News At A Glance #8

By ASH Smyth
May 2022

—    The Nelson Evening Mail, 22 December 1908

Anne Ponce Gemelle hopes for her husband true felicity.

Hippopotami do not drink whisky.

In Oxford there's nowhere to hide.

The smell of rotten eggs is added to natural gas in order that humans can smell a gas leak.

America is a land without duchesses.

The tennis court has a lot to answer for.

Dijon's Musee des Beaux Arts contains a Rude Museum.

Thomas Müntzer knows how to put pen to paper.

In China, they play Kenny G to clear the shoppers out of malls.

Buddhists are more correct.

Svalbard observes Daylight Saving Time.

Edward II was executed by a latrine cleaner.

Disinformation has 13 times more traction on the internet than fact.