Cambridge
About Cambridge
Cambridge is a city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It is the county town of Cambridgeshire and is located on the River Cam, 55 miles (89 km) north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of the City of Cambridge was 145,700; the population of the wider built-up area was 181,137. There is archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dating back to as early as the Bronze Age, and Cambridge became an important trading centre during the Roman and Viking eras. The first town charters were granted in the 12th century, although modern city status was not officially conferred until 1951.
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Dan and I were walking through Cambridge yesterday. Dan pointed to a quite new-looking building. He said, you know what? I can't believe that building was built in 1588. I said, no, Dan, that that is the street number of that house.
from No Such Thing As A 200m Baguette, 2019-11-15 at 00:06:36 · read transcript
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An urban climbing stegophily has a long history in Oxford and Cambridge University So the first urban climber was a guy called Jeffrey Winthrop Young who published a book called the Roof Climbers Guide to Trinity at College at Cambridge and it gave really detailed instructions on which routes to take up and then there was another guy called Noel Howard Simington who wrote one in 1937 again Nine Climbers Guide to Cambridge and his pseudonym was Whipple Snaith And this is so weird the person who reviewed his book and wrote about the details of Climbing up Cambridge buildings was also called Whipple. He was called Tom Whipple So the modern-day Cambridge building climber is called Tom Whipple.
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I was trying to point going through the British newspaper archive trying to pinpoint the moment that we definitively lost the D. I think it's roughly 1920. So you're interested. It really took off again with Oxford and Cambridge competing against each other in the 60s, didn't it? It became a real source of pride for Cambridge. They had this notorious match. It was in, It was in 1958, and it was this guy called Peter Downs, who was head of the Tiddler Wings Society at Cambridge, and he wrote to Prince Philip, saying, Prince Philip, have you noticed there's been an article written in The Spectator claiming you cheat at Tiddly Wings?
No Such Thing As Tiddlywinks In The Wild West, 2022-02-25 · listen
First world war he's like I've solved philosophy yes now about these doors you're welcome although then he decided against that and I think went back to it by 1929 and wrote his other great work so he he initially studied at Cambridge as James said under Bertrand Russell and when he arrived there he seemed like a bit of a cocky dick when it came to philosophies like as in I'm surprised Russell didn't go get out of here at some of the stuff.
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