I think I may have to give the answer to this one and set another. The key is something known as 'mad honey'. Some plants have nectar which is poisonous to humans but not to bees. The honey made from some types of Rhododendron is highly intoxicating (and hallucinatory) in smaller doses and potentially lethal in larger doses. Normally this would be neutralized because bees would be pollinating many other flowers at the same time. However, if the weather in spring is unsuitable, then the Rhododendron could be the only source of nectar - in this case the honey would be dangerous. Also in areas where the Rhodedendron forms a type of monoculture as in the Black Sea area of Turkey, the Caucasus and parts of the Himalayas - the fresh honey of spring can be highly hallucinatory. Roaming armies of the past were also scavengers of the countryside - and locals would have known this. When the Roman armies of Pompey returned through the Black Sea areas of Turkey the locals had strewn toxic honey combs along their way - the result was that 3 divisions were wiped out. The Army of Xenophon 400 years earlier had also been so inebriated and weakened by this that they were easy prey. If you ever buy honey in spring in the mountains along the Black sea coast, and it looks slightly reddish - then be carefull with it. My next question - which London Tube station is built upon an old mass grave from the plague.
ah I might have got it with time... but life has taken over a bit at the mo.. Aldgate? As described by Daniel Defoe in his book, A Journal of the Plague Year. 'A terrible pit it was, and I could not resist my curiosity to go and see it. As near as I may judge, it was about forty feet in length, and about fifteen or sixteen feet broad, and at the time I first looked at it, about nine feet deep; but it was said they dug it near twenty feet deep afterwards in one part of it, till they could go no deeper for the water; for they had, it seems, dug several large pits before this. For though the plague was long a-coming to our parish, yet, when it did come, there was no parish in or about London where it raged with such violence as in the two parishes of Aldgate and Whitechappel.'
Although it's probably not the answer you're looking for, a Dalek appeared alongside Darth Vader and other sci-fi characters in a 2003 episode of Top Gear, to see who was "Master of the Universe" with a lap around the test track in a modified Honda Civic.
please log in to view this image The vast collection of unique, quirky and downright strange teapots that now makes up the impressive display at Teapot Island in Kent began as the personal collection of owner Susie Blayze when her grandmother gave her her first teapot back in 1983. The museum once held the record for the largest collection of teapots in the world, and today visitors can see teapots shaped as Daleks, Darth Vader and even toilets.
That's very nice of you Yorkie. Ok. Which famous building was demolished to make way for the building of the Embankment, and the railway station of the same name ?
A couple of clues. The building has a strong literary connection. There is also a connection to a cat bristling at the sight of its own reflection.
