Category: Briefs

Who’s Counting?

    The international assessment body Pisa discovered, alarmingly, that England was the only country in the developed world where those aged 55 to 64

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Party like it’s 1752!

  “In Italian cities, as in much of medieval Europe, the new year used to be celebrated on 25 March, the feast day of the

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Chicken Dinner

  “If you were to count individual birds on planet earth, two thirds of them are domestic chickens.”   Source: Dr Thomas Halliday on Sunday

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Millennial Maths

  Built to celebrate the new Century, and now The O2 arena, the structure was built with a firm grasp of the numbers denoting the

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Russian Roulette

  February 2023 marks the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad, the turning point in Russia’s four-year war with Germany. More Ukrainians died or

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Season’s Greetings

“Daffodils are one of the few flowers that can survive without water once they have been cut, meaning they can be transported using the same cold-chain

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