“I have a terrific pain in the back of my head.” -             Franklin Delano Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) also kn...

  6   “Then Aaron shall offer the bull for the sin offering which is for himself, that he may make atonement for himself and for his hous...

  Sometimes, in your mind, an association is set up between something and something else.   When you hear a particular song, it may remind...

  “Among the mind's powers is one that comes of itself to many children and artists. It need not be lost, to the end of his days, by a...

  “Vocally, his balls have dropped.” Comment last week by the marvellously named Scooter Braun, manager of pop star Justin Bieber, referr...

  Think of a scientific study that uses orphans to investigate stuttering.   The children are divided into 2 groups, with one group receiv...

  In honour of Charles Darwin, who was featured a couple of days ago . . . and some email humour . . .

  "I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have." -  Leonardo da Vinci According ...

  "Whenever I have found that I have blundered, or that my work has been imperfect, and when I have been contemptuously criticised, a...

  "Nowhere in the world have I encountered a festival of people that has such a magnificent appeal to the whole nation. The Cup aston...

  ·          Halloween has its origins in the Celtic festival of Samhain, a word meaning “summer’s end”.   The festival marked the end of...

    Although I post reminiscences and personal observations about the past, I have tried to avoid this blog becoming the equivalent of a f...

  The newspapers reported this week that Sydney’s Liam Warriner, 22, had mooned the Queen in Brisbane by displaying his bare bottom with an...

At a revival meeting the preacher is promoting faith healing.   “If you believe, you will be healed. All it takes is faith.   Believe that...

  (I am partial to the above pic in that it is also a tattoo on the inside of my arm.)

  “The admission to Harvard College depends upon examinations; and if this boy passes the examinations, he will be admitted; and if the wh...

  “Mad, bad and dangerous to know.” -        Lady Caroline Lamb’s description in her diary of Lord Byron. Portrait of Lady Caroline Lamb ...

  (Click on image to enlarge). The current controversy about Japan’s resumption of whale hunting in the Southern oceans in the guise of sc...

  Byter Maz writes: In reading my Bytes this morning I find that the baseball is referred to as being “A World Series”, i.e. a world ch...

  Remember those scenes in cartoons and in sci fi movies where some scientist makes perfect copies of things with a machine?   It was a bi...