Notes and Queries: v. 5 (A "Guardian" book)

by Joseph Harker (Editor)

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  1994

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  No one thinks it's an egg: Ian Taylor from Birmingham thinks it was a 300-year-old seige tower; Roy Palmer from Dymock maintains that this is a myth introduced in the 1950s and popularised in the opera All the King's Men ; Robert Halliday from Bury St Edmunds is sure that it was a 17th-century ale punch, but S. Makepeace Brown of Llandyssol has the last word, insisting that it was not a man but a pregnant woman. They are all talking about the origins of Humpty Dumpty. So Notes & Queries brings together all sorts of people from all parts of the country to dispute all manner of questions.

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  1993

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  A collection of questions and their various answers from the readers of The Guardian, such as: what are the odds of being run over by a bus; why does a spider's web stick to everything except the spider; and is it possible for someone to bequeath all their money to a teddy bear?