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How big was the Ark compared to the Titanic?

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How big would Noah's ark need to have been? Wouldn't it be possible to get two of every species on a giant cruise ship such as Oasis of the Seas?

How does one quantify greatness? Trying to make comparisons of any sort with a mythical Noah's ark are virtually impossible. Not only is the necessary cubic capacity unquantifiable but the logistics of keeping each and every one of the pairs of creatures alive and well seems to have been regarded as a sideline in the equation. Creating a habitat compatible with each creature's original home would have been impossible; for example, bamboo plantations for the pandas, eucalyptus groves for the koala bears, ice floes for the penguins and polar bears, tanks for the freshwater creatures at risk from flood conditions, plus the filtering and pump systems necessary to maintain hygiene standards. Compartmentation would have been vital, unless all the more aggressive creatures were suddenly endowed with docility. The herbivores would have required a vast storage area for their dried grasses; the carnivores, unless adapted as above, would have created havoc with their neighbours, so would have needed supplies of fresh meat from some unspecified source. All in all, it is best to keep the story locked in its mythical cocoon wrapped around with blind religious faith.

Jack Hill, St Albans, Herts

The dimensions of Noah's ark in Genesis, chapter 6, are given in cubits (about 18-22 inches): length 300 cubits, breadth 50 cubits, and height 30 cubits. Taking the lower value of the cubit, this gives dimensions in feet of 450 x 75 x 45, which compares with 850 x 92 x 64 for the Titanic. The ark was constructed by 600-year-old Noah and his three sons in six months. Whether he engaged any other labour force (to be drowned) and how he obtained the necessary supplies of gopher wood and pitch is not recorded. But there would have been plenty of room for animals and feedstock, for the limited number of local species.

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Very, very big.

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How was it that King Hamlet's brother, Claudius, succeeded him to the throne when he died and not his son, Prince Hamlet?

Claudius planned his coup carefully. He waited until young Hamlet was away at Wittenberg; he had already got Polonius (and the other electors too, presumably) onside, and had been wooing Gertrude. By the time Prince Hamlet returned to Denmark, it was a fait accompli. Claudius's justifications probably went along the lines of: his seasoned political astuteness versus his nephew's lack of experience; the Norwegian threat requiring a safe pair of hands; the unlikelihood of Gertrude having more children, meaning that Hamlet's inheritance was only being postponed, as he would almost certainly be Claudius's eventual heir.

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Yes, there's no reason to assume every throne of the day automatically passed to the eldest son on his parent's death. Not that long before Shakespeare was born, Edward VI had tried to leave the throne away from his half-sisters Mary and Elizabeth, and he only failed because the nobility wouldn't go along with it. In King John, set in an earlier time, Richard leaves his throne to his brother John rather than to his child-nephew Arthur; the nobles go along with it and John duly ascends the throne and keeps it.

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Will Pilates, like yoga, be practised for thousands of years?

Pontius Pilates, the Roman governor who washed his hands of Jesus, invented his fitness regime 2,000 years ago, so it's likely that his methods will be practised for centuries to come. Count Otto von Pressup is similarly likely to be immortalised by his innovation in physical exercise.

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I thought it was Captain Sparrow who invented the exercise regime, in Pilates of the Caribbean.

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