by admin | Sep 13, 2026 | Sports Articles
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, in a US Open second-round qualifier in 1983, Barbara Bramblett was trailing 0-6, 0-5 and facing three match points against her at love-40 when serving in game six of the second set against her opponent, Ann Hulbert....
by admin | Sep 13, 2026 | Education Articles
How superstitious are we? We will be aware of the most common examples of superstition, such as a black cat crossing your path brings you good luck, walking under a ladder (or breaking a mirror) brings bad luck. We try crossing fingers, touching wood. We think number...
by admin | Sep 6, 2026 | Education Articles
People approach old age in different ways. Oliver Wendell Holmes argued that “Old age is always fifteen years older than I am” while Maurice Chevalier considered that “Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.” John Mortimer found that “The aging...
by admin | Sep 6, 2026 | Sports Articles, Uncategorized
One of the joys of teaching is seeing interesting spellings of words like “tree cuter” and “making hen’s meat” (work it out!). At a local golf course, written in big letters on a wall adjoining the fairway, are the words “Out of Bounce” which, while not being the...
by admin | Aug 30, 2026 | Education Articles
‘Two and a Half Men’ was a hugely popular sitcom that ran for twelve seasons in the early 2000s (at one point earning $3.24 million per episode, thus becoming the third-highest revenue-generating programme), starring initially Charlie Sheen and later Ashton Kutcher,...
