On this day

Originally posted by wolfgang59
[b[BUT
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/uranus
(with audio)
gives both pronunciations.

So the joke does work.[/b]

Originally posted by karoly aczel
Yeah, for 5 year olds

31st March
On this day 100 years ago the US took possession of the US Virgin Islands having
agreed the deal a year before with Denmark.

The islanders although US citizens are not allowed to vote for
"their" President and are therefore in no way to blame for Trump.

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
Aside, maybe, from astronomers, who gives a rats anus, how it's pronounced?

Originally posted by HandyAndy
Uranians.

Originally posted by sonhouse
No, Uranians is what you use to make nuclear bombs.....

Originally posted by HandyAndy
Uranium was named after the planet, which was named after the Greek god of the sky, who devised the optical illusion that Earth is flat.

I was born.

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
I was born.

Zacharias Geizkofler von Gailen­bach und Hauns­heim died 1617


he had been Reichs­pfennigmeister of the Holy German Empire since 1597.

Originally posted by Ponderable
Zacharias Geizkofler von Gailen­bach und Hauns­heim died 1617

he had been Reichs­pfennigmeister of the Holy German Empire since 1597.

Originally posted by HandyAndy
Was bedeutet Reichs­pfennigmeister?

Originally posted by Ponderable
MOre or less the guy responsible for the finances of the Reichscourts.

Originally posted by HandyAndy
But why pfennig?

Originally posted by Ponderable
It was a small coin during most time of German money.