THE Guardian reports on a rare discovery by archaeologists in Gloucestershire: They have found a small shard of patterned green glass, part of an 1,800-year-old fish bottle, at Chedworth Roman Villa.
THE Guardian reports on a rare discovery by archaeologists in Gloucestershire: They have found a small shard of patterned green glass, part of an 1,800-year-old fish bottle, at Chedworth Roman Villa.
MUSUEMS in East Anglia have been successful in a campaign to stop an early landscape painting - thought to be the first painted in the open air - by the artist JMW Turner, leaving the UK, reports the Guardian.
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No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times! (Sad to say I tried it- and it's true, in fact I struggled with the seventh fold. Seemingly high school student Britney Gallivan, successfully folded a piece of paper 12 times by folding the paper in a single direction, I tried this […]