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451: No Such Thing As Deckchair Wrestling

No Such Thing As A Fish

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The Oldest Folding Chairs

The oldest evidence of folding chairs we have might be ancient Mongolian societies who were nomadic, so the important people would take a chair with them. They looked exactly like those beach chairs that you get, you know, the old people sitting on beaches. There are eight folding stalls in the British Museum. The oldest one they have is from the 18th dynasty of Egypt, which is 1500 BC to the 800 BC,. And how easily foldable are they? Just look like an X with a pivot in the two lines of the X meet, and then a little bit of cloth on the top - although the cloth is rutted away because that's... Yeah, so easier than a beach

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