Of the 350 reported fairy light injuries, most occurred whilst decorating. Injuries include people falling while putting up the lights, children swallowing the bulbs, and people getting electric shocks and burns from faulty lights. Lights can also have fatal consequences with an alarming number of deaths caused by people watering the tree with the lights… More Christmas Trees and Fairy Lights can be fatal.
Michelle Obama once told her husband that Mother’s Day should be a bigger celebration than Father’s day because “every day is Father’s Day” adding he is “always getting a treat.” President Barack Obama walks down the Colonnade with his arms around daughters Malia and Sasha, right 3/5/09. In the 103 years since Father’s Day began being celebrated… More Happy Father’s Day
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Hot Cross Buns The hot cross bun, typically eaten on Good Friday, is a tradition that Christians appear to have adopted from pagans. It is said that the bun’s cross was originally to quarter the bun with regard to the four quarters of the moon. However, Christians re-interpreted it as the cross of the crucifixion.… More Hot Cross Buns
First place at an International Snow Sculpting Event goes to Students from the Nottingham Trent University Four students from the School of Art and Design and School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment at Nottingham Trent University represented Great Britain at the International University Snow Sculpture Competition in Harbin, China. This was the largest… More Snow Sculpting
Of the 350 reported fairy light injuries, most occurred whilst decorating. Injuries include people falling while putting up the lights, children swallowing the bulbs, and people getting electric shocks and burns from faulty lights. Lights can also have fatal consequences with an alarming number of deaths caused by people watering the tree with the lights… More Christmas Trees and Fairy Lights can be fatal.
The end of the world is near – again! December 21st 2012 marks the end of the 13th baktun cycle in the so-called Long Count of the Maya calendar. But does it mark the end of the world or the end of an era and the start of a new one? The end of the… More “They think it’s all over…”
Bonfire Night.
Although the religious aspects have been blurred over time, and it is no longer seen as a day of thanksgiving, “Bonfire Night” is still a national celebration in the United Kingdom. How did it start? Originally it was a celebration marking thwarting the plot to blow up parliament. Bonfires were lit across London and this custom… More Bonfire Night
It is 1940. An explosion at the Royal Gunpowder mills has sent a shudder through the earth and opened a rip in time. A number of strange things have started to happen. As Halloween approaches, there are reports of twisted apparitions, whose presences’ belong in Spooky Myth and History. It appears the explosion has awoken… More Historical, scary promenade performance – “Shudder and Shiver”