What is cool Like the man said when asked for a definition of jazz -- if you have to ask, you'll never know. Happily, today there's an alternative. You can ask the Superbrands organisation and their
00:00 Thu 15th Aug 2002 Q. Where have all the independent record retailers gone A. The way of corner shops - they've been forced out of business by the supermarkets and record company-owned mega stores, the days of the
00:00 Mon 22nd Apr 2002I heard a Neil Diamond song on the radio, but I know little about him ' can you enlighten me Neil Diamond was born Noah Kaminsky in January 1941 in Brooklyn New York. In common with most teenagers,
00:00 Mon 22nd Apr 2002Q. Come again A. Do you speak Spanglish Spanglish is a combination of Spanish and English, rather like Franglais, which is a mixture of English and French. Q. Franglais As in the Miles Kingston
00:00 Wed 10th Apr 2002 A. I wouldn't go that far. I think George W Bush probably wants to be the next president. But it seems likely that Dr Rice - known as Condi - will run as vice-president if Dick Cheney steps down.
00:00 Mon 08th Apr 2002asks Miss Don:A. Yes, it may be possible, according to a recent report in New Scientist. Scientists from Touro College in New York have been trying to find an alternative source of food for
00:00 Mon 08th Apr 2002A. Sadly, yes. Dudley Moore, the comic actor whose double-act with Peter Cook heralded the 1960s satire boom, has died after a three-year battle against a rare brain disorder. He was 66. The illness
00:00 Mon 01st Apr 2002Whenever set designers are required to evoke a feel of the 1930s they will almost certainly include some brightly coloured, geometrically-shaped, china. In the English-speaking world, this will
00:00 Fri 29th Mar 2002Q. Sounds gripping. Just how do librarians keep those books in order A. Of course it's gripping. To try to categorise the sum of all human knowledge is, to say the least, a daunting - and
00:00 Sun 24th Mar 2002 A. Not the most elegant turn of phrase, but you must be referring to Tyntesfield, built with the fortune made by William Gibbs, who shipped bird droppings from Peru for use as fertiliser. Q. And
00:00 Mon 18th Mar 2002 A. Yes. It's an expression meaning passing the point of no return, or committing oneself to a course of action. It's taken from Caesar's action in crossing the river Rubicon, the boundary between
00:00 Mon 11th Mar 2002 A. Possibly not. Evidence has just emerged that the history of Offa's Dyke - the largest man-made structure in Britain - is not what we previously thought. Q. Conventional view A. The
00:00 Mon 18th Feb 2002 A. A lot more interesting than you'd imagine. Salt Lake City - the largest city ever to host winter Olympic games - was built by Mormons and has been tainted with the religious tag for a long time.
00:00 Mon 18th Feb 2002Q. What is it A. The Fawcett Library is the UK's oldest and most comprehensive research library on all aspects of women in society. Q. Why has it been in the news A. It was located in an east
00:00 Fri 15th Feb 2002asks Jarnold:A. The Green Paper is the biggest shake-up in secondary education for more than ten years. It proposes a new leaving age of 19. Q. Why A. It is designed to encourage all young people to
00:00 Fri 15th Feb 2002 A. Indeed. The new statue of Lady Thatcher has prompted a Commons problem. It has highlighted that there are plenty of images of some Prime Ministers - but others have been forgotten. MP Tony
00:00 Mon 11th Feb 2002asks Ursula:A. The nuchal translucency scan is a relatively new antenatal screening test. Q. How does it work A. Virtually all pergnant women are given routine ultrasound scans to detect
00:00 Mon 11th Feb 2002Q. What's this about cats having three names A. 'The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, / It isn't just one of your holiday games; / You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter / When I tell
00:00 Fri 01st Feb 2002asks MissDon:A. Satanists are in the news again because of 23-year-old Manuela Ruda who, along with her husband Daniel, was found guilty of murder in Germany. They had killed a man by hitting him with
00:00 Fri 01st Feb 2002 A. As in 'put your John Hancock on that' He was the man who put his large signature defiantly in the middle of the American Declaration of Independence. Q. Why A. Hancock was president of the
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