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    A weighty issue

    Apr 07, 2020 5 minutes

    “May you live in interesting times,” is said to be the translation of an oriental curse, and means the opposite of how it reads. The first reported usage of the English version dates back more than 100 years to Joseph Chamberlain, a government minister, MP and mayor of that fine gun-making city, Birmingham. They were actually probably rather good times for the arms manufacturers of the second city, and Joe owned factories making screws there. Today, things are still ‘interesting, so to speak.

    Lead and lead

    Lead (led): a grey metallic element, soft and malleable with a density of 11.34gm per cubic centimetre. A weighty metal. Lead (leed): the distance ahead of a moving target that the point of aim of a gun must be placed, to ensure the shot intersects with and hits the target. This is sometimes known as forward

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