Time – The world in the not too distant future.
The majority of people sit at their computers to work and communicate. Food is manufactured by computer powered machines, is ordered on line and delivered automatically to the work station. Computer chairs turn into beds and lavatories. Procreation is managed via the internet – eggs and [...]
Post it notes.
The first postage stamp was the Penny Black introduced in 1840. This stamp in pristine condition can be worth £2000. When left in a pocket of your jeans and put through a 40C wash it is then worth less than its original value.
There remains an old statute from 1869 that if your postman [...]
Wales
The history of Welsh folk dancing is quite a sad one. With the advent of the Non-conformist sects in the 18th and 19th centuries, the chapels saw the Welsh folk arts and customs as ones that were very sinful and not in keeping with chapel teaching. The chapels, chapel-folk, deacons and preachers, some of them [...]
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