Comments on: Title fight http://www.redbadge.co.uk/egg/index.php/2006/05/15/title-fight/ Parts of it are excellent Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:34:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Pete http://www.redbadge.co.uk/egg/index.php/2006/05/15/title-fight/comment-page-1/#comment-519 Pete Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:43:38 +0000 http://www.redbadge.co.uk/egg/?p=53#comment-519 Finally back in the real world... <blockquote>...aren’t you forgetting the Cologne to Brussels line, which crossed the border between Germany and Belgium in 1843?</blockquote> Errm, yes. That's what I get for a) making a feeble joke and b) relying on information from railway enthusiasts without checking. Oh well. In mitigation I can only plead that my degree is in Egyptian Archaeology... Finally back in the real world…

…aren’t you forgetting the Cologne to Brussels line, which crossed the border between Germany and Belgium in 1843?

Errm, yes. That’s what I get for a) making a feeble joke and b) relying on information from railway enthusiasts without checking. Oh well. In mitigation I can only plead that my degree is in Egyptian Archaeology…

]]> By: Kevin Flynn http://www.redbadge.co.uk/egg/index.php/2006/05/15/title-fight/comment-page-1/#comment-477 Kevin Flynn Thu, 06 Jul 2006 14:02:57 +0000 http://www.redbadge.co.uk/egg/?p=53#comment-477 "...the 150th anniversary of the railway from Edinburgh to Berwick (the first international railway line!),..." Hmm... Even if we grant the Anglo-Scottish border in 1850 "international" status -- and many if not most wouldn't -- aren't you forgetting the Cologne to Brussels line, which crossed the border between Germany and Belgium in 1843? “…the 150th anniversary of the railway from Edinburgh to Berwick (the first international railway line!),…”

Hmm… Even if we grant the Anglo-Scottish border in 1850 “international” status — and many if not most wouldn’t — aren’t you forgetting the Cologne to Brussels line, which crossed the border between Germany and Belgium in 1843?

]]> By: Ideum Weblog » Blog Archive » Museum Blog Round Up:5 http://www.redbadge.co.uk/egg/index.php/2006/05/15/title-fight/comment-page-1/#comment-460 Ideum Weblog » Blog Archive » Museum Blog Round Up:5 Fri, 02 Jun 2006 18:23:27 +0000 http://www.redbadge.co.uk/egg/?p=53#comment-460 [...] The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis shares some Development(al) Thoughts. While the Curator’s Egg talks titles, in the post Title fight the curator asks… I wonder occasionally how much difference the title makes. Some I have seen are prosaic (”Gold of the Pharaohs” - an exhibition of, well, the gold of, errm, some pharaohs) was a smash hit in Edinburgh in 1988. A touring exhibition, I believe. A subsequent blockbuster attempt in 1990, on the Incas iirc, fared less well. I wonder if the title (”Sweat of the Sun”) had anything to do with it?** [...] [...] The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis shares some Development(al) Thoughts. While the Curator’s Egg talks titles, in the post Title fight the curator asks… I wonder occasionally how much difference the title makes. Some I have seen are prosaic (”Gold of the Pharaohs” - an exhibition of, well, the gold of, errm, some pharaohs) was a smash hit in Edinburgh in 1988. A touring exhibition, I believe. A subsequent blockbuster attempt in 1990, on the Incas iirc, fared less well. I wonder if the title (”Sweat of the Sun”) had anything to do with it?** [...]

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