News At A Glance #14

By ASH Smyth
July 2022

—    The Nelson Evening Mail, 28 September 1906

Twice as many men as women are afflicted with nostalgia.

On a good day, a Minnesota radio can reach Saint Peter.

Hardly anyone survives the Tour de France without at least one crash.

Rome wasn’t burned in a day.

London is full of Finnish conductors.

Not everybody likes couscous.

Eighteen Hundred and Eleven was published in 1812.

Serral was the first non-Korean to win a StarCraft II World Championship.

The waters off the coast of South Georgia are foul.

Cats have object permanence.

A specific theme mostly unique to Polish proverbs is that of Poles and Poland.

To make oneself English means not being straightforward.

Your lifejacket is under your seat.