News At A Glance #7
By ASH Smyth
May 2022
— The Nelson Evening Mail, 3 October 1906
The Queen has arrived at Windsor.
China has reported that the giant panda is no longer endangered.
‘Whaler’ is a collective name, like the word ‘warrior.’
Police don’t get wet.
One US state has more lighthouses than any other.
To die under a tree is not to be thought of.
The Ottoman Empire is the sick man of Europe.
Ladies are shaped differently.
Jamie’s Dessert is a white curd tart.
Nostradamus took courses in humanity at Avignon.
20 Kuwaitis died being hit by falling bullets while celebrating the end of the Gulf War.
With an orchestra the Jesuits could have subdued a whole country.
Poets are bums, but they aren’t bad in bed.
