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A bumble bee is completely clearing up before you can access beehive. (Very house proud, these bumble bees: they don’t like visitors to see how untidy their home usually is.)
 
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Ashley Hill said:
Sounds like a taxi company.
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The one whose name nobody can remember so they call A2B Cabs instead.
Gloster said:
A bumble bee is completely clearing up before you can access beehive. (Very house proud, these bumble bees: they don’t like visitors to see how untidy their home usually is.)
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Ingenious and your thinking is in the right direction it just needs to be a bit further outside the box.
 
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Seems that it must be something like, "A bee buzzes, 'I can see you', before you can be [visually aware of it]" -- obviously that won't be it word-for-word !
 
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Calthrop said:
Seems that it must be something like, "A bee buzzes, 'I can see you', before you can be [visually aware of it]" -- obviously that won't be it word-for-word !
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You are essentially correct, the actual answer is "A bee's eye sees you before you see a bee." but you're near enough for me. Your turn...
 
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You are essentially correct, the actual answer is "A bee's eye sees you before you see a bee." but you're near enough for me. Your turn...
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Magnanimous of you, I feel -- at all events, thanks.

With it being this time of year: a World War I-related question. Below: three regions in which, in that war, combat took place. Names given here, are those by which those regions were known at that actual time in history. Please identify them geographically / per present-day titles.

Galicia

Mesopotamia

German South-West Africa
 
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Calthrop said:
Magnanimous of you, I feel -- at all events, thanks.

With it being this time of year: a World War I-related question. Below: three regions in which, in that war, combat took place. Names given here, are those by which those regions were known at that actual time in history. Please identify them geographically / per present-day titles.

Galicia

Mesopotamia

German South-West Africa
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Galicia Poland/Ukraine
Mesoptamia Iraq
German South West Africa Namibia.
 
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DaleCooper said:
Thank you.

Next question:

According to eminent computer scientist and mathematician Donald Knuth what is a "potrzebie"?
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I happened to know that potrzebie is a Polish noun meaning "need or "want"; but that can't be anything to do with this Donald-thingy chap and his expertises.
 
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Calthrop said:
I happened to know that potrzebie is a Polish noun meaning "need or "want"; but that can't be anything to do with this Donald-thingy chap and his expertises.
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True but it has another, possibly wider, usage which inspired the young Donald Knuth to define it a new way.
 
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