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6th February 2014
Ski jumping was developed in the late nineteenth century in Norway with the aim of the discipline being to jump as far as possible and then […]
5th February 2014
Curling is a team sport which evolved in Scotland in the sixteenth century and is played on a rectangular sheet of ice, specially prepared for the […]
4th February 2014
Speed skating is a skating discipline which originated in the thirteenth century in Holland, where people practiced skating for crossing the frozen water. However, it was […]
3rd February 2014
We will begin this week’s guide – in the run up to the opening of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi – with the Luge. The […]
2nd February 2014
Some years ago, when researching Richard Sillifant – a rare Sillifant who was not an ‘ag lab’ – I purchased The Victorian Policeman by Simon Dell […]
1st February 2014
…. takes place this year on Friday January 31. Celebrations usually begin on Chinese New Year’s Eve, signalling the end of the Year of the Snake. […]
31st January 2014
…. and your question of the day is: what is the significance of this ‘character’? Time to share your intelligence folks….
30th January 2014
Well, today is actually when I first appeared! But, when we depart this life, some of us will be remembered with a gravestone, memorial tablet or […]
29th January 2014
Some time ago, I wrote a blog about some slightly more eccentrically named individuals including Poo Out, One Too Many Gouldstone and Not Wanted James Colvill. […]