Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2020 October 29

= October 29 =

Moisturizer effect on skin
Moisturizing lotions are mainly intended to improve the skin, but can also harm it. How often should we moisturise? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moisturizer#Effect_on_the_skin — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.209.252.46 (talk) 10:37, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Have you read Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2019_July_5?--Shantavira|feed me 10:49, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

Keystone cops
Walking near King's Cross this morning, I chanced upon a tablet affixed to the wall of a house in Keystone Crescent. It explains how Battle Bridge (which I thought was no more than a bridge over the railway) crosses the river Fleet (hence Fleet Street) and commemorates an engagement between Queen Boadicea and the Romans in AD 60. I don't know if it was her last campaign, but she is buried under platform nine at nearby King's Cross station. Battle Bridge used to be the name of the district, but it was changed to King's Cross in 1836 when the eponymous memorial to the Prince Regent was erected. As traffic increased, in 1845 it went the way of Temple Bar and Euston's Doric arch (although Temple Bar is back in a slightly different location). The tablet says "Keystone Crescent has the smallest radius of any crescent in Europe and is unique in having a matching outer and inner circle." So are there any curvier crescents on other continents? 81.139.213.56 (talk) 10:39, 29 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Essential information: the inner radius (facade to facade) measuring on Google maps seems to be around 28m.--Shantavira|feed me 10:55, 29 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Not answering your question, but I must point out that there is no evidence either that Boudica (Boadicea if you prefer) fought a battle at Battle Bridge or that she is buried under King's Cross station. See Boudica. --Antiquary (talk) 12:36, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
 * See also Boudica for some more plausible, but equally unproved locations.  Alansplodge (talk) 13:54, 29 October 2020 (UTC)