Caucasian race is the general physical type of some or all of the people of Europe, Northern Africa, the Horn of Africa and Western and Central Asia July 2, 2017July 2, 2017
A congressional caucus is a cross-party group of members of the United States Congress … July 2, 2017July 2, 2017
The Caucasus or Caucasia is a region at the border of Europe and Asia, situated between the Black and the Caspian Seas… July 2, 2017July 2, 2017
In grammar, a tautology is an unnecessary repetition of meaning, using multiple words to effectively say the same thing July 2, 2017July 2, 2017
A snowclone is a phrasal template originally defined as “a multi-use, customizable, instantly recognizable… July 2, 2017July 2, 2017
A truism is a claim that is so obvious or self-evident that it is hardly worth mentioning… July 2, 2017July 2, 2017
A platitude is a trite, meaningless or prosaic statement, which is generally directed at quelling social… July 2, 2017July 2, 2017
Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery – the hero of the Battle of El-Alamein and the most senior British Army commander at the end of World War II… July 2, 2017July 2, 2017
IC codes are codes used by the British police in radio communications to describe the apparent ethnicity of a suspect… July 2, 2017July 2, 2017
The queue or cue is a men’s hairstyle traditionally worn by the Manchu people… July 2, 2017July 2, 2017
In World War II Iceland was occupied by British and American troops, whose presence had a lasting impact on the country… July 2, 2017July 2, 2017
Tony Hart designed the Blue Peter emblem. A Blue Peter is the flag which is raised when a ship leaves harbour. July 2, 2017July 2, 2017
In World War II, there were nearly 60,000 registered Conscientious Objectors in the UK. July 2, 2017July 2, 2017
George Blake is a former British spy known for having been a double agent in the service of the Soviet Union… July 2, 2017July 2, 2017
During the mid-1990s the British intelligence agencies were subjected to a comprehensive costing review… July 2, 2017July 2, 2017
A struggle session was a form of public humiliation used by the Communist Party of China… July 2, 2017July 2, 2017
Unlike the character in the pantomime based on him, the real Dick Whittington did not come from a poor family and there is no evidence that he had a cat… July 2, 2017
Rat kings are phenomena said to arise when a number of rats become intertwined at their tails… July 2, 2017July 2, 2017
Buster Edwards, a member of the gang that committed the Great Train Robbery… July 2, 2017July 2, 2017
Death by sawing was the act of sawing a living person in half, either sawing the individual in half across or along the body length… June 23, 2017
Execution by elephant was a common method of capital punishment in Asia, particularly India. Asian Elephants were used to crush, dismember, or torture captives in public executions… June 23, 2017
Live burial was also common in ancient China. During the Warring States period, 400,000 soldiers were reported to have been buried alive… June 23, 2017
Slow slicing (ling chi in Chinese), also translated as death by a thousand cuts, was a form of execution … June 23, 2017
Scaphism, also known as the boats, was supposedly an ancient Persian method of execution… June 23, 2017June 23, 2017
Immurement, or walling in is a form of imprisonment, usually for life, in which a person is locked within an enclosed space and all possible exits turned into impassable walls… June 23, 2017June 23, 2017
Poena cullei was a type of death penalty imposed on Roman subjects who had been found guilty of parricide… June 23, 2017June 23, 2017
The Khmer Rouge used a form of execution to terrify the Cambodian people – slowly sawing off the heads of victims a little more each day… June 23, 2017June 23, 2017
Bibendum, commonly referred to as the Michelin Man, is the symbol of the Michelin tire company and is one of the world’s oldest trademarks… June 23, 2017June 23, 2017
Former Labour MP Clare Short was briefly married to a fellow student at 18 after she had a child at 17… June 23, 2017
Generalissimo is the highest possible military rank, superior to Field Marshal and other five-star ranks. June 23, 2017June 23, 2017
Former child film star Shirley Temple had a high profile diplomatic career after she turned her back on Hollywood… June 23, 2017
A language isolate is a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical relationship with other languages… June 23, 2017
When George Harrison lost his virginity, Lennon, Paul McCartney and former Beatles’ drummer Pete Best were all in the same room as him. June 23, 2017
John Lennon first experienced LSD when his dentist, John Riley, furtively slipped some into his coffee at a dinner party. June 23, 2017
Ketchup originated in China as a boiled-down brine of pickled fish and spices called ‘ke-chiap’ June 23, 2017
David Hasselhoff’s first wife left him to marry a man named Michael Knight. June 23, 2017June 23, 2017
The longest frame in the history of professional snooker occurred recently at a World Championship qualifier… May 24, 2017June 23, 2017