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Students in my library have a fondness for objects folded from paper.  At the beginning of each year kindergarten students leave wearing sai...

Tips for storing, cleaning, and preparing fresh produce

Fresh produce is a treasured gift of the summer season. You may have heard of people getting sick from eating contaminated produce. It can h...

Work: Institute to Help U.S. Meet China Aerospace Challenge

By Cheryl Pellerin DoD News, Defense Media Activity WASHINGTON, June 23, 2015 – Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work delivered the keynote spe...

Shrewsbury to Minsterley disused railway 1

Another exploration of a disused railway in Shropshire. The blurb on Youtube says this one closed in the 1950s as a result of a coals strike...

The League of Gentlemen was a documentary

Stephen Pemberton explains the roots of The League of Gentlemen in the Guardian today: In a way, the League was railing against that very s...

Lord Bonkers' Diary: Why the Liberal Democrats did so badly

Rutland's most celebrated fictional peer gives us the benefit of his long experience in explaining... Why the Liberal Democrats did so b...

India 10 rupees 2015 - International Day of Yoga

New circulating bimetallic: " International Day of Yoga " (news by Shamik Biswas and Pabitra Saha )

Rwanda 100 francs 2007 varieties

Sejin Ahn sent this image from his own collection, with very interesting varieties of the Rwanda 100 francs 2007 ( KM#32 ). The left one is...

Ian Nairn visits Bolton and Preston

This film was made in 1975 for the BBC series Nairn's Journeys. He was so right about the dismal shopping arcades of that decade.