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Beneath the streets of London are several stations of the London Underground that are no longer in use. Some were never comp...

Wine When the wine has been drunk, the bottle is discarded. When a teaching comes into the world, it comes in a bottle, that being the...

Once upon a time there were two farmers, Mr Sudgeon and Mr Dudgeon. Their farms lay next to each other, separated by a well-worn cart tra...

The Inventions of Pizza I Pizza is not popular in China, and imported Western pizza chains have met with indifferent success. This is...

404: A Christmas Story M arley’s web pages were dead: to begin with. No sooner had Scrooge returned from the funeral than he had deleted ev...

Darwinium Darwinium was accidentally created in the search for stable superheavy elements. Its atomic number is 288, and it has at least fif...

Inconvenience I was at the airport when it happened, waiting to fly out to the UN Emergency Conference on, well, everything. Failu...