Helium.com | View John Welford's articles http://www.helium.com/users/371937.xml View John Welford's articles en-us Copyright Helium.com Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:15:43 GMT Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:15:43 GMT Thomas Hood (1799-1845) wrote two “Faithless” poems, the other being “Faithless Nelly Gray”. They both take the form of mo... http://www.helium.com/items/1679422-analysis-of-faithless-sally-brown-by-thomas-hood Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:15:43 As extreme sports go, they don’t get much more extreme than this. BASE stands for “buildings, antennas, spans and earth”. This i... http://www.helium.com/items/1679326-the-pros-and-cons-of-base-jumping Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:48:21 One strange fact about Hopkins’s originality is that it had absolutely no impact or influence on his contemporaries.  When he died in 1... http://www.helium.com/items/1679107-original-features-of-the-poetry-of-gerard-manley-hopkins Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:45:32 Sphereing (also known as zorbing) is one of the strangest things you can do for fun. You are strapped (or not) into an 8-foot diameter plastic bal... http://www.helium.com/items/1678391-rolling-downhill-known-as-sphereing-or-zorbing Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:17:35 The world is full of very bad poets, so the crown of the “best” (or should that be the “worst”?) has to be bestowed with c... http://www.helium.com/items/1678245-the-bad-poetry-of-william-mcgonagall Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:17:28 “The Latest Decalogue” is the Ten Commandments with a twist. The poet, Arthur Hugh Clough, was a student (and later a fellow) at Oxfor... http://www.helium.com/items/1678122-analysis-of-the-latest-decalogue-by-arthur-hugh-clough Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:07:40 As far as the United Kingdom is concerned, snooker became a televised sport in July 1969 when “Pot Black” was first seen on BBC2. It b... http://www.helium.com/items/1677031-snooker-as-a-televised-sport Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:06:07 It has long been recognised that the works of William Shakespeare contain scenes, dialogs and language that are earthy, suggestive, crude, and ful... http://www.helium.com/items/1675461-dr-bowdlers-expurgated-version-of-the-complete-works-of-shakespeare Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:12:32 Most people have heard of the golden eagle, and would probably regard it as the king of Britain's birds of prey, but less well-known is the even l... http://www.helium.com/items/1672587-facts-about-white-tailed-eagles-sea-eagles Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:04:56 Rooks are not unlike crows in appearance, but there is one virtually infallible way of telling them apart. If you see a single rook, it's a crow, ... http://www.helium.com/items/1671569-facts-about-rooks Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:06:41 Throughout the long history of cricket, whether played at the professional or amateur level, it has always been the case that two umpires are nece... http://www.helium.com/items/1671230-third-umpires-in-professional-cricket Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:29:02 The cricket umpire signals for the benefit of two categories of people, namely the players on the field and the scorers off it. The spectators als... http://www.helium.com/items/1670893-signals-made-by-cricket-umpires Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:56:56