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
This frieze is in a sweeping arc above the concourse that leads to the European Parliament in Brussels. It was designed by Larkin Zahra as his entry in a competition to publicise the European Union being given the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012 for transforming Europe from a continent at war to a continent at … Read more