Alexandria
About Alexandria
Alexandria is a major city in Egypt. Lying at the western edge of the Nile River Delta, it extends about 40 km (25 mi) along the country's northern coast. It is Egypt's principal seaport, the second largest city after Cairo, and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. Founded in 331 BC by Alexander the Great, Alexandria is one of the largest and most important cities of antiquity and a leading hub for science, culture, and scholarship.
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He went to Alexandria and was really excited about it. Then he wrote back saying, "A certain Thompson of Sunderland has inscribed his name in letters six feet high on Pompey's column. It can be read a quarter of a mile off."
from No Such Thing As The Mysterious Chamber, 2019-01-04 at 00:03:22 · read transcript
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Exactly. The motion sensor thing. where you were doing. Exactly. Yeah. There's evidence that Hero slash Heron of Alexandria actually invented an automatic door using pneumatics and using water and so on in order to get it open and close. He was an amazing guy. This guy was extraordinary. He was a guy who invented he invented the first vending machine. It was a coin operated vending machine.
No Such Thing As A Mousetrap-Remote-Control, 2015-09-25 · listen
Because it's electric, you would think. The electric... The motion sensor thing where you would say... Exactly. There's evidence that hero slash heron of Alexandria actually invented an automatic door using pneumatics and using water and so on in order to get it open and closed. He was an amazing guy. This guy was extraordinary. He was the guy who invented... He invented the first vending machine.
80: No Such Thing As A Mousetrap-Remote-Control, 2015-09-25 · listen
They had a copy of every book, or they were trying to get one. The Ptolemies, with the pharaohs at the time, they're all called Ptolemy basically, and they would hunt for manuscripts everywhere, right? They would send out, if a foreign ship sailed into Alexandria, it was searched for scrolls, and then they'd be confiscated and copied out, and then given back. All of this was on papyrus, right?
526: No Such Thing As An Angry Banana, 2024-04-11 · listen
I'm afraid not the whole population of the podcast was invited. It is time for fact number three, and that is my fact. My fact was sent in by Luke Haynes, that was on email. In 47 BC, there was a giant robot Cleopatra walking the streets of Alexandria, squirting milk from her breasts onto the heads of onlookers. Okay. Yes. This was sent to you personally, was it done?
No Such Thing As A Magic Donkey, 2017-04-21 · listen
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- Sunderland · United Kingdom
Coordinates: 31.1975, 29.8925