Brilliant documentary by the Guardian.

That colour film from 1927 - updated!

What is 14,499 + 1?

Wonderful.

Wow!

Ta-Nehisi Coates starts with Tony Judt's "Postwar" and goes on from there.

How Newsweek got it wrong in 1995.

Brilliant analysis of 19th-century sailing!

I got 86%. One round was particularly good for me.

I got an email about this and thought of the wrong #Georgia !

Where it all began.

For @MarioFannio in particular!

All 13 episodes!!!!!

General knowledge quiz from 1894

How the Arabic names for stars came to be used by us.

Commemoration season starting early.

Health Underwear For Men!

" it was precisely because Thatcher knew what scientific research was like that made her impervious to claims that science was a special case, with special features and incapable of being understood by outsiders, and therefore that science policy should be left in the hands of scientists."

Old footage, new analysis.

The truth behind the story.

Now you know.

" this would be magnificent habitation which after all like every thing else in this desolate City is but an half finished Barn"

Oh, Vienna!!!

Afghanistan, Britain and Ireland in the 19th century.

Walsingham more iconic than he realised!

The remains of Venice's Negropont.

presented by the Duke of York to Mary Isabella, wife of the fourth Duke of Rutland, in 1825.

Short answer: no.

Was the green man, that pagan spirit of nature, in fact England’s secret symbol of resistance to Norman oppression?

Andorra and Belarus are among those in the clear.