Sewer stories

“There are too many women traveling luxuriously in ‘Darkest Africa’. Eskimos of Disco, Greenland, are publishing a newspaper,” Charles Fort wrote in New Lands. So I checked whether there were still ne

A tree bunny put on Facebook by the Small Press Rescue Centre. We are always glad to receive pictures of spontaneous forms and figures, or any curious images. Send them (with your postal address) to F

DEEP in the belly of Gloucestershire hides a ...

Few objects in the long history of the Catholic church stir the imagination quite like the fabled sedia stercoraria. With a name that roughly translates as ‘dung chair’, the myth of the so-called papa

For 37 years Dublin has been graced by a statue of Molly Malone, the heroine of a folk song about a Dublin seafood vendor, created by the renowned bronze sculptor Jeanne Rynhart. The statue gives Malo

LEGO bricks give dimension to ancient mythology in a new museum exhibition that marks 200 years since a significant historical discovery