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My excuse for becoming an invigi lator was that I was a school governor at that particular school.

What is a public footpath?

My last day as a college lecturer was shared with several others; we were all retiring early to save the college money. It was the days of John Major’s recession, which in retrospect was a mild affair compared with Gordon Brown’s – but then, Brown was an economist and knew how to do it properly.

The future of Jetpack travel is a step closer after the latest record‐breaking test in the Martin Jetpack.

I am standing near the engine shed on the Great Central preserved line at Loughborough looking at two seemingly identical steam locomotives.

An ambitious project to identify, explain and provide citations for the words written in cuneiform on clay tablets and carved in stone by Babylonians, Assyrians and others in Mesopotamia between 2500 B.C. and A.D.

USF Professor Philip Reeder is part of a team that may have discovered the location of the legendary city of Atlantis.

In an article on its website posted on March 29, 2011, the FBI has appealed to the general public for help in solving a 12-year-old murder case. They need assistance in breaking the codes of two encrypted notes found in the pockets of the dead body of Rick McCormick.

The US Air Force's X-37B space plane is circling Earth and, although it is on a classified mission with an officially unpublished orbit, sky watchers have spotted it and are monitoring its progress.

There is only one certainty about a career as a scientist – it is not for big-headed people. When you are trying to find a meaning in a jumble of apparently unrelated facts it is infinitely easier to go down a cul-de-sac than a motorway.