According to payscale.com the average take-home salary for a General Practitioner or GP is just under £50,000 a year. Some specific roles are less well... (read more)

The most reliable figures on the most dangerous jobs are collected in the US. You can see a list of the top 10 most dangerous jobs there, based on the average yearly mortality... (read more)

Near where the city of Norwich now stands, there were settlements going back well before Roman times, and after the Roman invasion there were important... (read more)

The Statue of Liberty was designed by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi. He was a French sculptor, who was originally from the Alsace region near the German border.... (read more)

To transport the statue from France to the USA, first of all its creators had to dismantle it. It was divided into over 300 pieces, and each piece had to be labelled and instructions... (read more)

The lyrics for this song, like most of the lyrics for the musical of the same name, were written by Arthur Freed. Freed had already been writing song lyrics for many years when Singin' in the Rain came out;... (read more)

Anyone can join so.cl. It started as more of a learning site, but now it's become much more general. You don't have to do anything - if you go to the home page you will see that you can join it just through one of your... (read more)

Like hair on other parts of the body, nasal hair has a protective function. It's particularly important as it acts as a filter to the air that we breathe... (read more)

On 30 May Julian Assange lost his latest appeal to avoid extradition. The basis of the appeal was a claim that the Swedish... (read more)

Nobody knows for sure, though a lot of people have tried to find out. One popular explanation is that this is an involuntary reaction to protect... (read more)

The immediate cause of hay fever is a reaction to pollen (the powder carried from flower to flower by bees that makes plants fertile). If your body has an allergy to pollen, then in... (read more)

The name Great Yarmouth is more about the town's size than about its excellence, and this name also distinguishes it from the other Yarmouth, on the Isle of Wight. However, many people would also tell you that it's a great place. (read more)

Norfolk literally means the folk, or people, of the north. This distinguishes it from the neighbouring county of Sufffolk, or people of the south. Norfolk was in the north of the kingdom of East Anglia, which is where the idea of them being 'northern... (read more)

It isn't always cloudy, though if you are on holiday here at the moment you could easily think that it's always like this! In fact, just a week ago it was blazing sunshine all over the country, and very hot for May. In fact the UK has a relatively mild... (read more)

According to Celebrity Heights Priscilla Chan is 5 ft 5 in or... (read more)

The X-ray process involves some exposure to radiation, which in large amounts is a cause of cancer. However, the risk of developing cancer after undergoing X-rays is normally very low. We are all exposed to some radiation in our daily lives, though of... (read more)

It's done in a very similar way on a PC. As with a mac, you need to make sure that the screen you want to capture is displayed as you want it to appear. Then instead of the Grab function you use the Print Screen key - this is usually located in the top... (read more)

It will be a while before we know which film has done better at the box office, but so far the signs for Men in Black 3 are quite good. Nobody is claiming that it's better than the first one, but that's usual for sequels. To give some idea of how audiences... (read more)

Difficult question! The answer is probably somewhere in between. You could argue that, coming from a comfortable, well off family who could afford a good education for him, was luck - but plenty of people come from a similar or richer background to (read more)

It only just launched on 20 May, so it's too early to say if it will be better than any other networking site. At the moment there are clearly a lot of things not finished yet - for example, you can't upload photos yet as you can on Facebook, but the... (read more)