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Previously on "Nearly close to famous"

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by Whorty View Post

    Feel free to be helpful, rather than a child, and show me where the zoom is when I open in Chrome as there wasn't one on my window

    As I say, works perfectly on my phone.

    I'm not a geek, so no not as 'clever' as you.

    Next.
    oh grouchy!

    double click on the mouse.

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  • Paddy
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    Originally posted by ladymuck View Post

    I wasn't born in London

    Nor on the south coast, where I spent my formative years.
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  • Whorty
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    Originally posted by ladymuck View Post

    It does zoom on PC - I'm on windoze w/firefox and the mouse scroll wheel zooms just fine
    Just got a laptop with mouse pad ... no probs though, works fine on phone

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  • Whorty
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post

    Blimey even I managed it, you sure you are all there???
    Feel free to be helpful, rather than a child, and show me where the zoom is when I open in Chrome as there wasn't one on my window

    As I say, works perfectly on my phone.

    I'm not a geek, so no not as 'clever' as you.

    Next.

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  • ladymuck
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    Originally posted by northernladuk View Post
    I've zoomed all over London and can't see ladymuck anywhere. Must be broken.
    I wasn't born in London

    Nor on the south coast, where I spent my formative years.

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  • northernladuk
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    I've zoomed all over London and can't see ladymuck anywhere. Must be broken.

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  • ladymuck
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    Originally posted by Whorty View Post

    Am I missing something? I don't see an option to zoom

    Edit - zooms on phone, just not on pc
    It does zoom on PC - I'm on windoze w/firefox and the mouse scroll wheel zooms just fine

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by Whorty View Post

    Am I missing something? I don't see an option to zoom

    Edit - zooms on phone, just not on pc
    Blimey even I managed it, you sure you are all there???

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  • Whorty
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    Originally posted by northernladuk View Post
    Love these sites where you zoom in and more and more data pops up. Very cool.
    Am I missing something? I don't see an option to zoom

    Edit - zooms on phone, just not on pc
    Last edited by Whorty; 1 August 2022, 21:25.

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  • northernladuk
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    Love these sites where you zoom in and more and more data pops up. Very cool.

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  • xoggoth
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    Gosh. What a lot of people I've never heard of born near me!

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  • NotAllThere
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    Biggest scientist from Africa - Richard Dawkins. Runner up - Ptolemy, Eratosthenes and Ibn Battuta.

    Antarctica has three people!

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  • Paddy
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    Interesting but inaccurate and load missing. King XXX was born 80 metres from my house but the website puts his birth in a disused monastery a mile away

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  • NotAllThere
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    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post

    You can only have one person in an area.
    Clicked on the sports only, and up pops Roger.

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  • SueEllen
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    Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
    Euler seems to have supplanted Roger Federer.
    You can only have one person in an area.

    Bit of a problem if the person was born like lots of people under 50, but especially under about 35, in a hospital that still exists.

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