[00:01]wagon

[00:02]By 1919 the estate covered 10,000 acres and was ahead

[00:07]of its time, self-sufficient in electric power, with its own

[00:11]transport depot, a dairy with a sophisticated bacterial

[00:15]laboratory, steam wagons and a pumping station.

[00:21]drip

[00:23]Eileen Diss's design… creates… piles of yellowing

[00:27]newspapers, a bucket dangling from the ceiling to catch

[00:31]drips from a rotting roof, and, near an unconnected gas

[00:36]stove, a brightly coloured statue of the Buddha.

[00:56]skull

[00:58]In the course of talking to police about an unrelated

[01:01]burglary, a Texas teen revealed that he and two friends

[01:05]had robbed a grave, used a garden tool to break off the

[01:09]skull of its occupant, made the skull into a bong and

[01:13]smoked marijuana out of it.

[00:41]strip

[00:43]They were, by far, the largest and most distant objects

[00:47]that scientists had ever detected: a strip of enormous

[00:51]cosmic clouds some 15 billion light-years from earth.

[01:17]dull

[01:19]For a long period of time and in many parts of the

[01:21]country, a traveler was a welcome break in an otherwise

[01:25]dull existence.