At the time of it’s building in the 1950s the Lovell Telescope in Jodrell Bank went over budget from the projected £120,000 to a pricey figure of only £750,000 – it was a project that was nearly doomed. But eventually, not only was it completed, but was the largest steerable Continue Reading

  The pictures below are of Patara, off the south west coast of Lycia on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. This is the site where legend has it that a young Ἅγιος Νικόλαος (St. Nicholas) dropped money into a poor man’s house over three nights so that the man could Continue Reading