...or to have meekly accepted and bought a 'Teach yourself German' book?
This question is directed in particular to those who think Palestinians shouldn't resist Israeli might....
Bob Dylan you either love him or respect him ,it was only yesterday that I realised that he wrote the song that ADELE sang called "Make you feel my love" It was also recorded by Garth Brooks & Billy...
The military brass would have been full of confidence, despite the fact that they were more used to shooting at the 'Fuzzy Wuzzy' with machine guns than facing an equally well-armed foe. Politicians...
In Wim Wenders Wings of Desire / Himmel auf Berlin there are a number of scenes in Potsdamer Platz which at the time was just a wide expanse of desolate wasteland split between east and west. In the...
My nephew, wife and 2 children booked a £2000 holiday, leaving in a couple of weeks and have just realised that the passport for one of the children runs out whilst they are away, Ryanair have told...
Hi, can anybody help us? Trying to remember the name of a large chain of men's tailors of the 1950s and 60s that was a major competitor of Burton's. We're pretty certain it was a man's name, but just...
My wife and I were watching the 3 giant puppets in Liverpool on the news today, being used to tell the story of WW1. My wife asked the question how were people actually paid in WW1, and WW2 come to...
I found an old geography book I had at school in my early years and on looking at a map of the Middle East there is no sign of the word Israel, but a mass of land called British Palestine! How is it...
Does anyone have any information regarding squatters cottages during the late 18th early 19th centuries in England? In particular I`d like to know if this was a common practice and if a person had to...
Does anyone know if there are plans to mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge like they did for D-Day recently? I've searched Belgian tourism sites but can't find anything other than the...
I got an X-Box One at Christmas but I could never get my Virgin V-Box to work through it, the picture would hang or drop out when switching between applications. I gave up on it and plugged the V-Box...
Not been morbid here, and this has nothing to do with my question on body and soul thread about my brother in law's cancer (if anything its prompted about the "music that makes your hair stand up"...
Apologies if this sounds really stupid but we were in Berlin last weekend having an evening beer and watching Swallows screaming around the sky just like they do in UK and I wondered why UK Swallows...
What a crock of ***
Bring back the real Question of Sport - when the programme did what it said on the tin and wasn't about washed-up ex sports stars acting the fool...