Broad Oak Magazine

(pic source) I have long felt that Celts have greater respect for learning than Anglo-Saxons. It seems to me that the descendants of th...

The spoof (from last month's BOM )   The reality: EADS E-Fan ( source ) Turns out it wasn't a joke , after all. There real...

It would seem that human beings are not able to describe, nor perhaps to imagine, happiness except in terms of contrast. George Orwell  -...

( pic source ) Leaders are not necessarily good for the group, or even clever. I once taught a class where I felt a boy had followers...

From Wikipedia This is not easy to get across if you haven’t experienced something similar, but the other day I stumbled across Andre...

(pic source) The Farm at Heathdale There was a man called Vilhelm Johannsson who worked near Kirkjan Vestur [1] .   He was skilled i...

WRONG! (apparently...) (pic source) Computer expert and financial maven Karl Denninger lost a lot of weight a couple of years ago. He...