TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

[Chalk drawing, 'Sea Coal Gatherers' by Frederic Shields, undated] This past week I encountered the drawing above at Victorian/Edwa...

This colloquial expression, often used to refer "to coffee, too hot to drink until it was poured into the saucer for a moment, blown on...

From the BBC : Meteorologists once treated the signals from flying animals as a nuisance that complicated their measurements. But recent im...

The photo is from a carte de visite in the Library of Congress , acquired in 1864, and described as follows: "Photograph shows freed sl...

Ach, du lieber!  The Guardian reports that "leaken" has been voted this year's Anglicism of the Year in Germany: Germans alr...

Located in South Lake Tahoe (California).  Quite impressive; I suppose there must be some type of rigid understructure.

Excerpts from a story at The Guardian : Phiona Mutesi is 15. She has just finished primary school and is still learning to read. Her family...

From Spitalfields Life , a most interesting account of the retrieval of "love tokens" by mudlarker Steve Brooker ("Mud God...

Our family signed up for AT&T's U-verse service, which "provides broadband internet access, TV, and phone through a fiber-to-t...

"The National Broadband Map is a tool to search, analyze and map broadband availability across the United States. Created and mainta...

A photograph showing Cherry Kearton standing on his brother Richard’s shoulders to take a picture of a bird’s nest, 1900. The brothers wer...

These miniature cages are made from various materials and today, used as a way of bringing good luck into the home. In ancient days, the ...

The Telegraph and a variety of other news sources have reported the sighting of a mysterious object in Lake Windemere, consistent with the ...

This week the butterfly forum at GardenWeb , and Reuters have carried reports of a substantial increase in the number of monarchs overwinte...

From the Wikipedia entry: The phenomenon called tears of wine is manifested as a ring of clear liquid, near the top of a glass of wine, fr...