Here’s installment number six in my labour of love: the slow and steady trawl through the Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by the prolific Captain Grose. Grose was an English antiquary, draughtsman, and lexicographer and authored more than 15...
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Iceland has a population of 320,000 people, which is roughly the same as Wigan or Coventry, except they’re spread over 40,000 square miles. Iceland was a barren rock until a group of hardy...
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The International Space Station (ISS) has been whipping around the Earth tens of times a day for decades. Canadian astronaut Colonel Chris Hadfield spent some time up there, conducting experiments and staring out...
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The Danxia formation is situated roughly 600 miles west of Shanghai, in the Gansu province of China. They stretch for hundreds of miles, covering almost 10% of mainland China’s surface area. Some of these regions...
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The past week since the death of Lady Thatcher (or is it Baroness Thatcher? Darth Thatcher maybe?) have been of a bit of an education to me. You see, I’m of the generation...
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Welcome back to my dedicated readers. For those just joining us, these articles are my choice edits from a book entitled the “Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue”, published in 1811 by Captain Francis...
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Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, have banned people exposing their boxers in public with low hung jeans. If caught you face a $50 fine, for a second offence it’s $100 and for a third it’s...
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In this post, we’re going to look at two-headed animals, which is referred to as polycephaly. Enjoy yourself: SHARK You’d think a shark with an extra head would look more imposing, but it...
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The Apollo 10 space mission was a successful dry run in advance the moon mission. They got within 9 nautical miles of the moon’s surface, but never touched down. The onboard technology worked...
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Here I am again, I’m still reading the Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose. As I said in my last post, I never thought I would read any kind of dictionary...
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