News At A Glance #30

By ASH Smyth
December 2022

—    The Nelson Evening Mail, 2 April 1907

Hildegard von Bingen is dead.

Cara Delevingne has had an orgasm (in the name of science).

Russia, Iran, North Korea and the Falklands are the only places where governments have denied SpaceX access to customers.

In langues de mouton bouilles, the sherry is optional.

Jack’s part of the Tesco family.

You can’t do much acting in Dayton, Ohio.

Daniel Larsen is a mathematician whose work focuses on shortening the lengths of Bertrand’s postulate on the twin primes conjecture when applied to Carmichael numbers.

If you take a magic pearl it will give you magic.

Paddy Mayne, solicitor, was also a rugby union player, capped for Ireland and the British Lions.

Hindus and Argentines sleep firmly from twelve to one.

The telephone is the chosen instrument of the adulterer.

The Cherubim and Seraphim are derived from the Near Eastern tradition of winged zoomorphic guardian figures and are not angels since they perform none of the angelic functions.

Eating more salad isn’t rocket science.