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A few months ago my article Seven Useful Plugins for Your Wordpress Blog described the plugins I had found useful for this website. Since then I have been exploring what is possible with the Wordpress software and finding ways to squeeze more functionality from it. For each of the ideas I came up with I found [...] There are many blogging sites scattered around the internet, including blogger.com and wordpress.com, which are very useful if all you want to do with them is blog. But, if you want to extend these capabilities, a small investment in a hosting package and a free download from wordpress.org may be the answer. Once installed, you will [...] The internet contains many millions of web pages and each of these pages requires interesting and informative content. Although much of this content is written by the website owners, there are many sites that seek contributions from freelance writers, and are willing to pay for them. One such site is Triond. The articles submitted to Triond, [...] Halloween is a night of fun. It’s a night of dressing up in ghoulish costumes and telling scary ghost stories. But lurking beneath the surface are a host of evil creatures intent on causing mayhem and destruction. Who are these monsters and how can we avoid them? This article about evil creatures from folklore provides a [...]
Edward the Confessor Often in the study of history a reputation must be stripped away to reveal the real historical figure (or as much as the evidence allows). This applies to the story of Edward the Confessor more than most. Far from being the saintly old man seen in the Bayeux tapestry, Edward was a [...] The fifth entry in my Elements of the Periodic Table series is boron. Boron was first isolated in 1808 by Sir Humphey Davy, in Britain, and Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac and Louis-Jacques Thenard, in France, and is the first of the semi metals. Although pure boron is almost chemically inert, its compounds have numerous uses. These uses are [...]
Ye Olde Ferrie Inne From Yat Rock Viewpoint A walk through any part of the Wye Valley is always a treat, but the area around Symonds Yat, where Herefordshire and Gloucestershire meet, is something special. With plenty of family activities, river cruises, canoeing, hotels and camping facilities, pubs and restaurants and miles of beautiful walks, [...] First isolated in 1828, beryllium is a brittle, grey alkaline earth metal and the fourth element examined in my Elements of the Periodic Table series. As in the previous three instalments of this series, I examine the history and uses of the element, including its use as a neutron source. Methods of extracting beryllium metal [...]
St Elmo’s Fire on Masts of a Ship at Sea The weather phenomenon known as St Elmo’s fire has been described by many writers. The logs and memoirs of the early European explorers, on the voyages led by Columbus, Magellan and others, mention the peculiar ‘fire’ on their ships’ masts. Charles Darwin witnessed the lights [...]
Cnut, King of England 1016-1035 The second part of my Kings and Queens of England series covers the years 1013 to 1042. This 29-year period saw six kings on the throne of England and a power struggle between the Saxons and Danes. Part one ended in 1016 with the death of Æthelred II. In part two [...] |
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