How do you find the date of a book that has no numbers or dates that correspond to when it was published.The only numbers in the book are page numbers and chapter numbers all other pages are blank...
After a lifetime of eating what I liked, the stronger and spicier the better, I have been laid low by Dolcelatte. Twice now, it has given me severe runs, and (keeping a food diary as I do) I can't see...
Anyone round here been to the Urals? How much of a 'natural barrier' are they? Are they in the same league as, say, the Himalayas ? big enough to prevent casual migration?
Why did the Greeks call Europe and Asia by those names? And did the inhabitants of anywhere in Asia have the concept that they lived in a separate continent (or that WE did)? I know the Chinese lived...
I was reading a book recently and the main character was talking about his computer having ethics but no morals, I was wondering if anyone knew what the difference would be? It really got me thinking!
Looking at a world map projected on the basis of each country's true relative size, it struck me not just how piddlingly insignificant Europe was in terms of size, but how there was little...
Is there a way to automatically stop certain people from e-mailing my address like, you can in Outlook, I am using Apple's own Mail software and can not find any thing in the preferences that does so,...
What is the meaning of "taking on" in the following sentences? The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 had excluded agricultural workers from its guarantee of the right of labor to organize and...
What is the meaning of "large business aggregations" in the following sentences? Congress had created a new Department of Commerce and Labor, with membership in the president's Cabinet. One bureau of...
Did anyone else here the Big Bang at about 10 o'clock on Monday night? It was in NW London, Hendon-ish, and it wasn't just me, honest, as loads of other people came out into the street to look. No...
Thanks for all your answers to my recent question on stopping the robbers, particularly to stoo_pid for his website suggestions. Trouble is, that it's CHANGED my paranoia rather than cured it!...
Reading all the Weight Watchers questions on here, would anybody agree that the best way to lose weight is to eat everything in moderation, ie. cut the size of your meals, avoid snack foods, drink...
can anyone tell me if it's legal to park a car on the pavement in a residential street, or is it that that the police don't enforce the law if it exists?
Does anyone remember an old film (may have been black and white) about the Chinese using a giant tunneling machine to invade other countries and take over the world?
Living in a normal flat in London, how do you deter robbers? Elsewhere in How it Works, stoo_pid (his name, not my insult!) says that lights on timer-switches could help. But as most robberies (I...