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Glastonbury Festival — 2023-10-09 23:45:46
… died in 1954, Eavis inherited the family farm of 150 acres with 60 cows, so he became dairy farmer. <<{{amazon type="book" items="0091897637" }}<< In 1969, Eavis and his wife Jean visited the //Bath Festival of Blues//. He was inspired by t…
Modern Farming — 2023-10-09 23:44:30
…genius design allowed for grass and weeds to be pulled from the ground and left on the surface to die. <<{{amazon type="book" items="1166260496" }}<< Jethro Tull wrote a book “**Horse hoeing husbandry**” for farmers but it would take almos…
…t a hundred years before farmers widely adopted his proposals and technologies. He wrote the book in **1731**. Jethro advocated the use of horses instead of heavy oxen for much of the farm work. …
Mayday — 2023-10-08 00:53:45
… stronger sound that both English and French pilots were familiar with Mockford suggested **Mayday**. In 1924, the **Book of Wireless Telegraphy** identified **‘Mayday’** as the international distress call. {{Image url="FrederickMockfo…
Hovercraft — 2023-10-07 09:48:35
…r of a City watchmaker, Sir Sydney's elder brother, 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 celebr…
English Bible — 2023-09-25 23:57:13
…��s New Testament was the first to be printed in English. Those discovered owning them were punished. At first only the books were destroyed, but soon heretics would be burned. Although the Old Testament had first been written in Hebrew and th…
… eroded control. {{Image url="Tyndale_Monument.jpg" class="left" title="Tyndale Monument" width="" }} >>{{Amazon type="book" items="0300065809" }}>> Translating the Bible into English made Tyndale very unpopular, he was forced into hiding in …
Telephone — 2023-09-23 15:57:07
…nly attended school for five years; from the time he was 10 until he was 14, but he never stopped learning. He read the books in his grandfather's library and studied tutorials. == Narrow Escape == When he was in his early 20's, his two broth…
Telegraph — 2023-09-23 15:56:52
…al clock-like machines, each with a moving index or hand, with the alphabet engraved around the dial. >>{{amazon type="book" items="1145411770" }}>> The device was a modern wonder at the time. He attempted to interest the Admiralty in this d…
Electric Generator — 2023-09-23 12:04:37
…xtremely curious, questioning everything. He felt an urgent need to know more. At age 13, he became an errand boy for a bookbinding shop in London. He read every book that he bound, and decided that one day he would write a book of his own. He …
Winston Churchill — 2023-08-27 16:11:42
…arned the government that they needed to help fight Hitler or Germany would take over all of Europe. <<{{amazon type="book" items="0857501461" }}<<Churchill said of appeasement: "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat hi…
…ce of the patent holders. P.S. Oppenheimer had been a student of Rutherford at Cambridge University. >>{{amazon type="book" items="1594161631" }}>> His British Bulldog virtues pulled the country behind him. Of the Battle of Britain he said /…
Pay Toilet — 2022-09-27 07:23:49
…ring Company Ltd of London from 1889, two years before a patent was issued. == Writing == In 1894, Maskelyne wrote the book Sharps and Flats: A Complete Revelation of the Secrets of Cheating at Games of Chance and Skill. This book became an in…
…stant hit and to this day is considered to be a classic gambling book.…
Plastic — 2022-09-01 08:57:23
…se, webcams, cameras, cars, iPods, MP3 players, vacuum cleaners, Stereos, TVs etc. == Too Durable == <<{{amazon type="book" items="1526301164" }}<< In the quest for a material that is highly durable this invention has grown into a modern envi…
Cheesecake — 2022-05-20 12:28:32
…goryFood]]:[[1300s]] The ancient Greeks ate something that may have resembled cheesecake, but the English medieval cookbook, **[[Lasagne | The Forme of Cury]]** from 1390, has the first recipe that most resembles the modern cheesecake. == …
Cambridge Cream — 2022-05-20 08:48:45
…, [[England]] first produced **'Cambridge Burnt Cream'** dessert no later than **1630**. ||{{{toc}}}||{{amazon type="book" items="1906507317" }}|| Several country's claim the origin of what is now often referred to as ''''crème brulee'''',…
Lasagne — 2022-05-20 08:38:58
…:[[1300s]] {{Image url="King_Richard_II.jpg" class="right" title="King Richard II" width="" }} The English medieval cookbook, **The Forme of Cury**, in the British Museum has the first recipe for **Lasagne.** This cookbook, by the cooks of Kin…
KitKat — 2022-05-03 17:00:51
…ck to red in 1947 when the standard milk chocolate KitKat was reintroduced. == Record Breaker == In 2010 the Guinness Book of Records certified #%KitKat#% as the ** most sold chocolate brand across the world ** when it was sold in 72 countrie…
Concorde — 2021-08-20 11:08:12
…mage url="ConcordeCliftonBridge.jpg" class="right" title="Concorde over Clifton Bridge" width="400" }} <<{{amazon type="book" items="075093980X" }}<< ::c:: {{Tag ids="Flight jet mach supersonic "}} ~- {{color c="#999" text="Espionage is the hi…
Guinness Book of World Records — 2021-08-20 10:45:53
… rugby pioneer William Webb Ellis on the French Riviera in 1958. Together they compiled what was to become the Guinness Book of Records. == Sad Departure == On November 27, 1975, editor Ross ""McWhirter"" was assassinated by two members of th…
Agatha Christie — 2021-08-14 20:41:37
…terbrook House in Wallingford" }} == Dame Agatha Christie == ~-[[Entertainment]]:[[Literature]]:[[1800s]] The Guinness Book of World Records lists Christie as the best-selling novelist of all time. Her novels have sold roughly 2 billion. === …
…Colonel Archibald Christie, a Royal Flying Corps pilot, and took up nursing during World War I. She published her first book, //The Mysterious Affair at Styles//, in **1920**. **Poirot** and **Miss Marple** are Christie's most well-known detec…
Scouts — 2021-08-14 20:35:19
…number more than ''**'28 million**''', with over 5 million in the **USA** alone, truly amazing. == Top Seller == The book '''Scouting for Boys''' is now in fourth place in the all time best sellers list, behind the Bible, the Koran and Mao-T…
…se-Tung's Little Red Book selling around **150 million** copies since 1908. == Links == [[http://www.scoutbase.org.uk/ Scout base]] [[http://ww…
Ice Cream Cone — 2021-08-14 20:22:38
…-[[CategoryFood]]:[[1800s]] The first recipe for an edible cone used to serve ice cream was in //Mrs Marshall's Cookery Book// printed in 1888. {{TOC}} Marshall was an English culinary entrepreneur and pioneer. She became a leading cookery writ…
…class="grow growhide left" title="Marshall's patent freezer" width="300" }} == Cornets with Cream == >>{{amazon type="book" items="B0010PANVU" }}>> Marshall's cookery book included a recipe for **"Cornets with Cream"**. After making the ice …
Clouds — 2021-08-14 20:16:00
… late twenties, he wrote the //Essay on the Modification of Clouds,// which was published in **1803**. >>{{amazon type="book" items="033039195X" }}>> {{Image url="CloudNames.jpg" class="left" alt="Met Office guide to cloud types and pronunciat…
Fingerprints — 2021-08-14 20:06:49
…detailed statistical model of fingerprint analysis and identification and encouraged its use in forensic science in his book Finger Prints. ::c:: == Dactyloscopy in the Raj == A Fingerprint Bureau was established in Calcutta (Kolkata), India, i…
Sewing Machine — 2021-08-11 11:41:32
…. He built a replica of a Saint machine made from the drawings submitted with the patent. He proved it worked. He then booked space at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia right next to the Howe exhibit. Thus visitors to the celebrat…
Chocolate Bar — 2021-08-09 22:11:02
…ty health drink. {{Image src="fryschocolatecream.jpeg" class="left" title="Fry's Chocolate Cream" }} >>{{amazon type="book" items="1492275085" }}>> ::cl:: Fry used a Watts steam engine to help grind the cocoa beans to a much finer powder tha…
Light Bulb — 2021-08-09 21:56:27
…ison and his attorneys hid significant information from the judge. They cut out the October 7-21, 1879 section of a notebook that the judge might have determined showed that they were simply extending Sawyer’s (or Swan’s) work with carbon "…
Shire Horse — 2021-08-09 21:35:31
…ear **Ashby de la Zouch** [[Leicestershire]] between **1755 & 1770**. He was black and appears in the first 'Shire Stud Book' and large numbers of horses are descended from him. {{Image url="ShireBeer.jpg" class="right" title="Shire Horse & ca…
Cowboy — 2021-08-09 21:03:46
… refer to black or, as they became known, //buffalo soldiers//. == Links == [[http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2012/01/on-the-history-of-the-word-cowboy.html | Reference]] {{tag ids="Cowboy horse vacquero buckaroo cows cattl…
Sandwich — 2021-08-08 20:40:14
… the **Fourth Earl of Sandwich**, was too busy gambling to stop for a meal even though he was hungry. <<{{amazon type="book" items="B01K3KF4YS" }}<< He ordered a waiter to bring him roast-beef between two slices of bread. The Earl was able to …
Marmalade — 2021-08-08 18:49:30
…"a choice pot of marmalade and a slice of cold ham" as "essentials of English table comfort". == History == The recipe book of Madam Eliza Cholmondeley, dated around **1677** and held at the Chester Record Office 4, has one of the earliest rec…
Sunday School — 2021-08-08 18:39:06
…0 new Sunday schools were started in towns all over [[England]]. Robert even used his printing press to publish reading books, spelling books, Bible study books, and copies of the Scriptures for the Sunday schools. By 1831, Sunday schools in G…
Banoffi Pie — 2020-12-01 00:13:56
…lace of one of the World's Favourite Puddings."** This is the original Banoffi Pie recipe as it first appeared in the book ** ‘The Deeper Secrets of the Hungry Monk’ **in 1974. {{Image url="HungryMonkplaque.png" class="right" title="Hungr…
Sport — 2020-11-30 00:32:47
…ia and South Africa, using lids from cigar boxes as paddles and rounded corks from wine bottles as balls, with a row of books set up across the middle of a table to form the net. {{Image url="PingPong.jpg" class="right" width="120"}} Other vers…
Silicone — 2020-09-22 23:25:26
…[England]]. he pioneered the study of the organic compounds of silicon and invented the term silicone. <<{{amazon type="book" items="B00B65Q1HY" }}<< He published 54 papers on the subject between 1899 and 1940. In 1901 he coined the term silico…
Hydroelectric Power — 2020-08-17 09:05:43
…tle="Cragside. First house lit by hydroelectricity." width="400" }} ::c:: == Cragside built in 1863 == <<{{amazon type="book" items="1904794491" }}<< Water from one of the estate's lakes was used to drive a Siemens dynamo in what was the **worl…
Gravity — 2020-08-06 08:19:13
…. These laws are math formulas that explain how objects move when a force acts on them. Isaac published his most famous book, Principia, in 1687 while he was a mathematics professor at Trinity College, Cambridge. == Principia 1687 == >> {{ads…
Potato Crisp — 2020-08-06 08:17:45
…death_place="London" }} === William Kitchiner 1822 === ~- [[CategoryFood]]::[[1800s]] William Kitchiner’s 1822 cookbook Apicius Redivivus **'The Cook’s Oracle'** was a best selling book in Britain //and// the USA. It includes the first…
…]] [[England]]. He was a man of eclectic interests, music, optics and spectacles and improving **telescopes**. He wrote books on all his interests in plain enthusiastic English. But it was in cooking he made his name giving him a TV chef appea…
Charles Darwin — 2020-08-06 07:52:58
… === Darwin ( 12 February 1809 –19 April 1882) published his theory of evolution with compelling evidence in his 1859 book On the **Origin of Species** His theory of evolution by natural selection, now the unifying theory of the life science…
Harry Potter — 2018-10-10 17:06:49
…_place="" }} ==== J.K. Rowling 1997 ==== ~-[[Literature]] {{toc}} Author of the successful '**Harry Potter**' series of books. Growing up in Tutshill, [[Gloucestershire]] **Joanne Rowling** was born in Chipping Sodbury cottage Maternity Hospita…
…e.jpg" class="right" title="Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone" width="150" }} Around **450 million** Harry Potter books had been sold in 73 different languages as of mid-2013, making it the best-selling book series of all time. Harry Pot…
…ter is a global brand worth around** £10 billion**, and the last four Harry Potter books have consecutively set records as the fastest-selling books in history. == Family Home == {{Image url="Rowling_home…
Motor Racing Circuit — 2018-05-20 20:38:53
…h the help of engineer **Clive Gallop** in the 1920s. They inspired [[James_bond| Ian Fleming]] to write the children's book that became a film and stage musical **Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang**. {{Image url="Chitty1.jpg" class="left" title="Chitty …
Theodolite — 2017-07-05 08:57:22
…tripod with adjustable legs. It is used in the field to obtain precise angular measurements for triangulation. == His book 'Pantometria' == Digges used the term ‘theodolitus’ to describe his surveying instrument in his book //Pantometria…
…as part of his theodolite to improve the accuracy over long distances of his surveying works. As referenced in his 1591 book //Pantometria//. …
Thriller — 2017-05-19 15:12:25
…, Michael Jackson, 2/26/1983. He also wrote 'Rock With You' and 'Off the Wall'. ::c:: == Career == >>{{amazon type="book" items="075098256X" }}>> Rod's career started as keyboard player with **Heatwave** also writing their hits including 'B…
Meccano — 2017-05-14 01:23:25
…shire]], [[England]] and was the son of John Oswald Hornby, and his wife Martha Thomlinson. ||{{{toc}}}||{{amazon type="book" items="1410107922" }}|| On 15 January 1887 he married a schoolteacher Clara Walker Godefroy, they had two sons, Rolan…
Beatrix Potter — 2016-07-23 14:22:52
…Beatrix Potter is still one of the world's best-selling and best-loved children's authors. She wrote and illustrated 28 books that have been translated into more than 35 languages and sold over **100 million** copies. One book is sold every 15 …
… of Peter Rabbit 1902 === {{Image url="PeterRabbit.jpg" class="left" title="Peter Rabbit" width="" }} >>{{amazon type="book" items="1414506414" }}>> The 'real' Peter Rabbit was a Belgian buck rabbit called Peter Piper that was //'bought at a v…
…oucester 1903 == {{Image url="TailorGloucester.gif" class="left" title="Tailor Gloucester" width="" }} >>{{amazon type="book" items="0723247722" }}>> A story about a group of mice who help a tailor by sewing clothes for him at night has been a …
Billiards — 2016-06-23 11:09:55
…th covered table with pockets, has various forms from the 15th century in Europe. But what is known is that the first book of billiard rules was in English by **Charles Cotton** in **1647**. === Charles Cotton 1647 === The game was alread…
Mary Poppins — 2016-05-05 17:16:51
…yborough, Australia" death_date="23/4/1996" death_place="London, [[England]]" }} Mary Poppins is the lead character in books written by **P. L. Travers**, which was first published in 1934. Travers moved from a rented flat in London to a tha…
…don Goff) in **Queensland** used to say, "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, …
…the Banks's household to care for their children. {{image url="mary_poppins.jpg" class="left" }} == Disney Film == The books were adapted by Walt Disney in 1964 into a musical film titled Mary Poppins, starring **Julie Andrews **and **Dick Van…
Salvation Army — 2016-01-07 15:19:48
…ore than **125** countries and provides services in over **170** different languages. Its membership (as of 2010 Year Book) includes 16,938 active and 9,190 retired officers, 1,122,326 soldiers, 189,176 Adherents, 39,071 Corps Cadets, 378,009…

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