…with their dung and their urine; these, as well as other filth, a absorbed by the wood, and ferment in its fibres. Under a hot sun, morbid germs are drawn…
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…been updated and is due to be updated again – it will always have the most up-to-date info. It’s not as easy to nudge Amazon into notifying Kindle-version buyers of…
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…cars could now be constructed. The first wasn’t started until 1958 but they came thick and fast in the 1960s. It was a mature network by the end of the…
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This 1922 poster says “Walking is Exhilarating” but what it’s really trying to convey – probably unsuccessfully – is that “Walking is Better Than Sex.” The poster was one of…
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…and is nestled on the French Riviera, close to Nice. Since its Monte Carlo casino opened in 1863 it has been a magnet for high-society and well-to-do ne’er do wells….
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…not the first time that Mr. Haddock has hampered the police by behaving in a manner obviously undesirable but difficult to classify. On the fourteenth of this month he was…
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…year later. He started making Morris cars in 1913.) In 1966, and despite having a car factory in the town, 46 percent of Oxford households had no car. While post-war…
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…as Rosalind Readhead says, there’s often little need to change the road surface, the key change is to remove the cars. A city which is having to face up to…
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