UK Gold - UK Gold UK Gold is a British television channel, originally launched on November 1, 1992 (coincidentally, the day before Channel 4's 10th birthday) as a joint venture between Thames Television and the BBC to show their 'classic' archive programming (see: rerun). The channel's major drawbacks in its early years were the insensitive placement of commercial breaks in BBC shows, and the heavy-handed editing of BBC programmes to fit commercial timeslots. The channel joined Sky's basic subscription package in 1993. UK Gold's programming includes such viewer favourites as: Absolutely Fabulous Bergerac The Bill Blackadder Doctor Who EastEnders Last of the Summer Wine Only Fools and Horses The Vicar of Dibley UK Gold's success led to the creation of UKTV, still part-owned by the BBC, which operates several.
Gold sovereign - Gold sovereign A gold sovereign is a British gold coin, first issued in 1489 for Henry VII, generally with a value of twenty shillings or one pound. The name sovereign related to the majestic and impressive size and portraiture of the coin, the earliest of which showed the king facing, seated on a throne while the reverse shows the Royal coat of arms on a shield surrounded by a Tudor double rose. Sovereigns were discontinued after 1604, being replaced by unitess, and later by laurelss, and then guineas. Production of sovereigns restarted in 1817, their reverse design being a portrayal of Saint George killing a dragon, engraved by Benedetto Pistrucci. This same design is still in use on British gold sovereigns, although different reverse designs have.
Kit Williams - to mean something. I recalled how, as a child, I had come across 'treasure hunts' in which the puzzles were not exciting nor the treasure worth finding. So I decided to make a real treasure, of gold, bury it in the ground and paint real puzzles to lead people to it. The key was to be Catherine of Aragon's cross at Ampthill, near Bedford, casting a shadow like the pointer of a sundial." When the book was published in 1979 the world went crazy, selling hundreds of thousands of copies world wide, obviously many in the UK, but also in Australia, South Africa, Germany, Japan, France and the USA to name but a few. The treasure was found about two years after the book was published..
January 13 - 888 - Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks 1847 - The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California. 1854 - The accordion is patented by Anthony Faas. 1893 - The Independent Labor Party of the UK has its first meeting. 1898 - Emile Zola's J'accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair. 1910 - The first radio broadcast. Inventor Lee De Forest broadcasts a live performance of Enrico Caruso from the Metropolitan Opera 1935 - A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany 1942 - Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car 1953 - Marshal Josip Broz Tito chosen President of Yugoslavia 1957 - Wham-O Company produces the first Frisbee 1966 - Robert C. Weaver.
Vera Lynn - and saxophonist Harry Lewis in 1939. In 1940 she began her own radio series, Sincerely Yours. Her "Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart" became the first record by a UK artist to top the US charts, and she appeared regularly on Tallulah Bankhead's US radio programme The Big Show. She was awarded the OBE in 1969, and became a Dame of the British Empire in 1975. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Recordings 2 Films 3 References Recordings "The General's Fast Asleep" (1935) "No Regrets" (1935) "When the Poppies Bloom Again" "I'm in the Mood for Love" (Rex Records, 1935) "Sailing Home With The Tide" (Rex Records, 1935) "Thanks A Million" (Rex Records, 1935) "Heart Of Gold" (Rex Records, 1936) "A Star Fell Out Of Heaven" (Rex Records, 1936) "Crying My Heart Out For You".
James Follett - plays, and many radio dramas. He is one of the 100 most popular British authors, measured by the numbers of books borrowed from public libraries in the UK. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Notable works 1.1 Novels 1.2 Radio 1.3 Television 1.4 Other Works 2 Also see Notable works Follet's works include: Novels The Doomsday Ultimatum (1976) Crown Court (1977) Ice (1978) U-700 (1979), based on his radio play The U-boat that lost its Nerve, in turn based on a true story during World War II. Churchill's Gold (1980) The Tiptoe Boys (1981) Dominator (1984) Swift (1985) A Cage Of Eagles (1987 ?) Mirage (1988) Torus (1990) Trojan (1991) Savant (1993) Mindwarp (1993), a prequel to the radio drama Earthsearch Earthsearch (1981) based on his radio drama Earthsearch Deathship (1982) based.
Indigo Girls - the duo in 1988. Their first major-label release, also self-titled, included a new version of Land of Canaan, which was also on their 1985 EP and on Strange Fire. About this time Amy founded Daemon Records, which has signed Ellen James Society, Kristen Hall and James Hall, among others. The second album, Nomads Indians Saints, went gold, but was not as successful as their first. They followed it with the live Back on the Bus, Y'all. 1992's comeback album Rites of Passage was an enormous success, as was Swamp Ophelia in 1994. Albums Strange Fire (1987, independent 11-song version) Indigo Girls (1989) Strange Fire (1989, major-label 10-song version) Nomads*Indians*Saints (1990) Back on the Bus, Y'all (1991, live) Rites of Passage (1992) Swamp Ophelia (1994) 4.5 (1995, compilation, UK only) 1200 Curfews.
Vitreous enamel - cooking pots, exterior walls of high quality kitchen appliances, cast iron bathtubs, and storage silos on farms. The bright, jewel-like colors have also made enamel a favored choice for designers of jewelry and bibelots, such as ancient beads, the fantastic eggs of Carl Fabergé, enameled copper boxes of Battersea enamellers, and artists such as George Stubbs and other painters of miniatures. According to some sources, the word enamel comes from the High German word smelzan (to smelt) via the Old French esmail. Some techniques of enameling: Cloisonné, French for "cell", where copper or gold wires separate differently colored areas. Champlevé - French for "raised field" where enamel is fired around raised fields of metal, leaving the metal exposed. Limoges – ceramic ware, such as jewelry boxes, painted with true enamel and.
Ireland in the 20th Century - and Dublin (football) 1902 Archbishop Croke, patron of the GAA, dies at the age of 78. Waterford City confer the freedom of the city on John Redmond. The centenary of the Christian Brothers is celebrated. The UK Liberal Party stops its support for Home Rule. The All-Ireland Champions are Cork (hurling) and Dublin (football) 1903 St. Patrick's day becomes a national holiday in Ireland. Erskine Childers publishes The Riddle of the Sands. The Wyndham Land Act is passed - it solves the land purchase problem. The Independent Orange Order is founded in Belfast. The All-Ireland Champions are Cork (hurling) and Kerry (football) 1904 The Abbey Theatre is founded in Dublin June 10 - Bloomsday. James Joyce meets Nora Barnacle for the first time. The All-Ireland Champions are Kilkenny (hurling) and Kerry.
History of Spain - the Christian kingdoms. In the 11th century the Muslim realms asked for help from the North African Almoravides, who then took control of all of Al-Andalus and some Christian land. The Almohades were defeated in the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in 1212. By the mid-13th century Granada was the only independent Muslim realm in Spain, and the 13th and the 15th centuries were spent in internal strife among the Christian kingdoms. The reconquest of Spain was declared a crusade at the turn of the 13th century. With this declaration came the urge for religious purity in Spain, which was capitalized on by the "Catholic monarchs" (Reyes Católicos in Spanish) Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon in order to justify their invasion of Granada, the expulsion of.
History of Africa - al-Raschid's generals, at the close of the 8th century—ruled as vassals of the caliphate. However, early in the 10th century the Fatimid dynasty established itself in Egypt, where Cairo had been founded AD 968, and from there ruled as far west as the Atlantic. Later still arose other dynasties such as the Almoravides and Almohades. Eventually the Turks, who had conquered Constantinople in 1453, and had seized Egypt in 1517, established the regencies of Algeria, Tunisia and Tripoli (between 1519 and 1551), Morocco remaining an independent Arabized Berber state under the Sharifan dynasty, which had its beginnings at the end of the 13th century. Under the earlier dynasties Arabian or Moorish culture had attained a high degree of excellence, while the spirit of adventure and the proselytizing zeal of the followers.
History of New Zealand - settlement on Banks Peninsula in the South Island at Akaroa also in 1840) and to end the lawlessness of European (predominantly British) whalers and traders. Maori chieftains were motivated by the promises of protection of their existing possessions (which was only partially carried out) and by the promise of protection against other Maori using muskets obtained from European whalers and traders (the "Musket Wars" of 1820-1835). Considerable European settlement followed, principally from England, but also from Scotland (especially in the south of the South Island) and Ireland. The early European settlers established provinces. From south to north they were: Otago, capital Dunedin; Canterbury, capital Christchurch; Westland, capital Westport; Nelson, capital Nelson; Marlborough, capital Blenheim - all in the South Island - Wellington, capital Wellington; Taranaki, capital New Plymouth; and Auckland, capital.
History of South Africa - Africa and imported slaves from Indonesia, Madagascar and India. The slaves became the Cape Coloureds, a small ethnic group in the Western Cape Province. British Incursions Great Britain seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1797 during the Anglo-Dutch War. The Dutch declared bankruptcy, and the British annexed the Cape Colony in 1805. A dispute arose over compensation after the British abolition of slavery in 1835, and many of the Afrikaner settlers, who were known as the Voortrekkers, travelled to the interior of the country to found their own republics, the Orange Free State and the Transvaal. A Voortrekker incursion into the coastal area of Natal was repulsed by the Zulus under Dingane, brother, heir, and murderer of Shaka. The Zulu empire would later be conquered by the British. The.
History of Australia since 1901 - unions and the other colonies strongly opposed this), and fear of the other European powers, France and Germany, who were expanding into the region. British military leaders such as Horatio Kitchener urged Australia to create a national army and navy: this obviously required a federal government. It was also no coincidence that in the 1890s for the first time the majority of Australians, the children of the gold rush immigrants, were Australian-born. The New South Wales Premier, Sir Henry Parkes, was the initial leader of the federation movement, but the other colonies tended to see it as a plot for New South Wales dominance, and an initial attempt to approve a federal constitution in 1891 failed. The cause was then taken up the Australian Natives Association and younger politicians such as.
Hogsmeade - Hogsmeade Hogsmeade, Scotland, UK is a fictional settlement, that appears in the Harry Potter novels. Hogsmeade is the only pure wizarding settlement in the United Kingdom and is located south of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Third year students and older are permitted to visit the village, as long as they have a signed permission slip from their parent or guardian. Hogsmeade hasn't yet appeared in the films, unless one counts the short sequence where the train arrives at the Hogsmeade station in the first movie. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 The Three Broomsticks 2 Zonko's Joke Shop 3 The Hogsmeade Station 4 The Hog's Head 5 Dervish and Banges 6 Scrivenshaft's Quill Shop 7 Gladrags Wizardwear 8 Madam Puddifoot's 9 Honeydukes Sweetshop 10 The Post Office 11.
Galliano - of the East African wars at the end of the 19th century. Galliano Liquore soon travelled across the borders with the Italian pioneers heading for the gold rush in California. Galliano is a bright yellow color and is packaged in a distinctive tall bottle shaped roughly like the Eiffel Tower. Because the flavor is so exotic and unusual, it can be difficult to mix with other liqueurs. It is often used to make Harvey Wallbangers. Interestingly, it makes a delicious combination with triple sec, irish cream and milk in a variant of the Screaming Orgasm. Galliano is also the name of a 1990s UK jazz funk/dance band..
Genomics - is often stated that such-and-such an organism shares X percent of its DNA with humans. Here is a list of genetic similarity to humans, with sources, where known. Perhaps a geneticist (or should that be genomicist?) would care to comment on the significance, if any, of these statistics. Human 99.9% (quoted by President Clinton, Jan 2000, State of the Union address; also Human Genome Project) 100% (identical twins) Chimpanzee 98.4% (sources: Americans for Medical Progress; Jon Entine in the San Francisco Examiner) 98.7% (Richard Mural of Celera, quoted on MSNBC) Bonobo equal to chimpanzee Gorilla 98.38% (based on study of intergenic nonrepetitive DNA in Am J Hum Genet. 2001 Feb;68(2):444-56) Mouse 98% (source: Americans for Medical Progress) Dog 95% (Jon Entine in the San Francisco Examiner) Roundworm 74% (Jon Entine in.
Gilt - Gilt A thin covering of gold. A government bond or sovereign bond issued by the UK government or treasury usually on their behalf by the Bank of England. The bond certificates, back when these were in common use, were gilt edged. Hence the name. An immature female pig.
Gorillaz - band is centred around a fictional group of animated musicians, drawn by Hewlett. Gorillaz apeared in the UK music scene in late 2000 and boasted hits including 'Clint Eastwood' and '19-2000' with their mysterious live shows earning them a cult following. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Discography 2 Singles 3 Fictional Members Discography Gorillaz Certified gold (500,000 copies sold) on 08/08/01 Certified platinum (1,000,000 copies sold) on 09/26/01 G-Sides Laika Come Home Singles Tomorrow Comes Today EP Clint Eastwood 19/2000 Rock The House Tomorrow Comes Today Lil' Dub Chefin' Fictional Members 2D - Drums/Keyboard Murdoc - Bassist Noodle - Guitar Russel - Vocals/Raps == External Link: The Band's Flash-heavy official site.
Great Dane - Group 7 (Non-Sporting) CKC: Group 3 - Working Dogs KC(UK): Working NZKC: Non-sporting Breed standards (external links) FCI, AKC, ANKC, KC(UK), NZKC the Great Dane is a breed of dog known for its large size (giant) and gentle personality. The breed is commonly referred to as the "Gentle Giant". Typically they are very smart and strong dogs who are protective and loyal to their owners. They take to training well and are fairly low maintenance compared to many other breeds. Great Danes come in many colors: ; Black : Mostly or all back with possible white on paws and underside (dogs with large amounts of white are sometimes referred to as Mantle or Boston coloring). ; Blue : Pure steel blue color with little or no white marks (occasionally on chest.
