History, Politics And Current Affairs

Doing one good thing in the form of paying money, whatever the scale, can’t be a basis for a type of honours system. It is far too easy to game, and the precedent would lead to all manner of contrived situations driven by social scrabblers. I don’t discount people’s feelings, but running a system an...

May 1975 May 1: Reverend Elvis Presley helps coach and motivate a young man from Milwaukee visting Los Angeles for a Hollywood screen test to jump over a live tiger shark on water skis, which he does successfully and without injury, save some slight water damage to his leather jacket. May 2: The Na...

The only issue with that is the the Culinary Institute of America is a real culinary school with copious famed graduates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culin ... of_America

I already have plans for it, separate to any jokes about Christians in Action.

Unless the nomination was put in before the individual passed away, my understanding is that it cannot happen.

Christians in Action do get around a lot.

Oh, I can guarantee that the Society for the Preservation of Inshore Maritime Species (a subsidiary of the well known charity Christians in Action) would take such actions. They'd even be very careful to not disturb the molluscs by doing so in a loud or public manner, bless their little cotton socks...

A little sneak preview of May: May 2: The National School Lunch and Defense Program, first implemented in 1946 under President Truman and expanded in the 1960s under President Kennedy, begins implementing the recommendations of the 1974 Tarrare-Gloop Report, which called for the provision of meals i...

I could certainly have done that, and just think of the headlines "REVEREND PRESLEY DEFEATS THE EVIL DR. FRENCH AND SAVES NATION'S SPUDS! FEDS SAY FRENCH WILL SURELY FRY!" However bemusing that might be, the flow on effects from such a central part of not just the American diet, but the Am...

You know, what I think happened is that the American figure got pasted over back in 1973 when I was trying to add in fresh detail, so that the USA disappeared for two years when it shouldn't have.

With a few quick clicks, I think that will be fixed quicker than you can say 'Idaho Russet'.

1975 Demographic Musings 1975 British Immigrant Population: Polish 210,000 West Indian: 145,000 Indian: 102,000 American: 72,000 Chinese: 32,000 French: 30,000 German: 26,000 Scandinavian: 22,000 Austro-Hungarian: 19,000 Greek: 18,000 Italian: 16,000 African: 15,000 Spaniards: 12,000 British Cyprio...

1975 Statistics 1975/76 Largest GDPs 1.) USA: $14,772,227,260,191 (+ 6.97%) 2.) USSR: $7,032,464,761,252 (+ 8.11%) 3.) Japan: $6,621,135,581,041 (+ 12.37%) 4.) Germany: $6,504,775,765,953 (+ 9.25%) 5.) Britain: $6,175,048,927,011 (+ 5.32%) 6.) France: $3,224,078,376,606 (+ 11.14%) 7.) Canada: $2,74...

The 1970s saw fairly simple foodstuffs presented on sticks insofar as dinner parties were concerned, such as cheese + pineapple + a cocktail onion, or sausage and cheese, or simply cheese and pickled onion. Simple, yet complementary, and providing a nice little appetiser before the new middle class ...

Some other general musings: - McDonalds is still under the control of the McDonald brothers as compared to Ray Kroc - Pet ownership rates for both dogs and cats are notably higher in Britain in particular, with 1976 in @ seeing a dog population of 6 million for a human population of 56 million, or 1...

I know. I simply prefer the look of the AR16 for aesthetic reasons, and any reference to it and the M14 in my previous post was purely in that context.

In this instance, I don’t judge a girl by her performance, attributes or name, just on how she looks.

It isn’t just you, Jem. Here, there were some moves to develop a .256” assault rifle during the Korean War rearmament period, but they largely were used by the British as a carbine/SMG replacement for various third line troops; the rifle in question, the L2, is to the L1 and FN FAL what the FN CAL w...

April 1975 Notes - The Swedish Moose Cavalry Incident is a case of a Swedish thought bubble regarding defence cuts being plausibly denied after having been floated on a very convenient day. Across the West, politicians are finding it difficult to cut defence, which adds an extra level of meaning to ...

April April 1: The BBC Panorama programme features a special on the decommissioning of the last of Sweden's Royal Moose Cavalry Regiments on location in Lappland. Viewers write and make telephone calls of complaint over the coming days, charging that the All Fools' Day joke was overwrought and obvi...

At the very least, Master Teenager will have a fulsome topic for any written assignment regarding “What I did in my Summer Break”.

First and foremost, glad to hear that your 'descendant' (in both senses) is relatively free of serious and long term injury. All the best for the recovery, both for the lad and the parents. Secondly, whilst under treatment, see if they can do anything about the taste in music issue, specifically the...

A brief sneak preview of April: April 1: The BBC Panorama programme features a special on the decommissioning of the last of Sweden's Royal Moose Cavalry Regiments on location in Lappland. Viewers write and make telephone calls of complaint over the coming days, charging that the All Fools' Day joke...