Why does putting an extension like like .jpg or .doc make the file suddenly readable if it hadn't been before? Why doesn't the computer know what it is if a paint program, for example, saves a file...
Why does Gloucester Road on the District Line not say that you can change for the Piccadilly, and vice versa? They both say you can change for the Circle Line. This is on the long tube map on a...
Does anyone know the name of this lullaby or who it's by? Some of the words are, 'Sleep my baby, I will sing to you ... and then my child ... a man some day, you will know the reason why'. I live in...
I heard that the great white plaster-faced houses of Kensington and Chelsea were once painted brown in order to look like stone, an affordable reproduction. When did they first become white and why?...
When did the practice die out of putting the first word of the next page underneath the last of the previous page, in order, it would seem, to facilitate speedier reading without pausing when turning...