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Albert Einstein was a German physicist from the early 1900's. He wrote theories about space and time, as well as quantum physics. He was a theoretical physicist who suggested theories such as the theory of relativity ( e=mc squared (Energy = ...

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Angela Rippon was a newsreader who was renowned for having fantastic legs. I once saw her on The Morecambe and Wise Show where she proved to be a good dancer too! ...

From 1973 to 1981 Arthur Scargill was the President of the National Union of Mineworkers. In 1974 he was instrumental in bringing down the Edward Heath government. He was regarded as a God by his followers, but portrayed as ...

Barbara Stanwyck one of the greatest actresses of all time. Sorry Wrong Number is my favorite movie. She was also in Christmas in Connecticut, The Miracle Woman & Annie Oakley just to name a few of her movies. In the ...

Boy was Barbara Woodhouse scary! SIII - TTT! An exagerated hand gesture from the waist to the shoulder enough to instill fear into the most hardened of animals, let alone the petrified owners! Prime time saturday night viewing on BBC-2 was ...

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It's Saturday, mid-morning. The cartoons have finished and now it's time for Wrestling.However, this isn't wrestling as we know it today - waxed hulk hogans, preened and shiny, picture purfect and ready for hollywood. Oh no, this is Wrestling West-country ...

To those of you that follow comedy, there is one comedian that would have held your attention and wowed your imagination in the early 1990’s; for the uninitiated, that comedian was Bill Hicks.As John Cleese put it “Bill Hicks is ...

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To anybody growing up in the 1960s, 70s or 80s Brian Cant WAS children’s television. He was ubiquitous; name any pre-school kids’ programme of merit during those decades and it was a pretty fair bet that Cant would be involved ...

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Charles Foster was the Granada continuity presenter from the early 1980's. I can remember pointing to him aged 3 and saying that he used to be my dad! Weird I know, but then I do believe in past lives! Charles ...

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One of the most famous presenters of 'Playschool' throughout the 1970s, as well as it's weekend spin-off 'Play Away'. Chloe was a perky, extrovert Kate Bush character with a beautiful long mane of raven hair and a slight touch of ...

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And here is your host…Miss Cillllllllaaaaaa Blaaaaaack! For many of you, that small sentence alone will have conjured up memories of what was a TV institution from 1985 to 2003: Blind Date. This Saturday-night dating show had one star (apart ...

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What a great broadcaster Ed Stewart was! Ed represented the golden age of British broadcasting in the 1960's and the 1970's! Fun, friendly voices playing the top hits of the day on BBC Radio 1! Ed also gave me my ...

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Evil Knievel was the greatest daredevil in the world. He was the insperation behind the Canadian character, Super Dave Osborne. One of my favourite toys as a child was the Evil Knievel stunt cycle. So how did it all start? ...

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Who remembers the Gordon the Gopher puppet from the 1980s? It use to make me laugh how that little fluff ball became almost a bigger star than Phillip Schofield was. Oh how I loved the little squeak, squeak noise that ...

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The birth of Rhodesia. 11/11/1965.  Ian Douglas Smith, former WW2 spitfire pilot shot down and wounded over Italy led Southern Rodesia to independance with the Unilateral Declaration of Independance. I was ten years old and fascinated with Africa after my ...

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Long blond mane, stars and stripes bandana, double denim, a penchant for ripping his top in two… yep, it's only wrestling legend Hulk Hogan. Born Terry Gene Bollea… OK, stopped laughing now? I know, Terry was never going to make ...

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Jaime Sommers is a fictional character portrayed by Lindsay Wagner in The Bionic Woman and The Six Million Dollar Man. She is a former professional tennis star, a teacher of middle school students and an occasional agent of the Office ...

I remember being young and thinking Jeremy Beadle was really annoying. It's only when I got to adulthood that I realised he's actually a genius.His type of television is genuine good old-fashioned fun. TV where people initially do ...

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To many of us, John Hughes will forever remain etched into our memories. The legendary film writer and director, who passed away on 6th August, aged just 59, brought us the kind of cult classics children of the 80s and ...

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