I searched my area of the Eastern Hundreds for clues, landmarks, anything of significance, and drew a circle with my school compass, a derelict brass pivot aspiring to antiquehood.

He was a twenty-minute egg, according to your grandfather, and such men are not soon forgotten.

If the head loosens , it is restrained by a wire inside the string — the catchrope — and a red light appears on the control panel .

Less well-known is the argument that we may all have a single mitochondrial foundress — not necessarily a single ancestress — owing to the likelihood of ‘lineage extinction’ and ‘pedigree collapse’ as a result of mating with cousins, small population sizes, and high mortality before reproductive age.