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[edit] Did you know...
- ...that the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, founded in 1853, was edited for 68 years by the Lankester family? (22 April 2008)
- ...that a novel human polyomavirus is associated with Merkel cell carcinoma, a rare and highly aggressive form of skin cancer? (13 April 2008)
- ...that during the English Civil War, the Crown Inn in Nantwich, Cheshire was used as a place of worship, as the church was used as a prison? (7 April 2008)
- ...that the Tegg's Nose Country Park in Cheshire has a collection of historical quarrying equipment (pictured) dating back to the 16th century? (2 April 2008)
- ...that St Stephen's Church in Macclesfield Forest, Cheshire still practises a rush-bearing ceremony, largely abandoned in the 17th century? (2 April 2008)
- ...that English sculptor Henry Weekes' monument to Percy Bysshe Shelley, modelled on Michelangelo's Pietà, includes realistic touches such as seaweed wrapped around the drowned poet's arm? (22 March 2008)
- ...that after Crewe Hall (pictured) in Cheshire was gutted by fire in 1866, E. M. Barry was employed to restore it to a facsimile of the Jacobean original? (18 March 2008)
- ...that listed buildings in Peckforton, Cheshire, include a carved stone elephant bearing a replica of a medieval castle (pictured)? (16 March 2008)
- ...that David Beckham and Victoria Adams were given a replica of Cheshire's Rookery Hall as a cake at their engagement party? (12 March 2008)
- ...that listed structures in the parish of Acton in Cheshire include an aqueduct (pictured), sundial, icehouse, clock tower, telephone box and a statue of a dog upsetting a food bowl? (26 February 2008)
- ...that award-winning biographer Jenny Uglow described her dictionary of women's biographies as "a mad undertaking, born of a time when feminists wanted heroines and didn't have Google"? (11 February 2008)
- ...that American trauma surgeon Tom Shires operated on both Texas governor John Connally and gunman Lee Harvey Oswald after the assassination of John F. Kennedy? (10 February 2008)
- ...that epidemiologist Brian MacMahon showed for the first time that women who give birth early in life have a lower risk of breast cancer? (3 February 2008)
- ...that playwright Sam Thompson's Under the Bridge about Northern Irish sectarian violence became Belfast's most-seen play despite a prediction it would "offend and affront every section of the public"? (19 November 2007)
- ...that Mdm2, whose role in regulating p53 was discovered by British scientist Karen Vousden, is a potential target for anti-cancer drugs? (23 October 2007)
- ...that English civil engineer James Trubshaw's straightening method used on Wybunbury's St Chad's tower in 1832 was later used to stabilise the Leaning Tower of Pisa? (20 October 2007)
- ...that close studding (example pictured) of timber-framed buildings was a 15–16th century status symbol, due to its lavish use of timber? (14 October 2007)
- ...that new bacterial species names are not considered valid until published in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology? (2 October 2007)
- ...that Carnegie Medal-winning children’s author Berlie Doherty has written the libretti for three operas? (19 September 2007)
- ...that British surgeon Richard Partridge apprehended the London Burkers gang of body snatchers, alerting the authorities while claiming to be getting change for a £50 note? (24 August 2007)
- ...that despite being portrait painter to Queen Victoria, John Partridge's career plummeted after a dispute with Ramsay Richard Reinagle over altering one of his paintings? (23 August 2007)
- ...that Eleanor Davies-Colley was the first woman admitted as fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England? (23 August 2007)
- ......that Churche's Mansion (pictured), Nantwich, United Kingdom, one of the few buildings to survive the Great Fire of 1583, bears a carved salamander, a traditional protection against fire? (10 August 2007)
- ...that William Gaskell, husband of the well-known Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, was a pioneer in the education of the working classes? (27 July 2007)
- ...that lead shot for the Napoleonic Wars was made at Chester Shot Tower (pictured), probably the oldest surviving shot tower in the world? (11 February 2007)