Shorts

Almost History Shorts

Mid-term blues, reds and yellows

Three Queens of England united in grief

Better to preserve the memory of this dreadful visitation

Is one the loneliest number?

Bonus as a dirty little word

MADness

Devil’s fart bread

Amish paradise

Philly the first – where was the USA’s first capital?

Martin Luther and the first best sellers

The oldest European city in the Americas

Hispaniola – Caribbean paradise?

Trujillo great?

Greek tragedy

Leaping into the unknown

Peter the (quite literally) great

Tangled etymology

Battlefield regicide

Living on the edge

Stalling for surrender at Stalinburg

Are Zurich? If not, live somewhere else

Fixing the shape of the Stars and Stripes

The magnetic Mr Dickens

Getting by on Bondi Beach

Digging the freeminers

Revenge in the rose garden

Back and forth in Berwick

Why is there a ‘b’ in subtle?

Run for your life

Keeping count of the Karls

Arise, the Royal Borough of Greenwich

Righteousness and the Lionheart

Cardiff – capital of Wales?

Apophyrical turncoats

Counting the counties

Wytch Farm is the richest of them all

Who are the one percent?

Sichuan the city?

What a palaver!

Pitching for the long term

Krillion

Big Bertha

EMAzing

Lordly language

All stand, please!

Amazing words

The deadliest battle

Magic line