1. Portland Cement — 2023-10-08 00:16:46

   …jpg" title="CN Tower" width="200" }}||{{Image url="Runway.jpg" title="Roads & Runways" width="200" }}|| ||{{Image url="Sydney-opera-house.jpg" class="right" width="200" }}||{{Image url="Severn_dam.jpg" class="right" width="200" }}|| Concrete is …

2. Hovercraft — 2023-10-07 09:48:35

   … ^^ //Quote from Cockerell.// == Family == The Cockerells were a talented family from [[Cambridgeshire]]. The sons of Sydney John Cockerell, a London coal merchant,and Alice nee Bennett, the daughter of a City watchmaker, Sir Sydney's elder bro…
   …ther, Theodore, was a biologist, his younger brother, Douglas, an eminent bookbinder; while Douglas's son Sydney Maurice ("Sandy"), two years Christopher's senior and also a bookbinder, was a celebrated and innovative designer of ma…
   …ations (he once described his son as "no better than a garage hand"), put up the money for his early patents. (When Sir Sydney died in 1962, aged 94, some obituaries of this great museum director and manuscript collector, friend of Bernard Shaw a…

3. Toilet — 2023-09-08 09:57:11

   … towns and 'many others' where these public conveniences were installed, including Paris, Florence, Berlin, Madrid, and Sydney as well as in South America and the Far East. He also supplied water closets to 30 railway companies in Britain, Americ…

4. Mensa — 2020-12-03 00:59:15

   … ::c:: {{Databox caption="Founder" Image="RolandBerrill.jpg" Who="Roland Berrill" width="300" born="1897" birth_place="Sydney" died="1962" death_place="Eastbourne" }} == MENSA == Mensa is the oldest society for people with a high IQ (Intellige…

5. Mary Poppins — 2016-05-05 17:16:51

   …s Travers' first literary success. Many sequels followed. Travers' great aunt, Helen Morehead, who lived in Woollahra, Sydney, and when she visited Travers (Helen Lyndon Goff) in **Queensland** used to say, "Spit spot, into bed", was the inspira…

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