Peter Household - things that have interested me

Another cicada photo. Albert sent this one of their discarded shells in New Zealand. He says “I thought the empty shells were actually crit...

Photo: Tom Wildoner In the US the 17-year cicada hatch of 2013 is in full bloom. Millions of crimson-eyed critters and their otherworldl...

The English common law consists of about half a dozen obvious propositions, but unfortunately nobody knows what they are.  Why does this ap...

Michael O'Brien in the uniform of the Irish Free State army, about 1923 This is Eileen’s Uncle Mickey, her father’s eldest brother....

Guess the date of this drawing: 1494? 1694? 1894?             Answer: 1494. Albrecht Dürer’s drawing of his fiancée Agnes Frey shows Agne...

I saw a list of don’t’s for Twitter. One was don’t sit in front of the tele and tweet BREAKING NEWS. Even worse, don’t lend spurious urgenc...

Only just discovered that Bangladesh garment workers are not allowed to form trade unions without prior permission from factory owners.  Pe...