In Greek mythology, Mnemosyne was the goddess of memory. She was one of the daughters of Gaia and Uranus, and as the mother of the nine Muses she represents enchantment, inspiration, and the power of remembering. She is said to know everything, past, present, and future. A mnemonic device, named from the same [more…]
We have a winner! Congratulations to Christine H for winning $5,000 in the Lovatts Crosswords & Puzzles $100,000 Magic Money competition.
Like the $100K Cash Splash before it, the Magic Money draw was a fantastic chance for Christine and the Lovatts Crosswords & Puzzles team to meet one of our wonderful and loyal Lovatts puzzlers in person. It [more…]
The DIY has been one of our most popular contests in Christine’s BIG Crossword magazine for years and the team and I are always amazed at how clever the entries are.
We are always overwhelmed by the huge effort all our DIY contest entrants make to create a crossword and write the clues. When [more…]
German geophysicist Alfred Wegener was the first to advance the idea, in 1912, that the continents were slowly drifting around the Earth, and coined the term Continental Drift but this idea was not accepted until the 1950s.
Ancient Greek mariners were the first to make a distinction between continents, when they gave [more…]
The noun ‘moon’ is thought to derive from the Proto-Indo-European mēnsis, meaning ‘month’. The moon’s waxing and waning have made it a symbol of time, change, and repetitive cycles around the world, such as the cycle of birth and death.
The moon has been personified in various myths and legends from across the world, such [more…]
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