Halifax
About Halifax
Halifax is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England. It is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. In the 15th century, the town became an economic hub of the old West Riding of Yorkshire, primarily in woollen manufacture with the large Piece Hall square later built for trading wool in the town centre. The town was a thriving mill town during the Industrial Revolution with the Dean Clough Mill buildings a surviving landmark. In the 2021 census, the town was recorded as having a population of 88,134. It is also the administrative centre of the Calderdale Metropolitan Borough.
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It was called the Halifax Gibbet, but it was a mechanism for doing the same kind of thing. Daniel Defoe wrote about it, and he said there was this rule that if you could pull your head — so there was a pin that got pulled, and that dropped the chopper.
from No Such Thing As Cristiano Ronaldo Eating Pistachios, 2022-01-28 at 00:31:01 · read transcript
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Apparently, she did. Because apparently, witnesses reported an expression of unequivocal indignation on her face after she was slapped. Everyone thought, oh, maybe you actually last a bit longer. You last long enough to be annoyed by something. Yeah, for a while afterwards, there were a lot of studies into if that's the case, because of Charlotte's original guillotine invented in Halifax, West Yorkshire. Yeah. Good. Done.
411: No Such Thing As Cristiano Ronaldo Eating Pistachios, 2022-01-28 · listen
It left from Plymouth, as the original Mayflower did. England, England. Then it ended up accidentally somewhere in Canada where it Halifax. Then it did get to Plymouth in the end. It looks so pathetic because it pulls in next to the Mayflower 2. which is the exact replica of the Mayflower that was built in the 1950s, which I didn't know about, but that's obviously stunning.
No Such Thing As A Face Mite With A Laptop, 2022-07-28 · listen
Did you guys see the picture of the robot Mayflower when it was pulling in, when it finally landed at Plymouth, which it did eventually, so it left from Plymouth as the original Mayflower did. England Plymouth. England Plymouth, England, yep, and then it ended up accidentally somewhere in Canada where Halifax. Halifax. Then it did get to Plymouth in the end, but it looks so pathetic because it pulls in next to the Mayflower 2, which is the exact replica of the Mayflower that was built in the 1950s, which I didn't know about, but that's obviously stunning.
437: No Such Thing As A Face Mite With A Laptop, 2022-07-29 · listen
How do we know if Superman isn't made out of garlic? It's time for a final fact. to the show and that is James. My fact this week is that in 1945, police in Halifax, Nova Scotia initiated a campaign to stop people from beeping their car horns in Morse code to signal out vile and filthy language. What were they saying in the Morse code? Do we know?
No Such Thing As Garlic Superman, 2016-12-16 · listen
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