John Pemberton's​ invention of 1886 of Coca-Cola, came just before what has sometimes been called "the great binge", which was...

V = I R As I tap away on the tablet computer which I use to write this, the sounds of Dvorak's 9th Symphony "The New World Sympho...

One of the great ironies about the only national newspaper in Australia being called The Australian, is that its founder and proprietor in c...

Arguably the most famous of all of Agatha Christie's​ Poirot novels was "The Murder On The Orient Express"; it so famous that ...

One of the things that I've seen with mind numbingly dull regularity and usually in relation to fixing holes in government budgets, is t...

1. The grapefruit originally came from the Nile River delta and were almost exclusively known as until the advent of Middle English​ as the ...

All the way back in  Horse 1766 , I posted three sonnets. These four sonnets have been sitting around on my tablet like someone waiting for ...

No smoking is a good thing.Your tweet is a bad thing. Don’t need reminding of that thank you. Anyway,there is no farting on BA flights....

I suspect that if the Voting Rights Act of 1965 had been placed in front of President Trump, that he would have used his veto power and deni...

If you had tuned in on Sunday evening to see the Malaysian Formula One Grand Prix, you would have instead seen Family Feud, The Sunday Proje...

It didn't take long for the President to make a public statement about the mass shooting in Las Vegas, which very quickly became the wor...

Some time today, a chap who I've never heard of called Mackelmore (which sound to me like a new mackerel burger at that Scottish fast fo...

As the country tears itself to pieces in the $122m brouhaha that is the same sex marriage postal vote, the Shadow Minister for Flying Under ...