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Lemons first grew as an under-storey in forests on the foothills of the Himalayas, and according to Tyôzaburô Tanaka, the great Japanese citrus expert of the twentieth century, all oranges came from Assam and Burma, where they were known as naranga, a name thought to derive from Tamil, in which the prefix nar- denotes fragrance.3 However,

Understanding Computers and Cognition, the computer scientists and AI pioneers Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores point out our tendency to ascribe rationality to computers. We do this when a physical system is “so complex, and yet so organized, that we find it convenient, explanatory, pragmatically necessary for prediction, to treat it as if it ha

The Thames is England’s longest archaeological landscape and thousands of the objects that fill our museums have come from its foreshore. Among them are numerous Bronze and Iron Age swords, shields and spears that were found along the stretch between Vauxhall and Teddington and include the famous Battersea Shield.

Some images of the site can be found here: http://linksofnoltland.co.uk/index.html

Meche grabbed a cassette and began listening to Serú Girán singing Canción de Alicia en el País, about the dictatorship in Argentina. She had reached the part where the walruses have vanished

In 1903 Kafu went to the United States for a sojourn of four years during which he worked in schools, in the Japanese legation in Washington, and in the New York branch of the Yokohama Specie Bank. This was followed, in 1907, by a brief stay in France. Returning to Japan in 1908, he published a collection of stories and sketches produced during his

In my head on this particular day are Tomasini’s String Quartet in B flat major IV, the sound of a thousand butterflies dancing in a field one late summer, the cover illustration from a Penguin edition of Our Mutual Friend, a recipe for Key Lime cheesecake, the text of an A-level Geography book, and a pocket watch.

Mrs G has a fine eye for art. On the white wall, the academic realism of Barrington Watson hangs beside the less measured but more joyful brushstrokes of Ken Spencer and the religious iconography of Oswald Watson. She even has an original Carl Abrahams and two drawings by Edna Manley.

In reviewing The Christmas Egg, Boucher expressed the hope that Nightingale would return. What he (like almost everyone else) failed to realise is that, in a very oblique passage in The Spoilt Kill, Kelly had effectively killed off her first series detective in a car crash.

But look closer at one of your wooden spoons (I’m assuming you have at least one because I’ve never been in any kitchen that didn’t). Feel the grain. Is it a workmanlike beech factory spoon or a denser maplewood or olivewood whittled by an artisan? Now look at the shape. Is it oval or round? Slotted or solid? Cupped or flat? Perhaps it has a pointy