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From the Earth to the Moon is the name of a novel written by Jules Verne in 1865. In that book a rocket is fired from a launch pad in Americ...

Jindan Kaur was the Indian queen whose body lay, for a little while, in the catacombs of Kensal Green: a fact that was all but forgotten unt...

Painting by Albert Goodwin - Benares When writing her latest novel, The Goddess and the Thief , the VV was very much inspired by a story ab...

No, this is not an amputation, there is a foot and ankle under this massive wad.  Additionally it could be a symbol for the massively clumsy...

The film,  The Invisible Woman,  which is based on Claire Tomalin's wonderful book, is about Charles Dickens and his affair with Ellen (...

Yet again the city has been blanketed by a white and fluffy layer of snow.  While I love the effect of walking in a real life snow globe, I...

It is said that the first punch recipes were concocted for and by English sailers - those who might be travelling far from home but who stil...