1918: FormationOn 1 April 1918, the Royal Air Force came into being, by amalgamating the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.

Major General Hugh Trenchard is appointed the service’s first Chief of the Air Staff. Here, a Bristol fighter flies over France on formation day.  read more

It seems unfairly menacing that a snake that can literally "stand up" and look a full-grown person in the eye would also be among the most venomous on the planet, but that describes the famous king cobra.  read more

Three Labrador Retrievers -- one brown, one yellow and one black -- were sitting in the surgery waiting room at the vet's when they struck up a conversation:

The black lab turned to the brown and said, 'So why are you here?'  read more