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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Some years ago, when researching Richard Sillifant – a rare Sillifant who was not an ‘ag lab’ – I purchased The Victorian Policeman by Simon Dell […]

…. 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. […]

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 […]

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. […]

Well, the statistics are hard to find per month, so perhaps we can rephrase that: will 2014 be the wettest year ever? It would have to […]