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‘Dalek’ wasps are among 815 new species described by Natural History Museum scientists ... I thought it was a good name for a genus and a bit of fun having been a big fan of Doctor Who in my ...
Mr Casto made his first Dalek almost five years ago and named it Dalek DL as a reference to its dustbin lid head. Since then, he has built five more, with names including Dalek Rad, Dalek Bert and ...
The Dalek Name Came From an Encyclopaedia “Dalek” is a brilliant word isn’t it? Almost perfectly designed for those robotic, yet perpetually-about-to-throw-a-strop voices, ...
A 17-year-old who was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour, has been given his own Dalek. Noah Herniman was told about the tumour in 2021, and has since gone through months of chemotherapy ...
Loving ‘Doctor Who’ Means Cheering as the Daleks Exterminate This Woke Incarnation. The Time Lord has lost the plot. by Daniel J. Flynn. May 29, 2025, 10:47 AM.
From the Eye of the Butt to the Dalek, ... Ordnance Survey has launched a Vernacular Names Tool to help rescue teams; The database collects over 9,500 bizarre local nicknames for landmarks ...
A Doctor Who superfan who creates homemade Daleks to support charities said he has turned a character which “wants to destroy planet Earth” into a “cause for something good”. Mark Casto is ...
One thought is the name Dalek was inspired by Welsh author Roald Dahl, who lived 100 yards away from Nation in Cardiff, who had released James and the Giant Peach in 1961.
David Tennant's Fourteenth Doctor is back ahead of Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary specials, and now he’s hilariously tied to the Daleks more deeply.
Newly discovered species of wasp named after Doctor Who’s Daleks ‘Dalek’ wasps are among 815 new species described by Natural History Museum scientists in 2023. Nilima Marshall 28 December 2023 ...
A 17-year-old who was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour, has been given his own Dalek. Noah Herniman was told about the tumour in 2021, and has since gone through months of chemotherapy.
Since then, he has constructed five more, the majority of which stay in a room in his house when not entertaining people, and have been given names including Dalek Rad, Dalek Bert and Dalek Blisteron.