More history: In my last blog I mentioned some interesting facts that I had read on the subject of history over the years and added that I could have mentioned more. Here are some of them. The person who is… Continue Reading →
History: It seems to me that books on history place too much emphasis on the wrong sort of people. One of these is Horatio Nelson, whose only claim to fame is to have given his name to a column in… Continue Reading →
Here are some more interesting facts that I have come across over the years. Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon. ‘Here come dots’ is an anagram of ‘The Morse Code’. The pound is so called because it was the… Continue Reading →
From the Radio Times, 5th-11th December, 1981: Artist Gordon Beningfield cycles down the lanes of West Dorset on his old Post Office bike in Friday’s ‘In the Country’. Brian Jackman, Gordon’s guide when he visits the area, tells what’s in… Continue Reading →
The Snowdon panorama I recently acquired an iPhone so that I can consult the internet when I am away from my computer. I typed in ‘jesty snowdon’, and within three minutes I found the Snowdon panorama. I could enlarge the… Continue Reading →
On 9th October 2019 I uploaded some interesting facts about the English language that I had read about. Here are some interesting facts about mathematics that I have read about. A vast number of people have been working on mathematics… Continue Reading →
Videos made using my video camera The video camera I took with me to Africa was used to film many other things, including my flats in Barrow, Chapel Close and Beast Banks and my daily journeys from Barrow to Kendal…. Continue Reading →
On 8th May 2019 I uploaded some of my favourite scenes from television programmes that were broadcast before the introduction of high definition and wide screens. They came to about five hours. On 8th November I uploaded some of my… Continue Reading →
I spend a lot of my time reading, and whenever I read about something of especial interest I make a note of it. Here is an example: There are seven mutated plurals in English of three types: (1) foot, goose… Continue Reading →