Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
Two well-equipped British ships, HMS Terror and HMS Erebus, left England in 1845 to search for the Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific through the Arctic Ocean. But their expedition was ill-fated, and they were last seen in 1848, and all evidence of them vanished for nearly 170 years.
The Standing Stones of Stenness, in the Orkney Islands, are reckoned to be the oldest of Britain's many Neolithic stone monuments. The purpose of the structure remains unknown.
There is something very "fantasy world" about waterfalls that fall straight off the edge of the world. But they do exist, and Britain's most charismatic example is Mealt Falls on the Isle of Skye, Scotland.
The first public film shows in the UK to a paying audience took place in London in 1896. On 21st February that year, the Polytechnic Institute on Upper Regent Street near Oxford Circus hosted a display of the Lumière brothers' new moving-picture device, the Cinématographe.
One day in April 1817, a cobbler in Almondsbury in Gloucestershire met an apparently disoriented young woman wearing exotic clothes who was speaking an incomprehensible language. This was the beginning of the story of the mysterious Princess Caraboo.
Mother Shipton's Cave and well in North Yorkshire is the oldest tourist attraction to charge a fee in England, and has been open as such since 1630.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.