The City of London's (and the surrounding central London area) skyline is the result of protecting the views of St. Paul's Cathedral from being obstructed. The "St. Paul's heights" policy limits the height of buildings in, and around, the surrounding areas of the cathedral; protecting the view of its famous dome from…

So if the Soviet's did it first their achievement can be dismissed as a 'stunt', or that it was 'dangerous and poorly designed' and it was only when American's attempted the same thing later that is worthy of credit.

You do realise that your own body produces about 40g a day of glutamate. It occurs in most of the food we consume. Rich sources of glutamate include tomatoes, mushrooms, cured ham, corn, scallops, oyster sauce, kelp, seaweed, parmesan cheese, Bovril, Marmite, human breast milk.

Type 1. You try and disguise the noise but it's Ready. Aim. Fire. Plop, plop, plop, plop, plop, plop you fire your magazine of high velocity rhesus pieces from your Gattling Bum. What a relief a flight of stairs and 2 doors separated you and your friends.

Nobody could find Asian correspondent Lei Ying Lo. They suspected the Chinese cameraman, Hu Yu Hai Ding, had something to do with it

Patrick Stewart must have been banging away at warp speed. And fuck knows how often Yul Brynner was doing it. Famous for "The King and I" ( the I being the I Eyed snake)

Android still trails iOS when it comes to music production. iPad (and iOS) has tons of audio related apps- DAW's, synthesisers, drum machines, stomp boxes, amp simulations. Not only that but the iPad can interface with midi keyboards, USB microphones, digital guitar interfaces, DJ controllers and so on. More…

Brian Williams- "Tim, would you say the whole maps fiasco has left you a little red faced?"

Annually Pantone declares a particular colour "Colour of the Year". Twice a year the company hosts, in a European capital, a secret meeting of representatives from various nations' colour standards groups. After two days of presentations and debate, they choose a colour for the following year

French: publicité sur Internet

Would you inform your doctor of your decision by telegraph; via your new-fangled rotary dialling landline telephone; or, using your favourite quill and ink, write a sternly crafted letter.

Yes for the correct spelling of the word "touché"

Check out Toshiba's FlashAir SD card which is a SD card with an embedded wireless LAN

Everyone knows Apple is a patent troll, afraid to compete fairly, so they patent anything they can to stop far competition blah blah blah. I didn't even need to click through and read Apple's patent claim. Apple didn't invent this technology and others have been using it first but they'll manage to get the grant on…

You're entitled to your own opinion, but you're not entitled to your own facts!

It's not just in Germany but in all EU member states. Just because you agreed to Facebook's TOS doesn't mean they would be upheld in a court of law. If the court decides the terms are unfair those terms become void and are not enforceable on the consumer.

The "fake looking rock" in Regent's Park if you fancy applying- you just have to get past the bears that patrol the perimeter