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I see that South Koreans have recently managed to find a way of reversing the aging process! Their recent law adopts the international norm for calculating age from date of birth whereas previously one traditional system assumed everyone aged by a year on 1st January disregarding their birth date and another deemed everyone a year […]

Caio Angel If you mention Garibaldi in England everyone thinks you are referring to a peculiar biscuit invented by Jonathan Carr who also invented the water biscuit for the biscuit makers Peak Frean in 1961. It was named after the great general who played a major part in creating a unified Italy because he had

Hi Angel The coronation of Charles III was an amazing spectacle even in the rain. However I looked up a bit of the history connected with it and found a few very strange things. During the ceremony Charles was not only crowned but also took the title of Defender of the Faith as Head of

Hey Angel It looks like the History Mystery team here are going to have plenty of work to do in the future. We may have solved a few longstanding mysteries already but the archeologists are digging up more all the time. Just one example is Karahan Tepe in Turkey which includes homes within a vast

For almost the whole of the nineteeth century many maps of Africa showed a massive range, known as the Mountains of Kong, running horizontally nearly 4000 miles across the middle of the continent along the 10th parallel. Only in 1889 was it’s existence declared wholly fictitious by a French explorer who had just returned from tracing

Hi Angel, You told me you thought mummies were very rare, but you’re wrong.  It’s estimated that around 70 million were embalmed during the 3000 years of ancient Egyptian history and over a million mummified animals have been found, mostly cats. Herodotus describes three different methods of mummification, although some doubts have been cast on

A strange and unnerving thing happened today. I received an envelope at my safe house address that was actually addressed to me. At first I thought it must be from Inspector Panettone as no one else knows where I am hiding except Interpol, or at least no one is supposed to know.  But there it

Ciao Angel  I am playing Deep Blue the computer that beat Kasparov at chess and losing badly. It’s a bit dispiriting so I wondered if you would like to meet up for a game of marbles. I can bring some as according to your book you’ve lost your own.  Learning how to play has been

Over a period of several hundreds of years a surprising number of people in medieval times certainly did, not because of hangovers but because they thought they were made of glass. Many of those afflicted with ‘glass delusion’ thought particular parts of their bodles were glass, often the buttocks so they feared sitting down, but

Hi Angel You asked me to try and explain what Dr Bacon seems to be saying about constellations.  As you know my distant ancestor, Tycho Brahe, was a bit of a wild character and among other things used a prosthetic golden nose after the original was cut off in a duel. But he did do