a mighty fine way of using up left over spuds, especially in a full Ulster (just the 6 counties) fry..... It's also one of those creations that only your granny can make properly, even though the "recipe" has been handed down since 1657 or somethingPotato bread - it was just a way of using up left-over potatoes. It's now sold to gullible American tourists as a gourmet delicacy.
Learned to drive by sitting on my grandas knee on his TE20 that still runs to this day (diesel variant) A few years later after his death(1993 when I was 5), I was unleashed and allowed to drive it solo. Firstly just tractor, then trailers then implements.The Ferguson 3point hydraulic linkage as used on the TE20 little grey tractor. It revolutionised farm mechanisation.
I've read that the Mad Hatter's tea party was a satire on Quaternions. I can't remember the detailed reasons why the author thought this was the case.quaternions were invented by Sir William Rowan Hamilton
He was a very eminent Irish mathematician & physicist who decided that the everyday imaginary numbers we did at school just weren't imaginary enough so he came up with quaternions which are even more imaginary. Apparently when he suddenly realised the secret ingredient needed to make them work whilst on an evening walk he carved it into the stone of a canal bridge in Dublin.
After googling, found that the commemorative plaque on the bridge says this
Here as he walked by
on the 16th of October 1843
Sir William Rowan Hamilton
in a flash of genius discovered
the fundamental formula for
quaternion multiplication
i² = j² = k² = ijk = −1
& cut it on a stone of this bridge
I've read that the Mad Hatter's tea party was a satire on Quaternions. I can't remember the detailed reasons why the author thought this was the case.
Lewis Carroll was a mathematician but a very conservative one, and didn't have any truck with these fancy new ideas.