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

   …"Severn_dam.jpg" class="right" width="200" }}|| Concrete is the most widely used construction material. Roads, bridges, schools, foundations of buildings, driveways and large office buildings are made of concrete. Some boats and ships are even mad…

2. Charlie Chaplin — 2021-08-20 11:11:51

   …0" }} Chaplin spent his childhood going in and out of the workhouse as well as being educated by a range of charitable schools. In 1898, his mother was committed to a mental asylum due to a psychosis caused by syphilis and malnutrition. === Chan…

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

   …med **Baron de Coubertain** visited England on a fact finding mission aimed at instigating physical education in French schools. Brookes invited Coubertain to his annual games in Much Wenlock [[Shropshire]] and even closed the entire town to conce…

4. Sunday School — 2021-08-08 18:39:06

   … to see if **Sunday schools** were a success. He then printed a story about the new Sunday schools. Before too long, around 4,000 new Sunday schools were started in towns all over [[England]]. Robert even used his prin…
   …ting press to publish reading books, spelling books, Bible study books, and copies of the Scriptures for the Sunday schools. By 1831, Sunday schools in Great Britain were teaching **1.25 million children** every week, approximately 25 percent…
   …rt Raikes house Gloucester, now a Public House" width="400" }} == World wide == Within a decade children were attending schools on a Sunday all over England. Soon the idea spread abroad to Ireland and the Commonwealth, into Europe, Canada and the…

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