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Ball Farmhouse, Hankelow
 
Brine pump at Warmingham
  • ...that the dairy-farming area of Warmingham, Cheshire, is the source of around half the pure salt (brine pump pictured) manufactured in the UK? (29 October 2016)
 
Thomas Aldersey by Robert Peake the elder (1588)
 
Zamilon virophage
  • ...that the recently discovered Zamilon virophage (pictured) casts doubt on the concept of virophages? (22 March 2016)   6,348 views
  • ...that Tessa Hadley's second novel has been described as "mysteriously, bewitchingly compelling" despite being a "virtually plotless portrait ... of breathtakingly ordinary mortals"? (20 March 2016)
  • ...that Robert Shope, described as a "walking encyclopaedia" of arboviruses, discovered more novel viruses than anyone previously? (18 March 2016)
 
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
 
Electron micrograph of Bourbon virus
  • ...that Bourbon virus (pictured), discovered in 2014 from a man who died after tick bites, is the first thogotovirus to be associated with human disease in the Western hemisphere? (17 April 2015)   7,129 views
  • ...that a quaranjavirus that can infect humans was discovered in 1953, but it took 60 years to classify it? (30 March 2015)
  • ...that Fritchley Tunnel is believed to be the oldest surviving railway tunnel in the world? (26 March 2015)   8,429 views
 
Electron micrograph of tick-borne encephalitis virus
 
Abbot's House, Combermere Abbey
  • ...that throughout the 400-year history of Combermere Abbey (pictured), various of its abbots and priors were excommunicated, assaulted, murdered, and accused of forgery and covering up murder? (8 April 2013)
 
St Mary's and St Michael's Church, Burleydam
 
Steve Reich performing "Clapping Music" in 2006
  • ...that although Steve Reich's works have often been referenced by pop and rock musicians, the Radiohead-inspired Radio Rewrite is the first time Reich (pictured) has returned the compliment? (18 March 2013)
 
Influenza neuraminidase bound to an inhibitor
 
Sweetbriar Hall, Nantwich
 
Dutton Horse Bridge
 
Wrenbury Church Bridge
 
Queen's Aid House, Nantwich, Cheshire
  • ...that the Queen's Aid House (pictured) has a plaque commemorating Elizabeth I's aid in rebuilding Nantwich after a fire, the only time she is known to have contributed to such a cause? (26 August 2010)   ~5,392 views
 
Regent House, Nantwich, Cheshire
 
Widows' Almshouses, Nantwich, Cheshire
  • ...that Roger Wilbraham founded the Widows' Almshouses (pictured) in Nantwich, Cheshire, in memory of his wife, who died on the first anniversary of the death of their eldest son? (18 August 2010)
 
Wilbraham's Almshouses, Nantwich, Cheshire
 
Tollemache Almshouses, Nantwich, Cheshire
 
116 Hospital Street, Nantwich, Cheshire
 
39 Welsh Row, Nantwich, Cheshire
 
Methodist Church, Nantwich, Cheshire
 
1-5 Pillory Street, Nantwich, Cheshire
 
Caryatid on corbel from 46 High Street, Nantwich
 
9 Mill Street, Nantwich, Cheshire
 
Lychgate at St Michael's, Marbury
 
Delamere Forest, Cheshire
 
Raw Head
 
Sound Pond, Sound Heath
 
Former malt kiln near Sound
 
Ruins of Rocksavage c. 1818
 
Teggs Nose quarry
 
Crewe Hall
 
Carved stone elephant in Peckforton
 
Nantwich Aqueduct, Acton
 
 
 

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