1. Glastonbury Festival — 2023-10-09 23:45:46

   …ft" title="Glastonbury Festival" width="400" }} Glastonbury covers a huge** 900 acres**, the equivalent of over 500 football pitches. There are least** 60 stages **on site and eight miles of security fencing. Glastonbury costs **£22m** to put …

2. Plastic — 2022-09-01 08:57:23

   …om plastic: Toothbrushes, buckets, bowls, pens, plates, cutlery, bottles, boxes, bags, toys, pipes, tables, chairs, footballs, CDs etc. Mouldings for: Computers, smartphones, printers, screens, keyboards, mouse, webcams, cameras, cars, iPods,…
   …uckets Boxes Cups Toothbrushes Pens Smartphones Computers Televisions Xbox Toys Dolls Chairs Electric plugs sockets Footballs Artificial Grass Flowers Car parts Tools Conservatories Windows Doors Acrylic glass Perspex Knives Forks Plates Spoons…

3. YMCA — 2022-05-17 05:19:39

   …was a need to develop activities and games that would amuse the young men but were not aggressive and physical like football and rugby. So the YMCA can claim two other inventions, '''**Netball**''' or 'Basketball' and '''**Volleyball**'''. …
   …||{{ Image url="Basketball.png" width="200px" }}||{{ Image url="volleyball.jpg" width="180px" }}|| || Net Ball / Basket Ball || Volley Ball || Dr. James Naismith devised the indoor game of Basketball with 13 rules. Interestingly …
   …rule 3 states: ^^3. A player cannot run with the ball. The player must throw it from the spot on which he catches it.^^ One rule forgotten? == Links == [[http://www.ymca…

4. Miss World — 2021-08-20 10:50:22

   …national beauty pageant, was created in Britain by Eric Morley in **1951**. It was held on 29 July 1951 at the Lyceum Ballroom in [[London]], [[England]]. == Miss World == Morley had arranged the beauty event as a one-off for the **Festival…

5. Intraocular Lens — 2021-08-20 10:40:24

   …etter eye was peppered with fragments of **perspex**, there was no foreign-body reaction to it. Though lodged in the eyeball, these splinters were apparently inert, and caused no adverse reactions in the sensitive tissues of the eye. == After …

6. Modern Olympics — 2021-08-14 20:26:14

   …izens of the locality. The first games he held were a mixture of old Greek style athletics and local sports such as football and cricket. By 1851 competitors from all over the West Midlands were attending and by the end of the decade the event …

7. Football — 2021-08-14 19:52:33

   …350" }}The origin of football can be found in every corner of geography and history. The Chinese , Japanese, Italian, Ancient Greek, Persian, Viking,…
   … and many more all played a ball game that resembled football i.e. primarily controlling a ball with your feet //not// your hands . The Chinese "football" games date as far back as 3000 years ago. The Ancient Gree…
   …ks and the Roman used football games to prepare warriors for battle. {{Image url="Football.jpg" class="left" width="100"}} In south and Central America a game called "Tlatchi" once flourished. == Set the Rul…
   …es == In Britain too, there are records of Football being played for hundreds of years. But it was in England that the modern game of football really begin to take shape. …

8. Lawn Mower — 2021-08-10 08:19:36

   …s is how artistic mowing on grass can be. {{Image url="LeicesterKingPower.jpg" class="left-right" title="Leicester Football Ground by John Ledwidge" width="" }} == Adjustable Wrench == {{Image url="BuddingWrench.jpg" class="right" title="Bud…

9. Bearings — 2021-08-08 20:30:19

   …1794 === ~-[[CategoryTransport]]:[[1700s]] Philip Vaughan, an iron master from Carmarthen [[Wales]], patented the first ball bearing mechanism. He described how iron balls running in a groove between the wheel and axle would reduce friction in…
   … his patent of 1794. {{Image url="PatentBearings.jpg" class="right" title="Philip Vaughan Ball Bearing Patent" width="500" }} Vaughan was a carriage maker and wanted to improve the direct contact between the axle …
   …earings made carriage travel more comfortable lessened the strain on horse power and reduced maintenance. {{Image url="BallBearing.gif" class="left" title="Ball Bearing animation" width="400" }} The success of the bearings caught the imaginati…

10. Vaccination — 2021-08-07 23:07:23

    …iently long. His findings were published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in '''**1787**'''. == Ballooning == During his lifetime 'Hot Air Ballooning' become popular and Jenner held many experiments in this area too. =…

11. Sport — 2020-11-30 00:32:47

    …e url="Football.jpg" class="right" width="100"}} In Britain too, there are records of Football being played for hundreds of years. But it was in England that the modern game of football really begin to take shape. …
    …In 1863 the first Football Association (F.A.) was founded in [[England]]. In the '''Freemasons' Tavern''' in Great Queen Street, London on 26 Oct…
    …er the nation could compete with each other. Little did he know this would become the biggest sport in the world! [[Football | Main article]] == Cricket 1787 == The origins of cricket are very vague, and many theories have been put forward su…
    …ggesting its origins, but it is, without doubt, very English. {{Image url="Cricketball.jpg" class="right" width="100"}} The first evidence of cricket being played was recorded in the year 1550, by the pupi…

12. Cricket — 2020-08-26 21:18:47

    …ket are very vague, and many theories have been put forward suggesting its origins. The most likely fore runner is Stoolball that dates back to the 1400s, but it is without doubt, very English. == Beginnings == The first evidence of cricket be…
    … the world-famous 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 …

13. Rubber Band — 2020-06-28 12:40:44

    …as gone on to become one of the most versatile of inventions. From holding lids on to holding clothing in place. Golf balls to catapults and what would the postman use to hold all those letters together before discarding outside your front do…

14. Billiards — 2016-06-23 11:09:55

    …ber of pocket billiard games directly descended from English billiards:** - Snooker - Pool (pocket billiards) - Nine-Ball - Cowboy Pool**…

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