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Overlooking the Yorkshire town of Richmond is a large, ruined tower. It is known as the Grey Friars Tower, the relatively modern hospital in its shadow being called the Friary. The tower was ruined at the Reformation, but apparently built in the fifteenth century. The surrounding parkland is rather pleasant, and the tower is a curious historical relic.  

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L.S. Lowry’s Father and Two Sons (1950) is a typically morose piece of art which we might expect to come from the easel of the famous Salfordian.

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Kaffaljidhma, sometimes called Gamma Ceti, is in the constellation of Cetus, the sea monster, which is hard to spot from light-polluted skies. It is actually a triple star system, made up of Gamma Ceti A, B and C. Its Arabic name means ‘the hand cut short’, which is peculiar.

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