Day 292: 1-May-15 US electric car maker unveils batteries that can power homes & businesses.
Day 293: 2-May-15 A Samsung fridge - large & with a fair amount of technology can be bought for US $6000 / £3850 !!
Day 294: 3-May-15 Westonbirt Arboretum is to get a new treetop walkway built, due to be ready later this year.
Day 295: 4-May-15 Dahlias (plants) are native to Mexico - cultivated and eaten! for hundreds of years.
Day 296: 5-May-15 Devon has an estimated 33,000 miles of hedgerows; more than any other county in England.
Day 297: 6-May-15 In the French town of Orchies they have a museum of chicory!
Day 298: 7-May-15 Apparently there are about 700,000 residential properties lying unoccupied in England.
Day 299: 8-May-15 General Election results today; Conservatives have overall majority; general turmoil in other main parties.
Day 300: 9-May-15 Slovenia's geography & underlying rock type & structure means water doesn't stand, but drains to underground caves. There are no areas of standing water.
Day 301: 10-May-15 Cut Laurel (plant) leaves release cyanide chemical.
Day 302: 11-May-15 In Finland, as well as teaching Finnish as a primary language, it is mandatory to teach Swedish.
Day 303: 12-May-15 Cabbage was introduced to and brought from Holland to the UK (Dorset).
Day 304: 13-May-15 Architecture: OGEE Arch
Day 305: 14-May-15 Hexham has a building reportedly the first recorded purpose built prison; built in 1333, with 500 years use as a prison.
Day 306: 15-May-15 Wales first maritime lifeboat station built at Holyhead 1858. Now a maritime museum.
Day 307: 16-May-15 Explosive factory set up in 1915 at Gretna; Scotland. 30,000 people working creating 800 tons of explosives per week.
Day 308: 17-May-15 BBC Click programme: A company in Holland installs computer servers in homes; the heat they generate heats the home instead of the servers being in large, centralised server rooms requiring cooling. The servers are used as distributed computers; running encrypted network comms & are secured against physical tampering.
Day 309: 18-May-15 News item on BBC West about the development of an artificial human eye that can be used by medical students & surgeons to practice eye surgery techniques.
Day 310: 19-May-15 Made aware of Palmyra (Syria) in the news.
Day 311: 20-May-15 YouTube has been online for 10 years.
Day 312: 21-May-15 Liquid Morphium = an amorphous alloy of zirconium, copper, aluminum, nickel & silver.
Day 313: 22-May-15 The Hubble Space Telescope has been in space for 25 years.
Day 314: 23-May-15 A first: Suffering likely Viral Meningitis - spare you the symptoms/details; but really ill.
Day 315: 24-May-15 On BBC Click 'Be my eyes' APP; allows blind people to get assistance from volunteers, by streaming video from a blind persons's smartphone.
Day 316: 25-May-15 Seaton Tramway - Harbour Road, Seaton, Devon looks like a nice place to visit.
Day 317: 26-May-15 New invention: TrackR - a GPS Tracker Tag (www.thetrackr.com)
Day 318: 27-May-15 Earth removed as part of London's Crossrail project is being used to create one of Europe's largest nature reserves on Wallasea Island (East Coast of England).
Day 319: 28-May-15 Revealed on Springwatch; Microplastics found in various products such as face scrubs are finding its way into wildlife from our waste;
getting into smaller & smaller creatures & will kill them.
Day 320: 29-May-15 It is 25 years since the restoration of the 'Lost gardens of Heligan' began.
Day 321: 30-May-15 According to the BBC news; in Iran it can be permitted for married men to have a second partner, but under Islamic law, married women
can face flogging or stoning if caught with another man.
Day 322: 31-May-15 Pomology = a branch of botany that studies and cultivates fruit mainly focused on development, cultivation & physiological studies of
stone fruit trees.
