What are category C and category D registered cars Insurance companies use five categories to describe cars which have suffered damage due to accidents. The five categories are A, B, C, D and F. A-D categories are on a scale, with category A being the most damage and D being the least serious. Category F relates to fir...
10:30 Thu 03rd Oct 2013Q. What does 'mind your Ps and Qs' mean A. It means 'to be careful'. Q. How so A. There's no definitive answer to that, as a number of theories have been put forward as to how the phrase came
01:00 Fri 30th Nov 2001Last week we introduced the Whitakers Almanack and the vast depth of information that it contains. Not only does it contain details of everything from education to the environment, but it also
12:08 Fri 16th Nov 2007Q. So what is a toad-eater A. Originating in the 17th century, a toad-eater was a mountebank's assistant. Q. Mountebank A. An itinerant vendor of medicines. The name comes from the Italian monta
01:00 Tue 09th Apr 2002A. The thin tungsten filaments in a standard light bulb aren't designed to last forever. Although bulbs are meant to be perfectly sealed air will get in somewhere over time, the filament will get
01:00 Tue 10th Jul 2001A. After Harry Potter's Hogwarts and Lord of the Rings' Middle Earth, Narnia is the latest magical fantasy world to receive the Hollywood treatment. The first live-action film of C.S. Lewis's The
01:00 Mon 17th Dec 2001A. Eau de vie, aquavit, uisce beathadh or uisge beatha, all are synonymous with the water of life - an English translation of the medieval Latin aqua vitae, and a rather poetic way of referring to
01:00 Mon 16th Jul 2001...asked Marco. First of all let's find out a bit more about this soviet outpost: Where is Zemlya Novaya Zemlya is an archipelago of islands in Northwest Russia lying in the Arctic Ocean and
01:00 Mon 26th Feb 2001 The Canon Digital IXUS V Asks danmiller103A. There are loads of new mobile gadgets on the market that cost a lot less than 500, and believe it or not, not all of them are related to
01:00 Mon 06th Aug 2001 Q. So they come from Brussels, then A. From Asia actually. From Iran and Pakistan, arriving in Europe by courtesy of the Crusaders, who boldly slaughtered their way East and returned triumphant
01:00 Mon 16th Dec 2002A new book* tells the story of Man's ascent towards the stars, a journey dreamt of since the days of Icarus and the Ancient Greeks. Acton's new bookIt is a story that gathered pace as chemists,
01:00 Wed 11th Sep 2002Asks JacksonC A. Yes, it is possible if you have an Amstrad emailer plus phone. Q. What is this A. It is basically a digital telephone, with a keypad and a screen attached to it - which allows you
01:00 Mon 04th Mar 2002Asks Madeline A. Brightmail is neither of the above. It is computer software that protects email from the likes of spam, viruses, junk mail etc. or as Brightmail puts it, it "provides advanced
01:00 Mon 04th Mar 2002 Asks cardigan A. Digital cameras differ in many ways. The main difference is that a digital camera does not have any film, instead it stores images into electrical charges which can be translated
01:00 Mon 24th Dec 2001Q. Dragons A. The mythical dragon, as we all know, is a winged lizard with a serpent's tail, but the word comes from the Greek drakon, which is related to drakos, meaning eye: dragons were creatures
01:00 Sat 03rd Nov 2001Asks mollyprixe A. Centru Civic may be unknown to most travellers but it is in fact a district that houses the second largest building in the world - the Casa Poporului - or the Palace of Parliament
01:00 Mon 29th Oct 2001asks daisydotes A. You certainly can, there are lots of sites that specialise in selling used cars. The quality of the cars you buy really depends on how much you're prepared to spend. You can buy
01:00 Mon 27th Aug 2001A. There are thought to be over 100 edible plants in the UK hedgerow. Foragers can also find wild parsnip or celery in parts of East Anglia, wild cabbage, blackberries, elderberries and fungi.
01:00 Mon 13th Aug 2001asks alicevida A. There are loads of websites that offer cheap deals for single and return flights. The best way to get a really good bargain is to be prepared to spend a few hours online and plough
01:00 Mon 13th Aug 2001A. It's probably fair to say that more people will see a film adaptation of a book than read the original. This is certainly true of big films taken from literary novels such as The English Patient
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