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There was no desert on the map anywhere (there is now due to some global warming). There has never been any tundra, I think. All 4 remaining civs are well into the modern age, have flight (but cannot and have not built any planes), have the techs for tanks but have none. Destroyers would...

I'm playing a game without oil as well (I noticed when I couldn't build tanks), I've explored the entire world and traded world maps with every other civ. Somehow however the Greeks have managed to build a destroyer, when according to the Civilopedia oil is a prerequisite for one to be built...

Allah means exactly the same as God, with the capital G does in English (as opposed to ila,which means god - small g - as in thor is the Norse god of thunder). It does not imply in any way that it is a purely Islamic god. It could possibly be used in such a way as to imply that the God of...

Sorry to revive this ageing thread but I just had to mention one more film, Frightmare (the UK 1974 version directed by Pete Walker, not a later US film of the same name). Absolutely superb, well worth tracking down on video/DVD, although it doesn't seem to be available through shops. A superb...

There are some technologies which cannot be researched, they are triggered by events. These techs are marked in yellow on the poster (if you've got that). Wormhole Genesis requires the defeat of an Urdar, whilst Wormhole Control requires the defeat of a Dondash. (Long pause while I try to...

Lots of US shows make it to Britain, if you've got Sky/cable, and are prepared to look around. I've seen US Whose Line... and Junkyard Wars. I expect most (or all) or what is on US channels like Animal Planet makes it to the British version.

You ought to be running the latest (1.21) patch. I'm not sure if it will work without (I think it probably will but there may be unexpected effects). The patch can be downloaded from www.civ3.com or www.civfanatics.com - the link is fairly easy to find.

If it is zipped, unzip it using Winzip (download from www.winzip.com); right click the iconon your desktop and click "Extract Here" to do so. Load up Civ 3 then click Load Game then hit the Up icon (just above Auto) a couple of times until you find Windows, click that then click Desktop and the...

In continental Europe cycling is massive, and lots of people do travel around to see it, especially the big tours. It gets very little coverage in UK media though. I shouldn't be surprised to hear that it is second only to football, since most other sports tend to be much more regional (rugby...

I remember seeing a US talk show on which Sally Jesse Raphael asked a girl if she had been out all night gangbanging. That was when I discovered that "gangbanging" in the US doesn't mean the same as it does in Britain.

Slightly OT, ESPN were supposed to be launching a European sports channel after they sold their stake in Eurosport. Anyone know if this is going to happen?

Young female - good; male or old female - really, really bad.

Voted for C4, but you should have added British Eurosport and Sky (and perhaps ITV Sport for a laugh).

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6734&highlight=Plumbing is the link to the discussion about plumbing. Thunderfall it was.

I think one of the moderators on this forum, from memory either Smash or Thunderfall, posted a picture of a caption displaying "The French have discovered Plumbing" - apparently on an unmodded game. I seem to recall seeing it myself on my PS version, but it was when I was first learning the...