About how the United States turned swathes of the desert radioactive during the cold war and denied it, bequeathing a medical mystery which to this day haunts Hollywood and rural Mormon communities and raises a thorny question: how much should you trust the government?
"We live in a world where it feels as though the darkness is falling ever more severely on whole swathes and regions and in which the light of the news often seems to go out," he said.
Not content with annexing every dinner party conversation and huge swathes of the television schedules, England's Greed is Good division set out to conquer the world with Game 39, or the international round: a proposal, unveiled in February last year, to play 10 games between the 20 Premier League clubs each January, in different cities and time-zones around the world.
Today, the gracious palazzo and the nearby wild coastline of the Punta Licosa are all that remain of the Belmonte estates which once covered swathes of southern Italy and Spain and were famous for their olives and wine which made the family rich and powerful.
The prospect that Islamabad could send troops emerged last Thursday when Saudi Arabia announced that it had agreed to join the coalition of Muslim states, which includes Egypt and Kuwait, aiming to stem the advance of the Houthi forces that have seized large swathes of Yemen.
"The same is true in Bangladesh, Pakistan, across great swathes of Africa.
The defence secretary, Michael Fallon announced an additional deployment of British combat-ready troops numbering "in the low hundreds" to help train local forces battling Isis forces, who control vast swathes of northen Syria and neighbouring Iraq.
We're not going and clearfelling great swathes of land".
Vast swathes of global technology businesses such as IBM, Google and Yahoo are attracted by the city's English and computer savvy labour force.
If the yellow swathes of Ecuadorians in the Dockers stands was not strange enough, the game lurched from one bizarre turn to the next throughout an enthralling 90 minutes.
In the absence of any serious contenders, huge swathes of the constituency could choose to ignore the election and turnout is expected to fall below 50%.
