1. Worcestershire Sauce — 2023-09-18 19:06:46

   …s, they owned four pharmacies including one at Kidderminster and another at Cheltenham. == Spin Offs == The **Bloody Mary**, one of the world's most popular cocktails was created in 1921, when **Fernand Petiot**, the barman at the fashionabl…

2. Television — 2021-11-06 16:35:18

   …scs at the transmitting and receiving ends with three spirals of apertures, each spiral with a filter of a different primary colour; and three light sources at the receiving end, with a commutator to alternate their illumination. That same year…

3. Heroin — 2021-08-20 11:14:28

   …Alder Wright 1874 === ~-[[Medical]]:[[1800s]] Charles Wright first synthesized Diamorphine in 1874 while working at St. Mary's hospital in [[London]]. {{TOC}} Wright was searching for a nonaddictive alternative to the medicine morphine and soo…

4. Four-minute Mile — 2021-08-20 10:55:12

   …nnister, born in Harrow, England, in 1929, was a top mile-runner while a student at the University of Oxford and at St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School in London. In 1951 and 1953, he won British championships in the mile run. Bannister resea…

5. Antibiotics — 2021-08-20 10:41:08

   … started the Antibiotic era. == Penicillin == British scientist Alexander Fleming was working in his laboratory at St. Mary’s Hospital in [[London]] when almost by accident, he discovered a naturally growing substance that could attack certa…

6. Vitamins — 2021-08-16 09:52:16

   …s.jpg" width="100" class="left"}} Fletcher entered Caius College, **Cambridge**, in 1890, obtained a scholarship to St. Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, from which he qualified in 1896. He held a resident appointment at the Metropolitan Hospital,…

7. Agatha Christie — 2021-08-14 20:41:37

   … best-selling novelist of all time. Her novels have sold roughly 2 billion. === Torquay England 1890 === Born **Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller** on the 15th September **1890**, in Torquay, [[Devon]], [[England]]. She was educated at home by her…

8. Photography — 2021-08-14 19:57:18

   … the prints on paper that had been made light sensitive, rather than bitumen or copper-paper. He mastered the three primary elements of photography: **developing, fixing**, and **printing**. {{Image src="Latticed_window_at_lacock_abbey_1835.j…

9. Colgate — 2021-08-11 11:43:11

   …ause of his republican ideals he decided to leave their farm in Shoreham, Kent in March 1798 and emigrate to Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Colgate formed a partnership with Ralph Maher to manufacture soap and candles, and William worked with them.…

10. Sport — 2020-11-30 00:32:47

    … record of betting on cricket. The world's first cricket club was formed in Hambledon in the 1760s and the world-famous Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) was founded in 1787. The beginnings of modern cricket is said to be to be 1787, when the Mar…

11. Vacuum cleaner — 2020-10-11 23:24:10

    …th married the daughter of Francis Tring Pearce, director of the Priday Metford and Co flour milling company, Charlotte Mary in 1903. The couple had two children, Francis and Edward. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wheel | Earl Court G…

12. Cricket — 2020-08-26 21:18:47

    …at Coxheath in [[Kent]], [[England]] in **1646**. This match also produced the first record of betting on cricket. === Marylebone Cricket Club 1787 === The world's first cricket club was formed in **Hambledon** in the 1760s and the world-famou…
    …s Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) was founded in 1787. == Rules and International == {{Image url="Cricketball.jpg" class="left"…
    … width="100"}}The beginnings of modern cricket is said to be to be 1787, when the Marylebone Cricket Club also known MCC was created. The MCC has since then gone on to become one of the most prominent bodie…

13. Shakespeare — 2020-08-21 08:52:48

    …nd dramatist in the English language. His father, John Shakespeare, was a glove maker and wool merchant and his mother, Mary Arden, was the daughter of a well-to-do landowner from Wilmcote. Known as the “Bard of Avon” he wrote at least 37 …

14. Cloning — 2020-08-06 15:26:49

    …n [[Scotland]]. Dolly was born 5th July 1996. On the choice the sheep's name Wilmut said ^^"Dolly is derived from a mammary gland cell and we couldn't think of a more impressive pair of glands than Dolly Parton's".^^…

15. Angus Cattle — 2019-08-31 10:40:52

    …ide, the Aberdeen Angus breed numbers many millions. In America, Canada and Australia it is very popular - it is the primary beef breed in the USA and it is by far the most important beef breed in New Zealand. Herds have been established in Den…

16. English Language — 2018-01-26 21:45:55

    …nd Onward == English has official or special status in at least '''75 countries''' around the world. English is the primary international language in many fields including communications, science, business, aviation, entertainment, radio and d…

17. Jimi Hendrix Experience — 2016-06-02 09:48:10

    … Within months, Jimi Hendrix Experience had earned three UK top ten hits: "Hey Joe", "Purple Haze", and "The Wind Cries Mary".…

18. Mary Poppins — 2016-05-05 17:16:51

    …"Spit spot, into bed", was the inspiration for the character. == Plot == The books centre on a magical English nanny, Mary Poppins. She is blown by the East wind to Number 17 Cherry Tree Lane, London, and into the Banks's household to care fo…
    …r their children. {{image url="mary_poppins.jpg" class="left" }} == Disney Film == The books were adapted by Walt Disney in 1964 into a musical film title…
    …d Mary Poppins, starring **Julie Andrews **and **Dick Van Dyke**.…

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