A pretty way to conciliate 'little tempers' indeed, to add to the offence of spoiling the fish the crime of bringing an unexpected friend to eat it. Pot luck, quotha, when the pot's boiled over this half hour!

Although Democrats were able to get arms on what amounted to a black market, editors complained bitterly that antiarms policy aggravated relations between Republicans and Democrats.

There is a parish council called the Douzaine, which, as its name suggests, consists of twelve members.

Altogether it takes seven billion billion billion (that’s 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, or seven octillion) atoms to make you.