A man playing card tricks in the street is doing magic, just as a wizard in a story fighting with dragons is using magic. Magic is when something happens that we cannot explain or understand.
I have rummaged round shops all over Europe and garage sales in America. I have hung about in Arab souks and Indian bazaars, but I have never seen anything quite like my grandmother’s elephant.
If you think about World Heritage Sites, you probably think of places associated with ancient art and culture, and historical buildings. But let's look at a few of the more unusual sites on the list.
I screamed. Then, my heart pounding, and probably still screaming, I grabbed a handy can of insecticide. He ran at me but I jumped out of the way and he scuttled out of the kitchen…
The idea of the cooperative is one of the greatest British inventions. It all began with a small shop in Toad Lane, Rochdale in Lancashire. The “Rochdale pioneers” wanted to change the world.
This is a story about how I stopped watching TV and began reading again for pleasure, after ten years in which I hardly turned a page. Now, I just like books. I'm reading about six simultaneously.
The Eden Project is in a clay pit in Cornwall, and consists of two enormous domes and an outdoor area. Visitors can learn to live in harmony with their environment.
For as long as humans have existed there has been a need to transfer information between people in different places. Writing made messages easier, but getting your message to the right place, on the other hand…
In the square outside the British Library in London is a sculpture of Sir Isaac Newton. Maybe they chose it for the spot because it shows a great scientist at work.
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