Certainly, there are guilty culprits, but if any filmmaker blows such assumptions out of the water, it’s Terence Davies, whose ‘Distant Voices, Still Lives’ is arguably among the very greatest British movies of the last 25 years – a judgement our poll seems to confirm. The doubly good...
A further boost to Florence's fortune came with the event of the Crimean War from 1853-1856. Parents clamoured to give their children eventful names. Battles led to several babies being named Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman, and Sebastopol and names notable figures were also used. Thanks to her p...
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When American engineers speak of slip roads, or slip ramps, they are referring to on-ramps and off-ramps that have been rearranged (through use of a grade separation) to minimize weaving on a freeway segment between two interchanges that are too close together. These last two terms are ...
Place Names, Past and Present. Queenstown, 1932. Google Scholar Ploeger (J.) and Smith (A. H.), Pictorial Atlas of the History of the Union of South Africa. Pretoria, 1950. Google Scholar Richards (C. S.), The Iron and Steel Industry in South Africa. Bradford, 1941. Google ...
General Jackson’s Pedrail United Kingdom (1915-1918) Prototype – 1 Partially Completed Colonel Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton had been there right at the birth of the British plan for the machines which were to become known as tanks. In 1915, this veteran of Victorian campaigns in India and ...
Here’s how it worksusing NordVPN– In theory any VPN with a server based in the UK should work. Unfortunately, that’s no longer the case as during the last couple of years some of the sites have clamped down on this ‘workaround’. ...
Hong Kong British society was notorious for its snobbery during the period you are looking at, Jane. Any working class women would have had a hard time socially unless they already had family in Hong Kong. In case it's useful, the Canossian Convent tried to ensure that its charges left ...
Another element to the vintage name choice is nickname. Princess Eugenie has already revealed that they call August "Augie" and the standard nickname for Ernest is Ernie. Both -ie names fit perfectly with the grandpa nickname trend that has been dominating in England and Wales for the last dec...
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