A curious Spanish, Trafalgar-era, overshot waterwheel
Someone please explain to me how it works.
Category: Rivers
The storks of war
A fragment from Italo Calvino’s quasi-17th century folk romance, Il visconte dimezzato/The cloven viscount, uses storks as a portent of battle. Several unconnected 2nd century Greek accounts might appear to do the same, perhaps particularly if one’s a lazy sod and doesn’t read anything but scraps of stuff on Google Books.
Why I’m called Trevor
Or, rather, how my grandfather seems to have been named after a minor railway station.