The Portable Defibrillator
Born in Hillsborough, near Lisburn, Professor J. Frank Pantridge, CBE, MC (1916-2004) is regarded as a pioneer…
NATO membership
The UK was one of the original twelve members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) when…
New Year’s Eve
Although some religions have shunned New Year’s Eve celebrations as heathen, it is a natural inclination to…
The Who
The Who have two surviving members of the original band ~ singer Roger Daltrey (1944-) and songwriter-guitarist…
The Poet Laureate
The Poet Laureateship is an honorary royal appointment of a poet who is recognised as contributing to…
The National Lottery
There have been four Parliamentary Acts, from 1993 to 2006, putting into place the legislation required for…
Gideon Bibles
The Gideons were formed in the USA in 1899 by a group of travelling businessmen. They wanted…
Getting onto the Property Ladder
Before WW1, most ordinary British folk paid rent to live in their homes, but the two World…
D-Day
In the term ‘d-day’ the ‘d’ simply stands for ‘day’, emphasising its importance. It means the day…
J.J. Thomson and the Electron
Sir Joseph John (‘J.J.‘) Thomson was born in 1856 in Lancashire. He excelled in mathematics and took…
The Huguenots
The Protestant religion emerged in the 16th century and its followers grew to be a sizeable minority…
Brownfields and Green Belts
The land mass of the UK is 60,000,000 acres but only one-tenth of this is available for…