The great toll bridge rip-off
December 22, 2004
This article, like every other one in this newspaper and indeed almost every sentence in every book you read in English, will have been typed with a QWERTY keyboard, named after the first six letters on the top left-hand side of the keyboard. Amazing as it may sound, this keyboard was designed in 1873 as an exercise in anti-engineering.
Hold onto the sackcloth and ashes
December 12, 2004
The biblical expression “sackcloth and ashes” has been bandied about quite a bit these days.
Coming from Ian Paisley it may sound appropriate.
Like ancient Rome, we’re in a sea of borrowing
December 5, 2004
Cleopatra was born in September 68 BC. The same year, Pompey (who was eventually to be murdered in Cleopatra’s kingdom of Egypt) finally conquered all of Spain.
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