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- 11:29, 22 April 2021 diff hist +6,704 N Civilisation/Founders Created page with "{| class="wikitable" |Year |Organisation |Founder |Notes |- |1652 |Quakers |George Fox |Religious Society of Friends |- |1660 |Royal Society |Christopher Wren and others |The..." current Tag: Visual edit
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- 13:55, 19 April 2021 diff hist +87,534 N Sport and Leisure/Sport 2016 Created page with "Jan 1 European Capital of Sport – Prague Jan 2 Sussex cricketer Matthew Hobden dies Jan 3 Ben Stokes hits the fastest double century for England, the second fastest in..." Tag: Visual edit
- 13:53, 19 April 2021 diff hist +50,743 N Sport and Leisure/Toys and Games Created page with "Cards Playing cards were invented in imperial China. They were found in China as early as the 9th century during the Tang Dynasty Right-facing playing cards – Jack of Club..." Tag: Visual edit
- 13:52, 19 April 2021 diff hist +21,712 N Sport and Leisure/UEFA European Championship Created page with "'''History''' The idea for a pan-European football tournament was first proposed by the French Football Federation's secretary-general Henri Delaunay in 1927, but it was not..." Tag: Visual edit
- 13:51, 19 April 2021 diff hist +54,813 N Sport and Leisure/Sports Personality of the Year Created page with "The BBC Sports Personality of the Year is an awards ceremony that takes place annually in December. Devised by Paul Fox in 1954, it originally consisted of one titular award...." Tag: Visual edit
- 13:49, 19 April 2021 diff hist +74,980 N Sport and Leisure/Winter Olympics Created page with "Figure skating was included in the original programme of the 1900 Summer Olympics, but the competitions never took place. In 1908, four figure skating events were held in Lond..." Tag: Visual edit
- 13:48, 19 April 2021 diff hist +148,754 N Sport and Leisure/Summer Olympics Created page with "Ancient Olympics The original Olympic Games began in 776 BC in Olympia, Greece, as part of a festival to honour Zeus, and were celebrated until 393 AD when Emperor Theodosius..." Tag: Visual edit
- 13:40, 19 April 2021 diff hist +33,126 N Sport and Leisure/Tour de France Created page with "'''History''' The Tour de France began to promote a new daily sports newspaper, ''L'Auto'' ahead of the largest paper in France, ''Le Vélo'', which sold 80,000 copies a day...." Tag: Visual edit
- 13:39, 19 April 2021 diff hist +28,256 N Sport and Leisure/World Athletics Championships Created page with "'''1983: Helsinki''' 100m – Carl Lewis. 4<sup>th</sup> Allan Wells 200m – Calvin Smith. 4<sup>th</sup> Allan Wells 800m - Willi Wülbeck. 4<sup>th</sup> Peter Elliott..." Tag: Visual edit
- 22:55, 18 April 2021 diff hist +89,881 N Sport and Leisure/Sport 2015 Created page with "Jan 1 European Capital of Sport – Turin Jenson Button marries Jessica Michibata Spurs 5 Chelsea 3 Jan 2 Alan Pardew appointed as manager of Crystal Palace Jan 3 Sanga..." Tag: Visual edit
- 22:54, 18 April 2021 diff hist +102,181 N Sport and Leisure/Sport 2014 Created page with "Jan 1 European Capital of Sport – Cardiff Corey Anderson hits the fastest ever international century, from 36 balls, for New Zealand against West Indies PDC final – Mic..." Tag: Visual edit
- 22:52, 18 April 2021 diff hist +95,153 N Sport and Leisure/Sport 2013 Created page with "Jan 1 Antwerp is the European Capital of Sport 2013 (Cardiff in 2014) Christopher Martin-Jenkins dies PDC final – Taylor bt van Gerwen to win his 16th title Jan 2 New..." Tag: Visual edit
- 22:42, 18 April 2021 diff hist +110,966 N Sport and Leisure/Sport 2012 Created page with "Jan 1 Istanbul is the European Capital of Sport 2012 Motorcyclist Jorge Martinez Boero from Argentina dies during Dakar Rally Nicolas Anelka moves to Shanghai Shenhua PDC..." Tag: Visual edit
- 22:29, 18 April 2021 diff hist +100,292 N Sport and Leisure/Sport 2011 Created page with "Jan 1 Valencia is the European Capital of Sport 2011 PDC quarter-final – Mark Webster bt Taylor Jan 2 Usman Khawaja and Michael Beer make debuts for Australia, captaine..." Tag: Visual edit
- 22:19, 18 April 2021 diff hist +25,161 N Sport and Leisure/Rugby World Cup Created page with "'''History''' The idea of a Rugby World Cup had been suggested on numerous occasions going back to the 1950s, but met with opposition from most unions in the International Ru..." Tag: Visual edit
- 22:18, 18 April 2021 diff hist +28,337 N Sport and Leisure/Major League Baseball Created page with "'''Teams''' '''American League East''' '''Baltimore Orioles''' Stadium – Oriole Park at Camden Yards World Series wins – 3 (1966, 1970, 1983) In 1954 the St. Louis Br..." Tag: Visual edit
- 22:18, 18 April 2021 diff hist +15,131 N Sport and Leisure/Chess Created page with "History Lewis Chessmen (or Uig Chessmen, named after their find-site) are a group of 78 chess pieces from the 12th century most of which are carved in walrus ivory, discovere..." Tag: Visual edit
- 22:17, 18 April 2021 diff hist +24,293 N Sport and Leisure/National Hockey League Created page with "'''Teams''' The NHL is composed of 30 member clubs: 23 in the United States and 7 in Canada Original Six is a term for the group of six teams that made up the NHL for the 25..." Tag: Visual edit
- 22:17, 18 April 2021 diff hist +29,636 N Sport and Leisure/Cricket World Cup Created page with "'''1975: England''' The first three events were held in England and officially known as the Prudential Cup. The matches consisted of 60 six-ball overs per team. Eight teams p..." Tag: Visual edit
- 22:16, 18 April 2021 diff hist +31,786 N Sport and Leisure/National Football League Created page with "'''Teams''' '''AFC-North''' '''Baltimore Ravens''' Stadium – M&T Bank Stadium Super Bowl appearances – won in 2001, 2013 The Ravens were established in 1996, when Art..." Tag: Visual edit
- 22:16, 18 April 2021 diff hist +28,100 N Sport and Leisure/National Basketball Association Created page with "'''Teams''' '''Eastern Conference Atlantic''' '''Boston Celtics''' Arena – TD Garden Championships – 17 (1957, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 19..." Tag: Visual edit
- 22:15, 18 April 2021 diff hist +55,669 N Sport and Leisure/FIFA World Cup Created page with "'''History''' FIFA was founded in Paris in 1904 In 1914, FIFA agreed to recognise the Olympic tournament as a "world football championship for amateurs", and took responsibi..." Tag: Visual edit
- 22:11, 18 April 2021 diff hist +8,815 N Physical World/Mammals - 3 Created page with "{| class="wikitable" | |'''Caracal''' ''Caracal caracal'' Sometimes called the desert lynx or African lynx, but it is not a member of the ''Lynx'' genus The most dis..." Tag: Visual edit
- 22:10, 18 April 2021 diff hist +8,967 N Physical World/Mammals - 2 Created page with "{| class="wikitable" | |'''Bonobo''' ''Pan paniscus'' Also known as pygmy chimpanzee. Bonobos are the only non-human animal to have been observed engaging in face-to-face..." Tag: Visual edit
- 22:09, 18 April 2021 diff hist +9,434 N Physical World/Mammals - 1 Created page with "{| class="wikitable" | |'''Duck-billed platypus''' ''Ornithorhynchus anatinus'' Egg-laying mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania The male platypus h..." Tag: Visual edit
- 22:08, 18 April 2021 diff hist +3,622 N Physical World/Reptiles Created page with "{| class="wikitable" | |'''Gila monster''' ''Heloderma suspectum'' Venomous lizard native to the southwestern United States and Mexico A drug derived from Gila monster..." Tag: Visual edit
- 22:07, 18 April 2021 diff hist +5,807 N Physical World/Invertebrates Created page with "{| class="wikitable" | |'''Box jellyfish''' class Cubozoa Distinguished by their cube-shaped medusae. Some species of box jellyfish produce extremely potent venom Found..." Tag: Visual edit
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- 22:05, 18 April 2021 diff hist +139,088 N Physical World/Physics Created page with "Atomic physics Plum pudding model of the atom by J. J. Thomson, who discovered the electron in 1897, was proposed in 1904 before the discovery of the atomic nucleus. In this..." Tag: Visual edit
- 22:04, 18 April 2021 diff hist +76,131 N Physical World/Plants and other lifeforms Created page with "'''Bryophyta''' – mosses, liverworts, and hornworts Bryophyte life cycle – a haploid gametophyte, each of whose cells contains a fixed number of unpaired chromosomes, giv..." Tag: Visual edit
- 22:02, 18 April 2021 diff hist +13,421 N Physical World/Weights and Measures Created page with "SI units Metre – represents 1/10 millionth of the distance from the North Pole to the equator through Paris. Defined in 1793 The gram was originally defined in 1795 as the..." Tag: Visual edit
- 22:02, 18 April 2021 diff hist +38,442 N Physical World/Mathematics Created page with "Geometry Surface area of a '''sphere''' – 4 π r² Volume of a sphere – 4/3 π r³ Surface area of a '''cylinder''' (with top and bottom) – 2 π r (r + h) Volume of..." Tag: Visual edit
- 22:01, 18 April 2021 diff hist +95,403 N Physical World/Geology and Physical Geography Created page with "Volcanoes Black smoker – (or sea vent) is a type of hydrothermal vent found on the ocean floor. Formed when superheated water from below Earth’s crust comes through the o..." Tag: Visual edit
- 21:59, 18 April 2021 diff hist +60,029 N Physical World/Scientists Created page with "'''Alhazen''' (c. 965 – c. 1040) made significant contributions to the principles of optics, astronomy, mathematics, and meteorology. Alhazen's most famous work is ''Book of..." Tag: Visual edit
- 21:58, 18 April 2021 diff hist +6,409 N Physical World/Fish Created page with "{| class="wikitable" | |'''Hammerhead shark''' family Sphyrnidae So named for the unusual and distinctive structure of their heads, which are flattened and laterally exte..." Tag: Visual edit
- 21:57, 18 April 2021 diff hist +2,559 N Physical World/Amphibians Created page with "{| class="wikitable" | |'''Midwife toad''' genus ''Alytes'' The males carry a string of fertilised eggs on their back, hence the name "midwife" The back of the midwife..." Tag: Visual edit
- 21:56, 18 April 2021 diff hist +106,350 N Physical World/Astronomy Created page with "Planets The International Astronomical Union (IAU) defines a planet, for the purposes of our solar system only, as a celestial body that: (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (..." Tag: Visual edit
- 21:55, 18 April 2021 diff hist +97,120 N Physical World/Chemistry Created page with "Elements Dobereiner's Triads are groups of three elements having similar properties. They are named after the German chemist Johann Dobereiner. He observed that when three el..." Tag: Visual edit
- 21:53, 18 April 2021 diff hist +227,888 N Physical World/Animals Created page with "'''Invertebrates''' are divided into a number of phyla – Sponges – have sieve-like bodies with an internal sketeton of mineral crystals. Classified as the phylum '''''Por..." Tag: Visual edit
- 21:46, 18 April 2021 diff hist +91,595 N Physical World/Biology Created page with "Biochemistry Adenosine – a molecule of adenine attached to a ribose sugar molecule Adenosine diphosphate (ADP) – an important organic compound in metabolism and is essen..." Tag: Visual edit
- 21:46, 18 April 2021 diff hist +17,908 N Physical World/Anthropology and Palaeontology Created page with "'''Cro-Magnon''' were the first early modern humans of the European Upper Paleolithic in Europe. The earliest known remains of Cro-Magnon-like humans are radiometrically dated..." Tag: Visual edit
- 18:50, 18 April 2021 diff hist +11,509 N Physical World/Birds Created page with "{| class="wikitable" | |'''Ostrich''' ''Struthio camelus'' It can run at speeds of about 40 mph, the top land speed of any bird. The ostrich is the largest living specie..." Tag: Visual edit
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- 18:37, 18 April 2021 diff hist +12,532 N Lifestyle/Sayings and Quotes Created page with "A cauliflower is a cabbage with a college education – Mark Twain A country fit for heroes to live in – David Lloyd George A day like today is not a day for, sort of, sou..." Tag: Visual edit
- 18:37, 18 April 2021 diff hist +22,593 N Lifestyle/Names Created page with "Pop Stars 50 Cent – real name Curtis Jackson Akon – real name Aliaune Thiam Alice Cooper – real name Vincent Furnier Alicia Keys – real name Alicia Cook Aloe Blac..." Tag: Visual edit
- 18:36, 18 April 2021 diff hist +49,552 N Lifestyle/Medicine Created page with "Drugs ACE inhibitors – or angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, are a group of drugs that are used primarily in treatment of hypertension and heart failure Analgesic..." Tag: Visual edit
- 18:35, 18 April 2021 diff hist +18,762 N Lifestyle/Fashion Created page with "'''''Abercrombie & Fitch''''' was founded by David Abercrombie and Ezra Fitch in 1892 in New York. The Company opened its first European location in London in 2007. A number o..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 18:35, 18 April 2021 diff hist +75,149 N Lifestyle/Food and Drink Created page with "Fruit Golden Delicious – original tree was in West Virginia Blenheim orange – apple grown in Oxfordshire Pearmain is a generic name given to pear-shaped apple cultivars..." Tag: Visual edit
- 18:34, 18 April 2021 diff hist +13,862 N Lifestyle/Holidays and Observances Created page with "January 5 – Twelfth Night (6 January in some calendars) 6 – Epiphany, visit of Magi to Jesus 13 – St Hilary's feast day, has gained the reputation of being the coldes..." Tag: Visual edit
- 18:33, 18 April 2021 diff hist +9,061 N Lifestyle/Currencies Created page with "Coins are considered by some numismatists to have originated c. 550–600 BC in Anatolia, which corresponds to modern-day Turkey, in particular in Lydia ISO 4217 is the inter..." Tag: Visual edit
- 18:33, 18 April 2021 diff hist +54,364 N Lifestyle/Human body Created page with "'''Cardiovascular system''' Blood and blood vessels Albumin – a water-soluble protein found in blood plasma Arteriole – carries blood from arteries to capillaries Bra..." Tag: Visual edit
- 18:31, 18 April 2021 diff hist +40,867 N Entertainment/William Shakespeare Created page with "William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins..." Tag: Visual edit
- 18:30, 18 April 2021 diff hist +35,159 N Entertainment/Literature - Non-Fiction Created page with "''Voodoo Histories:'' ''The Role of Conspiracy Theory in Modern History'' – '''David Aaronovitch''' ''The Immigrant and the Community'' – '''Grace Abbott''' ''The Meanin..." Tag: Visual edit
- 18:30, 18 April 2021 diff hist +39,292 N Entertainment/Literature - other Created page with "Biography and Autobiography ''Addicted'' – '''Tony Adams''' ''The Kindness of Strangers'' – '''Kate Adie''' ''Open'' – '''Andre Agassi''' ''Pride and Perjury'' – m..." Tag: Visual edit
- 18:29, 18 April 2021 diff hist +29,120 N Entertainment/Musicals Created page with "''Fings Ain’t What They Used To Be'' by Frank Norman, himself a Cockney, has music and lyrics by '''Lionel Bart''' ''Oliver!'', ''Blitz!'' – composed by Lionel Bart ''Co..." Tag: Visual edit
- 18:28, 18 April 2021 diff hist +30,226 N Entertainment/Theatre Created page with "Playwrights ''Absurd Person Singular'' – '''Alan Ayckbourn''' (born 1939) ''The Norman Conquests'' trilogy – ''Table Manners'', ''Living Together'', ''Round and Round th..." Tag: Visual edit
- 18:28, 18 April 2021 diff hist +15,323 N Entertainment/Pixar Films Created page with "Pixar Pixar began in 1979 as the Graphics Group, part of the computer division of Lucasfilm before its spin-out as a corporation in 1986 with funding by Apple co-founder Stev..." Tag: Visual edit
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- 18:26, 18 April 2021 diff hist +142,499 N Entertainment/Sci-Fi and Fantasy TV Created page with "'''''100, The''''' – 2014 - This is a post-apocalyptic drama where, following a nuclear holocaust, humanity is living on a series of space stations orbiting Earth. 100 you..." Tag: Visual edit
- 18:24, 18 April 2021 diff hist +18,202 N Entertainment/Academy Awards Created page with "The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are awards of merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to recognize excellence of..." Tag: Visual edit
- 18:23, 18 April 2021 diff hist +41,088 N Entertainment/Classical Music Created page with "Conductors '''Claudio Abbado''' served as music director of the La Scala opera house in Milan, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, principal guest conductor..." Tag: Visual edit
- 18:22, 18 April 2021 diff hist +22,387 N Entertainment/Charles Dickens Created page with "Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812 – 1870) born in Portsmouth and died at Gad’s Hill Place in Kent. Buried in Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey Dickens left school to wor..." Tag: Visual edit
- 18:22, 18 April 2021 diff hist +22,878 N Entertainment/James Bond Films Created page with "Eon Productions Albert R. ‘Cubby’ Broccoli and Harry Saltzman started Eon in 1961, and co-produced most of the Eon films until 1975, when Broccoli became the sole produce..." Tag: Visual edit
- 18:22, 18 April 2021 diff hist +99,517 N Entertainment/Composers Created page with "''Giselle'' – ballet by '''Adolphe Adam''' (1803 – 1856). Characters include Duke Albrecht of Silesia, Hilarion and Bathilde. Giselle is a peasant girl who dies of a broke..." Tag: Visual edit
- 18:18, 18 April 2021 diff hist +21,622 N Entertainment/Ballet Created page with "Ballets '''''The Afternoon of a Faun''''' (French: ''L'Après-midi d'un faune'') was choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky for the Ballets Russes and first performed in Paris in 1..." Tag: Visual edit
- 18:18, 18 April 2021 diff hist +20,318 N Entertainment/Literature - Childrens Created page with "''The Snow Queen'', ''The Little Mermaid'', ''Thumbelina'', ''The Steadfast Tin Soldier'', ''The Red Shoes'' – '''Hans Christian Andersen''' (1805 – 1875) Thumbelina emer..." Tag: Visual edit
- 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
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- 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
- 13:58, 18 April 2021 diff hist +110,715 N Art and Culture/Artists Created page with "''Homage to the Square'' – '''Josef Albers''' (1888 – 1976). Born in Germany ''The Roses of Heliogabalus'' – '''Lawrence Alma-Tadema''' (1836 – 1912), a British artis..." Tag: Visual edit
- 13:56, 18 April 2021 diff hist +65,288 N Art and Culture/Art and Sculpture Created page with "Art Movements '''Abstract''' art, nonfigurative art, nonobjective art, and nonrepresentational art are loosely related terms. Abstraction indicates a departure from reality i..." Tag: Visual edit
- 13:53, 18 April 2021 diff hist +17,254 N Art and Culture/American Civil War Created page with "Confederacy Secession - South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union, in December 1860 after the election of Abraham Lincoln in November. Six other Southern st..." current Tag: Visual edit
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