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Re: It turns out that the UK Parliament has a number of Vernians occupying those green and red benches

From: Garmt de Vries-Uiterweerd <garmtdevries~at~gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 12:49:06 +0200
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

Interesting, Harry! I looked up the proceeding of the Dutch
parliament, which are, unfortunately, only available online from 1995
onwards. I found five references to Jules Verne: one about the
Mysterious Island hydrogen discussion, one about mobility, and twice
by speakers who would go around the world not in 80 days, but in 10
minutes, in some debate on international politics. The most curious
reference I found in a bill on remunerations for damage to crops.
Apparently, the bulbs of the Longiflorum Jules Verne are worth 112.000
guilders (or 50.000 euro) per hectare.

Cheers,
Garmt.

2009/4/4 Harry Hayfield <harryhayfield~at~googlemail.com>:
> I have come across a website that lists every debate / speech in the Commons
> and Lords from 1803 - 2005 and on a whim searched for Jules Verne and came
> across a very interesting report indeed
>
> First Reference: March 16th 1911 by Robert Harcourt (Liberal, Montrose
> Burghs) in response to a statement by the First Lord of the Admirialty:
> "The right hon. Gentleman once wrote a book concerning an imaginary island.
> It did not meet with that entire favour which it deserved from the more
> animated members of his own party, so he proceeded to get out a second
> edition investing that imaginary island with a purely imaginary hostile
> fleet. Since the days of Jules Verne there has been nothing like it"
>
> Most recent reference: October 19th 2001 by Jane Griffiths (Labour, Reading
> East) in a debate on Clean Fuels:
> "In 1874, Jules Verne predicted the derivation of energy from water via
> hydrogen..."
>
> In total, Jules Verne was mentioned 48 times in all. You can read all the
> references at
> http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/search/Jules%20Verne?sort=reverse_date
>
>
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