No worries! But yeah, we were both thinking of the same news item when reading Confessor's post. So interesting how these scenarios can come up.

The term "Jerrys" came from "Jerry pot", which was a British slang term for a chamber pot that was used for urinating and defecating in if you couldn't be bothered to go to the outhouse. The German's distinctive WW2 helmets apparently reminded British soldiers of these Jerry pots. Hence why it was a derogatory term.

Apparently Atlantis was in Tunisia.

"Borchardt, a German archaeologist, claimed to have located Atlantis between the Chotts and the Gulf of Gabes in Tunisia. He believed he had discovered Atlantean ruins at Qabes, but these ruins were later found to be of Roman origin. He informed us that Chott Djerid had also been known locally as Bahr Atala (Sea of Atlas). Hofmann supports the idea of Atlantis as a Bronze Age city located in North Africa. He believes that the Chotts in what are today Algeria and Tunisia originally constituted the lake Tritonis of Greek legend and was also known as the Atlantic Sea and connected to the Mediterranean at the Gulf of Gabes, where the ‘Pillars of Heracles’ were situated. Zhang identified a site between the Chott Melrhir and Chott Djerid perfectly fitting with Plato’s description of Atlantis.

This paper will review the climate research findings clearly defining the start and end of the last green Sahara, which include the Atlas Empire era according to Plato. The water cycle stability in the Atlas Basin will be explained for the abruptness of these transitions. The geographical features will be compared with Plato’s account and a possible inundation process will be explored."

125 years ago today, the London Electric Cab Company began operating the first taxicab in London’s West End. They had a speed of 9mph, and a range of 30 miles. They were withdrawn a mere 3 years later as they were uneconomical.

It’s interesting to think that electric cars - or attempts at them - aren’t a new phenomena.

I like this:

70,000 years ago, the supervolcano Toba in Indonesia blew in the biggest Volcanic explosion known. A thousand times more powerful than Vesuvius, it blasted 650 Sq miles of Rock and dust into the atmosphere, resulting in a volcanic winter lasting years.
The Human population dropped to a few thousand individuals and we almost became extinct.

I cannot be tolerant of creationist. First, they are factually and historically wrong, there is not two sides to this. Second, they do not live peacefully, they attack evolution and science in general, trying to force their warped religious ideology on everyone. At least here in the US.