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 ...

"Kipling's poem was of its time and it is no longer appropriate to continue using the name Gunga Din." Kipling’s poem, published in 1890, is written from the point of view of a British soldier in ...