I'm reading Michael Gage's 'Guide to Exposed Concrete Finishes' (1970). Catnip for me - so here follows a thread of some of the tasty things in it.

Cow shoes used by Moonshiners during Prohibition. The idea was that if police found human footprints in areas where people don’t generally go, that was a clear indicator of something unusual and worth investigating, possibly leading to the discovery of an illegal still. If

What the hell is an ampersand and why does it look like that?! The first thing you need to know is that "&" used to be the 27th letter of the alphabet... But there are three parts to this story. And the first begins over two thousand years ago in Ancient Rome with a single

normal bird, france, 11th century

arm fish, netherlands, 13th century

a pictish woman, england, 16th century

Women of the Day Shropshire sisters and social reformers Eglantyne Jebb born OTD 1876 and Dorothy Buxton born 1881. An aunt taught them carpentry, fishing, how to melt lead to cast bullets, and inspired them to go to university at a time when few women did. They were opposed to

Woman of the Day Muriel Siebert born OTD 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio, the first woman to join the New York Stock Exchange, the first to own and run one of its member brokerages, and - she later described this as poetic justice - the first woman to serve as New York State’s

Woman of the Day Hildegard von Bingen of Germany died OTD 1179, aged 81, nun, polymath, healer, writer and composer. She is one of the best-known composers of medieval music, as well as the most recorded in modern history, and she was considered by scholars to be the founder of

There has been superb coverage today on FRANCE 24 of the thousands taking part in todays #MarchForRejoin in London. They have put BBC News (UK) to absolute shame & even ask in this report where the other broadcasters are!

hellmouth, netherlands, 15th century

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In 1992, when Hurricane Andrew was coming to South Florida, the Miami Zoo had to prepare. Ron Magill, who was helping run the zoo then, had seen many hurricane warnings, but none had hit before. Despite this, he and his team worked really hard to keep all the zoo animals safe.

In 1856, a 19-year-old pregnant woman by the name of Mary Ann Brown Patten took command of an American merchant vessel named Neptune's Car when the captain (her husband) developed tuberculosis and fell into a coma. Usually in such a case, the first mate would have assumed

Josie (6 years old), Bertha (6 years old) and Sophie (10 years old) worked regularly at the Maggioni Canning Company. Work began at 4 AM, and the three would make from $9 to $15 a week. Sophie would do six pots of oyster a day, and her mother, who also worked with her,

Michelle Mone story courtesy of Led Led By Donkeys...up until today's revelations. £65 million transferred to a trust -beneficiary Barrowman....from there £29 million to a trust- beneficiaries Mone and her 3 grown up children I hope criminal proceedings come soon

Judith Love Cohen was an American aerospace engineer who helped create the Abort-Guidance System that rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts. When she went into labor, she went to work. She took a printout of a problem she was working on to the hospital. She called her boss and said

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Woman of the Day Julia Pirie born OTD 1918 Warwickshire, MI5 agent for 20 years. Cover story: typist. Her unassuming demeanour and matronly appearance masked a sharp intellect. When Barcelona police raided her flat in the 1970s (she was keeping tabs on the IRA at the time), she