Leeds
About Leeds
Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England. It is the largest settlement in Yorkshire and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds Metropolitan Borough, which is the second most populous district in the United Kingdom. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. The city was a small manorial borough in the 13th century and a market town in the 16th century. It was awarded its Royal City Charter by King Charles 1st in 1626 and expanded in the 17th and 18th centuries by becoming a major production and trading centre.
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He was nominated for the movie Beckett, and he was born on Beckett Street in Leeds.
from No Such Thing As An Actor Called Macbeth, 2022-04-01 at 00:46:39 · read transcript
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It doesn't have this thing of like, oh, we're God's chosen people, like Yorkshire. I think it's just that he, I'm presumably just a translator or something. I don't know. Because God spent seven years in Leeds, didn't he? By the end of that, he'd say, Aeok me, Doc. That's why Yorkshire are God's people. Traveling to Iceland has become quite nice in the last 10 years for people from the Basque region.
No Such Thing As Anti-Schmetterling Schnibbles, 2025-07-10 · listen
Just one weird thing off the back of Muria P. Williams. Oh yeah. The guy who invented the film camera in Louis Laplace, French guy, moved to Leeds and created the film camera five years before anyone else did. He was pretty Lumia brothers, he was pretty everybody basically. He made a working film camera, he made some films in Rountay Leeds and then he disappeared. We have no idea what happened to him, he may have been bumped off.
486: No Such Thing As Purplue, 2023-07-06 · listen
That supposedly happened in darts as well, didn't it, in like 150 years ago or something. They had to prove that it was a game of skill. So some guy in Leeds kind of got into court and through darts where he said they were going to go. Then the judge came up and tried to do it and he couldn't do it. He's like, oh, it must be a game of skill then.
218: No Such Thing As Tennis On The Moon, 2018-05-25 · listen
There was a guy in Leeds called Jack 17, we don't know his surname and he said that he didn't get in because he had acne, he said there was two things, he had acne and cold hands and feet on the day of the test and he.
414: No Such Thing As Miles Davis's Jazzercise Workouts, 2022-02-18 · listen
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