18:30
- .. that when Queen Elizabeth asked Herbert Maryon (pictured) what he did as she appointed him to the Order of the British Empire, he replied, "Well, Ma'am, I am a sort of back room boy at the British Museum"?
- ... that Scanning Kelvin Probe, a technique based on Lord Kelvin's work, has been used to investigate fingerprints and meteorites?
- ... that after German tenor Herbert Schachtschneider was a prisoner of war in England during the Second World War, he remained in the country to study voice with a cousin of Arnold Schoenberg?
- ... that historical significance is often subjective and open to challenge?
- ... that the first American tanks ever to engage in combat with enemy tanks were part of the 194th Tank Battalion in the Philippines?
- ... that Nujeen Mustafa, a teenage Syrian refugee with cerebral palsy, traveled 3,500 miles (5,600 km) in a wheelchair to seek asylum in Germany?
- ... that the Gothic architecture of the Église Saint-Maurice in Soultz-Haut-Rhin has been described as refined and light?
- ... that after Fu Xinqi retired as an architect in his eighties, he took up painting and held a personal exhibition to celebrate his one-hundredth birthday?
miércoles, 19 de junio de 2019
18:30
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