Beaver Attacks: How Common Are They?
Some time back, a gentleman was on his way to a fishing spot near Lake Shestakov, Belarus with a couple of friends. He spotted a beaver at the side of the road and...
Read More →Some time back, a gentleman was on his way to a fishing spot near Lake Shestakov, Belarus with a couple of friends. He spotted a beaver at the side of the road and...
Read More →This post is just portraits with 17th Century vibes. The moodiness and bleak affect of them always makes me feel happy somehow. If you don’t like the sound of that, move along. First...
Read More →The internet is the home of truly free speech. It doesn’t matter how bonkers, barmy or banal your opinion, on the www you can nestle it next to the rest of the herd’s...
Read More →Here’s installment number three 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...
Read More →The Octobass is a huge musical instrument. It’s shaped like a cello but it’s almost twice the size and, consequently, the tone is twice as deep. The lowest string is tuned a full...
Read More →All this fuss about finding the ‘wrong meat‘ in things has kept me really entertained recently. Supermarkets and meat producers certainly shouldn’t be able to get away with lying to make a bigger...
Read More →Here’s a nice bit of archaeology to start your day, and it’s fairly sinister, too. A portal called “Pluto’s Gate” — Ploutonion in Greek, Plutonium in Latin — has been found by a group...
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