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Miscellanea

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Confusions

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Liszt and Wagner's love affair with late December

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Born 31 December 1805
Born 24 December 1837, but celebrated it on Christmas Day
Born 23 December 1857

Ghastly British surnames

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  • Abicare
  • Arbogast
  • Arbuthnot
  • Auchincloss
  • Auchinleck
  • Bagshaw
  • Bassingthwaite
  • Beckinsale
  • Begbie
  • Bickerstaff
  • Bickersteth
  • Birtwistle
  • Bledisloe
  • Blenkinsop
  • Blennerhassett
  • Bultitude
  • Callister
  • Carstairs
  • Clissold
  • Clitheroe
  • Clutterbuck
  • Cockburn
  • Crapp
  • Culpeper
  • Dalgliesh
  • Dawkins
  • Grimsdyke
  • Grimshaw
  • Grimwade
  • Grocock
  • Higginbottom
  • Hornibrook
  • Horsfall
  • Jimson
  • Lillicrap
  • McCluggage
  • McGillicuddy
  • McGurk
  • Ollerenshaw
  • Pennypacker
  • Pettigrew
  • Pickersgill
  • Polkinghorne
  • Ponsonby
  • Prendergast
  • Protheroe
  • Pruitt
  • Purvis
  • Scammell
  • Scrymgeour
  • Shrubsole
  • Smedley
  • Smethurst
  • Snodgrass
  • Spruance
  • Threlfall
  • Throckmorton
  • Throgmorton
  • Titmarsh
  • Tonks
  • Trengove
  • Trescothick
  • Trubshaw
  • Tunks
  • Tuttle
  • Twemlett
  • Walkinshaw
  • Wearne
  • Whitbread
  • Withers
  • Witherspoon
  • Wolstenholme
  • Wormald
  • Wotherspoon