This is an except from the Memoirs of Hannah More, from a letter dated 2 Feb 1779, and it describes the difficulty that the writer Hannah Mo...

Or: the fake windows of Turin. While walking around Turin, sooner or later, you're going to notice that some of the windows on various...

I've recently been on holiday in Turin, Italy, as you will probably be able to guess over the next week or so. At the moment (until th...

Between 1985 and 1993 Victor Korchnoi played a game of chess by mail against a psychic medium , Richard Rollans, who was apparently receivin...

Following on from my post about Sandy Island , I found another example of a cartographic blunder. Not as dramatic, but still quite peculiar....