One hears a lot about libraries being closed or combined to save running costs. Apart from study in the course of my work I've never been a book fan and don't read for pleasure. Perhaps I'm wrong, but...
reading a Q&A page in the Daily Mail (boo hiss, yeah I know).. but it says he wrote a will which included his brothers and sisters.. Does that mean there are Hitler's descendents roaming the...
Does anyone know about an urban legend where the wreckage of a pre-war aircraft was discovered sealed up in a false wall of a hangar or similar still surviving Croydon Airport building. Apparently the...
My dad has just mentioned comething about people in France hibernating around 100 years ago; I seearched for this on Google because it sounded pretty far fetched and it all seems linked back too one...
I have grown some really beautiful geraniums this year - all from those tiny plugs plants. 'm digging them up today as I have bulbs to plant. I never have any luck keeping them from one year to the...
I want to put up some tiles in the kitchen,this involves cutting tiles to fit around a cupboard and to cut tiles down to a size with a straight cut. I`ve been told to get an Angle grinder to cut out...
We have got a new `phone some time ago,and over time we have chalked up missed calls. Now I want to get rid of them,but I can`t find how to do so in the instuction book.There appears to no section re:...
i saw an advert on tv that said loads of people in poor countries die from lack of clean water. now i get that... but i was drunk, and had a random thought. how the hell did all the humans in all the...
I remember my mother giving Virol to me and my brother,lovely stuff. This was,I think just after the war. When our daughter was born in 1970 she was given it at the baby clinic. But within about two...
Very different from the other Celts ? I've had both Irish and Scots refuse to shake hands with me when I met them in Italy and Belgium but the Welsh seem not to share in that hatred of the English.
I know it sounds like a daft question, but does anyone know when trousers were first invented? (invented is probably not the right word, but you know what I mean). Did someone think them up, or was it...
My son found a Roman coin yesterday, it seems genuine enough and we have found similar coins online, but they don't give much info. How would I go about getting it valued?
Everyone knows that humans have enjoyed raising fire since the Stone Age, but how did they raise fire without lighters or matches? I would think that they would use two flint rocks to rub together to...
Visit here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday And type in your postcode to see what the world was like in 1980's Britain - or at least, how it might be seen in the future. Having grown up in an...
Where is the best place online to see, search and browse old maps. I am mainly looking for old maps of Europe & the UK. By old I mean pretty much anything pre WW1, and ideally a lot older. All the...