Imagine how the USA's average IQ would go up if it became the 51st State, method in Trump's madness. 

Recorded in the USA too but not GB yet, it will be soon of course. I doubt if the world will go into full panic mode as it did five years ago, we've learnt that that route isn't the one to take. But if it does spread we can expect advice on masks etc that kind of thing. I've still got one from the last time mouldering in a drawer somewhere. 

A Chance for Trump to heap more blame on China for all the world's ills.  

Presumably it comes from that superb film Gaslight, itself based on a play. 

Tom, I seem to recall you asking just how did they get arrows out of people in the past? Go to you tube and put in….. the miraculous medieval surgery that saved Henry V life. There are a couple of versions and all really good. 

Actually the Chinese for body armour against arrows used layers of tightly woven silk. IT didn't stop the arrow from penetrating but kept the arrow together so it didn't splintering into  many pieces.

Clever man, tough patient

In 1934 the King of Yugoslavia, Alexander I was assassinated whilst on a State Visit to France. He had just arrived by sea at Marseille and was being driven through the streets in a car alongside the French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. A gunman in the pay of Serbian anarchists opened fire killing the King. The police fired back and in the confusion Barthou was shot in the arm his artery severed. Incredibly the medical attention he received led to his death, the tourniquet was tied below the wound which continued to bleed and he died from loss of blood. 

The only good news was that the assassin was so badly beaten by the crowd that he died a few hours later.