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Ocelot Spleens Jul 2023 9:46pm, 23 Jul 2023 37,685 posts	0 Ocelot Spleens I think it's debatable. Google tells me shark and their ancestors 450 million years, first true shark 380 million, first trees 390 to 370 million years ago.
Dvorak Jul 2023 10:51pm, 23 Jul 2023 27,100 posts	0 Dvorak Ordinary window glass lets through 50% or more of UVA radiation. (I've been lying in the greenhouse much of the day, much of it sunny.)
ChrisHB Jul 2023 11:04pm, 23 Jul 2023 22,580 posts	0 ChrisHB Greenhouse glass had different properties, doesn't it? (If not I can write an additonal entry in this thread when someone has corrected me.)
Diogenes Jul 2023 1:41pm, 24 Jul 2023 80,469 posts	0 Diogenes According to Wikipedia, Dave Rowbotham, former guitarist of local post-punk groups Durutti Column, The Invisible Girls and The Mothmen, lived there [Burnage, Manchester] in a flat until November 1991, when his dead body was found, having been killed by an axe murderer.* *The source for this names the murder weapon as a lathe hammer. Wiki's own entry for Rowbotham describes it as a plasterer's hammer. Google confirms these are synonyms and one end of the hammer head does have an axe-like form. (As of 2018 no one had been convicted of his murder)
Cerrertonia Jul 2023 2:41pm, 24 Jul 2023 19,293 posts	0 Cerrertonia [Perhaps you do know this, Dvorak -The short film Cowboy Dave is about him, as is the Happy Mondays song.]
Diogenes Jul 2023 2:43pm, 24 Jul 2023 80,471 posts	0 Diogenes [I learnt these things today also, Cerrers.)
Cerrertonia Jul 2023 2:48pm, 24 Jul 2023 19,294 posts	0 Cerrertonia [Sorry - it was you, not Dvorak. I just learned that three members of the durutti column left the band to join Simply Red, which is quite a change in musical direction.]
Diogenes Jul 2023 2:51pm, 24 Jul 2023 80,473 posts	0 Diogenes [Sadly none of them was an axe-murderer]
swittle Jul 2023 3:27pm, 24 Jul 2023 98,811 posts	0 swittle A lath hammer, maybe:
Ocelot Spleens Jul 2023 4:00pm, 24 Jul 2023 37,702 posts	0 Ocelot Spleens what a lath hammer is.