Hello all - Happy Sunday! If you had lived in Great Britain 272 years ago tomorrow, in September 1752, you would have gone to bed on the 2nd and woken up on the 14th. Eleven days would have disappeared, never to be retrieved. How …
Hello all - Happy Sunday! This week marks the 116th anniversary of the assembly of the first Ford Model T car in Detroit, Michigan, on 12 August 1908. The Model T was significant as the world’s first mass-produced vehicle. W…
Hello all - Happy Sunday! This week, I read an article about the Marie Curie charity, which does great work in the UK running hospices, i.e. end-of-life care, across the country. But who was she? Marie Curie was born in Warsaw, P…