Here's another poser for you experts. Almost sure to be American, B&W, probably c 50 year old. perhaps set in S America or a hot country; It opened in a club committee room where secret voting was...
Why is it that when I'm in my car listening to the radio at an acceptable level, when the car is stationary with engine turned off, the sound is uncomfortably loud?
This past two weeks or so, some of my messages, particularly those to the States are ariving up to 12 hours later. Who might be responsible for this? Perhaps my mail is being intercepted? I heard of a...
Apologies for this wispy question. Many years ago a TV series about art showed a very large, portrait shaped, highly detailed oil painting of a battle, (from a museum in Austria?). It was said the...
I once read in an old book, about a bird living somewhere in the S part of the continent whose cry (at night?) was truly bloodcurdling. Can anybody put a name to it please?
Since drilling can cause oil to gush out of the ground under pressure, are there any occurrences of earthquakes causing fractures in oilfields and quantities of oil to be released?
As a child, 1940s - 1950s, I used to do a large puzzle of a picture on plywood, none of whose pieces interlocked. It was of cavalry charge, (19C I suppose), the familiar scene of them advancing at...
British B&W film, c 1950 probably a B movie. Passengers in a railway carriage become involved with a mysterious playing card fortune teller (Esme Percy??) who says the cards foretell that the...
Saturday Night BBC Home Service Variety Show, in the 1940s. For the time it was such a shocking recitation that it was much discussed. A man recited in gory detail an account of a murder, the repeated...
Can anybody identify a children's hardback book, pale blue cover publ .c 1947. (Old) Matt was a backwoodsman, had an underground den. He owned a copy of Plutarch';s 'Lives'. Had a dry shave. One...
Can anybody please direct me to a photo of a N American tree, so large that a cart and horse(s) were driven through it. It was a very popular picture in encylcopaedias 1930 - 1950.
Has anyone seen / bought the *re-issue* of this film on DVD? If so, does it include in the final fencing scene an item not in the film regularly televised, of Robin and Guy nose to nose, separated...
Having just watched the TV programme about a visit to the Titanic, I'd like to know more about the effects of water pressure at depth. Obviously, if the deep water craft cannot take the pressure it...
Relay 109 had to be replaced as fuel was intermittently not being pumped to the engine. (Air bubbles in the line). ?!5 relay, ?115 labour as the dashboard had to be removed to get at it It looks as if...
I vaguely recall something like a 19C Clerk to a Central London Magistrate's Court, in his back garden perfecting a process to make steel from low-grade iron ore. It was said that had the Germans not...
