"FedEx, UPS, and DHL have the art of overnight shipping down to an art."
Artfully stated.

I seriously doubt they were _reading_ those books. If the fragments were found in the cannon barrels, they were most likely using the pages of the books for wadding to keep the cannonballs in place.

Kinda interesting. However, some of the stories are dubious at best.
Haraldr Hálfdanarson, commonly called Haraldr Hárfagri, (literally "Harald Fair-hair) was described in several of the Kings' sagas He ruled from 872–930: a couple of centuries before those sagas were written). While the story about his refusal to cut his hair until he ruled as a king is commonly known, the nickname "the lousy" is a new one. He was sometimes known as"Shockhead" or "Tanglehair" (Haraldr lúfa).
Ivar Ragnarsson AKA "Ivarr inn beinlausi" died about 873 CE. The existing accounts of him were written a couple of centuries after he lived, and those blended in plenty of magic and folklore. He was said to have won one battle by defeating a bewitched cow named Sibilja.
The Scandinavian sagas clearly describe Ivarr as 'lacking bones'. The mid-twelfth century poem Hattalykill says he was 'without any bones at all' (clearly a medical impossibility).
The sagas also say that 'neither love nor lust played any part in his life', and he died childless. Was he impotent-- "boneless?"
It might have been an ironic nickname, for which the Vikings were well-known, in much the same way as we refer to a fat man as "Slim"or a tall man as "Tiny" - so a larger than average Viking might be called "Boneless", or he may simply have had very supple joints (in modern terms - 'double-jointed'). Osteogenises imperfecta,is only one of several hypotheses. And I seriously doubt anyone dared call him "boneless" to his face.

Other not so nicely named historical figures include:
Constantine the Name of Shit
Haakon the Crazy
Henry the Impotent
Ivaylo the Swineherd
Jean the Poorest Man in France
John Lackland/Softsword
Justinian the Slitnosed
http://www.medievalists.net/2013/10/alfonso-the-slobberer-and-ivar-the-boneless-worst-nicknames-for-medieval-rulers/

Rather snarky little piece, Zeon.
Those Christmas puddings are a fairly long standing tradition. They are also paid for out of the Queen's personal account. The staff are also given a gift voucher, the value of which increases with length of service.
And. These "cheapo" gifts are also handed out to the recipients by the Queen herself.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/891313/Queen-Christmas-gift-palace-staff-voucher-present-Royal-family-Prince-Philip

By the way, when you consider the price of the puddings alone, when was the last time your employer spent almost $10,000 dollars out of pocket for you and your co-workers. If he/she spent anything, it was probably out of the company expense account.

If they decided to go scuba diving, they are doing it wrong. Self Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCUBA) involves the use of compressed breathing gas (usually air) to stay under water. Sarah was only using a snorkel at the time.

I work in a plasma center. That plasma is used to make dozens of medications and therapies for people with compromised immune systems.
Plasma is usually a clear, straw-colored liquid. However, every so often, someone comes in and their plasma looks like cream of chicken soup. The term for that is "lipemic plasma." What is going on, is the person has consumed a large amount of saturated fats.
Those saturated fats are the kind that can be solid at room temperature. Butter, heavy cream, lard, cheese, bacon, sausage, ham, and so forth, contain fats that can float along in the blood stream. It is especially obvious when the red cells are separated (usually by a centrifuge) I suspect those fats are part of what makes people drowsy after Thanksgiving dinner. For several hours, their blood has been turned to a fatty sludge.
Blaming the tryptophan in turkey makes little sense. Turkey has slightly more than beef 0.24 g per 100 g of food. Beef has 0.23g. Cheddar cheese has more than Turkey 0.32g.

Kinda ironic.
Washing down your Pervitin with decaf.

This TVOM author has a habit of cutting, pasting and awkwardly rewording trivia from the Internet Movie Database. "Michael Jackson and Mick Jagger were a couple." Really? Alert the National Enquirer!
Looks like this is what passes for research and writing these days.
He apparently likes to paraphrase them in order of appearance in the INDB's Trivia list.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091369/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv

Pretty lame trivia from TVOM. Everything in the list is lifted and rather poorly paraphrased from the Internet Movie Database. It would have been better if the author, and I use that term loosely, included the names of the actors. It would also have been better if the had not lifted the "10 things" in the order in which they appeared in the INDB trivia for this movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081633/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv

"SET PHASERS TO 'WE'RE STUNNED'
The Opening Credits For 'Star Trek: Discovery' Are Absolutely Jawdropping"

The only thing stunning and jaw dropping are those hyperbolic comments.
Apparently the same person who created the clickbait headlines in Yahoo News inflicted the same on this show.

The articles that have surfaced about this latest "evidence" all seem to be advertisements for a program on the History Channel. That channel is not exactly the best source for historical accuracy. History Channel has aired such programs as: "Bigfoot Captured" (it wasn't). They have also run specials about hunting Hitler, finding the lost colony of Roanoke and finding Atlantis, the truth about Alcatraz, predictions of Nostradamus, and secrets of Einstein’s brain.
Carl Sagan was famous for the advice:“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.” One grainy photo found by someone intent on proving a claim is just as likely to be a case of pareidolia as it is outright fraud. They are claiming photo enhancements prove their claims. Ever been tricked by Photoshop? Supposedly, there is a barge being towed by the ship on the background. And in that barge is an object "precisely 38 feet long." Can you even see the barge clearly?
And none of the news stories that I have been able to locate have any independent corroboration. They are all using the upcoming History Channel program as their only source.

And that is why he won an argument with an empty chair at the Republican Convention in 2012

Orwell wrote 1984 while staying at Barnhill a rather large farmhouse on the island of Jura in the Inner Hebrides, on the West coast of Scotland. The name Jura is a modern version of Dyrøy, Old Norse for "Wild Animal Island," possibly a reference to the population of deer there.