True or false?

[georg ruf jr.]

The author Ian Flemming named his super-agent James Bond after the author of his favorite book.

True or false? If it's not true, what is the truth?

[Melanie Jonker]

True - Ian Fleming was a bird freak - James Bond wrote a book about birds and that's where Ian took the name from, also 007 is the library code for reference books about birds

[georg ruf jr.]

Very good Melanie. Bravo!

[Carl Wrbka]

True or False.

NASA owns a piece of flat land outside Upington that has been strategically chosen as an emergency landing site for the Space Shuttle.

[georg ruf jr.]

It makes sence. I think it's true.

[Carl Wrbka]

   Yes it's true. Fortunately for NASA it hasn't been needed yet. In fact they have similar sites in quite a few countries.

[georg ruf jr.]

i checked it in google. No hits!

[Melanie Jonker]

The koala bear is synonymous with Australia

[Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee)]

True   -  due to the fact that they eat only eucalyptus leaves and that tree is indigenous to Australia.

Hope I am correct.

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

 spinningweed   and they get high.    That is true

[Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee)]

There are 3 people known who have survived the sinking of the Titanic and the sinking of her sister ship the Brittanica.

True or False?

[georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP)]

More then 3 survived

[georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP)]

Titanic

1490 to 1517 dead of total 2200

[georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP)]

Which ship catastrophy had the most dead in known history ????

[georg ruf jr.]

The stsatement was: " 3 of these sservivors also servived the Britannia". I missunderstood that at first too oldman.

It's no, because the Britannia still sails.
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