In 1947, a V-twin Vincent with a clapped-out, rattling engine was turned over to the British motorcycle company's development department to serve as a test hack for go-faster bits, which rolled open ...

A prep (junior) school in Oxford, known improbably as the Dragon, had since the 1920s named one of its boarding houses Gunga Din after the character in Rudyard Kipling’s famous poem. Last month the ...