Winchester brought in his own gun mechanic, Benjamin Tyler Henry, who perfected a form of rimfire cartridge first dreamed up by Wesson and came up with an initial model capable of storing and firing 15 cartridges at a time. Winchester, a wealthy Connecticut businessman previously best known for manufacturing shirts, bought the Volcanic Repeating Arms [...]

If prostitution is the oldest profession, then the brothel must be the oldest public institution. We’re going to give this a real shot.”He added: “The team is about offering families a thorough and independent reappraisal of unsolved cases. The work will be carried out by a new unit called the Historical Enquiries Team, led by [...]

Anyone who – for good reasons – dreads pollution and extinction in the material environment for books ought to be toiling hard to nurture the virtual environment. Otherwise, all the tears shed for the looming loss of choice and creativity will be – crocodile tears.. In this book Mois?Na? editor of Foreign Policy, turns the [...]

One, known as Irish Key, recalled their love for their two Jack Russell dogs, Sid and Nancy, and remembers them jumping into the pool at the Robinsons’ villa to catch dragonflies.Another man, who said he knew the couple since 1990, commented: “Flo was a lovely lady She looked like a young Elizabeth Taylor. The couple [...]

“I don’t think of myself as writing historical novels,” he says, bristling “There is such a genre, of course But I don’t think I participate in it. I have burned his cities, his forges, his armories, his machine shops, his cotton gins. I have eaten out his crops, I have consumed his livestock and appropriated [...]

Hole and Vessel was put in storage with Fine Arts Logistics in London in June 2004. Three months later its owner, Ofir Scheps, an art collector from Geneva, was told that the piece, made of wood and cement, had disappeared from the high-security warehouse where it was kept. He had only just acquired the piece [...]

Backed by a £1 million Home Office awareness campaign, it was unveiled at a conference in London which will also look at the media’s role in covering controversial subjects available on the web, such as suicide websites and pro-anorexia and self-harm online forums. Mr Carr added that figures he obtained from industry before Christmas had [...]

Made by World Productions, whose This Life embodied the spirit of a certain type of young urban professionals in the late Nineties, Gold Plated aims to do the same again in the North. More than a grown-up Hollyoaks, the Beverly Hills 90210 wannabe set down the road in Chester, the series promises to explore the [...]

Ali al-Safari of the Communist Party said: “Nobody, not even al-Qa’ida, could have done this alone.” Mohammed al-Sabri, of the Nasserite Party, added: “This is a serious setback and puts the country in a very embarrassing position. Following the attacks of 11 September 2001 in the US, facing an ultimatum from Washington, the Yemeni government [...]

Chef Richard Ryland’s signature dish is his treacle town pudding.What to do: Admire the Norman architecture and hanging baskets before heading back into Manchester.. Or buy a gold-plated truffle at the village’s celebrated Chocolate Trading Company. Alderley Edge Once the preserve of the Mancunian cotton barons, old money has given way to new with rampant [...]