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50 Things You Need To Know About British History: The Sea

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Pict

Roman term for a member of the peoples of northern Scotland, possibly meaning ‘painted’ (tattooed). Of pre‐Celtic origin, and speaking a Celtic language which died out in about the 10th century, the Picts are thought to have inhabited much of England before the arrival of the Celtic Britons. They were united with the Celtic Scots under the rule of Kenneth MacAlpin in 844. Their greatest monument is a series of carved stones, whose symbols remain undeciphered.


From the Hutchinson Encyclopedia of World History. © Research Machines plc [2006] All Rights Reserved, Helicon Publishing is a division of Research Machines.
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The Hunt For Jack The Ripper
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IWM Somme
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The New Big Picture Show: War at Home
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British Racism
4 February 2006
In response to the publication in Denmark and other European countries of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, both the Danish and Norwegian Embassies in Damascus, Syria are looted and set on fire. 
30 March 1987
The picture 'Sunflowers', painted by Vincent van Gogh is sold at auction by Christie's for £24,750,000.
15 April 1891
In New York, American inventor Thomas Edison publicly demonstrates his 'kinetoscope' - a moving picture machine.
23 April 1980
The British Ambassador to Saudi Arabia is expelled from the country following the broadcast on British TV of the documentary "Death of a Princess" which depicted the life and execution of a Saudi Arabian Princess found guilty of committing adultery.
30 May 1971
Launch of the US space probe Mariner 9 on its mission to Mars. It is able to send more than 7,000 pictures of the planet back to Earth.
2 June 1966
US spacecraft Surveyor I makes a successful soft landing on the Moon and begins sending detailed pictures back to Earth.
3 July 1928
A policeman's helmet and a bunch of roses are among the pictures shown on John Logie Baird's first colour television test transmission at Baird Studios, in London.
10 July 1962
The launch of Telstar, the world's first television communications satellite, bringing live pictures from America to Europe.
15 July 1965
The American Mariner IV satellite, launched in November 1964, begins transmitting close-up pictures of the surface of Mars back to earth.
1 August 1969
The unmanned US spacecraft Mariner begins beaming pictures of the surface of Mars back to Earth.
25 August 1989
US spacecraft Voyager, completing its' 12-year voyage to Neptune, sends pictures to Earth of the planet Triton, its' moon, and pictures of two additional moons previously unknown to scientists.
26 August 1936
In Britain, the BBC transmits the first high-definition television pictures. More than 7000 people queue at the Olympia Radio Show to see the pictures being beamed onto local television sets from Alexandra Palace in north London.
29 August 1981
Vandals slash the picture of Diana, Princess of Wales hanging at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
3 September 1976
The US spacecraft Viking II lands on Mars after a journey through space lasting 359 days and begins sending pictures of the planet back to earth.
6 September 1997
Millions of people around the world watch live television pictures from London of the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales who had died in a car crash in Paris a week earlier. Britain comes to a virtual standstill for the whole day with an estimated two million mourners either outside Westminster Abbey or lining the route and a further 32 million watching the funeral on television.The worldwide TV audience is estimated at two billion.
19 September 1928
The world's first talking cartoon picture, Walt Disney's 'Steamboat Willie', featuring Mickey Mouse, is shown in New York.
7 October 1959
Russian spacecraft 'Lunik III' takes the first pictures of the far side of the moon.
8 October 1996
The Sun newspaper admits that the picture it published allegedly showing Diana, Princess of Wales with Captain James Hewitt, had been a hoax.
14 October 1971
The US spacecraft 'Mariner 9' transmits back to earth the first close up pictures of the surface of Mars.
30 October 1925
In his workshop in London, John Logie Baird achieves the transmission of the first television pictures using the head of a dummy. He then persaudes a 15 year old office boy, William Taynton, to sit in front of a camera - becoming the first live person captured on camera.
17 November 1970
Stephanie Rahn gets her picture in a British newspaper - the Sun's first Page 3 girl.
19 November 1997
Police confiscate indecent videos and pictures of children in a series of raids on the homes and offices of British pop star Gary Glitter.
20 November 1979
Anthony Blunt, Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, is stripped of his knighthood after being exposed as the Fourth Man in the Burgess, Maclean and Philby spy scandal.
8 December 1968
Apollo 8 astronauts send the first live television pictures from their spacecraft back to Earth.
14 December 1962
US spacecraft Mariner II sends the first close up pictures of Venus back to Earth.
22 December 1895
German physicist Wilhelm Rontgen makes the first radiograph - X-ray - a picture of his wife's hand.
1 December 1906
The Cinema Omnia Pathe, the world's first purpose built picture house, opsens in Paris.
 

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