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How London Was Built: Utilities and Shopping

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ode

Lyric poem with complex rules of structure. Odes originated in ancient Greece, where they were chanted to a musical accompaniment. Classical writers of odes include Sappho, Pindar, Horace, and Catullus. English poets who adopted the form include Edmund Spenser, John Milton, John Dryden, and John Keats.

Keats's Ode to Autumn demonstrates the power of skillfully combining deep emotion with a formal style of writing. In this respect, odes have much in common with sonnet form. The English poet Wilfred Owen combined explicit wartime violence and desperation with classical verse techniques in his odes.

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Zimbabwe's Political History

Global Warming

The Arab-Israeli Conflict

Alexander the Great

Ramses, Warrior Pharaoh

Yorkshire Ripper (Peter Sutcliffe)

TECH EFFECT: Waco

VANISHINGS: Lost In The Andes

RUSSIA: LAND OF THE TSARS Episode 4

Sea Spies

The Negotiator

The True Story Of Seabiscuit

Yasser Arafat

Soviet UFO Secrets Revealed

OJ And Company: 10 Years Later

FIRST 48: Desert Bones/Party's Over

Isaac's Storm

LOST SHIPS: The Ghost Of The Trafalgar

The Boston Strangler

The Hillside Stranglers

SECRETS OF ARCHAEOLOGY: Pompeii: A City Rediscovered

The Baby Blitz

The Industrial Revolution

The Olympics

D-Day

The Great War: Germany’s failed gambit

The Baader Meinhof Complex

Feature

Tank Experience Day

'Che' Film Review

Combat Tanks Collection

Great British Monday

Harper Collins

Pompeii: The Last Day

Dambusters

Churchill's Wizards

Anthony Beevor, D-Day

'Valkyrie' Interview

Expedition: Africa

Quick Quiz Royal Mint

Titanic: A Tale Of Two Journeys

The American Civil War: The Road to War

A Small Piece of History

Decoding the Past

War Weekend 2

Samuel Pepys

Last Voices of World War I

Zimbabwe's Political History

Global Warming

The Arab-Israeli Conflict

7 January 1598

Boris Godenov becomes Russian Tsar.

9 January 1959
In America, the first episode of the TV series Rawhide, starting Clint Eastwood, is shown.

12 January 1971

In Britain, two bombs explode at the Hertfordshire home of the Employment Secretary, Robert Carr. Nobody is injured in the attack, which is thought to relate to a new controversial industrial relations bill Mr Carr is proposing.

15 January 1974

The first episode of 'Happy Days' airs on American television. A minor character, super-cool biker Arthur 'the Fonz' Fonzarelli, soon came to be the show's central character.

18 January 1972
Two leading campaigners from black majority rule in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), the former Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia, Garfield Todd and his daughter, Judith, are both arrested upon the orders of Rhodesian Prime Minster, Ian Smith.

21 January 1966
Beatle George Harrison marries model Patti Boyd.

27 January 1980

In Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) opposition leader Robert Mugabe returns to the country after a five year exile.

29 January 1976

In England, the IRA explodes a series of bombs in the West End of London.

31 January 1996

91 people are killed and 1,400 injured when Tamil Tiger guerrillas explode a lorry bomb in the centre of the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo.

4 February 1974
In England, eleven people are killed and twelve are injured as a bomb explodes on a coach carrying soldiers and civilians on its way to an army base in North Yorkshire.

5 February 1994
In Sarajevo, a mortar bomb explodes in the main market square killing 68 people and wounding a further 200.

9 February 2005
Hours before Spain's King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia were due to visit a conference centre in Madrid a car bomb explodes near the centre. The Basque terrorists ETA are blamed for the attack.

16 February 2001

In Kosovo, a bomb, which is thought to have been planted by ethnic Albanian extremists, explodes on a bus carrying Serbs to a religious ceremony. At least seven people die.

18 February 1898

Motor racing legend, Enzo Anselmo Ferrari is born in Modena, Italy.

20 February 1989

In England, the IRA explodes two bombs at the army barracks in Tern Hill, Shropshire.

26 February 1993

Six people are killed and hundreds injured as a bomb explodes in the World Trade Centre in New York, U.S.A.

27 February 2006

In the High Court of Justice in London the authors of the 1982 book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, sue Random House, publishers of the Dan Brown novel The Da Vinci Code, claiming that Brown’s book contains ideas stolen from them.

28 February 1983

In America, 77 percent of the television viewing audience watch the last episode of TV show M.A.S.H.

1 March 1971
A bomb explodes in the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. A group called the "Weather Underground", protesting against American military action in Laos, claimed responsibility.

2 March 1970
Rhodesia declares the Universal Declaration of Independence – breaking from Britain to become an independent republic, under the leadership of Ian Smith.

4 March 2001
The dissent republican group, the Real IRA, explode a massive car bomb outside the BBC Television Centre in London.

8 March 1985
Car bomb in Beirut, Lebanon explodes killing 45 people and injuring hundreds more.

12 March 1993
Thirteen bombs explode across Bombay, India killing over two hundred people and injuring hundreds more.

20 March 1993
In England, two IRA bombs explode in a shopping centre in Warrington, killing two young boys and injuring 56 people.

21 March 1804
Napoleon introduces a new legal framework in France, known as the “Napoleonic Code.”

22 March 1963
In Britain, the Secretary of State for War, John Profumo denies any impropriety with the model, Christine Keeler.

30 March 1965
The Vietnam War: A bomb explodes outside the U.S. embassy in Saigon, killing 22 people.

1 April 2000

The Enigma coding machine, used by Germany to code its messages during the Second World War, is stolen from its display cabinet at Bletchley Park Museum in England.

2 April 1986
A bomb believed to have been planted by Palestinian terrorists explodes on a TWA plane flying over Greece, killing four people.

5 April 1986

In West Germany, a bomb explodes in a Berlin night club regularly attended by U.S. troops, killing two people and injuring hundreds more.

14 April 1944
The cargo ship Fort Stikine accidentally explodes in the docks of Bombay, India, killing 1,300 people.

16 April 1947
In America, the French freighter Grandcamp explodes in Texas City, killing approximately 600 people and devastating the city.

17 April 1999
A bomb explodes on a busy street in Brixton, south London injuring 45 people. David Copeland, a right-wing extremist, is later arrested and sentenced to life in prison for the attack and for planting other bombs in London.

19 April 1995
80 people are killed as a car bomb explodes at a government building in Oklahoma City, America.

20 April 1821
Edgar Allan Poe's book, ‘Murders In The Rue Morgue’, considered to be the world's first modern detective story, is published in America.

22 April 2000
In Britain, the Big Number Change happens – the updating in the dialling codes.

24 April 1993
An IRA bomb explodes in the centre of London killing one man and causing an estimated £1 billion worth of damage.

29 April 1916
The First World War: After withstanding nearly five months under siege by Turkish and German forces at the town of Kut-al-Amara, on the Tigris River in the Basra province of Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq) 13,000 British troops surrender.

4 May 1776
Rhode Island becomes the first North American colony to renounce its allegiance to King George III.

7 May 1965
In Rhodesia, Prime Minister Ian Smith's Rhodesian Front, wins all the seats it is eligible to win in the general election.

12 May 2000
The Tate Modern opens in London.

14 May 1904
The Modern Olympic Games are held in the United States of America for the first time - at St Louis, Missouri.

15 May 1957
Britain's first H-bomb is exploded on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean.

19 May 2005
The final film in the Star Wars series, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, is released in America.

20 May 1983
In Pretoria, South Africa a car bomb planted by the ANC explodes killing 17 people.

21 May 1991
Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated when a bomb, planted in a bouquet of flowers, explodes during election campaigning in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.

23 May 1706
British, Dutch and Germany troops defeat the French at the Battle of Ramillies (in modern day Belgium) during the War of the Spanish Succession.

24 May 1941
The Second World War: The German battleship Bismarck sinks the HMS Hood off Greenland with the loss of more than 1,400 lives. The ship explodes when a German shell hits the Hood's ammunition store.

27 May 1964
The founder of modern day India, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, dies in office.

1 June 1979
Exclusive white rule of Rhodesia comes to an end as the country is renamed Zimbabwe-Rhodesia.

2 June 1997
Timothy McVeigh is found guilty of setting off a bomb outside a federal building in Oklahoma City, USA in 1995, which killed 168 people when it exploded.

3 June 1098
After a five month siege during the First Crusade, the Crusaders capture the city of Antioch (in modern day Turkey).

6 June 2002
A near-Earth asteroid explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya.

9 June 1772
In America, colonists board the Gaspee, a British vessel that ran aground off the coast of Rhode Island, and set it on fire.

15 June 1996
The IRA explodes a massive bomb in the centre of a busy shopping centre in Manchester, England.

17 June 1974
In England, an IRA bomb explodes at the Houses of Parliament injuring 11 people.

23 June 1985
Sikh extremists place a bomb on an Air India jumbo jet which explodes off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 on board.

1 July 1916
The First World War: At least 20,000 British soldiers are killed and a further 40,000 are injured on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. It is the greatest number of British casualties in a single day’s fighting in modern history.

8 July 1663
John Clarke is granted a Royal Charter to Rhode Island by Charles II of England.

10 July 1777
The American Revolution: British General Richard Prescott is captured in Rhode Island by the patriot militia.

18 July 1997
All 230 passengers and crew on board a TWA Jumbo Jet are killed when it explodes over the Atlantic Ocean shortly after leaving New York bound for Paris.

20 July 1944
World War II: German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt by German staff officer Count Claus Schenk Von Stauffenberg who explodes a bomb inside Hitler's headquarters at Rastenberg in East Prussia. Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators are rounded up and executed.

21 July 2005
Two weeks after London is brought to a standstill by a terrorist attack, two detonators are exploded on the London underground network in a second failed terrorist attack.

23 July 2005
Arab terrorists explode a series of bombs overnight killing at least 88 people in the Egyptian resort of Sharm al-Sheikh.

25 July 1992
The Olympics Games opens in Barcelona, Spain with all countries present for the first time in modern history.

26 July 1994
A car bomb explodes outside the Israeli embassy in London injuring 14 people. Two Palestinians were found guilty of planting the bomb.

2 August 1980
Right-wing terrorists explode a bomb at Bologna Railway Station in northern Italy which kills 85 people and injures another 100.

5 August 2003
A bomb explodes outside the Marriot hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia. It is thought that the attack, in which 13 people were killed, was carried out by the radical Islamic group Jemaah Islamiah.

11 August 1492
The infamous Roderigo Borgia bribes enough Cardinals to be elected Pope Alexander VI.

12 August 1908
In America, the first Model T Ford car, known as the Tin Lizzie, comes off the production line - replacing the model A.

15 August 1998
In Northern Ireland, a terrorist bomb explodes in the centre of Omagh, County Tyrone killing 28 and injuring more than 200 people, the Real IRA claims responsibility.

19 August 2003
The Iraq War: The UN’s chief envoy to Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello and 17 other people are killed when a bomb explodes at the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad.

22 August 1972
Rhodesia is banned from participating in the Munich Olympic Games.

24 August 2004
Two Russian planes explode as two separate suicide attacks are conducted by what are thought to be Chechen separatists. There are no survivors on either plane.

25 August 2003
Two car bombs explode in Bombay (Mumbai), India killing 44 people. It is thought that the bombs were planted by a Kashmir militant group.

26 August 1975
Negotiations to bring about a ceasefire in Rhodesia between the government and the African National Council collapse.

30 August 1813
During the Napoleonic Wars, a coalition force from Austria, Russia and Prussia defeat the French Army at the Battle of Kulm in modern Czechoslovakia.

31 August 1977
Prime Minister Ian Smith retains power in Rhodesia as his party win all the 50 seats reserved for whites in the 66-seat parliament.

2 September 1969
The classic cult television series Star Trek airs its last episode.

5 September 1975
In England, an IRA bomb explodes at the Hilton Hotel in London killing 2 people and injuring 63.

9 September 2004
A car bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia. The bombing, which killed several people, was carried out by the Islamic extremist group Jemaah Islamiah.

10 September 1973
In England, two IRA bombs explode at King’s Cross and Euston Station in London, 13 people are injured.

12 September 1953
American Senator, and later President, John F. Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier in Newport, Rhode Island.

15 September 1963
In America, four young African-American girls are killed when a bomb planted by the Ku Klux Klan explodes at a Church in Birmingham, Alabama.

16 September 1920
In America, at least 30 people are killed and a further 200 injured when a bomb explodes on Wall Street, New York. It is not known who planted the explosive.

22 September 1975
The fragile ceasefire agreement in Northern Ireland is spectacularly blown apart when the Provisional IRA explode a series of bombs throughout the country.

24 September 1976
The Prime Minister of Rhodesia Ian Smith agrees to introduce black majority rule to the country with two years.

26 September 1983
Racing yacht Australia II beats the American boat Liberty in the deciding race off Newport, Rhode Island to deprive the United States of the America’s Cup, a trophy the Americans had never lost in the 132 year history of the event.

28 September 1708
As part of the Great Northern War, the Russian Army of Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya in modern-day Belarus.

8 October 314
Constantine I defeats Licinius at the Battle of Cibalae in modern Croatia.

9 October 1975
Another IRA bombs explodes in central London, this time at Piccadilly Station, killing one man.

11 October 1967
In Britain, the pop group The Move are forced to apologise to Prime Minister Harold Wilson by the High Court after they published a postcode promoting their new record which contained a caricature of the Prime Minister in the nude.

12 October 1984
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher escapes an assassination attempt when an IRA bomb explodes in the Grand Hotel, Brighton which is being used by delegates of the Conservative Party Conference. Five people are killed.

16 October 1964
China explodes its first atomic bomb.

20 October 1944
In America, two liquid gas tanks explode in Cleveland, Ohio killing 130 people.

22 October 1974
A Provisional IRA bomb explodes in a London club, injuring four people.

23 October 1086
Muslim commander Yusuf ibn Tashfin defeats Castilian King Alfonso VI at the Battle of az-Zallaqah in modern day south-west Spain.

27 October 1982
In Northern Ireland, an IRA bomb explodes under a RUC police car killing three policemen.

28 October 1492
Christopher Columbus lands in modern day Cuba.

31 October 1971
In England, an IRA bomb explodes at the top of the Post Office Tower in London, luckily causing no injuries.

2 November 1982
A truck explodes in the Salang Tunnel in Afghanistan, killing an estimated 3,000 people, mostly Soviet soldiers travelling to the capital, Kabul.

4 November 1974
In England, Judith Ward is sentenced to life imprison after she is found guilty of planting a bomb on an army coach which exploded and killed 12 people. After serving 18 years, Ward’s conviction was quashed.

5 November 1854
The Crimean War: A combined British and French force defeat the Russians at the Battle of Inkerman in modern day Ukraine.

8 November 1987
In Northern Ireland, 11 people are killed by an IRA bomb which explodes shortly before a Remembrance Day service in Enniskillen.

11 November 1965
Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith proclaims UDI - a Universal Declaration of Independence from Britain.

16 November 1998
Benazir Bhutto is elected Prime Minister of Pakistan - the first women leader of a Muslim country in the modern era.

23 November 1963
In Britain, the BBC transmits the first episode of a new science-fiction drama, Dr Who.

27 November 1295
In England, the first elected representatives from Lancashire are called to Westminster by King Edward I to attend what becomes known as “The Model Parliament.”

29 November 1985
4 people are killed as a leaking gas pipe causes a block of flats to explode in Glasgow, Scotland.

30 November 1982
In England, a letter bomb, sent by animal rights activists, explodes inside 10 Downing Street. Nobody is hurt in the attack.

1 December 1942
The Beveridge report is published in Britain, it lays the foundations for the modern welfare system in the country.

4 December 1971
The loyalist paramilitary, the Ulster Volunteer Force, explode a bomb in a pub in Belfast, Northern Ireland, killing 15 people.

6 December 1917
In the harbour of Halifax in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, the most devastating manmade explosion in the pre-atomic age occurs when the Mont Blanc, a French munitions ship, explodes 20 minutes after colliding with another vessel.

7 December 1979
Lord Soames is named the transitional governor of Rhodesia to oversee the countries progression to independence from Britain.

11 December 1979
The Rhodesian parliament votes to revert back to British rule until democratic elections are held in the country which is eventually renamed Zimbabwe.

12 December 1969
16 people are killed in Milan, Italy, in what is known as the Piazza Fontana massacre, as a bomb planted the by the right wing group, Ordine Nuovo, explodes in a bank.

14 December 1900
German physicist Max Planck publishes his groundbreaking study of the effect of radiation on a “blackbody” substance, and the quantum theory of modern physics is born.

18 December 1620
Passengers on the British ship Mayflower come ashore at modern-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, U.S.A. to begin their new settlement, Plymouth Colony.

31 December 2006
8 bombs explode in the Thai capital Bangkok as the city gets ready to celebrate the New Year.

3 December 1992
In England, two IRA bombs explode in the centre of Manchester injuring 64 people.

2 December 1927
In America, the successor to the Model T Ford, the Model A, first goes on sale.

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