My German doctor asked me yesterday what was the name English name for the test where you sit on a bicycle apparatus and pedal against an increasingly hard resistance until you are - to use a...
Rilke was basically a Christian, but after visits to North Africa, and having seeing Moorish Spain at Toledo and Cordoba, he suddenly became enthusiastic about Islam. He did not become a Muslim, but...
I'm trying to encourage the use of a new laptop to someone who is rather lo-tech (though I'm no expert myself). The constant requests to update, from adobe, Toshiba and windows etc. which keep...
President Asad claims that he is defending a legal, presidential, secular regime against its overthrow by terrorists wishing for its replacement by a non-secular government represented by the Muslim...
An Asian gentleman walks into a US currency exchange with 2,000 yen and receives $77. Next day he enters with another 2,000, but gets only $66. Why so little? "Fluctuations" says the teller. The Asian...
Can you imagine a company that only has a little more than 635 employees, but has the following Employee Statistics. 29 have been accused of spouse abuse, 7 have been arrested for fraud, 9 have been...
The penultimate key on the top row contains a hyphen and in upper case a dash which shows up lower and longer than the hyphen, what is the purpose of this symbol please? It cannot be used to underline...
As historically, so much great art is predicated on a strong feeling for God, do heathens feel at a loss not to be able to fully encompass some of humankind's greatest creations?
Police in Liverpool last night announced the discovery of an arms cache of 200 semi-automatic rifles with 25,000 rounds of ammunition, 20 tonnes of heroin, £5 million in forged UK banknotes and...
I have just watched on an old VHS tape found in a drawer the most mesmorisingly awful film surely ever made; 'The Queen of outer space', 1958, starring Zsa Zsa Gabor. 'Three American astronauts are on...
I have recently bought a Toshiba laptop; Satellite Pro C660-2TQ in Germany and the installed user manual is in German (natch!) but I would like to have the English version, and can't find how to...
I'm coming to the UK soon and will bring my new Toshiba laptop and would like to watch some programmes on BBC iplayer. I don't want to watch live TV - and understand that this is anyway illegal...
If condensation trails from jet airliners are the product of water vapour entering a cold environment, why yesterday, planes travelling south towards Switzerland against a clear blue sky did not...
I have just returned from the canals of Burgundy, and one sunny morning saw on a long 5-arched stone bridge which crossed the canal and the River Yonne alongside it, a large flock of pigeons trying...
Every time I start up my computer I get a flag, bang in the centre of my desktop; 'FsUsbExService,Msg.' failed FsUsbExService, No existing FsUsbEx device. What does this mean please? I have tried...
I have bought today (here in Germany) a Panasonic TV, model TX-L-32 EW5 the manuals included are in German, Italian, French and Czech only. I have tried looking for an English version to download but...
Does religious intolerance stem from the teachings inherent within different teachings, or from the manipulation of those teachings by politicians and clerics?