Jonathan's Blog
Ever since Marianne North’s sister, Janet Catherine Symonds, published a condensed version of Marianne’s journals, it has been claimed that one Genus and four species were named in her honour and for the last century, the claim has been repeated so often that it has become gospel.… Read the rest
In The Hound of the Baskervilles, the demonic ancestor of Sir Henry, is a character called Sir Hugo Baskerville, who was based on a real character, called Richard ‘Dirty Dick’ Cabell.… Read the rest
It is fairly easy to calculate average evaporation rates, providing you have some data specific for the locality (such as the average temperature, the average relative humidity and the mean dew point) using thisformula:… Read the rest
Heinrich Wunderlich, on his German page: Garum oder Liquamen der Alten, provides a method by which the industrial method of garum production can be reduced to quantities which can be produced in the culina, in sealed jars.… Read the rest
An army may have, as Frederick the Great intimated, “marched on its stomach”, but that didn’t necessarily mean that they liked what they ate.… Read the rest