I cannot think of a day in my life when the library didn’t exert a potent attraction for me, offering a sense of the specialness of each individual’s curiosity and his or her quest to satisfy it. — Scott Turow 41 Life always offers you a second chance. Its called tomorrow. Cele...
This district of London, which lies to the south-east of Peckham in the London Borough of Southwark, is believed to owe its name to a local tavern named, you guessed it, the Nun’s Head on the linear Nunhead Green (there’s still a pub there, calledThe Old Nun’s Head, in a buil...
Before becoming Britain’s prime minister in 1940, Winston Churchill served as the chancellor of the exchequer, which acts as the nation’s treasurer. The British leader oversaw the treasury’s decision to return to the gold standard, a move many historians have called a mistake. This led to...