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DaleCooper

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Neo9320 said:
Time travel device?
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You're the nearest and as it was a difficult one I'll accept your answer. Here's the full story from Wikipedia:
Integratron
The Integratron is a 38 feet (12 m) tall cupola structure with a diameter of 55 feet (17 m) designed by ufologist and contactee George Van Tassel. Van Tassel claimed the Integratron was capable of rejuvenation, anti-gravity and time travel. He built the structure in Landers, California (near Joshua Tree), following instructions that Van Tassel vehemently claimed were provided directly to him by visitors from the planet Venus. The Integratron machine was started in 1957, the structure erected in 1959. It was financed predominantly by donations, including funds from Howard Hughes.
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DaleCooper said:
You're the nearest and as it was a difficult one I'll accept your answer. Here's the full story from Wikipedia:
Integratron

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From that description I’m sure I’ve seen a YouTube video on that, but the name just didn’t ring a bell. Again, I didn’t really earn that one so OPEN FLOOR PLEASE!
 
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MotCO said:
Is it anything to do with David Steele, the cricketer?
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A regiment in or around Northampton - something to do with the army.

Lancashire are known as "Lightning" because...they couldn't come up with anything better that began with "L".
 
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Howardh said:
A regiment in or around Northampton - something to do with the army
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That’ll do. The cricket team’s website says “The Steelbacks take their name from the county’s British Army regiment founded in 1881, a nickname they received for their courage, determination and indifference to the harsh discipline of their officers”. The blunter way of putting it is that they apparently withstood all manner of beatings with the cat o’ one tails without showing any sign it was painful

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Where in the world can you be in France for six months, and Spain for six months, but never move?
 
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DaleCooper said:
I think this is an island in a river that forms the border between France and Spain but I can't remember any more detail.
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Ah -- didn't we have this in the General Knowledge Quiz a few years ago? -- called Pheasant Island or something? (@DaleCooper -- not trying to steal a march on you here in the hope of getting the question !)
 
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Calthrop said:
Complete guess -- Andorra: part of its special and peculiar status?
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Good thinking but no!

DaleCooper said:
I think this is an island in a river that forms the border between France and Spain but I can't remember any more detail.
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Is the correct answer - Pheasant Island it is! I was one of those who suggested Tim Traveller go and visit, and he did!

 
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Sorry, been away from my computer for the weekend.

What do the following countries have in common

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