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None of which had anything to do with the tragic loss 100 years ago of a submarine in the English Channel with 43 dead. For many of us, 100 years is a lot of water under the bridge.
Today, London is a bustling, metropolitan city, and the same could be said about the city 100 years ago. In the 1920s, like today, London was known for attractions such as Piccadilly Circus ...
Long before that fateful November day, the television landscape was crowded with inventors competing for the title to the as-yet unproven but promising medium. Despite his eventual defeat, Baird ...
The Great Smog Descended on London More Than 70 Years Ago—And its Cause Took Almost As Long to Discover. Story by Jennifer M ...
Today, London is a bustling, metropolitan city, and the same could be said about the city 100 years ago. In the 1920s, like today, London was known for attractions such as Piccadilly Circus ...
The first fascists – and the first anti-fascists – in London 100 years ago. Historian ALFIO BERNABEI tells the remarkable story of how Sylvia Pankhurst and Silvio Corio railed against the fascist ...
A letter sent in February 1916 was finally delivered to its destination 107 years later. The letter, which was written during World War I, arrived at a London address in 2021, reports the BBC ...
SOME of London’s most famous landmarks were lit up with dazzling light projections to mark 100 years of McVitie’s Chocolate Digestives. The lastminute.com London Eye became a towering tribute… ...
Founded by two brothers exactly 100 years ago on 16 October 1923, the Walt Disney Company has grown from a small animation studio in California to a multi-billion-pound entertainment conglomerate ...
It is a nice way to wrap up a tough year for many and the current mood both mirrors and clashes with the feeling 100 years ago, when London was coming out of the horrors of the First World War ...
(CNN) – It took more than a century, but a letter addressed to a south London flat finally reached its destination. The current occupant, Finlay Glen, saw the year “16″ on the envelope and ...
100 Years Ago in Parliament: Row over cyclists, trams and police powers in London Traffic Bill - August 1, 1924 - MPs debate traffic congestion in London (sounds familiar) with Tories clashing ...