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November 12[edit]

First woman to drive a train[edit]

In America, who was the first woman to become a train engineer on a mainline railroad, and when did that happen? 2601:646:9882:46E0:C195:DC40:D019:40A6 (talk) 07:56, 12 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Details at Christine Gonzalez. 2A00:23C4:79CD:B301:28A1:8FAC:6E98:FB23 (talk) 09:59, 12 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! 2601:646:9882:46E0:14C6:F9B5:5479:2A27 (talk) 03:15, 13 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Remembrance Sunday[edit]

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The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.

I have just been watching the Service of Remembrance from the Cenotaph on television. Every time the Bishop of London began reading the prayers the commentator started talking, drowning her out. Was this deliberate? 2A00:23C4:79CD:B301:28A1:8FAC:6E98:FB23 (talk) 12:08, 12 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure which channel you were watching, but BBC1 didn't do that. As to whether it was intentional, I would guess that the commentator (or their editor) arrogantly assumed that the prayers were boring and of no interest to the average viewer. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 12:56, 12 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I was watching the BBC News channel (the one with a red strip of breaking news at the bottom of the screen) and it happened repeatedly. 2A00:23C4:79CD:B301:28A1:8FAC:6E98:FB23 (talk) 13:06, 12 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There's the answer – a news channel is for telling what events are happening or have happened, it isn't intended for presenting a full and uninterrupted presentation of a single event. For those to whom the prayers were important, there were (as Martin of Sheffield said above) BBC1, live from 10:15, and BBC Radio 4, live from 10:30. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.2.5.208 (talk) 14:55, 12 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

But surely, for an event like the Service of Remembrance, the presentation could have been uninterrupted, with news updates on the scrolling feed. The interruptions to the prayers were simply to inform viewers who was at the ceremony - they could have waited a few minutes for the prayers to finish. 2A00:23C4:79CD:B301:C024:5C59:294:19ED (talk) 15:28, 12 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]