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  1. blessmycottonsocks

    The 15-Minute City Conspiracy

    I hadn't heard about this until reading an article in today's Guardian in praise of "15-Minute Cities". Based on Clarence Perry's early 1900s "Neighbourhood Unit" concept, in theory, it all sounds perfectly sensible and its supporters describe it thus "you should have your daily needs – work...
  2. MorningAngel

    Compendium Of London Ghosts & Hauntings

    It even has some ones I hadn’t heard about before. Covent Garden: 5 Haunted Places to Visit Articles Here: https://www.spookyisles.com/covent-garden-haunted-ghosts/
  3. rynner2

    Overcrowded Urban Areas: Problems & Prospects

    The age of the urban ape New research shows that humans haven't stopped evolving – could a city habitat be the end of us, asks the distinguished anthropologist. By Desmond Morris 9:08PM BST 04 May 2012 The scientific discovery, announced this week in the journal Proceedings of the National...
  4. azuredoor

    BBC Video Claims Belfast Among The Most Haunted Places In The UK

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7568844.stm It's one of those news reports that has barely any substance at all until you realise that its probably part of a build up to a '6 part' series on the supernatural that will be shown in Jan 2009 in association with the NI paranormal...
  5. A

    Macabre Place Names

    I recently "learned" that a street near where I grew up, innocuously called Blagreaves Lane, was named after a corruption of the term "Black Graves", so named because it is built over the site of mass graves dug for victims of the black death. I say "learned" in inverted commas as it seems to be...
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