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- 18:17, 18 April 2021 diff hist +10,866 N Entertainment/Gilbert and Sullivan Created page with "Librettist '''William Schwenck Gilbert''' (1836 – 1911) and composer '''Arthur Sullivan''' (1842 – 1900) collaborated on a series of fourteen comic operas in Victorian Eng..." Tag: Visual edit
- 18:17, 18 April 2021 diff hist +10,230 N Entertainment/Literature - Classics Created page with "''The Hare and the Tortoise'', ''The Fox and the Grapes'' – '''Aesop''' (620 – 560 BC) ''Prometheus Bound'' – '''Aeschylus''' (526 – 456 BC). Known as “the father o..." Tag: Visual edit
- 18:16, 18 April 2021 diff hist +34,376 N Entertainment/Eurovision Song Contest Created page with "At a committee meeting of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) held in Monaco in 1955, director general of Swiss television and committee chairman Marcel Bezençon conceived..." Tag: Visual edit
- 18:16, 18 April 2021 diff hist +36,068 N Entertainment/Carry On Films Created page with "NOTE: This list excludes the compilation film “That’s Carry On” (1977) so the numbers given here may not agree with other sources. (The number in brackets after each ac..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 18:15, 18 April 2021 diff hist +168,975 N Entertainment/Literature - Fiction Created page with "''Flatland'' – '''Edwin Abbott''' ''Things Fall Apart'' – '''Chinua Achebe'''. Title taken from a line in ''The Second Coming'' by W.B. Yeats ''The Salmon of Doubt'' –..." Tag: Visual edit
- 18:09, 18 April 2021 diff hist +80,059 Entertainment/British Sitcoms current Tag: Visual edit
- 18:08, 18 April 2021 diff hist +140,977 N Entertainment/British Sitcoms Created page with "'''''Absolutely Fabulous''''' (''Ab Fab'') – BBC 1992–1996; 2001–2004; 2011–2012 Edina “Eddy” Monsoon and Patsy Stone are a pair of high-powered career women on t..." Tag: Visual edit
- 17:55, 18 April 2021 diff hist +51,061 N Civilisation/World Politics Created page with "General Council of the Valleys – legislative body of '''Andorra''' Agostinho Neto served as the first President of '''Angola''' (1975–79), leading the Popular Movement fo..." Tag: Visual edit
- 17:54, 18 April 2021 diff hist +31,315 N Civilisation/World Geography - Oceania and Antarctica Created page with "Opinions of what constitutes Oceania range from its three subregions of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia to, more broadly, the entire insular region between Asia and the A..." Tag: Visual edit
- 17:53, 18 April 2021 diff hist +113,825 N Civilisation/World Geography - Europe Created page with "'''Albania''' Durres is the main port and second city of Albania Vlore is the old capital of Albania. It is the city where the Albanian Declaration of Independence was procl..." Tag: Visual edit
- 17:50, 18 April 2021 diff hist +69,459 N Civilisation/World Geography - Asia Created page with "'''Afghanistan''' Kandahar is the second largest city in Afghanistan. Alexander the Great is said to have laid out the foundation of what is now Old Kandahar in the 4th centu..." Tag: Visual edit
- 17:49, 18 April 2021 diff hist +52,974 N Civilisation/World Geography - Africa Created page with "'''Algeria''' Algeria is the largest country in Africa, following the creation of South Sudan Algiers is only the second capital city in Africa (after Cairo) to have a metro..." Tag: Visual edit
- 17:48, 18 April 2021 diff hist +89,078 N Civilisation/World Geography - North America Created page with "United States of America The United States is the world's fourth-largest country by total area and third most populous (320 million). The U.S. population almost quadrupled du..." Tag: Visual edit
- 17:39, 18 April 2021 diff hist +148,670 N Civilisation/Words Created page with "Abasia – inability to walk Abaya – loose robe covering most of the body, worn in Saudi Arabia Ablutophobia – fear of washing Absolution – remission of sins Accolad..." Tag: Visual edit
- 17:32, 18 April 2021 diff hist +55,036 N Civilisation/USA Politics Created page with "George Washington was voted commander-in-chief of the Continental Army in 1775 Richard Henry Lee was a statesman from Virginia best known for the motion in the Second Contine..." Tag: Visual edit
- 17:32, 18 April 2021 diff hist +48,114 N Civilisation/Law and Order Created page with "Chronological The '''Bow Street Runners''' have been called London's first professional constables. They were founded in 1749 by the novelist and magistrate Henry Fielding an..." Tag: Visual edit
- 17:31, 18 April 2021 diff hist +19,838 N Civilisation/Nobel Prizes Created page with "The Nobel Prizes are prizes awarded annually to people (and, in the case of the Peace Prize, to organizations) who have completed outstanding research, invented ground-breakin..." Tag: Visual edit
- 17:30, 18 April 2021 diff hist +61,519 N Civilisation/Transport Created page with "Air ''Flyer I'' flew on 17 December 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Piloted by Orville Wright. Wilbur had made the first attempt Louis Bleriot’s 1909 cross-channel fli..." Tag: Visual edit
- 17:29, 18 April 2021 diff hist +14,704 N Civilisation/Psychology Created page with "Psychologists '''Alfred Adler''' (1870 – 1937) was an Austrian medical doctor and psychologist, founder of the school of individual psychology. He wrote a book defining his..." Tag: Visual edit
- 17:29, 18 April 2021 diff hist +104,685 N Civilisation/Language Created page with "A '''language isolate''', in the absolute sense, is a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or ‘genetic’) relationship with other living languages; that is,..." Tag: Visual edit
- 17:17, 18 April 2021 diff hist +26,474 N Civilisation/Space Exploration Created page with "Project Mercury The Mercury Seven was the group of seven Mercury astronauts picked by NASA in 1959. They are also referred to as the Original Seven and Astronaut Group 1 –..." Tag: Visual edit
- 17:16, 18 April 2021 diff hist +38,333 N Civilisation/Technology Created page with "Computing The Colossus machines were electronic computing devices used by British codebreakers to read encrypted German messages during World War II. These were the world's f..." Tag: Visual edit
- 16:59, 18 April 2021 diff hist +17,789 N Civilisation/Flags Created page with "Terminology Canton – any quarter of a flag, but commonly means the upper hoist (left) quarter Charge – a figure or symbol appearing in the field of a flag Field – the..." Tag: Visual edit
- 16:59, 18 April 2021 diff hist +19,431 N Civilisation/Explorers Created page with "'''Erik the Red''' (950 – c. 1003) founded the first Nordic settlement in Greenland. Father of Leif Ericson '''Leif Ericson''' (c. 970 – c. 1020) was a Norse explorer who..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 16:58, 18 April 2021 diff hist +14,205 N Civilisation/Education Created page with "University of Oxford '''University College''' is the oldest Oxford college, and was founded in 1249 '''Balliol College''' was founded in 1263 '''Queen's College''' was foun..." Tag: Visual edit
- 16:57, 18 April 2021 diff hist +62,998 N Civilisation/Business Created page with "Business Terms Abenomics – the name given to a suite of measures introduced by Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe after his 2012 re-election. His aim was to revive the slug..." Tag: Visual edit
- 16:57, 18 April 2021 diff hist +90,268 N Civilisation/United Kingdom Politics Created page with "'''Robert Walpole''' was Whig Prime Minster from 1721 to 1742. Earl of Orford. South Sea bubble. Walpole was nicknamed ‘cock robin’. Country seat was Houghton Hall in Norf..." Tag: Visual edit
- 16:56, 18 April 2021 diff hist +131,258 N Civilisation/British Isles Geography Created page with "England '''Bedfordshire''' Cardington is best known in connection with the Cardington airship works founded by Short Brothers during World War I, which later became an RAF b..." Tag: Visual edit
- 16:53, 18 April 2021 diff hist +165,520 N Civilisation/Biographies Created page with "'''Harold Abrahams''' (1899 – 1978) was a British track and field athlete of Jewish origin. His father Isaac had emigrated to England from Russian Poland. He was Olympic cha..." Tag: Visual edit
- 16:53, 18 April 2021 diff hist +40,038 N Civilisation/Architecture Created page with "Architectural orders – Doric, Ionic, Corinthian (all Greek), Tuscan and Composite (added by the Romans) '''Doric''' architecture – oldest and simplest '''Ionic''' archit..." Tag: Visual edit
- 16:52, 18 April 2021 diff hist +19,133 N Civilisation/Acronyms Created page with "A&P – Advertising and Promotion A&R – Artists and Repertoire AAIB – Air Accidents Investigation Branch ABI – Association of British Insurers ABS – Anti-lock brak..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 16:51, 18 April 2021 diff hist +62,452 N Civilisation/20th Century History Created page with "'''1901''' Marconi transmitted a message from Poldhu in Cornwall to Signal Hill in St John’s, Newfoundland '''1902''' The Order of Merit was founded by Edward VII to rewa..." Tag: Visual edit
- 16:47, 18 April 2021 diff hist +118,464 N Art and Culture/World War II Created page with "'''GENERAL''' '''PRE-WAR''' Germany Hindenburg (Independent) defeated Hitler in 1932 elections. Hitler was named chancellor in 1933. Reichstag fire was an arson attack on..." Tag: Visual edit
- 16:46, 18 April 2021 diff hist +65,155 N Art and Culture/World War I Created page with "'''GENERAL''' '''1914''' A global war centered in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. More than 9 million combatants and 7 million civilians..." Tag: Visual edit
- 16:45, 18 April 2021 diff hist +42,612 N Art and Culture/Roman Emperors Created page with "'''The End of the Roman Republic''' First Triumvirate – an informal political alliance of two rival generals, '''Julius Caesar''' (Gaius Julius Caesar) and '''Pompey the Gr..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 16:44, 18 April 2021 diff hist +51,712 N Art and Culture/Religion Created page with "Major schools of religion – 1) Dharmic religions are a family of religions which originated in the Indian subcontinent. They encompass the Vedic religion (now Hinduism), B..." Tag: Visual edit
- 16:44, 18 April 2021 diff hist +31,232 N Art and Culture/Popes Created page with "The Pope (from Latin: papa, Papa, father) is the Bishop of Rome and the spiritual leader of the Roman Catholic Church. He is believed by Catholics to fulfill this role as the..." Tag: Visual edit
- 16:43, 18 April 2021 diff hist +14,383 N Art and Culture/Photography Created page with "'''Ansel Adams''' was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs of California's Yosemite Valley '''Diane Arbus''' was an American photographer,..." Tag: Visual edit
- 16:42, 18 April 2021 diff hist +37,794 N Art and Culture/Philosophy Created page with "'''Theodor Adorno''' (1903 – 1969) was a member of the Frankfurt School. Works include ''Dialectic of Enlightenment'' and ''Negative Dialectics'' '''Antisthenes''' (c. 445..." Tag: Visual edit
- 16:39, 18 April 2021 diff hist +9,869 N Art and Culture/Persian Emperors and Dynasties Created page with "'''Cyrus II the Great (559 - 530 BC)''' The son of Cambyses I of Persia of the Achaemenid family, he was the founder of the Persian Empire A vassal of the Median king Astyage..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 16:38, 18 April 2021 diff hist +65,155 N Art and Culture/Mythology Created page with "Greek Mythology Creation Myth Gaia (Earth), Eros (Love), Tartarus (Abyss) and Erebus (Darkness) emerged from Chaos (Nothingness). '''The Titans''' Gaia gave birth to Uranu..." Tag: Visual edit
- 16:37, 18 April 2021 diff hist +6,947 N Art and Culture/Military History of the Ancient World Created page with "The first recorded battle in history was at '''Megiddo''', fought in 1457 BC. The first major battle fought between “East” (Persia) and “West” (Greece) was the '''Bat..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 16:36, 18 April 2021 diff hist 0 Art, Culture and History
- 16:31, 18 April 2021 diff hist +16,272 N Art and Culture/British - Tudors Created page with "Henry VII (1485-1509) Henry Tudor took the throne after the Battle of Bosworth 22 August 1485. He married Elizabeth of York, the daughter of Edward IV, thus uniting “York a..." Tag: Visual edit
- 16:30, 18 April 2021 diff hist +59,277 N Art and Culture/British - Stuarts and English Civil War Created page with "James I (VI of Scotland) (1603 – 1625) succeeded his cousin Elizabeth I (more precisely 1<sup>st</sup> cousin, twice removed). After the Union of the Crowns, James based hi..." Tag: Visual edit
- 16:29, 18 April 2021 diff hist +18,295 N Art and Culture/British - Hanoverians 2 Created page with "Victoria (1837 – 1901) Victoria (b. Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From..." Tag: Visual edit
- 16:29, 18 April 2021 diff hist +43,762 N Art and Culture/British - Hanoverians 1 Created page with "George I (1714 – 1727) By the Act of Settlement (1701) Sophia, Electress of Hanover, a granddaughter of James VI, became heiress to the English throne. After the Act of Uni..." Tag: Visual edit
- 16:28, 18 April 2021 diff hist +11,694 N Art and Culture/British - Ancient to 1066 Created page with "Prehistoric Early cultures: Clactonian. Langdale axe industry. Grimes Graves. Stonehenge built 3000BC – 2000BC Bronze Age (2200 – 750BC): Beaker culture and Wessex cult..." Tag: Visual edit
- 16:28, 18 April 2021 diff hist +30,231 N Art and Culture/British - 1066 to 1485 Created page with "Normans William the Conqueror was crowned King William I on Christmas Day, 1066 The Harrying (or Harrowing) of the North was a series of campaigns waged by William the Conqu..." Tag: Visual edit
- 16:27, 18 April 2021 diff hist +26,698 N Art and Culture/Bible Created page with "'''Old Testament''' – 39 books Moses wrote the first five books of the Old Testament, known as the Torah or the Pentateuch Book of '''Genesis''' begins with the so-called..." Tag: Visual edit
