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Q I would be grateful if you could advise me on the following please. Persons of interest: • William Page 1816-; • spouse Emma Dunsby abt. 1823-1906; • & son Thomas John Page abt. 1843/4-1893. Investi

hen giving talks on UFOs I’m sometimes asked which single event offers the best evidence for intelligent alien life. Until the recent preprint report from the Planetary Habitability Laboratory conclud

After a long, arduous climb, NASA’s Perseverance rover has finally reached the top of Jezero Crater’s rim. It took the rover three and a half months to vertically ascend 500 metres (1,640ft), at times

Alfred and Bede. These are the two figures who tower over the first half-millennium of the history of Anglo-Saxon England. There’s a reason for that, of course: they wrote this history. The Venerable

I was enjoying a stroll down the side of the River Avon in the direction of the village of Woodgreen on the edge of the New Forest on the Wiltshire-Hampshire border. We had a long period of dry weathe

In 1798, Britain’s most celebrated admiral pursued the French across the Mediterranean, attempting to thwart General Bonaparte’s mission to Egypt. The pursuit culminated in what was arguably the most strategically important naval battle of the Napoleonic Wars