is Federico Garcia Lorca.

1043 GMT Federico Garcia Lorca. Poet and playwright. Met his death in August 1936 at the hands of a Nationalist firing squad. He was a friend of Salvador Dali, among others.

1044 GMT Salvador Dali. When lost in Wikipedia, one often finds oneself clicking on entries for people and things already well-known, and still finding new nuggets of information or link fodder. Clicking down to the "symbolism" section, and there's a bit on the painting Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening. It's a sufficiently famous painting to have its own entry.

1045 GMT Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening. Like all Dali paintings, there's plenty to analyse, and oneplace to do the kind of fact checking (news) agencies do. Journalists have a really important role as mediators. Richard Tait is a former BBC Trustee

1047 GMT Obelisk. Poetically referred to as "a petrified ray of the sundisk", here we have a slew of factlets about these mysterious monuments. The tallest Egyptian obelisk is in the square in front of the Lateran Basilica and stands 105.6ft tall and weighs 455 tons. The emperor Theodosius put one in Constantinople in 390 that still stands.

And there's a delightful little anecdote about the time when Pope Sixtus V decided to re-erect the obelisk in St Peter's Square. Architect and engineer Domenico Fantana presented the pope with a tiny wooden model of a crane and a miniature lead obelisk. The pope was