DARWIN'S PLACE

Came upon a list of the buildings awarded a Blue Plaque in Ilkley today so thought I'd try to link the next few days Blips by featuring some, if not all of them around the town, those local probably know a lot more than this import from the South about the history of the town and to them I apologies, those who don't know about this wonderful area might find things of some interest such as the imposing building featured above, Hillside Court, Ilkley, formerly North View Terrace, the building in which Charles Darwin was staying when 'Origin of Species' was published in November, 1859.

No history lessons but here's something that might amuse:

ACTUAL EXCERPTS FROM STUDENT SCIENCE EXAM PAPERS IN THE U.S.A.

* Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote the organ of the species.
* Benjamin Franklin produced electricity by rubbing cats backwards.
* The theory of evolution was greatly objected to because it made man
think.
* To prevent conception when having intercourse, the male wears a
condominium.
* Geometry teaches us to bisex angles.
* A circle is a line which meets its other end without ending.
* We believe that the reptiles came from the amphibians by spontaneous
generation and study of rocks.
* English sparrows and starlings eat the farmers grain and soil his
corpse.
* By self-pollination, the farmer may get a flock of long-haired sheep.
* If conditions are not favorable, bacteria go into a period of
adolescence.
* Dew is formed on leaves when the sun shines down on them and makes them
perspire.
* Vegetative propagation is the process by which one individual
manufactures another individual by accident.
* A super-saturated solution is one that holds more than it can hold.
* A triangle which has an angle of 135 degrees is called an obscene
triangle.
* A person should take a bath once in the summer, and not quite so often
in the winter.
* When you haven't got enough iodine in your blood you get a glacier.
* It is a well-known fact that a deceased body harms the mind.
* Humans are more intelligent than beasts because the human branes have
more convulsions.
* For fractures: to see if the limb is broken, wiggle it gently back and
forth.
* For snakebites: bleed the wound and rape the victim in a blanket for
shock.
* Bar magnets have north and south poles, horseshoe magnets have east and
west poles.
* When water freezes you can walk on it. That is what Christ did long ago
in wintertime.

ENJOY YOUR WEEKEND