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Egad! 7 key British PCs of the 1980s Americans might have missed These bedrocks of the UK computer industry didn't get much love in the states.
In the 1980s, British grocery store magnate Lord John Sainsbury, Baron of Preston Candover, spent tens of millions funding a new wing of London’s National Gallery.
You may not realize it, but there are many iconic cocktails that hail from the U.K. Let's take a deep dive into these British ...
It centers around Daphne, a British-Jamaican girl growing up in 1980s London and her relationship with a Jamaican boy, Connie ...
In the 1980s, developers envisaged a theme park that was to be the British answer to the US’ successful Disney parks, putting £346m behind the project to build the park in Corby.. The park was ...
In the 1980s, British TV presenters started wearing these decorative jumpers around Christmastime and audiences rushed out to buy a few themselves. It’s quite possible even you have one of these ...
The iconic vocalist from the 1980s R&B band Loose Ends has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for over three months. Jane Eugene, who performed the band’s Billboard R&B No. 1 ...
Themed villages, an arena, a stadium, and a safari were all included in the plans for a theme park in Corby, but all that materialised was a welcome sign and a small cabin ...
The British Invasion was long over by the 1980s. However, that doesn’t mean that some seriously killer rock bands from across the pond didn’t launch incredible careers (or, otherwise, peaked ...
Seventy-three-year-old Betty Birrell is a legend in British Columbia's North Shore mountain biking scene, and doesn't intend ...
Imagine living in a dystopian society. If you lived in England in the 1980s, and you weren't of a certain class, you didn't have to imagine, you were there. The view on the street was a lot worse than ...
The British has a good sized industry, but being ⅕ the size of the US was a big disadvantage. Their biggest legacy was Acorn computers. Acorn created their own CPU based upon the RISC design.