Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
Port Sunlight on the Wirral Peninsula is a 'model village' built by ‘soap king’ William Lever from 1887 for his production works, and to provide good quality housing for his employees. It is regarded as an architectural gem.
In 1912, amateur archaeologist Charles Dawson claimed to have discovered the 'missing link' between ape and man. But 'the Piltdown Man' was a paleoanthropological fraud, in which bone fragments were presented as the fossilised remains of a previously unknown early human, though it took another 40 years to finally disprove the claim.
The Skylark is our most common lark and is the subject of much poetry and a famous piece of music by Vaughan Williams. The bird is loved for its high-pitched trilling song, which it makes high in the air over open countryside in summer.
Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer, who has been cited as the first computer programmer. She was the daughter of Lord Byron, the English writer and poet, whose interest in mathematics and logic was encouraged by her mother, Lady Byron, who wanted to prevent her from developing her father's perceived romanticist insanity.
The Redcap is a type of malevolent, murderous goblin found in Border folklore. He is said to inhabit ruined castles along the Anglo-Scottish border, especially those that were the scenes of tyranny or wicked deeds.
The first self-propelled, 'modern' torpedo, that has since become a staple weapon in naval warfare, was devised in 1866 by English engineer Robert Whitehead, working in partnership with an Austro-Hungarian Giovanni Luppis.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.