Baghdad
About Baghdad
Baghdad is the capital and largest city in Iraq. It is located on the banks of the Tigris in central Iraq. The city has an estimated population of 8 million. It ranks among the most populous and largest cities in the Middle East and the Arab world and constitutes 22% of Iraq's population. Baghdad is a primary financial and commercial center in the region.
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They've got a place called Baghdad in Tasmania. It's only got about 650 people living there, but in 2003 a lot of people said America invaded just so Bush could say "it's around here somewhere" — cover all the bases — and they still lost.
from 418: No Such Thing As A Pub Full of Corgis, 2022-03-18 at 00:40:16 · read transcript
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We're getting messages from everywhere we're getting messages from Yugoslavia sorry Lorraine Kelly Lorraine Bennett you can see how this kind of thing happens I did have to check Lorraine Kelly is now getting messages from locals asking about this week in Baghdad in Tasmania are we still having the market sale or are there funny place names in Tasmania if you want to really dig deep if you go to the government list of them so it's place names or one word place names.taz.gov.au.
418: No Such Thing As A Pub Full of Corgis, 2022-03-18 · listen
It was Lorraine Bennett. You can see how this kind of thing happens. I did have to check. Paul Lorraine Kelly's now getting messages from locals asking about this week in Baghdad in Tasmania. Are we still having the market sale? Other funny place names in Tasmania, if you want to really dig deep, if you go to the government list of them, so it's place names, all one word, placemes.tas.gov.a.u.
No Such Thing As A Pub Full of Corgis, 2022-03-18 · listen
Yeah, it's a very popular thing. They've been big in the Middle East since 1150, when the first pigeon post service was set up in Baghdad, and it took messages from Baghdad to Syria. By the 1160s, then it was, you know, it was constantly taking messages back and forth to the extent that in the Crusades, the Christians brought loads of falcons over with them to try and intercept the pigeon post in the Middle East.
246: No Such Thing As The Worm Revolution, 2018-12-07 · listen
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418: No Such Thing As A Pub Full of Corgis put 2 places on the map.
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