Tom Scott visits an old optical telegraph station that was used to send messages across France at amazing speeds for the 19th century. Hear how some stock investors hijacked the government only system for their own purposes – and got away with it.
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While researching for my Bradford biography, I just came across a short poem about the…
Image by Jeff Nelson under CC BY-SA 2.0 I recently came across a snippet from…
Along the banks of the Shenandoah River, in the beautiful Page Valley near Luray, Virginia,…
One of Amsterdam's famous canals Nieuwe Kerk, on Amsterdam's central square, was built in the…