Enid Blyton was an English children’s author whose books have been translated into 90 languages and have sold more than 600 million copies. Making an assumption that each of those copies has been read by, let’s say, three people – that means we are going on for two billion people who have read her books. … Read more
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) was adopted as an international standard in 1967 when it became apparent that the world needed to know what time it was to a greater degree of exactitude than ever before. UTC was developed as a means of measuring time independent of the Earth’s rotation and the sun and the stars. … Read more
We queue for tickets and go into the Church of The Spilled Blood. There’s a monument inside marking the spot where Alexander II was assassinated. As I explained in Part I of this diary, assassins threw a bomb at his armoured carriage and succeeded only in hurting some people who were nearby. Alexander got out … Read more