Other regions of the world, including India and China, also have early evidence of water clocks, but the earliest dates are less certain. It is therefore not surprising that opening a Fish Bar on the site of temple to a fish god is a bad move.

Page 210 - "'Hi-ho -- '-- hi-ho --' 'Oook oook oook oook ook --'" The best-known song in Walt Disney's 1937 full length animation movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is sung by the seven dwarfs (also referenced on p. the kind of song where people dance in the street and give the singer apples and join in and a dozen lowly match girls suddenly show amazing choreographical ability [. Perhaps we're adding just the right amount of camphor to the nitro-cellulose after all --'" In reality, nitro-cellulose (also known as guncotton) is an extremely explosive substance that was discovered by people trying to make artificial ivory for billiard balls.Page 27 - The Sunshine Sanctuary for Sick Dragons resonates with all the real and pseudo care and rehabilitation facilties for every type of animal imaginable in Roundworld.

Besides supplying the name for a Goth music group, the New Model Army was the Parliamentarian army which turned the tide of the English Civil War, and ensured the defeat of King Charles I. The 1986 Stephen King creation of Pennywise the clown in It led to the 1990 TV mini series of the same name as well as later movies, Since then the number of evil and malevolent clowns is too extensive to list here. This is not surprising given the fact that his ancestor led 600 men (the same number as in the Charge of the Light Brigade) to glorious defeat at the Battle of Quirm.Page 48 - 49 - Angua's conversation with Gaspode give a further hint that she must not be human if she can speak the same language as a dog. Page 261 - The description of Big Fido, the poodle, fighting every dog until he is the alpha dog of the pack resonates with countless prison and gang movie plots where the new man on the block takes on the gang or inmate leader to become the new alpha male. like a loose siege catapult" Apart from the Gonne, Discworld is still in the earlier stages of weapon development so he couldn't be blundering around 'like a loose cannon' yet. Page 63 - Bloody Stupid Johnson is a regular feature in Pratchett's novels, always creating something that does not work the way it was intended - the Mail Sorter in Going Postal and the bathroom in Unseen University.

Both dissect bodies, create the equivalent of a helicopter and a flying machine with flapping wings. Croesus was extremely wealthy and his defeat had a major impact on the Greeks, providing a fixed point in their calendar. In music allegro ma non troppo means a tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played allegro, but not too much so. The Jammy Devils are a pastry with a jam filling but are also a Scottish rock and roll band - whether they were around when the book was written or were known to Pratchett is undetermined.As in ancient China, the alchemists know that the described compound can be used for fireworks but have not grasped its potential as gunpowder in a weapon. The rhyme is said to be about the mob of Dutchmen that William of Orange brought over with him to England in 1688, with the "one in a velvet gown" being the Prince himself. Since Trolls are made of rock (silicon based) cutting up a rock would not be popular with them in the same way that being treated as an object (slavery, colonialism) is not popular with African Americans and natives.

Pratchett plays with the concept that Unseen University's bell would naturally be a silent one so that it would not give away the 'unseen' aspect of the university's location.

Rings may be sent from one party to another as tokens of love, distress, identification, used as signets, and so forth and are perhaps the most useful pieces of jewelry for purposes of communication or of intrigue. Clowns' faces are trademarked and cannot be copied by any other clown (unlike clothes or a specific act). A knight, who was a man who served his sovereign or lord as a mounted soldier in armor and night time, in this case a cop who works the graveyard shift . The obvious allusion is that if he doesn't leave town in a hurry, Carrot will make sure that he is hospitalized and not able to.