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people are flushing toilets ten times, fifteen times, as opposed to once—john jay : other AI-generated quotes of America’s foundational figu...

After exhumation and reinterment with honours befitting, the mortal remains of Richard III , the last English monarch killed in combat—on...

On the way back from Morbihan in south Brittany, we crossed back into the central Loire valley and found a nice campsite on l’île aux Moul...

Outside of Vannes (Gwened, the de facto capital of the region) near the village of Sarzeau (Sarzhav), we visited Château de Suscinio, buil...

For the second leg of our journey, we returned to the Loire valley traveling in the direction of south Bretagne through Sens and Tours, ...

Our gratitude to Language Log for giving us a chance to revisit the truly inexhaustible figure of Eadweard Muybridge ( see previously ), ...

Having previously looked into the movie, The Wicker Man , inspired by true events, we enjoyed this interview with the documentary filmma...

A temporary export bar has been placed on a 1827 needlework sampler made by Mary Anne Hughes , aged eleven, to prevent the national treasu...

Having previously learned of the modern mudlarking off the coast of Cornwall through the Lego Lost at Sea project, a collecting and cle...

Thanks to raft of gossip and speculation from 2019 revived in part due the obsession over the whereabouts of the Princess of Wales, we’...

Reminiscent of this strip map showing all the cursus publicus of the Roman Empire, Futility Closet directs our attention to this sevente...

Having felt a bit cheated by a news article about chart-rankings for seventeenth century English ballads over missing ourselves a link ...

As part of an inventory from the British Museum that concludes—along with the need for better definitions and legal protections to ensure ...

Made famous internationally by a cameo appearance in 1991’s Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves but a regional landmark for generations, the pict...

Far removed from butcher, baker, candlestick-maker and seeming like a list that could have generated by an AI, we enjoyed perusing this ...

On this day, the anniversary of King John putting his seal to the Magna Carta in 1215, BBC Reel invites us to explore another feature a...

Never having occurred to us beforehand, we were delighted to learn (among other things) of the unusual etymology of the patently unusual—...

Having previously looked at the subject of medieval collective nouns and their origins, legacy in the hierarchy and protocols of the hu...

With his regnal namesake successor’s coronation coming up in a couple of weeks , we look back at the enthronement ceremony of 1661 of Cha...

Whilst not the first and consigned to full a gaping gap in the book market as the public readership and booksellers were dissatisfied with...